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Heads up: As of 10/1, 1st Brigade, 3rd ID, deployed in the U.S.

By Tresa {utah4obama.org} - Oct 9th, 2008 at 1:11 pm EDT

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IS THIS REALLY TRUE?The First Brigade, Third Infantry Division has been deployed in the
U.S. for so called "crowd control."

Naomi Watts wrote about this event in AlterNet this morning. She may
be overreacting, maybe not. It's worth considering. It appears to me
that W is backing up his fear-mongering with a pretty good sized
stick. If, in the future, martial law is declared, you might want to
be prepared with food and water storage. I am. I hope you will get
prepared. You may want to alert your friends and family about this
story as a precaution. Here's the story in its entirety so you can
judge for yourself if this troop deployment by itself or in
combination with other events is a threat to ordinary citizens:
--John

ALTERNET STORY BEGINS: (www.AlterNet.org)

Background: the First Brigade of the Third Infantry Division, three to
four thousand soldiers, has been deployed in the United States as of
October 1. Their stated mission is the form of crowd control they
practiced in Iraq, subduing "unruly individuals," and the management
of a national emergency. I am in Seattle and heard from the brother of
one of the soldiers that they are engaged in exercises now. Amy
Goodman reported that an Army spokesperson confirmed that they will
have access to lethal and non lethal crowd control technologies and
tanks.

George Bush struck down Posse Comitatus, thus making it legal for
military to patrol the U.S. He has also legally established that in
the "War on Terror," the U.S. is at war around the globe and thus the
whole world is a battlefield. Thus the U.S. is also a battlefield.

He also led change to the 1807 Insurrection Act to give him far
broader powers in the event of a loosely defined "insurrection" or
many other "conditions" he has the power to identify. The Constitution
allows the suspension of habeas corpus -- habeas corpus prevents us
from being seized by the state and held without trial -- in the event
of an "insurrection." With his own army force now, his power to call a
group of protesters or angry voters "insurgents" staging an
"insurrection" is strengthened.

U.S. Rep. Brad Sherman of California said to Congress, captured on
C-Span and viewable on YouTube, that individual members of the House
were threatened with martial law within a week if they did not pass
the bailout bill:

"The only way they can pass this bill is by creating and sustaining a
panic atmosphere. … Many of us were told in private conversations that
if we voted against this bill on Monday that the sky would fall, the
market would drop two or three thousand points the first day and a
couple of thousand on the second day, and a few members were even told
that there would be martial law in America if we voted no."

If this is true and Rep. Sherman is not delusional, I ask you to
consider that if they are willing to threaten martial law now, it is
foolish to assume they will never use that threat again. It is also
foolish to trust in an orderly election process to resolve this
threat. And why deploy the First Brigade? One thing the deployment
accomplishes is to put teeth into such a threat.

I interviewed Vietnam veteran, retired U.S. Air Force Colonel and
patriot David Antoon for clarification:

"If the President directed the First Brigade to arrest Congress, what
could stop him?"

"Nothing. Their only recourse is to cut off funding. The Congress
would be at the mercy of military leaders to go to them and ask them
not to obey illegal orders."

"But these orders are now legal?'"

"Correct."

"If the President directs the First Brigade to arrest a bunch of
voters, what would stop him?"

"Nothing. It would end up in courts but the action would have been taken."

"If the President directs the First Brigade to kill civilians, what
would stop him?"

"Nothing."

"What would prevent him from sending the First Brigade to arrest the
editor of the Washington Post?"

"Nothing. He could do what he did in Iraq -- send a tank down a street
in Washington and fire a shell into the Washington Post as they did
into Al Jazeera, and claim they were firing at something else."

"What happens to members of the First Brigade who refuse to take up
arms against U.S. citizens?"

"They'd probably be treated as deserters as in Iraq: arrested,
detained and facing five years in prison. In Iraq a study by Ann
Wright shows that deserters -- reservists who refused to go back to
Iraq -- got longer sentences than war criminals."

"Does Congress have any military of their own?"

"No. Congress has no direct control of any military units. The
Governors have the National Guard but they report to the President in
an emergency that he declares."

"Who can arrest the President?"

"The Attorney General can arrest the President after he leaves or
after impeachment."

[Note: Prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi has asserted it is possible for
District Attorneys around the country to charge President Bush with
murder if they represent districts where one or more military members
who have been killed in Iraq formerly resided.]

"Given the danger do you advocate impeachment?"

"Yes. President Bush struck down Posse Comitatus -- which has
prevented, with a penalty of two years in prison, U.S. leaders since
after the Civil War from sending military forces into our streets --
with a 'signing statement.' He should be impeached immediately in a
bipartisan process to prevent the use of military forces and mercenary
forces against U.S. citizens"

"Should Americans call on senior leaders in the Military to break
publicly with this action and call on their own men and women to
disobey these orders?"

"Every senior military officer's loyalty should ultimately be to the
Constitution. Every officer should publicly break with any illegal
order, even from the President."

"But if these are now legal. If they say, 'Don't obey the Commander in
Chief,' what happens to the military?"

"Perhaps they would be arrested and prosecuted as those who refuse to
participate in the current illegal war. That's what would be
considered a coup."

"But it's a coup already."

"Yes."

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v o t E D

By Tresa {utah4obama.org} - Oct 9th, 2008 at 1:07 pm EDT

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...by mail! WOW! What a wonderful feeling to finally vote for someone that is not "the lesser of the two evils" but for someone who I wholly believe in.

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READ THIS! The Birk Economic Recovery Plan

By Tresa {utah4obama.org} - Sep 27th, 2008 at 3:42 am EDT

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I'm against the $85,000,000,000.00 bailout of AIG.
Instead, I'm in favor of giving $85,000,000,000 to America in a We Deserve It Dividend.

To make the math simple, let's assume there are 200,000,000 bonafide U.S. Citizens 18+. Our population is about 301,000,000 +/- counting every man, woman and child. So 200,000,000 might be a fair stab at adults 18 and up..

So divide 200 million adults 18+ into $85 billion that equals $425,000.00.
My plan is to give $425,000 to every person 18+ as a We Deserve It Dividend.

Of course, it would NOT be tax free.
So let's assume a tax rate of 30%.
Every individual 18+ has to pay $127,500.00 in taxes.
That sends $25,500,000,000 right back to Uncle Sam.

But it means that every adult 18+ has $297,500.00 in their pocket.
A husband and wife has $595,000.00.
What would you do with $297,500.00 to $595,000.00 in your family?

Pay off your mortgage - housing crisis solved.
Repay college loans - what a great boost to new grads
Put away money for college - it'll be there
Save in a bank - create money to loan to entrepreneurs.
Buy a new car - create jobs
Invest in the market - capital drives growth
Pay for your parent's medical insurance - health care improves
Enable Deadbeat Dads to come clean - or else

Remember this is for every adult U S Citizen 18+ including the folks who lost their jobs at Lehman Brothers and every other company that is cutting back. And of course, for those serving in our Armed Forces.

If we're going to re-distribute wealth let's really do it...instead of trickling out a puny $1000.00 ( "vote buy" ) economic incentive that is being proposed by one of our candidates for President.

If we're going to do an $85 billion bailout, let's bail out every adult U S Citizen 18+!

As for AIG - liquidate it.
Sell off its parts.
Let American General go back to being American General.
Sell off the real estate.
Let the private sector bargain hunters cut it up and clean it up.

Here's my rationale. We deserve it and AIG doesn't.
Sure it's a crazy idea that can "never work."
But can you imagine the Coast-To-Coast Block Party!

How do you spell Economic Boom?

I trust my fellow adult Americans to know how to use the $85 Billion
We Deserve It Dividend more than I do the geniuses at AIG or in Washington DC .
And remember, The Birk Plan only really costs $59.5 Billion because $25.5 Billion is returned instantly in taxes to Uncle Sam.

Ahhh...I feel so much better getting that off my chest.

Kindest personal regards,

Birk
T. J. Birkenmeier, A Creative Guy & Citizen of the Republic

PS: Feel free to pass this along to your pals as it's either good for a laugh or a tear or a very sobering thought on how to best use $85 Billion!!!

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Ex-colleague of Palin 'shocked' she's V.P. pick

By Tresa {utah4obama.org} - Sep 20th, 2008 at 3:12 pm EDT

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Nick Carney, now a Utahn, says Palin ended Wasilla, AK's innocenceOnetime Alaskan backer-turned-foe is 'shocked' by Palin's pick as McCain V.P.By Robert Gehrke
The Salt Lake TribuneArticle Last Updated: 09/19/2008 10:54:16 AM MDT

Sarah Palin's meteoric rise to political superstardom got its start thanks to Nick Carney, who soon came to regret the move.
    Carney, who now lives in Ivins, Utah, has known Palin almost her whole life - his daughter went to school and played basketball with Sarah "Barracuda" Heath. He recruited her to run for office, but says her tenure as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, was a disappointment, during which she looked out for herself and her cronies who she put in management positions.
    Since Palin was nominated to be vice president, he has received countless phone calls from media outlets and he has given less than glowing reviews on his former colleague.
    "I'm shocked" that she was picked to be vice president, Carney said Thursday. "And the reason I am has nothing to do with our personal relationship. As a voter, I can't believe Mr. McCain would pick someone who has no foreign experience, someone who has . . . nothing to offer for solving our economic woes, has, frankly, far less experience in the energy field than she would like to think she does."
    Palin's recruitment
    In 1992, Carney, then president of the Wasilla Chamber of Commerce, and other business owners worked to enact a 2 percent sales tax to create a police department, and ran for city council to make sure the department got funded.
To help the cause, he recruited Palin, then 28, a political newcomer who agreed to run if she got help with the race. The sales tax narrowly passed and both Carney and Palin won council seats.
    For 18 months she did a fine job, said Carney. Then she began harsh attacks on Mayor John Stein, he said. Then, in 1996, she took on Stein in a race that Carney said was unlike any the town had seen.
    "I termed it the end of the innocence for the city," he said. She injected party loyalty into the race for the first time, campaigned against the sales tax she had supported, and worked for endorsements from the National Rifle Association and a national anti-abortion advocacy group, Carney said.
    "That is unfortunately, in this nation, how elections are run and won," Carney said. "That's what the voter responds to I guess, and she's very good about telling the voters what they want to hear." her office, Carney said. As he recalls, she broke the law by spending $55,000 of road maintenance funds, without the council's permission.
    "When I braced her about that, her response, and I will never forget it, is 'I'm the mayor and I can do anything I want until the courts say I can't,'" he recalls.
    Political debts;
    Carney watched as Palin fired many of the long-serving city employees, including the librarian, police chief and museum manager. She hired the former lawyer for the Alaska Republican Party to be the new city attorney. He said she was simply repaying political debts.
    "Always, her first question is: 'How is this decision going to affect me and my administration. It was never, 'Is this the best thing for the city of Wasilla?'" said Carney.
    The McCain campaign defends Palin's tenure as mayor and boasted of her accomplishments.
    "Governor Palin wanted to change Wasilla for the better so it could be a place you can raise a family, have a quality job and be part of the community. She did exactly what you need to do to lay the foundation for lasting, sustainable economic growth she cut taxes, made key infrastructural improvements that brought in business and created new opportunities," said McCain spokeswoman Maria Comella.
    In a 2006 profile in the Anchorage Daily News, Palin, who was then running for governor, acknowledged a bumpy relationship with Carney.
    "I couldn't do anything without Nick Carney griping about it. That was the nature of our relationship," she told The News. "I could have walked across Lake Lucille on the water, and he would have griped about me splashing."
    In a new biography of Palin titled Sarah, Wasilla City Councilwoman Judy Patrick, said "Nick Carney told Sarah to her face that he'd do anything he could to make things difficult . . .There were some very cantankerous people on that council."
    Carney was part of a group of residents who formed Concerned Citizens for Wasilla to consider a recall effort against Palin, but they did not pursue it, according to reports.
    Carney says he never made any such threat.
    Utah Rep. Steve Urquhart, R-St. George, has heard the criticism of Palin and said it doesn't change his unabashed support.
    "What really intrigues me in Governor Palin is her quick rise and how she did it. You don't just go from where she was to governor of the manliest state in the nation rolling over the top of the establishment unless you really have political skills," he said.
    Cold weather escape
    Carney and his wife moved to Ivins permanently about four years ago. They passed through St. George, almost by accident several years earlier on their way to Mesquite for a golf outing with Todd Palin's parents.
    They had been looking for someplace to escape Alaska's winters and Carney's wife was so impressed with the beauty that they began spending more and more time in the area, eventually buying a house, but he still feels his roots are in Alaska.
    "I normally would be absolutely ecstatic that an Alaskan would have the opportunity to get to a position like that," he said. "Unfortunately, she's not the person."

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!!! CELEBRATION PICNIC @ LIBERTY PARK !!!

By Tresa {utah4obama.org} - Aug 27th, 2008 at 2:15 pm EDT

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Let's get together Saturday and celebrate our big mile-mark: the official nomination of Obama Barack for President of the United States! Bring your own (environmentally friendly) picnic lunch, welcome back our Utah Delegates and let's UNITE, mingle and get to know each other. Look for the blue balloons at Liberty Park.

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Salt Lake City birthday celebration for Barack???

By Tresa {utah4obama.org} - Aug 3rd, 2008 at 1:47 pm EDT

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Somewhere I had read about a birthday celebration for Barack in SLC but I can't find any information on it now. Can anyone please help?

Also, does anyone know about his Utah campaign headquarters? Is it already set up or what is the status of it? I will volunteer if I can just get the information.

Thank you so much!

Kindest Regards,

Tresa

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ANIMAL PETITION TO OBAMA

By Tresa {utah4obama.org} - Jul 17th, 2008 at 11:49 am EDT

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Dear Members and Friends,

Best Friends Animal Society You're the best! Thanks so much to everyone who's signed our petition to invite Barack Obama and his family to adopt a dog.

When the Obamas said they'd promised their kids they'd get a family dog after the election, the American Kennel Club started a campaign to encourage the family to get a "pure" breed from a pet store or commercial breeder.

How much better it would be if they were to adopt one from a shelter or rescue group.

In just over a day, 27,000 of you signed our petition at www.obamafamilydog. com, asking them to do just that.

It's a great start, but we still need lots more signatures. So please forward this e-mail to friends and family and ask them to sign it, too. (And if you haven't signed it yourself, please go ahead and do it now.)

This is not about politics, by the way, it's about saving homeless pets. So let's get all of America talking about why adopting a pet is a winning choice.

One other thing: You can also send a Letter to the Editor to your hometown newspaper. I've put an example of one at the end of this e-mail. Use it, or adapt it, or write your own.

Best Friends members have made a big difference already. Wouldn't it be great to see homeless pets find their way onto the agenda of this year's election news!

Thanks again, and good wishes from all of us,

Michael Mountain
Best Friends

P.S. Here's the draft of a letter you could send to your local newspaper or post on a blog:

Dear Editor,
Senator Obama and his family have said that, win or lose, they're going to add a dog to their family after the election this November.
That's a great idea. But I hope they decide to adopt one from their local shelter. Why? Because as long as people still buy their pets from pet stores and commercial breeders, millions of abandoned pets are killed in shelters across the country every year.
So here's one issue that's truly bi-partisan - one that we can all agree on. Let's ask our national leaders always to adopt their pets from shelters, rather than buying them from pet stores.
Members of Best Friends Animal Society have started a petition to invite the Obama family to do just that. Whether you're a Democrat or a Republican, left-wing, right-wing or any other wing, you can make a bipartisan difference by signing our petition at ObamaFamilyDog. com, and encouraging all your friends and family to sign it, too.
Thanks for thinking about the nation's homeless pets!
Sincerely,
Your Name
Your Address
Your E-mail

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FORTY YEARS

By Tresa {utah4obama.org} - Jul 6th, 2008 at 3:42 pm EDT

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Forty Years
Claim: During the 1960's, Robert F. Kennedy said he believed a black man could become President of the United States within forty years.

Status: True.

Example: [Collected via e-mail, June 2008]

He gave a speech to the Voice of America all around the world 40 years ago. And despite what was going on in the country, particularly in Alabama, Bobby Kennedy said this: Things are 'moving so fast in race relations a Negro could be president in 40 years.' This is in 1968, we're now in 2008.

'There's no question about it,' the attorney general said. 'In the next 40 years a Negro can achieve the same position that my brother has.' ... Kennedy said that prejudice exists and probably will continue to ... 'But we have tried to make progress and we are making progress. We are not going to accept the status quo.'

- Robert F. Kennedy, Washington Post, May 27, 1968
Origins: Amidst the turmoil of the civil rights movement in the 1960's (and prompted by acts of violence such as those recently visited upon the "Freedom Riders"), Robert F. Kennedy spoke about race relations in a broadcast beamed to over sixty countries via the Voice of America radio network.

As reported at the time, Kennedy said: Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, in a broadcast to the world, today acknowledged the United States' imperfections in the area of equal rights for Negroes. He pleaded, however, for recognition of the progress that had been made and for an awareness that everything pointed to continuing progress.

"There's no question that in the next thirty or forty years a Negro can also achieve the same position that my brother has as President of the United States, certainly within that period of time," the Attorney General said.

The Voice of America beamed his extemporaneous remarks to more than sixty countries through thirty-nine radio transmitters. Translations were superimposed in the delivery of the talk to thirty-seven language areas.

Consistent with a Voice of America policy of acknowledging the worst in the news as well as the bright side, Mr. Kennedy began by citing the attack by whites on Negroes in Alabama in the last two weeks.

"It's a matter that disturbs us tremendously," he declared.

"But I think that people should also understand some of the good things that are being done in this area, that this doesn't really represent the American people or the American Government, that this is just a small minority group which is causing these problems and difficulties.

"It doesn't represent the vast majority of people in the South, this kind of riot, this kind of lawlessness, and it certainly doesn't represent the feelings of the United States Government or the American people. That is why we took the steps that we took to try to prevent it, and we have prevented it."

The Attorney General also told the world that the suppression of the recent outbreaks did not mean the end of them. "I am not saying to you, and I would be less than frank if I did, that these kinds of events are ended now and that they won't have any racial prejudice or violence of the future, because we will have them," he declared.

But, Mr. Kennedy said, "we are not going to accept the status quo" in the matter of Negro rights.

"We are not going to accept the riots or the disorders in Montgomery or Birmingham, Alabama," he said. "We sent people in in order to end it, and that is the feeling of the vast majority of American people, and that's the feeling of the United States Government." Robert F. Kennedy's remarks are of renewed interest now, in mid-2008, because of the very real possibility that a black man, Senator Barack Obama, might win the upcoming 2008 presidential election — an event which would make Kennedy's words of four decades ago prophetic down to the exact year. However, while the example quoted above accurately reflects the gist of Kennedy's remarks, it fudges a few details to increase the "wow" factor:

Kennedy didn't say that "a Negro could be president in 40 years"; the time frame he mentioned for that possibility was the less specific span of "in the next thirty or forty years."
The identification of Robert Kennedy as Attorney General and his use of the present perfect tense in referring to his brother (President John F. Kennedy) are clues that RFK's words do not date from May 1968. (By then, John F. Kennedy had been dead for over four years, and Robert F. Kennedy was serving as a U.S. Senator.) Instead, his radio remarks were delivered several years earlier, in May 1961. By moving Kennedy's words forward several years to 1968, someone has attempted to make his mention of "forty years" appear accurate as applied to events in 2008, when in fact the "thirty or forty year" timespan he spoke of literally ended back in 2001.

Last updated: 29 June 2008

The URL for this page is http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/kennedy.asp Sources: Loftus, Joseph A. "U.S. Tells World of Rights Strife." The New York Times. 27 May 1961 (p. 8).

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Help Obama meet his Satuday deadline - & have FUN too!

By Tresa {utah4obama.org} - May 28th, 2008 at 11:52 am EDT

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We're fighting to make the necessary preparations to take on Senator McCain!

The financial demands on our immediate horizon are greater than at any point in the campaign so far. We face a critical reporting deadline on Saturday, and your support could make the difference before these last three contests. This Saturday at midnight is the financial reporting deadline for the month of May.

Give our campaign a crucial boost before these final contests, and send a message that we are ready to move to the next phase and compete against Senator McCain in all 50 states.

SHOW YOUR SUPPORT TODAY!

RESERVE YOUR SEATS ONLINE AT UTAH4OBAMA.ORG FOR THE BIG UTAH FUNdraiser "got hope" in Salt Lake City this Friday, May 30th! Or just come and donate at the door!

For more information on this event, go to utah4obama.org .

Kindest Regards,

Tresa Stitley, Organizer

info@utah4obama.org

801.260.0265

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Hillary has outdone herself. I’m ragin’ mad.

By Tresa {utah4obama.org} - May 22nd, 2008 at 5:36 pm EDT

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Her warning of the price that might be paid if the DNC does not seat the Florida and Michigan delegations according to her wishes:

“If we fail to (allow the Michigan and Florida votes to be counted) I worry that we will pay not only a moral cost, but a political cost as well,” she said. “We know the road to a Democratic White House runs right through Florida and Michigan. If we care about winning those states in November, we need to count your votes now. If Democrats send a message that we don’t fully value your votes, we know Sen. McCain and the Republicans will be more than happy to have them. The Republicans will make a simple and compelling argument: why should Florida and Michigan voters trust the Democratic Party to look out for you when they won’t even listen to you.”

It sounds to me like Hillary is giving Democrats in Florida and Michigan a reason to vote for McCain in November. A reason, an excuse, an argument to do anything but vote for Barack Obama. Let me remind you that in Michigan Barack Obama’s name wasn’t even on the ballot. And he did not campaign in Florida because BOTH he and Hillary agreed not to. Yet now it’s only “fair” and “moral” to count those states for her?

Shame on you, Hillary.

Clearly, you only care about yourself. You don’t care about your party or your country. If your name is the ONLY one on the ballot in November, I won’t vote for you. You’ve proven to me that you are everything I’ve hated in the current president: arrogant, utterly selfish, and uncaring.

Markos Moulitsas (Kos) said it best in a recent edition of Newsweek:

Hillary Clinton has proved during the past few months that she is a fighter, that she is tenacious, and that she is in the race to win. There’s just one problem. She’s already lost.
No matter how you define victory, Barack Obama holds an insurmountable lead in the race to earn the Democratic nomination. He leads in the one metric that matters most: the pledged delegates chosen directly by Democratic voters. But he also leads in the popular vote, the number of states won and money raised.
Clinton’s near-lone chance of victory rests with a coup by superdelegate, persuading enough of them to overcome the primary voters’ preference. Yet a coup by elite Democrats would be ill-received, to put it mildly. Obama’s base spans the party’s most loyal and engaged constituencies: African-Americans, professionals who generate hundreds of millions in small-dollar donations and a conventional-wisdom-defying outpouring of youth support.
If Obama lost at the polling booth, these supporters would accept the voters’ verdict and carry on. Many, including those who backed Howard Dean’s heartbreaking 2004 campaign, have been through such disappointment before. But if Beltway bigwigs steal a hard-won victory, it would amount to a declaration of civil war. Not only would the resolve of thousands of loyal foot soldiers and the party’s new fund-raising base be irrevocably shaken, but it would torpedo the opportunity to build and strengthen a new generation of Democrats.
Clinton’s best-case scenario for victory requires sundering her own party. It is an inherently divisive strategy, but she doesn’t appear to care. For Clinton, all’s fair in pursuit of victory—even destroying her party from within. Her campaign has adopted a bizarre “insult-40-states strategy,” which has belittled states small, liberal and Red. Apparently, the only states that matter are the ones she coincidentally happens to win.

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BUSH-McCAIN CHALLENGE :-D

By Tresa {utah4obama.org} - May 22nd, 2008 at 4:27 pm EDT

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Hey group,

John McCain is going around the country trying to portray himself as a moderate and distance himself from Bush! We need to make sure voters realize that McCain is just like Bush on virtually every important issue facing our country—and that a McCain presidency would be like Bush's third term. This will be a very fun event!

Life-size figures of Bush & McCain!

Games & Prizes!

Event URL: http://political.moveon.org/event/challenge/46662

President Bush will be in Utah the same day… Here’s the
latest from the Trib.
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_9334813?IADID=Search-www.sltrib.com-www.sltrib.com

Be sure to contact the host(ess), Tresa Stitley at 801-260-0265
if you can help out!

This should be fun!

Thank you all!

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Proud Once Again

By Tresa {utah4obama.org} - May 20th, 2008 at 2:53 pm EDT

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Once again, Senator Obama has made me a proud supporter. As a dear friend of mine stated it: I admire his restraint in not making a major declaration of victory. I want a President who knows tact, strategy, when to keep his mouth shut, long range goals, etc.

Tresa Stitley

"got hope" FUNdraiser for Obama: A Fun Evening of Entertainment & Enlightenment

go to www.utah4obama.org

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Utah fundraiser for Obama - CAN YOU HELP??

By Tresa {utah4obama.org} - May 16th, 2008 at 12:49 pm EDT

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Hi Everyone!We have a couple things going on this weekend.First, I want to remind you that we are having a very important volunteer meeting for our Utah 4 Obama event "GOT HOPE" (www.utah4obama.org) - tomorrow (Saturday). It is at the Salt Lake downtown library, 2:00 pm in conference room 3 (3rd floor - ask at the front desk). We do have a lot of details to go over so we will start promptly at 2 pm and do our best to keep the meeting to just an hour so everyone can enjoy their Saturday. Second, we have a great opportunity to pass out our event flyers while having fun at "The Living Traditions Festival" in Salt Lake City this weekend, May 16-18th! Admission is free.
Location: 450 South 200 East, at the Salt Lake City & County Building

(There will be two stages with performances all day long, a kids workshop, crafts, 20 ethnic food booths, and an intertribal pow wow demonstration.)This will be a great opportunity to pass out our flyers! Email me at info@utah4obama.org if you need a copy of the flyers. I find it cheapest yet still eye-catching to print them in black and white on purple paper - at Office Max, the colored paper doesn't cost any more than white.)Please get these flyers out to everyone and everywhere possible! This is extremely important! 14 DAYS TO "GOT HOPE!"

Hope to see you Saturday :-D

Thank you all!Kindest Regards,Tresa Stitleytresa@utah4obama.org801.260.0265

GOT HOPE" FUNDRAISERSalt Lake City Downtown Library - auditoriumMay 30th, 7:30 - 9:30RESERVE YOUR SEATS AND DONATE NOW BY GOING TO UTAH4OBAMA.ORG

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Thank you John Edwards!

By Tresa {utah4obama.org} - May 15th, 2008 at 1:10 am EDT

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Now, where's Al Gore?

Or how about our own - Jim Matheson???

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Interactive Map of Democratic Results and Future Primarys

By Tresa {utah4obama.org} - May 14th, 2008 at 4:28 pm EDT

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I found this Map to be a very useful tool..if you mose over a states you will get its info Link: http://politics.nytimes.com/election-guide/2008/results/demmap/

Please forward to all as needed.

GOT HOPE!

Tresa

utah4obama.org

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Hillary's Debt Will NOT Be Paid By Obama for America

By Tresa {utah4obama.org} - May 13th, 2008 at 12:05 pm EDT

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It is not legal to do so.

I secured this information personally from campaign HQ in a phone
conversation with the Finance Chairman In Chicago at 2:40 P.M. EDT
today Thursday, May 8th. I was asked to relay this information onto the blog
by the Finance Chairman.

DONATE to Obama with Absolute Confidence.

There is no need to worry that your donations to Obama for America will
go anywhere else.

None of the money you donate to Obama will be diverted to payoff Hillary
Clinton's debt.

Kill Any Rumor To The Contrary ... and pass this along, please.

A rumor started about this based on some loose comments by Tim Russert.

Many here became worried and said they would stop donating if it was the
case that HRC's debt would be paid for by us. It Is Not The Case and it will
not happen.

Why did I call HQ about this? I called because many bloggers had/have posted
that they will not donate to the Obama campaign if Hillary's debt is paid for by us / Obama for America."

Don't believe him (as trustworthy as he is ;o) ?? Call for yourself:
312-819-2008

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FOX "news" sending subliminal messages?

By Tresa {utah4obama.org} - May 12th, 2008 at 1:49 am EDT

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It's undetectable at normal speed, but...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=OSAOQuLxSdY

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John McCain gets tax-free disability pensionJohn McCain gets tax-free disability pension

By Tresa {utah4obama.org} - May 7th, 2008 at 11:52 pm EDT

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VERY INTERESTING ARTICLE IN LOS ANGELES TIMES:

The disclosure of the Navy benefit for injuries incurred as a Vietnam POW may raise fitness questions.By Ralph Vartabedian, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
April 22, 2008 Sen. John McCain has long said he is in robust health and is strong enough to hike the Grand Canyon, but he also is receiving what his staff Monday termed a "disability pension" from the Navy.

When McCain released his tax return for 2007 on Friday, he separately disclosed that he received a pension of $58,358 that was not listed as income on his return.On Monday, McCain's staff identified the retirement benefit as a "disability pension" and said that McCain "was retired as disabled because of his limited body movements due to injuries as a POW."

McCain campaign strategist Mark Salter said Monday night that McCain was technically disabled. "Tortured for his country -- that is how he acquired his disability," Salter said.

Certain types of military and veterans pensions are either partially or completely tax-exempt, depending on the seriousness of the disability. In McCain's case, the exemption is 100%.

If McCain had to pay taxes on the full amount of the pension, it would have increased his tax bill by about $18,000 based on the percentage of his income he paid to the federal government.

McCain spent 5 1/2 years as a prisoner of war in Hanoi. After he was released in 1973, he returned home on crutches and began a painful physical rehabilitation. He later regained flight status and commanded a Navy squadron before retiring from the service in 1981.

McCain would be the oldest man to enter the White House if he is elected president, and questions have been raised about his health.

McCain has twice developed melanoma, a potentially deadly form of skin cancer.

The fact that he is legally designated with a disability pension may raise further questions.

"It is a legitimate question to ask about the commander in chief: Is he fit to serve," said Robert Schriebman, a senior Pentagon tax advisor and tax attorney who recently retired as a judge advocate for a unit of the California National Guard.

If McCain can hike across the Grand Canyon, then why should he be getting disability payments from the government that are tax-exempt, Schriebman asked.

McCain shattered his knee and broke both arms when he was shot down over North Vietnam in 1967.

In his autobiographies, McCain said that his knee still bothered him in cold weather and that he was unable to raise his hands above his shoulders.

Elmo Baker, a retired colonel and president of a Vietnam War POW group, said many former POWs were receiving some type of military pension that was partly or fully tax-free.

Baker said he was receiving payments that were 70% tax-free, but that he "didn't have as many injuries as McCain did."

Many of the Vietnam POWs are receiving payment under a program known as "combat-related special compensation," which provides benefits and tax exemptions under a complex system, based on such factors as the type of injury and the years of service.

Paul Galanti, another former POW in the group, said that while McCain's injuries were serious enough to qualify him for disability, it would not affect his performance as president.

"I don't know of any physical requirements to be commander in chief," Galanti said. "He would have a nice car to drive around in and a nice airplane to fly in."

ralph.vartabedian@ latimes.com

Times staff writer Maeve Reston in Alabama contributed to this report.

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Conference Call TONIGHT for Volunteers of "GOT HOPE" Fundraiser

By Tresa {utah4obama.org} - May 6th, 2008 at 3:19 pm EDT

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Hi Everyone!

TUESDAY (May 6th)7pm MDT
The call in number is (218) 339-4300
and your access code is 211102#

I know we are all anxious for the Indiana & South Carolina results tonight so we will do our best to keep this call to the point and short. This call is VERY important in our efforts to organize this event for Senator Obama!Thanks!Kindest Regards,Tresa Stitley801-260-0265 home phonetresa@utah4obama.orgutah4obama.org

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Clinton in Indiana '92 on YouTube

By Tresa {utah4obama.org} - May 3rd, 2008 at 12:21 pm EDT

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Apparently, this YouTube video was not actual footage from Clinton's '92 campaign but a scene from some movie.

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