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Obama For President
Next President:Barack Obama
Next Vice Pres.:Joe Biden
We all need to pray continuously that Barack wins this presidential race. Pray that God places the highest form of heavenly protection on the ability for Barack to win. Prayer + Hardwork always wins.
Sincerely,
Audrey, Disabled Veteran, Grandmother, Mom, Small Businees Owner, and Average Citizen.
A reader advisory
This article is my response to a Barack supporter in the United States who was concerned about the the possibility of colour and race being used surreptitiously in concert with elements of the media, to disguise an attempt to deny Barack Obama a fair opportunity to achieve his destiny. The Presidency of the United States of America.
Dear Barack supporter
To be credible, I need to reveal one or two facts about myself before addressing the subject of your concerns. I am a 68 yr old white male and an Australian citizen of Irish and Scottish heritage! As such I am not eligible to vote in your election. However I support Barack Obama for election as the 44th President of the United States, simply because he is by any standard, the most talented, and qualified candidate from either side of the political divide.
Only one candidate has satisfactorily demonstrated the type of skills and leadership qualities people quite rightfully expect to see in a candidate for the office of President. Specifically, in Obama’s overwhelming favour these include: His sound policy positions, diplomatic skills, political skills, sage judgement, people skills, personal ethics, temperament, proven management skills and of course at 47 yrs, his age advantage, when considering the work load and pressures involved in managing the most demanding job in the world.
To me it doesnt matter who wins this election. Weather it is Barack Obama or John McCain. Either way no one should get hurt because who gets into office. I did vote at my school for Barack Obama because I do think it is time for a change. This planet needs a change, and with Obama as president Im sure that he is gonna help change this place.
Obama can help us go green (if you havent alread) and make sure that we are living in a safe enviroment. By him being president he will help us so that when we leave this earth that our children and their children will live in a HEALTHY enviroment.
It is SATURDAY MORNING.
3 DAYS BEFORE THE ELECTION.
FOX NEWS IS ON A FULL FRONTAL ATTACK ON OBAMA.
THE GOP MACHINE IS IN FULL SWING, WITH THEIR, 50-STATE STRATEGY OF FEAR, SMEAR AND SCARE TACTICS.
THIS MORNING, ALL OF THE NEWS, SHOWED HUGE RALLIES IN VIRGINIA FOR MCCAIN, NOW THEY HAVE SHOWN 2 RALLIES OF SARAH PALIN.
WHERE THE HELL IS BARACK????
WHY DO WE NOT HAVE A MORNING RALLY? WHERE IS BIDEN?
THEN, TONIGHT, MCCAIN ON SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, REACHING MILLIONS AS A CLOSING PIECE...
WHY IS IT THAT ALL I SEE IS MCCAIN, PALIN AND G.O.P.????
WHERE ARE YOU BARACK??? HOME WATCHING CARTOONS? OR WATCHING THE G.O.P. MAKE A HUGE COMEBACK WHILE NO ONE KNOWS WHERE YOU ARE?
COME ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My friend Mark sent me this link to a post on Daily Kos which I wanted to share:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/5/183340/309/352/621029
This is to counter all the smearing coming from the Maverick, who no longer follows his own moral code!
By the way, what happened to "This will be a clean campaign based on issues"?
There’s the John McCain campaign of lies, distraction, grandstanding, and political maneuvering. What happened to you, John?There’s the Sarah Palin show that despite her bravado and her well honed skill, reading a speech off a monitor, this irresponsible VP Hail Mary choice has left our nation with egg on our face.There’s the war we were MISled into.And then there’s the world waiting with baited breath as our economic future is held in ransom by the very people who are supposed to protect our future.
Barack Obama believes in thinking before acting – and he has demonstrated this on numerous occasions.Barack believes in compromise and working with people of all colors – and by this I mean red, blue and green.He believes in working for the common good of all people – trying to make his community and his country a better place to live.Barack Obama believes in a healthy debate and uses good judgment - that does not include attacks on character and underhanded tactics - to the chagrin of others at times.
Barack Obama believes In communication, problem solving, and diplomacy. Though he’s often accused as being professorial and cool – I’ll take level-headed intelligence over charismatic ignorance any day!And best of all, Barack Obama believes in us. And he won’t sell us out just to win an election.
McCain's prime years for the presidency is over. He is late by about 34 years. I believe a President John McCain, a then popular war veteran, would have been better than President Ronald Reagan, a former B-movie actor. But time has moved on, even though John McCain has not.
John McCain, you were once a war hero and a maverick, and the operative word here is "were" so you are not anymore. Time has passed you by. The title of war hero has passed on to those who had died in a questionable war you supported. The title of maverick is held by those with solutions for the 21st century and Barack Obama has the solutions to move this country forward. The time now is Barack Obama's.
Barack Obama is 25 years younger. He is at the prime of his life, superb in intellect and judgment, expansive in life experience and blessed in his wisdom.
Elect Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States!
Dear Readers,
The feeling I got coming home from Tokyo and going through LAX recently was equivalent to the feeling I get when going from the U.S. to Kathmandu,Nepal. Overall, we're closer to Japan than to Nepal, but Japan advances while the U.S. stagnates in most areas. It's because our federal priorities have been wrong. We need to work more on national infrastructure and on our national economic efficiency, and less on blowing up other countries in cases where its not in our vital interest to do so. The Truth and Reason shall set us free. The truth is, in part, that efficiency is what can save our country from itself; inefficiency will kill our hopes to remain and build as a modern nation. We cannot have 4% economic growth (in good times) and 2% wasted on unwise militarism and still have enough real growth to counter population growth; we will always stagnate if that's what we're aiming to do for the next 100 years. Let's just do the math: 4% growth - 2% growth potential wasted on unwise militarism - 2% wasted on increased oil cost = 0% actual smart production-oriented growth. 0% growth - 2% population increase = -2% per capita real growth. That's during the good years.
I don't doubt that some of our excessive militaristic spending comes back to society in some practical and even environmentally friendly and socially positive ways, and there is no question that in a largely unfriendly and angry world, we need some military strength. But military strength does not stem from rapacious no-bid contracts, sheer destructionism, and foreign antagonisms reaped from our unwise and poorly justified deployment of wanton destructive force. So I am sure that the economic math above is imperfect, but it relays a message, to first order: Is there any wonder why most of us are poorer in real terms than we were at the start of this century?
So how can we change it? Stop the -2% wasted on unwise militarism, stop the -2% unwise wastage on increased petroleum cost by investing 1% GDP per year on hybridizing our vehicle fleet and investing in energy-saving infrastructure. That's just for starters, just one sector of the economy. Then start talking about wasted crops being greased up for fuel to spin our wheels doing nothing, wasted human health driven down by smoke, and other total sheer waste and nonsense. I am all for biofuels production if it does not starve the world and our own people, if it can contribute to energy independence and flexibility to respond to oil disruptions, but it is not what we should rely on for our energy future. We can easily attain China's rate of growth in real smart production-oriented and well- being-oriented terms if we become a smarter, more efficient society. We need to overhaul transportation and home construction, and rebuild our cities, with a 60-year plan in mind. Consider what Japan did from the ashes. We don't need foreign aid, but we need domestic smarts.
Economic growth beneficial to well being does not equate to concrete and oil production; that was the 20th Century. We still need concrete and oil, but mostly we need to build infrastructure that lasts for generations and infrastructure that breeds efficiency. We need a total “global” view of our nation’s economy, where global has the usual meaning but also a meaning implying comprehensiveness, where efficiency at the national scale is priority #1. Then we can become, once again, a model for the world to admire and replicate. Environmental security, economic security, military security, and public well being will emanate from wise economic development policies. We need a different view of what Capitalism is; we always have had governmental interventions in the free market, but now we must turn those interventions in such a way that consumption of things that hurt is discouraged, and consumption and innovation of things that promote well being is encouraged. This will require a remaking of the way things have been done. We need to retain from the past things that worked well then and will continue to work well, but things that are driving our nation and the world to the brink of chaos have to be stopped or redirected to more positive ends. Competition works. Rapacious and exponentially rising consumption of stuff for stuff's sake does not.
No politician or scientist or leader will make all the smart moves or have all the wisdom, and nothing revolutionarily good will be totally easy and free of pain and sacrifice. We need to work together, but WORK we must. This bit of wisdom is something I truly believe Barack Obama understands, and he has the guts and capacity to convince America, including our long-standing corporate interests and military/security-minded communities, of what we have to do urgently and without hesitation. This is Reason #1 why I will vote for Barack Obama to become the next President of the United States. The list of reasons, though, is long. I’ll start with #1. Let's win for America and the world in the 2008 elections.
Dr. Jeffrey S. Kargel
For giving us a man such as Barack Obama who will unite this country and help us to bring peace to a world filled with need and suffering.
We are truly blessed!
~ Jazziette
Hello, fellow supporters!
First of all, I want to say, "Thank you" North Carolina!
"BARACK OBAMA" IS A FIGHTER, A UNIFER, GENUINE AND WILL CHANGE WASHINGTON.
Mr. Obama, your speech last night thanking Democrats and North Carolina moved me to tears.
I welcome advice on what websites to target in promoting "Barack" in West Virginia?
Does anyone know of blogs for the Superdelegates that are undecided?
BARACK OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT!
The anti-Obama attacks and are already getting extreme, and it’s still six months before the November election. We’ve been bombarded with discussions about Sen. Obama’s pastor’s words and what it might mean about Obama’s integrity or judgment. Jeremiah Wright, pastor of the Trinity United Church of Christ, said, “God Damn America.” How shocking! I gotta tell you, I’m more scared about the opposition’s tactics (they must have spent a lot of time weeding through old sermons to dig up this stuff) then the words an African American pastor uses to express his outrage at our country’s often misguided policies.
So, what about the D word and what does it mean to criticize America? The word damn is partially defined as “to doom to eternal punishment or condemn to hell”, but that’s not what it means to everyone. I've said damn plenty of times in my life, and I sure didn't mean it in the biblical sense. When I say damn, in my very own secular way, it means I'm mad or frustrated at whatever comes after it ("The damn car won't start," "The damn dog stole a burger," or "The damn President won't admit global warming exists or that the economy is in the crapper.") See, it’s not the word that’s so bad, it’s the situation.
What about Obama’s “association” with someone who would say stuff like this? Hell (whoops, I mean Heck) he already vehemently condemned all the statements that are the subject of controversy. He said the statements directly contradict his profound love for this country. What more do people want?
So what if Pastor Wright said God Damn America. I’d prefer to keep it in context with the many other things he has said. Maybe in the process of talking about mistakes America made he felt so frustrated he couldn’t think of a more rational way to express himself. Maybe he deliberately chose those words to get a rise out of the audience, or to inspire them to take action to make our country better. Lord knows, many sermons leave listeners snoozing. Were those two seconds picked out of hours and hours of sermons where he says uplifting, peaceful, inspiring words? Is Pastor Wright a good person who does good work in the world but who gets frustrated now and then because he’s working with downtrodden people? One thing’s for sure, sound bites don’t give you the whole story.
No matter what the context was for the pastor’s statements, Barack Obama is not responsible for what someone else says. But you can see just how scared the opposition is when they sift through his pastor’s sermons for the past twenty years to get a couple of potentially damaging sound bites. Trust me, that kind of digging for dirt and out-of-context finger pointing is what makes people like me fight all the harder for change.
This isn’t about Obama, it’s about the rest of us reclaiming our government. So here are a few more words for you: YES WE DAMN WELL CAN!
This is a great opportunity for Barack to address significiant problems that are creeping into the economy. The New York Times is reporting that Bear Stearns has agreed to be bought out by JPMorgan Chase:
Bear Stearns, pushed to the brink of bankruptcy by what amounted to a run on the bank, agreed late Sunday to sell itself to JPMorgan Chase for a mere $2 a share, narrowly averting a collapse that threatened to cascade through the financial system. The price represents a startling 93 percent discount to Bear Stearns' closing stock price on Friday on the New York Stock Exchange.
The price represents a startling 93 percent discount to Bear Stearns' closing stock price on Friday on the New York Stock Exchange.
The share price represents a huge fall from what Bear Stearns stock fetched on year ago:
Reflecting Bear Stearns's dire straits, JPMorgan agreed to pay just $236 million for the firm, a figure that includes the price of Bear's soaring headquarters on Madison Avenue in Manhattan. At $2 a share, JPMorgan is buying Bear Stearns for a third of the price at which the troubled firm went public in 1985. Only a year ago, Bear's shares fetched $170. The cut-rate price reflects deep misgivings about the firm's prospects.
Alan Greenspan writes in the Financial Times that this current financial crisis is likely the worst since WWII:
The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the second world war. It will end eventually when home prices stabilise and with them the value of equity in homes supporting troubled mortgage securities. Home price stabilisation will restore much-needed clarity to the marketplace because losses will be realised rather than prospective. The major source of contagion will be removed. Financial institutions will then recapitalise or go out of business. Trust in the solvency of remaining counterparties will be gradually restored and issuance of loans and securities will slowly return to normal. Although inventories of vacant single-family homes - those belonging to builders and investors - have recently peaked, until liquidation of these inventories proceeds in earnest, the level at which home prices will stabilise remains problematic.
Home price stabilisation will restore much-needed clarity to the marketplace because losses will be realised rather than prospective. The major source of contagion will be removed. Financial institutions will then recapitalise or go out of business. Trust in the solvency of remaining counterparties will be gradually restored and issuance of loans and securities will slowly return to normal. Although inventories of vacant single-family homes - those belonging to builders and investors - have recently peaked, until liquidation of these inventories proceeds in earnest, the level at which home prices will stabilise remains problematic.
Wall Street is waiting for what might come next:
A big Bear Stearns-shaped cloud will be hanging over Wall Street this week. As investment banks including Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers and Morgan Stanley kick off the first quarter reporting season, investors' already-frayed nerves have been strained to breaking point by the crisis surrounding Bear.Bankers say last week's near-collapse of one of the most feared and influential US brokerage firms could not have come at a worse time for a sector battered by bad news and huge losses."Banks were going to report bad results anyway, but the Bear situation will put further pressure on share prices and management," says a senior Wall Street banker.
As investment banks including Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers and Morgan Stanley kick off the first quarter reporting season, investors' already-frayed nerves have been strained to breaking point by the crisis surrounding Bear.
Bankers say last week's near-collapse of one of the most feared and influential US brokerage firms could not have come at a worse time for a sector battered by bad news and huge losses.
"Banks were going to report bad results anyway, but the Bear situation will put further pressure on share prices and management," says a senior Wall Street banker.
The Fed took more steps Sunday to ease the crisis:
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said new steps announced by the central bank Sunday should help squeezed financial institutions get cash infusions_ a fresh effort to provide relief to a spreading credit crisis that threatens to plunge the economy into recession. The central bank approved a cut in its lending rate to financial institutions to 3.25 percent from 3.50 percent, effective immediately, and created another lending facility for big investment banks to secure short-term loans."These steps will provide financial institutions with greater assurance of access to funds," Bernanke told reporters in a brief conference call Sunday evening.
The central bank approved a cut in its lending rate to financial institutions to 3.25 percent from 3.50 percent, effective immediately, and created another lending facility for big investment banks to secure short-term loans.
"These steps will provide financial institutions with greater assurance of access to funds," Bernanke told reporters in a brief conference call Sunday evening.
I wrote this on February 8th:
This is a comment I wrote in response to someone who believes that it is too late for Barack to get the Hispanic vote. And, I totally disagree in many, many ways - here are just a few:
I am sorry I do not understand how anyone can say Barack does not understand the Hispanics and that it's too late for him.
I believe he understands Latinos so much more than H.Clinton and McCain does. He is standing up for us, Barack was the only one who was courageous enough to finally say that the "illegal immigrants" are not taking jobs away from others. Which is so true, the jobs immigrants are doing are not jobs that other's want to do! If they want those jobs then go do them and I guarantee they will quit those jobs because they are the lowest jobs yet such extremely necessary jobs in this Country.
Also, why do we put down the "hispanic illegal immigrants"? We have a whole slew of illegal immigrants here, but they are okay to be here? Folks it is THIS government that has put the illegal hispanics as the bad ones. While we continue to do business with them, which we should try to do proper business with the Mexican government.
I believe WE ALL HAVE to remember where we came from, from blacks to latinos to ALL AMERICANS (we are ALL immigrants except for the American Indians and look at what the government did to them.
What we need is a way to allow immigrants to become citizens. Remember Ellis Island? We do not have a simple way for people to become legal. That should be the issue not trying to get rid of the Mexicans crossing the border. We do NOT need a wall (like Berlin - thankfully down, N. Korea, etc., etc.,) we have PLENTY of technology to watch for the drug runners (that is what we have to stop), we don't have to stop these POOR people trying to make a living (if one can call what they make a living). Does anyone out there have a clue as to how many people we have here for over 20 years with green cards and NOTHING has been done about that - MAKE them citizens already! I am annoyed that certain people are saying that terrorists came in thru Mexico - which is a lie!
What if we start to realize that Mexicans as did others helped during Katrina, now here's a good one; we say we care for our soldiers so much, then PROVE it by supporting ALL of our troops including THE IMMIGRANTS that fight for U.S.A.
Does any of this sound familiar to anyone? The last debate!
Barack is THE one - SI SE PUEDE con BARACK OBAMA - YES WE CAN!
Up until that night in 2004, I had never given much thought to politicians. I did not hold them in high esteem, and felt that my votes were always going to the lesser of two evils. The government always seemed out of reach, teetering dangerously on backroom deals and favors for favors. Our laws were held captive by a select few who did not want to relinquish power or money. Only they made a mistake. They let in a “skinny kid with a funny name” who had the audacity to hope.
Maybe I am just a dreamer. A wide-eyed optimist who will follow anyone with an easy smile and a talent for moving speeches. But when I hear, “There has never been anything false about hope,” I believe! I believe that it is hope that keeps these states of America united. I believe that we, as Americans, are defined by our freedom and our willingness to defend it. Our declaration that Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed and that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it. This is our call to action! The current administration has not been a government, in President Lincoln’s words, “of the people, by the people, for the people.”
I believe that this election will go down in history, and that my vote will matter. It will be important, but not because it can be for either the first African American or woman President. It will be important because it will be for the person who will unite us as Americans. It will represent a desire for a responsible and respectable administration. It will be for Barack Obama.
When I listen to him speak, his goals are admirable, but they are not why I am voting for him. Rather than what he wants to accomplish, I am more interested in how he will go about doing it. After enduring President Reagan’s “trickle-down economics” that never trickled down far enough, President George H.W. Bush’s first war in Iraq and promise of not raising taxes never materializing, President Clinton unifying the Republican’s through their hatred for him, and President George W Bush ignoring the voters (and the Constitution), I am more than ready for change!
Barack Obama is not simply change I can believe in, as his slogan suggests. He is the change I have been waiting for.
