Please add this consideration to your house parties on December 13th and 14th!!!
As we come together all across the country, we need to reflect on ways of rebuilding our economy. It is possible in our globalized world today to help create jobs here that also creates jobs in developing countries.
Maximum attention should be given to reaching key decision makers for building the Peace Corps up to 16,000 volunteers by FY2011. Peace Corps administration has to change to allow American citizens to actively support volunteers serving abroad to create opportunities to create jobs in health care, education, and overall community development.
Doubling the size of Peace Corps is possible and must be prioritized. Several thousand new PCVs could be sent to Cuba when the American boycott of Cuba is finally lifted (discussion point). The strategy of the Obama Administation towards bringing back a more human face on American foreign policy is vital.
Sign the MorePeaceCorps campaign http://www.petitiononline.com/morepc/petition.html
Thank you for being a part of this movement! There are many important causes out there but we thank you for devoting your time to MorePeaceCorps. Please direct any questions to me or my colleague, Jonathan Pearson (Micronesia 87-89), Advocacy Coordinator for the NPCA. Email: jonathan@rpcv.org.
I was very pleased to see the almost 30 minute discussions by candidate Obama tonight. It is important to show leadership and motivate the American people. He came across as a truly Presidential figure.
But when I read the stories about the cost, heard the media analysis and watched John McCain on Larry King for free, my thoughts turned to how long and how much has been spent on this election. I’m already convinced Barrack Obama is the right choice for America to become our next President. I think the money would have been better spent giving it to the American Red Cross!!!!
I believe part of campaign finance reform that is so badly needed in the US, time limits on the campaign, AND limits on the amounts spent, AND getting major media to provide 15 or 30 minute slots to all qualified candidates at no cost are types of changes that are required.
...you should check in. We're at Architects for Obama.
Our group is hot. We have well over 100 members; we score a 10 (of 10) on the MyBO Activity Tracker, meaning we have tons of calls, events, and blogs .
And we have been givers...bigger givers than some of those fancy Doctor- and Lawyer- "4Obama" groups! (Just kidding, but architects are notoriously pretty sedate, so its hard to believe that as a group we've raised $100,000)
So stop by the site, read the blog posts, join up, and send an e-mail to the group.
And, oh, yeah...make a donation!
Thank you, David
McCain can't see the difference between Shia and Sunni just like he cannot see the difference between talking about race and playing the race card.
There's a big difference.
Here's an episode of Odyssey where Barack Obama discusses voting rights.
http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/audio_library/ram/od/od-010227.ram
See Joe Klein's Take on McCain's Small-Minded Campaign: THE SCUM ALSO RISES.
Eugene Robinson nails it today on the quadrennial Republican scum festival that begins in August of every presidential election year. It seems to me that Britney-boating isn't going to be as lethal to Obama as swift-boating was to Kerry--indeed, it is more embarrassing than devastating--but that doesn't make it any less intolerable. I mean, we've got two wars, an energy crisis, an economy teetering on the edge of real serious trouble--and this is the campaign John McCain wants to run?
Is John McCain's approach too angry?
That's what this AP article is asking. McCain is comparing Obama, a law Professor for 12 years at the incredibly rigorous and conservative University of Chicago Law School, to Britney Spears. That's small minded and laughable. The article says:
But in striking an aggressive pose, McCain is in danger of letting the caricature of an angry, petulant candidate take seed — not so much because he is one, but because it stands in stark contrast to Obama’s carefully cultivated, well, celebrity, and McCain’s own promises to run a respectful campaign.
The attacks by John McCain on Obama's character have started. The opening shot is the one on Obama's cancelled visit to wounded US troops in Germany. Obama wanted to bring his staff including a retired General. The Pentagon told him that he couldn't bring the General because he was on the campaign staff. Obama had already visited wounded US troops in Iraq without the press as he always does. He usually brings staff members with him.
Here's a video of Obama's press conference in Jordan.
