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Yes We Can Michiana!

The eyes of the nation were upon St Joseph county in May and we responded. The Wall Street Journal said that the Obama win in South Bend was the symbolic end of the race. There is still much work to do. Yes we can Michiana is a local group that works hand in hand with the Obama campaign to get the Senator to the White House. We have regular meetings at West Side Democratic Club. Once you join the group you will receive emails keeping you up to date about all our events.

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To all of my Brothers and Sisters

By Jesse "Hussein" Cao - Apr 13th, 2009 at 6:19 pm EDT

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To all of my Brothers and Sisters, we Democrats made history when we elected our Loving Leader President Barrack Obama and today he made history by allowing Americans to make unlimited transfers of money and visits to relatives in Cuba as well as easing other restrictions. Ushering in a new era of openness toward the island nation ruled by communists for 50 years, and there is more to come.

Thank you all so much for making history and bringing peace and love not only to the USA but to the world.
I'm a Democrat for life and proud of it. YES WE CAN, YES WE WILL turn thing around for the better of all, not just the few.
OBAMA , CLINTON'S , CARTERS, KENNEDY'S .
My saying during the campaign was if Mr. W made you feel blue you better vote for BLUE to keep it true. Love & Peace to all. Jesse

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090413/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_cuba

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Volunteers for Change is a national group to assist the Obama Presidency with issues that need our grassroots support.

By Pamela Warren - Nov 20th, 2008 at 6:08 am EST

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Volunteers for Change is a national group to assist the Obama Presidency with issues that need our grassroots support.

Our first campaign is for the collection of food, time line November 20, 2008 until December 31, 2008. With unemployment rising, and more and more of our food bank pantries empty we want to answer Obama's call to be our brother's keeper and fill our food banks for the winter ahead.

Summary of Plans from meeting of November 19, 2008: Volunteers for Change

Action:

1. Tomorrow, Thursday, November 20, 2008, Rosemary Hart, Pam Warren and Rob Price will go to Hoosier Hills Food Bank at 9:30am to talk with Julio and determine the best way for our volunteers to work with them.

a. Report will be sent to all our volunteers with a plan of action

b. Pam and Rosemary will go to the city and get information on the letter that they sent which needs follow up calls made. We will request a sign up table for Volunteers for Change at the event this Saturday at Showers.

2. Attend Saturday, November 22, 2008 event on hunger at Showers Plaza

1. Set up table with materials, Pam and volunteer
2. Sign up Volunteers for Change, All Volunteers will attend

3. Weekly Meeting at 1329 South High Street, Rob and Mary’s house.

Organization:

1. Jeff Thomas will activate the Team Leaders

a. Jeanette Heidewald will work on scripts for phone banking

2. David Pace will do Publicity

3. Mary Runnell took our minuets this week, but we need a formal secretary

4. Set Up Group on mybo, post actions and blogs

Materials:

1. Product for the Volunteers

a. Rob will make a sheet of button prints and work on the design tonight, intended to say "Volunteers For Change"

b. Button Teams Kelley Latshaw and Terri Bleuel will begin making Buttons

c. Bumper Stickers for change “Volunteers for Change”

2. Sign up Sheets for Volunteers with our logo, Rob Price

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Host a Debate Watch Party

By Indiana from Indianapolis, IN - Oct 11th, 2008 at 3:45 pm EDT

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The final presidential debate is this Wednesday, October 15th, at 9:00 p.m. Eastern.

It's the last chance for undecided voters to see Barack and John McCain side-by-side and determine who will bring the change this country needs.

You can make the most of this opportunity by bringing your friends, family, and fellow supporters together to watch.

Sign up to host a Debate Watch Party. We'll make sure you have everything you need to make the event a success.

If you've hosted an event before, you know how powerful they can be to help grow our movement. If you haven't, it's a terrific way to show your support, and we'll be with you every step of the way to help.

We're having a special conference call for Debate Watch Party hosts next week. We'll give you ideas for how to get your guests involved in the rest of the campaign.

In these final weeks, each of us needs to do whatever we can to keep growing our movement and encourage undecided voters to cast their vote for change.

Sign up to host a Debate Watch Party now:

http://my.barackobama.com/debate-watch-party

Thanks,

Jon

Jon Carson
National Field Director
Obama for America

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Against Violence

By new day 4 us - Oct 11th, 2008 at 11:53 am EDT

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I have written a letter to Congressman Donnelly (D) 2nd District - IN requesting him to take leadership in denouncing the behavior and attacks against Sen. Obama. Please do the same with your local congresspeople and Senators. This type of behavior is unacceptable and should be stopped as soon as possible. God only knows what some of the radical right wingers think and could take action into their own hands.

Thanks, Diana

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/11/105642/20/61/627446

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John McCain is out-of-touch with the economic realities Americans face

By Christopher Salyer--Hoosier Team Coordinator - Sep 27th, 2008 at 11:22 am EDT

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I just submitted this as a letter to the editor of the Elkhart Truth (Elkhart, IN) and the South Bend Tribune (South Bend, IN)

     Republican presidential nominee John McCain is hopelessly out-of-touch with the economic realities Americans face. Despite the GOP’s claims of a “biased liberal media,” the media has been ignoring McCain’s flawed grasp of economics for too long.

     Senator McCain thinks that “the fundamentals of our economy are strong,” but for who? With the gas prices rising and a mortgage crisis taking people’s houses, just who is he talking about? The McCain campaign is offering more of the same economic policies we’ve seen from President Bush for the last eight years - he thinks Big Oil needs more tax breaks but middle-class families don’t.
     Barack Obama will put the middle class first. He will pass a middle class tax cut that gives 95 percent of working Americans a tax cut of up to $1,000, and he’ll give families an emergency energy rebate to help us cope with rising gas prices. He will offer students a $4,000 tax break to pay for college tuition in exchange for 100 hours of community service. And he will raise the minimum wage and index it to inflation.

     That’s change we really can believe in.

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Sixth Grade Politics

By Elizabeth - Sep 10th, 2008 at 11:29 pm EDT

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My brother, a sixth grader at the local public school, came over to my house this afternoon. "Everybody at school says that Barack Obama is going to raise taxes," he said, as if he was trying to ask me a question. I was shocked and annoyed. "That's simply not true," I replied. "He's going to cut taxes for 98% of Americans, starting with the poorest, which is more than John McCain is going to do."

David then asked me for proof that this was true so he could show his friends. I then wasn't sure where to go. There is so much garbage and mistruth circulating about what Barack Obama is or isn't going to do that I had to think what the most reliable source would be. In the end, I went to Obama's campaign website and looked up the tax relief plan he outlines there. Not only is he going to provide tax relief for 150 million people and eliminate taxes for the seniors who make under $50,000 a year; he is going to cut down beaurocracy so that I can file my taxes myself in two minutes or less, and save $2 billion doing so! (Just one of the many examples I have found to show me that Obama is thorough, thoughtful and, smart.)

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Weekend of Action--Celebrate Labor Day Weekend with Us

By Merici Vinton ~North Carolina HQ - Aug 29th, 2008 at 8:17 pm EDT

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It’s time to get to work, North Carolina!

To cap off an incredible week, launch the general election and celebrate Labor Day—we need to come together to register new voters across North Carolina this weekend. The North Carolina Campaign for Change and Barack’s supporters are hitting the streets (road, path, beach) this weekend to bring new people into the process. Weekend of Action events will be taking place all over the state tomorrow and Sunday—with almost 100 events, there is bound to be one near you.

So, let’s roll up our sleeves and meet register new voters this holiday weekend. Find a Weekend of Action event near you. Or, if you are on vacation and would still like to do something to help Barack, write a letter to the editor and tell others why you are supporting Barack.

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President Bush to redefine abortion

By Christopher Salyer--Hoosier Team Coordinator - Aug 13th, 2008 at 10:42 pm EDT

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The Bush administration has consistently opposed providing funding for international birth control programs, but until now has not tried to limit the use of contraceptives inside the United States.

That could change in the president's final months in office. Health and Human Services officials are considering a draft regulation that would classify most birth control pills, the Plan B emergency contraceptive and intrauterine devices as forms of abortion because they prevent the development of fertilized eggs into fetuses.

The rule, which does not require congressional approval, would allow health care workers who object to abortion on moral or religious grounds to refuse to counsel women on their birth control options or supply contraceptives. It would forbid more than half a million health agencies nationwide that receive federal funds from requiring employees to provide such services. Pharmacists could use the rule as a justification for refusing to fill birth control prescriptions, and insurance companies could cite it as a basis for declining to cover the costs.

An existing regulation allows health care providers with objections to abortion to abstain from providing it to patients. By extending the definition of abortion to cover contraceptives, federal officials are attempting to create by administrative fiat what would fail by a wide margin in Congress.

In fact, the draft rule could void laws in 27 states that require insurance companies to provide birth control coverage for women requesting it. The rule also could counter laws in 14 states requiring that rape victims receive counseling and access to emergency, day-after contraceptives. It would also require federal agencies and states to provide funds for sham family planning clinics that provide women only abstinence counseling.

The enactment of such rules would have an immediate impact in Southeast Texas, where state health officials estimate more than half a million women are in need of affordable family planning services. Rochelle Tafolla, a spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood of Houston and Southeast Texas Inc., warns that enactment of the regulation would endanger women's health.

According to Tafolla, "In a time when more and more families are uninsured and feeling the financial strain of a bad economy, it's pretty incredible that the Bush administration is actually trying to put up roadblocks for women trying to access basic health care." Planned Parenthood strongly opposes the proposed rule "and will be fighting to preserve women's access to health care information."

Planned Parenthood is not alone in its opposition. The American Medical Association, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and a bipartisan group of 112 members of Congress have weighed in against the draft regulation.

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has signed a letter of protest written by a group of U.S. senators. (Republican candidate John McCain has not taken a position.)

Health and Human Services officials issued a statement claiming the regulation would not alter existing rules and is simply designed to protect health care workers from discrimination based on their views of certain medical procedures. That ignores the fact that defining some forms of contraception as abortion is a radical departure from the status quo.

As with a spate of administrative regulations undermining environmental enforcement that the administration has pushed as its time in office grows short, this one is a payoff to social conservatives who oppose abortion and contraception. Since polls show that an overwhelming percentage of the American people support birth control, such backdoor tactics are the only way such restrictions could be considered, let alone enacted.

Justifying these draft rules as an anti-discrimination measure would be laughable, if it weren't so undemocratic and dangerous to American women. If HHS Secretary Michael Leavitt is irresponsible enough to approve the regulation, Congress and the next president should make sure it is short-lived.

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Good reading book??

By MarkkraM - Aug 12th, 2008 at 11:28 pm EDT

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I saw this author on c-span book tour this weekend and thought this book might be good reading for us Obama supporters.

http://www.amazon.com/Obamanomics-Bottom-Up-Prosperity-Trickle-Down-Economics/dp/1583228659

There is also a few other books out there that are negative towards Obama, I don't want to waste my cash on them, but I hope someone reads and critiques them.

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Starve The Beast

By new day 4 us - Aug 10th, 2008 at 2:15 am EDT

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Great article re: Fox News and their propganda

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/9/214910/3796/923/565556

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Barack Obama's Experience

By Christopher Salyer--Hoosier Team Coordinator - Aug 9th, 2008 at 11:53 pm EDT

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Barack Obama's experienceToday at 11:52pmDoes Barack Obama have enough experience to be president?
Newt Gingrich, commenting on Obama's experience: "Well, Abraham Lincoln served two years in the U.S.House, and seemed to do all right." (Meet The Press 12/17)

Following George W. Bush, who only served six years as the Governor of Texas before his presidency and hasn't been that well-received, to put it lightly, the American people should make sure they vote for a qualified candidate. And in their never ending coverage of Obama, the American media loves to repeat the "experience question." Barack, a political unknown until his Democratic National Convention Speech in 2004, has been portrayed as "green", the implication being that if he's elected president, he would somehow not be ready to handle the task of the presidency, or at least not as well as his political opponents.

He has ten years experience in public office, more than the two other leading Democratic candidates, Hillary Clinton (six-plus years as Senator from New York) and John Edwards (six years as Senator from North Carolina). Barack's first eight years spent in the Illinois senate before his two years (and counting) of service in the U.S. Senate, should not be forgotten. Far away from the Washington spotlight, he introduced, voted on and passed bills, debated with his colleagues—something that was missing in Washington, where everything is settled in the backroom—and arduously worked to satisfy his constituents. Most important of all, he learned that how to work across the aisle, and get stuff done.
"When you come in, especially as a freshman, and work on something like ethics reform, it's not necessarily a way to endear yourself to some of the veteran members of the Illinois General Assembly," said state Sen. Kirk W. Dillard, a Republican who became a friend. "And working on issues like racial profiling was contentious, but Barack had a way both intellectually and in demeanor that defused skeptics." Washington Post

Illinois State Senate

"In the Illinois State Senate, this meant working with both Democrats and Republicans to help working families get ahead by creating programs like the state Earned Income Tax Credit, which in three years provided over $100 million in tax cuts to families across the state. He also pushed through an expansion of early childhood education, and after a number of inmates on death row were found innocent, Senator Obama worked with law enforcement officials to require the videotaping of interrogations and confessions in all capital cases."
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United States Senate

He has continued this inclusive and productive style of work in the U.S. Senate: "In the U.S. Senate, he has focused on tackling the challenges of a globalized, 21st century world with fresh thinking and a politics that no longer settles for the lowest common denominator. His first law was passed with Republican Tom Coburn, a measure to rebuild trust in government by allowing every American to go online and see how and where every dime of their tax dollars are spent. He has also been the lead voice in championing ethics reform that would root out Jack Abramoff-style corruption in Congress.

Foreign Policy

Obama's foreign policy experience includes graduating from Columbia University with a degree in political science with an emphasis on international relations. In the U.S. Senate Obama is unique among Senators in that he serves on three of the four Senate Committees dealing with foreign policy issues including the Foreign Relations; Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs; and Veterans' Affairs committees and is the Chair of the Foreign Relations Subcommittee on European Relations which is responsible fore U.S. relations with European countries, the European Union, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (i.e., NATO). When comparing Obama's foreign policy experience with other candidates for President you have Democrat Joseph Biden who is Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, Democrat Hillary Clinton who is a member of the Armed Services Committee and John McCain who is the Ranking Member of the Armed Services Committee yet there is no Senator except for Barack Obama who serves on three of the four committees that deal with foreign policy.

Foreign Relations Committee

Obama service on the Foreign Relations committee has placed him in an unique position in that he is the Chair of the Subcommittee on European Relations and serves on the Subcommittees on African Affairs; East Asia and Pacific Affairs; and International Development and Foreign Assistance, Economic Affairs, and International Environmental Protection. This cross-section of subcommittees places Obama in a unique position of having knowledge about Asian, African and European issues. The only other member of the Foreign Relations committee who is running for President is Democrat Joseph Biden who is Chairman of the full Foreign Relations Committee yet unlike Obama he does not serve on any of the other foreign policy committees and his experience is limited to foreign policy issues covered by the Foreign Relations Committee.

Obama has also traveled extensively in his capacity as a member of the Foreign Relations Committee and has visited Russia, Ukraine, and Azerbaijan in Asia; Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, and the Palestinian Territories in the Middle East; and Chad, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, and South Africa in Africa. Obama has also co-sponsored the "Lugar-Obama Act" with Republican Senator Richard Lugar who was Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations at the time. This act was a bi-partisan effort to increase U.S. security in terms of the elimination of conventional weapons and weapons of mass destruction. This legislation came out of Obama's trip with Senator Richard Lugar to Russia, the Ukraine and Azerbaijan.

Obama has also sponsored legislation such as the "Democratic Republic of Congo Relief, Security, and Democracy Promotion Act" which was signed into law by President Bush on December 22, 2006. Obama has co-sponsored immigration related bills related to his service on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee including the Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act. His extensive foreign policy experience exceeds that of every other Presidential candidate including his trips abroad in the performance of his official duties as a member of committees dealing with foreign relation issues.

While some have criticized Obama's foreign travel claiming that he is the most traveled freshman Senator in doing so they often fail to mention that as a result of his extensive trips abroad is legislation such as the Lugar-Obama Act instead preferring to make the political connection between his travels abroad to his run for President yet others will recognize the experience he has gained as a result of his foreign trips and recognize that as a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that he is expected to travel extensively and that his travels often were with the Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee.

Among the three top freshman who have received attention along with Obama in terms of foreign travel you have Barack Obama who serves on three committees dealing with foreign policy, Republican Richard Burr who serves on the Select Committee on Intelligence and Republican Tom Coburn who serves on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and it must be noted that such travel was part of an official delegation and was approved and paid for by the Senate.

Veterans' Affairs Committee

As a member of the Veterans' Affairs Committee, Senator Obama has fought to help Illinois veterans get the disability pay they were promised, while working to prepare the VA for the return of the thousands of veterans who will need care after Iraq and Afghanistan. Recognizing the terrorist threat posed by weapons of mass destruction, he traveled to Russia with Republican Dick Lugar to begin a new generation of non-proliferation efforts designed to find and secure deadly weapons around the world. And knowing the threat we face to our economy and our security from America's addiction to oil, he's working to bring auto companies, unions, farmers, businesses and politicians of both parties together to promote the greater use of alternative fuels and higher fuel standards in our cars."

Ethics
"Obama has made ethics reform a central part of his political career. Two years into his first term in the U.S. Senate, he has had limited opportunities to leave a mark at the federal level, especially as a member of the minority party. But he has worked with Republicans on new good-government laws. He co-sponsored one, signed in September, that will create a federal spending database so Web users can track all grants, loans and awards greater than $25,000. He also pushed to limit the Federal Emergency Management Agency's authority to award open-ended, no-bid contracts in the wake of major disasters — a reaction to post-Katrina abuses. More to the point, last year Senate Democrats tapped Obama as the chief negotiator for their caucus in talks over post-Abramoff ethics reforms, though those negotiations faltered. Ethics reform was one of Obama's signature issues in Springfield, as well. Beyond the Gift Ban Act, he helped push Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich's 2003 ethics reforms. The gift ban law, the first broad ethics reform in Illinois since the Watergate era, prohibited politicians from using campaign funds for personal use, barred fundraising on state property, established ethics commissions, curtailed fundraisers in Springfield during legislative sessions and mandated online reporting of campaign finances. The 2003 ethics package created independent inspectors general with subpoena powers to look into abuses by legislators, statewide officeholders and their employees. It further clamped down on the types of gifts lawmakers can receive and prohibited lobbyists and their spouses from sitting on state boards and commissions. Obama also touted publicly financed judicial campaigns, an idea that was approved by the Illinois Senate but languished in the House."

Life Experience

This experience in public office is just a taste of what makes Obama ready for the presidency. He has had a goulash of a life. He was born to white a woman from Kansas and a black man from Kenya in Hawaii, then moved to Indonesia for five years with his step-father from ages six to ten.

After returning to Hawaii for middle and high school, he went Occidental College, a liberal arts school in L.A. After a couple years at Occidental, he transferred to Columbia University, where he majored in political science with a specialization in International Relations.

After graduating, he went to work as a community organizer in Chicago. Following three years of helping some of Chicago's poorest residents recover from a steel mill closing through job training programs, he went to Harvard Law. There, he became the first black editor of the Harvard Law Review. Instead of seeking a high paying job upon graduating from Harvard, he returned to Chicago and went back to the neighborhood communities by organizing and helping to register 150,000 voters. He then began working at a civil rights firm and went on to teach constitutional law at the University of Chicago. He did all of this before his career in politics began.

His ability to understand and earn respect from political opponents while being a genuine progressive; his success in the classroom and on the street; and his unparalleled background have helped him become the intelligent, fair, and courageous leader he is today.
Before the war in Iraq in 2002, he exclaimed: "Now let me be clear: I suffer no illusions about Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal man. A ruthless man. A man who butchers his own people to secure his own power.... The world, and the Iraqi people, would be better off without him. But I also know that Saddam poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States, or to his neighbors...and that in concert with the international community he can be contained until, in the way of all petty dictators, he falls away into the dustbin of history. I know that even a successful war against Iraq will require a U.S. occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences. I know that an invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East, and encourage the worst, rather than best, impulses of the Arab world, and strengthen the recruitment arm of al-Qaeda. I am not opposed to all wars. I'm opposed to dumb wars. So for those of us who seek a more just and secure world for our children, let us send a clear message to the president."

For a short overview of his years in the Illinois State Legislature check out his wikipedia page or our building collection of transcripts from the Illinois State Senate.

Despite any charges of inexperience, Senator Obama clearly showed good judgment in assessing the Iraq situation in the fall of 2002.

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A Conversation

By swimmer - Aug 4th, 2008 at 10:18 pm EDT

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This evening I had a conversation with a friend about the election. I was donning my summer blue Obama tank that I recently purchased from the Obama store. Although this man is a friend, we have never talked politics.

So he looks at my shirt and asks, "Why Obama?" My reply, Why not?"

He then aske dme to seriously explain why I supported the Senator from our state. I told him that first of all I liked amny of the things he had accomplished while being our Senator at the state level. I further explained what he did for legal reform so innocent people are not sent to prison, health care for our children, his education interests in early childhood education and college for all interested, just to name a couple of items.

Then he asked me about rural America and farmers, which I had just read up on so gave him a great explanation and told him he could visit the website for further information on all of the issues and Barack's stance on them. We discussed women's issues from abortion to domestic abuse and fare wages. And then the real issue came about, the issue of experience. I replied that he definitely had enough experience to lead this country. I added that if McCain were to win we would be encountering an extension of the Bush era and even more hardships for America.

We talked about grassroots organizing and how Barack has been making this election different from the past. I have no idea whether or not I made an impact on him, but I did get him to say he would look at the issues section of this site. I was not shot down by any means. He is exploring his choice.

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VOTER REGISTRATIONS MISSING ? ? ?

By new day 4 us - Jul 29th, 2008 at 11:34 am EDT

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Attached is an article regarding new voter registrations that are being purged or missing - it seems to be occuring in areas where there are minorities voting. Please be aware and do whatever you can to alert authorities ( and not Republican authorties, they seem to be behind it ).

Below is the link -

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/07/purge-surge-whatever-it-takes.php

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10 things you should know about John McCain

By Christopher Salyer--Hoosier Team Coordinator - Jul 27th, 2008 at 11:41 pm EDT

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10 things to know about

For all the coverage this week of Senator John McCain's background, there are some important things you won't learn about him from the TV networks. His carefully crafted positive image relies on people not knowing this stuff—and you might be surprised by some of it.

10 things you should know about John McCain (but probably don't):

1. John McCain voted against establishing a national holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Now he says his position has "evolved," yet he's continued to oppose key civil rights laws.1

2. According to Bloomberg News, McCain is more hawkish than Bush on Iraq, Russia and China. Conservative columnist Pat Buchanan says McCain "will make Cheney look like Gandhi."2

3. His reputation is built on his opposition to torture, but McCain voted against a bill to ban waterboarding, and then applauded President Bush for vetoing that ban.3

4. McCain opposes a woman's right to choose. He said, "I do not support Roe versus Wade. It should be overturned."4

5. The Children's Defense Fund rated McCain as the worst senator in Congress for children. He voted against the children's health care bill last year, then defended Bush's veto of the bill.5

6. He's one of the richest people in a Senate filled with millionaires. The Associated Press reports he and his wife own at least eight homes! Yet McCain says the solution to the housing crisis is for people facing foreclosure to get a "second job" and skip their vacations.6

7. Many of McCain's fellow Republican senators say he's too reckless to be commander in chief. One Republican senator said: "The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine. He's erratic. He's hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me."7

8. McCain talks a lot about taking on special interests, but his campaign manager and top advisers are actually lobbyists. The government watchdog group Public Citizen says McCain has 59 lobbyists raising money for his campaign, more than any of the other presidential candidates.8

9. McCain has sought closer ties to the extreme religious right in recent years. The pastor McCain calls his "spiritual guide," Rod Parsley, believes America's founding mission is to destroy Islam, which he calls a "false religion." McCain sought the political support of right-wing preacher John Hagee, who believes Hurricane Katrina was God's punishment for gay rights and called the Catholic Church "the Antichrist" and a "false cult."9

10. He positions himself as pro-environment, but he scored a 0—yes, zero—from the League of Conservation Voters last year.10

John McCain is not who the Washington press corps make him out to be.

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Sources:
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http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/04/the-complicated.html
"McCain Facts," ColorOfChange.org, April 4, 2008
http://colorofchange.org/mccain_facts/
2. "McCain More Hawkish Than Bush on Russia, China, Iraq," Bloomberg News, March 12, 2008
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aF28rSCtk0ZM&refer=us
"Buchanan: John McCain 'Will Make Cheney Look Like Gandhi,'" ThinkProgress, February 6, 2008
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/06/buchanan-gandhi-mccain/
3. "McCain Sides With Bush On Torture Again, Supports Veto Of Anti-Waterboarding Bill," ThinkProgress, February 20, 2008
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/20/mccain-torture-veto/
4. "McCain says Roe v. Wade should be overturned," MSNBC, February 18, 2007
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17222147/
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"McCain: Bush right to veto kids health insurance expansion," CNN, October 3, 2007
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/03/mccain.interview/
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http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h-S1sWHm0tchtdMP5LcLywg5ZtMgD8VQ86M80
"McCain Says Bank Bailout Should End `Systemic Risk,'" Bloomberg News, March 25, 2008
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aHMiDVYaXZFM&refer=home
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http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=4301022
"Famed McCain temper is tamed," Boston Globe, January 27, 2008
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/01/27/famed_mccain_temper_is_tamed/
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http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/02/mccain-black-lobbyist/
"McCain's Lobbyist Friends Rally 'Round Their Man," ABC News, January 29, 2008
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4210251
9. "McCain's Spiritual Guide: Destroy Islam," Mother Jones Magazine, March 12, 2008
http://www.motherjones.com/washington_dispatch/2008/03/john-mccain-rod-parsley-spiritual-guide.html
"Will McCain Specifically 'Repudiate' Hagee's Anti-Gay Comments?," ThinkProgress, March 12, 2008
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/12/mccain-hagee-anti-gay/
"McCain 'Very Honored' By Support Of Pastor Preaching 'End-Time Confrontation With Iran,'" ThinkProgress, February 28, 2008
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/28/hagee-mccain-endorsement/
10. "John McCain Gets a Zero Rating for His Environmental Record," Sierra Club, February 28, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/environment/77913/

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PICS OF SEN. OBAMA WITH OUR TROOPS AND MIDDLE EAST LEADERS

By new day 4 us - Jul 21st, 2008 at 2:03 pm EDT

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These is a great slideshow of Sen. Obama in the Middle East with our troops and Middle East leaders, courtesy of POLITICO, one of my favorite political blogs.

Enjoy!

http://www.politico.com/slideshow/slideshow.html?xml=xml/181#id=181&num=6

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WHO'S FLIP FLOPS / FLOP FLIPS / FLIP FLOPS ? ?

By new day 4 us - Jul 21st, 2008 at 1:12 pm EDT

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Sen. Obama's campaign issued a memo to reporters on how Sen. McCain has had to move to Sen. Obama's positions - because he has been wrong all along ! Boy!

Keep it up Sen. Obama - can't wait to get rid ( legally - nothing physical ) of the present administration!

Letter below, courtesy of Talking Points Memo - one of my favorite political blogs:

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2008/07/obama_campaign_memo_obama_lead.php

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DAMN THOSE BI-LINGUALS !! DAMN GOOD !!

By new day 4 us - Jul 21st, 2008 at 12:25 pm EDT

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In honor of Sen. Obama's calls to teach our children another language in addition to their mother tongue of English, for your enjoyment here is ABBA, one of my favorite groups singing in Spanish. In case you are not familiar with ABBA ( they are an older group from my college days ) - they are Swedish and have numerous albums and songs they have sung in Spanish and other languages to include Spanish.

Not to mention, that there are several education studies that confirm that just like learning to play a musial instrument, learning an additional language in addition to your mother tongue increases your IQ.

Need I say more ?

NO HAY A QUIEN CULPAR ( ENGLISH - THERE IS NO ONE TO BLAME )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACo4DtH5eZQ

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Sen. Obama in Afghanistan

By new day 4 us - Jul 20th, 2008 at 12:31 pm EDT

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Great Pics of our Senator in Afganistan!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2008/jul/20/obama.afghanistan

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Best Reasons 2 Elect Sen. Obama

By new day 4 us - Jul 20th, 2008 at 12:09 pm EDT

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Someone, a former Hillary supporter had written a blog post regarding her lack of enthusiasm for supporting Sen. Obama as she came over from the Hillary camp. She wanted other bloggers on MYBO to give her reasons to support Sen. Obama enthusiastically.

One of the points that attracted me to Sen. Obama's bid for the presidency was his efficiency. Yes, that is a point that has not merited great discussion. The article linked below will detail the differences between the McCain campaign and Sen. Obama's campaign which speaks to the cause of efficiency.

If the efficiency and the focus of the Obama campaign can be translated to the workings of the US govt. once Sen. Obama takes office, can you imagine all the millions of dollars that could be saved in our wasteful government's intertwinings and bureaucracies ?

To this blogger, I appreciate your loss - I can imagine how I would have felt if Sen. Obama had lost. Both of these campaigns were not only campaigns, but movements as well. Movements that both of these candidates carried and carried well. While I am sorry that you do not resonate with Sen. Obama's campaign, the other alternative is frightful.

So I am giving you my initial primary reason for supporting Sen. Obama and supporting him enthusiastically. And I hope that if all the MYBO bloggers can add to your list, maybe you can find a point that will resonate with you to support Sen. Obama with all the enthusiasm you had for Sen. Clinton.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-burrell/can-america-afford-a-mcca_b_113591.html

Thanks ~

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NO TO BAYH AS VP CANDIDATE ! AND I LIVE IN IND !

By new day 4 us - Jul 20th, 2008 at 10:50 am EDT

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I would respectfully request Bayh not be considered as a VP candidate. Not only for the reasons as listed in this article but I find him non responsive to information. I have contacted his Senate office contact email address and have never received any kind of response. I would go for Lugar before I would go for Bayh. He was a huge HRC supporter which is not a problem, except that since the primary, he has been absent from campaigning for Sen. Obama.

He's also accepted money from AK STEEL - an environmental polluter.

So, once again, NO TO BAYH.

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/07/bayh_as_veep_he_cochaired_wing.php

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