There are reports of machine vote flipping all over the country. Where is the promised army of Obama and DNC lawyers?
More below:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7608000
BY RFK, Jr. http://airamerica.com/ringoffire/blog/2008/sep/22/rfk-j...
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: There are about 30 scams the Republicans are deliberately using, particularly in the swing states to get Democratic voters off the rolls. These scams originate in the so-called Help America Vote Act, which was passed after the Florida debacle in the year 2000. It was originally suggested by Democrats and Republicans, but it was passed by a Republican Congress with a Republican senate and a Republican president. And instead of reforming what happened in Florida it basically institutionalized all the problems that happened in Florida. And institutionalized a series of impediments that make it very difficult for Democrats to register, for Democrats to vote and then for Democrats to have their votes counted.
One of these requirements under HAVA is called 'the perfect match,' and what that does is little known but it is devastating. A quarter of the voters in Colorado have just been removed from the rolls because of this--[and] just this one scam. And what it does is, they use a computer system to compare your registration application to all [your] other government records in the state. So they'll look at your Social Security records, your Motor Vehicle records, and any time you've had any interaction with the government, and if there is any information on your voter registration that is different than the information on another government record that they find, they remove you from the voting rolls.
For example, if I registered as Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and yet my motor vehicle license said Robert Frances Kennedy Jr., I'd be removed from the rolls. If your initial is different, if you leave an initial out, if you leave a "Jr." out, if you leave a hyphen out in your name. And what they've done is a study in New York that said 80% of the errors are errors by state clerks taking down this information. And particularly [in] immigrant communities, [where] people tend to vote Democratic, people have names�spell Muhammad with an "o" instead of a "u"
In New Jersey, which is a swing state, 300,000 voters in New Jersey were just sent letters saying that they are now ineligible to vote. New Jersey is nice enough to actually notify them--most states will not even notify them. And New Jersey intends to send out 870,000 letters so that is three quarters of a million people off the voting rolls in a state that could decide this vote by 50,000 votes. And these are Democrats that are being pushed off the rolls.
Let me tell you about one of other scams people should know about. If you're a newly registered voter--and of course the Democrats have done these gigantic registration drives--12 million people on registration--if you're a new voter, you MUST include your license or some other state I.D. when you come to vote. What that means is that if you're a college kid--and college kids now, they're sending in absentee ballots, they're not going to the voting place, they do everything online or they do everything remotely. They don't dream of going to the precinct house voting on election day and waiting in a long line. So if they send in the absentee ballot, and they don't include a color copy of their [driver's] license, their vote is going to be thrown into a trash can. And none of these people know this, because you had to have to read the law in order to know it. There is no notification [of this requirement] when you fill out your registration form, so all of those 12 million people that the Democrats have registered--those ballots are going to be just thrown out.
Papantonio: I'm involved with this kind of thing every day--I didn't know that until you just told me. The media is not talking about it. How in the hell is somebody gonna find this out? It's just incredible.
RFK, Jr.: Hopefully--Obama is getting $66 million a month--hopefully somebody in the Democratic organization is going to pay some attention to this before Election Day.more at:http://airamerica.com/ringoffire/blog/2008/sep/22/rfk-j...
Michael Moore has decided to skip commercial release of his new film, “Slacker Uprising,” and make it available on the web for free downloads and streaming.
http://www.sefermpost.com/sefermpost/2008/09/michael-moore-p.html
One of the download sites:
http://slackeruprising.com/
Let’s download it, hold pizza parties and potlucks, then get more volunteers on the phones and canvassing. 11 states have already begun early voting. The time to act is now.
Today in America the wealthiest 1% owns more than everyone in the bottom 95% combined.
Income inequality is at its greatest level since the 1920s - right before the great depression. Though the US has continued to make big gains in productivity over the last decade, nearly all of the benefit of those gains has gone to the wealthy, not the workers.
American CEOs earned 411 times as much as average workers in 2005, up from 107 times in 1990.
In the economic expansion of 2002-2006, the top 1% captured nearly three quarters of income growth.
http://elsa.berkeley.edu/~saez/saez-USto pincomes-2006prel.pdf
These are the proposed tax plans for the two candidates.
You can see that McCain intends to further reduce the tax burden of the wealthiest Americans at the expense of the middle and lower income families.
Obama’s plan increases taxes on the wealthy, especially that top 1%, to the benefit of working americans - a first step in reversing the rich-get-richer trend and toward re-building a real middle class. In fact, Obama has offered to actually raise his own taxes for the benefit of the country as a whole. Where are you in this table?
……………… MCCAIN …………. OBAMAIncome ……. Avg tax bill ……. Avg. tax billOver $2.9M …. -$269,364 (-4.4%)… +$701,885 (+11.5%)$603K and up…. -$45,361 (-3.4%)… +$115,974 (+8.7%)$227K-$603K…… -$7,871 (-3.1%)…….. +$12 (+0.0%)$161K-$227K…… -$4,380 (-3.0%)….. -$2,789 (-1.9%)$112K-$161K…… -$2,614 (-2.5%)….. -$2,204 (-2.1%)$66K-$112K …… -$1,009 (-1.4%)….. -$1,290 (-1.8%)$38K-$66K …….. -$319 (-0.7%)….. -$1,042 (-2.4%)$19K-$38K …….. -$113 (-0.5%)……. -$892 (-3.6%)Under $19K ……… -$19 (-0.2%)……. -$567 (-5.5%)
http://money.cnn.com/2008/06/11/news/eco nomy/candidates_taxproposals_tpc/?postve rsion=2008061113
NATIONAL VOTER REGISTRATION WEEK IS September 15-19
Is the voter registration of every person in your house up to date? Does someone need to call the Registrar and be sure? Are all your friends, co-workers and neighbors registered?
If every Obama supporter were to get one new voter registered and that voter cast his or her vote for Obama, he would win by a mile
Let's not forget that next week is National Voter Registration week, so those of us who can should get out there and sit in front of stores, banks, etc.
Let me know. I've been working on registration for years and would be happy to help anyone not familiar with the current procedures.
Well, the 19th century had its carpetbaggers, and now, we have our looking-back-to-the-20th-century scumbaggers.
They are flipping all the internal switches of fear, hate, jingoism, and selfishness to defeat the concept of the American people as a whole. They want to cut the people up and cut the people down so they may rule over them---not for them.
Enough!
Get your lingual tools together. Read the works of George Lakoff, learn how to frame your arguments in a progressive way that will meet this insidious subconscious attack that the Rovian scumbaggers have used with such great success for decades.
It's not enough to be "above all that." We too must flip unconscious switchs---those of courage, sincerity, patriotism, hard work, community, and justice.
Get ready! Let's hold some practice sessions where each of us takes the part of the naysayer and the "Yes, we can" sayer, and prepare to meet the challenge on the phones, on the doorsteps, and in the streets of America.
Act now!......Win Now!
Huffington Post has an article that covers 10 things that need to be done to change the direction and really focus this campaign on winning:
1. Don't practice political creationism.
2. Stop playing checkers when the other side is playing chess.
3. Don't confuse positive and negative messages with ethical and unethical ones.
4. Attack the character of the attacker if his attack is suggests bad character.
5. Make it about "us" if they make it about "them."
6. Tell three stories about your opponent.
7. Flesh out the message of change with two or three signature issues.
8. Remember that you have the most moving orator since Bill Clinton, and get competent debate coaches.
9. Fly into the eye of the storm, not away from it.
10. Apply the same nuance to your own political decision-making as you do to policy.
This is a great run down of what is ailing our campaign and what we can do to go back to where we were at the end of Denver convention. This campaign is not just suffering from post Republican Convention bounce--- it's suffering from neglect.
See http://www.huffingtonpost.com/drew-westen/what-obama-needs-to-do-in_b_125051.html
Here's handy little rough estimator to which you can refer your contacts on taxes. Fill in a couple of blanks, get the Obama rough cut......and, the McCain one.
http://www.alchemytoday.com/obamataxcut/
Over half of America thinks Obama is going to raise their taxes, so we really need to work on this one.
NEVADA VOTER REGISTRATION REGULATIONS:
Who can register to vote? Nevada law provides that you must be 18 years of age or over, a U.S. Citizen, and a resident of Nevada for 30 days preceding any election. If you will be 18 years old or will have met the residency requirement at the time of the election, you are also eligible to register to vote. Any person who has been declared by a court to be mentally incompetent is not eligible to register and vote. Felons who have not been restored to their civil rights are not eligible to register and vote; however, recent legislation has provided for automatic restoration of the right to vote for those who have been honorably discharged from prison, probation or parole, with certain exceptions related to the seriousness of the crime committed. For more information, see the restoration of voting rights page.
Where Can I Register to Vote? Residents of Nevada can register to vote at any NV Department of Motor Vehicles office, at their County Clerk/Registrar of Voters' office, various social service agencies and on college campuses.
Can I register to vote online? Nevada law does not provide for online voter registration. However, you may obtain a copy of the federal voter registration application online at: http://www.eac.gov/files/voter/nvra-update-09-12-06.pdf.
When would I need to update my registration? You will need to submit another voter registration indicating your current information if you have changed your physical address, your name, or your party affiliation.
What are the deadlines for registering to vote if I want to vote in the 2008 elections? Primary Election: July 12, 2008, if you register to vote by mail. July 22, 2008, if you register to vote in person.
General Election: October 4, 2008, if you register to vote by mail.
October 14, 2008, if you register to vote in person.
More information see the 2008 Election & Voter Registration Dates page.
For more information:
http://sos.state.nv.us/elections/voter/registration.asp
I am not happy that there has been little response to the outright lying, stealing and abuse of Obama, his ideals and changes he proposes. From here on out, it's going to be rough. And I feel left behind with nothing from the campaign that is, in fact, a compressed version of Obama's message.
Obama's speaking is more aggressive, but it needs to be tighter, and so does all of ours. We need to state a problem in a few words and move on to what is going to be done about it under Obama in a few sentences. Many times the distance between the problem statement and the answer is long---long enough to disconnect one from the other. Let's all work on this, because the other team is running, and running fast with ideas like "we are the changers" and we are the "reformers".
Just refuting this is not enough. One must do that and immediately put a new concept and cure in its place.
I'm all fired up and ready to go, but I am not sure campaign central is.
So community organizers aren't responsible, or caring, or doing anything important?
What a terrible insult to the greatest community organizer of all time---Jesus Christ.
THE PALIN CHOICE AND THE REALITY OF THE POLITICAL MIND
by George Lakoff
This election matters because of realities -- the realities of global warming, the economy, the Middle East, nuclear proliferation, civil liberties, species extinction, poverty here and around the world, and on and on. Such realities are what make this election so very crucial, and how to deal with them is the substance of the Democratic platform (PDF).
Election campaigns matter because who gets elected can change reality. But election campaigns are primarily about the realities of voters' minds, which depend on how the candidate s and the external realities are cognitively framed. They can be framed honestly or deceptively, effectively or clumsily. And they are always framed from the perspective of a worldview.
The Obama campaign has learned this. The Republicans have long known it, and the choice of Sarah Palin as their vice presidential candidate reflects their expert understanding of the political mind and political marketing. Democrats who simply belittle the Palin choice are courting disaster. It must be taken with the utmost seriousness.The
Democratic responses so far reflect external realities: she is inexperienced, knowing little or nothing about foreign policy or national issues; she is really an anti-feminist, wanting the government to enter women's lives to block abortion, but not wanting th e government to guarantee equal pay for equal work, or provide adequate child health coverage, or child care, or early childhood education; she shills for the oil and gas industry on drilling; she denies the scientific truths of global warming and evolution; she misuses her political authority; she opposes sex education and her daughter is pregnant; and, rather than being a maverick, she is on the whole a radical right-wing ideologue.
All true, so far as we can tell.
The Obama campaign has done this very well so far. The convention events and speeches were orchestrated both to cast light on external realities, traditional political themes, and to focus on values at once classically American and progressive: empathy, responsibility both for oneself and others, and aspiration to m ake things better both for oneself and the world. Obama did all this masterfully in his nomination speech, while replying to, and undercutting, the main Republican attacks.
But the Palin nomination changes the game. The initial response has been to try to keep the focus on external realities, the "issues," and differences on the issues. But the Palin nomination is not basically about external realities and what Democrats call "issues," but about the symbolic mechanisms of the political mind -- the worldviews, frames, metaphors, cultural narratives, and stereotypes.
The Republicans can't win on realities. Her job is to speak the language of conservatism, activate the conservative view of the world, and use the advantages that conservatives have in dominating political discourse.
Our national political dialogue is fundamentally metaphorical, with family values at the center of our discourse. There is a reason why Obama and Biden spoke so much about the family, the nurturant family, with caring fathers and the family values that Obama put front and center in his Father's day speech: empathy, responsibility and aspiration. Obama's reference in the nomination speech to "The American Family" was hardly accidental, nor were the references to the Obama and Biden families as living and fulfilling the American Dream. Real nurturance requires strength and toughness, which Obama displayed in body language and voice in his responses to McCain. The strength of the Obama campaign has been the seamless marriage of reality and symbolic thought.
The Republican strength has been mostly symbolic. The McCain campaign is well aware of how Reagan and W won -- running on ch aracter: values, communication, (apparent) authenticity, trust, and identity -- not issues and policies. That is how campaigns work, and symbolism is central.
Conservative family values are strict and apply via metaphorical thought to the nation: good vs. evil, authority, the use of force, toughness and discipline, individual (versus social) responsibility, and tough love. Hence, social programs are immoral because they violate discipline and individual responsibility. Guns and the military show force and discipline. Man is above nature; hence no serious environmentalism. The market is the ultimate financial authority, requiring market discipline. In foreign policy, strength is use of the force. In fundamentalist religion, the Bible is the ultimate authority; hence no gay marriage. Such values are at the heart of radical conservatism. This is how John McCain was raised and how he plans to govern. And it is what he shares with Sarah Palin.
Palin is the mom in the strict father family, upholding conservative values. Palin is tough: she shoots, skins, and eats caribou. She is disciplined: raising five kids with a major career. She lives her values: she has a Downs-syndrome baby that she refused to abort. She has the image of the ideal conservative mom: pretty, perky, feminine, Bible-toting, and fitting into the ideal conservative family. And she fits the stereotype of America as small-town America . It is Reagan's morning-in-America image. Where Obama thought of capturing the West, she is running for Sweetheart of the West.
And Palin, a member of Feminism for Life, is at the heart of the conservative feminist movement, which Ronee Schreiber has written about in her recent book, Righting Feminism. It is a powerful and growing movement that Democrats have barely paid attention to.
At the same time, Palin is masterful at the Republican game of taking the Democrats' language and reframing it -- putting conservative frames to progressive words: Reform, prosperity, peace. She is also masterful at using the progressive narratives: she's from the working class, working her way up from hockey mom and the PTA to mayor, governor, and VP candidate. Her husband is a union member. She can say to the conservative populists that she is one of them -- all the things that Obama and Biden have been saying. Bottom-up, not top-down.
Yes, the McCain-Palin ticket is weak on the major realities. B ut it is strong on the symbolic dimension of politics that Republicans are so good at marketing. Just arguing the realities, the issues, the hard truths should be enough in times this bad, but the political mind and its response to symbolism cannot be ignored. The initial Democratic response to Palin -- the response based on realities alone -- indicates that many Democrats have not learned the lessons of the Reagan and Bush years.
They have not learned the nature of conservative populism. A great many working-class folks are what I call "bi-conceptual," that is, they are split between conservative and progressive modes of thought. Conservative on patriotism and certain social and family issues, which they have been led to see as "moral," progressive in loving the land, living in communities of care, and practical kitchen table issues like mortgages, health care, wages, retirem ent, and so on.
Conservative theorists won them over in two ways: inventing and promulgating the idea of "liberal elite" and focusing campaigns on social and family issues. They have been doing this for many years and have changed a lot of brains through repetition. Palin will appeal strongly to conservative populists, attacking Obama and Biden as pointy-headed, tax-and-spend, latte liberals. The tactic is to divert attention from difficult realities to powerful symbolism.
What Democrats have shied away from is a frontal attack on radical conservatism itself as an un-American and harmful ideology. I think Obama is right when he says that America is based on people caring about each other and working together for a better future -- empathy, responsibility (both personal and socia l), and aspiration. These lead to a concept of government based on protection (environmental, consumer, worker, health care, and retirement protection) and empowerment (through infrastructure, public education, the banking system, the stock market, and the courts). Nobody can achieve the American Dream or live an American lifestyle without protection and empowerment by the government. The alternative, as Obama said in his nomination speech, is being on your own, with no one caring for anybody else, with force as a first resort in foreign affairs, with threatened civil liberties and a right-wing government making your most important decisions for you. That is not what American democracy has ever been about.
What is at stake in this election are our ideals and our view of the future, as well as current realities. The Palin choice brings both front and center. Democrats, being De mocrats, will mostly talk about the realities nonstop without paying attention to the dimensions of values and symbolism. Democrats, in addition, need to call an extremist an extremist: to shine a light on the shared anti-democratic ideology of McCain and Palin, the same ideology shared by Bush and Cheney. They share values antithetical to our democracy. That needs to be said loud and clear, if not by the Obama campaign itself, then by the rest of us who share democratic American values.
Our job is to bring external realities together with the reality of the political mind. Don't ignore the cognitive dimension. It is through cultural narratives, metaphors, and frames that we understand and express our ideals.
George Lakoff is the author of The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 20th Century Politics With and 18th Century Brain, Moral Politics, Don't Think of an Elephant!, Whose Freedom?, and Thinking Points. Read him. He can also be found on the DVD “How Democats and Progressivies can Win..” available through http://www.winwithlanguage.com/ . It is a 25 min DVD which is great for playing at house parties and before phone banking. I am not associated in any way with Professor Lakoff or the producers of this tape, but feel it is so important to get these techniques to our phone banks pronto so we can win against this very serious assault
citation:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/george-lakoff/the-palin-choice-and-the_b_123012.html .
Even if you cannot help with Voter Registration during the fair, you could contribute a lot if you could help us with Obama merchandise. We have almost nothing and it is difficult to obtain at the moment.. Buttons, bumper stickers, shirts hats, even rally signs are needed.
If you have some stuff and are willing to share it, please contact Laura Blatt laurahikes@yahoo.com and we'll make the necessary arrangements. Thanks so much. We look forward to meeting any of you who attend the fair. We will be to the right of the Main Gate.
We are registering voters at the Sonoma-Marin Fair from June 19-June 22, from 12:00pm to 9:00pm daily and we could use your help!! This is a great opportunity to reach a bunch of folks that live in rural areas in northern CA, and I can (almost) guarantee that your 3 hour shift of registering voters will be both fun and exciting!
There are still a bunch of shifts open (2 persons per 2 hour shift) so email me your preference at rwt4change@gmail.com in addition to signing up on the Events Site, and I will get back to you as soon as I can.
You can also call me at 707-292-9225!
Stop by and get in touch with other Sonoma County South Obama supporters
This happened just yesterday. Hannity offered an Obama supporter a steak dinner if he could name three pieces of legislation that had Obama's name on them. The caller clumsily changed the subject.
Sensing he had the caller on the ropes, Hannity lowered the bar to a single piece of legislation. And alas, the caller could not name the legislation.
Hannity smugly switched off the caller's volume and said directly to the audience, "Ladies and Gentlemen, checkmate." And Droogie exited his car, entered his house and ate tacos sadly.
Listen, I know how talk radio works. Even if he had been able to list three pieces of legislation, Hannity still would have badgered the caller about William Ayers and Jeremiah Wright.
Hannity is not the issue. The issue is that ordinary people are being told that Obama has a thin resume and has accomplished very little in his Senate career. I have a Republican co-worker who I spar back and forth with on this issue.
Even when I told him of one bill, he said, "Well, that's probably the only bill." It's never enough for some people, but that doesn't mean you should go into the world uninformed.
So here are just a few highlights from Barack Obama's career as a Senator: specific pieces of legislation, what they meant and how they were passed.
The Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act Introduced by Sen. John McCain in May 2005, and cosponsored by Sen. Edward Kennedy. Barack Obama added three amendments to this bill.
While the bill was never voted on in the Senate, the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Acts of 2006 and 2007, respectively, drew heavily upon the wording of this bill.
The Lugar-Obama Cooperative Threat Reduction. Introduced by Sen. Barack Obama, Sen. Dick Lugar and Sen. Tom Coburn.
First introduced in November 2005 and enacted in 2007, this bill expanded upon the successful Nunn-Lugar threat reduction, which helped secure weapons of mass destruction and related infrastructure in former Soviet Union states.
Lugar-Obama expanded this nonproliferation program to conventional weapons -- including shoulder-fired rockets and land mines. When the bill received $48 million in funding, Obama said, "This funding will further strengthen our ability to detect and intercept illegal shipments of weapons and materials of mass destruction, enhancing efforts to prevent nuclear terrorism."
Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 This act of Congress, introduced by Senators Obama and Coburn, required the full disclosure of all entities or organizations receiving federal funds in FY2007.
Despite a "secret hold" on this bill by Senators Ted Stevens and Robert Byrd, the act passed into law and was signed by President Bush. The act had 43 cosponsors, including John McCain.
The act created this Web site, which provides citizens with valuable information about government-funded programs.
Democratic Republic of the Congo Relief, Security, and Democracy Promotion Act
This law helped specify US policy toward the Congo, and states that the US should work with other donor nations to increase international contributions to the African nation.
The bill marked the first federal legislation to be enacted with Obama as its primary sponsor. Following this legislation's passage, Obama toured Africa, traveling to South Africa, Kenya, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Chad. He spoke forcefully against ethnic rivalries and political corruption in Kenya.
Honest Leadership and Open Government Act In the first month of the 110th Congress, Obama worked with Sen. Russ Feingold to pass this law, which amends and strengthens the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995.
Specificially, the changes made by Obama and Feingold requires public disclosure of lobbying activity and funding, places more restrictions on gifts for members of Congress and their staff, and provides for mandatory disclosure of earmarks in expenditure bills.
The House passed the bill, 411-8, on July 31. The Senate approved it, 83-14, on Aug. 2. At the time, Obama called it "the most sweeping ethics reform since Watergate."
Deceptive Practices and Voter Intimidation Prevention Act
Following the Republican-sponsored voter intimidation tactics seen in mostly black counties in Maryland during the 2006 midterm elections, Obama worked with Sen. Chuck Schumer to introduce this bill.
The bill has been referred to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Obama said of the bill, "This legislation would ensure that for the first time, these incidents are fully investigated and that those found guilty are punished."
The Obama-McCain Climate Change Reduction Bill
The Obama-McCain bill, which is co-sponsored by Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., would cut emissions by two-thirds by 2050.
Iraq War De-Escalation Act of 2007
Introduced by Obama, this binding act would stop the planned troop increase of 21,500 in Iraq, and would also begin a phased redeployment of troops from Iraq with the goal of removing all combat forces by March 31, 2008.
Explaining the bill, Obama said it reflects his view that the problems in Iraq do not have a military solution. "Our troops have performed brilliantly in Iraq, but no amount of American soldiers can solve the political differences at the heart of somebody else's civil war," Obama said.
Amendments to the 2008 Defense Authorization Bill
Obama worked with Sen. Kit Bond to limit, through this bill, the Pentagon's use of personality disorder discharges in the FY 2008 Defense Authorization bill.
This provision would add additional safeguards to discharge procedures and require a thorough review by the Government Accountability Office. This followed news reports that the Pentagon inappropriately used these procedures to discharge service members with service-connected psychological injuries.
"With thousands of American service members suffering day in and day out from the less visible wounds of war, reports that the Pentagon has improperly diagnosed and discharged service members with personality disorders are deeply disturbing," said Senator Obama. "This provision will add additional safeguards to the Department of Defense's use of this discharge and mandate a comprehensive review of these policies."
The Comprehensive Nuclear Threat Reduction provision
Working with Sen. Hagel and Rep. Adam Schiff, Obama authored this provision, which would require the president to develop a comprehensive plan for ensuring that all nuclear weapons and weapons-usable material at vulnerable sites around the world are secure by 2012 from the threats that terrorists have shown they can pose.
A provision from the Obama-Hagel bill was passed by Congress in December 2007 as an amendment to the State-Foreign Operations appropriations bill.
"It is imperative that we build and sustain a truly global effort under an aggressive timeline to secure, consolidate, and reduce stockpiles of nuclear weapons and weapons-usable material to keep them out of the wrong hands. The comprehensive nuclear threat reduction plan required by this provision is an important step in that effort," Obama said of the provision.
These are just a selection of the bills that Obama has introduced and co-sponsored. You owe it to yourself to be able to cite a few of these off the top of your heads so you can give people the gist of them when they challenge the Senator's accomplishments.
At the end of the day, I will take Obama's good judgment over McCain's longevity in Washington any day of the week. It's more important for a politician to learn from his or her mistakes than it is for them to present the same old failed ideas over and over and expecting a better result.
It's true Obama is a relative newcomer on the politican scene, but he has already accomplished much in the areas of nuclear non-proliferation, government accountability, environmental responsibility and others.
So get out there and let some people know what our guy is capable of. Don't be caught unaware when someone asks you for your candidate's resume!
Bookmark this, follow the links, share with friends. Wash, rinse, repeat. Always repeat.
MSNBC Veepstakes contest. Once again, the MSM tries to drive the campaigns to pick someone they want. Join in at the URL below:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24764369/
As long time advocate of women being allowed to achieve whatever they can and to try do even more to break new frontiers, I am horribly ashamed of Sen. clinton's perfomance tonight. She betrayed all the women who have supported her this far, even, supposedly warned Obama to not choose another woman for a running mate or else.
Her speech was ungracious, still highly divisive, and did nothing to mark this historic occasion. Instead she spent all her time with her personal valedictory and narcissism. I was appalled and truly depressed as a third generation feminist.
THE INVISIBLE PRIMARY—INVISIBLE NO LONGER
A First Look at Coverage of the 2008 Presidential CampaignOctober 29, 2007
A study by the Project for Excellence in Journalism and the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy
This study from Harvard is interesting and covers a number of items including tone of coverage. what kind of coverage, the rise and fall of positives and negatives and much more. With some complaining inevitably coming up about fairness, etc. I urge all of you take at least a quick look at the charts and graphs.
http://www.journalism.org/node/8187
