http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090413/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_cuba
YES WE DID! YES WE MUST:
Þ Protect him from harm both verbal & phyiscal
Þ Stay "FIRED UP" by staying active
Þ Work Bi-Partisan to bring "Change" together
Þ Don't just bitch, get active and stay engaged
Þ Start and join a local "Change" group
Þ Be philanthropic, serve your community, state and nation
Þ Stick by Obama, STOP smears on the Right & the Left!!!! Hold yourself responsible as you hold Barack!
Join the future of this movement!!
http://change.gov/joinus
http://www.communityorganize.com
http://www.ourpresidency.com
http://www.usaservice.org
http://www.whitehouse.gov
Barack's DNC 2004 Speech
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWynt87PaJ0&feature=PlayList&p=B1939005B8A4D4ED&index=188
Barack's DNC 2008 Speech
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ato7BtisXzE&feature=channel
Barack’s Election Acceptance Speech
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wJ-2Zu_Iic&feature=channel
Barack’s Inauguration Speech
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjnygQ02aW4
Early Voting for the entire state of Florida has just been extended.
Every Early Vote location in Florida will now be every day from 7am-7pm up through November 2.
Please pass along this great news to everyone you know who will be voting in Florida. Click here to find your nearest early vote location.
Here's the release:
GOVERNOR CRIST EXTENDS EARLY VOTING HOURS ~~ ~Ensures maximum number of Floridians can exercise right to vote~ ~~October 28, 2008Contact:GOVERNOR'S PRESS OFFICE(850) 488-5394TALLAHASSEE - Governor Charlie Crist today signed Executive Order 08-217, extending the hours for early voting during the current General Election. Effective immediately, early voting sites will be open from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., through Friday, October 31, 2008, and for a total of 12 hours between 7:00 a.m. on Saturday, November 1, and 7:00 p.m. on Sunday, November 2, 2008. "I have spoken with the Secretary of State and members of the Florida Legislature and have concluded that it is always the right thing to do to give voters every opportunity to cast a ballot," Governor Crist said. "I have a responsibility to the voters of our state to ensure that the maximum number of citizens can participate in the electoral process, and that every person can exercise the right to vote." Prior to the 2008 General Election, Florida has seen historic numbers of Floridians registering to vote for the first time. In addition, record numbers of voters have chosen to cast a ballot during early voting. Early voting began on October 20 and runs through November 2. Current Florida law allows for early voting to be conducted eight hours per day on each weekday, and for a total of eight hours during both weekends during the early voting period. Floridians can contact their county's Supervisor of Elections for dates, times and locations of early voting. Florida voters can also request absentee ballots to be mailed to them until October 29. Please see the attached Executive Order 08-217. STATE OF FLORIDA OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR EXECUTIVE ORDER NUMBER 08-217 WHEREAS, early voting is scheduled to end November 2, 2008; and WHEREAS, early voting turnout has already reached record levels and is forecast to continue with record turnout. There are only 267 early voting sites throughout the state and long lines have formed at many of the early voting sites; and WHEREAS, a historic number of Floridians have registered to vote for the first time in this election; and WHEREAS, new voting equipment is being used in 15 Florida counties; WHEREAS, as a result of this unique combination of circumstances resulting from the historic voter turnout in this election, there is a possibility that election officials will be unable to conduct an orderly election, and thus residents in our state could be deprived of a meaningful opportunity to vote; andWHEREAS, because of the existing and continuing possibility of an emergency occurring before or during the regularly scheduled election, and in order to ensure maximum citizen participation in the electoral process, and provide a safe and orderly procedure for persons seeking to exercise their right to vote;NOW, THEREFORE, I, CHARLIE CRIST, as Governor of Florida, by virtue of the authority vested in me by Article IV, Section 1(a) of the Florida Constitution, by the Florida Elections Emergency Act, and by all other applicable laws, issue the following Executive Order, to take immediate effect:I hereby declare that, based on the above-described conditions, a state of emergency exists. It is hereby found and declared to be necessary to extend the voting hours during early voting. Accordingly, I order the Supervisors of Elections to open early voting sites from 7 a.m. and close at 7 p.m. through October 31, 2008 and open early voting sites for a total of twelve (12) hours between 7 a.m. November 1, 2008 and 7 p.m. November 2, 2008.IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the State of Florida to be affixed, at Tallahassee, the Capitol, this 28th day of October, 2008. GOVERNORATTEST:SECRETARY OF STATE
GOVERNOR CRIST EXTENDS EARLY VOTING HOURS
~~ ~Ensures maximum number of Floridians can exercise right to vote~ ~~
October 28, 2008
Contact:
GOVERNOR'S PRESS OFFICE(850) 488-5394
TALLAHASSEE - Governor Charlie Crist today signed Executive Order 08-217, extending the hours for early voting during the current General Election. Effective immediately, early voting sites will be open from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., through Friday, October 31, 2008, and for a total of 12 hours between 7:00 a.m. on Saturday, November 1, and 7:00 p.m. on Sunday, November 2, 2008.
"I have spoken with the Secretary of State and members of the Florida Legislature and have concluded that it is always the right thing to do to give voters every opportunity to cast a ballot," Governor Crist said. "I have a responsibility to the voters of our state to ensure that the maximum number of citizens can participate in the electoral process, and that every person can exercise the right to vote."
Prior to the 2008 General Election, Florida has seen historic numbers of Floridians registering to vote for the first time. In addition, record numbers of voters have chosen to cast a ballot during early voting.
Early voting began on October 20 and runs through November 2. Current Florida law allows for early voting to be conducted eight hours per day on each weekday, and for a total of eight hours during both weekends during the early voting period. Floridians can contact their county's Supervisor of Elections for dates, times and locations of early voting.
Florida voters can also request absentee ballots to be mailed to them until October 29.
Please see the attached Executive Order 08-217.
STATE OF FLORIDA
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
EXECUTIVE ORDER NUMBER 08-217
WHEREAS, early voting is scheduled to end November 2, 2008; and
WHEREAS, early voting turnout has already reached record levels and is forecast to continue with record turnout. There are only 267 early voting sites throughout the state and long lines have formed at many of the early voting sites; and
WHEREAS, a historic number of Floridians have registered to vote for the first time in this election; and
WHEREAS, new voting equipment is being used in 15 Florida counties;
WHEREAS, as a result of this unique combination of circumstances resulting from the historic voter turnout in this election, there is a possibility that election officials will be unable to conduct an orderly election, and thus residents in our state could be deprived of a meaningful opportunity to vote; and
WHEREAS, because of the existing and continuing possibility of an emergency occurring before or during the regularly scheduled election, and in order to ensure maximum citizen participation in the electoral process, and provide a safe and orderly procedure for persons seeking to exercise their right to vote;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, CHARLIE CRIST, as Governor of Florida, by virtue of the authority vested in me by Article IV, Section 1(a) of the Florida Constitution, by the Florida Elections Emergency Act, and by all other applicable laws, issue the following Executive Order, to take immediate effect:
I hereby declare that, based on the above-described conditions, a state of emergency exists. It is hereby found and declared to be necessary to extend the voting hours during early voting. Accordingly, I order the Supervisors of Elections to open early voting sites from 7 a.m. and close at 7 p.m. through October 31, 2008 and open early voting sites for a total of twelve (12) hours between 7 a.m. November 1, 2008 and 7 p.m. November 2, 2008.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the State of Florida to be affixed, at Tallahassee, the Capitol, this 28th day of October, 2008.
GOVERNOR
ATTEST:
SECRETARY OF STATE
In Ike's Words, why some conservatives like Obama
Colin Powell's endorsement today adds muscle to the growing conservative chorus for Obama.
This post features the endorsements by Susan Eisenhower (Ike's granddaughter) Wick Allison (former publisher of the National Review) and the Chicago Tribune, with their first endorsement of a Democrat since the paper's founding in 1847.
Scroll down the page at MakeFloridaCount.com to find -
resources to counter McCain lies
and The Fight for Florida - why we can't stop now. Encourage your friends in Blue States to use my.barackobama.com to call battleground states.
Be sure to make use of the resources on the left side of the page at MakeFloridaCount.com and MakeOhioCount.org to reach undecided voters.
Yours,
Barbara
As a person that aspires to be a devout Catholic and take ALL the teachings of the Church seriously, I felt compelled to come to terms with my wholehearted endorsement of Obama, including his position on reproductive rights (which I also support from a position of civil tolerance).
As a subscriber to Friar Jack's eNewsletter at American Catholic, I wrote the letter below prompted in part by one of his associate's columns (see: http://www.americancatholic.org/e-News/FriarJack/fj091708.asp), which I found very loving and insightful. For what it's worth, I also feel the need to share my thought with other Catholics that support Obama because I sense that I cannot be the only one that feels the tension from by religious and political beliefs.
Dear Friar Jack,
I appreciate your work in bringing the Gospel message of love and forgiveness to the issue of abortion. No doubt the right to life is inviolable and sacred. Your quote from the psalms expresses the model of unconditional love that our God has for every one of us: “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you” (Ps 139:15).
I believe that this "right to life" is enhrined in our hearts, but that due to sin, including original sin as well as personal and social sin, that we are sometimes unable to recognize it. My personal stance of tolerance for "reproductive rights" or the "right to an abortion" tries to conscienciously take into account the full teachings of the church, which in this case forces me to deal with the paradoxical and tragic sense of life as both sacred and flawed (without the saving grace of redemption that comes from Christ Jesus).
Some of you may have already seen this on other groups, but I thought it worthwhile to spread this story.
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-ayers13-2008oct13,0,3632087.story
Vote Obama!
Tino
I was sent today a great GOTV music video.
Enjoy!
http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=-ycu0sy5RW8
On September 26th, 2008 I helped organize a large group of Obama supporters in Miami Shores, Florida to create further enthusiasm in our community and surrounding community. The rally "Honk and Wave" event effort was geared towards getting visibility and exitement up in Miami Shores but also we were able to recruit some more volunteers, registering new voters, and inform voters on early voting. The rally was quite successful... Here is a link to Youtube.com video of it (or just search by "Miami Shores Obama Rally"):
Miami Shores 1st Presidential Debate Street Rally/Honk and Wave 9-26-08: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN5DpVvX4Rw
The first rally was so successful we did it again for the VP debate. We registered voters and gave out flyers to passing motorists too on early voting, how to volunteer, etc.
Miami Shores VP rally Honk and Wave 10-2-08:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZf49atn1hg
We Plan to have another Rally on October 7th, 2008 for the 2nd Presidential Debate.
There was a message circulating some of our groups in Florida yesterday that spread incorrect information conerning the the ID needed to vote. We're going to clarify below.
A message from the Florida Campaign for Change chief election lawyer:
I am the Obama-Biden campaign’s chief election lawyer in Florida, and I have received the 'no match no vote' message from several sources. This message is categorically false. Our reading of the clear statutory language does NOT require that the address on the driver’s license (or other ID) that the voter presents at the polls match the voter’s address in the precinct register. Furthermore, this press release from the Florida Secretary of State definitively ccnfirms:http://www.dos.state.fl.us/news/communications/pressRelease/pressRelease.cfm?id=330 See the last bullet:· I.D. required and checked at the polls is used solely to confirm the voter’s identity. Not to verify the voter’s ID number or address. The photograph on the ID is compared to the person standing before the poll worker and the signature on the ID is compared to the signature on record.
I am the Obama-Biden campaign’s chief election lawyer in Florida, and I have received the 'no match no vote' message from several sources. This message is categorically false.
Our reading of the clear statutory language does NOT require that the address on the driver’s license (or other ID) that the voter presents at the polls match the voter’s address in the precinct register. Furthermore, this press release from the Florida Secretary of State definitively ccnfirms:http://www.dos.state.fl.us/news/communications/pressRelease/pressRelease.cfm?id=330
See the last bullet:
· I.D. required and checked at the polls is used solely to confirm the voter’s identity. Not to verify the voter’s ID number or address. The photograph on the ID is compared to the person standing before the poll worker and the signature on the ID is compared to the signature on record.
Please feel free to email florida@barackobama.com with any questions or concerns.
[Hooked nose Arabs paint hooked noses?]Author Derided by Muslim Students [Association] in Anti Semitic Cartoon Author David Horowitz responded today to his recent controversy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. David Horowitz, a popular conservative writer, was derided in a Nazi-like anti-Semitic cartoon, put out by the Muslim Student Association. The cartoon, which was copied and spread around campus, portrays Horowitz, a Jewish man, as a hooked-nose Nazi hiding in a trash can. http://tothecenter.com/news.php?readmore=4895
"Hadith of Hate" Banned at USC By Reut R. Cohen FrontPageMagazine.com | 8/29/2008 As Muslim Student Association (MSA) chapters have become increasingly influential at universities and colleges around the country, critics have charged that it is a hate group that sympathizes with the international jihad and promulgates an anti-American and anti-Semitic ideology in its campus actions. In response, the MSA has claimed that it is merely another religious and cultural group similar to Hillel, a club for Jewish students, or the Newman Club for Catholics. That deception has been now unmasked at the University of Southern California, where the school’s Provost, Chrysostomos L. Max Nikias, reacting to a call from the David Horowitz Freedom Center and the Simon Wiesenthal Center, has ordered the campus MSA to remove a “despicable” hadith calling for Muslims to murder Jews as a condition for redemption from its website. David Horowitz, President of the Freedom Center, hails this as a breakthrough moment when the double standards that control the political and intellectual culture of most universities have finally been challenged. “Up to now, the slightest criticism of radical Islam on campus has been slammed as ‘Islamophobia,’ while Muslim groups and their radical fellow travelers have been allowed to say the most hateful things imaginable about Christians and Jews without any reaction from university administrators whatsoever,” Horowitz says. “Provost Nikias has called the hadith on the MSA website for what it is: despicable. Given the atmosphere that prevails on most campuses today, it was an act of integrity on his part to make this call and to demand that the MSA live up to basic standards of civility that should govern the university.” The hadith (sacred teaching) reads as follows: “Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him….” http://www.rightsidenews.com/200808301838/homeland-security/-hadith-of-hate-banned-at-usc.html
Last night Sarah Palin had the audacity to belittle and make fun of my profession and life's work. In her own quest for power, she insulted a whole group of people that everyday for little pay dedicate their lives to helping others. For us, success is not measured by the size of a salary. It is measured by the difference made in the lives of others. It is not a glamorous job, we go into all the neighborhoods everyone else avoids and work with the people everyone wants to forget. Community organizers, do not advertise nor market our profession because it is not about us, it is about the people whose lives we hope to better one person at a time, one child at a time, one community at a time. I am PROUD being a social worker, a community organizer, an advocate for those who need a voice, and of my MSW in Community Organizing Management and Planning from Boston University, the alma mater of another community organizer Martin Luther King Jr. I am proud of my daughter who has decided to continue the tradition by also becoming a social worker focusing on helping those suffering from addictions, and yesterday began her MSW at Boston College. I am proud of the work that I do everyday for the children and families of Manatee County Public Schools, I am proud of the work that I do to register new voters to participate in our democracy and take ownership of their future. Community Organizers do more than just talk, we act to make the world a better place.
It seems that Sarah Palin knows no more what a community organizer does than what a vice-president does, Maybe then it's something not to take personally since before being selected, on CNBC she told Larry Kudlow "what does a VP do anyway?" She is obviously ignorant, but it is sad that hords of Republicans are also ignorant and cheered her put-down.
Here is a video of famous community organizers that have made a difference and impacted history. Pass it on to those who do not know a community organizer, do not know what a community organizer does, nor the contributions they have made to make this world a better place. It seems that WE need to speak up for ourselves and set the record straight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVkhtMY2io4
Obama se suma a los cubanoamericanos para pedir una suspensión de las restricciones impuestas por Bush
Chicago (Illinois).- El miércoles el senador Barack Obama hizo pública la siguiente declaración:
“Quiero expresar mis más sentidas condolencias a los afectados por el huracán Gustav, en particular al incalculable número de damnificados en Cuba, quienes encaran la enorme tarea de reconstruir su vida con el peso del fracasado régimen de Castro sobre las espaldas.
Este es un momento en que el pueblo cubano –no Castro- necesita y merece la compasión y la asistencia estadounidense. No nos equivoquemos: el embargo debe mantenerse en pie y yo me opongo enérgicamente a la prestación de ayuda alguna al régimen de Castro.
La comunidad cubanoamericana está lista para asistir directamente a sus familiares en estos momentos en que tanto lo necesitan. Sin embargo, la política fracasada del gobierno de Bush obstaculiza la ayuda necesaria y moral.
Me sumo hoy al llamamiento que los líderes de la comunidad cubanoamericana han hecho al presidente Bush para que suspenda inmediatamente, y por un mínimo de 90 días, las restricciones a las remesas familiares, las visitas y los envíos de ayuda humanitaria por parte de los cubanoamericanos."
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Obama Joins Cuban Americans in Call for Suspension of Bush Restrictions
CHICAGO, IL – Senator Barack Obama issued the following statement today: 'I wish to express my deepest sympathies for those affected by Hurricane Gustav, particularly the untold number affected in Cuba, who face the daunting task of reconstructing their lives with the weight of the failed Castro regime on their shoulders. “This is a time when the Cuban people – not Castro – need and deserve American compassion and assistance. Make no mistake – the embargo must remain, and I strongly oppose any aid to the Castro regime. “The Cuban American community stands ready to directly assist their family members in this time of need. A failed Bush administration policy, however, stands in the way of moral and necessary aid. “Today I join with leaders in the Cuban American community in calling on President Bush to immediately suspend restrictions on family remittances, visits and humanitarian care packages from Cuban Americans for a minimum of 90 days.”
I can only say that I have not laughed this hard in a long time.
While watching CNN I almost felt like vomiting while Gov.Palin was on stage.
McCain has lost his mind!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Could they have looked any more akward on stage together.
Then she tries talking about Sen. Clinton in the most sicking attempt at wining women voters,soley because she is a woman and the crowd boos.
If I were a woman I would be so insulted!
Sen.Biden is going to bury her in the debates.
Sen Obama will make Sen. McCain dizzy during their debate.
Wow!!!! Christmas came early thanks Sen.McCain.
America will once be the greatest nation on Earth!
P.S.
The Convention Rocked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
INSIGHT - Locking up Sudan’s Al-Bashi ...Daily Nation, Kenya - Jul 24, 2008Sudanese intellectuals, like Deng and Prof Ibrahim, have seen Arab racism as the curse of Sudanhttp://www.nationmedia.com/dailynation/nmgcontententry.asp?category_id=39&newsid=128002
A witness and victim of the conflict in Darfur finds a voiceEconomist, UK - Aug 14, 2008The description of playground rivalries between the “African” girls and the “Arab” girls captures the racism and snobbery that underlie the conflict. ...http://www.economist.com/books/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11919269
Mbeki and the Butcher of KhartoumHuffington Post, NY - Aug 8, 2008Mbeki's siding with the Butcher of Khartoum is painful and incomprehensible. ... Brutality, Arab racism, genocide, slavery were chapters of the same book; parts of the same side of the coin of injustice and totalitarianism. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pius-kamau/mbeki-and-the-butcher-of_b_117148.html
Darfuri Refugee Thanks British Jewryby Justin Cohen - Thursday 7th August 2008A Darfuri refugee this week made an emotional plea to Anglo-Jewry to continue supporting those forced to flee the region as he thanked the Jewish News for its efforts to halt deportations to SudanPouring out his heart this week, the 32-year-old recalled how he was forbidden from speaking his own language at school “because the Arab government wanted us to be more Arabic” and how Black Africans had to sit at the back of the class. http://www.totallyjewish.com/news/national/c-9772/darfuri-refugee-thanks-british-jewry/
Egyptian troops execute another Darfur refugeeIsrael Today, Israel - Aug 6, 2008Egyptian troops have killed at least 20 African refugees trying to reach Israel this year alone. In at least one incident late last year the Egyptians even ...Thousands of Sudanese refugees from Darfur have been in Egypt for years. Recently, many have begun making the long difficult trek across the Sinai desert to escape the oppression and discrimination they experience at Egyptian handshttp://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=178&nid=16830
A Sudanese killed as he attempts to cross into IsraelThursday 21 August 2008 02:46. Printer-Friendly version Comments... August 20, 2008 (ISMAILIA) — Egyptian police shot dead a 27-year-old Sudanese man while he was trying to sneak across the border into Israel. This is second killing during this month.Since January 2008, Egyptian authorities arrested a587 illegal African migrants attempting to cross border to Israel. 172 were from Sudan and mostly from Darfur troubled region.The killing of Ibrahim Tayeb Juma, which took place at night on Monday, brings to 20 the number of African migrants killed at the border so far this year.http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article28346
