I'd like to see a TV or radio program scheduled regularly during prime time
Entertaining enough to attract segments of population who ordinarily wouldn't keep up with political news and factual and informative enough for the segment of population who defininitely do. A show for all people.......
One that outlines each of Obama's Teams, their purposes, plans, processes, progress, and successes. One that inspired and lets the American public know what they need to do to be involved and do their part. One that creates enthusiasm for Americans and other nations as well.
and One that creates unity of humanity, peace, and hope.
Why Obama will win this election:
America is thirsting and starving for integrity and truth and justice and to restore theoretical American values.
Every time the Republicans do something dumb his numbers go through the roof because people are getting sick of the BS. As an attorney working in the United States of America, Barack Obama knows that if someone accuses him of something, the burden of proof is on them to prove it out. He doesn't have to do anything or say a word. So, he sat back and watched those Republican piranha eat themselves alive. It's classic textbook legal courtroom know-how and savvy, true American-style.
I wish I had enough money to pay him to represent me in my own court case. I'd pay him a million-dollar retainer just from having watched him work in real life. Classic. Helluva lawyer.
He's even got trained volunteers all over the country (including Florida) positioned to watch the polls on Tuesday, along with the sheriff's, cops and lawyers in each polling precinct that were already assigned there. He was Ready on Day One. If that's not a man who would have been prepared to go into Afghanistan and kick bin Laden's asz and get the hell out without very much loss of life, I don't know who is.
Preparedness always matters -- and so does an exit plan.
He had this campaign mapped out when he threw his hat in the ring. I can tell it by the way he's run it and kept people inspired through two whole LONG years of one hellacious battle after another. He already knew what was coming, he prepared himself, his family, and his supporters, and argued his case before the people like a true American lawyer, betting on the fact that there are more people out here with a little money than the few who have a ton of money. He was right. Even that Andy Martin nutcase backwoods lawyer who challenged him on his Hawaiian birth certificate has GOT to know my now that Obama would knock him cold out in a courtroom, if he ever had the privilege. I mean McCain wasn't even born on US soil and not once has Obama asked for his LONG FORM birth certificate with a raised seal on it.
They've thrown everything at Obama's character and integrity BUT the kitchen sink and he's not even feeling it, at least not in public. He doesn't even have smoke billowing from the coals they tried to burn him with. Looks like America has finally gotten the message that racism doesn't work for ANY OF US, but our thanks go out to McCain, Palin, and especially to Hillary Clinton, for trying it out this election year, and to Obama for addressing it before it went too far with the only people who count. Those who are voting for him.
While the Rethuglicans were busy acting the asz over petty personal crap just because they could find no fault with him politically, he stayed fresh, low-key, focused and on-target...and he didn't let anyone or anything slip out of his razor-sharp aim while he was at it.
He's got the same staff he started off with--nearly zero fallouts, if any. He told people to vote early and vote absentee (basically, because they can choose where they want to vote AND because sheriff's, lawyers, law students, and policeman watch the count on the absentee ballots and "vote counters" are sequestered like jurors on an OJ Simpson trial during the entire process -- LOL!!! Theoretically, I could guess any number of reasons Obama told us to vote early and vote absentee, but that's another book for another time.)
In the meantime, McCain has had to start over with a new staff every 2-3 months. Nobody trusts him and his own people don't like him -OR- Sarah Palin. The people on McCain's OWN campaign call him a nutcase and called her a moose-killing "diva."
The man Obama did not go to law school for nothing and he's been as cool as a cucumber in spite of all the attacks. Whoever paid for his law degree, it was obviously worth every dime.
He just smiles and keeps rolling because he knows he's above reproach and has nothing to hide. What he is "hiding" someone made up just like those people who threw tainted evidence in OJ's trial in California and ended up killing their own case just for trying to be sneaky about it.
If Obama was hiding something, like Sarah Palin did with those governmental Yahoo emails, no one would be able to find it so easily. Yet, his record is right out there for anyone who has internet access and a newspaper or even an old dialer radio to see. That's why he doesn't respond to the attacks unless he has no choice: His whole attitude is 'check the record for your damn self, I've got a campaign to run'.
Funny how people use christianity to manipulate people, then don't act like christians after they get what they want form the idiots who are being played. That's proof positive that America wasn't a christian nation from Day One. However, getting back to my point here:
Not once did Mr. Obama ask to see John-boy's birth certificate, though McCain wasn't even born on American soil, period. Obama has worked in America all of his adult life, and has always paid his taxes here as a citizen, as well. He had to have his birth certificate and social security card to get a driver's license and do anything and everything else he has done as a US citizen, but that wasn't enough for them. He passed their OWN system of checks and balances; then just because he did, they had the audacity to challenge the crap THEY invented. His integrity in attacking McCain on issues ONLY speaks volumes.
The fact that he never once attacked McCain's personal character or his integrity as a man and a citizen of the USA has sent a long and wide viable and visible message to the people who support him, as well as those who weren't supporting him before who have now bailed on McCain.
It says a lot about a man's character when he can stay focused and on point and on message, with a few minor adjustments here or there--because Obama is 'finally' starting to sound like a broken record--which means he is at the closing stages of his argument that not only can America get back on track and fix this Republican-made mess; but yes, we can get past our racial and ethnic and religious differences and be the One America that we should always have been from the start. It's a good thing he sounds like a broken record these days: It means he never lost sight and never lost track of his original goals and intentions. In two years, he never once allowed himself to be side-tracked by the BS. True textbook application of legal theory. Argue your case directly to the jury and to hell with the judges--in the end, the people, the jury of peers, are the ones who get to decide. If OJ WAS guilty, Obama is the man who could have put him behind bars for life.
McCain on the other hand, changes his message depending on who he is talking to and what mood they are in at the moment. Obama stays on message and on point no matter who's yelling "terrorist" and McCain shifts his message depending ON who's yelling "terrorist."
Now, let's see McCain and Palin keep themselves above reproach like that at least until Tuesday: (my guess is, they can't. They started a hailstorm of racist activity by not addressing it from Day One and they have to stay with it or risk some more troublesome news in the next two days).
From what I, Ye Olde American Citizen, have seen so far and for the past two years, the only way they were GOING to take Obama down was if they had managed to rattle enough skeleton bones, dunk enough Klan-type boogey men, slam enough Netherworld coffin lids, and roll out enough short-sheeted ghosts to scare the hell out of everybody. Apparently, they didn't have enough money to buy all of their costumes, props and equipment for the season because they were too busy spending it on Sarah Palin's clothes.
Halloween's over.It's been real.
Time to move on and get down to the REAL business of electing a president.
Obama 08
The pre-paid credit cards are traceable.
hey have a card number on them just like any other debit or credit card which was applied for through a bank or loan company or savings institution. They have to be registered when purchased at the counter in order to be activated.
If Master Card and Visa and AMEX makes these for gift card purchases, then they have a paper trail of every purchase made and at every store they were made--even if they don't have the purchaser's name. The purchaser has a receipt for their purchase and can be brought forward. Anything that doesn't show up with a receipt gets rejected.
In other words, if they are accusing Obama donations of possibly being from "bad sources" the burden of proof is on them to prove they are--and they can't prove it. They're just preparing for a legal showdown Tuesday if Obama wins by stirring up a can of lies ahead of time to provide a backdrop for issues they themselves created and caused.
If they're so "up" on fraud and bad donations that can't be traced, it means they've done it themselves. Many times. As my granny said, "If a man accuses you of cheating and you KNOW you're not--you might want to take a deeper look into what he's doing." He might be telling on himself.
There are about 50 different ways those debit cards can be tracked down--they come through legal American banks. This isn't a government that spies on its own citizens and doesn't know how to track down the sources of credit card purchases, even if they ARE unregistered gift cards.
Besides, Obama can give it all back today if he wants. His campaign is, literally, IN THE BLACK. He's already slated to win on Tuesday without having to spend another dime. McCain and Palin have been doing all of his campaign spending for him, anywhere from inciting race riots and violence against a presidential candidate to heaven only knows what else out of plain pure jealousy.
Had they ran their own race on the issues instead of attacking Obama as a man, he might have had a bigger and more contentious fight on his hands; but they shot themselves in the feet and the mouth, thrashing around on a race card that likely cost them this election as it cost Hillary the primaries.
I don't do YouTube videos at all (though I've watch thousands other people have done) and these are my very absolute first, so the quality of the clips are not a good texture. I had to use MS Windows Moviemaker and couldn't find a "fix" in their program, so...
Here Goes:
I wish someone would give me some pointers on making these pictures clearer...but...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmJiIYuWPF8p
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG7RMK0FIBQ
I hope you enjoy them anyway
I am one of those "faceless" credit card users and I have every right to donate money online with my credit card if I so choose.Who do these people think they are? They sound very jealous to me. Or is that there are more people out here with $5 or $10 than there are millionaires with a million dollars to donate to McCain (not that Obama doesn't have his share of "rich" contributors).
Millions of people use their cards online every day to pay bills and conduct other kinds of business and transactions, including making donations to charities and other things.I'll tell you why Obama raises so much money. Because every time the Republican campaign 'smears' him or tells another lie about his campaign, we get emails from friends and family saying to donate anywhere from a dollar to $10, or more if we can, for every lie they tell that ends up being untrue: If the Republicans would stop lying, Obama wouldn't collect so much online. They need to stop the racism and the lies.He gets $5-$10 just from me alone every time they call him a terrorist, an Arab, a Muslim, say he's not an American citizen, or just plain outright says something racist -- and I don't mind sending it. I work part-time and I don't mind sending it, I'd send more if I could.Obama collects this money because the Republicans won't shut their nasty unscrupulous faces and stop calling him racist names. owadays, not too many people write hard paper checks any more. So what?No one should have to show up at an Obama headquarters in person wit cash just to donate money to his campaign. There is a jealousy factor in there "scrutinizing" his online donations and calling people like "faceless," as well as in that "birth certificate" mess.If Obama has to show up with a birth certificate with a raised seal after having worked in America and paid taxes here as a citizen all of his adult career life, then we want the birth certificates of every politician in this nation...raised seals and all.If someone dares to try to take away my right to donate online in whatever amount I please up to the campaign contribution limits, they will hear from me and hear well. As well as thousands of other "faceless" people like me.
They've tried everything in their power to stop the steam shuttle, but he just keeps rolling along. If they'd stop messing with Obama, people would probably slow down on the giving.Just because he's internet savvy and they are not, they are not going to make him an exception. He's worth more than John McCain. That ought to explain everything.
Honest truth is, Obama should not have to spend another dime on campaigning in the month of November: McCain and Palin have done all of his talking for him and spent THEIR money doing it. LOL!!!
Last week, we posted a video of two friends, Anya & Emily, canvassing in Minneapolis.
Both Anya and Emily have made a personal commitment to volunteer for at least three hours each week to make sure Barack wins Minnesota on November 4th.
Watch the video of the drive back from the canvass, as Emily and Anya share their experiences with each other:
When you get out and talk to voters about Barack, you feel like you're making a difference, because...you are!
Check out Neighbor to Neighbor right now and see how easy it is to print up a list of people to canvass right in your own neighborhood.
This post-debate weekend is the perfect weekend to get out there and talk to your neighbors about the real differences between Barack Obama and John McCain. Getting a real live visit from a real live supporter makes a difference at this crucial time when voters are making up their minds.
And it's also a great time to get your kids involved!
Anya said it best: it's inspiring just to hear how excited other people are about Barack Obama.
That's the Best 2 out of 3 and McCain and Palin's numbers are slipping as we come around the corner to Election Day 2008. Yet, it's still not time to relax.
Palin has been been made out to be exactly what she is -- an inexperienced candidate who is not ready to lead this nation. She doesn't even have any business being Governor of any state, let alone Vice President of the nation. She will never ever be taken seriously.
McCain's "SP Trump Card" failed.
Bottom line in last night's debate: McCain told people in an off-handed way NOT to vote for him. His words were "We can't afford to turn this nation over to a beginner," or "someone with no experience," or words to that effect... more toward the end of the debate. He wasn't talking about Obama, he was taking a side-swipe at Palin, who has criticized him for conceding defeat in Michigan. McCain knows he has lost and it is only a matter of time. Bush and everyone who thinks like him has to leave office or we're all done. Everyone except them and their rich Arab oil-shipping magnates, that is. Taxes are going to be raised anyway--Obama's point is who's supposed to foot the bils when they come in? The people who are getting the greatest benefit from this nation, the rich and the abundantly prosperous business owners. For them, "trickle down" has meant 'p-- on all of you sandal-clad minions'. Yet, they are the ones who have been triple-dipping in our pockets (low wages, mediocre healthcare, big tax shelters and writeoffs that we pay for) and playing with the lives of our loved ones and keeping us fooled and divided for the wrong reasons for more than 100 years.
But the Bible teaches us that the wealth of the wicked is stored up for the righteous; so God is causing the winds of change in America -- change that is going to benefit all of us. I don't even think Obama or Biden are aware of exactly what the Lord is doing in their lives at this moment. It is all good.
Win or lose, God has used Barack and Michelle Obama for a purpose: To tell us to stop being afraid and stand for something and stand and watch His glory in all things. That that we don't believe will ever change can be moved overnight, as God sees fit.
I believe Obama/Biden will win in November because of this alone. Truth told, though -- even if they do not win this election, God has still used Obama in a might way in America, to take us to the place where Dr. King would have wanted and expected us to be by now.
In whatever manner that Barack and Michelle Obama have come into our lives at this time, be it personally and up front and close or just through the websites and airwaves, in whatever manner it was: Their being here this season and not being afraid has made a difference in and changed all of our lives for the better. Even those of us who don't know it yet soon will.
If I were to ever meet them in person, I would thank them for their obedience to God. Just for being who they are and for taking a stand in perilous, hard, and a wild and crazy era...and in a nation where everything that could have gone wrong did go wrong.
But still we rise to the occasion...
I wonder if McCain is going to prove out to be a man of honor in this case and admit that Obama is the better candidate?
I know that he can't just drop out, because too much time and money has been spent; but I think he's coming to the conclusion that he's too old, too tired, not focused, is losing, doesn't have a viable running mate, is losing money, losing attention, zest, appeal, and one of the reasons he didn't go after that old tired character debate regarding William Ayers or Jeremiah Wright is because he knows (a) it's unfounded; and (b) people are tired of hearing about it because we've been there over and over again ad nauseum. It's meant to frighten and distract a nation of people who are still filled with ignorance and hatred for all the wrong reasons--people who will not take the time out to investigate, but will believe anything anyone tells them.
If McCain would have brought up Wright again last night, he'd have been dragged through the mud in this morning's news. Obama is no longer even a member of that church and Wright's no longer a pastor AT that church. Wright has since retired and really didn't say anything wrong in the first place. It's all past tense regardless of what anyone says--and the last thing McCain himself wanted to hear about again is The Keating Five and his own dank and radical and questionable past.
McCain was definitely more directly involved in the Keating Five scandal. In Obama's case, he was simply a member of a church where stood a very angry black man who was angry with good reason: This nation has not been very good to its black citizens, who have worked hard, and for many many years worked without pay -- and that's the truth.
Bringing up Ayers or even Tony Rezko would have brought out things about McCain that I think he no longer wants to think or talk about. People are looking for 'soap opera' or 'reality show' or even Jerry Springer drama toward the end of this election. When they don't get it, they call them "snores," because they are too politically correct and don't draw enough blood.
Yes, we are a bloodthirsty nation; but character attacks -- we've already done it and it's tired, old, and boring in itself.
The best thing he [McCain] can do right now is concede that if the USA wants Obama, it should have Obama. He needs to do the right thing for this country for once and step aside and finally not just be an officer, but also a gentleman.
On the other hand, Obama, I believe, is ready to get in there and turn this nation around for the good of all concerned and finally wake people up and make this government fair for EVERYBODY who is at least willing to try. Not just a privileged few with high incomes, people who make up a relatively small percentage of this population overall; but for the nation at-large. And that's not change we can Xerox, that's the change we need. It is the hope of the world.
There is a lot that can be said about Obama and his candidacy and what it will mean to America at this point, but now is not the time or the place for another of my "tomes" or "diatribes."
I'll save that one for my best-selling book.
In the meantime... Vote early. Vote sensibly. Vote strong.
AND PUT SOME DEMOCRATS IN YOUR STATE OFFICES FOR GOVERNOR, HOUSE, SENATE, MAYOR, WHATEVER ELSE YOU'RE VOTING ON OR FOR IN YOUR STATE'S GENERAL ELECTION SO THAT OBAMA AND BIDEN DON'T HAVE TO FIGHT HEAVEN AND EARTH FOR THE NEXT FOUR YEARS TRYING TO GET THINGS DONE.
The more Democrats we put in office, the easier things are going to be for ALL of us; and maybe some of the goodness of God that is in the people who TRULY believe in freedom and justice for ALL (and don't just mouth the words, but also act accordingly) will "trickle down" to the Republicans and those who have made their riches at our expense (i.e., middle class and working class poor) all these years.
We're well into the real underpinnings of the "swift-boating" of Obama to come.
The swift-boating by Bush and Rove in '04 started with the candidate himself (i.e., Bush)...he was his own "mouthpiece"...almost nothing too nasty, sarcastic or sneering was too low for Bush to say in the '04 campaign. And, it almost doesn't matter what Obama says (i.e., no matter how carefully he chooses his words), McCain will belittle anything he says...because he'll use any words of Obama to belittle him which is the technique they use to make Obama the issue..instead of the economy, Iraq and other issues people should really care about. McCain is already keeping warm the "coals" for the ongoing swift boating of Obama that is occuring in the internet.... But even without any more "formal" swift boating....say like a published book...the fix is already in. It's the definition game "stupid" so to speak.
Swift boating by any other name is manipulation, smear and defamation...and most importantly, the rubrique for the technique that the Republicans have long used to McCarthy-ize their presidential opponent. Why can't some key democrats and campaign advisors better see this...and develop effective counter strategies? It is a paradox...particular given the "deer in the headlights" reaction of the Kerry campaign when it victimized him.
McCain is well ahead of Obama in defining Obama...he doesn't have to worry about Obama defining him* because the Obama team hasn't figured out yet that they have to define McCain...and not just talk about the issues... Bill Clinton did a masterful job of this when he first ran in 1992. If Clinton, a guy who said he never inhaled, can figure out how to play the "definition game"...so can Obama. But he and his team better get cracking because every day is a day he's losing on that front...the central front of any presidential race! We need all need to hope and pray that team Obama catches on before it is too late!!!
*just calling McCain Bush III, as Obama has dones, is not enough to win this game!
I hope he was either wired or had that house swept for bugs...I wouldn't trust a 'secret' anything with Hillary Clinton. It'll be all over the news by tomorrow.
http://www.gigwise.com/news/42287/roger-waters-ghastly-hillary-clinton-will-invade-iran
Roger Waters: 'Ghastly Hillary Clinton Will Invade Iran'
If she is elected Americas next president...
Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters has attacked democratic hopeful Hillary Clinton – calling the senator from New York “ghastly”.
Waters, who admits to being a fan of Clinton’s rival for the democratic nomination, Barack Obama, said that Clinton would invade Iran if she was elected America’s next president.
“I was so disappointed the other night when the ghastly Hillary got Texas and kept the whole thing going," he told the Independent.
"Please God, let's not have this woman! Hillary will want to make her mark and show that she can be just as good as a male president, and she will fucking invade Iran.
“Trust me. She voted to declare the Iranian Republican Guard a terrorist organisation!"
Despite being ineligible to vote, Waters, who lives in New York, said he would “buy a whole page in The New York Times” in order to “fly Obama's flag”.
“But I would be terribly afraid they'd go, 'This is that pinko shitbag who's attacking our President in time of war',” he added.
Clinton and Obama next face off against each other in the Philadelphia primary on April 22nd.
The t-shirt, of course, has long been a political tool and is an incredible billboard to promote change. You can wear Barack Obama t-shirts to raise awareness, buzz and name recognition. What is great is that they don't cost much and they are quite effective. Obama really is someone who we all believe in and feel comfortable backing so don't be shy, get yourself an Obama t-shirt because it the march to the White House is not over yet. Be a part of Team Obama!
Visit SuperObama.com for more cool Obama T-Shirts
The Dallas Morning News has announced that they are supporting Barack in his run for president. As a native Texan, I am surprised, yet ecstatic about their endorsment.
People working for Obama around the country will be interested to read this Chris Hayes article from the Nation Feb. 19 issue about David Axelrod, Obama's media consultant.
www.thenation.com/doc/20070219/hayes
One clip:
Even though he lives 1,000 miles from the notoriously clubby world of political consulting, Axelrod has become one of its most successful and respected practitioners. Mark McKinnon, who produced George W. Bush's ads in the last cycle and now works for John McCain, calls Axelrod "the best media guy out there who doesn't have a ring." With his quick wit and knack for soundbites ("The Icon gets hoisted," Axelrod said of the media's treatment of star candidates, "and then it becomes a piñata"), the onetime Chicago Tribune political writer is a favorite of reporters seeking quotes. Charming as he can be with journalists, those who have worked with him say, he can be "aggressive" and "extremely difficult" in the trenches of a campaign. Colleagues point out that he's uncommonly idealistic for someone in his line of work, though a veteran Chicago reporter noted that this has its limits: "He's a principled guy, but he's not a philanthropist. The candidates he's worked for have been well funded, and he's made very good money doing what he does."
