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Since January 20th 2009 Barack Obama is the 44th president of the United States of America, a very historic inauguration day. Think back to 1963, when Martin Luther King held his famous speech, saying "I have a dream...", and see what a positive change has allready been made since then. With Barack Obama the first African American president in US history is in the White House, Martin Luther King`s dream is about to come true and that´s really great ! - Shop America supports Barack Obama and wishes him all the best for his future, hoping that he can really perform the "Change" for America and the world ! - Visit our Barack Obama section and check out "Yes We Can" and other political designs on t-shirts, buttons, stickers and more: BARACK OBAMA DESIGNS - YES WE CAN
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Embossed Metallic Engraved Seal
Earlier this week, I got a very official looking invitation to the Presidential Inauguration coming up in 11 days (YaY!). It includes a fancy embossed metallic seal on cardstock. You can tell it's the real deal because the back is pressed in.
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Back of Embossed Metallic Engraved Seal
I wish I could be there, but no way could I hang in a crowd of an estimated 1 million to 5 million people with only a few port-a-potties sprinkled around. In the snowy cold no less. True, watching the first African American being sworn in person is a once in a lifetime, never to be repeated again event, is worth the hassles to plenty of people, but I'm not one of them. Although some of the goings on look really good and I hope they show the events on TV.
Envelope for Presidential Inauguration Invitation
Monday and Tuesday Events related to the Inauguration.
Lance Wyman designed art piece inspired by Barack Obama’s campaign.
Breakthrough
By
Robert Ferrell
A little over four hundred years ago in a hot cotton field an already drained tired old woman dropped a seed of blood from her dried hard hands into the soiled dirt of mother Earth. No tears, no fears. The blood like the old woman refused to cry and die in the blistering sun. Instead it soaked and steadily rolled deep into its mother never to stop never to wait for death was not a fate.
Somewhere on the same plain under another owners name was another slave, feeling the burn from the crack of the whip being ripped from his back. And if that isn’t enough pain the word nigger replacing his African name by a man of another complexion. No shock here that a tear or two full of hopes and dreams rolled off his hot salty face and drill themselves into the calm sands. As he prays that his children somewhere in this unknown land don’t feel the same affliction.
Not calm for long is this unfertile dirt as the tears and the red seed that moved constantly finally meet in the underneath. Never a fight between mother and father, as they began to composite with one another deep down in their mother. After some time in the dirt’s clutches a root of Will broke through. It seems that through all the infinite numbers of tears. Tears of hope, and fight from above began to find ways to seep through the significantly thick pavement being poured on top layer after layer.
Through all the turmoil above the rapes, beatings, lynching, mutilations, bombings, and assassinations, was a loud thought that echoed deep into the grains causing the root to feed rapidly. In time the root replied to this thought but not by sound. Not by the speeches not by the violence. The root was never judgmental of the two. For they never out weighed each other in their time of struggle. The root heard the calling from the two. The root heard the songs being sung while marching, and felt the pressure from the hoses, and the teeth of the protected German Shepherds break through the skin of the young men and women. The root felt the tremble of the body that fell in the Audubon auditorium for bringing meaning to the phrase “by any means necessary”.
As the root began to feed on these acts and ideals it grew a stem that started to push itself through the cracks of the controversial pavement. The bottom from which the root came softened from the resurrection of the tears of hopes and dreams and the Will carried by the seed.
Yet after overcoming all those obstacles the seed still toils to get through the gravel. The sharp edges of laughter pointed at a young black man who has the audacity to think he can become a senator let alone the idiocy to dream of being a presidential nominee.
The summer of two thousand and eight is just about over and the stem inched its way above the blistering pavement. Now the sun that harassed the seed so long ago finds itself supporting the seeds beliefs. The senators’ peers no longer laugh, but cast a ballot under his name on their behalf.
A little over four hundred years ago a fearless seed was planted and hopes and dreams nourished it. The dreams became a belief and the hopes were raised to a promise. On a cold night in November two thousand and eight something unspoken had taken place. The stem grew a leaf when it was expected to freeze. That young senator now a little older stands center stage on a cold night in Chicago. That little stem flexed its roots and broadened its stance.
All these roots, all the martyrs, and all this pain endured by so many others, hint a grin to one another of the sacrifice put forth along the way. Now today is a breakthrough that is our honor to speak his name by stating first “the forty-fourth president of the United States of America”. A country shouted the word “change!” and now the world speaks his new name. President Barack Hussein Obama, the man who has challenged a planet of many to think about the single leaf growing on a very young tree in need of company.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the 2009 Presidential Inaugural Committee announced the honorary co-chairs for the Inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden.
In keeping with the President-elect's commitment to an inclusive and bipartisan Inauguration, the list of honorary co-chairs includes members of the President-elect and Vice President-elect's immediate families as well as prominent Americans from both sides of the aisle who have dedicated their lives to selfless service to their fellow citizens.
"Vice President-elect Biden and I are grateful to these distinguished men and women for agreeing to serve as Honorary Co-Chairs for the Inauguration," said President-elect Obama. "From family members to former Presidents, each of these leaders has an unwavering commitment to bipartisan cooperation and a proud record of service to their community and our country. They exemplify the spirit of unity and shared purpose this Inauguration will reflect."
The Honorary Co-Chairs for the 2009 Presidential Inauguration are:
For the latest information on the 2009 Presidential Inauguration, please visit www.pic2009.org.
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I’m finished with the Reagan Democrats of Macomb County in suburban Detroit after making a career of spotlighting their middle-class anger and frustrations about race and Democratic politicians. …
For more than 20 years, the non-college-educated white voters in Macomb County have been considered a “national political barometer.” … After Ronald Reagan won the county by a 2-to-1 margin in 1984, … I conducted focus groups that “found that these working-class whites interpreted Democratic calls for economic fairness as code for transfer payments to African-Americans.” So what do we think when Barack Obama, an African-American Democrat, wins Macomb County by eight points? …
Before the Democratic convention, barely 40 percent of Macomb County voters were “comfortable” with the idea of Mr. Obama as president, far below the number who were comfortable with a nameless Democrat. But on Election Day, nearly 60 percent said they were “comfortable” with Mr. Obama. About the same number said Mr. Obama “shares your values” and “has what it takes to be president.”
Given Macomb’s history, this story helps illustrate America’s evolving relationship with race. … But focusing on the ways that Macomb County has become normal and uninteresting misses the extraordinary changes taking place next door in Oakland County — a place that played a bigger role in Mr. Obama’s success and perhaps in an emerging national Democratic ascendancy.
While Macomb County is home to the white middle class that America’s auto industry made possible, Oakland County is home to the affluent, business-oriented suburbanites of Birmingham and Bloomfield Hills, some of the richest townships in America. Just a quarter of Macomb County residents have college degrees, but more than 40 percent do in Oakland. …
Oakland County has formed part of the Republican heartland in Michigan and the country. … Over the past two decades, Oakland County began to change, as an influx of teachers, lawyers and high-tech professionals began to outnumber the county’s business owners and managers. Macomb has been slow to welcome racial diversity, but almost a quarter of Oakland’s residents are members of various racial minorities.
These changes have produced a more tolerant and culturally liberal population, uncomfortable with today’s Republican Party. … On Tuesday, Oakland County voters gave Mr. Obama a 57 percent to 42 percent victory over John McCain. … That helped form one of the most important new national changes in the electorate: Mr. Obama built up striking dominance in the country’s growing, more diverse and well-educated suburbs.
So, good riddance, my Macomb barometer. Four years from now, I trust we will see the candidates rush from their conventions to Oakland County, to see the new America.
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Here is the letter I sent to the NY Times.
I personally thought that if this was any kind of a just country that Obama would win by @ 15% margin.This is a clear example of the power of a good man running for president coupled with a high level of communication that reaches the public at the highest level of convenience. The ironic thing is that the republican party could not attempt to do this because it requires an honest party with an honest cadidate in order for them to willingly be exposed so openly and easily.That is why Barrack won by a 100% margin.That is why the republicans sat there on T.V. at John McCain's election watch party with egg on their face because they did their best and pulled every dirty trick that they had as usual and were still thoroughly trounced. That is why the elitists out there were in tears as they watched and realized that Obama has changed the game forever and even the highest level of government must now listen to and answer to the new era welly connected and unified mainstreet massess that are now more highly informed due to the wide spread acceptance and understanding of the internet. Well done.Man, I thought that I would never get to see this day.
“Mad about The One. The US media have been captivated by Obama, at the expense of their curiosity and scepticism.”
This is the title of an article by Harold Evans in The Guardian on November 1, 2008. He resorts to the bias he decries in his one-sided column. I have reproduced it below in its entirety, along with my annotations {…} . Phrases that I comment upon are in boldface.
It's fitting that the cynicism "vote early and vote often" is commonly attributed to Chicago's Democratic boss, mayor Richard Daley, who famously voted the graveyards in 1960 to help put John Kennedy in the White House. In this 2008 race, it's the American media that have voted very early and often. They long ago elected the star graduate of Chicago's Democratic machine, Barack Obama. {Obama is a hardly a “graduate“ of the machine. What about Harvard Law, Columbia, etc.?}
I am not talking of editorials in newspapers, though Obama has the preponderance of the endorsements over John McCain. Obama certainly deserves the credit for recruiting impressive advisers and running a more efficient campaign machine than any one in the US's political history.
What's troubling to anyone old-fashioned enough to care about standards in journalism is the news coverage in mainstream media. Forget the old notions of objectivity, fairness, thoroughness, and so on. The nastiest rumours on both sides haven't been published, but the coverage has been slavishly on the side of "the one". {“Slavish”? Evans’s description.}
Let me start off by saying — this is about us.
This campaign is not about Senator Barack Obama. This campaign is not about Senator John McCain. This campaign is not even about Senator Hillary Clinton, Senator Joe Biden, or even Governor Sarah Palin.
No, this campaign is, has always been, and always will be about US.
This campaign is about us because whoever is chosen to be the next President of the United States of America is direct reflection upon us as American citizens, as a nation.
I say all of this to remind people that we are all a part of this choice, whether or not we vote in November 2008.
I want people to remember that it is sooo important to talk but it is much more important to take action. Action bodes movement in the direction that may actually end up in change that leaves an impact upon other people’s lives.
In light of the first debate between the two presidential nominees, I want to stress how important it is to take action right now, each and every single one of us.
I am an avid supporter of Senator Barack Obama, so the list of action points that I have listed below are to support Senator Barack Obama.
If you support Senator Barack Obama, the Democratic Party, or just are against a McCain-Palin administration and you are looking for some way to feel a part of making something happen, please read below. Thanks!
Be sure that you are registered to vote: http://www.voteforchange.com/index_obama.php
10 ways to get involved: http://obama.3cdn.net/56d7862be8e614eef6_b6m6bndg2.pdf
Spread the word about these ways to get involved or any others you come up with - we did it and we can do it again!!! We really can!
"Just keep swimming...just keep swimming!" - Dory
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I had a dream: We are writing the year 2016, America has left behind the economy crisis of 2008 and developed to a green, social and prosperous society. The unemployment rate is down at 2.3 %, the number of poor people dropped from 37 to 9 million, the national deficit is only a fourth of that in 2008. Every American has affordable health care now, and Obama`s tax cuts have put more money into the pockets of the middle-class American, which led to higher consumption, re-fueled the economy, and created millions of new jobs. Above all 5 million new created green collar jobs and a better, more effective environmental policy with solar, wind and other renewable energies dropped America`s energy bill, air pollution and CO 2 balance by 25%, making the country cleaner and almost independent of foreign oil. America´s is about to become the world leader in green technology, especially due to the broad-scale introduction of US built hybrid cars. In foreign politics America has restored faith and regained respect in the world community of nations as a wise and peaceful mediator in all conflicts. This and other measures also led to an improvement of the national security. The dark Bush years are history and America has made the real CHANGE to a better future - YES WE COULD - And due to the great achievements of Barack Obama`s successful 8 years in national and international politics a committee was founded, proposing the extension of his presidency for 4 more years, as applied during the Roosevelt administration.
Was all of this just a dream ? - No, you can make it happen by voting for OBAMA next Tuesday - It is now up to you, America !
SHOP AMERICA SUPPORTS OBAMA
A Presidential President
Following the race from the White House from afar it is interesting to observe which of the candidates appears most presidential. In 2008 it is quite obvious that both Barak Obama and Joe Biden have the grace, dignity and character to be President whilst neither John McCain nor Sarah Palin come across as “presidential”.
From a foreigner’s and US foreign policy perspective the ability of the President to be presidential is very important. The United States is often referred to as the “leader of the free world”, in this capacity the President of the United States is also the President of the free world. Whilst the free world followed Bush (GW) into Iraq and Afghanistan the presidency of the United States has since become so discredited that it must be doubtful if the rest of the world would follow the US quite so readily again. Indeed the financial crisis has seen a lack of world leadership from America with France, the UK and Australia enabling multi-lateral talks. No doubt this reflects Bush’s low standing in the world arena. It is quite possible that the damage done by American financial institutions to the global economy will reduce the respect and influence that the US commands as the world’s biggest economy. It is reasonable to expect that both governments and businesses world-wide will look to reduce their reliance on the US economy and diversify their financial activity so that the collapse of no one country can again trigger a global crisis.
In such a situation the leadership and influence that the United States is able to exert will depend not so much on economic strength (or even military might) as on the personality of the President. Consequently, if America wishes to retain its global influence it will be essential that the next US President be truly presidential. In watching the four debates and subsequent campaigning by the respective candidates it is obvious that the Obama/Biden partnership understand the gravitas that goes with role of US President. John McCain probably understands this too, but is so determined to prove his “maverick” credentials that he loses sight of the main game and chooses Sarah Palin as his VP, and her chances of being presidential are about as good as my chances as an Australian becoming US President.
So what does being “presidential” mean? There’s probably an essay if not a thesis in answering that question. To try and be succinct: a president should have an understanding of the world and the influence they can have on the world, they should be prepared to use that influence to the benefit of all but only take a decisive or significant decision after due consideration, reflection and consultation with those of the same and a different persuasion. A president must be able to inspire with their words and actions, have confidence in themselves and so be able to put the needs of others before their own needs. A president should earn respect through well argued debate being gracious in victory and defeat. To take a quote from the US Government’s Presidential Management Fellows Program, a President of the United States of America should have a “clear interest in, and commitment to, excellence in the leadership and management of public policies and programs”.
Obama and Biden have more than demonstrated that they have presidential qualities. John McCain and Sarah Palin have not. If America wants to remain the leader of the free world through respect for its leadership rather than by force of economic and military might then it is time for change, it is time for Barak Obama and Joe Biden.
If you think this race is won, two words: New Hampshire. Go to http://www.barackobama.com to get involved right now. We have to keep running through the finish line. It's too important to take anything for granted. It's too important to let up now. The future you seek. - The future we seek together. - The future we seek for our children. It's too important to let up now. We have to keep running through the finish line.! For the change we need. Barack Obama and Joe Biden 2008 ----------------------------------------
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The polls after the debate show that Barack Obama is the clear front runner. Many believe that he came out tops in all the debates. I think that with his obvious skills that he should win more convincingly over a debater with such an obvious lack of skills. Take the now infamous line “Sen…I’m not President Bush, if you want to run against President Bush you should have run ..4 years ago” There should have been no pausing and the retorts should have been many. And this Joe the plumber could have been silence immediately. But Obama was still very effective.
Fate After The Debate
Foreign affairs, healthcare and the economy
All Independents wanted to hear what would be their policy
The National debt, housing, abortion and tax
Energy, any of these, discussed to their max
And what they got was the time being used
For thoughtless exchange on topics abused
The Bill Ayers saga and Acorn too
Every reference outplayed, everyone battered through
Republican wanted this kind of attack
They got what they wanted but it didn’t stir Barack
He was as cool as a cucumber and didn’t lose a stride
Every one should see he had nothing to hide
Democrats got what the wanted, Barack staying on point
Even when McCain knocked his jaw out of joint
Barack if you wanted to run against Bush why not 4yrs ago
And what have you to say to the average plumber Joe
There is only 19 Days ahead, what shall be the fate
Everyone is asking after this the Final Debate
I watched all three debates. Obama won all three. I compare these to the Kennedy-Nixon debates, where Kennedy, a young, good-looking, smart guy shows the nation how presidential he is. Nixon looked scary and sleazy.
Obama was cool, logical, and presidential. That just increased through the three debates.
However, McCain looked mean, angry, and uncomfortable. The only thing he improved upon was eye contact, but then last night he ruined that by rolling his eyes a couple of times. McCain was grimacing, squirming, and constantly scribbling on his note pad -- he looked very un-presidential.
Last night, McCain brought up several points -- verbatim -- that he brought up in the previous debate. So Obama just refuted them again. He even said at one point, "As I said in our last debate..." McCain's only new material was "Joe the plumber". After invoking "Joe" (brought up memories of Joe Sixpack) 14 times, it became farcical. A joke.
McCain looked sad, corpse-like, and desperate. McCain may have shored up his base, but he lost the undecideds with his negativity and downright un-likability.
Barack got the hat-trick!
In tonight's closing of the presidential debate Senator Obama said three words that we very infrequently hear from our leaders; "Sacrifice Service & Responsibility".
If anyone has had any reservations about Senator Obama's "presidential" characteristics, his call for America to take some responsibility for itself should seriously put those reservations to rest.
It is rare to ever hear from a politician that we can't have our cake and eat it too. It's almost unheard of to hear those sentiments in the throes of a financial crisis and a national election only weeks away!
