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I must admit that President Obama has inspired me to now watch presidential press conferences and announcements. Never have I felt compelled to even give any president 5 minutes of my time after an election. Mainly because I felt I had been duped when I voted for my candidate, and all they were going to do was lie to us anyway.
However, since Barack Obama has become president I have changed. I feel fully empowered in the process, in my country.
Yes, I believe that AIG should be held accountable for their loose spending and lack of ethics. I also believe that our congress has to understand they are charged with looking out for the people's interests, and if at any time the president sends a bill over to be voted on, then the congress is responsible for reading everything and speaking up for things they do not understand or object to.
It doesn't do any of us a bit of good to point fingers and accuse either party of not reading the bill. This only causes more and more separation. Enough of that has been done the last 8 years.
This is a time for healing, for change, for making things better and going forward. Otherwise, its just politics as usual.
LaTease
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President Obama will unveil the details of his fiscal 2010 budget in early April. As you know, this budget will call for 3.6 trillion dollars in spending, all of it quite necessary given the country's current economic condition. In fact, we especially welcome the large, and long overdue, increases to education spending contained in the President's budget. We also applaud the Administration's decision to turn Pell grants into an entitlement program. This was an essential step, if the President hoped to close the disparities in college graduation rates between low-income students and high income students. However, unless there is a significant investment in GEARUP, TRIO, and other efforts that confront the social, cultural, and academic barriers that impede and undermine college completion for low-income students, millions of Pell dollars will very likely be wasted. Simply put, Pell recipients will continue to fail to graduate from college in greater proportions than their more advantaged peers.We still have time to bring this point home to the President. Please write, call and e-mail the White House. The President receives more than 30,000 letters a day, so please get family, friends and other networks involved. Again, it is still possible to make a difference on this issue.http://www.whitehouse.gov/
The White House1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NWWashington, DC 20500Comments: 202-456-1111Switchboard: 202-456-1414FAX: 202-456-2461
U.S. Representative Congressmen Thaddeus McCotter
Republican-Livonia, Michigan
Congressmen McCotter is on the right track, the Auto Track for GM Chrysler, Real People, Liberty and Prosperity. The stimuls package from Capitol Hill is not enough to stimulate the Nation’s Auto Capitol in Michigan. The auto industry are “victims and not the cause of this dysfunctional time in our economy”. A life long resident of southeast Michigan, with unblinking loyalty, McCotter will not walk away from the auto industryA refreshing voice for the auto industry, Congressman McCotter has focused his efforts on preserving and promoting manufacturing and small businesses, because he knows they form the back bone of our community's economy. Serving on the House Financial Services Committee, with a championship record reducing the tax buden on Michingan families, fighting the War on Terrioism, keeping Michigan at work, helping improve health care and reduce government spending.Congressmen McCotter attended the first Fiscal Summit, an executive meeting last Monday, held by President Obama at the White House. McCotter was one of two members of Michigan invited to the summit. A big gigantic first step toward reaching bipartisan solutions on many issues to include, health care, social security, the tax code and other fiscal issues facing the nation.
First elected in 2002 to Congress, then re-elected in 2004, 2006 and again in 2008. Congressman McCotter was elected in Nov. 2008 to serve as Chairman of the Republican House Policy Committee, a leadership position once held by Vice President Dick Cheney. Congressmen McCotter is a graduate of Catholic Cebntrall High School, the University of Detroit and the Universtiy of Detroti Law Schoo. He is a bar admitted attorney by profession and has contuined to defeat democratic running mates.
Best wishes to Barack Obama as he takes the Oath of Office today! I wish that I could be there in Washington DC to see it but I have to go to work. Congratulations and Best Wishes!
Let me leave you with this musical selection, "God Bless the USA" by Lee Greenwood:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RssIN3ustUw
Tomorrow is the Big Day! the inauguration of Barack Obama. I didn't ever think in my lifetime I would ever see what I'm about to witness tomorrow. My parents didn't think they would live to see this either. I wish my grandparents had lived to see this day. As well as my great grandparents and those ancestors that came before them. For they endured the brutality of the middle passage, toiled in the cotton fields, and lived through the unfairness of segregation.
I wish some of my heros such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks could be here to see this day.
I wish that Ray Charles was still alive so that he could be invited to the inauguration to sing this song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghz4_kikLkE
As the Bush administration comes to a close, I would like to dedicate a Ray Charles song to the Bush administration as well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDalo-ObM14
If you live in the Detroit area and you still want to go to the inauguration, you still have a chance. U.S. Representative John Conyers is raffling inauguration tickets. You have until 5:00 PM, Friday, January 2, 2009 to enter the drawing.
http://www.freep.com/article/20081230/NEWS15/81230042/1001/rss01
By TODD SPANGLER • FREE PRESS WASHINGTON STAFF • December 30, 2008
WASHINGTON – With his office getting crushed with requests for inaugural tickets, U.S. Rep. John Conyers has decided to give his out via a lottery.
Conyers’ spokeswoman, Karen Morgan, says the Detroit and Washington offices will be taking requests until the close of business – about 5 p.m. – on Friday, Jan. 2, with the winning names to be drawn Saturday. Winners of the inaugural tickets will be notified by phone or email. To date, the Detroit Democrat’s office has received about 2,500 requests from people – mostly in his district – for some 8,000 tickets to see Barack Obama inaugurated Jan. 20 as the first African-American U.S. president. Each congressman gets 190 tickets – and some of Conyers’ are already spoken for – so the office is trying to limit requests to two tickets each, though in some cases more might be awarded. Those interested should call Conyers’ office in Detroit at 313-961-5670, or in Washington at 202-225-5126, to leave their requests. And they should be sure to leave their name, address, email and telephone number, too.
Here are the front pages of the Detroit News, Detroit Free Press, and the Times-Picayune. I went around to three stores before I could find any newspapers. These are collector's items. People were buying them by the stack full. I purchased a stack of them for myself.
http://media.freep.com/documents/freep11052008/index.htm
Lets give a Big Congratulations to President Elect Barack Obama!!!! Wow!!! This feels more like New Year's Eve than a presidential election. My relatives are calling me on the phone. I'm have been calling relatives. People are driving through the streets blowing their car horns. This is a historic moment. The United States of America as we know it is going to change. I can't help but feel that I played a part in this victory. I am not a political person and I never been involved in a presidential campaign. I volunteered and I wonder if the phone calls I made or the doors I knocked on helped make a difference.
I tried to post some fireworks to celebrate, but I'm not that good at computers or html code. So I will just post the links below for you to see them.
http://www.amazing-animations.com/animations/fireworks20.gif
http://www.amazing-animations.com/animations/fireworks21.gif
I voted at Pershing High School today. Everybody was there from the barely 18 year old, first time voting group, all the way up to senior citizens. Plus everyone in between. It took nearly two hours for me to get through the line. I got there at about 10:15 AM and by the time I was done voting, it was 12:00 noon. The senior citizens, my parents included, got to go straight to the front of the line so they wouldn't have to stand in the long line. Lucky them! After voting, I went and got something to eat. I passed by Van Zile Elementary School, another polling place, and there were about 200 cars parked in front of the school. So in all my years of voting, this is the largest voter turn out I've ever seen. In past elections, it took me no longer than 20 minutes to vote but today was nearly two hours.
If you’re reading this now, chances are you’ve already heard dozens of pitches trying to get you to volunteer for the Obama campaign. If you’ve already volunteered - we thank you. This is a grassroots, “bottom-up” campaign, and your help is why we’ve been able to come this far. But, it’s not over yet.
Even if you’ve volunteered before - or if you’ve always wanted to help out but never had the time - today is the day! Since Barack announced his candidacy for president on May 2, 2007, everything we’ve done has been in preparation for today - which is why it’s so important to not give up now. We need your help! Sign up to help out today at a Campaign for Change Get out the vote location near you, the most important day of the election here.
Michigan! This is our moment; this is our time! Get out and vote - and then volunteer - and tonight, we’ll celebrate victory. Don’t delay, volunteer today!
John McCain's campaign has as recently as yesterday said that they believe that students won't turn out to vote. Today is our day to prove them wrong and show America that young voters do matter. Our opponent and the media believe that young voters won’t show up - that we don’t care about the election, and are too lazy, too unwilling, or too unmotivated to actually get out and vote.But today, we’ll prove them wrong.
Today is the day to turn the page on eight years of failed Bush policies that have seen our middle class shrink, economy worsen, and college move out of reach for more and more people. Today is the day to make your voice heard! What happens today will determine the direction we want our country to move in. Decades from now, your children will ask you what you did today. Do you want to be part of the moment that changed America - or do you want to stay home, and just hope for the best?
Our moment is now. Get out and vote - bring your roommate, your friends, anyone you can think of. After you vote, help us get out the vote on this critical day - sign up to help get out the vote on your campus today!
The polls are now open so...
GET OUT THE VOTE!!!!!!!
YOU'RE INVITED to theMichigan Democratic Party'sELECTION NIGHT EVENTat theDetroit Renaissance Center
Finish up canvass and phone bank shifts as the polls close and then join the Michigan Democratic Party to watch the election returns and celebrate the work we have done together to get out the vote for change.
Guests will include Governor Jennifer Granholm, Lt. Governor John Cherry, Senator Carl Levin, Senator Debbie Stabenow, Judge Diane Marie Hathaway, Speaker Andy Dillon, MDP Chair Mark Brewer.
I figured I'd share this with you all.
This lady really needs to get a grip. Denying the babies Halloween candy if their parents don't support the right candidate. This is the mind set we are up against.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/01/mccain-supporter-denies-c_n_140075.html
I am deeply saddened by the loss of Barack Obama's grandmother, Madelyn Dunham. What makes it even more sad is that it happened the day before Election Day. Tomorrow is going to feel so bittersweet. I am going to keep the Obama family in my thoughts and prayers.
