Good Evening...I have met here some of the most interesting, intense and PATRIOTIC people I've ever encountered right here on this site.
I sure hope that we won't loose touch.
I haven't been blogging or spending time on the site because the demands on the ground (calling, canvassing, entering results data and other campaign related work) has taken my attention and energy and I wouldn't have it any other way.
Just in case I don't get back any time soon, I just want to say thank you to all I've encountered and bless your every breath!
Brghtsd1 hope and courage (aka mary)
short and sweet....makes the point beautifully
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkAa8QFGHUc
Normally I don't let this changing score thing bother me...but I'm disappointed to see I have only been performing at 6/10 ths of what I could be doing to get the Obama-Biden ticket elected because I'm out in the real world canvassing, calling and completing data base entry, creating phone lists, calling others to volunteer and basically making my life about this election until it's done...6/10? Seriously? Do away with it completely if we can't input real world activities.
Thanks
In my mind and heart, I am at peace...
I see newly elected President Obama speaking to a huge sea of people, smilling, with tears in their eyes. I hear him thanking his family, his supporters and staff. I hear him reminding us of the high ideals and reason for all of the work...all of the calls, all of the fund raising. Reminding us that we are one country and that the healing must begin in order for the restoration to be full
I see President Obama taking his oath of office before millions, no billions of people around the world. I see him addressing the people of this nation and this world with confidence, with reassuring but honest words, reminding us that it's not his to do; that it's ours.
I see President Obama and his Cabinet presenting solutions, finding compromises that work for the betterment of the country.
I feel the tide turning; I feel the strength and hope returning. I feel the hatred subsiding; I feel the old fears of the past this disharmony fading into the past, where it belongs.
I know that this will and can be...what do you see?
"Great job Brownie"
"The fundamentals of the economy are strong"
"A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about "
IF you are supporting MCCAIN, you are supporting a man who agreed with the worst President ever 90% of the time.
We don't promote one religion over another in the United States.
We don't discriminate against a religous belief in the United States.
We are not a Christian country, a Jewish country, a Hindu country, a Buddist country or a Muslim country.
We are a country that welcomes all faiths, all colors, all cultures to live together and to enjoy freedom of religion and an opportunity to pursue happiness as we perceive happiness.
There are 1.2 billion Muslims in the world, it is wrong to paint the Muslim faith as evil, or bad.
The fact that some believe that anyone should die because of their faith in the 21st Century is just sad.
The one's who are terrorists are not practicing the faith as intended but have twisted it to meet their ideals.
It is an insult to the basis of this country to insult the Muslim faith and to suggest that we are somehow creating more war/terrorism by electing Barack Obama...who is a Christian man (whether you believe it or not, after all, this is something between a soul and his/her maker).
If you are Christian NEW; then I remind you of this instruction:
Matthew 7:1-5
“Judge not, that you be not judged. 2 For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. 3 Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? 4 Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.
GOOD SUNDAY MORNING CHRISTIAN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbWMPrQHcSU
October 15, 2008
The latest polls seem to have created a tidal wave of euphoria among Obama supporters.Excuse me if I don't get swept away along with it.I still remember going to bed thinking Gore was elected in 2000 after the networks called Florida for him. In 2004, I read through exit poll numbers the afternoon of the election and discovered that John Kerry would defeat George Bush.As a political consultant I've been in more campaigns than I would like to count where minority candidates underperformed final polling expectations.I'm expecting a squeaker on November 4. Support for Obama looks too fragile to expect otherwise. We've yet to hear from Osama bin Laden, who weighed in, you'll remember, on the eve of the 2004 election. We've yet to see any last minute action by the White House that could change the national conversation in McCain's favor. There are some powerful unplayed cards still in the deck----the most powerful being vote suppression.Let's not forget that tens of thousands of potential Gore supporters were removed from the Florida voting rolls just before the 2000 election by a state administration headed by George Bush's brother. Or that a shift of 65,000 votes in Ohio in 2004 would have elected John Kerry. Ohio's chief voting official that year was also Bush's Ohio campaign manager. Post-election investigations turned up plenty of accounts of how Democratic voters were either taken off the rolls or discouraged from voting by various suppression techniques.These things can't happen again, you say?Well, let's see.The New York Times ran a story the other day which revealed that in many swing states twice as many voters have been dropped from the rolls as have been newly registered.These states are illegally using Social Security information to verify voter registration, and dropping voters from the rolls within 90 days of the election---which also is against the law. The states in question include Michigan, Ohio, Colorado, Indiana, Nevada, North Carolina., Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana.Another vote suppression technique is to send out bad information to target groups, such as out-of-state students. The Republican clerk of El Paso County, Colorado recently informed local college students that if their parents lived outside of Colorado and claimed them as dependents they couldn't register or vote in Colorado. Nailed on it, the clerk finally admitted it wasn't true. But the same story was given to students in Virginia and South Carolina.. An old favorite in the vote suppression tool kit is to spread erroneous information anonymously, such as the fliers distributed in black neighborhoods of Philadelphia recently warning residents that undercover cops would be at polling places looking for people with unpaid traffic tickets.One of the most effective ways to stop people from voting is a game called “vote caging.” This is when letters are mailed to registered voters asking them to verify their addresses. If they don't respond they may either be taken off the rolls or have their votes challenged on election day. This technique is particularly effective with low income groups and voters who are mobile, such as students.During the past few weeks Michigan and Ohio Democrats have been fighting off Republican-led efforts to cast doubts about voting eligibility for people facing mortgage foreclosure. And in Nevada, Ohio, Wisconsin and elsewhere Democratic voters have been receiving something that looks like an absentee ballot, mailed by a no-name Ohio organization. How many Democrats will use them, thinking that they are real? John McCain and the Republican apparatus have been complaining lately that ACORN, a voter registration group, is engaged in wholesale illegal registrations. That's the smokescreen. The real story is what seems to be a concerted nationwide effort by Republicans to undo this year's record registration drive and to drive away from the polls a decisive number of those who might vote Democratic.Hard to believe?I've been in campaigns where we passed out coffee and other goodies to workers standing in long lines to vote because somehow enough machines didn't show up in Democratic precincts, and where platoons of lawyers tried to deny ballots to qualified voters. I know these things happen and that they often work. Both parties have done their share. But in recent years Republicans have been managing vote suppression on a grand scale at the highest levels of state and federal government. Keep in mind the recent Justice Department report that condemned former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and others in the department for firing U.S. attorneys who wouldn't aggressively charge voter fraud where they couldn't find it. Playing politics with the voter rolls is not a game the Republicans invented, but they have been particularly effective with it over the past few election cycles. I can read the current public opinion polls that forecast an Obama sweep. But based on past experience, I see many hurdles yet before this race is over.Joe Rothstein is a veteran national political strategist and media producer and editor of USPoliticstoday.com. He can be contacted at joe@ipdgroup.com.
I worked in CLEVELAND in the primary in March, this is definitely still happening, even with a Democratic Sec'y of State
The saddest thing about the KLAN or any of the hate groups is that they use religion to promote their hateful beliefs. It makes me sad and makes me wonder what God is thinking about it.
I was going to post the photos, but thought better of it...they're just too offensive
Here's a story from the Australian news where Bob lives:
THREE Australian cities have been targeted by offshoots of the Ku Klux Klan over recent months in an apparent recruiting drive by white supremacists.
Toowoomba was targeted first by leaflets that asked people to become a klansman or klanswoman in March.
Shortly afterwards, Cairns was targeted and then Rockhampton, last month, by a different group, Storm Front.
In Toowoomba and Cairns the pamphlets promoted the US-based White Legion Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.
Its website has an Australian page featuring propaganda presented as fact about African and Asian immigration, Aboriginal crime, the homosexuality agenda and - an old favourite - Jewish influence in the media.
Queensland Attorney-General Kerry Shine, a Toowoomba MP, referred the pamphlets to the state's Anti-Discrimination Commissioner, Susan Booth.
"Toowoomba is a very tolerant city," Mr Shine told The Australian when the KKK first struck.
"I believe any form of racial vilification is abhorrent."
B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation Commission executive officer Manny Waks said the Storm Front flyers in Rockhampton called for "real" Australians to join white supremacist movements and to fight against crimes allegedly committed by ethnic groups.
Mr Waks said the leaflet drops indicated a recruitment drive. "It is outrageous that in this time and age the KKK and Storm Front are still active in our tolerant and peaceful country," he said.
"No Australian should be affiliated in any way, shape or form with these vile, racist groups. We must ensure that the impressionable youth does not get influenced by these racists to join its minuscule ranks."
The Queensland Anti-Discrimination Commission said that the leaflets incited hatred and provoked people to harm others. Queensland Police have also investigated each of the leaflet drops.
"There is no doubt that the KKK and Storm Front are at best on the fringe of Australian society, but it is always concerning to see any activity coming from such quarters," Mr Waks said.
"It is a reminder that blatant racism still exists in our multicultural Australia and that we must remain vigilant and be willing to take swift action to combat such individuals and organisations when the need arises."
Good Evening,
I was making volunteer calls tonight and found myself wondering if people thought that Obama-Biden had announced that they were leaving the state and callingn it won. When I'd ask, people explained that school had started, that the football season had started, that their lives got busier with the seasonal change. They explained that they couldn't really spare time as they had. None seemed to wish the candidate anything less than victory, but somehow despite the dire situation that the country remains in. Despite the continued efforts by the McCain/Palin ticket, the RNC and the 527 groups (not to mention the FAKE Authors and FAKE charity organizations) supporters, who had volunteered before are in a position of false security. BECAUSE OF POLLS? BECAUSE OF AN ANNOUNCEMENT OF A MAN WHO HAS MADE LYING HIS PRIMARY STRATEGY?
Anyone who knows my "handle" here and has read blogs I've written in the past, knows that I try to maintain a positive outlook....so please don't take this as a jab...but for those of you who have lost your desire to give of your time; effort..."WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU THINKIN"? "IS YOUR MEMORY SO SHORT?" "DOES THE NAME JOHN KERRY RING A BELL?" "DID YOU EVER HEAR OF A GUY NAMED AL GORE?"
Barack Obama is a once in a lifetime candidate...this may be our countries last chance...there's no football game, no television premier, no "activity" short of that which would save your family immediate harm that is more important than this.
MAKE PHONE CALLS, KNOCK DOORS, VOLUNTEER AT AN HQ...there's less than a month...we not only can...WE MUST! GOTV!!!!!
I feel so much better...THANKS!
Why can't we make this an OASIS free from the hate mongering and mud slinging?
We know it's out there and yes, it's awful...but why are we promoting it further by posting it here?
Giving it energy and a life in here?
Does this make sense?
Nonsense...this is the time that he'll let the worst of the worst 527 and now 501-3c's like the CLARION FUND (who's supposed to be a non-partisan non-profit) loose on the state.
The deadline for registering is Monday...make sure that you have your forms with you and you ask everyone you see if they're registered...today, I registered the clerk at the gas station I frequent. He's a citizen since 1977 and hasn't ever been registered before...said he's tired of seeing the country he came to going down the tubes.
I urge everyone to be dilligent, be audacious....let's bring this country back together.
YES WE CAN
ENOUGH!
If this bail out is allowed, there will be no change...this is CLEARLY the final FUBAR from the Bush Administration (either or both the most corrupt and most ignorant Administration EVER) to the American people.
We need to stand up and say NO MORE!!!!!!!
It is plainly, simply unacceptable to me that the Democratic leadership hasn't said STICK IT to the Bush Administration and their attempts along with the wall street THUGS to hold this country hostage. We have given too many rights and given too much latitude to these CRIMINALS. It's time to say enough and more than say it...mean it. That means NO BAIL OUT, NO WAY...let's refocus this country to the vision of the founding fathers and hold these people accountable for their actions and their inaction.
ENOUGH! ALREADY! ENOUGH!
Here's where the Obama family will live for the next eight years:
He'll be working with these people
To make life better for the people who live here
He's going to work to
and that will help the people of the
JUST PICTURE IT....FEEL WHAT IT IS YOU WILL FEEL WHEN THE ELECTION WORK IS DONE AND THE REAL WORK CAN BEGIN!
I urge you to do everything you know you can and try all those things you have thought you couldn't to make this happen!
It's like deja vu all over again....
peace...be still and know that I am.....
