I can say I am pleased with how he has handled himself amidst the rampant stupidity that has been apparent lately.
He has been calm under fire and I like the way he explains his decisions. I may not be fully in agreement with all of them, but I like the information.
I am glad, estatic even, that we elected him.
The kind of crap that is coming from my govenor is evidence of the good sense of my vote.
Could this story be true? Has anyone else heard of it
READ:
This is an effrt to increase the Peace Corp. Read the petition and sign it. Pass it on. This is along the lines of service to our country Barack is talking about.
http://www.petitiononline.com/morepc/petition.html
To Barack Obama and his family for their Loss.
Thank you Madelyn Payne Dunham for your grandson. I know your are very proud of him. I know I am.
THIS IS OUR MOMENT, THIS IS OUR TIME !
Two more days to push our message forward, to keep our focus, to bring this election home !
OBAMA/BIDEN'08
CATHOLICS FOR CHANGE
Amazing day. I just came back from a rally in downtown Houston to highlight early voting, to start 10-20-08, tomorrow there was so much enthusiasm there.
Colin Powell endorses Barack in such an intelligent,thoughtful statement.
The campaign had a record breaking month on donations. Which the RNC sees as unlawful.
Small donations by regular folks like me is somehow underhanded to the Mccain campaign.
I have tried to give 25.00 a month ,I have not always made that obligation, but to say it is a bad thing that I have made that committment is bothersome to me.
The efforts of the common man is somehow suspect?
I believe the effectivness of this campaign is a testement of how the American people feel about the current political landscape. We want things to change.
this Rollingstone article speaks to John McCain life and character
http://www.propeller.com/story/2008/10/05/a-closer-look-at-the-life-and-career-of-john-mccain-reveals-a-disturbing-record-of-recklessness-and-dishonesty/?clickthru
His statements today on "freedom of speech', "the media" and his "veep" choice not saying what she really means.....
"She would not…she understands and has stated repeatedly that we're not going to do anything except in America's national security interest," McCain told ABC's George Stephanopoulos of Palin. "In all due respect, people going around and… sticking a microphone while conversations are being held, and then all of a sudden that's—that's a person's position… This is a free country, but I don't think most Americans think that that's a definitve policy statement made by Governor Palin."
check this poll out. It is asking "if Palin is quailied to be Veep.
http://www.pbs.org/now/polls/poll-435.html
Sometimes politics has the uncanny effect of mirroring the national psyche even when nobody intended to do that. This is perfectly illustrated by the rousing effect that Gov. Sarah Palin had on the Republican convention in Minneapolis this week. On the surface, she outdoes former Vice President Dan Quayle as an unlikely choice, given her negligent parochial expertise in the complex affairs of governing. Her state of Alaska has less than 700,000 residents, which reduces the job of governor to the scale of running one-tenth of New York City. By comparison, Rudy Giuliani is a towering international figure. Palin's pluck has been admired, and her forthrightness, but her real appeal goes deeper.She is the reverse of Barack Obama, in essence his shadow, deriding his idealism and exhorting people to obey their worst impulses. In psychological terms the shadow is that part of the psyche that hides out of sight, countering our aspirations, virtue, and vision with qualities we are ashamed to face: anger, fear, revenge, violence, selfishness, and suspicion of "the other." For millions of Americans, Obama triggers those feelings, but they don't want to express them. He is calling for us to reach for our higher selves, and frankly, that stirs up hidden reactions of an unsavory kind. (Just to be perfectly clear, I am not making a verbal play out of the fact that Sen. Obama is black. The shadow is a metaphor widely in use before his arrival on the scene.) I recognize that psychological analysis of politics is usually not welcome by the public, but I believe such a perspective can be helpful here to understand Palin's message. In her acceptance speech Gov. Palin sent a rousing call to those who want to celebrate their resistance to change and a higher vision. Look at what she stands for:--Small town values -- a denial of America's global role, a return to petty, small-minded parochialism.--Ignorance of world affairs -- a repudiation of the need to repair America's image abroad.--Family values -- a code for walling out anybody who makes a claim for social justice. Such strangers, being outside the family, don't need to be heeded.--Rigid stands on guns and abortion -- a scornful repudiation that these issues can be negotiated with those who disagree.--Patriotism -- the usual fallback in a failed war.--"Reform" -- an italicized term, since in addition to cleaning out corruption and excessive spending, one also throws out anyone who doesn't fit your ideology.Palin reinforces the overall message of the reactionary right, which has been in play since 1980, that social justice is liberal-radical, that minorities and immigrants, being different from "us" pure American types, can be ignored, that progressivism takes too much effort and globalism is a foreign threat. The radical right marches under the banners of "I'm all right, Jack," and "Why change? Everything's OK as it is." The irony, of course, is that Gov. Palin is a woman and a reactionary at the same time. She can add mom to apple pie on her resume, while blithely reversing forty years of feminist progress. The irony is superficial; there are millions of women who stand on the side of conservatism, however obviously they are voting against their own good. The Republicans have won multiple national elections by raising shadow issues based on fear, rejection, hostility to change, and narrow-mindedness.Obama's call for higher ideals in politics can't be seen in a vacuum. The shadow is real; it was bound to respond. Not just conservatives possess a shadow -- we all do. So what comes next is a contest between the two forces of progress and inertia. Will the shadow win again, or has its furtive appeal become exhausted? No one can predict. The best thing about Gov. Palin is that she brought this conflict to light, which makes the upcoming debate honest. It would be a shame to elect another Reagan, whose smiling persona was a stalking horse for the reactionary forces that have brought us to the demoralized state we are in. We deserve to see what we are getting.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080913/ap_on_el_pr/campaign_republicans
