Found this on the Obama Facebook group.
THE MEDIA HAS BEEN REPORTING ON THE LACKLUSTER YOUTH VOTE TURN-OUT.....THEY JUST DONT KNOW.....YOU ARE THE SECREAT WEAPON. YOU ARE THE KEY THAT WILL BRING IT HOME.
THE YOUTH OF AMERICA WILL BE FOREVER CALLED GENERATION"O"
YOUR VOTE IS GOING TO MAKE THE DIFFERENCE. YOU ARE THE GENERATION THAT WILL FIND CURES AND PROMOTE SOCIAL JUSTICE. YOU ARE THE GENERATION THAT WILL END WORLD HUNGER.
YOU ARE THE HOPE FOR OUR FUTURE. I CAN FEEL IT IN MY BONES.
GET OUT THE YOUTH VOTE. PROVE THE MEDIA WRONG AGAIN! CAMPUSES AROUND THE COUNTRY MAKE YOUR VOTE COUNT. YOU ARE THE FUTURE. YOU CAN CHANGE THE WORLD.
GENERATION OBAMA.
DONT JUST VOTE. VOLUNTEER ON ELECTION DAY. CALL YOUR OBAMA OFFICE OR DEMOCRATIC PARTY OFFICE FOR YOUR STATE. WE NEED POLL GREETERS AT EVERY VOTING LOCATION ON ELECTION DAY. GET YOUR LAPTOPS AND HEAD TO THE POLLS. YOU MAY ASSIST VOTERS IN LOCATING THEIR CORRECT VOTING STATIONS BY PROVIDING INFORMATION VIA YOUR LAPTOP. THE ONLY RULE IS TO BE 100 FEET FROM THE VOTING ENTRANCE MARKER.
18-35 YOUTH VOTE. IT IS ALL UP TO YOU. YOU WILL DETERMINE THE OUTCOME THIS ELECTION.
VOTE PROUD. VOTE OBAMA!
"This is a 51/49 country, not a 60/40 country... If you want to elect Barack Obama, go to Florida, go to Ohio. Go to the battleground states."
Obama supporters are more confident now than at any time this year. (Who even remembers the depressing days right after Sen. McCain chose Gov. Palin?) The media echo chamber is largely reinforcing this confidence, just as they have in months past. The powerful endorsement by Colin Powell today on Meet the Press will likely dominate press coverage for a day or two, with only two weeks and two days left to election day. That is huge.
But we should keep our eye on the ball! Lets focus our attention on the battleground states, because if Obama wins only one of these, we likely win the whole ballgame: Florida, Colorado, Ohio. And the single thing that will tip the balance is a significant move by older voters, particularly in places like Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio.
The Great Schlep
Sarah Silverman gives a funny take on our mission: go to your grandparents, your parents, your friends and family in these toss-up states, and make sure they are on board. It would be great to win North Carolina or Virginia, but it is essential that we will our share of toss-ups.
Fair warning: this humorous video does contain expletives.
http://www.thegreatschlep.com/
Conservatives sing the praises of Barack Obama
"I sense in this guy a first-class mind who might just do smart things." --Christopher Buckley
"Barack Obama is the sharpest knife in the [Democratic] drawer." --Rush Limbaugh
Colin Powell is now endorsing Barack Obama on Meet the Press.
"I have gone back and forth between someone I have the highest regard for, John McCain, and someone I have been getting to know, Barack Obama." Both candidates would be good presidents.
However, Barack Obama displays "intellectual vigor, intellectual curiosity", and he is surrounding himself with people that will give him the advice that he needs. "I think he is a transformational figure... I will be voting for him."
While Powell continues to love and admire John McCain, who he has known for more than 20 years, he is very concerned about the rightward direction of the Republican Party. "We must stop polarizing our country. John McCain is an non-polarizing as anyone I know, but there is a polarizing element in the Republican Party." The effort by the McCain campaign to tie Obama to terrorism (via his relationship to Bill Ayers) is a "terrible stretch, its demogogary" and its further evidence that the McCain campaign has been "narrow, ... too narrow for America."
Powell tells a compelling story about a young man who was 14 at the time of 9-11. This young man was born in New Jersey, and waited until he was of age to join the military and serve his country. That young man was killed in combat, and is buried in Arlington Cemetary. His gravestone has the star and crecent of his Muslim faith, just as others there have a cross or a Star of David. The McCain campaign effort to tar Obama as Muslim (despite the fact that it is not true) insults the memory of this young man, and the millions of American Muslims who should be able to aspire to serve this country, and yes to become President of the United States.
Barack Obama will electrify this country, and the world. He has established himself as the right candidate. At this point in history, we need a president who will be transformational, a generational change. That is Barack Obama.
Last year I walked into a doctor's office, I had high blood pressure. I could feel it creeping up on me. My head hurt, I felt strained by everything around me. Work was hard, I was living paycheck to paycheck, and I had a family to take care of. I was worried about my future, the future of my kids, how I was just going to make it to the next day. The doctor told me about a great new medicine, it was new and unregulated, still very new to the market. He assured me that I would be able to pay for the medicine, that everything was going to be OK. He was the expert so I listened to what he said. Turns out I wasn't as well covered as the doctor said. Within a short time I started getting outrageous bills. I wanted to stop the drugs but stopping too fast was impossible. I had to stay on the drugs through the regimen, and somehow squeak by, or the ramifications would be disastrous. Turns out I could have been helped by something simpler. If the doctor hadn't given me more than I needed then I would have been fine. If he had acted as a trustworthy expert instead of someone skimming the extra money off the top I would have been fine.
Are you paying attention? Angry? I am. The above story is our mortgage crisis in a nutshell. If you are a hard worker and walk into an office to see if your life savings will put you in a home you trust the person on the other side of the table to do the right thing. Why would someone put your life and livelihood at risk? Who would do that sort of thing?
John McCain says he wanted to stop the crisis by taking credit for Chuck Hagel's bill from 2005. A bill he waited 16 months before signing onto. Another erratic example of last minute grandstanding by Mr. McCain. John McCain is trying to take credit full credit for something he gave a speech about. Mr. McCain “never took on the role that some other Republicans did” to try to limit the companies, said a former Freddie Mac executive who later lobbied for the company until its failure. This is classic McCain, suspending everything to give a speech, on something he didn't real want, for political purposes.
If someone walked into a doctor's office and came out with more than they needed, putting their life, the future of their family, and their financial future at risk only so the doctor could make a few extra bucks no one would blame the patient. Working and middle-class people walked into lender's offices with no more knowledge than a patient in a doctor's office and John McCain just doesn't care. If John McCain cared he wouldn't have helped foreclosure Phil rip down the barriers between our financial institutions so that one sector of the economy failing brought everything down like a house of cards. McCain is the loyal foot soldier in the army of deregulation. "If McCain gets in," frets Lynn Turner, a former chief sec accountant, "we'll have more of the same deregulatory mess. I like John McCain, but given what I know about Phil Gramm, I wouldn't vote for McCain." If John McCain really cared about Chuck Hagel's bill then why didn't he back it in 2007 when it came back up? If it wasn't just more political grandstanding then why didn't he co-sponsor that bill? I'll tell you why, because there wasn't a news story that week, unlike in 2005, so John McCain had better things to do than sign on to a bill that he now says was so important. No big speech, no big story, so John McCain was busy taking care of John McCain.
** On a personal note I'm fine. I actually had a good doctor who told me to eat better and walk more. I dropped 20 lbs and lived to see my brother come back from a war. But I might not have been so lucky, but its OK after all John McCain says less regulation is the answer.
Doctors paid millions by Amgen and Johnson & Johnson to push anemia drugs
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/7/4507/89013/778/621636
After the debate I thought a lot about experience. What type of experience is John McCain's Experience? Big government experience. What does the experience that John McCain values say about the rest of America? Most of us have never walked the halls of power in Washington DC and certainly the number of us walking those halls for a quarter of a century is even smaller. We have never traveled to Iraq, or Afghanistan, most of us have spent our entire lives right here in our America. We have gone to school, worried about bills, gone to church and gone to work. It is not John McCain's experience but it is an experience that I think matters. It is an experience outside of big government.
Since 1982 McCain has been part of big government. In that time his experience in deregulation has given him high marks from big business. Indeed this year he claimed the mantle of the, "conservative leader." His words not mine. His record has earned him low ratings in education, civil liberties, workers and women's issues. His experience earned him a D with the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America and his work for our fighting men and women earned him a score of 20 percent from the Disabled American Veterans. I guess they didn't think that John McCain valued their experience either.
As our infrastructure is collapsing and we find ourselves needing to shake the burden of foreign oil John McCain's experience has given him poor marks in transportation and alternative energy. He says he is for solar and wind but he failed to show up not once, but twice, when he could have cast the deciding vote to save the children of America from petro-dictators and the people who just don't like us very much.
With his long, long, long record of being such a maverick, I had hoped for better from John McCain. After all since 1999, when the votes were close, his not voting handed decisive potential victories to the Democrats not once but twice. I mean that is almost equal to the three times his yeas handed victory to the Republicans. With such bipartisan absenteeism how could anyone doubt his ability to reach across party lines and stand up to corrupt Republicans. To be fair the same site does say that McCain helped the democrats 4 times in 9 years and the Republicans 14.
I don't doubt McCain's experience. I just don't think he cares about what average Americans are experiencing.
The straight lie express just keeps on rolling.
McCain doesn’t know what his own committee does
"In fact, it is the Senate Banking Committee that has oversight of “banks, banking and financial institutions; control of prices of commodities, rents and services; federal monetary policy, including the Federal Reserve System; financial aid to commerce and industry and money and credit, including currency and coinage.”
According to its Web site, the Commerce Committee oversees 13 areas, beginning with the Coast Guard, and continuing through “regulation of consumer products and services … except for credit, financial services, and housing” — the very areas now in crisis."
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/16/mccain-commerce-committee/
This Saturday evening, September 20th, near downtown Colorado Springs Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico will be a featured guest and speaker for a National Finance Committee Fund Raiser at a friend's home. They are looking to have 200 to 250 guests who will be offered wine and hors d'ouevres and lively conversation with one of our nation's true movers and shakers.
If you are interested you need to email me at bobsue_nemanich@msn.com and I will send you a PDF invitation for the event. It is a fund raiser and they are looking for $500 per person or sponsors of high levels.
Also if you are interested I have restarted my blog by some popular demand at: http://obamaguy.blogspot.com/, have some fun reading it.
Bob Nemanich
My great grandfather was a laborer. I have often thought of his political leanings and wondered how much of him has fallen through time to myself. If you are from Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, etc. you know the value of labor. You remember the heady days. You remember our brothers and sisters in the steel mills, the auto plants. You hold your own with our disenfranchised brethren in the closed paper mills of North Carolina. You remember the idea of a hard days work for an honest day's pay. We know what it means to pray, work and bleed for a better future. We must seize upon that and draw the attention of our brothers and sisters to the contempt the Republican candidate holds for the American worker. He says we can't do it and is arrogant enough to call us "my friend." Remember the hard working men and women who actually built America instead of selling it off and let America know what McCain really thinks of them and that he holds their greatness in contempt. What McCain thinks of American workers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWOZKeOauNI
Some might say that the statement McCain pays to send jobs overseas is a distortion but I wouldn't. Giving companies that send jobs overseas a subsidy to do so puts companies that keep jobs here at a disadvantage. His vote put the money in their pockets. McCain says he is for the American worker and that cutting the burden on corporations will create more American jobs. Is this one of the burdens he is talking about? The burden of employing American citizens? He's John McCain and his vote approved this message!
http://www.ontheissues.org/SenateVote/Party_2005-63.htm
By the way the Senate was controlled by the Republicans at the time. So much for standing up to handouts and corruption in his own party. I guess its not pork if it goes to companies and not to American people and/or towns.
This new music video from Dave Stewart (formerly of the Eurythmics) will blow you away!
"American Prayer"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVi4rUzf-0Q
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