Its easy - and you can do it on this site. Neighbor to Neighbor - GOTV for the US Senate run-off between Democrat Jim Martin and Republican Saxby Chambliss........
We need this seat.
Some levity - we have 5 days to go!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4LzHcM_rho
Go out to you Senator Obama and your family as you go through your difficult and trying time with your Grandmother.
I know exactly how you feel and how hard it can be, but stay encouraged, it will be alright.
I've cried many tears and felt to heavy from the pain that comes with worry.
My unsolicited advice: think on the good things - they will carry you through.
Your Grandmother is no doubt proud as you have accomplished everything she has ever wanted for you.
Everything that I have expected and all that I anticipate by your accomplishments make me and the grandmothers in my family proud.
Please, find comfort in the thought of this.
Peace to you and your family.
Dave Zweifel — 10/17/2008 9:16 am
My friend Jim Hightower has had it up to here with the punditry's portrayal of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin as "populist."
And if anyone has a right to complain, it's Hightower, one of the country's true populists.
"Someone has to nail the media establishment for its willing perversion of language, American history and the substance of today's genuine populism," he wrote in a recent column.
He pointed out that America has been blessed with populist women throughout its history -- Ida Tarbell, Mother Jones, Dorothy Day, Rosa Parks, Rachel Carson, Karen Silkwood, Barbara Jordan, Molly Ivins, Barbara Ehrenreich and Granny D. Sorry, he added, Sarah Palin doesn't measure up against any of these.
http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/column/309901
http://sefora.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/nobel_letter4.pdf
snip:
An Open Letter to the American People
This year's presidential election is among the most significant in our nation's history. The country
urgently needs a visionary leader who can ensure the future of our traditional strengths in science
and technology and who can harness those strengths to address many of our greatest problems:
energy, disease, climate change, security, and economic competitiveness.
We are convinced that Senator Barack Obama is such a leader, and we urge you to join us in
supporting him.
JOE!!!!
By the way - how did we let mccain distract us from explaining to us this "secret plan" he has to capture Bin Laden.
"But the point is that I know how to handle these crises. And Senator Obama, by saying that he would attack Pakistan, look at the context of his words. I'll get Osama bin Laden, my friends. I'll get him. I know how to get him.
I'll get him no matter what and I know how to do it."
http://www.debates.org/pages/trans2008c.html
From ThinkProgress:
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has proposed cutting the tax rate on long term capital gains and dividends to 7.5 percent in 2009 and 2010. The current tax rate for these capital gains is 15 percent.
Today, the non-partisan Tax Policy Center (TPC) released an analysis showing who would benefit from this cut. Like the rest of McCain’s tax cuts, this one overwhelmingly aids the wealthy, with two-thirds of the benefit going to those making over $1 million:
In 2009, under a plan that lowers taxes on both gains and dividends, those making $1 million or more would get two-thirds of the benefit, and an average tax cut of more than $72,000. Those making less than $50,000 would get, on average, nothing.
If that we so Mr. McCain than your team of advisors would not include:
Charlie Black was a senior adviser to the Reagan '84 campaign and the campaign strategist for Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.)
Kevin Hassett, who will also advise the campaign on economic policy, is a resident scholar and the director of economic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). Hassett is a former senior economist to the Board of Governors at the Federal Reserve System, economics and finance professor at the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University, and economic policy advisor to President George W. Bush's reelection campaign in 2004.
Dr. John Taylor is professor of economics at Stanford University and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. Taylor is also a former Under Secretary for International Affairs for the U.S. Department of the Treasury in the George W. Bush Administration.
Senator Phil GrammFormer U.S. Senator From Texas
Gerald Parsky has received appointments from each of the past five Republican administrations. His service has included positions at the U.S. Departments of Treasury and Energy (Nixon); as Assistant Secretary for International Affairs with the U.S. Department of Treasury (Ford); the President’s Council on Productivity (Reagan); the President’s Export Council (George H.W. Bush) and the President’s Commission to Strengthen Social Security (George W. Bush). Parsky serves as a Trustee to both the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and the George (H.W.) Bush Presidential Library Foundation in Texas.
Harvey S. Rosen is the John L. Weinberg Professor of Economics and Business Policy at Princeton University. His research focuses on public finance. He attended the University of Michigan for his undergraduate studies and Harvard University for graduate studies.
He was the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers in 2005.
The Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) is a group of economists who advise the President of the United States.
Nicolle Devenish Wallace is the former White House Communications Director. She was appointed to the senior position on January 5, 2005, the same day her predecessor, Dan Bartlett, vacated the post to become a more general Counselor to the President.
Wallace also served as Communications Director for the 2004 Bush presidential campaign. Previously, she had held positions at the White House, under Florida governor Jeb Bush, and in the California Republican Party.
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Unless Mccain has fired these folks in the past two months, these are just a snip of who his advisors are.
He says he's a "reformer" - but I find it hard to believe that you are reforming when you will use the same advisors that are currently in place and therefore the contributors to the failed policies of the Bush administration and the republican agenda.
Mr. McCain - you are no reformer. You have demonstrated that you lack the ability to use reason and civility. Your unprofessional and irresponsible behavior should be a wake up call to all thinking and intellectual people in your party.
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Sarah Palin questioned Republican presidential candidate John McCain's decision to abandon efforts to win Michigan, a campaign move she only learned about Friday morning when she read it in the newspapers.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h21ZbzgPbTVRftcJPT5vkHkonY5QD93JB5JO0
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ah ha! she does read the newspapers!
""I have had a strong and a long relationship on national security, I've been involved in every national crisis that this nation has faced since Beirut, I understand the issues, I understand and appreciate the enormity of the challenge we face from radical Islamic extremism," the Senator declared. "I am prepared. I am prepared. I need no on-the-job training. I wasn't a mayor for a short period of time. I wasn't a governor for a short period of time."
(Back in October 2007, McCain berated the two Republican front runners for lacking the necessary political experience to handle commander in chief responsibilities.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzhFDQIgGSg
Stick with the facts - stay on message - lets start with taxes - that's an easy one.
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/the_budget_according_to_mccain_part_ii.html
"What the media isn't reporting is that the project isn't dead," Roger Wetherell, spokesman for Alaska’s Department of Transportation, said. In a process begun this past winter, the state’s DOT is currently considering (PDF) a number of alternative solutions (five other possible bridges or three different ferry routes) to link Ketchikan and Gravina Island."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/12/AR2008091202594.html
From McCain's Face the Nation interview:
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/09/07/face-the-nation-mccain-defends-gop-lack-of-diversity-by-ignoring-the-question/
Summary: On September 6, Fox News' America's Election HQ aired numerous reports documenting claims by Republicans and the McCain campaign that they "rescued" American flags that were going to be "disposed of" by the Democrats after their convention at Invesco Field. But during the reports, Fox News gave no indication that it had sought to contact a Democratic Party official or Obama campaign spokesperson for comment, and only reported a Democratic response hours after it began reporting the Republican claims. http://mediamatters.org/items/200809070007?f=h_top
http://mediamatters.org/items/200809070007?f=h_top
