It bothers me deep down inside when:
The opposition is behaving in ways that they would never stand still for if they were in control. But they aren't, are they, and that bothers them to no end. We're the Majority We did win the election, right? By a sizeable margin. This wasn't a close call or anything. We are the majority. We're not a play majority, and we're not a temporary majority. We aren't a placeholder until the real majority recaptures power. We're the real, honest-to-goodness majority, and it's time we started acting like it. We need to make our voices heard, and to speak out against these unfair tricks when we see them. Let's face it, the other side has been in cotrol for a while now. They are used to being in control, and know how to act like being in control. I think they've developed the mindset that they are the ones who really should be in control, regardless of who wins any election, because they are the only wise ones, and because they see themselves as the sole heirs to control of the American system. These two beliefs enable them to do things like try to sweep us and our opinions under the rug, in effect saying, "Shut up, kids, we will decide what is appropriate or not." We don't have to let them do this, since we are in fact the Majority. We only need to start living the part.
Originally posted on http://www.respectyourpresident.net/
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Will The Fairness Doctrine Silence The Conservative Voice?
Listen to the Ed Meese Radio SpotFreedom of Speech Our 1st Amendme... I have just taken action to stop the attacks on our Free Speech Rights, and I'm asking that you join with me by clicking here: Will The Fairness Doctrine Silence The Conservative Voice? + + Will The Fairness Doctrine Silence The Conservative Voice? Will 2009 usher in a fanatical push to re-instate the so-called Fairness Doctrine? Such a move would effectively silence the conservative voice and remove the last conservative stronghold against a fast-moving liberal agenda. James & Lydia, One need only read the words of Dianne Feinstein to see the true threat to conservative speech that is brewing on the horizon!" Talk radio tends to be one-sided. It also tends to be dwelling in hyperbole. It's explosive. It pushes people to, I think, extreme views without a lot of information ... I'm looking at the [Fairness Doctrine]... Unfortunately, talk radio is overwhelmingly one way." Recognizing this threat, the Media Research Center has created the Free Speech Alliance which is a coalition of organizations and citizens strongly opposed to any such move to limit or undermine our Free Speech Rights! Please take a moment right now to join the hundreds of thousands of Americans who oppose the Fairness Doctrine and all that it stands for by clicking here: Will The Fairness Doctrine Silence The Conservative Voice? Thanks for joining with me. Mr. & Mrs. James & Lydia Everitt P.S. If the liberal voice in America has their way, the Fairness Doctrine will end conservative talk--including Rush, Sean, Laura, Mark, and a host of others. Take action today by clicking here: Will The Fairness Doctrine Silence The Conservative Voice? Hey, President-Elect Obama is hard at work getting this country back on track, but he’s counting on all of us to get involved.I just signed up to learn more about the presidential transition, and I thought you might want to do the same. Just visit Presidential Transition, and enter your e-mail address in the top right corner. Thanks. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. Amendment I, The Bill of Rights Freedom of Speech - Our 1st Amendment - Our Sacred Right! Posted by Better Home Business at 9:04 AM 0 comments Links to this post Labels: biden, blueprint, Bush, commercial, Congress, economy, Election, energy, gotcha, grassroots, independence, kennedy, McCain, News, Obama, outreach, palin, pickensplan, political, senate
Keep Joe Lieberman
For those of you non-clickers, here is the first post.
Democrazies
Here is the petition you are urged to sign at http://liebermanmustgo.com/
"We CANNOT tolerate a leader of the Senate Democratic Caucus who supports George Bush and McCain's War in Iraq. We CANNOT tolerate a Democratic chairman of the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee who endorses and stumps for McCain. We call on the Senate Democratic Steering Committee to strip Joe Lieberman of his chairmanship and his leadership role."
This is preceded by the statement:
"Demand the Steering Committee remove Joe Lieberman's position within the Democratic Caucus in 2009."
These people are so busy foaming at the mouth that they can't even write plain English. Do they want Lieberman removed from the Caucus entirely or just as chairman of Homeland Security. What is his "leadership role", other than his chairmanship." He is not on the Steering Committee, according to them.
As for the petition itself, it is laughable. These people are clearly living in the past. The election campaign is over. Obama is President-Elect. He says he will be president of all the people, which includes Lieberman and McCain. The latter even referred to him as “My president” in his concession speech.
So this group who “cannot tolerate…” is indeed intolerant. And hypocritical as well. They refer to “George Bush and McCain’s War.” Let’s see. Those voting for it included Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, and John Edwards, among others. (But not my Senator, Carl Levin, to his everlasting credit.)
This group also wants to disenfranchise the people of Connecticut, who re-elected Lieberman (running as an "Independent Democrat") in 2006. They seem indifferent to the following facts.
I am getting fed up with the common opinion that the democrats are in control of congress. I hear it day after day on the news and from Republican spokes people. Every day it seems I am correcting people I meet who think the Democrats have some significant majority in congress and are letting a small minority of Republicans and in party bickering stop them from doing anything.
The Democrats may have a plurality, but they do not have a majority. Let alone a philibuster proof majority. The last I looked the Senate is composed of 50 Democrats, 49 Republicans, and Joe Lieberman. Might as well be 50 to 50. This is not a Democratic Senate. I wish everyone would make this clear to all those that say the Democrats can't get anything done. Duh, of course they can't when they are tied in one house and the Republicans have Bush in the Whitehouse.
Please, add this to your comments when ever the opportunity presents itself. Let the public know thgive me liberty or give me coinolitical reality. I know after 7 years of an administration that believed that if you said a lie often enough it would become the truth, it is hard to counter the conditioning the american public has received. We need to remind people that a lie is a lie no matter how often you repeat it.
Lyndia Saad reports for Gallup.com:
PRINCETON, NJ -- Gallup Poll Daily tracking from Aug. 30 through Sept. 1, finds Barack Obama leading the race for president with his highest share of support to date. Fully half of national registered voters now favor Obama for president, while 42% back John McCain.
Prior to now, no more than 49% of registered voters supported Obama for president in Gallup Poll Daily tracking. Still, Obama's eight percentage point lead over McCain in the new poll falls one point shy of the lead he attained in late July after returning from a well-publicized trip to Europe and parts of the Middle East. At that time, Obama led by nine points, 49% to 40%.
McCain's 42% support is well below his 48% top support level, recorded in late April/early May. It is just slightly better than the 40% he received at several points in July, and the 41% favoring him just last week while the Democratic National Convention was underway. (To view the complete trend since March 7, 2008, click here.)
At 8%, the percentage of undecided voters is slightly lower than the 9% to 11% figures seen for most of August, and this is the lowest this figure has been since early June. This, in part, reflects movement of voters toward Obama over the course of the Democratic National Convention, a lead which has been sustained in subsequent days.
The field period for today's results includes Monday (Labor Day), when the scaled down Republican National Convention received limited media attention while most news coverage either focused on the hurricane hitting parts of the Gulf Coast or Monday's surprise announcement that the 17-year-old daughter of the soon to be Republican vice presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, is pregnant. The Republicans hope to start up a more traditional convention schedule today in St. Paul, with the goal of capturing the same kind of media and public attention the Democrats did last week in Denver. -- Lydia Saad
http://www.gallup.com/poll/109960/Gallup-Daily-Obama-Hits-50-First-Time.aspx
Like the man said, Take the Fight to the GOP!
Henry M
In our pursuit of protection of the minority from the tyranny of the majority , we have wrestled with the inequities of the Electoral College ( negating a majority popular vote ) , the two seats / state in the Senate that can sometimes frustrate popular will, and the delegate fiasco we are currently experiencing ( which honestly should not be happening -- the Democratic Party should be mortified over this development ).
The simplest thing that occurs to me might actually circumvent a lot of these problems while preserving minority protections as they are expressed in the voting habits of the populace.
Why not institute a party statute , and eventually a constitutional amendment that awards delegate selections and electoral college votes not on the basis of total population, but rather on the basis of VOTING population in the previous major election years?
It would preserve the notion of popular VOTE being dominant, while also giving a measure of anti-bully protection to the smaller states ( and delegations ). In essence, you could bulk up as much as you wished.
Imagine the levels of voter participation we would finally begin to experience in this country. There would be incentive to vote for all factions. It would TRULY make their vote meaningful, even if their candidate lost. Are we ever embarrassed that the supposed bastion of democracy in this world exhibits the lowest voter turnout of all ?
It wouldn't hurt to make voting a 2-day, weekend holiday process as well ( as in many European countries ). God knows we could do without another questionable national holiday in favor of a voting one.
It is my hope that those responsible for this site and information dissemination in the campaign would respectfully forward these ideas directly to Barack Obama for immediate consideration.
Finis / Andrew Tipton
From Barack: What we just achievedby Christopher HassTuesday, May 20, 2008 at 10:00 PM
The polls are closed in Kentucky and votes are being counted in Oregon, and it's clear that tonight we have reached a major milestone on this journey. We have won an absolute majority of all the delegates chosen by the people in this Democratic primary process. From the beginning, this journey wasn't about me or the other candidates. It was about a simple choice -- will we continue down the same road with the same leadership that has failed us for so long, or will we take a different path? Too many of us have been disappointed by politics and politicians more times than you can count. We've seen promises broken and good ideas drowned in a sea of influence, point-scoring, and petty bickering that has consumed Washington. Yet, in spite of all the doubt and disappointment -- or perhaps because of it -- people have stood for change. Unfortunately, our opponents in the other party continue to embrace yesterday's policies and they will continue to employ yesterday's tactics -- they will try to change the subject, and they will play on fears and divisions to distract us from what matters to you and your future. But those tactics will not work in this election. They won't work because you won't let them. Not this time. Not this year. We still have work to do to in the remaining states, where we will compete for every delegate available. But tonight, I want to thank you for everything you have done to take us this far -- farther than anyone predicted, expected, or even believed possible. And I want to remind you that you will make all the difference in the epic challenge ahead. Thank you, Barack Obama
The polls are closed in Kentucky and votes are being counted in Oregon, and it's clear that tonight we have reached a major milestone on this journey.
We have won an absolute majority of all the delegates chosen by the people in this Democratic primary process.
From the beginning, this journey wasn't about me or the other candidates. It was about a simple choice -- will we continue down the same road with the same leadership that has failed us for so long, or will we take a different path?
Too many of us have been disappointed by politics and politicians more times than you can count. We've seen promises broken and good ideas drowned in a sea of influence, point-scoring, and petty bickering that has consumed Washington.
Yet, in spite of all the doubt and disappointment -- or perhaps because of it -- people have stood for change.
Unfortunately, our opponents in the other party continue to embrace yesterday's policies and they will continue to employ yesterday's tactics -- they will try to change the subject, and they will play on fears and divisions to distract us from what matters to you and your future.
But those tactics will not work in this election.
They won't work because you won't let them.
Not this time. Not this year.
We still have work to do to in the remaining states, where we will compete for every delegate available.
But tonight, I want to thank you for everything you have done to take us this far -- farther than anyone predicted, expected, or even believed possible.
And I want to remind you that you will make all the difference in the epic challenge ahead.
Thank you,
Barack Obama
The real victory Tuesday came in Mississippi's special election. In Mississippi's First Congressional District, Democrat Travis Childers defeated his opponent in what has been a Republican stronghold for years and years. His opponent had tons of support from the Republican Party as conservative icons Mike Huckabee and Dick Cheney came to MS to stump for him. They also ran television ads tying Childers to Obama. They think Obama, not Clinton, is the boogyman to scare conservative Southern voters into voting Republican. Well, it didn't work there, just as it didn't work in Louisiana's 6th Congressional District on May 3. There, Democrat Don Cazayoux won a seat that had been Republican for decades. There, too, the Republicans ran ads tying Cazayoux to Obama. Cazayoux and Childers join Illinois Democrat Bill Foster, who won a special election in the 14th there in March for a seat that had been held by not just any Republican, but by Dennis Hastert, the longest-serving Speaker of the House in history. Foster immediately declared as a superdelegate for Obama. And although it was not a switch from Republican to Democrat, I would also add Andre Carson's special election win in Indiana's 7th district as significant. He is a black Muslim. In INDIANA! What all this drives home is that Obama's coattails are already gaining impressive victories for Congressional seats when he's not even the nominee yet. Childers' victory happened because people everywhere want change in Washington, and Obama is emblematic of that change. The real bellwether of success in November is not a traditionally Democratic state that sometimes votes Republican, but these traditionally Republican districts that are electing Democrats to Congress. THAT was the real election, the only meaningful election, on Tuesday. And Obama won it.Full Article here
The real victory Tuesday came in Mississippi's special election.
In Mississippi's First Congressional District, Democrat Travis Childers defeated his opponent in what has been a Republican stronghold for years and years. His opponent had tons of support from the Republican Party as conservative icons Mike Huckabee and Dick Cheney came to MS to stump for him. They also ran television ads tying Childers to Obama. They think Obama, not Clinton, is the boogyman to scare conservative Southern voters into voting Republican.
Well, it didn't work there, just as it didn't work in Louisiana's 6th Congressional District on May 3. There, Democrat Don Cazayoux won a seat that had been Republican for decades. There, too, the Republicans ran ads tying Cazayoux to Obama.
Cazayoux and Childers join Illinois Democrat Bill Foster, who won a special election in the 14th there in March for a seat that had been held by not just any Republican, but by Dennis Hastert, the longest-serving Speaker of the House in history. Foster immediately declared as a superdelegate for Obama.
And although it was not a switch from Republican to Democrat, I would also add Andre Carson's special election win in Indiana's 7th district as significant. He is a black Muslim. In INDIANA!
What all this drives home is that Obama's coattails are already gaining impressive victories for Congressional seats when he's not even the nominee yet. Childers' victory happened because people everywhere want change in Washington, and Obama is emblematic of that change.
The real bellwether of success in November is not a traditionally Democratic state that sometimes votes Republican, but these traditionally Republican districts that are electing Democrats to Congress. THAT was the real election, the only meaningful election, on Tuesday.
And Obama won it.
Full Article here
What this means is, party insiders fear the loss may be just another sign of a coming bloodbath for congressional Republicans this November. National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Cole acknowledged that the GOP faces a challenge and “must undertake bold efforts to define a forward-looking agenda that offers the kind of positive change voters are looking for.”
Well...'duh!!'
Wouldn't it be wonderful to have President Obama providing his leadership to unite a Congress who actually understands the kind of CHANGE the People are looking for, and that Congress had a significant leadership majority who could actually get something done FOR THE PEOPLE?
As they say in West Virgina, 'Almost Heaven.'
There are times and places where one's voice needs to be heard above the clamor of others who may think differently or wish to go in a different direction. The need to raise one's 'voice' is not a call to shout or to shout down others, but to preserve one's integrity of belief and feeling so that one can become a 'majority of one'.
Such a majority does not depend on numbers or on the approval of others in order to gain legitimacy. It does not seek to sway others to its own point of view in order to gain momentum for holding its own. Rather, such a voice is based on the firm foundation of spiritual integrity, and feels a moral calling to declare the beliefs by which it lives – beliefs which no other can undermine or alter through outer pressure, but which can only be altered through a change in inner perspective.
To become a 'majority of one' is to replace reliance on numbers of those holding a point of view, by the single depth of commitment of one.
It is to replace the gathering of outer force with the gathering of inner force.
It is to sanction and uphold the values of the inner being with a steadfastness that comes from alignment with inner truth and with the light that upholds this truth.
Many times in our social and political life, we turn to outer numbers in order to legitimize and give credence to a point of view that would otherwise not be listened to. Many times, we do not hear those who speak firmly but in a small and gentle voice. The need for the 'outer' majority will always be, for it is the way of establishing the creative foundation for a democratic and pluralistic society. Yet, the need for the 'majority of one', the single voice that upholds truth, must become the sure foundation for such an outer majority. Indeed, the 'majority of numbers' must become one in which every individual represents its own point of view faithfully, and with full adherence to the deepest beliefs it is capable of locating within the self.
There are many kinds of pressure that are applied, today, to get people to join the 'majority of numbers' - to get them to move in a given direction. There is the pressure of appearance, where one who looks differently or sounds differently is made to seem foolish or 'out of step' with the times. There is the pressure of dogma – where one who thinks differently is made to feel like a heretic, treading on long-established or sacred values. There is the pressure of force – where one who remains faithful to their own 'voice' begins to feel endangered by doing so through the loss of relationships, work, financial support, or other context which forms the external structure of a life. There is also the pressure of moral conflict – in which those who hold different views from oneself feel equally strongly about the moral integrity and depth with which they hold them.
This last is the most difficult kind of pressure for a 'majority of one' to contend with. For moral truths come in many sizes and dispositions, and it requires great clarity and great love to see that others who hold different perspectives may also hold a portion of the truth, yet be different from oneself.
In the end, a 'majority of one' is not an isolated individual, but one who is committed to the future of humanity and who seeks to improve that future in whatever ways are possible. This occurs through the commitment to a way of thinking and feeling that influences the consciousness of others by its very strength and depth, and by the force of its truth.
(CNN) -- A majority of Democrats would like to see Barack Obama rather than Hillary Clinton win their party's presidential nomination, according to a national poll out Monday.
Fifty-two percent of registered Democrats questioned in a new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey say the senator from Illinois is their choice for president, with 45 percent supporting Clinton.
The poll also suggests Democrats are more enthusiastic about an Obama victory (45 percent) than for a victory by the senator from New York (38 percent).
The two remaining major candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination are locked in a fierce battle for their party's presidential nomination, with Obama holding a slight lead both in delegates and the overall popular vote in the primaries and caucuses to date.
"The same patterns that we have been seeing in recent exit polls are holding true for Democrats nationwide as well. Obama's biggest support comes from men, younger voters and independents who lean Democratic," CNN polling director Keating Holland said. "Clinton does best among women, older voters and whites. One interesting difference, unlike the exit polls in many states, there is no difference in the national poll between college-educated Democrats and those who never attended college."
The nomination could hinge on two major matters: superdelegates and the possibility of do-over primaries for Florida and Michigan.
The two states broke national Democratic Party rules by moving up the dates of their primaries to January. None of the major Democratic candidates campaigned in the two states, and Obama's name wasn't even on the ballot in Michigan.
The national Democratic Party also banned Florida and Michigan's delegates from attending the party's national convention this summer. But with the fight for the nomination nearly deadlocked and the reality that winning both Florida and Michigan is crucial for the Democrats to take back the White House in November, there's now a movement toward letting both states vote again.
Sixty-three percent of Democrats said the two states should hold new primaries, with 19 percent saying delegates from Florida and Michigan should be seated at the national convention based on the results of the January primaries, and 15 percent saying no delegates should be seated at all.
If Clinton and Obama finish the primary season with close to an equal number of pledged delegates, then superdelegates could decide which candidate wins the nomination.
There are nearly 800 superdelegates, mostly Democratic members of Congress, top elected state officials and leading members of the Democratic Party. Fifty percent of those polled say that it's a bad idea for the party to have superdelegates, with 42 percent supporting the system.
Since the party is not going to scrap the superdelegates, the big question is how they should base their vote for the nomination.
Democrats appear split on this question -- 49 percent say that superdelegates should base their votes on their view of who would be the best candidate; 46 percent say that superdelegates should base their votes on the results of the primaries and caucuses.
The CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll was conducted by telephone March 14-16, with 1, 019 Americans questioned, including 463 registered voters who identify themselves as Democrats or independents who lean Democratic.
The survey has a sampling error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points.
I understand Obama is not going to win certain Republican strongholds like South Carolina or Mississippi in the general election, or at least has a slim chance of it even though the enthusiasm shown in the primary.
Yet one thing not being talked about is that he could help candidates down ticket from him to pick up seats in congress that maybe dems thought they had no chance of picking up. That could help Obama ride into Washington with a working majority in both the House and the Senate that allows real change to be made and people to get behind him. With the republicans he could inspire to join him he would easily have a powerful majority in the Government to change all the failed ideas and policies of the past 8 years and longer.
Human beings evolved over the last 100,000 years in small groups that survived by working together to compete effectively against other small groups occupying the same territory. This worked until some groups developed religion and language and technology allowing larger and larger groups to exist together relatively peacefully.
Eventually the advantage of larger and more civilized groups gave way to villages, cities, and finally nations. But our competitive nature remained -- allowing for wars, genocide and nations incapable of existing in peace on the same planet.
Finally, at some point after witnessing massive wars many humans started to realize that with the killing capacity increasingly available to anyone with a grudge, hate and war may no longer be a viable option for survival. More and more people witnessed the insanity of murderous conflict when cooperation could achieve so much more.
But one nation in particular continued to use war as a means of solving its problems. It was even embedded in their national anthem. But eventually, even this empire began to feel the economic, human and political effects of an 'us' vs 'them' approach to life and the rest of the world.
Then a man emerged. A man who himself was an example of ‘otherness’. And, his persistent talk of change and hope, and his uniting manor sparked a realization in some people. And that spark spread. Eventually a majority ignited and the flame of possibility spread from sea to shining sea. And, for the first time in human history, the whole world started to see the possibility of a world were cooperation could finally defeat competition.
There was no guarantee that this man could accomplish the task at hand. It's not clear any human could. Things had deteriorated significantly and hope had almost vanished. But, maybe, must maybe, by working together with increasing tolerance for others who are different...we have a chance. A chance of building a world where human evolution will continue and the possibility of perpetual war or human extinction is lessened. And we fully become the explorers, creators, lovers and warriors for justice that helped us evolve this far
Only time will tell. But the of the majority of the American people still have an important role to play.
My good friend and mentor Jack Ellis has always told me that …
“In order for people to ‘get it’, it has to become so painful that they can no longer stand the pain.”
