As you can see, the visible score of my Obama campaign involvement is a paltry 1/10 (recently reduced from a 2/10 for some reason)! In reality I am extremely proud of the behind the scenes work I have done, as well as others have done, to support Barack Obama's candidacy. I have worked at the local volunteer center making many calls there, e-mailed copiously, covered my car in bumper stickers, talked to everyone who would engage with me, etc. While the work wasn't recorded officially, it was still done.
How amazing is it that our generation and our children's generation gets to become comfortable with this kind of leadership change in America?! President Obama. What a beautiful sound.
Congratulations to everyone who helped make this possible!
A good campaign time vocab word -syc·o·phant (sĭk'ə-fənt, sī'kə-) Pronunciation Key n. A servile self-seeker who attempts to win favor by flattering influential people. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sycophant
In other words - people who suck up, or "brown nose" a person of influence for personal gain. The GOP-McCain monkey, Nancy Photenhauer, is a poster-child sycophant. See:http://thisweekwithbarackobama.blogspot.com/2008/09/hardball-matthews-debunks-mccains.html
Why Sarah Palin cannot be elected Vice President:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHvJPGnkQxE
I'm a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight... If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're "exotic, different." Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, and it's a quintessential American story?If your name is Barack some try and say you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim. Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, and you're a maverick? Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable, but if you attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you're well grounded?
If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees,...you don't have any real leadership experience? If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you're qualified to become the country's second highest ranking executive? If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a real Christian?If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a Christian? If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society?If, while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state's school system while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you're very responsible? If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family's values don't represent America's? If your husband is nicknamed "First Dude", with at least one DWI conviction and no college education, who didn't register to vote until age 25, and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable? OK, much clearer now,...not.
When you interview a potential employee there is a great amount of effort that goes into observing that person's pattern of behavior in other places. You also fact check to verify that what they say is true.
This coming election could not be more serious. Our national and global stability and reputation is at risk. "We the people" must "hire" who we will put in charge in the White House. This person and their running mate must engender the respect of world leaders because our global relations have a direct effect on our national concerns. These 2 people must be believable, consistent, and knowledgeable. We must carefully review their patterns of behavior and veracity - before hiring them.
Please spend a few minutes watching the following brief video clips. You will see a person who has consistently reversed position with the wind. Worse,...and this is crucial,...you will see a person actually deny saying many things he has said clearly before, on the record.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioy90nF2anI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEtZlR3zp4c&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvgBpXPMko&feature=related
John McCain chose his own running mate under pressure from his managers. He wanted Joe Lieberman, they wanted Sarah Palin. He caved. Mr. McCain's past war history cannot cover his 90% Bush related voting record or his consistent inconsistency on many issues. His long pattern of denying behavior is clear. Sarah Palin also openly denies her own recorded behavior (she did support the "Bridge to nowhere", etc.). McCain/Palin have lied to us already. What do you think they will do if elected? They will continue a pattern.The nation cannot afford the damage that the McCain/Palin ticket will bring. We are suffering deeply from the effects of an 8 year administration that has lied to the world and to it's own citizens consistently.
It is time to reverse the pattern. It is time for real change. It is time for Obama/Biden.
In America, Sarah Palin is welcome to hold any belief she wishes, personally.
However, for others, she is not welcome to promote lies about her own record (or McCain's - or Obama's!), or a policy that would take away women's rights to choose what they do with there own bodies (a zygot is not a "baby"), or the idea that Israel is punished by terrorism because they do not believe in Jesus, or the idea that the Iraq War is "God's war." Palin is not welcome to be the President of the United States in waiting.
That she did not even know what the "Bush Doctrine" (anticipatory "defense") is in her very 1st televised interview with Charlie Gibson, or that, after her - very first trip - to another Continent, she believes she has enough foriegn policy gravitas to help lead this country - because she has administered the Alaska National Guard (for 18 months) and that "you can see Russia from Alaska" - is an embarrassment and an insult to everyone's intelligence throughout the world.
McCain/McSame's "judgement" is obviously skewed and controlled by his lobbyist managers (http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/stateupdates/gG5Z5k). In his most important initial demonstration of leadership in his campaign for the Presidency, McSame chooses - Sarah Palin???
Regardless of his past battle wounds and bravery, John McCain has currently demonstrated that America cannot - cannot - trust him to stand alone and rule this country with the courage and conviction he wants the nation to believe he still has. His present actions grossly betray his own patriotic history. John McCain should be ashamed that he has lowered himself to allowing his lobbyist staff to convince him to use lies, and to nominate a terribly inadequate running mate, just to win an election.
We cannot afford to have our country kidnapped any longer by the modern-day Republican fear mongering war baiters. (Lincoln was a Republican, but he is rolling in his grave at the actions of the new version of his old party.) Electing a McCain/Palin ticket is simply the worst thing America could do to itself.
It is time for real Change for the better, and the Obama/Biden ticket is the best chance for this to happen.
Hopefully Obama's team and he will not fall into the trap of micromanaging the campaign, (which Gore and Kerry did) and giving more ammo to the Karl Roves on the Repub side.
"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see." -- Arthur Schopenhauer
By this standard, considering his position on the Iraq war from the start, Barack Obama is a genius. This is exactly the kind of deep insight America and the World need so badly, especially after what has happened over the past 8 years. McBush plans to "stay the course." We can't have that. Obama must lead the US and the World into better standing, and only he has the wisdom and vision to deal correctly with what is to come, whatever it may be, because he can see through an issue and get to the core of what is really needed.
What if Hillary's excruciating campaign serves a good purpose in the end? - to exhaust any significant ammunition the Republicans might aim at Obama? Obama has made it over the hurdles so far, and very respectfully. Could it be a good thing that Hillary is taking so long to die, using up most of the Republican war strategy in the battle?
Also, being a lawyer, Hillary is trained to go to the mat on everything. Our justice system only works if a case is proven beyond a reasonable doubt, and that takes enormous energy and sometimes exhaustive opposition. Opposing counsel should only be able to win a case if their fight can stand to the bitter end and still carry the weight of truth. No slam dunk cases or kangaroo courts. It seems Obama's ability to sustain the lengthy opposition might really work to make him stronger in the minds of the public for the run of the final campaign for the Presidency.
Here's another thought I thought I would never say... I'm starting to think an Obama/Clinton political freight train would be absolutely unstoppable, no matter what the Republicans throw into the ring, and in spite of Hillary playing "below the line" politics.
Obama and Clinton can exit this present fight ring and shake hands congratulating each other on a good bout. Clinton can "see the light" about how wrong she was about Obama and influence her constituency to rally in full support of the Obama led Democratic ticket. Obama can (and does) brush off the past and move forward powerfully. It's a Win-Win.
Further, Obama/Clinton would most likely succeed again easily in 2012, and if she's still up for it in 2016, Clinton will THEN truly have the "experience" she has tried to erroneously claim now.
New Supreme Court appointments are looming, and it is desperately imperative that a non-Right Wing agenda is in place when those appointments are made. An Obama/Clinton ticket would serve that end, and despite the smell of current issues, a combined ticket would serve the country and the world in crucially important ways for years to come.
Just a thought.
My best, Suds
