Cross posted on Myspace -
My friend Whitney started this great idea. I have combined all of the original responders ideas into one place. Some are mine and some are the other 3 people who responed (including Whitney). Read through them and laugh. Then, hit reply add your own in the comments section. Have a great Thursday.
Thank you, Whitney for letting me be part of your "itis" campaign! LOL
Because we all need some smiles to get us back into the campaign spirit, here comes:
You know you're getting "Obama-itis" when... 1.) You see an Obama add that you've been on TV at least 10 times before, and watch it as if it were the first time :-)
2.) You have stayed up late, looked at the clock and wondered "I wonder if it's too late to phone bank folks on the West Coast" :-)
3.) You have watched the "Donate Meter" to see the numbers change within seconds of hitting the refresh button :-)
4.) You want to re-name your kids "Hope" and "Change"5.) You no longer hate will.i.am6.) You catch yourself using the phrase "the unlikely story that is America" in different, often inappropriate contexts.7.) You check MyBO more than Facebook.8.) You start all phone conversations with "Hi, I'm a volunteer for the Obama campaign."9.) You still think "skinny black kid with the big ears and funny name" is hilarious.
This was sent to me by my friend Laura and it touched my soul. Click the link to watch it.
http://www.dipdive.com/dip-politics/wato/
Yes that's right an affair. Read all about it in the New York Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/21/us/politics/21mccain.html?_r=1&ref=politics&oref=slogin
The title says it all. The official title from the New York Times: Unofficial Tallies in City Understated Obama Vote.
The fraud is unreal. Seriously, this is just messed up. How could anyone believe that Barack got 0 votes in Harlem? The only bright spot is that this election hasn't been certified yet so there could be a delegate increase for Barack.
Here is the link to the story. Pass on and share with all supporters!
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/16/nyregion/16vote.html?_r=1&ref=politics&oref=slogin
Cross posted on my Myspace page:
I know I woke up yesterday excited about the rally in California even though I'm in DC (I watched it on c-span 3 times!) and then logged on to the major news networks and to tv to see Barack making up considerable distance in the polls. I was overjoyed! Then when Maria Shriver walked out, there are no words. There were tears but no words. I started calling everyone to make sure they knew what was happening. It was another one of those moments in this campaign that just brought it home.
So as we are all looking forward to Tuesday and we are anxious, excited, scared and every other emotion in between, I want us all to stay Fired Up! Make the calls, talk to our friends, family and neighbors and don't ever give up hope. A quick story to share. I was volunteering in South Carolina. I have a bum ankle so I volunteered to drive people to the polls and volunteers to canvas. It was about 45 minutes before the polls were going to close and I had three college girls about 18 or 19 years old who were out knocking on doors. On their list of houses was one marked vacant. They decided to knock anyway and at least leave a door hanger about Barack.
I woke up this morning excited that Michelle, Caroline, and Oprah would be speaking together today and bringing out the vote for Barack and then I see this:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22972397/
Barack is ahead in CA and tied in NY and NJ! Let the church say AMEN!
Everyone get up and make calls in NY BEFORE the game. The Giants are playing and we don't want to piss people in NY off by calling during the game!
Yes, it's true! The woman who has called John Edwards all kinds of hateful things. The woman who has said women should not be able to vote. The woman who is a raging racist and homophobe has stood up and said that Hillary Clinton is her choice! If this isn't enough to tell you that we have made the right decision in supporting Barack Obama, then I don't know what else is. The video link is below too. Make sure and share this with everyone you know!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2JoSo17Azk
Politico.com is accepting questions for tonight's debate. I encourage everyone to go and submit a question. This is a very important debate before Super Tuesday. The question I submitted can be found under Most Recent and it was # 20 but that could have changed. If you like the question, please vote for it so it can be asked. The question I submitted is below. Please take the time to vote for questions and please submit your questions.
The link to vote for the questions is http://dyn.politico.com/debate/democrats/VoteForQuestion.cfm#
and let me know what question(s) that you submitted and voted for.
Thanks everyone!
-Manda
Senator Clinton:
In recent days, you have called for the Florida and Michigan delegates to be seated at the DNC Convention this August. This is despite the fact that you pledged not to campaign in Florida and were aware of the sanctions placed on these states by the DNC. Your decision to hold a fake victory party reminds me of the fake press event held by FEMA this summer. Although no one wants to see the voices of the citizens of Florida and Michigan stifled, how am I supposed to vote for you and trust that you will follow through on your campaign promises, when it appears to some that you only follow through when it is politically convenient for you? Tell me how this shows leadership ability?
Dana Milbank wrote a great article about HRC and the Florida primary. Click here to read it .
I laughed out loud because she nailed it!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/29/AR2008012902998.html
My friend, Camille, sent me a link to a really great article which breaks down the South Carolina primary and the issue of race in this political season. It really is a good article. He really put into perspective many things that are not discussed. He also put the feelings, at least my feelings at that moment, when we started chanting "Race Doesn't Matter" in South Carolina. What he says here is exactly what we were feeling at that moment when Whitney started the chant and I got right in there with her!
Click here to read the article or you can cut and paste the link below.
I'm interested to here what people think about his thoughts. Please let me know.
http://www.essence.com/essence/lifestyle/voices/0,16109,1706948,00.html
Also posted on Myspace:
The cries are getting louder, stronger and more frequent for the DNC to reinstate Florida and Michigan's delegates. This is just another attempt to steal the election from the people again and smells a lot like the General Election of 2000.
We, the people, need to remember that this is our election, this is our government, and these are our elected officials. We, the people, need to start holding these party leaders accountable. We, the people, need to start holding their feet to the fire.
It is not acceptable for anyone to ask, beg or demand that Michigan and Florida be reinstated into this delegate process. The people of Michigan and Florida should be angered at their state party leaders for putting them in this position. They should be in the process of getting new state party leaders. The other candidates running in this race should stop trying to pad their delegate count with delegates won in races where no one else was campaigning because of the agreement made with the DNC. It isn't fair and it completely rejects the notion that this is a fair election of the people.
If the DNC changes their position and let's these delegates be seated at the convention then We, the people, need to make sure that changes are made in our national leadership. It is time for Howard Dean to make a public announcement that these delegates will not be seated and that no position change will be had by the DNC. Our party is already fractured and very possible fractured beyond repair. If these rumblings are allowed to continue, I fear the damage will be irreversable.
So please call the DNC offices and tell Howard Dean how you feel about this situation. Let him know that his silence is not an option. Let him know that the party is being damaged and possibly beyond repair. The number is below.
Main Phone Number: 202-863-8000
or toll-free 877-336-7200
South Carolina was a great win for this campaign and all of the volunteers and supporters who believe in Barack Obama and his vision. We woke up Sunday to even more wonderful news that not only was Caroline Kennedy supporting Barack but Ted Kennedy was going to announce his support on Monday. Then we wake up today and Patrick has come out supporting Barack too! What a great three days we have had in the movement! Now comes the next 9 days to bring this even closer to home. Super Tuesday! But we have to think past just the votes of our friends and family in those states. We also have to think about those "Superdelegates" that are still just floating around.
Let's just do a quick definition of a "superdelegate". Superdelegates are a select political group, including members of Congress, governors, members of the Democratic National Committee, past party officials, and former elected leaders, like Presidents and their vice presidents, a vote to toss into the ring at the convention to show their support of a candidate. This year, it is very likely the superdelegates will come into play. It's been a long time since they actually held some true meaning but with the race as tough as it has been, it just may come down to how they vote at the convention.
To gain the party nomination, a candidate must have 2,025 delegates. As long as the DNC doesn't bow to HRC's now vocal cries to reinstate both Michigan and Florida's delegates (they have been stripped of their delegates and won't be seated at the convention this year for having such early primary elections) there would be 796 superdelegates in play at the convention. We need to start working on those delegates, especially the ones that are seated members of Congress. If they go against the will of the people and toss their support to HRC even though we are speaking very loudly that we want Barack to be our nominee, they need to know that those of us in their states and districts will be sure to vote to unseat them. They need to be more afraid of us than of the Clintons. We vote them in and we can vote them out.
Please take the time to learn who your US Senators and Congressional members have come out supporting. Be sure to let them know that you expect them to support the will of the people and that we are speaking loudly that we want Barack to be our representative. They need to know that our support and our desire for change goes down to our voting for our represenatives at the national and local level. They need to stop looking out for themselves and their political shelf life as they see it and start working for us. Let them know that we hold their political shelf life in our hands. Let them know they should be backing Barack Obama. Let all the superdelegates know, WE WANT CHANGE! SUPPORT BARRACK OBAMA!
Here is the article and link from the MSNBC website:
Sen. Kennedy endorses Barack Obama
WASHINGTON - Two generations of Kennedys - the Democratic Party's best known political family - endorsed Barack Obama for president on Monday, with Sen. Edward M. Kennedy calling him a "man with extraordinary gifts of leadership and character," a worthy heir to his assassinated brother.
"I feel change in the air," Kennedy said in remarks salted with scarcely veiled criticism of Obama's chief rival for the nomination, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, as well as her husband, the former president.
"I have marveled at his grit and grace," he said of the man a full generation younger than he is.
Kennedy's endorsement was ardently sought by all three of the remaining presidential contenders, and he delivered it at a pivotal time in the race. A liberal lion in his fifth decade in the Senate, the Massachusetts senator is in a position to help Obama court Hispanic voters as well as rank-and-file members of labor unions, two key elements of the Democratic Party.
He is expected to campaign actively for Obama in the days before a string of delegate-rich primaries and caucuses across 24 states on Feb. 5, beginning later this week in Arizona, New Mexico and California.
The senator made his comments at a crowded campaign rally that took on the appearances of a Kennedy family embrace of Obama, who sat smiling as he heard their praise.
He was introduced by Caroline Kennedy, daughter of the late president, who said Obama "offers that same sense of hope and inspiration" as did her father. Rep. Patrick Kennedy also endorsed Obama from the stage before a boisterous crowd at American University.
"Today isn't just about politics for me. It's personal," Obama, 46, said when it came time for him to speak. "I was too young to remember John Kennedy and I was just a child when Robert Kennedy ran for president. But in the stories I heard growing up, I saw how my grandparents and mother spoke about them, and about that period in our nation's life - as a time of great hope and achievement."
In his remarks, Sen. Kennedy sought one by one to rebut many of the arguments leveled by Obama's critics.
"From the beginning, he opposed the war in Iraq. And let no one deny that truth," he said, an obvious reference to former President Clinton's statement that Obama's early anti-war stance was a "fairy tale."
"With Barack Obama, we will turn the page on the old politics of misrepresentation and distortion.
"With Barack Obama we will close the book on the old politics of race against race, gender against gender, ethnic group against ethnic group, and straight against gay," Kennedy said.
The Massachusetts senator had remained on the sideline of the presidential campaign for months, saying he was friends with Obama, Clinton and former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards, as well as several Senate colleagues who are no longer in the race.
Lately, according to several associates, Kennedy became angered with what he viewed as racially divisive comments by Bill Clinton. Nearly two weeks ago, he played a personal role in arranging a brief truce between the Clintons and Obama on the issue.
Questioned about Kennedy's endorsement, Hillary Clinton said simply, "We're all proud of the people we have endorsing us."
She also defended herself and her husband against criticism that they had engaged in racial politics and distortion of a rival's record.
"There's been no two people who have stood against that more than we have over many years," she said in a conference call with Arizona reporters.
Kennedy refers only sparingly to his assassinated brothers, John and Robert, in his public remarks, and his endorsement of Obama was cast in terms that aides said was unusually personal.
"There was another time, when another young candidate was running for president and challenging America to cross a new frontier. He faced criticism from the preceding Democratic president, who was widely respected in the party," Kennedy said, referring to Harry S. Truman.
"And John Kennedy replied, 'The world is changing. The old ways will not do. ... It is time for a new generation of leadership.
"So it is with Barack Obama," he added.
Kennedy began his remarks by paying tribute to Sen. Clinton's advocacy for issues such as health care and women's rights. "Whoever is our nominee will have my enthusiastic support," he said.
But he quickly pivoted to a strong endorsement of Obama, whom he said "has extraordinary gifts of leadership and character, matched to the extraordinary demands of this moment in history."
"I believe that a wave of change is moving across America," Kennedy said.
Also Monday, Obama picked up the endorsement of author Toni Morrison, who once labeled Bill Clinton the "first black president." Morrison said she has admired Hillary Clinton for years because of her knowledge and mastery of politics, but cited Obama's "creative imagination which coupled with brilliance equals wisdom."
Morrison said her endorsement had little to do with Obama's race - he is the son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas - but rather his personal gifts.
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I've been giving the up-coming elections a lot of thought lately and I have a question to pose. Why does everyone think that because Hilary Clinton was First Lady, this lends her more credibility on Foreign Affairs and Foreign Affairs knowledge than Barack Obama who has traveled and lived abroad?
In my opinion, the two are equal. Hilary didn't sit in on any foreign policy meetings. She didn't draft any foreign policy agendas that brokered deals or settled disputes. Not to mention that she voted for a war that has ruined our international image and refuses to acknowledge that what she did was a mistake. If she can't acknowledge that now, then what else wouldn't she acknowledge if she was elected president?
Don't get me wrong. I like Hilary. I do. I think she is a smart person and I think she has a pretty good head on her shoulders. It just so happens that I like Barack more. He has what seems to have been missing from American politics for so long - a willingness to be held accountable. A willingness to listen. The ability to understand what we've all been through or are going through because he's either lived it, seen it, or rolled up his sleeves to try and fix it. I have a lot of respect for someone like that. When he talks to you it doesn't seem like he's just reading the speech that someone else wrote for him. He's funny and it doesn't seemed forced. He's sympathetic and it doesn't seem contrived.
I would put his years of living abroad, living the cultures, experiencing the people and the governments, his time being a community activist and his state and federal legislative experience on equal footing with Hilary. I'm sorry, I just don't think being First Lady is above and beyond growing up in and understanding from first hand teachings and experiences, international living. they are equal. I'd also say that what the other people running call "inexperience" is not actually inexperience. It's a fresh look at some old problems and old ways of doing things. Barack has just as much, if not more, education than many of the people running for political offices today. I really believe that he can make a difference in this country. He would be a great leader. I believe that, as with all of us, he will make missteps and he may stumble and fall, but he will get back up, look at what he did not so well, and continue forward. Leading us, guiding us but most of all, listening to us.
The next President has a lot of damage to undo and messes to clean up from this current administration. Out of everyone, I trust Barack the most to do the job and do it well with thoughtfulness and care.
