This is it!
We're coming down to the final stretch and Barack Obama needs your help now, more than ever before!
Please bring your cell phone, a charger and a few fun friends who care about change and join with thousands of your neighbors in the largest ever-attempted phone bank effort in New York state history. The Obama campaign is hosting several of these "mega call centers" all over New York, so invite your friends and family to make calls to voters in key battleground states and change America for years to come.
Visit http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/nylastcall to find a location near you.
I was in Denver and I had a blast.
Check out my Photoblog and see how it went down for me in Denver Colorado.
It was definitely a historic for this country and truly inspiring for me.
OBAMA 08
Living here in THE MEDIA CAPITAL of the world always gives a "hands on" account of what happens when "blips" blow up in the media.
It seems the Jesse Jackson "N-word" comment expose' came from the ultimate Sunday Morning talk radio program host, musician, Mtume'. Once Mtume' told the truth, Jesse said the "N" word hit the airwaves through inside radio channels, media FOX was forced to comply with exposing, and all may not be told.
This morning radio talk show involving a former Judge,a writer, Economist, Media expert junkies of serious skill, keeps life alive twice a day by speaking on Issues not in Mainstream media as it relates to folk, on Sundays on NYC and surrounding airwaves, 98.7 fm.
Now that Mtume came out, FOX had to come out and tell the truth about what he said, issue apologies, Jesse wants to sue the only black radio station in NYC, the only black radio talk show in the northeast by experts on political issues. How dare Jesse.
So all I am saying is brother Jesse, we love you, it's time to move on, we had to learn on our own, and now we gotta seek leaders who will lead all. Barack Obama is our new leader. As Louis Farrakhan has said, under the auspices of Mtume", Peter, Bob Slade, and the former Judge, please Jesse stand aside and enjoy the ride.
Hi Cobb County for Obama friends & family,
Is everyone still "fired up!" The time is now to really kick it in gear for President Obama! We have a lot of work ahead of us and with your help, Georgia will become a Democratic state and win it for President Obama!!! YIPPEE!!! We must get the 600,000 African American unregistered voters or inactive voters registered to vote right here in Georgia!!! Every vote count!!!
I am now an Obama Fellow/Organizer and I need to connect with you all. We are all a part of this spectacular movement and because of dedicated supporters like you we must do all we can to ensure the nominaton of Barack Obama as the next President of the United States! I will like to talk to you about being a host for the National General Election Campaign kickoff on June 28. This will be an opportunity for Obama supporters, Democrats, Independents, and Republicans to get together to learn more about Barack, discuss his issues, and discuss ways to help his campaign. Thank you very much!!! You can email me at devanora@yahoo.com for more informaiton.
Again Thanks!
Yes We Can! Yes We Did!
Dionne Taylor
There are some journalists who stand above the rest. I have lost one of the last few favorites of most informed Americans. My favorite of course was Ed Bradley, now Tim Russert. Journalism will suffer as a result of his loss, and I just hope the journalism schools in the nation, in major media will wake up to the professionalism that Tim Russert institutionalized.
I send condolences to his family, the Obama Campaign Family and the world for a great soul gone from the earth to the place where the only the accomplished grace. Godspeed Tim Russert.
In examining the options for Obama to appeal to Clinton fans, Paul Krugman writes: "What about offering Mrs. Clinton the vice presidency? If I were Mr. Obama, I’d do it. Adding Mrs. Clinton to the ticket — or at least making the offer — might help heal the wounds of an ugly primary fight. Here’s the point: the nightmare Mr. Obama and his supporters should fear is that in an election year in which everything favors the Democrats, he will nonetheless manage to lose. He needs to do everything he can to make sure that doesn’t happen." It's surprising that Krugman's reasoning doesn't appear to factor in what Obama supporters might think. Obama repeatedly has urged voters to rebel against the "same old politics" and the "past" - each becoming a buzzword for Hillary. Now Krugman appeals to Obama to include a person who symbolizes all Obama rallied people against? A lot of people seem to be drinking KoolAid flavored tea for election season. Liz Trotta, on Fox, in discussing Hillary's assassination comment, actually said it would be good to kill Osama and Obama both.
Read more here.
Carole
International Herald Tribune
Pundits declare the race over
By Jim Rutenberg
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Very early Wednesday morning, after many voters had already gone to sleep, the conventional wisdom of the elite political pundit class that resides on television shifted hard, and possibly irretrievably, against Senator Hillary Clinton's continued viability as a presidential candidate.
The moment came shortly after midnight Eastern time, captured in a devastatingly declarative statement from Tim Russert of NBC News: "We now know who the Democratic nominee's going to be, and no one's going to dispute it," he said on MSNBC. "Those closest to her will give her a hard-headed analysis, and if they lay it all out, they'll say: 'What is the rationale? What do we say to the undeclared super delegates tomorrow? Why do we tell them you're staying in the race?' And tonight, there's no good answer for that."
It was not exactly Walter Cronkite declaring that the Vietnam War would end in stalemate. But the impact was apparent almost immediately, starting with The Drudge Report, the online news billboard that is the home page to many political reporters in Washington and news producers in New York. It had as its lead story a link to a YouTube clip of Russert's comments, accompanied by a photograph of a beaming Obama with his wife, Michelle, and the headline, "The Nominee."
The thought echoed throughout the world of instant political analysis, steamrolling the Clinton campaign's attempts to promote the idea that her victory in Indiana was nonetheless an upset in the face of Obama's heavy spending and his campaign's predictions that he would win there, or that she could still come back if delegates in Florida and Michigan are seated.
"I think there's an increasing presumption tonight that Obama's going to be the nominee," Chris Wallace, the Fox News host, said to Karl Rove, President George W. Bush's longtime political guru, who is now a Fox News analyst. The statement preceded a discussion about what a general election race would look like between Obama and the presumptive Republican nominee, Senator John McCain.
A posting on the DailyKos Web site included a mock memo to Clinton titled, "To-Do List Before Dropping Out."
Speaking on CNN, David Gergen, a former adviser to several presidents, including Clinton's husband, said, "I think the Clinton people know the game is almost up."
Stating it more bluntly, Bob Franken, the political analyst, told the MSNBC host Dan Abrams shortly after 2 a.m. Eastern time, "Let's put it right on the table: It's over. It's over."
And it picked up again on the major morning news programs in a devastating cascade of sound bites for Clinton and her campaign.
Bob Schieffer on the CBS News program "Early Show": "Basically, Maggie, this race is over."
George Stephanopoulos on the ABC program "Good Morning America": "This nomination fight is over."
Matt Lauer on the NBC News program " Today": "Good morning, is it over?"
The commentary was punctuated by some brutal morning newspaper headlines: "Toast!" blared The New York Post; "Hil Needs a Miracle" declared The New York Daily News.
Of course, the political news media have not exactly showered themselves in glory this year. They have frequently made predictions that have been upended by actual votes from actual people.
But their opinions matter as much as ever in this late phase of the primary race, when Clinton and Obama are battling to sway the opinions of the uncommitted superdelegates — the party leaders and elected officials with automatic convention seats, whose support Clinton will need if she is to snatch the nomination from Obama.
The super delegates are a largely elite group that presumably will track the conventional wisdom of Washington's class of political insiders as they weigh their decisions. And the big donors and fund-raisers whose help Clinton will need to continue her campaign are similarly tapped into the news media echo-sphere.
Clinton's campaign indicated early this morning that it would try to prove the commentariat wrong once again. "Pundits have gleefully counted Senator Clinton out before, and each time they have been wrong, because they don't decide this race — voters do," Howard Wolfson, Clinton's communications director, wrote in an e-mail message. "And as the results in Indiana demonstrated, voters are rewarding Senator Clinton with victories, even in states Senator Obama predicted victory in."
Wolfson's statement came in quick response to a request for comment that was sent to him by e-mail after 2 a.m. Eastern time — an indication of the campaign's eagerness to undo the new conventional wisdom before it hardens.
And the campaign held a conference call with reporters this morning to send the clear signal that nothing had changed overnight.
Pointing to Clinton's victory in Indiana, and her inroads with what he called swing voters, Geoff Garin, her lead strategist, told the gathered reporters, "We think the results last night strengthen the case that she will be the strongest candidate for the Democratic Party in November."
Asked if the harsh assessments on television and in the blogosphere would not drive superdelegates to Obama, Wolfson said, "Thankfully for us the punditocracy does not control this nominating process — voters do and voters gave us an important victory in Indiana."
The Clinton campaign initially had some reason for optimism earlier Wednesday.
Many of the gloomier assessments of her chances came late Tuesday night and early this morning, when it appeared that she would not win Indiana as easily as exit polls and early vote tallies indicated earlier in the night. By then, early newspaper deadlines had passed and many voters were probably either asleep or off watching Jay Leno or David Letterman.
If East Coast viewers of "NCIS" saw no news the rest of the night, they certainly went to bed believing that Clinton's campaign was still there to fight another day. CBS, which broadcasts the show, declared that she had won the Indiana primary at 8:09 p.m. Eastern time, and Jeff Greenfield, the CBS analyst, reported, "We go on to June 3, Hillary Clinton got the win she needs to press her case."
Even as Clinton's real-vote lead over Obama in the state dwindled to just 16,000 as later returns came in, the CBS News Web site held on to its headline, "Clinton Wins Ind., Obama Takes N.C."
The headline was vindicated when several other news organizations declared that Clinton had indeed won in Indiana, five hours after CBS made its projection. And it is that view of Tuesday's results that most voters awoke to on Wednesday: A split decision for Clinton and Obama, no matter how narrow.
The question is, will the analysts be talking that way throughout the day — and if not, where does it leave Clinton?
As of this afternoon, the climb for her seemed steeper. Obama's campaign responded to the Clinton conference call with one of its own that included some big-name party leaders and superdelegates, among them the last Democratic nominee, Senator John Kerry, who declared, "Barack Obama took a giant and possibly decisive step toward the nomination." Minutes earlier, CNN had broken in with news from The Associated Press: Another former nominee was breaking for Obama, former Senator George McGovern, of South Dakota, which will vote along with Montana on June 3, the last primaries of the contest.
Notes:
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At this point they are calling the win for Hilliary what it is 9 points not 10 points.
ENOUGH SAID!!!
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9.2, 9.2, 9.2, 9.2,9.2, 9.2
WHY WONT THE MEDIA GET IT RIGHT, DO THEY NEED A LESSON IN MATH
YOU ROUND DOWN LESS THAN .5 EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT EVEN A PRESCHOOLER!!!!
THEY WANT TO KEEP IT A DOUBLE DIGIT WIN AND NOT A SINGLE DIGIT WIN. THAT WOULD ONLY
MAKE HER LOOK WORSE THAN SHE IS.
PUT A FORK IN HER SHES DONE!!!!
When you go to the Hilliary Clinton webpage you are asked right on the first page for 5 bucks.
WOW TALK ABOUT DESPERATE FOR MONEY, WHEN YOU COME TO BARACK PAGE THEY DONT ASK FOR 5 BUCKS BEFORE YOU CAN GO TO THE REST OF THE SITE.
HILLIARY CLINTON JUST NOT RIGHT FOR AMERICA.
Did you know that the polls that they take are using only land lines and not all the cell phones that are used by young people. That means there is huge amount of people not being counted in those polls and Obama has a large following with the college people. There are a lot of colleges in PA right, so the chances of Barack winning in PA is very good but he doesnt want to say that yet. Besides if he is only down by 3% thats not bad, not take in the youth vote and I think he will win and win big.
BARACK WILL WIN IN PA
ENOUGH SAID!!!!!!
ENOUGH SAID!!!!!
I have a simply goal of 500 dollars for the election of Barack Obama as the next President of the United States of America.
I ask that you please donate a little as 5 dollars if anything would help. Let me give you your other choice:
1. Senator John McCain==
This man has more flip flop stories in his closet than hi liar y, but has been spoked of because the democratic is not united yet. just wait till we have a nominee. He also has lobbyist that he owes just like clinton. On top of that how many times can you confuse the enemy in Iraqi, he just might forget he nuked somebody. He is a loose cannon we cant trust and he wants less government and more war. McCain.... just not right for the job.
2. Hiliary Clinton.
LIAR, DOUBLE STANDARD, FLIP FLOPPER, LIAR, CAN NEVER TELL THE TRUTH. DO I REALLY NEED TO SAY ANYMORE. OK I WILL HERE IS A SHORT LIST
1. NAFTA
2. CAFTA (BILL CLINTON, MARK PENN, HOWARD WOLFSON, ICKES, ALL MADE MONEY OFF THE DEAL )
3. DR. MLK SAID WAS THERE AT THE CHURCH LIKE SHE KEEP SAYING ON HER STOMP SPEECH
4. BOSNIA STORY (YOU DONT MAKE FUN OF PEOPLE DYING, CIVILIAN AND MILITARY, PEOPLE MADE REFUGEES CAUSE OF WAR. ITS NOT A JOKE TO THEM, THERE MAD AS HELL)
5. DISMISSES PROBLEMS LIKE ITS OKAY,
6. LIED THAT CHELSEA WAS AROUND GROUND ZERO WHEN 9/11 HAPPENED, SHE WAS IN A FRIENDS APARTMENT WATCHING IT ON TV, SHE ONLY SAID THAT CAUSE SHE WAS A NEW SENATOR TO NEW YORK AND WANTED TO FEEL CONNECTED TO NEW YORK. (SHE WILL SAY AND DO ANYTHING FOR APPEAL)
I MUST STOP THERE BECAUSE SHE IS THE WORST PERSON YOU COULD HAVE IN WHITE HOUSE, JUST IMAGINE ALL THE SHADY DEALS SHE COULD BE WORKING AND THE LIE ABOUT THEM LATER LIKE ITS OKAY.
PLEASE DONATE TO MY PAGE OBAMA MUST WIN TO SAVE THE USA AND REGAIN RESPECT IN THE WORLD.
The world is watching this election because they know if Obama wins people can trust America again. If McCain wins its another war, if Clinton wins no one will trust what she says.
HELP PLEASE..........ANY AMOUNT WILL DO.
GOD BLESS YOU AND BARACK OBAMA.
do you know what its like to keep seeing theat face on your screen, thank god shes gone. when the view all blog kept going back to her site it was horrible.
NO MORE HILLARY
