See my blog post here:
The Indianapolis Star reports today that former Indiana Congressman Lee Hamilton plans to announce his endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama’s Presidential candadicy.
I've written about it here:
To quote myself - "If Lee Hamilton never walked on water, it is only because he never tried."
Here's another one. "Just words," referring to the Constitution of the United States, and meaning, "words that are just and fair."
http://tomwfox.wordpress.com/obama-poster-downloads/
Probably can't stop the coming neo-con 527s from trying to swift-boat Barack this summer and fall, but to borrow from the Clinton play book, it is possible to blunt the effects of the possible attack ads by getting innoculated.
Candidates for the neo-con's Willie Horton of 2008:
Tony Rezko
Rashid Khalidi
William Ayers
Read about them in the Huffington Post
Think ahead and stay on top of it is my advice.
Here's another free download, as a PDF file, for an 11 x 17 Barack Obama poster.
Read the details and get the download here.
Here's is a fast way to share Obama for President posters or yard signs. Download this 11 x 17 (tabloid) graphic design, as a PDF file, send it to your favorite color digital fast print shop (like Kinko's), and make your own. This is my gift to the Obama campaign. Obama for President poster download
Forget about "big government" vs. "small government," and focus instead on the crying need for GOOD government.
The mortgage crisis is just one example where the headlong push to "small government" and de-regulation has resulted in tragic consequences. The monetary system and the Nation's financial institutions are government creations, pure and simple. But over the last twenty years the government has neglected its parental duties toward its own offspring.
See: Bail-outs and band-aids
Apparently Hillary has forgotten about the Savings and Loam crisis of the 80's & 90's, or wishes to. But, here we are again with another financial crisis that has resulted from government de-regulation.
Can the Wall Street Democrats and the big-money establishment drag Hillary across the finish line?
I think not, but I'm sure that they will continue to try.
The last thing these guys want is, well . . . change.
I have no doubt that Senator Barack Obama is the best candidate for President of the United States from either party. I have no doubt that Barack Obama will not only be a good President after he is elected, he will be a great President.
But, everyone makes mistakes, including Barack.
I think that part of Senator Obama's greatness comes from his willingness to admit his mistakes and correct them. This is a refreshing, and healthy, change from politics-as-usual where mistakes are buried, hidden, and denied, but are never corrected.
So, today I have introduced a new section in my Squidoo Lens "Truth about Barack Obama" titled "Barack's Blunders."
I recently read an article in The Chicago Business News from a few years ago, about Barack and Michelle Obama's comittment to worker's rights. The near-total irrationality of the article and gross distortions remineded me of nothing other than Spiro Agnew's famous phrase from the early 1970's, "the nattering nabobs of negativism."
You can read the details here, in my post, "This is journalism?."
It makes me sad to see that journalism has sunk to such a low level. It's not like there isn't enough bad news to report. There is no shortage of bad news.
What, then, is the psychology that inspires people to twist and distort innocent facts in order to promote guilt and shame?
First posted on A Course in Miracles
Every once in a while, after a long time, there appears a figure in our public world that has the ability to speak to our better nature . . . to uplift and inspire. These figures generally appear when the time is right, and the need is great.
Now is such a time, in my opinion.
Barack Obama is the man of the hour, and the need for inspiration is surely great. There is no shortage of voices that speak to our fears and personal selfish interests. Any one of those voices for fear, for all practical purposes, is just the same as any other.
It is a rare thing to hear a different voice coming from a man as unlikely as Barack Obama . . . a lawyer, a politician, and an African-American. The voice that speaks through him is the voice of sweet reason, hope, and healing.
This is our great need. Please join with us in whatever small way you can, so that together we can collectively make a difference.
A Course in Miracles students for Barack Obama
Join us.
No fooling. Ann Coulter likes Hillary Clinton, saying, "Hillary is going to be our girl, because she's more conservative than he [McCain] is."
Read it here on CNN
There are some issues that are so polarizing that, for survival reasons alone, a politician must adhere to one extreme or the other. Being 100% pro or con on one of these issues seems to guarantee that about one-third of the voters hate you. But, anything less than 100% pro or con results in about two-thirds of the voters hating you.
Abortion rights seems to be one of those radically divisive issues where the middle ground is the most dangerous place for a politician to be.
This is unfortunate. It virtually assures that no progress will ever be made in resolving the conflict.
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Also see the beginning of my new Squidoo lens, spreading the truth about Senator Obama.
Watch what former President Jimmy Carter said to the Wall Street Journal about Senator Barack Obama and his run for the Democrat 2008 nomination for President. Jimmy Carter praises Barack Obama
The loud whining that issued forth from Marcia Pappas about Senator Ted Kennedy's endorsement of Barack Obama for President of the U.S. serves as a timely reminder. Pappas accused Kennedy of disrespecting women.
When it comes to shameless and contemptuous treatment of women, it's hard to beat Bill Clinton.
See Crocadile tears
Questioning Bill Clinton's claim to be the first black U.S. President has inspired him to work that much harder to become the Nation's first woman president.
It's now 10 PM Saturday night and Barack Obama has won the South Carolina Democratic primary with 55% of the vote, trouncing the competition. The second-place winner is a distant 28 point in the rear, eating dust and looking for someone to blame it on.
I've been watching the broadcast TV networks, ABC, NBC, & CBS, since before 8 PM. During that period of time there has been zero coverage of the primary results, unless it was so brief that I missed it.
Nothing. Nada. Zip, Zilch.
History in the making goes unreported.
Why is that? Do the corporate shills and sock-puppets have NO sense of shame at all?
Thank heaven for the Internet. Fight to keep it free.
It has been stated many times before, but I don't think that it has quite sunk in. Democrats with really strong and long term party identification simply do no understand exactly how much Republicans, and former Republicans such as myself any my partner, sincerely, deeply, and truly dislike Bill and Hillary Clinton as people. I dislike the Clintons as much as I have grown to dislike the Bush, Rumsfeld, and Cheney troika of greed and death.
Michael Gerson, op-ed columnist for the Washington Post summed it up today when he wrote:
"But even amid this ideological discord, there are three words that cause nearly every Republican to forget their differences and join hands in common purpose: [vigorus oppsition to the idea of] President Hillary Clinton."
Read the whole column here.
Believe it. It's true.
I am very pleased with the idea of Senator Obama as President of the United States, and I am glad to support him in the nomination process and in the general election. But, I will never, ever, under any circumstances, cast a vote for Hillary Clinton.
Bill, Hillary, Bush, Rumsfeld, and Cheney are all cut from the same piece of cloth, as far as I can tell.
This isn't about party politics. This is about the future of the Nation.
The news goes through a lot of filters before it reaches me. If I'm not the last person to know somthing about the world of politics, I am certainly among the last. Yet, it took me all of 15 minutes to research credible accounts of Senator Obama's voting record in Illinois. So, if I know the facts of the matter, I am certain that the Clinton campaign also knows.
"Winning at all cost" is a strategy of desperation. Not only is the cost very high, the cost may also include not winning, and it is a shame that the Clinton's are not more foreward looking.
But that is the problem. They are not foreward looking. Attempting to win at the cost of their own integrity is not foreward looking.
On December 4, 2007 the Chicago Sun Times ran a story about the Clintons' attempt to besmerch Senator Obama's Illinois voting record by misrepresenting it. That story quoted Pam Sutherland, president and CEO of the Illinois Planned Parenthood Council saying, "The poor guy [Obama] is getting all this heat for a strategy we, the pro-choice community, did."
That was nearly two months ago, yet the Clintons' sleeezy tactics did not abate.
As a direct result, Lorna Brett Howard switched from Clinton to Obama yesterday. Watch the former President of Chicago NOW, Lorna Brett Howard, as she tells the story of why she switched from supporting Hillary Clinton to supporting Barack Obama.
For the last two days I've been reading the national headlines on-line, along the lines of the New York Times "Bill Clinton Accuses Obama Camp of Stirring Race Issue."
Maybe I did a Rip Van Winkle and have awakened to a United States where being an African-American candidate for President was a really big advantage, or where the voters had become so color-blind that they needed to be reminded of the visually obvious.
I don't think so. It does not compute.
However far the country has come along toward the goal racial tolerence, it has not come so far that a candadate's minority racial status represents a trump card.
There may be a few who will vote for Senator Obama simply because he is black, but there are probabaly many more who will vote against him for that same trivial reason. The polls last summer and fall seem to indicate the majority of black voters were not willing to take a stand in favor of Senator Obama for racial reason alone, and the shift in Obama's favor did not start until after Obama demonstrated his wider appeal.
It is typical Clinton double-talk. It is the Clintons who are stirring the race issue, and they are at the same time denying they are stirring the race issue.
As Lincoln famously said, "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."
I do not want eight more years of the Clintons' brand of legerdemain.
Running for office or governing the country by means of sleigh-of-hand is not what we need.
