Latest Michigan Poll has Obama leading McCain with 51%
FOX/Rasmussen
9/21/08 500 LV McCain 44% Obama 51% 1 1 3 -
Ohio Poll: Obama and McCain tied at 46%
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Four articles on Sarah Palin
http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Palin_asks_Librarian_about_censorship_and_banning_books
http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Palin_fired_Wasilla_Librarian_then_changed_her_mind
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/14/palin-met-by-hundreds-of_n_126276.html
http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Palin_camp_clarifies_extent_of_Iraq_trip_The_Boston_Globe
Responding to Obama Nation!
I sent this out to day to the Editors of major newspapers across the country. Check it out. You should fight back too!
I want Americans to understand powerful forces are at work to keep us divided. We know from our great history the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Yet, the politics of fear continues to be used by some to ensure the survival of their agendas.
So, we come to Obama Nation by Mr. Corsi. This book is no more credible than any of Corsi’s other rambling manifestoes. These debunked attacks on Obama are regurgitated by the same man who wrote books alleging that Bush is dissolving our borders, that oil is inexhaustible, and that our government plotted 9/11.
In fact, Mr. Corsi is so bigoted that other hatchet men can’t stand him. Even the manipulators from the Swift Boat smears in 2004 kicked Corsi off their publicity tour because of his public statements of religious intolerance and blatant bigotry.
Americans should know that Mr. Corsi is no journalist. I will not sit by while fear and hate spread yet again. Simply repeating lies over and over will never make them true. Not while I have a voice.
I am extremely happy to have participated in our first truly successful voter registration weekend! With 20 volunteers we hit 10 locations (primarily on the Northside of the city). We came back with a total of around 70 registered voters and way more new volunteer sign-ups.
With our National Campaign staff here to support us we are really beginning to get things accomplished! Sam and Jared are really getting us going and I am grateful that we have their help. Our new field office too is a tremendous help (617 S. Portage Rd, near Crosstown and Portage))! I know that going forward we are going to be able to accomplish so much and make history together. Ahhhh......
So I am learning about grass roots organizing alright. I had a VFC event planned today with a respectable 13 volunteers signed up! I went out and bought materials and stressed about whether I would have enough registration forms. As usual, I was running later than I like but I arrived at the meeting location at 10:55 and we were supposed to meet at 11. Phew!
Then I stood there.
20 minutes later I was still standing there. Eventually, someone came up to me. It was an observer from China who had signed up online. He was sent by the State Department to watch democracy in action. His translator asked me about my thoughts on Barack and why I was working for the campaign. I explained but felt down h
I was about the give up. Me in my Obama shift with all of my forms, clipboards, pens and signs. All dressed up and nowhere to go. Then Wendy, Brook and Noel walked up.
If you are a member of Northstar and you are going to be helping us with our community work why not make your next campaign contribution in the Barack Obama store? You can purchase items that we can use in rallies and registration drives (likes stickers, banners and rally signs). You could increase Barack's visibility (what about a cool Barack T-Shirt to sport around town). Show everyone your support (like an Obama bumper sticker or a yard sign).
PLUS - 100% of funds spent in the store are considered campaign contributions and go directly to helping Barack win this fight!
Just a thought!
It is finally time for the boots to hit the ground here in Michigan and we are ready to do our part here in Kalamazoo! We have room for people with all sorts of abilities and availabilities. If you can help a lot or even just a little we would love to have you on board!
We will be working hard to register new voters and helping to make a difference in this world. Yes we can be part of history. Yes we can win back the White House and yes we can help Barack Obama be the next President of the United States! Please join our cause!
Unemployment soared to 5.5 percent in May, the biggest monthly increase since 1986, as employer nervousness about an uncertain economy prompted them to cut 49,000 jobs.
The Labor Department's latest figures follow 5 percent rate for April. The increase left the jobless rate at its highest since October 2004, with a total of 8.5 million Americans out of work. The latest snapshot of business conditions showed a deeply troubled economy, with dwindling job opportunities in a time of continuing hardship in the housing, credit and financial sectors. The jump in the unemployment rate was far bigger than most economists had forecast. Employers now have cut payrolls for five straight months. The May rate is relatively moderate by historical standards, but even so, employers last month sharply cut jobs in manufacturing, construction, retailing and professional and businesses services. Those losses overwhelmed gains in education, health, government and leisure and hospitality.
There is much discussion - as there should be - about when, officially, Obama will be declared the nominee for president. Much of what I saw and heard was at You Tube in clips from MSNBC and their analysts (chief among them, Chuck Todd). Todd said that the Rules Committee of the Democratic party will meet on Saturday and resolve the seating, at least partial, of the Michigan and Florida delegations.
Puerto Rico (!!!!) votes on Sunday, June 1st with 55 delegates at stake. Montana and South Dakota vote on June 3rd with only 16 delegates at stake.
There are still some undeclared Super-delegates and they are being courted by Obama...
Hopefully, it will be over by Monday or Wednesday of next week
HOORAY!!
Two news article today:
By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer 38 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - A Democratic Party rules committee has the authority to seat some delegates from Michigan and Florida but not fully restore the two states as Hillary Rodham Clinton wants, according to party lawyers.
Democratic National Committee rules require that the two states lose at least half of their convention delegates for holding elections too early, the party's legal experts wrote in a 38-page memo.
By ALAN FRAM, Associated Press Writer 42 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - Barack Obama has done poorly in the Democratic primaries with women, Catholics and others who will be pivotal in this fall's presidential election. Yet early polling shows that with several of these groups, he's competitive when matched against Republican John McCain.
A look at voters who have been closely contested in recent presidential elections — or veered from one party to the other, making them true swing groups — shows a significant number have leaned toward Obama's rival, Hillary Rodham Clinton, in the primaries. Besides women and Catholics, these include the elderly, the less educated and suburbanites, leading Clinton to argue that this makes her the Democrats' stronger candidate for the fall campaign.
Clinton spoke of her determination to stay in the race despite trailing Illinois Sen. Obama, who picked up three more superdelegates in Hawaii on Sunday, giving him a total of 1,977 delegates, just 49 delegates short of the 2,026 needed to clinch the nomination. Clinton still has 1,779.
In an op-ed piece in Sunday's New York Daily News, Clinton revisited her reference to the June 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy during a meeting Friday with a South Dakota newspaper's editorial board when she was asked whether she would stay in the presidential race. Clinton's comments were sharply criticized, and she later said she regretted any offense she might have caused.
"I was making the simple point that given our history, the length of this year's primary contest is nothing unusual," Clinton wrote. "But I was deeply dismayed and disturbed that my comment would be construed in a way that flies in the face of everything I stand for — and for everything I am fighting for in this election."
