AIR FORCE * ARMY * COAST GUARD * MARINES * NAVY
If you are going to be in Washington DC during the Inauguration you may want to attend the Blogfest event to Help Wounded Veterans. see http://www.usaservice.org/page/event/detail/4jqt3
Where were you when the world stopped turning?
“If you want to be important—wonderful. If you want to be recognized—wonderful. If you want to be great—wonderful. But, recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant.” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Ebenezer Baptist Church, 4 February 1968.
HELP WOUNDED VETERANSSource: David Apperson, LIFE CLOUD
http://veterans.barackobama.com/page/community/post/president/gGxFK9
The Pickens Plan: For those who would like to become an active participant in a solution for our nations energy needs I urge you to join with T.Boone Pickens in his quest for a cleaner planet through alternative energy.
Also see Green Wave Energy: Green Wave was founded by Mark Holmes and was formulated for viable alternative energy solutions. Green Wave Energy is promoting state-of-the-art energy-saving products and services throughout the country.
Green Wave Energy understands alternative energy technology will become “main stream” when
Call 949.645.1701 for information on how Green Wave Energy can help you save the planet.
Alternative EnergySource: David Apperson
url: http://veterans.barackobama.com/page/community/tag/alternative-energy
Whoa! The Pentagon seems serious about this: Pentagon to detail military to bolster security; Plan would dedicate 20,000 uniformed troops inside U.S. by 2011 -- http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27989275/
What is Citigroup talking about with the gold??? Citigroup says gold could rise above $2,000 next year as world unravels -- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/3526645/Citigroup-says-gold-could-rise-above-2000-next-year-as-world-unravels.html. They've been bailed out already! *Errgh!*
See also: Vid clip from Democracy Now! Seriously??? (http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/emk/gGgYfB)
EMK
"Our veterans are part of an unbroken line of heroes who have defended the American people and stood up for American values" - PRESIDENT ELECT OBAMA
ABC * AP * CNN * C-SPAN * GOOGLE * MONITOR * MSN * REUTERS * TIMES * UPI * CARTOONS
Alabama * Alaska * Arizona * Arkansas * California * Colorado * Connecticut * DC * Delaware * Florida * Georgia * Guam * Hawaii * Idaho * Illinois * Indiana * Iowa * Kansas * Kentucky * Louisiana * Maine * Maryland * Massachusetts * Michigan * Minnesota * Mississippi * Missouri * Montana * Nebraska * Nevada * New Hampshire * New Jersey * New Mexico * New York * North Carolina * North Dakota * Ohio * Oklahoma * Oregon * Pennsylvania * Puerto-Rico * Rhode Island * South Carolina * South Dakota * Tennessee * Texas * Utah * Vermont * Virginia * Washington * West Virginia * Wisconsin * Wyoming *
"Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today."PRESIDENT ELECT BARACK OBAMA
"Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today."
PRESIDENT ELECT BARACK OBAMA
RSVP MIDNIGHT PRAYER AND CELEBRATION - 31 DEC 2008
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA IS OUR NEW COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF
We invite everyone breathing, or not, the opportunity to show global unity and dedicate three [ 3 ] minutes of time on News Years Eve to thank God for President Obama and ask the Creator of All Things for a GLOBAL BLESSING for ALL NATIONS, PEOPLES, AND TONGUES.
May we agree that 2009 can be a year of healing for the nation and the world as we celebrate this historic election. All faiths are encouraged to join the festivities. LET US GO DOWN TO THE RIVER AND PRAY.
Text translations of the readings supplied by GOOGLE TRANSLATE through GLOBAL BIBLE STUDY.
McCain Deepens His Own Hole
The Final Debate: Their Essential Selves
The Final Debate: Angry White Man
The Final Debate: A Presidential Presence
The Final Debate: McCain Stock Plunges Further
The Final Debate: Where Obama Came Up Short
You always save the the most obvious for last, I suppose, in the political news game during the waning days of an election cycle. As some of the media outlets smell blood in the water, it is safer to start dropping a few of John McCain's political skeletons into the news stream.
While McCain may not have created the Internet, he is the father of modern gambling in America...
Websites:
Obama Pridehttp://pride.barackobama.com/page/content/lgbthome
Articles:
Obama's Statement on LGBT Rights
http://www.barackobama.com/pdf/lgbt.pdf
Obama's Response to HRC's Presidential Candidate Questionnaire
http://a4.g.akamai.net/f/4/19675/0/newmill.download.akamai.com/19677/anon.newmediamill/pdfs/obama.pdf
Video:
Obama Pride Collage - Recommendedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRGHwRQ4qU4
Michelle Obama at DNC Gay & Lesbian Leadership Council - Recommendedhttp://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid900881681/bclid900480414/bctid1685938749
Barack TV http://www.barackobama.com/tv/http://www.barackobama.com/tv/
Photography:
Obama's Flickr Pride Photostreamhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/barackobamadotcom/tags/pride/
YouTube Video Here: Thanks to you, impeachment will be heard Friday,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv478I8p3e8. (Yes, it's from Kucinich 2008, but the fact that he is going to actually discuss the Impeachment Articles is newsworthy.)
Take a look!
What do you think?
Hmm:
I'm just posting this for the ObamaBloggers to read:
Kucinich's Articles against GWB: http://chun.afterdowningstreet.org/amomentoftruth.pdf
Kucinich's Speech presenting Articles against Cheney: http://kucinich.house.gov/News/DocumentPrint.aspx?DocumentID=78044
(Interestingly, I found these links when I looked at an ObamaBlogger's link to a DailyKos article, and I read the comments at DailyKos, discovering them. Why isn't the MSM talking about this?...I suppose...Wasn't this going on today?)
"The society's deprivation relies/ not on our differences/ but the separation within." --Linkin Park, "Frgt/10."
"Watch your rights!" --StahrT
Negotiating Isn't AppeasementBush, McCain and other conservatives are on the wrong side of history when they dismiss Obama's foreign policy.J. Peter Scoblic, The New Republic Published: Tuesday, May 20, 2008
In a speech to the Israeli parliament Thursday, President Bush took a swipe at Barack Obama for his willingness to negotiate with evil regimes. "Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along," Bush said. "We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: 'Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided.' We have an obligation to call this what it is--the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history." But if there is anything that has been discredited by history, it is the argument that every enemy is Hitler, that negotiations constitute appeasement, and that talking will automatically lead to a slaughter of Holocaust-like proportions. It is an argument that conservatives made throughout the Cold War, and, if the charge seemed overblown at the time, it seems positively ludicrous with the clarity of hindsight. The modern conservative movement was founded in no small part on the idea that presidents Truman and Eisenhower were "appeasing" the Soviets. The logic went something like this: Because communism was evil, the United States should seek to destroy it, not coexist with it; the bipartisan policy of containment, which sought to prevent the further spread of communism, was a moral and strategic folly because it implied long-term coexistence with Moscow. Conservative foreign policy guru James Burnham wrote entire books claiming that containment--which, after the Cold War, would be credited with defeating the Soviet Union--constituted "appeasement." ¶ ¶Containment, negotiation, nuclear stability--each of these things helped protect the United States and end the Cold War. And yet, at the time, conservatives thought each was synonymous with appeasement. The Bush administration has been little different, refusing for years to talk to North Korea or Iran about their nuclear programs because it wanted to defeat evil, not talk to it. The result was that Pyongyang tested a nuclear weapon and Iran's uranium program continued unfettered. (By contrast, when the administration negotiated with Libya--an act that its chief arms controller, John Bolton, had previously derided as, yes, "appeasement"--it succeeded in eliminating Tripoli's nuclear program.) Alas, John McCain accused President Clinton of "appeasement" for engaging North Korea, instead calling for "rogue state rollback," and now he dismisses the idea of negotiations with Iran. Given conservatism's historical record, Obama's inclination to negotiate seems only sensible. When will conservatives learn that it is 2008, not 1938? J. Peter Scoblic, executive editor of The New Republic, is the author of the newly released U.S. vs. Them: How a Half Century of Conservatism Has Undermined America's Security.This article originally appeared in The Los Angeles Times.--->full article
"Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along," Bush said. "We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: 'Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided.' We have an obligation to call this what it is--the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history."
But if there is anything that has been discredited by history, it is the argument that every enemy is Hitler, that negotiations constitute appeasement, and that talking will automatically lead to a slaughter of Holocaust-like proportions. It is an argument that conservatives made throughout the Cold War, and, if the charge seemed overblown at the time, it seems positively ludicrous with the clarity of hindsight.
The modern conservative movement was founded in no small part on the idea that presidents Truman and Eisenhower were "appeasing" the Soviets. The logic went something like this: Because communism was evil, the United States should seek to destroy it, not coexist with it; the bipartisan policy of containment, which sought to prevent the further spread of communism, was a moral and strategic folly because it implied long-term coexistence with Moscow. Conservative foreign policy guru James Burnham wrote entire books claiming that containment--which, after the Cold War, would be credited with defeating the Soviet Union--constituted "appeasement." ¶ ¶Containment, negotiation, nuclear stability--each of these things helped protect the United States and end the Cold War. And yet, at the time, conservatives thought each was synonymous with appeasement.
The Bush administration has been little different, refusing for years to talk to North Korea or Iran about their nuclear programs because it wanted to defeat evil, not talk to it. The result was that Pyongyang tested a nuclear weapon and Iran's uranium program continued unfettered. (By contrast, when the administration negotiated with Libya--an act that its chief arms controller, John Bolton, had previously derided as, yes, "appeasement"--it succeeded in eliminating Tripoli's nuclear program.)
Alas, John McCain accused President Clinton of "appeasement" for engaging North Korea, instead calling for "rogue state rollback," and now he dismisses the idea of negotiations with Iran. Given conservatism's historical record, Obama's inclination to negotiate seems only sensible. When will conservatives learn that it is 2008, not 1938?
J. Peter Scoblic, executive editor of The New Republic, is the author of the newly released U.S. vs. Them: How a Half Century of Conservatism Has Undermined America's Security.This article originally appeared in The Los Angeles Times.--->full article
Dear Democrats Around the World,
Wednesday Wire is copyright protected, but I choose not to exercise it. If you do quote what is here, it would be nice to give credit.
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From my personal blog, which is elsewhere - 2/25/2008:
It's funny, when I was doing research before the NY Democratic Primary, I started doing something similar to this - looking up all of Obama's bills and Hillary's bills to see exactly what each of them has been doing in the Senate. However, lack of time and sheer laziness took over, and I never continued. Thankfully, there are people out there not as lazy as myself. Check out this post from Daily Koz (thank you, VDB!) that succinctly discusses the issues and bills that both major Dem candidates have worked on and supported during their time in the Senate.I Refuse to Buy into the Obama Hype (now a supporter) And for those of you who haven't read it yet - here's that Andrew Sullivan article from the Atlantic Monthly about why it's important to vote for Obama.
From my personal blog, which is elsewhere - 1/25/2008:
I've finally realized why my gut tells me Obama, and it has nothing to do with policy decisions, nor does it have anything to do with him "being cute" (Adam). Quite simply (albeit egotistically), voting for Obama would be like voting for a Harvard-educated, more well-traveled...me. Except for his past coke problem. The more I read about him, the more I see that he views the world and everything in it, not just politics, the same way I do. Strange, but true. Still have to read "Dreams From my Father", which I borrowed from Alex ages ago (after giving it to him the Christmas before last). Anyway, I've been sitting on this article for a while - skimming it here and there when I have the chance - but I've only now had the chance to read it fully, and I'm glad I did. I've always had respect for Andrew Sullivan, even when he was a Republican and I disagreed with him, because his opinions are always based in careful thought and he is extremely intelligent. So, in his article "Goodbye to All That: Why Obama Matters", which appeared in Atlantic Monthly back in November, he explains not only why we should vote for Barack Obama, but why we need to vote for him now, why we shouldn't continue to allow Baby Boomer politics to frame our current debates, and why Obama's life experiences most closely mirror those of most Americans, making him the candidate best equipped to deal with both wars in which our country is currently embroiled - the one in Iraq, and the one between left and right here at home. This is an important article for any Democrat who's still considering their vote to read.From the article:None of this, of course, means that Obama will be the president some are dreaming of. His record in high office is sparse; his performances on the campaign trail have been patchy; his chief rival for the nomination, Senator Clinton, has bested him often with her relentless pursuit of the middle ground, her dogged attention to her own failings, and her much-improved speaking skills. At times, she has even managed to appear more inherently likable than the skinny, crabby, and sometimes morose newcomer from Chicago. Clinton’s most surprising asset has been the sense of security she instills. Her husband—and the good feelings that nostalgics retain for his presidency—have buttressed her case. In dangerous times, popular majorities often seek the conservative option, broadly understood.
The paradox is that Hillary makes far more sense if you believe that times are actually pretty good. If you believe that America’s current crisis is not a deep one, if you think that pragmatism alone will be enough to navigate a world on the verge of even more religious warfare, if you believe that today’s ideological polarization is not dangerous, and that what appears dark today is an illusion fostered by the lingering trauma of the Bush presidency, then the argument for Obama is not that strong. Clinton will do. And a Clinton-Giuliani race could be as invigorating as it is utterly predictable.
But if you sense, as I do, that greater danger lies ahead, and that our divisions and recent history have combined to make the American polity and constitutional order increasingly vulnerable, then the calculus of risk changes. Sometimes, when the world is changing rapidly, the greater risk is caution. Close-up in this election campaign, Obama is unlikely. From a distance, he is necessary. At a time when America’s estrangement from the world risks tipping into dangerous imbalance, when a country at war with lethal enemies is also increasingly at war with itself, when humankind’s spiritual yearnings veer between an excess of certainty and an inability to believe anything at all, and when sectarian and racial divides seem as intractable as ever, a man who is a bridge between these worlds may be indispensable.
We may in fact have finally found that bridge to the 21st century that Bill Clinton told us about. Its name is Obama. Here's some pro-Hillary reading material, too. The New York Times has officially endorsed her today.
Border Fence
Virtual fence scrapped.
Patreus
I'm not military, but Petraeus is now the Chief of Central Command (Cencom). What does that mean?
Pay Discrimination
Senate may consider unequal pay bill
Globalization
This is an interesting take on it, factoring the underground economy, but I wouldn't consider it the sole contributing factor: Globalization’s Aftershocks.
C-SPAN
http://www.c-span.org/
Just a few news stories over on C-SPAN for direct sources and videos!
Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) Says He'll Run for Third Term in 2010 Pope Begins Visit to New York With United Nations Speech Pope Benedict XVI Addresses the U.N. General Assembly Sen. Obama Endorsed by Former Sens. Sam Nunn & David Boren House Report: U.S. Reconstruction Teams Lack Oversight Confidential Ground Zero Blueprints Found in Manhattan Trash Sen. John McCain Releases His Tax Returns Without Wife's Pres. Bush Urges Congress to Reconsider Colombia Trade Pact President Bush Chooses SBA Chief as Next HUD Secretary Pres. Bush Nominates SBA Administrator Steven Preston to HUD Chief The Hill: Republicans Ignoring Requests for Party Donations British PM Calls for 'New Dawn' in Transatlantic Relations British P.M. Brown's Speech at the JFK Library U.S. Military Begins Constructing Concrete Wall in Baghdad South Korea Lifts U.S. Beef Ban Son of Dutch Military Chief Killed in Afghanistan United Nations Food Agency Shortfall Now at $750 Million Military to Televise 9-11 Trial for Victims' Families
