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Al Giordano is an American journalist, political commentator, and former anti-nuclear and environmental activist and organizer.
From 1989 to 1993, Giordano was a staff reporter on the Franklin County, MA, Valley Advocate, based in their Springfield, MA, office.[18] From 1993 to 1996, he worked as a political reporter on the Boston Phoenix[19] and The Nation.[20][21] In 1997, Giordano spent four months in Chiapas, Mexico, intending to join the Zapatista Army of National Liberation.[22][23] The rebels, however, insisted that Giordano could serve them best as a journalist.[22] As a result, Giordano started his own online periodical, The Narco News Bulletin,[22] which he launched in spring of 2000.[24] The Narco News Bulletin's coverage of the War on Drugs included a "string of scoops"[25] and led to the resignation of the Associated Press's Bolivia correspondent.[25] Giordano manages the site from Mexico, where he currently lives.[26]
Giordano has been credited by James Wolcott as the first journalist to predict that the presidential campaign of Barack Obama would be successful
Giordano has been credited by James Wolcott as the first journalist to predict that the presidential campaign of Barack Obama would be successful
Not sure whether he still resides in Mexico.
Nice to see you where I can reply directly to you. I'm not on twitter yet but I read your twitter feed all the time.. yours and Boney Hurdle's.
I want to say Mahalo to you for all you do for our Democracy. I read your blogs during the Obama years.. the links would show up on the Obama Diary... and now the Twitter era during Hillary's campaigns and beyond.
Sorry it has to be under such vile circumstances with some random attempt to smear you on DU.
My Very Best Wishes and Aloha for a return to Good Health. 
.. his brilliant RULES for 2020.
Al G really did take care of that poster, though.. we all did.
I'm glad he saw your OP and the subsequent attempt to smear.. that was serendipitous!
I was kinda hoping this would be AlG.. but I knew the odds were slim.lol
To always leave a venue you use - better off than you found it!
This has meanings in all kinds of ways:
If you're going to seek the Democratic Party nomination, you have a *duty* to leave that nomination in better condition than you found it ...
Thank you for all your wisdom and real winning ways.
Thrilled that you are here.
This has meanings in all kinds of ways:
If you're going to seek the Democratic Party nomination, you have a *duty* to leave that nomination in better condition than you found it ...
Thank you for all your wisdom and real winning ways.
Thrilled that you are here.
our Democracy.
I am beyond grateful for Al Giordano who has been on the Front Lines Fighting for us for decades.
Al's Rules for 2020 Presidential Candidates
Al Giordano ✔ @AlGiordano
1. Stories like this on potential 2020 presidential candidates have started, so here are MY ground rules:
2. Ronald Reagan used to cite his commandment: "Thou shalt not speak ill of another Republican." Democrats could learn from that...
3. My own policy is going to be an amended version: "I will only speak ill of 2020 Democrats who speak ill of Democratic values & leaders.
4. So if you're a candidate who is going to drag on President Obama instead of embracing his legacy, I'm going to hit your hard & often.
5. Likewise, if you're going to pander to the "Hillary Clinton was a terrible candidate" ...., I hope you can take it as hard as you dish it
6. But if you're out there talking about issues & strategy & tactics & how to get change, I'm not going to speak ill of you. And I expect...
7. ...that my mentions on social media be free of such internecine food fights. I will block people for dragging on any potential nominee...
8. ...except to counter any candidate who himself is dragging on other potential nominees (I'm especially talking to you,...).
9. If you're going to seek the Democratic Party nomination, you have a *duty* to leave that nomination in better condition than you found it
10. If in your ambition & selfishness you weaken the value of that nomination (& eventual nominee), then fuck you, it's going to be war.
11. We're all paying the steep price of those kinds of antics today, and we'll be paying them at least through January 20, 2021.
12. The Democratic nomination comes through millions of people who are very diverse but embrace one label: Democrat. Grok that!
13. We will defend closed primaries in states that choose them & will not broke any asshole trying to drag the legitimacy of their results.
14. We will sabotage any aspiring nominee who panders to non-Democrats by running against the DNC & lowering its value. We will destroy you.
15. Yes, we all have things we want the Democratic Party to do better. And we fight for them the effective way, within the family, not media
16. We will neither tolerate attempts to abandon the pieces of our coalition in favor of a re-centering of white and/or male voters.
17. If you're one of those people using those bottom-feeding tactics, & you think we hit you hard in 2016, you ain't seen nothing yet.
18. This time we'll be more ready to isolate, contain & marginalize you for trying to weaken the value of our vehicle to win in November.
19. If you want the nomination, you had better be adding to its value - no matter who the eventual nominee - every day of your campaign.
20. If you try to win by parasite tactics that suck away its value, you forfeit any right to that nomination. And you will lose. Badly.
21. Those are my rules from here to 2020: Thou shalt not speak ill of any Democratic presidential candidate who does not speak ill of others
22. But that rule has a rider attached: If you speak ill of the party or any of its potential nominees, the gloves come off. End memo
Your pathetic attempts to smear Al Giordano are NOT working.
Well said, Al!
I especially like Rules #4 & #5!
Al's Rules for 2020 Presidential Candidates
Al Giordano ✔ @AlGiordano
1. Stories like this on potential 2020 presidential candidates have started, so here are MY ground rules:
2. Ronald Reagan used to cite his commandment: "Thou shalt not speak ill of another Republican." Democrats could learn from that...
3. My own policy is going to be an amended version: "I will only speak ill of 2020 Democrats who speak ill of Democratic values & leaders.
4. So if you're a candidate who is going to drag on President Obama instead of embracing his legacy, I'm going to hit your hard & often.
5. Likewise, if you're going to pander to the "Hillary Clinton was a terrible candidate" ...., I hope you can take it as hard as you dish it
6. But if you're out there talking about issues & strategy & tactics & how to get change, I'm not going to speak ill of you. And I expect...
7. ...that my mentions on social media be free of such internecine food fights. I will block people for dragging on any potential nominee...
8. ...except to counter any candidate who himself is dragging on other potential nominees (I'm especially talking to you,...).
9. If you're going to seek the Democratic Party nomination, you have a *duty* to leave that nomination in better condition than you found it
10. If in your ambition & selfishness you weaken the value of that nomination (& eventual nominee), then fuck you, it's going to be war.
11. We're all paying the steep price of those kinds of antics today, and we'll be paying them at least through January 20, 2021.
12. The Democratic nomination comes through millions of people who are very diverse but embrace one label: Democrat. Grok that!
13. We will defend closed primaries in states that choose them & will not broke any asshole trying to drag the legitimacy of their results.
14. We will sabotage any aspiring nominee who panders to non-Democrats by running against the DNC & lowering its value. We will destroy you.
15. Yes, we all have things we want the Democratic Party to do better. And we fight for them the effective way, within the family, not media
16. We will neither tolerate attempts to abandon the pieces of our coalition in favor of a re-centering of white and/or male voters.
17. If you're one of those people using those bottom-feeding tactics, & you think we hit you hard in 2016, you ain't seen nothing yet.
18. This time we'll be more ready to isolate, contain & marginalize you for trying to weaken the value of our vehicle to win in November.
19. If you want the nomination, you had better be adding to its value - no matter who the eventual nominee - every day of your campaign.
20. If you try to win by parasite tactics that suck away its value, you forfeit any right to that nomination. And you will lose. Badly.
21. Those are my rules from here to 2020: Thou shalt not speak ill of any Democratic presidential candidate who does not speak ill of others
22. But that rule has a rider attached: If you speak ill of the party or any of its potential nominees, the gloves come off. End memo
But agree entirely with slapping down hard any that attack the party, either leaping all-claws-out for the face or sneaking around to attack from behind pretend-idealistic phrases.
"It's about protecting democracy and the wellbeing of the people, Stupid." 
