Hi all, it is not over 'til it's over. George Bush is preparing to enact 90 resolutions which will be hard for Obama to clear when he gets into office.
I am sending the following email to Nancy Pelosi, House Speaker and the one who can begin impeachment proceedings. It would be a shame if these two criminals are allowed to leave office with some bogus honorable history.
email:sf.nancy@mail.house.govDear Honorable Nancy Pelosi, With all due respect to your position, intelligence and patriotism. Yet it still escapes me why the legislation to impeach Dick Cheney and George Bush was sent to committee. At least this is what happened to the best of my knowledge. I assumed that it was a bad time to be impeaching the executive branch of our government. The controversy would be a bad idea during the campaign of our President Elect, Barack Obama. I ask of you, with my heart, mind and soul, to bring impeachment proceedings forward at this time. It would be a shame on this country and this governmental system if Bush and Cheney were allowed to leave office with honor after what they have done to this country and the Constitution. I firmly believe that without any political shenanigans, these two will be impeached the mere fact that both are sworn to uphold the Constitution and blatantly threatened military action against other sovereign nations is itself enough for impeachment. The founding fathers knew well the possibility of an executive branch, which put military force above diplomatic maneuvers. It is also inferred if not out and out written that the Presidents State of the Union address is to be of facts, not to be filled with inferences or out-and-out lies to the people of this country in effort to sway public political opinion. It is also without doubt that the President and vice-President used a minimum of three deceptions, which were known by them to have other, countermanding information, which they hide from view. It is imperative that bipartisan politics be put aside and honesty, integrity, common sense and intelligence be reinserted into a terribly politicized and polarized Congress. Please, do the right thing and impeach the men that their legacy is not left to blot the future governing of this great country.Yours,Duane A. Kuehn
Back in January before the Virginia primary -- what seems like years ago now -- I posted a blog with translations of "Yes We Can". Since the primary, I have gotten a few additional translations. Now almost on the eve of this historic election, when we will all get to proudly cast our ballots for Barack Obama, it is time to post an updated version. I wish I also had translations of "Yes We Will" to add and then on Wednesday that I could add "Yes We Did!" translations, but we'll have to do that after November 4.
If you want to see the updated translations, here's the link --
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/kevinvincent/CjTS
I have been so proud to be part of this amazing movement for Change and Hope. And like you, I can't wait to see Barack in the White House.
Thank you so much for everything you all have done for the past two years, and for everything else I know you will do during the next three days, to make this dream for all of us come true. We still have much work to do, but I know that --
Yes We Can!
Yes We Will!
Kevin Vincent, Coordinator
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Join us for a "once in a lifetime" party to support Barack Obama and encourage others to vote. Lets make history together.
Please forward to family and friends. Savoy Lounge has open it's doors to celebrate 2 important events:
Barack Obama Party on Saturday night November 1st @ 9:00 pm
and a live election result Viewing Party on
Tuesday November 4th @ 8:00 pm.
Lets laugh, cry, and make history!!
Lets Complete Dr. Martin Luther King's Dream"Where people are judged by the content of there character and not the color of their skin.
"PLEASE FORWARD, VERY IMPORTANT TO SHOW UNITY ON THESE LAST DAYS BEFORE VOTING
Directions From Downtown Atlanta:
Travel 75/85 south, take exit 243, Merge 166 West, travel 5 miles. Exit Campbelton Rd, merge right. Savoy is 2997 Campbelton Rd on the right.
I voted yesterday...
for Barack Obama & Joe Biden!
and ...
in so doing, made myself proud ...
of myself ...
of them ...
and of my country.
After casting my absentee ballot in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, the home of the University of Alabama and its No. 2 ranked Crimson Tide football team, the program long headed by Paul "Bear" Bryant and now under the able stewardship of Nick Sabin, I reflected upon the moment
... where I am
... and where we as citizens of the greatest nation on Earth are ... at this precipitous moment in time.
I feel so proud that we, as a nation, have finally progressed to the point where an African-American can realistically be elected President in the next 11 days ...
and where the electorate has finally realized again that we are one, that we are all in this together ... and must work together to survive and prosper ... as we (well, for most of us) once did ...
back in the glory days when hard work was its own reward and neighbors were friends ... and when we extended a hand to those who needed it ... where important values of honesty, love for our fellow man, character, strength of purpose, and lack of greed were passed down from generation to generation ...
before the day of "trickle-down" economics which allowed unregulated greed to appear legitimate and even noble in purpose... after all, if some of us got rich enough, some of it would eventually trickle down to the lower classes ... and wasn't that good enough?
Those "glory days" were not all good, though ... were they?
Prejudice, the state of judging without or before knowledge, was rampant. Discrimination on the basis of skin color, national origin, race, religion, age & sex was almost universally practiced, no where more true than in my home states of Georgia and Alabama.
We have come a long way in these matters. It looks like racial and sexual discrimination are finally on their last legs, that only the hardcore bigots and their misguided progeny (those that refuse to honestly and intelligently, much less spiritually or religiously, confront the issue) are left.
There is now hope that we as a nation can finally rid ourselves, our common destiny, from such unneeded and unhealthy baggage and move on together to face the genuine, critical issues of life in the 21st Century.
No, Obama's election is not required for this to happen. His campaign has forced America to confront the ugly issue of racial prejudice ... and America ... as a country ... has repudiated racism ... whether he prevails ... or not.
For this, all of us owe him a great debt.
As we do our forebears ... the members of the Underground Railway, Frederick Douglas, Martin Luther King, Jr., the Mississippi Freedom Riders, the marchers in Selma, those who withstood the blast of fire hoses in Birmingham to protest discrimination based on skin color, Rosa Parks, Senator John Lewis ... and many, many more who gave of themselves to advance the cause of civil rights ... for all of us.
And to Paul "Bear" Bryant, who integrated the football rosters of the University of Alabama and the Southeastern Conference, in a state governed by the racist bigot, George Wallace, by showing white Alabamians that we needed all of us to participate together if we were to continue to be able to compete with the likes of Southern Cal and other national football powers.
I grew up in southwestern Georgia, Moultrie & Albany were the towns, and in northern Alabama and ... thus ... was culturally bound to be the racist I became. I wasn't allowed to use the "N" word; instead I was taught by my "progressive" parents to refer to blacks as "colored". I held most of the usual racial stereotypes ... especially when it came to black females.
But, and I do mean "buttttt"; we, as members of the upper-middle class, had "maids" and "yardmen" and I came to know and to love Clementine, our housemaid for some 10 years and her husband, Andrew (I did not learn their last names until much later in life ... after both had died).
These were not inferior people. They taught me love, tolerance, patience and how to survive despite unpopular characteristics and beliefs. They, with all they had to endure, were remarkable Americans!
So, I ate in the car with Clem when we traveled to Florida on vacations while my parents dined inside in air-conditioned comfort. And I shook my young head in disgust at the farmers with their pick-ass handles who gathered on the street across from the Albany jail as Martin Luther King, Jr. led the Children's March in my hometown.
And ... when George Wallace (after making his infamous "Stand in the School House Door" at the university I would later attend) was shaking hands with everyone in the barbershop of the Stafford Hotel except the "shine boy", an elderly black man who greeted Wallace with extended hand and the gracious words, "Welcome, Gov'nor.", I refused to shake the hand of the governor of my state, much to the distress and embarrassment of my father ... who later told me that he completely understood my refusal....
And so, because of my life experiences I learned better and overcame the manacles and blinders of my upbringing and environment. I think we as a country have also, to a large degree, done just that. I am proud of myself, a former racist, for shedding tears of joy for being able to cast my vote for Barack Obama, who in 11 days will become the first African-American President of the greatest nation of earth! And, I am proud of Barack for the way he has made his case. And, I am proud of America for making it happen!
I am at peace... ....
Yes, I am!
I have seen the mountain top ... I am ready to move on now.
Have you?
Are you?
One love,
clint
* This blog is an abridged version, without graphics & videos, of the one I posted to my myspace page at:
Click Here!
Read the full version and several more there ....
I just made 25 calls to Florida with the Neighbor to Neighbor applicaiton. It's easy and I'm sure it will help build momentum for Obama.
Make some calls!
How long was it before they started calling it The Great Depression?When the people were standing on the edge of it, or when they were a few months or years into it, did they look around and think "We are about to enter the Great Depression?"How long was it before they called it the 7 Years War? What about WWII? When disasters are on the horizon, rushing onto us like a hurricane onto a coast, how long until you give it a name, you know what it is, or know what it was?What are they going to call this?I have an overwhelming feeling that we, right now, at this exact moment, are on the edge of something big. There is a great shift happening right under us and around us and I wonder if they'll look back on this day or this year or these 8 years and ask themselves, "Did they see it coming? How could they not see it coming?"We are on the verge of completely consuming our natural resources where we're talking in decades and not in centuries. We possess less than 5% of the global population and yet we use over 25% of every natural resource that our planet provides. The climate change is creating the most severe weather across the planet that we have seen, and the air in our lungs turn to smoke while Polar Bears die homeless. The foreclosure rates in our country climb as families end up on the streets, and more and more moms and dad walk home with their head in their hands without jobs that they planned to retire with. The largest mortgage financing and insurance companies are dropping off Wall Street's Marquees like dried bugs from spider's webs. The President of the United States is begging for help. We are borrowing 20% of every dollar we spend from other countries who are bigger and smarter than us and our national debt reached 9 Trillion this month. We have spent 7 years across the world fighting[losing] a war that was poorly planned, poorly executed, and poorly intended. Our losses have topped 3000 lives, and God only knows how many Iraqis we have killed. Iraqi children have mother and fathers just as our children here do, and do not mourn them one second less than you mourn ours.What is happening to my country?As I watched the Presidential Address late last night, all I could hear from President Bush was "Oh God. Oh God. Oh God. What have we done? What have I done? What are we going to do? "We are failing. The country with streets made of gold, with the greatest opportunities for success and changing lives, with our beautiful green lady who stands on our coastline and welcomes all who have no where else to go, I can hear her turning her head and her lowering her torch and begging forgiveness from her huddled masses as she trudges through the dirty bay water where she will surely crumble.All this time we've been afraid of 1984 or Farenheight 451. We have feared mind control, censorship, discrimination and thoughtcrime. But have we been afraid of the wrong sort of dystopias? I think it's time to realize that the real world problems are far worse than the worlds that Orwell and Bradbury imagined. At least the ThoughtPolice had jobs.I can not shake the foreboding cloud that I feel is upon us. I thought that one day my children would ask "Mom, weren't you in college when the first black president was elected?"But now..."Mom, how old were you during the Great Disaster of 2008?""Where were you when China bought Montana?""Mommy, when did you move to France from America?""A long time ago, sweetheart. When it was a very, very different place."Avant il est mort....
--Genevieve
P.S. my next post/video post will be more about this, but also how I believe McCain is going to make it so much worse. Tuune In next week folks...
So I just recently became the chairman of the fundraising/event planning committee for The University of Alabama for Obama group. I'm so excited, and I'm trying really hard to do all the research I need to have a base of knowlege ready when I get asked about Obama's plans and McCain's. I'm not getting very far.
I have read through Obama's "Blueprint For Change" and taken endless notes, while simultaneously sifting through his voting records and reading what felt like endless legislation on healthcare, economics, tax reform, and the war. The programs sound great and I get inspired just reading them, but I wanted to give McCain a fair chance too. I can't go into this completely biased, or I won't be able to be taken seriously. I also can't only research Obama because then I have no comparisons to make. So, i sought out to find McCain's plans for these issues and how the were similar/different from Obama's.
Then, I realized, I couldn't.
Obama's propositions for healthcare reform are long and detailed, almost too much to read and understand, but he has outlined programs, exact plans he wants to start or support, and fiscal reports of what money goes where. It's 2 1/2 pages long. McCain's plan? 5 paragraphs and a bulleted list:
That all sounds great, it really does, and those are all ideas I could get behind. But, how? I like that you want to modernize labor laws, but how? You want to make healthcare portable, how? These are good ideas, but everyone has great ideas until they try to enact them and it doesn't always work. Obama wants to provide incentives for employers, create programs and subsidies to make it affordable and profitable to provide more jobs and better benefits. He wants to provide new jobs through a Green Energy Program, and youth programs to educate and provide ready-made careers when students leave, he wants to protext striking workers, protect rights to unionize, address predatory lenders, the list goes on and on.But it is very difficult to compare two plans when one of them is full of numbers and plans, and another is just a vague list.
I'm really trying to not be biased, but is it still bias if one person has ideas, and one person has nothing? If someone asks me the differences between Obama's labor/healthcare plans and McCain's, my honest answer would be "I don't know."
I am so very afraid of what will happen to my country if McCain takes this election. I love my country powerfully, and I crave a leader with strong ideas, motivation, and concrete goals. I fear that my fellow citizens, out of fear mongered by news media, ignorance of truth, and laziness that prevents them from doing adequate research, will vote someone into office that will start another 4 years of unfulfilled promises, catastrophic decisions, and leading our country down further into the hole of desperateness that we find ourselves in. I pray every day that we will have the strength, the motivation, and the aptitude to make the right decision.
Please, America, I'm begging you to save yourself.
Hi All,
Remember, there is a rally this Tuesday at 6pm on the steps of Gorgas Library. The press will be there... let's get a good group going!
If you're on facebook, please RSVP to the event:
http://www.facebook.com/posted.php?id=27431054&success#/event.php?eid=26450673598&ref=nf
Cheers,
Kate
It's been an incredible week!
Since Monday, we've managed to write a constitution, fill key positions, and increase our club membership by 50 supporters! And now that we're officially recognized by the university, we can host various events on campus, as well as rent tables, rooms, and receive funding. We're well on our way to making a major presence.
Now it's your turn. Be sure to swing by the steps of Gorgas library next Tuesday night at 6:00p.m. Wear some blue and white for our picture (to be sent to the Crimson White)! There, we'll organize 5 committees focusing on phone banking, community outreach, voter registration, media, and fundraising/event planning. Start thinking which club you'd like to join, and also, if you'd like to chair one of these committees.
Barack and Biden need us now more than ever.
We'll see you on Tuesday night at 6:00p.m.
-BJ
President (not of the United States, just this organization)
I'm excited about the new Obama energy coursing through the Alabama campus! However, I'm also hoping to get more organized in the coming weeks. It seems there are several different groups, each working for Obama, which is wonderful; but we are much less visible as a unit than the UA Republican groups, who at this point clearly feel secure and dominant. Just look at the Crimson White; we see headlines like "Students Rally Around the Maverick," on the one hand, and on the other, "Student Joins Obama Campaign." The vibe on campus is that McCain is the popular, school-endorsed candidate while Obama supporters are isolated and on the fringe.
It's not true! I see just as many Obama bumper stickers as ones in favor of McCain. In fact, I see more anti-Obama stickers than McCain stickers. Despite the GOP's efforts to manipulate the media and pop-culture, and to obscure the real issues by emphasizing a certain "image," Obama is very present in Alabama. Let's show that the people who support him are very present as well.
There are several events coming up, for raising both money and awareness. Keep your eyes peeled, and recruit your friends to this group. Let's make some noise.
I'm sure you've seen a lot of negative smears and lies about Obama on the internet and other media outlets. Let's work together to overwhelm these lies with truth and drown out the divisions with HOPE!
People all over the country are writing one blog post per week about Obama for the next 10 weeks. We have 55+ bloggers in 25 states, but we're missing ALABAMA!!We want to include bloggers in all 50 states, so we can't do it without you!!
It would be great to get people who live in so-called "red states" involved with this project, since you may be most in need of Operation HOPE!.
If you're new to blogging, I can get you set up with you own blog in less than 5 minutes! so why not? Join Operation HOPE! One of the greatest things about Obama's campaign is the way that people whose voices have previously been silent are listened to and respected. Lots of folks have set up their first blog just to participate in this event, so we'd love to have you!!
If you are already an active blogger, it doesn't take any extra effort. and your blog will probably get more traffic, since I'll be linking all the bloggers and promoting the event.
Please check out the event details and sign up if you're interested in blogging for Obama: http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/444wt I am coordinating the bloggers (with an interactive map and links to all the active bloggers doing 10 posts in 10 weeks) on my "Crush on Obama" blog at: http://rubycrushonobama.blogspot.com Hope to see you in the blogosphere! -Ruby
