This campaign has been so exciting! I am so proud of everyone and all the work they have done! I'm especially proud of the young people and kids who are paying such close attention to this historic election and doing whatever they can to make Senator Obama our next President! I'd like to share a few short stories about some of the kids in my life that are making a difference!
My grandson turned 2 yrs old today! He doesn't talk much yet, but he says Hi, Momma, Dadda and Bama! He's been saying Bama longer than Hi! My daughter, his Mom, has an Obama calendar hanging on the wall, so, when he sees Barack on TV, he gets so excited saying "Bama" and pointing to the TV and then the calendar!
My granddaughters watch everything they can about the Senator! Then they call me, "Grandma, did you see Obama on TV?" Then they tell me what they liked about his speech or interview and ask me if I liked it. They talk to their friends, too, and if they don't support Barack, they talk to them about it and then call and tell me all about what they said to convince them that Barack is the best candidate!
My 10 yr old cousin is very convincing with her friends and their families. If they don't support Barack she says, "Do your parents make more than $250,000 a year?" Not too many say yes, but if they do she still tries to convince them to vote for Barack or tell their parents to!
My daughters attend rallies, talk to everyone they know about Barack and have done some canvassing and voter registrations!
I'd love to hear stories about your Obama Kids!
Gail/Obama in the Heart
It both saddens me and disgusts me that these 2 are using so much anger, fear, hate and lies to divide us at a time when understanding, honesty, unity and courage are what we need. That is what would be best for our country! So, I'm asking them to follow their own 'slogan' and put our country 1st for a change!!
Not to mention the RNC and their robocalls! Unethical and unacceptable!
What would you ask them to do to show us that they are putting 'country 1st'?
looking forward to hearing from you!
Gail/Obama in the Heart, Peoria, IL
Thanks to the 10 people who showed up to help out on Somernites Cruise. In total, we gave away approx. 100 bumper stickers, 20 "yes we can" buttons, sold 3 t-shirts, and gave away 4 yard signs.
Again, thanks! And see you for the October Somernites Cruise, bigger and better!
PLEASE - VOTE JIM HOLBERT FOR CONGRESS
COMMON SENSE SOLUTIONS FOR KENTUCKY
AND SUPPORTER OF BARACK OBAMA & BRUCE LUNSFORD.
WWW.JIMHOLBERT2008.COM
The Pulaski County Democrats will be hosting two events in the next few weeks in support of our Obama/Biden/Lunsford ticket.
1. Please come out on Somernites Cruise (Sat, Sept. 27) begining at 12:30 and help spread the word about the Democratic ticket. We will be out all day talking to voters about the issues that MATTER. Also joining us will be Congressional Candidate Jim Holbert (Independent) who will also be out shaking hands and working the crowds.
2. Come out on October 9th at 6:30 for the Pulaski County for Change rally! To be at Pulaski County Park (West Hwy 80 in Nancy). Free admission-free food. Guest speakers Lt. Governor Dan Mongiardo and Congressional Candidate Jim Holbert. Come out and have a good time!
Both of these events are listed on the Obama website. Please sign up for them! Hope to see you there!
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Anybody who believes that the Republicans can fix the mess they created probably believes that the iceberg could have saved the Titanic." -- Hillary, with a zinger and 'forgetting' to be polite, above all else,
Let's break things down plain and simple to you small towners (I am one!) who just don't get it!*Those urbanites are not OUT to get you, they are not all liberal elite. Elite however would be defined by the Republican candidates. For example
1. John McCain doesn't know how many houses he has (I know one more he doesn't need!)2. They are worth millions in net worth and eat dinners in one night you could never afford in three weeks. Giuliani and Palin quickly criticized Obama and the media as liberal elite, but the taxpayers of Alaska paid for Sarah Palins $700 per night hotels in the liberal elite NYC, she cheated Alaskans out of money so she could get paid to work from home (isn't that a common complaint of stay at home mom's...you don't get paid for your work?) Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/08/AR2008090803088_pf.html
These people live it up on dollars you will never see perhaps in your whole life and then turn around and tout small town values.* Second, many voters say they just want a common person as president, someone like them or someone they can drink a beer with. I don't want someone like me to be the President or VP, I want them to be smarter than me, experienced and capable of deciding if indeed we should support Israel in the even of an attack by Iran. I want the President to know the difference between a Sunni and a Shiite, Waziristan, Kurdistan, and Balochistan. I don't care if you are a Mom, Hunter, Jew, African-American, or any other American demographic... if you cannot move beyond talking points and explain to me how to stimulate a failing economy and lower gas prices then you are not worth my time of day, much less ready to run the most powerful country in the world
*It does not make you"liberal and elite" to have an education. Barack Obama went to the top law school in the US and was head of the Harvard Law Review, thats not affirmative action and it means something, he's smart and thats worth something! Upon leaving Harvard he had offers and could have easily joined as a clerk for the Supreme Court or prestigious law firms in Boston and NYC, he declined and chose to go and help the poor people of South Side Chicago. After all Gandhi, Mandela, Martin Luther King and Jesus were community organizers of the sort...Pontius Pilate was a governor.
McCain graduated 894th out of 899 of his graduating class. Yes he fought in a war and thats honorable, but it doesn't give you experience of how to run a country. If anything being a POW should make you realize how avoidable a situation like war should be...hence, going around sing Bom Bom Bom Bomb Iran doe's not seem very prudent. We have homeless POW's all over the major cities, does that give them a qualification to run for President. You can't run POW as experience...take POW away and you have a senator...hmm the same title as Mr. Obama, which the McCain camp (once again showing hypocrisy) says isn't sufficient experience.*Republicans cannot claim sexism as a defense when it has been something the party has completely ignored since its existence. They dont stand for womens equality! In fact it was McCain who called Chelsea Clinton an ugly dog and lest we forget how many times we heard the B word used with Senator Clinton. Now all of a sudden if you ask if someone not experienced is experienced.....criticize her for not doing an interview with anyone for 2 weeks...criticize the validity of abstinence only education when her 17 year old daugher is pregnant..It's sexist...This is the party that thinks YOU small towners are so stupid that you really believe its okay for McCain to mention lipstick on a pig but Barack Obama doing so is Sexist. Please, must you prove them right? I know you small towners, you aren't this stupid...you're caring, nice and have common sense...Don't fall victims to such vicious political Rovian attacks!
The Republican party was founded on the principal of "small" government and isolationist policies,what is happening today with government takeovers of failing mortgage and insurance giants is borderline socialist. How can you believe in the invisible hand, and the market correcting itself when it takes government intervention in order to prevent economic crisis. Had it not been for the big govt. programs of the New Deal by FDR who knows how long it would have taken to stimulate the economy and move out of the Great Depression. It is therefore hypocritical for the Republicans to support government takeover, not to mention invading other countries. Ron Paul is about the best representation of what the Republican Party truly represents: a belief in small govt. and a follower of isolationist politics.
Finally, 9/11 happened under Republicans...No other similar event happened on US soil for over half a century..please explain to me why people now believe that they will be safe under Republican watch, because another attack didn't happen? An attack didn't occur under 8 years of Clinton does that mean he and his party were the best at protecting us from terrorism? What has the the Iraq war done? It made more than 1/2 the world hate us....it created more hostility and terrorists. And made us trillions of dollars in debt..this makes YOU sufferHow can you look at the last 8 years economically, politically, culturally and say I want more of that...Mcain is a carbon copy of Bush, and Palin makes Bush look liberal... Right Wing Evangelicals should not fall for political trickery, the politicians touting it..have they ever came through for you? Has abortion stopped, do homosexuals still exist? This is hardly a topic that is even discussed once the office is assumed, you're being used!. Its a means of getting elected. Sinclair Lewis once said "when Fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross."
Want to make a difference in this election? Want to be a part of History? Then come to Indiana and help us turn the Hoosier state blue for the first time in 44 years. The race here in Indiana is close. It’s going to take a lot of hard work to deliver our 11 electoral votes for Barack Obama on November 4th, but with your help, we can do just that and help put Barack Obama in the White House. We are neighbors. We share common values. We are facing challenges because of the failed Bush economic policies and we all share a common desire for change.
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A relative of mine frequently sents out anti-Obama E-mail hoaxes. Now she has a Trojan virus on her computer. I know it came from one of these hoax E-mail forwards with an attachment. Right after she sent this particular E-mail another relatives of mine got a virus warning from the same E-Mail. Just to be safe everyone should delete email forwards with attachments without opening them.
I'm sure that her computer virus came from an E-mail she forwarded called "Expose Obama". That's really too bad and I hate that she's having trouble. Anyway, I cut and pasted the warning that another relative passed along:
There was a trojan in this message please check your computers. Run virus scan.----- Original Message ----- From: <avast! 4>Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 9:45 PMSubject: [avast! heuristic - WARNING]> Suspicious extension(s) of attachment> * Expose Obama.mht> Content-Type doesn't correspond with attachment's extension> * Expose Obama.mht - message/rfc822
McCain's energy plan is full of gimmicks, Sen. Obama's energy proposals, would raise the fuel standards and invest $150 billion into the development of alternative energy sources such as wind power, solar power and bio-fuels.
Well the results are in for old KY’s primary and it was pretty predictable;
Pulaski – Clinton 79% Obama 17% Undecided 1% Edwards 2%
Wayne - Clinton 87% Obama 11% Undecided 1% Edwards 1%
McCreary - Clinton 85% Obama 11% Undecided 2% Edwards 3%
Russell - Clinton 83% Obama 14% Undecided 2% Edwards 1%
I hope this makes it a little clearer the kind of people I’m dealing with here. I mean they are still voting for Edwards for god’s sake! To be honest I’m more disappointed in Barack at the moment than these idiots. I mean showing up here once in 2007 and once in 2008 is a load of crap.
The Democratic Party has created a new website to provide information about our rival John McCain.
http://mccainpedia.org/index.php/Main_Page
Obama is going to be in Ky on the 12th and 13th
Sen. Obama has a plan to provide relief to people when it comes to their gas prices, he has a real plan to make sure that everybody has health insurance, plus he has a real plan to deal with college affordability.
You are bringing us together Barack. My hope has been restored and a belief that our nation can be an example of justice and decency is returning.
I thought this was hilarious!
http://www.jedreport.com/2008/05/john-mccains-up.html
When is Obama coming to Kentucky? The race technically still going and we’re supposed to be next, so where is he? The last and only time he made a trip to this state was back in fricken August 26, 2007.
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/2008-presidential-candidates/tracker/states/
