Remembering the campaign makes me relive so many emotions:
Excitement – when he announced his candidacy. YES WE CAN!
Elation – when he was declared the nominee.
Looking online each day for campaign news, music, videos, art! A talent explosion!
Emails to editors and TV news – somebody has to read them!
Caucusing – scary, thrilling, overwhelming! What a turnout! Everyone cared so much!
Talking to complete strangers about then-Senator Obama.
Oh, and friends and family, too.
Bumps, lows, highs in the primary. Asking my Senators and Congressman to endorse.
Another donation request? We’ve still got some money; let’s just give a bit more.
Maybe he can really do it, maybe this country can move forward – YES WE DID!
And so 2008 was a very good year.
2012 will be another. So are the years in between. Our President is at work.
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http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/2009-09-29-income-gap-census_N.htm?obref=obnetwork
The above link is a very good article by USA Today featuring some recent census data. Among other things, it points out something very relevant to the next election:
"Twenty-one states and the District of Columbia had higher poverty rates than the national average, many of them in the South, such as Mississippi (21.2%), Kentucky, Arkansas and Louisiana (each with 17.3%). That's compared with 19 states and the District of Columbia that ranked above U.S. poverty in 2007."
Courage is a defining moment in the life of every human and fear is an opportunity to re-member inner truth. Times past, when Earth raised Her vibration, God called us home; this time Soul asked to experience the 'full meal deal' and go along for the ride. The mind cannot yet comprehend the magnitude of what is unfolding; this has never been done before! We each own mis-creations surfacing to clear. No spectators allowed. ALL are called to participate. As the past clears, our choices attract or repel Light. The more we embrace fear, the more Light, which is the movement of Un-manifest Limitless God Love, flows through us.
You are Light, the only true POWER! Power of love accomplishes without effort, what force cannot do, for it goes where force cannot follow. Welcome to a New Age of Light! Focus on the adventure instead of fear! There is only Light or absence of Light. We are each God Love, made manifest in the flesh, who allowed fear or other low vibration choices to dim our Light; freeze the power of our love. There is no one to blame! We came here in forgetfulness to experience contrast. We now know the effects of anti-love and are called to choose again. When we choose truth, compassion, love; Light returns and contrast ends! Belief in separation is the root cause of all evil, fear, pain, scarcity, war, powerlessness and death. Our physical, mental, emotional, spirit body is one. All creation is God Love in limitless forms, including our conscious Earth Mother! As one with God Fire, I walked a 35 foot bed of burning coals; as one with God cancer my biology was restored naturally, instead of recommended chemo and radiation. Courage is the door to inner truth, InLightenment, God Love, the only true power. Although the Shift is global, in this freewill Earth zone, what you choose to believe is personal; always honored and respected.
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eHi everyone:
I have been feeling that we can't leave our work for atwo years or a year before the elections. Right now the republicans are totally unfocused and hurt.
Nevertheless, we must not let the ourselves continue as if we were in a honeymoon, because one way or the other the Republican strategists will bounce back with who knows what.
Palin is discarded. Cheney and her are feeding our Democrat agenda as if they were puttings of wood in a California fire, (this is so sad. I guess my mind had to get it out one way or the other,,,).
But as I told you before we have to keep our people involved, moving, giving good ideas for 2012.
Let me know how you feel about this.
Yes we can!,
José
Soon as we got a Democrat in the White House, a bunch of Senators claiming to be Democrats rushed to show how independent they are, declaring they won’t necessarily vote in support of the President’s agenda that he was elected to enact. As a Hoosier, I’ll put Indiana’s Evan Bayh (pronounced “Bye” or “Buy”) at the top of the list.
Mr. Obama is right to allow politicians to vote their “consciences” (oxymoron is obvious). Where he’s wrong is in promising to raise money for them. I won’t give one penny to support ANY Senator who fails to toe the line and earnestly help the President do what he promised. Many promises were made. If they’re not kept because Democrats in the Senate support powerful banks and other lobbies against the people who support Mr. Obama’s agenda, then Bayh-Bayh to them come the primary.
If self-described Democrats in the Senate refuse to push through the President’s agenda, then it’s up to us to FIND SOMEONE WHO WILL. I won’t give money to or raise money for Evan Bayh or Arlen Spector or any of the approximately eight others who have declared themselves “independent” of this cause.
They want our money and votes only to betray us to the powerful lobbyists who own them. We need to start work right now finding better people to run against them in the primaries and start raising the money they’ll need to win.
We kept McCain and Palin out of the White House. We certain can put Bayh, Specter and those other eight “independent” Democrats OUT of the Senate. CHANGE is coming to America.
The Republican governors have constituencies too, and while unemployment and bankruptcy, homelessness and insolvency are being cast as a national malaise, the states are the arenas wherein these sorrows are being acted out. State governors are anxious to get about the business of healing the masses and have no time for their Republican counterparts in Washington to stall over political squabbles and agendas designed to retard the progress of an aggressive, energetic president who happens to be a Democrat and... Black.
Voices no more unexpected in this turnabout of support include Bobby Jindal (NO) and Sarah Palin (AK). They are under pressure to get the money flowing in their states and are forced to appear in support of Barack Obama's efforts as they stand without further delay. It's an amusing alliance of opposing platforms made all the more absurd by a recent statement from Governor Jindal who said he'd probably vote against the bill if he was in Congress, but as a governor he want's to see it pass, and soon. This from a man who may be one of the front- running challengers to the Obama Kingship in 2012.
Everyday, the list of the unemployed grows longer and sooner or later, Congress is going to have to put aside their political differences and get busy. The last thing the Republicans want is Barack Obama growing a halo over his head while the economy begins to turn around. 2012 looms in the not-too-distant future as their chance to avenge their loss of 2004. The priorty of money and jobs may just cloud their vision of victory in the midterms and in 2012 and that's a good thing for a president who needs re-election more than any other in history.
A loss in 2012 sends the wrong message to America and the world about a black man working the White House. It will forever tarnish a great historical moment with the asterisk of one-term presidency which is never easy to overcome. It's never too early to stay involved.
BH
The Republicans have made an incredibly potent maneuver in the choice of Michael Steele to head the RNC. Placing a black Republican in such a position of power and prominence in the wake of the Barack Obama victory signals a return to politics after a brief excursion in the lane of emotionalism and racial unity.
The Republicans are not fooled by the overwhelming black support of the Barack victory, nor are they willing to believe that the movement has reached its zenith just because a black man has been elected president. This party is looking beyond the ebony mirage to tap the resources of pleuralism within the black community and the American public at large. The Steele move seems to be aimed at diluting the accumulated energy of the African- American constituency still caught up in the rush of the Obama ascension.
Add to this timely move, the recent jabs thrown by the defeated John McCain in regard to the upcoming Senate consideration of the bailout bill. Senator McCain is positioning himself as the point man to take the momentum away from Barack Obama and give the Republicans a voice with which to stand against the rushing tide of Obamanism which seeks to create a bipartisan unity in government. The potential losers in this chess match are the victims of this ailing economy who must wait for political horseplay to run its course before getting much needed relief.
A decisive overturn of the Democratic majority in the mid-term elections; a highly visible Black RNC chairman, and a Democratic Party caught off guard in 2012 spells darkness for the Obama sunrise. As I mentioned earlier, 2008 is not sufficient to establish the success of Barack Obama as a black American president. Defeat in 2012 will erase a lot of the meaning from the victory of 2008. Winning in 2012 is more important than winning in 2008 in many ways.
The Repubilcans are on the move as should be obvious to anyone smelling the coffee. I only hope that concerned Democrats, undistracted by the pressing concerns of running this country and saving it from complete economic collapse on their watch, will set their sights not just on mid term elections but on 2012. It is not too early. Soon enough, it may be too late.
The economic crisis seems negotiable in favor of what apparently was a more pressing agenda to make sure President Obama didn't get the bi- partisan support his change initiative sought during the campaign. It may be premature to speculate on a hidden agenda at this point, but that's all the more reason to turn up the awareness and think about 2012. Jimmy Carter and George Bush 1 would have a lot to teach the Obama machine and the Democratic Party.
Not only is it of dire importance to keep the the Democratic momentum going in the coming congressional elections, but to make sure the nuts and bolts are in place for another Obama victory in 2012. Given the extra effort Black Americans have always had to bring to their jobs, nothing short of a victory for Obama in 2012 will serve to validate this election and make the country safe for more African-American presidents down the line.
Hopefully, in future considerations concerning the economy or other pressing issues, the Republican Party will concern itself more with people in need than with avenging their painful loss of 2008. All it takes is the right candidate, a war that won't go away, and an economy that just won't rebound. I would not put it past the Republicans to viscerate this historical moment by continuing to block vote against Obama's bills and initiatives. It's never to early to get involved.
With his runoff race ending on Tuesday, Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss called in the party's big guns—and Sarah Palin answered the call, stumping across the state today and tomorrow. It's a clear sign of her stature within the party.
Palin’s flash emergence on the national stage has left her as well positioned as any Republican to make a serious run for the GOP nomination in 2012, yet waning support from the political center may threaten her presidential ambitions, according to a Politico analysis of public polling. A Gallup poll of Republican voters released last Friday found Palin atop a field of ten Republicans, including 2008 primary candidates Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee, in a hypothetical 2012 matchup. Fully two thirds of Republicans, including Republican-leaning independents, want Palin to run for president in 2012, twice as many as back Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, who has already made one post-election visit to Iowa, and about 20 points ahead of former Speaker Newt Gingrich. But even as Palin exploded over a few weeks from relative obscurity to a bigger star within the party than its own presidential nominee, Democrats and independents quickly soured on her, she became one of the most divisive figures in politics. In mid November, Gallup found that only 45 percent of Americans hoped Palin is "a major national political figure for many years to come." About three-quarters of Republicans hoped so, three-quarters of Democrats hoped not, as did 53 percent of independents. Exit polls also showed that 64 percent of independents viewed Palin as unqualified to be president, with nine of ten Democrats and one in four Republicans agreeing. "Palin's image, being the way it is for independents, puts her at a distinct disadvantage from a general election standpoint," said Tony Fabrizio, a veteran GOP strategist. "But it wouldn't be the first time the hard-core base ran off the cliff." Fight for the party's future The GOP intra-party debate over Palin has become a proxy for the larger question of her party's future, and conservative chieftains like Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission President Richard Land fear that attacks on Palin are at times veiled swipes at the party base. "It would be a mistake to say that social conservatives have all their hopes and dreams vested in Sarah Palin," Land said, but he added Palin "does have the one thing you can't coach, charisma," and continues to have "star power" with conservatives. She has less, though, among moderates even in her own party. Among moderate and liberal Republicans, Palin dropped about 20 points, falling behind Romney as the group's preferred 2012 nominee. Conservatives still dominate the GOP primary process, and in key primary states like Iowa and South Carolina about six in ten GOP voters are also white evangelicals, who overwhelmingly support Palin. "She is the most popular speaker in the Republican Party," said Katon Dawson, who heads the South Carolina GOP and on Monday announced his bid to direct the national party. "The first impression of Sarah Palin is that she is a Republican warrior who took a pretty good licking, and a lot of it unfair," Dawson said. "Sarah is going to be one of the leaders in the party like Bobby Jindal, like Mark Sanford, like Rick Perry." Ed Rollins, who ran presidential bids for Republicans including Ronald Reagan and Huckabee, argued that "independents are something she can focus on later." In the end, though, Rollins expects that Palin "will be very similar to [Dan] Quayle." "When he started to run, [Quayle] got nowhere," Rollins said. "The potential is there [for Palin] but out of 10 weeks she had two good weeks." For the 2012 race, "she's now not starting at the top but starting at the bottom," he said, adding that Palin would have to campaign for years in Iowa and New Hampshire to mount a viable campaign. Fight over the party's past Of course, a potential 2012 bid for Palin depends in large part on how Republican insiders come to view her vice-presidential bid this year. Public polling makes clear that Palin's role in the ticket's demise was much exaggerated. While the economic crisis was the most important concern of a majority of voters, and undercut McCain, the one public figure who weighed down the Republican nominee was the Republican in the White House. In the three of the most closely watched swing states—Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania—the Quinnipiac University Poll shortly before the election found that more than twice as many voters thought George W. Bush was detrimental to McCain than said the same of Palin . Yet clearly Palin became a more polarizing figure as the campaign went on, in part because she took on the role of chief critic of the Democratic nominee. Republican support for the Alaska governor never wavered in the campaign, as Gallup tracking shows that at least eight in ten Republicans viewed Palin favorably from early September on.
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While most Democrats disapproved of Palin from the outset, her negatives among them climbed steadily as the campaign progressed. The trend was even more pronounced among independents, among whom her negatives went from 23 percent just after the convention to twice that by the days just before the election. In Florida, Palin's overall favorable rating held steady at 47 percent between mid September and mid November, according to Quinnipiac, while her negative rating rose from 23 to 42 percent. The same trend was seen in Ohio and Pennsylvania . Demographics also influenced how voters viewed Palin, as the first women to hold a place on the Republican ticket proved a more divisive figure for women than for men. Women were also split by where they lived, with those in the suburbs viewing her unfavorably by a 37-54 margin, mirroring the 54-37 favorable view of women living in small towns and rural areas, according to NBC News-Wall Street Journal polling taken only days before the election. Suburban men split about evenly in their views of Palin, while rural men saw her favorably by a 48-34 margin. In the end though, it's not clear how much impact Palin's selection had on the 2008 race, as those who said her addition to the ticket was an "important factor" in their presidential vote leaned slightly to McCain, 51 to 48 percent. Even that poll, though, shows Palin's trouble with the center. While only one in four independents said Palin was an "important factor" in deciding whom to support, those voters backed Obama by a 74 to 20 percent margin. Among the one in four independents who said Palin was an "important factor" in deciding whom to support, 74 percent backed Obama. Reagan or Quayle? Palin is now reportedly fielding hundreds of media interview requests, including from Oprah Winfrey, as well as lucrative offers for everything from her own television show to book contracts—but to revive her national image, many Republican strategists believe Palin must now step off the national stage. "Palin needs to demonstrate growth above all else, if she is capable. She needs to retire from the field, endure a period of introspection, and renew herself before she can attempt to return," said Alex Castellanos, a GOP media consultant who most recently advised Mitt Romney during his 2008 presidential campaign. "Unless she retires from the field soon, the cement will set on the Sarah Palin we know now." That Palin has a reputation as an intellectual lightweight reinforced by Tiny Fey's caricature of her on Saturday Night Live. It's this perception that has already led some Republicans to conclude her national political career will quickly fade. "'Never' is a word you don't use in politics. But having said that, it is difficult for me to imagine her as the Republican nominee in 2012 or 2016," said John Weaver, McCain's top strategist in his 2000 presidential bid. "You know, some of the negatives about her are now ingrained in the public lore. They are not the negatives that you accumulate in the rough-and-tumble campaign. These are negatives that go to the core of a person, whether she has the ability to serve in national office." Those views were reinforced by anonymous criticism from within McCain's camp, most notably the charge that she did not know Africa was a continent. Palin though has her defenders within the McCain campaign as well. "She's plenty smart. She's brilliant. She's incredibly talented," said Charlie Black, who was one of McCain's top advisors. Black conceded that the Alaska governor may have been "thrust on the national scene before she was fully capable." But he added, "she's got several years to build on her record. Understand, that the political environment when she came on the scene was the worst for Republicans in 34 years. She also took a pounding that was unfair. "She can overcome that," Black continued. "She is a charismatic person that has shown she has guts." Or as Land put it, "There is nothing said about Palin that wasn't said about Ronald Reagan. Grade B movie Star. Amiable dunce. And it really hurt didn't it," he added, with a pang of sarcasm. "Time will tell," said Land, "whether she's Ronald Reagan or Dan Quayle."
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1108/15924.html
[Me and my sisters opinion are the same. We believe Palin is more in line with Woody Boyd's character on Cheers more then she is with either Ronald Reagan or Dan Quayle.
You know, the regulars of the Boston bar Cheers who share their experiences and lives with each other while drinking or working at the bar where everybody knows your name.
Palins reference to the male population as 'Joe 6pack and the wink that went with it' is what destroyed her credtiability as a viable candidate for President.
No one that I know of... wants a President who speaks to others as if they are in a pub.
Can she over come 'who she made herself out to be?' Maybe. I use to think she was just pain dumb, ignorant, but i don't think that way anymore. I think she is reckless, and indifferent to what she says and or how citizens respond to what is said. She has the mentality of; "take it or leave it". And it is this that I find disturbing in her.
All words have meaning and she has to take do care of what she says, because if she don't, she will ruin her chances of being a creditable leader.]
Kade
A Third Party Threat To Obama In 2012? (+)
by: Chris Bowers
One potential 2012 scenario I have been considering for the past week is that his biggest threat to re-election in 2012 might come from a third-party, rather than from Republicans. This threat would be in the mold of a more populist and likeable Michael Bloomberg, or a more informed and less insane Ross Perot, rather than a minor party such as the Greens or Libertarians rising from obscurity. He would be male, white, extremely wealthy, have no real downticket support, center-right (possibly hard right-wing on economics), and fueled by corporate, big media, bi-partisan elitist, punditry disgust with Barack Obama. I term this the "billionaire king" scenario, and in the extended entry I describe how it could play out...........
ARTCLE- http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=674C86B6318297CE5E96BBDF47AC5BEC?diaryId=9778
It's beyond fascinating listening to the Republican Party turn in on itself, and somehow at the same time Sarah Palin is rising from the ashes as the self-annointed Republican candidate in 2012.
Huh?
This clueless speech-reader, who knows nothing about running anything, thinks she is going to be the next President of the United States? Well, kudos to her for having the ambition. My suspicion is that after this election she will sink like a stone back to her home state of Alaska to ponder how to make it happen, and she will come up empty.
Somehow in the hoopla of the past seven weeks, Palin has begun to believe her own press. She is, no doubt, the darling of the ultra-conservative right. But does she realize that she's not only turned off most of America, including women and independents, but a good chunk of the Republican Party itself?
How will she be perceived when she no longer has a multiple daily platform to make digs at Obama and Biden, the designer clothes are turned in, the jet goes away, the army of handlers go away, daddy McCain no longer gives her cover, and the press begin to look even more closely at the her breaches of gubernatorial power in Alaska?
It's going to be fascinating to watch.
I was surprised to see this, but then again- it's not that surprising when I think about it. Apparently Palin has her own agenda that has nothing to do with McCain! Check it out:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/25/palin.tension/index.html
Nominating McCain was an extremely high-risk, high-reward gamble for the Republican party. The reward side was that McCain was by far the best chance the Republicans had of salvaging the 2008 election; Rudolph Giuliani was the only GOP rival even close to Arizona's senior senator in popularity. Romney or Huckabee would be down 15 to 20 points by this time in the campaign, and Thompson would in all likelihood have dropped out from sheer ennui by now. The press loved McCain, and he had substantial support among Democratic voters. With Obama and Clinton tearing each other up and expending their resources in the primaries, it looked like McCain had a real chance. If the economy had managed to keep running on fumes for another six months, McCain might have pulled the Republicans back from the brink of disaster.
But it looks now like the gamble has not paid off. Nate Silver, whom I trust, judges Obama to have about a 95% chance to win in November. And then McCain's high risk side comes into play. McCain was the Republicans' best chance to win, but if he loses anyway, the consequences of his defeat will be far worse for the GOP than any other candidate's loss would have been.
I'm not sure how many of you may or may not have heard this, but there is a pretty large group of people that believe that the end of the world will occur in 2012. Of course, the majority are conspiracy theorists and religious extremists.
Viewing Sarah Palin's extreme religious views, and her pastor's claims that Alaska will be a refuge for those "left behind" after the rapture (a current theory with which I, as a christian, don't agree with as it's only one of many theories and interpretations of the Book of Revelations).
My question is, does Sarah Palin agree with the 2012 Armageddon theory?
If she agrees, it's not only scary, but makes it imperative that we keep this woman out of the White House and away from the nuclear codes, because quite frankly, I'd worry that she might very well decide that it's God's plan that she be the one to bring Armageddon into reality.
I know that this sounds like some sort of paranoid sensationalism, but just think about it for a second. This is a person who personally prayed for God to make the Alaskan pipeline come to pass as well as praying that we were sending our troops out to fulfill God's will.
If she subscribes to the 2012 Armageddon theory, then it is our DUTY as American citizens and compassionate human beings to keep her and her religious beliefs out of Washington DC at all costs.
Do you remember when John McCain went to Maine to consult with Bubba Bush about his VP Choice?
I would bet that Bubba told him to choose the brilliant Governor from Alaska.
Why?
Because that grantees a loss for McCain.
Who would run in four years?
JEBB BUSH?!?!
