I am so proud of being a part of this movement! From the very beginning we have all found each other and accomplished great things in our communities!
I have one simple request for another viral movement. There is a new website that is about to be launched, and because through this site, we have made so many fantastic connections, we should ask the web administrators to transfer our friends and settings into the new change.org site they have created. If you would please use the letter below to post as a blog, or send a message to the campaign staff immediately so we can make it a possibility for future involvement!
"I was thinking & hoping just last evening that maybe all our MYBO info and contact could be migrated automatically to http://www.change.gov to avoid chaos and so that everyone can maintain their favorite personal connections. It can be done. Let's ALL ask the BO webmasters to make it so."
God bless you at this time and may you find comfort in knowing that millions of your loyal followers are here to lift you up, and be there for you on he campaign trail.
We will pick it up and take on more campaigning on your behalf since you are doing exactly what you need to be doing at this time. She needs you.
We support you and your decision and we wish your grandmother a big get well soon!
57% OBAMA
39% McCain
It's official. At least for the kids! The Scholastic Presidential Election Poll results are in: Democratic nominee Senator Barack Obama won with 57 percent of the vote, to 39 percent for Republican nominee Senator John McCain.The poll was open to kids from grades 1 to 12 in Scholastic News and Junior Scholastic magazines. Almost 250,000 (a quarter of a million) kids voted by paper ballot or online at www.scholastic.com/news. The poll closed on October 10.Since 1940, the results of the student vote have mirrored the outcome of the general election all but twice: In 1948, kids voted for Thomas E. Dewey over Harry S. Truman. In 1960, more students voted for Richard M. Nixon than for John F. Kennedy. In 2000, a majority of student voters chose George W. Bush, mirroring the Electoral College result, but not the result of the popular vote. Obama and McCain weren't the only vote getters. Four percent of the students voted for other people like comedian Stephen Colbert, and entertainers Miley Cyrus, and the Jonas Brothers. It was the highest percent of write-in votes in the history of the poll. Some even voted for themselves. Most of the write-in votes —11 percent of the 4 percent—were for Senator Hillary Clinton.
Jeff Frederick, the Republican Party, and the McCain campaign cannot be allowed a pass on smears such as this against Barack Obama. Obama supporters and other concerned parties are encouraged to contact the GOP and the McCain campaign, demand an apology from both, and demand Frederick's resignation:
McCain national campaign: info@johnmccain.com
McCain Virginia campaign virginia@johnmccain.com
Republican National Committee (Mike Duncan, Chair): chairman@gop.com
Virginia Republican Party: info@rpv.org
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The Republican national campaign reached a new low over the weekend when chairman Jeffrey M. Frederick of the Virginia Republican Party (pictured here) compared Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama to terrorist leader Osama bin Laden. Clumsily associating Obama with 60s militant William Ayers - a man with whom Obama was loosely acquainted within the context of legitimate charity work in Chicago - Frederick told McCain volunteers in Virginia that Obama and bin Laden "both have friends that bombed the Pentagon," concluding that this means Obama is "scary." These remarks were understood as talking points for the volunteers to convey to the voters of Virginia.
Democrats are understandably outraged by Frederick's comments, saying that this is only the latest in a series of inflammatory statements made by Republicans against Obama in the crucial battleground state of Virginia. First reported Oct. 12 in Time, Frederick's remarks are discussed further in the same date's Washington Post. Frederick stood by his statements when questioned later, and John McCain has declined to condemn or comment on Frederick's remarks. Meanwhile, even Republicans have conceded that smears like Frederick's against Obama are a loser's game.
Frederick's comparison of Obama with bin Laden is obviously not only inflammatory but ridiculous: Bin Laden was directly responsible for the 9/11 attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center which killed thousands of people. Ayres was a member of a group that carried out a 1972 bombing at the Pentagon in which no one was hurt or killed, and with which then ten-year-old Barack Obama was in no way associated. Ayres is now is now a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and once served on a charity board of which Obama was also a member. Obama has condemned Ayers's actions in the 1960s and 1970s, and describes him as "a guy who lives my neighborhood."
Frederick's remarks are the latest in a series of inflammatory statements by Republicans campaigning in Virginia. Recently, the head of the McCain campaign in Buchanan County, Virginia, was forced to resign after he published a column in a local newspaper including openly racist comments about Obama and African Americans as well as disparaging statements about immigrants and gay people. Recently also, John McCain's brother Joe described suburban Alexandria and Arlington County in Northern Virginia as "communist country."
Obamamaniac:
The Keating Five were five United States Senators accused of corruption in 1989, igniting a major political scandal as part of the larger Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s. The five senators, Alan Cranston (D-CA), Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ), John Glenn (D-OH), John McCain (R-AZ), and Donald W. Riegle (D-MI), were accused of improperly aiding Charles H. Keating, Jr., chairman of the failed Lincoln Savings and Loan Association, which was the target of an investigation by the Federal Home Loan Bank Board (FHLBB).
After a lengthy investigation, the Senate Ethics Committee determined in 1991 that Alan Cranston, Dennis DeConcini, and Donald Riegle had substantially and improperly interfered with the FHLBB in its investigation of Lincoln Savings. Senators John Glenn and John McCain were cleared of having acted improperly but were criticized for having exercised "poor judgment".
Why do they insist on the US producing more oil when the entire world benefits from our production?Money honey.Why wouldn't we pursue independence from foreign oil and the production and export of alternative energy?
It makes sense. It could produce more jobs here locally!
Imagine auto workers who have experience to mechanics and line work. It would be much easier to train people who have recent manufacturing experience than to wait until we HAVE to create those jobs!!
Put em to work.
Turn the closed down automobile factories into solar panel or wind manufacturing factories! Even better, how about fuel cell technology? If we could convert our exisitng automobiles with hydro fuel cells those plants and products would be in overwhelming demand!!
Is it as obvious to you as it is to me????? I'm not a politician, engineer or expert. I am a faux finisher and a small business owner.
National infrastructure projects...it's a no brainer.
Colorado, New Hampshire, Ohio and Virginia!!
These are the toss up states which will decide the election (with the exception of a juicy Palin fauxpa)!!
Start calling these states...
Start writing letters to the editors in those states...
If you live close by, get a bunch of folks to GOTV and register new voters!!!
Knock on doors!
Host events!
Let's make it happen..Obama is still up in the electoral map and we know these states are do-able!!
OBAMA BIDEN 08!!!
Stephanie Cutter, Chief of Staff to Michelle Obama was just on David Gregory's "Race to the White House" and she tore it up!
FINALLY, someone who can answer the questions, and not allow the commentators manipulate their answers!!
You did a great job explaining the Obama position and standing up for women's rights!!!
WOO HOO Stephanie Cutter!!!
What's the difference between Sarah Pailn and George W Bush?
*LIPSTICK*
ADMIN: this site is seriously hacked by "Shaniqua Bobo"...I just posted a comment, and it changed my name to "Shaniqua Bobo", I am not that person.
Watch out for your computers folks...it's getting ugly and the hackers are desperately afraid (as they should be).
I'm out.
I have several Republican friends that are thoroughly disgusted and embarrassed by the Palin controversies. They all see the emptiness in the eyes of their Party leaders desperately "selling" Plain to the world.
They have all told me they were going to vote for Obama now.
They say that Obama's family seemed to be the most "normal" and represent family values "more appropriately". These are people who gave me hell for two years and now thanks to Karl Rove and Cheney, they delivered the final embarrassing blow!!
We welcome you to our party!
Can you even IMAGINE what Karl Rove or Rush Limbaugh or even Keith Olberman would say about a complete NOBODY with the equivalent of a Kucinich platform being Obama's Veep???
Palin is an extremist, and not very bright. She doesn't even know what exactly the Vice President even does for a living. She doesn't care about the Iraq War and foreign policy. The American people don't even know her and the Republican's don't even care.
Her appointment was a pat on the back (in good ol boy fashion) to reward the eventual driliing in Anwar.
The mother hopped on a plane at FULL TERM (which is prohibited by any decent OBGYN's and airlines) to deliver a speech on drilling in Alaska. Good ol Gov. Rick Perry even asked her if she was going into labor *because she had to leave early. The FACT is, she had to go back to actually DELIVER her Down's Syndrome baby that very night. What a tool. I question her judgment. I question her motives.
I could care less about Alaska oil drilling and singling it out as a priority.
I can think of several other hundreds of thousand military people I care more about at this point and time. Give me a break. (President Clinton are you listening? This is the real "Give me a break" moment)!!!
What is so wrong with wanting to help the middle class? What is so wrong with wanting to end the war in Iraq and go after Bin Laden? What is so wrong with wanting to pursue alternative energy?
Bleeding heart forever.
29 Aug 2008 11:58 am
“Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency. Governor Palin shares John McCain’s commitment to overturning Roe v. Wade, the agenda of Big Oil and continuing George Bush’s failed economic policies — that’s not the change we need, it’s just more of the same,” said Bill Burton, Obama Campaign Spokesman.
Governor Palin fought for large increases in taxes on the oil companies, and rebated the money to the people of Alaska! Does that sound like a “friend” of big oil, or Bush’s economic policies?
John McCain’s choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as a running mate is a searing insult to women.
Clearly, Palin was chosen in hopes of attracting women voters. There is virtually no other explanation for picking a right-wing leader of a state with a population of fewer than 680,000 people.
The decision argues that McCain has such a low opinion of women voters that they would overlook education, abortion, foreign policy, civil rights, health care, family leave and more simply to vote for a candidate with two x chromosomes.
As Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida said: “I know Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin is no Hillary Clinton.”
More than an hour prior to laudatory statements, Obama spokesman Bill Burton implied the little known 44-year-old governor with less than two years in office was not qualified to be president and tied her to the Bush/McCain brand of politics.
townhall.com — If Obama is an empty suit, as McCain has suggested, is Palin suited for the Oval Office herself? She is younger and less experienced than the first-term Illinois senator… A governor for just 20 months, she was two-term mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, a town of 6,500 where the biggest civic worry is whether there will be enough snow for the Iditarod.
Oh Well, not surprising. Today I got a notification from Obama for America that I could not host a Fundraiser for Barack online.
Weird, never happened to me before when I raised cash for the campaign in this manner...
Perhaps it was a little disrepectful to John Edwards and his idiotic strategy of killing an Obama win in Novemeber, but I thought it was the right thing to do. So I posted a John Edwards Compenstation Fundraiser for Obama to collect as much money as we can to compensate for the new ads he will have to make to counter any bad press from the John Edwards scandal.
It was up for 3 days...
Why, why, why, why, why????
This sucks. As if Barack didn't have it hard enough. What now? Guilt by association??? Let's just keep given the evil Republican's more ammo!!!
Why does it seem so many Democrats holding office (and running for them) is sexing it up with someone else? That really helps with the morality issues related to the Democratic Party!
I believed in you. I have always supported Barack, but you were a close second. Now I feel like I need to take a shower....eeeew.
Thank you to some of you who are wondering where my blogs went.
I am happy to announce that I am creating a series of posts that are comprised of conversations with me and my Neo Con father. Maybe you will find them as amusing as I do.
It's a great opportunity to see how the other half think, and more importantly, how their propaganda is being circulated.
Sorry Dad, I am DRUNK on the Kool Aid, and have no plans of sobering up!!
His POINT:
McCain Not First to Compare Obama to Paris Hilton By Seton Motley August 4, 2008 - 14:30 ET NewsBusters.org | Media Research Center Care to Revise and Extend Your Remarks, Sen. Obama The uproar of the media, serving as adjunct PR firms in defense of their beloved Sen. Barack Obama in response to Sen. John McCain's video comparing the Illinois Senator to Paris Hilton, was deafening. The ad was described as "nasty", "childish" and "juvenile", a "strange" "nuclear attack" for having dared to compare their anointed one to the brainless celebutant hotel heiress. Sen. McCain and his camp responded that it was all in good fun, and was made only to point out the ridiculous Tiger Beat-squealing teenage girl nature of the over-the-top, all-encompassing coverage thus far afforded Obama by his Paparazzi. But it appears that someone years ago beat Sen. McCain to the comparison punch. Would all of this overwrought press hysteria be rendered even sillier were it to turn out that Sen. McCain was in actuality quoting Sen. Obama? Methinks that it would. A February 24, 2005, Washington Post article begins:
My COUNTER POINT:
