Cable news and right wing blogs are swarming with the revisionist history on the New Deal. Arm yourself against lies, spin and propaganda by reading info from a number of sources.
Here down a article about this topic. [Media Matters is a progressive media watchdog and fact checking organization which has received accolades from numerous sources (except the right wing media which often gets debunked by Media Matters).]
The link to digg it and for article: Conservatives Cherry-Pick 1930s Unemployment Figures
Summary: Columnists Mona Charen and George Will continued a trend among conservative media of responding to comparisons between the current economic situation and that of the 1930s and between Barack Obama and FDR by attacking the New Deal. In separate columns, both Charen and Will cherry-picked unemployment figures to assert that the New Deal did not reduce unemployment. But historians and progressive economists have noted that unemployment fell every year of the New Deal except during the 1937-38 recession; further, Nobel-laureate Paul Krugman has said it was a reversal of New Deal policies, not a continuance of them, that contributed to rising unemployment in 1937 and 1938.
Yes we can! Best wishes, Steffen
http://changeforbetterworld.blogspot.com/2009/01/my-way-to-say-goodbye-to-neocons-bush.html
Formal Petition to Attorney General-Designate Eric Holder to appoint a Special Prosecutor to investigate and prosecute any and all government officials who have participated in War Crimes.
You can Digg it: My_way to say GOODBYE to neocons, Bush and Cheney!
A picture from me to say goodbye from most bad president of US and all neocons.We can only hope many people will long enough remember. Bush had a lot bad gifts for the change! Let's take care the poor and normal people will not have to pay now too much after the rich made profit in good time!And what's with impeachment now?! What's with hidden knowledge of Sept. 11 2001?[ Maybe an explanation of picture: it's made like an "egg laying wool milk sow" a metaphorical-idiomatic term in Germany]
Yeah, and here you can see something new about neocons were bringing to us - for me to say: don't forgive Bush and neocons and there is still a lot to work of. We will and can do this too - Yes we can!I got now message too like "If anybody can clean up the mess bush left, it's President Obama." - Yes and Obama likes people helping still to do the work - help him! We were a big and strong movement and so people got knowledge back how strong people can be together! Whistleblower: Bush's NSA spied on EVERYONE (already 4255 Diggs) The NSA had access to ALL YOUR COMMUNICATIONS, regardless of who you were or whether or not you were communicating internationally.
next post in my main blog about "Change for better world" - here i collected some movies from this day and shortly before.
(And i saved it to hard disc too. If some original will not be longer responsible in YouTube i will bring it new.)
Please, ckick this link to see the movies:
The change - Obama Acceptance Speech - Change is come to America
[But of course - it's just beginning with the change, there is a lot to do. Please stay in touch, however we do that, through these groups or some other way. ]
After packing up the computer, Blackberry, notepad & other stuff, we left the party at the Grandview Cafe and headed home. We listened to McCain's concession speech on CNN on the way home. The speech was far more gracious than the crowd, and I'm feeling charitable enough not to blame McCain for that.
We watched Obama's victory speech when we got home.
What struck me most was, it was not a joyful speech. President-elect Obama didn't fist-pump, he didn't cheerlead, he didn't smile much. He looked like someone who had just taken on an awesome burden and understood, to the depth of his heart and soul, it's colossal magnitude. It was at once comforting, inspiring, and heartbreaking.
Comforting, in that we have a leader who understands the challenges we face, and doesn't try to minimize them.
Inspiring, in that we feel the need to suffer a small part of that burden, and share in the better nation, and world, which we will work together to achieve.
Heartbreaking, in that what should be the most joyous night of his life was made bittersweet by the recent loss of his beloved grandmother, and by his own full realization of the hardships to come.
Barack Obama, lead and we will follow.
OBAMA WINS
LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE ENDS
CNN just called Ohio for OBAMA! The expected vote total is back up to 352, but the minimum is now 292...there's no way, short of a prayer-warrior miracle, that McCain can win...now it's just a matter of running up the score...
We're having fun!
CNN calls alabama, Wyoming, and North Dakota for McCain, and Rhode Island, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and New York for Obama. The update: the expected total is still 352 - but the minimum is 276. It's looking pretty good for Barack.
The Dems have their majority in the senate, barring a defection by Liebermann.
Polls will close in 7 minutes in 15 more states.
Here are the other sites I'm monitoring:
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/
http://www.swingstateproject.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=3641
Keep your eye on Andrew Sullivan's blog (the best there is) and Nate Silver's site, where you'll find ALL the numbers.
MSNBC and CBS have called Pennsylvania for Obama but CNN is holding out. AP has called the senate race in North Carolina for Hagan. We ran the simulations for president (sans PA) and the senate with no changes to the outcome - Obama with 352 electoral votes and the Dems taking an expected 58 seats in the senate.
All of New England is blue at this point, but CNN hasn't called Maine CD-2 for Obama yet. They're showing 81 votes for Obama and my total is 82.
We'll do another update when CNN calls Pennsylvania.
CNN has called Vermont for Obama and Kentucky for McCain. The polls have closed in Ohio, West Virginia, and North Carolina, and we're still watching results coming in from Indiana, Florida and Georgia. Warner wins the senate in Virginia. No surprises yet.
If you're watching CNN, I'm sure you're as fascinated, in a repulsive sort of way, with Jessica Yellen's holographic image materializing in the War Room with Wolf Blitzer.
If you missed it, John King also has a new toy - he can make a 3-D model of the capitol building materialize in front of Campbell Brown.
We're here among fellow liberals at the Grandview cafe in Columbus, Ohio, battleground central. The word on the street is that the polling places were not all that crowded today, but we don't read much into that. We still hold out high hopes that Obama will carry the Buckeye state.
At this time the polls have closed in parts of Indiana and Kentucky, and with only a percent or two of the vote in, we can't draw any conclusions.
We're monitoring CNN, NBC, and, god help us, Fox news. As the networks call the states, we'll enter them into our model and post the new projection. So we'll post at least once per half-hour, and probably more.
So log on, lean back, crack a cold one, and root for the Land of Lincolner!
Update for November 3, one day to Election Day
WE'RE GOING FOR BRAGGING RIGHTS NOW
We did one final update to our model. Obama's chances dropped below 100%, to 99.998%, with an expected vote total of 352. Our model shows the following states as swing states:
We're going out on a limb and predicting that things will break for Obama. We predict that Obama will carry Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, and Virginia - for a total of 379 electoral votes.
We'll update you from the Grandview Cafe in Columbus, Ohio, from among the jolly company of Drinking Liberally, as the results come in.
My fellow sufferers, our long nightmare is almost at an end.
Until tomorrow.
