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Well Saturday's September 26th event turned out to the largest LA COUNTY Townhall meeting to date since the Congressman Adam Schiff’s event in San Gabriel Valley. McKeon and his staff were busy pleasing themselves over the 800 RSVP’s. I watched them giving one another high fives.

Someone had left a visible unlabeled box under the stairwell and the sheriff department responded cautiously to its contents. After one bold sheriff realized that it wasn't ticking, he opened it. And all disgustingly shook their heads to find La Rouche magazines with Obama w/a Hitler mustache on the cover . . . They reclosed the box and shoved it back but out of view, I agreed with their disgust, but this is a country of Free Speech, exhibit #1.

There were close to 1,500 people there. Of course, the repubs say that it was 2,000. The initial anxious and alert crowd snaked around the building well before 8:15AM. One event planner was giving the others high fives in relaying “we have up to 2,000 RSVP's”. They had done their job. NOT. For it to be a healthcare meeting, the elevator didn't work for the physically impaired. Although, later in the morning, I heard the janitor exclaim to the sheriffs “it was working on Tuesday, I checked it myself”. Funny, there was little signage to let the public know that the elevator was even there.

I heard the janitor explain to the sheriff officers that the spring wasn't leveling as it should, hence it wasn’t usable. One officer offered that it was a safety violation and should be fixed quickly. I watched the janitor huffing up the stairs. I thought to myself, he’s in relatively good shape, not lean, but if he is huffing up the stairs and stopping at the first landing, what did he expect from moms with a child in a stroller? Some wheelchair bound and motor cart attendees looked dejected when they saw the final set of stairs. There was no signage telling them to keep going up the 20 degree hill to the side entrance of the gym. Some turned around expressing angry others called up asking for assistance.

I saw one young woman run down the stairs and offer to walk the man around the building. The person concerned, but not sure responded, “if you will take me all the way”. The guest obliged him.

She asked me if I knew where the side door would be, I told her it was my first time there also, “I don’t know”. I thought if democrats were in charge, we would have known to facilitate the handicapped and physically challenged. It is a requirement to holding a democratic event.

Eventually a guy in a white Boys and Girl’s Club polo called on a phone and a man came up with a golf cart. The cart man wheeled around to help the gentleman on the canes. I watched Good Samaritans grabbed the front of baby strollers to assist several mothers and a father. I saw audience members descend the stairs to aid physically exhausted elderly men and women, who were measuring their steps to ascend the stairs. One lady I ran down to help pulled her arm away. “I can help myself thank you, ” she was feisty but physically unstable. I retreated. Another man who had seen her too, came down behind me and she allowed him to help her up the last landing. “Thank you sweetie”, I heard her smile and say to him, as she turned around and sneared at me. He and I bodily shrugged at the same time and simultaneously shook our heads . Another form of Free Speech, I thought.

If the planners were concerned about healthcare wouldn’t they have had a plan for this situation I thought. But maybe that was the ultimate message “everybody for themselves”, because they have pulled themselves up by their boot straps why worry about anyone else? No one ever considers that someone made those boots. We can’t get there by ourselves, it takes all of us to make a village and I was taught this years before Hillary Clinton ever wrote the book! (to be continued)

US-African Affairs: Clinton "Lost" in Translation in Congo

Franklin Katunda — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:44:35 EDT

Lost in Translation

By Franklin Katunda

Washington DC -- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was asked a very central question on US economic interests in Central Africa at a forum in Kinshasa, DR Congo. Unfortunately, an inquiry most Congolese have called insightful in regards to the US-Congo relations got “lost in translation”. Not only, had it lost its significance in the media coverage, but worst, given their slacking pleasure not to look into news tips and details, US media networks condensed it into another Clinton’s “saut d’humeur” sound bite.

A “key” question stolen by just another “sound bite”

This was, indeed, a very momentous question ever asked to a top US official in public by a citizen of Congo about the US-Congo relationship: China’s government economic engagement in the DR Congo, in the light of what the US-Congo cooperation should had been. The question was put out of context by a staffer who (apparently) did not understand the Congo’s accent of the student who spoke the French language, and provided a bad translation to Madam Secretary.

First, it is a shame for the State Department to recruit a language poorly-skilled staff to the highest US diplomatic affairs’ cabinet, regretfully. Than the media coverage of the forum was curtailed in the frenzy that always worships and longs for the Clinton buzz. Newscasters focused more on what they think Madam Secretary wanted to convey to Africans on her abilities vs. former president Clinton to bring about a new era in US-Congo relationships.

Result: The “I’m the Secretary of State, not my husband” was headlined on front pages of newspapers and 30 seconds “sound bite” played all day on every American TV network. The Daily News and the New York Post and others quickly “Xeroxed” the AP breaking news for their morning (August 11th) cover page. American listeners and viewers were unfairly fed with a sound bite played on almost every network, even though US journalists recognized the incident turns out to be a wrong translation of what the student’s question really meant. Interesting, business TV channels such as CNN-Money, CNBC and others Bloomberg News should have had interest in covering the story but all seem to have missed the ball… Or simply did not elaborate on another China’s gain over the US in the world’s business competition we have been losing at every inch of the way.

The release of the recorded-translation clearly casts a (female) voice translating the question by University of Kinshasa’s student (a young man), and it reads: (about the China and Congo’s relationships…)”What does Mr. Clinton think through the mouth of Mrs. Clinton, and what does Mutombo think about?” instead of translating: “What does Mr. President think through the mouth of Mrs. Clinton, and what does Mutombo think about?” The real argument here that one can make sense out of is to just think this: What if the incident played good for the US diplomat who happened lucky to not even dodge the question? Students from all over the world like President Obama, and students in Congo understand their aspirations in regards to the current US Administration. Any reference to Bill Clinton to reflect on China-Congo relationships won’t even cross their minds a beat, given the former president’s background on the Great Lakes conflict since the 90s.What strikes me, as I write this opinion piece here, is that the media did not extensively comment on Madam Secretary’s response, even after a clarification was made about the true meaning of the question.

Just as many Americans have not learned any consistent news on Congo’s fate in past decades. Meanwhile, China has gain significant economic interests in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Sudan, as reported several informed-organizations. The US has been on the side lines, had timidly and sometimes just rhetorically referred to their will to “work with” these war-torn nations in order to help them recover, instead they did not effectively engage them economically.

The US government failed, to a large extent, to support them with conflict resolution during the invasion of the Eastern Congo region, the horrific mass killings in both Sudan’s Darfur region and Congo while complaining, for more than a decade, about the violence borne of sequences of civil unrests. America talked “human rights” when it comes to consequences of the war (rape and violence on civilians) but did too little when it comes to put pressure on the governments of Congo and Sudan, while China did none of these things and would never even refer to the observance of human rights when they strike a business deal. In facts, it’s not a secret to anyone that China, still a totalitarian regime, has made huge progress in economic development and diplomacy although a “red” regime. China seats on the UN Security Council without being questioned too much on plans it has to protecting and respecting the rights of its own citizens.

A call to US Media to factually and objectively report on African Affairs

A Huffington Post website writer critiqued the lack of depth in facts by US media coverage of the Congo’s conflict that required 17,000 UN peacekeepers to intervene, and yet unsuccessfully pacified. Georgianne Nienaber wrote that we (reporters) “owe Africa the same kind of attention to detail and accuracy in reporting. There is a certain sloppiness that happens in reports from Africa, and we can all do better”, she said.

A few newspapers like the NYT which report on DR Congo every other 6 weeks, sometimes with just a few short articles lost in pages 6 or 10; reporters negligently write without really attracting US scholars and citizens’ curiosity on the Congo’s crisis when, ironically, this war has been called the “worst armed conflict involving many countries since the World War II”. Radio, TV commentators and producers turn away from citizens’ calls and emails when contacted to speak out and to contribute in news analysis about the Congo during their show casts.

I personally was a guest-contributor on US-African Affairs with Voice of America (VOA) in Washington DC, and I sat down on a radio/web-TV panel that debated on the post-Congo’s 2006 presidential elections. My opinions on the topic, as always, were so pointed and my account of facts very challenging versus the scripted version they had. It’s safe to say that they did not align with the producers’ talking points on the DRC crisis, and (reason why) I never got invited again, despite my calls, emails and offers to contribute in months that followed. CNN anchor Anderson Cooper and reporter Lisa Ling for the Oprah Show played a praised but risky role when reporting stories of rape, violence and genocide in the Eastern Congo during the Bush Administration.

Anderson went with President Obama to Ghana to report on the history at slave trade site, but Anderson’s CNN remained silent on Hillary Clinton’s trip to the DR Congo… No special report, not even a press correspondent was seen to be on Clinton’s plane to Congo… Why? MSNBC only played that sound bite over a “lost in translation” question, without reporting or calling for a news analysis on the question and the town hall’s highlights. Chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell invited on three shows in two days following Monday’s forum just elaborated on what may have gone wrong with the secretary of state as a person.

What a shame to reap a worst news spotlight with such unfairness in journalism, when so many human rights advocates, bloggers, Congolese and American scholars in US, activists like Kambale Musavuli of Friends of the Congo, Jean Kamba, Abraham Luakabuanga, John Pendergast or my-self; book writers, freelance photographers and even lawmakers like former GA Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney worked hard and took risks of their careers, calling for years for an exclusive spotlight on Congo since the war started?

Recent developments on the ground

The bigger Congo’s picture here is that investigative journalists in US still ignore the magnitude of the civil unrest and violence between militias, and more the illicit exploitation of minerals in Congo’s conflict zones. A recent government “launch of the operation Kimia II in the DR Congo has seen a spike in the number of sexual assaults against the women of the Kivu’s”, wrote in an editorial, Scott Morgan, web-editor of the “Confused Eagle.” One key problem, he wrote, is that the “FARDC (Government of the Democratic Congo’s Armed Forces) is not able to sustain combat operations against the Rwanda’s FDLR.

As part of the Peace Accord, the Government in Kinshasa has instructed its army (FARDC) to integrate some of the former Militia Groups into the Regular Armed Forces. The FDLR have had bases in the region since they were driven out of Rwanda, after the horrific genocide of 1994.” The FDLR (Hutu Rwandans) “have a tactical advantage of knowing the terrain” in the Kivu provinces compared to the Congolese government forces, writes Morgan.

A columnist in LA Times, Helen Winternitz, said that the Eastern region of Congo has been set by civil wars for a decade, a horrifying symptom of breakdowns through the entire government. The undisciplined Congolese army and the various militias combating the FDLR use rape as a weapon of war. As many as 200,000 women and girls have been raped, some men mutilated to the point of death in what is described as the world's worst episode in mass killing and sexual violence.

Meanwhile, on an unprecedented twist since August 1998, Rwanda and Congo’s heads of state orchestrated a quick meeting in Goma, Kivu to normalize their diplomatic relations (under US’ recommendations?) … What do the two leaders discuss when they met in Goma, days before Clinton’s trip in Congo? Not much consistent is known about. The Tutsi General Laurent Nkunda (a Rwandan-born rebel), who terrorized the Kivu’s civilian population under Congo’s “laid up” President Kabila’s watch (his accomplice), was arrested a few days before the inauguration of Barack Obama, after he benefited with an impressive military logistic support from Rwandan President Paul Kagame (his mastermind). So many unreported happenings, news stories out there…

Congolese Bloggers and Web-news critiqued some of Hillary Clinton sayings

Although Mrs. Clinton was overwhelmingly welcomed in Kinshasa, Congo’s capital city, the Agence France Press (AFP) reports that she faced “some tough questions from students.” Questions from students at a forum in Kinshasa were worth being reported in western media, and of course only a few European and Congolese local newspapers commented on.

The American public and even some high government officials don’t know the history and the recent happenings in the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire), and if the conventional media won’t help with the matter, perhaps “citizen journalism” took over with tools like i-report, twitter, you tube, facebook, hundreds of Congolese news websites and many other independent blogs are beginning to help build networks of African news sharing in US. I’m not sure this can fight the coalition of powerful press agencies like the well-known AP, Reuters, AFP, Belga, Xinhua… But it’s been making a whole difference in shaping the public opinion.Signs of progress in social networking being noticed in Congo; residents of Kinshasa by-passed some of these traditional media who either report for either side of the story and just missed the point.

One web-twitter present at the forum (August 10th at 8:39 AM our time) wrote: “Town Hall ended a short while ago, that was pretty exciting, seeing HRC, Fox News, Secret Service and Mutombo in one room.” Another person twitted on Clinton’s address to Congolese students, reporting what she said at that very moment: “I came here to talk to you students before anyone in your government; I expect more transparency from your government” US News media would not broadcast even on a 30 seconds sound bite that: “A student told Clinton, to applause from the crowd, that underdevelopment (of DR Congo) stemmed from a long history of Western exploitation in the resource-rich nation, once notoriously the private fiefdom of Belgium's King Leopold II…”, as reported the AFP here.

Digging deep on the forum’s aftermath, one of the US top diplomat’s answers to Congolese created an outrage in many circles in Kinshasa; when Mrs. Clinton refused to “look back to the past”, saying she (the US) wants to “work with people who are seeking for a good future, not those who refer to the past.” An online blogger for hinterland wrote an open-letter back to Clinton saying: “This one sentence from your answers to the forum in Kinshasa is very saddening, and brings wordiness among the Congolese people, which is still traumatized by a 13 years-long war.

Your country, the US, wrote Roger Puati, wants to work with the Congolese people while suggesting that we live by your way of thinking: Never refer to the past… Meaning forget the humiliation we have endured for 10 years and even more for the past 50 years?” An expert on Central African Affairs and author of “East along the Equator”, Helen Winternitz writes in an Op-ed that “When Congo emerged from the vicious colonial rule of Belgium; the United States empowered and, as a Cold War tactic, supported Mobutu Sese Seko. Utilizing the dictator was considered a legitimate tool by American policymakers who did not worry about the long-term consequences. Mobutu fathered the corrupt and dysfunctional mode of governing that now plagues the country.

”Another Congolese appalled by Clinton’s remarks, Jean-Pierre Mbelu writes on a French/Flemish language website Congoforum.be: “In our faces, Mrs. Clinton asks us (Congolese) to turn the page on a past that holds more than 5 millions of lost lives ! “What about this? Secretary Clinton calls for trials on soldiers who raped in war zones without referring to their foreign chief-allies, past US administration’s officials and multinationals involved in secretly supporting or carrying out the invasion in the DR Congo to be tried as well or called on for their wrong deeds… Is that how the US will work with us?”

What if anything the Department of State should learn from this?

“Obama, who took an interest in Congo when he was in the Senate, has inherited the moral responsibility to make amends and help the Congolese build a government that actually works on their behalf”, says in an Op-Ed, Winternitz. The Senate bill S. 2125 from the 109th US Congress on the Democratic Republic of Congo happened to be the only foreign policy, Mr. Barack Obama (then US Senator) initiated with a bi-partisan support from twelve other US Democrat and Republican Senators. In the light of that 2006 congressional law signed by George Bush, the Obama administration cannot afford lose its “own” message.

Madame Secretary Clinton should be commended for meeting with students “before” meeting Congo’s officials (good move); she is to be saluted for clearly “voicing up” ( government officials including President Kabila) on the resolutions that borne from the last spring US Senate hearing on the DR Congo. A key message was to stop and prosecute the rape, used as weaponin conflict zones. This is the 111th congress senate hearing on Congo/Sudan where (as I reported earlier in Spring) California Senator Barbara Boxer (D) and the audience could not resist a heart breaking to the horrific account of scenes of rape and violence by among many, Mrs. Chouchou Namegabe, a Kivu-based Journalist and Activist.

In an open letter to Sec. Clinton, another Congolese US-based website’s owner urges, on the post Congo’s trip, the US to be practical if “work with” Congo is what they want, and get all rapists be tried in criminal courts. He proposes Clinton’s cabinet to “… send DNA technical experts to DRC to help collect DNA samples from former militias and soldiers who fought in the east of Congo and from children born out of rapes. By matching the DNA samples of children and militias in a DNA data center, wrote the web-writer, the paternity of these fatherless children will clearly be established.”

Editor Sylvester Ngoma believes that “… The criminals will then be excluded from the national army and brought to justice. Even new victims will be able to report to these data centers for DNA collection to help catch rape criminals. This approach will have several positive effects. Some soldiers will leave the national army on their own just by knowing that their DNA will be collected and kept in a data center. The parliament will need to pass a law mandating all soldiers who fought in the east of the country to comply to the "DNA as a Rape Deterrence Plan" (from Congovision)At the end of the dayHaving say all that, Secretary Hillary Clinton still needs to carefully do an unscripted facts check on Congo since the Rwanda genocide of 1994, and attentively review the history about the after 1997 invasion of the DR Congo by Rwandan and Ugandan militias (when Bill Clinton was President).

The State Department’s African Affairs division must sincerely determine what the public opinion in regards to the US responsibility in the conflict is, and then apply President Obama’s own policy. The Congo Senate Bill (as they call it) will empower Secretary Clinton to pressure on President Joseph Kabila’s governance style. Only the S2125 bill would help them to measure up the progress in security and the observance of human rights towards the people of Congo, and then she can finally masterfully avoid alienate, frustrate the Congolese people, but would preach the message of “Hope”, accompanied with an engaging economic and bi-lateral cooperation the US failed in the past 8 years.

It has to be known that above and beyond the differences of cultures, languages and the issue of proximity, Congo shares a common history with the US, citing the past “Cold War” as an illustration; Congo (ex-Zaire) has gone out of the way to contribute through the generosity of its people, the use of its territory militarily, its strategic resources, minerals and intelligence to strengthen US national security and preserve its interests not only in the Continental Africa, but here at home and around the world.

Fifty years since Congo’s independence, and considering the potential level of cooperation both countries can still develop, our commitment at Congoboston.com to write ( please read: to accurately translate) the opinion of the Congolese people from their French heritage to English, and into the American mainstream media, I strongly hope that today’s message of “Hope” to Congo will NOT be lost in translation again.

An Opinion Editorial by Franklin Katunda, in Washington DC

Franklin is a freelance web-writer; chief-editor for Congoboston.com. Barack Obama surrogate, expert in US politics and foreign Affairs, he actively worked for 2 years within the presidential campaign and is member of OFA, Organizing for America.

© August 18th 2009, Congoboston.com

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Crevna from New York, NY — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 21:37:35 EDT

U.S. Relations with India

"Voice for Humanity" — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 22:52:43 EDT

By Padmini Arhant

The Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton’s visit to the Indian sub-continent is a topic to discuss in different context. It’s obvious that the United States engagement in Afghanistan tied with the success of the Zardari-Gilani government presumably involved in eliminating the mayhem in the northwestern region by the Al-Qaeda and Taliban forces after substantial autonomy from the less credible previous military rule of the President Pervez Musharraf.

Despite the severe domestic economic crisis, the continuation of U.S. financial and military aid to Pakistan is an enormous investment of U.S. trust and resources in the nuclear Pakistan.

More information @http://www.padminiarhant.com

Thank you.

Padmini Arhant

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton Swears In Dan Rooney as US Ambassador to Ireland

Michael from Milton, MA — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:02:52 EDT

(Comments of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, July 1, 2009)

Well, good afternoon, and welcome to the State Department. I came off the injured reserve list – – in order to officiate at this ceremony because I could not be more delighted than to make official what is going to be so well received in Ireland and means so much to Americans, not only Irish Americans but all Americans, and that is the swearing-in of our new ambassador to Ireland.

Now, we do have special guests with us, and I thank the Irish chargé d'affaires for being here, Mr. McDaid, and I thank Mrs. Collins for being here as well. Her husband, the ambassador, is in Ireland as we speak. And having Senator Robert Casey, my colleague, here, as well as Attorney General Eric Holder is a special treat.

Now, I’m not sure that we specifically mentioned all of the Rooneys who are here. Please forgive us if we forgot anyone. But this is just a representative sampling of the Rooney family.

You know, we may be meeting in Washington, but the city at the heart of today’s celebration is Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. And in recent years, Pittsburgh has staged a remarkable comeback. It has made such great strides in transforming its economy and developing its high-tech sector, and those are accomplishments that led President Obama to select Pittsburgh as the site for the meeting of the G-20 this September.

Pittsburgh is rich in arts and culture, and, of course, it continues to shine in sports. It is, I think, an understatement to say that with the Pittsburgh Penguins winning their third Stanley Cup, and, of course, the Steelers winning the Super Bowl for a record-breaking sixth time, the site of Pittsburgh is not only a great place to showcase business, but also the success of American sports as well.

And today, we are celebrating the man behind the Steelers, one of Pittsburgh’s leading citizens and our next ambassador to Ireland, Mr. Dan Rooney. Ambassador Rooney is assuming this post at a crucial time. Ireland is one of our closest allies. Our countries are connected by political, economic, cultural, and certainly familial ties. And we share a deep and rich history, one that continues today. It is sustained and enhanced by the millions of people in both nations whose family and loved ones live in the other. And I witnessed that firsthand when I marched in the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Pittsburgh last year. I never saw so many people – until, of course, I got to Scranton, Bob.

Forty million Americans boast Irish heritage, and I expect we have a few in the room today in addition to the Rooneys. And as every American can attest, those of our neighbors and friends who are sons and daughters of Ireland are fiercely proud of their ancestry. And we are so grateful to the Irish immigrants who sweated and sacrificed to build this country and who broke down barriers at every level of society.

The friendship between Ireland and the United States is vital to both of our nations, and President Obama and I are confident that it will deepen with Dan and Patricia Rooney in Dublin. We have a great team here together. This is a partnership. These are civic leaders and successful people who are also lifelong supporters of Ireland.

In the early 1970s, after a trip to Ireland in which Ambassador Rooney saw for himself the destructive effects of deprivation and division, he founded the American Ireland Fund. Today, the Ireland Funds operate in 11 countries worldwide, uniting people of Irish descent to further progress in their ancestral homeland. And as Dan Rooney knows, the children and grandchildren of immigrants often have a deep desire to contribute to the nation where their families got their start.

And so today, Chargé McDaid, we are sending you one of our very best. There is no greater champion of Irish-American relations than Dan Rooney. And in the months ahead, as we work together to address the many challenges we face, from the global economic downturn, to the threat of terrorism, to climate change, to the development of clean energy sources, as well as to our continuing emphasis on the peace process in Northern Ireland, I am confident that with Dan Rooney as our ambassador, our partnership will thrive, and that will benefit Ireland, the United States, and all the world’s people.

So Ambassador Rooney, if you’re ready, I am ready to administer the oath. Please raise your right hand.

(The Oath of Office was administered.)

http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2009a/july/125539.htm

http://www.irishamericansforobamabiden.blogspot.com/

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Obama threatens to kill Americans arrested

Jessy from Sacramento, CA — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 19:19:14 EDT

United States Secret Service and police in Las Vegas arrested the man told bank employees in Utah about the plot to assassinate U.S. President Barack Obama.

36-year-old Daniel James Murray, a native of New York, was arrested as early as Friday. He is under arrest, it is anticipated that on Monday will be the date the hearing on his case.

Remember, at the end of May, Murray was in office Zions First National Bank in the city of St. George to close the open a few weeks earlier deposit. First Bank employees refused to give him money because he did not have identity cards with them. But the man said that if you do not get to 12 698 dollars, "someone will die."

Then, while the cashier to count the money bills for $ 50, Murray said that "our mission - to kill the U.S. president." In the lengthy speech, he also pointed out that "between the Sun and Moon eagle flies, and it is a huge step for mankind." When the customer left, the staff of the bank described the country the visitor is the secret service.

Father of detainee told reporters that his son is sick for almost a decade and is not dangerous. According to neighbors, the man often walked the streets of his native city Reksforda in the State of New York and talked to himself. Meanwhile, earlier reported that Murray recorded at least eight firearms.

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Anna from Oakland, NJ — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:43:46 EDT

June 5, U.S. President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrived in the former concentration camp Buchenwald, to honor the victims of the Holocaust.

There is also a Nobel Peace Prize laureate of 1986, the famous writer and journalist Elie Wiesel, who among other prisoners of concentration camps were liberated in April 1945, the U.S. forces.

After visiting the memorial head a White House visit in the town Landshtul, where the American military hospital. It treats soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Note, before arriving in Buchenwald leaders of Germany and the U.S. held talks in Dresden, which discussed the situation in the Middle East, Afghanistan and Pakistan. At the press conference, Angela Merkel said that her pleasure to work with Obama. "Cooperate with the American president is indeed a pleasure," - said the head of government of Germany.

As reported, after a visit to Germany, Barack Obama will go to France, where on 6 June to take part in celebrating the 65 th anniversary of disembarkation in Normandy the Allied forces during World War II.

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Unknown user — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:47:21 EDT

June 5, in the south-west China landslide came down, killing at least 59 people.

According to local media, the tragedy occurred in the area of the city under the Central Government Chongqing. From the mountain to valley Tszivey hit a huge stream of stones and mud, burying under an iron factory and several houses.

Among the dead were 50 workers and 9 local residents. Were also damaged power lines and telecommunications.

It should be noted in China landslides are frequent. Thus, in late April as a result of decay of two landslides killed 28 people. The reason became the first heavy rains, and the second was caused by violation of safety at the company, which performs the extraction of rocks.

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80 people are under the rubble of a landslide in China

Shaka from Waterbury, VT — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:30:57 EDT

To clarify this, more than 80 people are under the rubble, formed on Friday by the collapse of rocks on the outskirts of Chongqing in southwest China, has managed to save only semeryhOb that reported on Friday, June 5, the agency Xinhua.

The collapse of rocks occurred Friday afternoon in the county Ulun near the city of Chongqing. According to the agency, a valley covered with millions of cubic meters of collapse of rocks, under which were at least six houses, as well as plant production and manufacture of mining the ore.

In the affected area sent more than 500 doctors and rescuers. According to recent data, from under the rubble was able to extract seven people, four of them received serious injuries.

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Unknown user — Sat, 23 May 2009 20:55:26 EDT

Bathing naked in one of the villages south-eastern Afghan province of Paktia cost the lives of two employees of foreign private security companies (ЧОП), accompanying the supply convoy of NATO.

That was reported by news agency Pazhvak with reference to the representative of county security police colonel Khabibullo Fateh.

According to police, the incident occurred last Thursday in the town of Styria, where foreigners, employees of Chop, vspotevshie on the road from the heat, decided to swim in natural waters.

According to a local doctor Tsamkani Najib Rahman, who witnessed the tragic incident, the guards escort, razdevshis, polezli swim in the lake, on the bank of which at that time were local women, resting in the shade of trees near the water.

In turn, according to Afghan Padzhvok agencies, local women recruited in the river water.

According to local tradition, swimming, the more naked, in the presence of women in Afghanistan is forbidden. Swimming in water bodies to men only in clothes, and even then only in the company of persons of the same sex.

It is reported that women are not departed, and remained on the shore and watched the soldiers.

Soon, the local male population as a whole vyvalilo from their homes on the coast, and demanded that the guards were immediately removed from their village.

Verbal skirmish soon developed into a cross, which resulted in two employees ЧОП were killed and four local residents were injured.

Police arrested 20 people - residents of village Steer, who brought their wounded to the provincial hospital, but was soon forced to release them, as well as to the cause of Pashtun tribal elders intervened, demanded that the police order to respect the rules of Sharia and Afghan traditions.

In turn, representatives of NATO did not comment on the incident. Head of Provincial Police, General Aziz Ahmad Wardak confirmed the fighting in Styria, but declined to tell reporters details of the incident.

Remember, the Afghan heat is not the first time brings the U.S. military. For example, recently one of the military rushed to defend the army post in western Afghanistan in pink underwear and slippers, Vietnamese.

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Clinton concerned about the fate of the journalist, in Iran sentenced to eight years in prison

Unknown user — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 18:44:30 EDT

Secretary Clinton’s Digital Town Hall for Summit of the Americas

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:27:48 EDT

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009 at 10:22 am
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Dipnote, the State Department blog, gives us the details:

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will conduct Digital Town Hall of the Americas, a live web-based discussion, from the Dominican Republic on Friday, April 17, 2009, in anticipation of the Fifth Summit of the Americas to be held April 17-19 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. The event will provide an opportunity for Secretary Clinton to launch a conversation with citizens from across the Western Hemisphere to discuss the Summit’s themes of securing our citizens’ future by promoting human prosperity, energy security and environmental sustainability, as well as the situation in Haiti, where she will visit and attend meetings on Thursday, April 16.

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NATO requires the DPRK to abandon the ballistic missile

Unknown user — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:13:34 EDT

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As stated in the statement issued in Brussels, the NATO Council demands that North Korea abandon all ballistic missile program, to fully comply with all relevant UN Security Council resolutions to destroy its nuclear weapons and to stop the development of the final program, subject to verification and non-renewable manner.

In addition, the statement calls on the DPRK to refrain from any action that may contribute to increased tensions in the future. "

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The number of victims of earthquakes in Italy has reached 267 people

Nasyaj from Central, UT — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:29:38 EDT

The number of victims of earthquakes in Italy has reached 267 people
The victims of several earthquakes in Italy, which occurred earlier this week, have 267 people.

This was reported by Agence France Presse, referring to the police. Earlier, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, reported 260 killed, including 16 children. He said that the burial of earthquake victims will be held on Friday.

Despite the fact that the first earthquake occurred even on the night of Monday, the rescue work in the disaster zone continuing. On-site work 8,5 thousand people, including 2 thousand firefighters, 1,5 thousand military personnel, 2 thousand law enforcement officers and 3 thousand volunteers.

According to the Italian prime minister that the disaster zone had been established 2962 tents, which are more than 17 thousand people.

Moreover, Berlusconi announced that the Council of Ministers of Italy will soon enter the looting in the list of serious crimes, punishable under criminal law. He noted that among people affected by the earthquake, in these days of increasing concern in relation to cases of looting of abandoned homes.

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A new Obama book called; LESSONS WE LEARNED FROM OBAMA from a former Republican mother of five.

Bobbi Miller-Moro — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:30:23 EST

A new Obama book called; LESSONS WE LEARNED FROM OBAMA

From a former Republican mother of five.

Click on photo to see book~ I was so inspired during his campaign, I started writing and collecting photo's. Before long I had a book. What started out as a little children’s book morphed into a hard cover Special Edition Collectors book, Lessons We Learned From Obama, 130 pages in all black with over 200 high quality color photographs from photographers around the world of Obama and his campaign. My first book, and considering I have five children-- I would have thought this was impossible a few months ago. I got my first copy in the mail....and it is so beautiful! So, I made the matching book set, Lunch With Michelle in all white. More information below about the content.

www.WomenWithoutBorders.us

A new Obama book called; LESSONS WE LEARNED FROM OBAMA from a former Republican mother of five.

Bobbi Miller-Moro — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:30:23 EST

A new Obama book called; LESSONS WE LEARNED FROM OBAMA

From a former Republican mother of five.

www.WomenWithoutBorders.us

A new Obama book called; LESSONS WE LEARNED FROM OBAMA from a former Republican mother of five.

Bobbi Miller-Moro — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:30:23 EST

A new Obama book called; LESSONS WE LEARNED FROM OBAMA

From a former Republican mother of five.

www.WomenWithoutBorders.us

"Enormous and Frightful" but HOPEFUL

"NERVIE" — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:24:38 EST

BLOG January 23, 2009. Day Three. President Barack Obama is assessing the obvious; the leftovers of the Bush Administration are enormous and frightful. Conversation in the community say that Obama must work around the perceived messianic titles and challenges given by his staunch supporters and Obama will have to dig in deep to fulfill the potential and strength that will be required to receive continuous cooperation and assistance of his immediate staff and all of us who were part of his Support team when he was a candidate. In other words, the campaigning and honeymoon is over but phase three of the battle has just begun.

The world view hopefully will change as he is compared to the 43rd Presidential individuals before him. The symbolic figures of children of color in the White House, though they may be astounding to some, are reflective of the young, invigorating, impactful and change Obama spoke of that enormous energy, new judgment, great courage, deep understanding and concise execution America needs to be “grand” and a model of Democracy again.

The world will be watching what policies and risks Obama commands and will be the measure of his success. The concerns about economic and political choices are still under scrutiny. Yesterday Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State is finally approved. Yes, there were concerns over Bill’s fundraising and world donations as to whether or not they would effect the decisions that she will or will not make. However, I believe Hillary gave an eloquent response to those concerns. Geithner after serious rebuttals is officially Treasury Secretary. We can only hope that Geithner immediately finds another accountant or tax attorney so his “embarrassing moment never occurs again”. But I believe that experience will also allow him some humility when working with the masses over their tax responsibilities.

Obama brings a great deal of excitement locally. Last night our Democratic Alliance for Action met and we all discussed that we also must assist Obama by being vigilant servants where we live. Yes, politics is local right here in Santa Clarita Valley. Strides will be made to do all that we can to be vital entities of the “all red community” we currently reside in by turning it “purple”. Democrats were asked to be more ardent in participation in various 501c3’s locally; contributing our time, finding financial vehicles for the 501c3’s, informing our neighbors that their services, which receive little or no media coverage, as well as supporting them physically. We will also seek through our churches and synagogues to share in the generosity we have been blessed with so that others, whose paths have been rocky, are not excluded as we become more accountable to everyday folks and our families. We will no longer watch; we will be engaged and more active.

Meantime, we hear that it will take a minimum two years for us to feel the positive impact of Obama’s changes even though people will be putting him on a tightrope expecting signs of the smaller issues being solved. Others will be hindering change. Those who never voted for him will be critically combative to every move he makes. Is this behavior new to any of us? No, but as supporters of America’s future, we may have to address those bigots, neoconservatives and ardent naysayers who were complicit and complacent towards Bush’s policies. We all agreed it doesn’t matter what the party affiliation is of these negative folks but that our purpose is to seek a higher spiritual cause knowing the path will not be easy.

Today we learn that Obama is exploring the closing of the Guatanamo facility and efforts towards other accommodations for the “detainees” are being sought. Why did Bush round up people in the first place still amazes me? One day I welcome an opportunity of meeting George W. Bush. I only hope I could find the empathy to understand the chaos he caused Americans.

Hope on a Tightrope by Cornell West is also recommended reading at this time that explores many of these points of view.

Peace Out, Minerva

What A Scare!

Joe Ribamar — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:09:49 EST

Yesterday,on innagural luncheon,Edward M.Kennedy,76,a senior senator of Massachussetts(Since 1962)and Robert C.Byrd,91,the most senior senator on senate,former Majority/Minority Leader and Whip and Incumbent president pro-tempore,suffered a collapse on U.S Capitol.

Well...we know all about the curse of kennedy family and his tragedys,The assassination of JFK(By Lee Harvey Oswald :Not Comproved),The assassination of RFK(By Sirhan Sirhan),the incident involving Ted and Mary Jo Kopeckne on Hyannis Port,the case of his son(who lose members of body),what happens with John-John in July,16 of 99´.

Robert Byrd too,is the older,trade more preocupation.

Well,lets pray to God to nothing kill our president,Barack Obama,neither our V.P,Joe Biden.

So,you can talk about what your waiting to obama governorship,and talk about our dear Hillary Clinton,who acept a few minutes the office of Secretary of State

Don´t Shame,you can talk all here,say what you think about my blog

Thank You!

José(Joe)Ribamar

On January,21th

A Paean to Barack Obama. The Twelve Days of Choosing Obama's Top Team

mathpol — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:08:01 EST

This is an enhanced version of my earlier post. To be sung to the tune of The “Twelve Days of Christmas“, whose lyrics are modified to apply to Obama's picks for his Cabinet and other key posts. The list is intended to be cumulative (that is, each person is picked only once). At the end I present those left out due to time constraints (Only twelve days!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWDpTKwZO-w

The Twelve Days of Choosing (Obama's Top Team)

mathpol — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 11:19:17 EST

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuUFFGbuiUo

Parody on The Twelve Days of Christmas, as applied to Obama's picks for his Cabinet and other key posts. The list is intended to be cumulative (that is, each person is picked only once). At the end I present those left out due to time constraints (Only twelve days!)

Will Obama End Pay-to-Play in Mideast Policy?

John Lewis-Dickerson, Atlanta — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:25:15 EST

Will Obama End Pay-to-Playin Mideast Policy?

by Grant F. Smith @ antiwar.com

The incoming Obama administration is scrambling to distance itself from the scandal emanating from the president-elect's home state. It is still too early to tell how much Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's alleged attempt to sell the president-elect's Senate seat in exchange for $1 million may taint Obama advisers. But we may soon discover the answer to a larger question. Is pay-to-play going to be the modus operandi for Obama's Middle East policy appointments?

Two former Clinton administration officials, Dennis Ross and Martin Indyk, may provide the answer. They have recently been energized by Hillary Clinton's nomination as secretary of state, and both are attempting to stage a comeback. Absent any record of accomplishment – policy or electoral – Ross and Indyk have always counted on a presidential nod for influence. When placed alongside Bill Clinton's auctioneering of the levers of power, Blagojevich's does not seem particularly corrupt. Blagojevich at least evidenced a modicum of patriotism by limiting his sale of positions to U.S. nationals. Bill Clinton and the Democratic National Committee squeezed more cash out of the Israel lobby for highly sensitive appointments than Blagojevich would have ever dreamed possible. Clinton received the highest bid from Israeli-American media entrepreneur and American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) super-donor Haim Saban........

ENTIRE ARTICLE - http://www.antiwar.com/orig/gsmith.php?articleid=13909

Try Tough Love, Hillary

John Lewis-Dickerson, Atlanta — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:30:46 EST

Try Tough Love, Hillary

By ROGER COHEN @ nytimes.com, December 1, 2008

Imagine Ehud Olmert, the outgoing Israeli prime minister, saying this to Barack Obama:

“The United States has been wrong to write Israel a blank check every year; wrong to turn a blind eye to the settlements in the West Bank; wrong not to be more explicit about the need to divide Jerusalem; wrong to equip us with weaponry so sophisticated we now believe military might is the answer to all our problems; and wrong in not helping us reach out to Syria. Your chosen secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, said during the campaign that ‘the United States stands with Israel, now and forever.’ Well, that’s not good enough. You need to stand against us sometimes so we can avoid the curse of eternal militarism.”

Perhaps that seems unimaginable. But Olmert has already said something close to this. In a frank September interview with the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth, reprinted this month by The New York Review of Books, the Israeli leader chose to exit with a mea culpa for his country’s policies.........

ENTIRE ARTICLE - http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/01/opinion/01cohen.html?_r=1&hp

Obama team repackaging Clinton after campaign digs

rwordplay — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 13:24:45 EST

As a brand strategist and as a strong supporter of President-elect Obama's campaign, I was deeply disheartened by this story. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap_campaignplus/20081129/ap_ca/reinventing_clinton

The campaign had clearly and accurately described Senator Clinton's foreign policy "credentials" and exposed her desperate attempts to inflate them. Now, this strategy to rehabilitate her image and rephrase her expertise is cynical at best, dishonest at worst, and in the end, disillusioning. The facts about Clinton have not changed and I don't believe she will add anything substantive to Obama's administration. This is a clear example of putting "lipstick on a pig" and I was hoping, perhaps foolishly, that Obama could conceive of a politics that made such counterproductive actions unnecessary, and that treated his supporters with less contempt.

Perhaps the President-elect and his transition team ought to read a little more, and with a little more understanding, Lincoln's "building" a cabinet of his rivals. This strategy did not have a Disneyesque ending.

I remain hopeful that I won't wake up Monday or Tuesday to hear that Obama has actually offered, and Clinton accepted, the position of Secretary of State. If for no other reason such tactics suggests even more and less attractive, if that's possible, concessions to come.

Are we bailing out Hillary?

Adam from Wayne, PA — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:53:26 EST

Is it just a rumor that part of the deal for Hillary's Secretary of State position is that her campaign debt get paid off and her personal loan of $10 million be repaid?

NOW THIS CAMPAIGN/TRANSITION TEAM IS ASKING FOR DONATIONS... I WILL NOT PAY HILLARY CLINTON ONE DIME FOR HER FAILED CAMPAIGN. THIS DEBT IS NOT OUR RESPONSIBILITY.

It’s Madame Secretary for Hillary, But Which Hillary Will It Be?

John Lewis-Dickerson, Atlanta — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:38:05 EST

It’s Madame Secretary for Hillary, But Which Hillary Will It Be?

by Richard Silverstein @ "Tikun Olam"

The N.Y. Times reports that Hillary Clinton has accepted Barack Obama’s invitation to be his secretary of state. This development will no doubt rankle some on the left who campaigned hard for Obama’s election. I’m concerned too. I wonder which Hillary will be secretary of state: the bellicose, saber-rattling presidential primary candidate who threatened to wipe out Iran; or the pragmatic, flexible Hillary we’d prefer to see fill that position......

ENTIRE ARTICLE - http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2008/11/22/its-madame-secretary-for-hillary-but-which-hillary-will-it-be/

Sometimes It's Stupid Not to Ask Conspiratorial Questions...

John Lewis-Dickerson, Atlanta — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:05:02 EST

Sometimes It's Stupid Not to Ask Conspiratorial Questions...

by Philip Weiss @ "Mondoweiss"

The Washington Post editorializes that likely-AG-designate Eric Holder had a spotless record as a prosecutor until one dark dread night in 2001, when he signed off on the Marc Rich pardon. His sole blot. The Post sucks its thumb:

why did Mr. Holder not object to the pardon of a fugitive millionaire politically connected to the president?

Good question. The Post doesn't bring up my favorite angle, of course. Ehud Barak wanted Rich pardoned. So did Scooter Libby. Is that significant? Rich, who was born in Belgium, had given loads of money to Clinton and to Israel. Is there a way to even talk about this stuff? Evidently no.

SOURCE-http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/11/sometimes-its-stupid-not-to-ask-conspiratorial-questions.html

Dream Team

LeTicia from Rochester, NY — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:47:28 EST

As of today, it's not 100% whether Hillary Clinton will be officially offered the post of Secretary of State or not - but rumors are looming. I feel like it's Christmas Eve and the Barack Obama is Santa Claus.

I am beyond proud of Barack Obama's ability to set aside ego and strategically devise the best team possible to get this country further along than it's been in a long time. The current economic crisis is a manifestation of previous mis-dealings of former executives and conveniently blind sighted politicians. I see great hope in bringing in a team of wise counselors and advisors who are stitched to gether with integrity.

Even the ability for me to share my comments on this blog site shows that Barac Obama understands that you have to be in touch with modern day tools and technology to reach a hungry and sophisticated people. I can't even begin to imagine what would have happened if events unfolded any other way.

As an entrepreneur, I hear a lot of my peers groaning at the possibilities of losing the 1000th toy they don't need in the anticipation that they may have to pitch in a few more dollars that they would have never missed to help dig this country out of the mire they helped create. I can hardly believe sometimes that we sit at the same table and break bread and they would be comfortable letting someone with 2 jobs at hourly wages foot the bill before they sacrificed the add ons that help them "keep score".

Thank you for helping all of us keep things in perspective. We are a blessed country with so much still yet to contribute to the world. I am so grateful that we have a leader coming into office that can see the bigger picture and realize that a true leader is only as good as the players on his team.

You rock Obama. I'm really proud of you.

Continued Success-

LeTicia

What the Clinton Appointment Means (according to Justin Raimondo)

John Lewis-Dickerson, Atlanta — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:33:26 EST

And why we won't see any change in American foreign policy

by Justin Raimondo @ antiwar.com

The American people are sick and tired of the Bush era, and they are counting the days until Barack Obama is inaugurated. The reasons for this are manifold, of course, but the one that concerns us especially here at Antiwar.com is the vital question of war and peace. American foreign policy had become so relentlessly aggressive, and with such disastrous results, that John McCain's alleged national security credentials were moot. Even if the economy hadn't tanked so spectacularly at a crucial point in the election season, I contend that Obama would've won in a landslide anyway. And it surely didn't help when the author of our disastrous foreign policy, Vice President Dick Cheney, was wheeled out to issue his kiss-of-death endorsement: talk about the stab in the back!

In any case, what I really mean to say is that our crazed foreign policy was a major reason why Americans gave Obama such a stunning victory. There's just one problem: our foreign policy is going to remain pretty much the same.....

ENTIRE ARTICLE - http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13785

Will Hillary Clinton Seek Peace in Israel/Palestine?

John Lewis-Dickerson, Atlanta — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:14:17 EST

Will Hillary Clinton Seek Peace in Israel/Palestine?

by: Matt Stoller @ "Open Left"

If Clinton is considered to be Secretary of State, it's going to validate those who argued that there really was not much daylight between the two of them in the primary. She's a relatively hawkish Democrat whose policy decisions under the Bush administration were not good, and they tended to disagree on the role of diplomacy, but their voting records on Iraq were identical. That said, under a Democratic administration, both Clinton and her husband have the ability and credibility to work on the Israeli government and push it towards peace. I'm not up to date on Israeli politics so I don't know how possible this is, but domestically Americans are ready. While I often describe AIPAC as a problematic organization, what its rival J Street has really done is to broaden and diversify what it means to be pro-Israel.....

ENTIRE ARTICLE - http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=10004

LAWRENCE EAGLEBURGER: "I don't think the President-Elect knows a foreign policy from a hole in the wall."

John Lewis-Dickerson, Atlanta — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:16:51 EST

Eagleburger Unloads on Obama, Hitchens and Richardson

By Mark Finkelstein

At 78, Larry Eagleburger hasn't lost his fastball. Since leaving government, he might actually have added some MPH. Appearing on MSNBC this afternoon, the former Secretary of State in George H.W.'s administration warmed up with some rough words for Barack Obama and Christopher Hitchens . . . then absolutely rubbished Bill Richardson.

Andrea Mitchell had invited Eagleburger on to assess the list of potential Secretary of State nominees. While he wasn't wildly enthusiatic about Hillary, she was his pick among those under serious consideration. When Mitchell suggested that Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience might prove useful, Eagleburger unloaded on Obama's lack of experience..

LAWRENCE EAGLEBURGER: Personally I don't think—let me put it this way—I don't think the President-Elect knows a foreign policy from a hole in the wall....
ENTIRE POST: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2008/11/18/larry-eagleburger-unloads-obama-hitchens-richardson

No Signs of Change in Obama's Middle East Policies: The Irresponsibility of Appointing Hillary Clinton Secretary of State

John Lewis-Dickerson, Atlanta — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:40:25 EST

No Signs of Change in Obama's Middle East Policies

The Irresponsibility of Appointing Hillary Clinton Secretary of State

By BILL and KATHLEEN CHRISTISON

In 2005 Hillary Clinton stood in Palestine and praised the apartheid wall that the government of Israel was building with large amounts of U.S. aid in furtherance of the Zionist goal of destroying one of the world’s peoples -- the Palestinians. This is the wall that the United Nations’ World Court has declared contrary to international law. And this is just one example of Hillary Clinton’s total support for all of Israel’s policies to oppress and eventually expel whatever elements of the Palestinian population remain west of the Jordan River..........

ENTIRE ARTICLE - http://www.counterpunch.org/christison11182008.html

PS. Senator Russ Feingold for Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (replacing Biden)

No to Hillary as Sec. of State

David from Brooklyn, NY — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:17:17 EST

It is difficult for me to imagine that Senator Obama, as President-Elect, would choose Ms. Clinton for the most important foreign policy post in his administration. Her views on the Iraq War alone seem sufficient to me to cancel her out of consideration by a man whose early campaign focused so much on his principled and minority opposition to the war. Furthermore, Ms. Clinton means Bill, too. I have had enough of the Clinton years - I don't want that old regime running anything this important. I fear a continued politicized State Department; how could it be otherwise with Senator Clinton in that office?

My faith in Mr. Obama and my joy at his election and my renewed hope for the country's climb out of its dark depths -- all this would be compromised, even undermined, by such a choice. Please, Mr. President-elect, don't do it!

President-elect Barack Obama’s advisers have begun reviewing former President Bill Clinton’s finances and activities

John Lewis-Dickerson, Atlanta — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:58:23 EST

Clinton Vetting Includes Look at Mr. Clinton

By PETER BAKER and HELENE COOPER

WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama’s advisers have begun reviewing former President Bill Clinton’s finances and activities to see whether they would preclude the appointment of his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, as secretary of state, Democrats close to the situation said Sunday.

The examination of the former president suggests how seriously Mr. Obama is considering bringing his onetime rival for the Democratic presidential nomination into his cabinet. He met with Mrs. Clinton in Chicago on Thursday to talk about the prospect and word quickly filtered out. Many Democrats close to both camps said Sunday that it seemed likely that Mr. Obama would ask her to take the job, assuming they could work something out regarding Mr. Clinton’s role......

ARTICLE - http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/17/us/politics/17memo.html?partner=MYWAY&ei=5065

The Oscillating Pendulum

"Voice for Humanity" — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:09:16 EST

The historic election is over and the new administration is in the process of recruiting members for key positions.

It is still important to reflect on the role of media and news organization in this electoral process.

Extreme media bias towards one candidate and overwhelmingly condescending against another caused a great deal of frustration, anger and disappointment among the electorate.

The anti-media sentiments reverberated all over the cyberspace.

Media hype was intense during the Democratic Primary election.

Since I was vigorously involved during that time, I have great memories that will remain part of me for a long time.

There were several incidents but some of them have a greater impact on individuals, more severely than others do.

Mainly due to the smear tactics and negative attacks hurled on people like me entering the political campaign for the first time as surrogates, representatives or grass root supporters.

One particular incident is worth the spotlight because it is about the media personalities conducting themselves as the world authority in all matter especially the political race such as the Presidential election.

Ironically, in this Presidential election they were repeatedly wrong with both Democratic and Republican nominees.

Why?

They followed the conventional wisdom and failed to see or accept new possibilities and developments.

Only to steer course once the tide turned in a different direction sweeping anything and everything on the way.

The spotlight is precisely on MSNBC.

The network that took lot of heat from the public and rightfully so, for being excessively in favor of Obama Campaign in an unprecedented appeasement of the candidate then, Senator Barack Obama.

It is noteworthy that MSNBC initially rejected the candidate Senator Barack Obama against their preferred candidate, Senator Hillary Clinton.

Likewise, the venerable New York Times endorsed Senator Hillary Clinton way back on January 25, 2008 as the “IDEAL COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF.” and

Emphasizing that President-elect Barack Obama was not qualified in that respect,

Quoted by the recent Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman through national and international telecast on CNN.

I was devastated to note the hasty decision by a leading and the most respectable news organization such as New York Times.

Immediately, I made my first and only contact with the cable media outlet, Free Speech and World Link Television expressing my emotion on the endorsement.

Here is extract of the email titled The Moment of Truth sent to Amy Goodman of Free Speech Television on January 25, 2008, 12.22P.M PST , in that context:

“This morning the endorsement by New York Times is another way of indicating that Senator Clinton will be the future President of the United States.

Senator Clinton made many overtures in her recent T.V talk show appearances that I should go away and abandon the Obama campaign to suppress the Iraq war issue finally.

The impression I have is,

If Senator Obama becomes the nominee, there is absolutely no turning back for him as he would win the general election.”

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In reality, what exactly happened prior to our President-elect Barack Obama establishing himself as a formidable candidate in the election is attention worthy.

First, my personal experience with MSNBC goes back to the days when the incumbent administration laid out the strategy to sell the unpopular Iraq war to the public and the United Nations.

I happened to be one of the unfortunate victims of mandatory public opinion survey superficially conducted by the administration to gain public support for the illegal invasion of Iraq.

This matter verified and confirmed truthful by the Institute for Public Policy, a non-profit organization, following the claim in my blog post during the Democratic Primary election.

With the relentless pro-Iraq war rally from networks such as MSNBC and FOX, the administration successfully launched their mission.

Although, there were other major networks equally involved in drumming their support for the Iraq war…

MSNBC displayed no qualms in abruptly eliminating dissent like the popular and visibly democratic, none other than their own talk show host, Mr. Phil Donahue.

My first unpleasant experience with MSNBC is regarding the anti-Iraq war message conveyed to the administration in response to the mandatory survey.

In my statement, I clearly emphasized the blunder by the administration on their commitment to wage war against Iraq and,

The consequences ensuing in terms of loss of lives, economic costs, national reputation and everything else that followed the disastrous war.

The born again liberal MSNBC demonized and targeted me as anti-patriotic with spam mail flooding my Inbox.

Further, the obscene materials via virus corrupted my database, forcing me to abandon the hard disk for a new one.

It was nothing short of homegrown terrorism for my anti-war position.

It is important to cite the article by Victor Davis Hanson, A senior fellow at the Hoover Institution,

Ref. San Jose Mercury News, November 13, 2008.

The article quotes “Most polls reveal that American voters believed that their media was biased in favor of Obama.

The popular journalist Chris Matthews even bragged that it was his job responsibility to see that Obama succeeds.”
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Chris Matthews brags about his support to Obama during the election.

It might be the case but the evidence is against such claim.

Chris Matthews threw his weight not until the candidate Barack Obama proven the Democratic nominee against all odds.

Mr. Chris Matthews clearly knows about what this is.

During the fiercely battled Democratic Primary election, Nevada Primary & Caucus held on Saturday, January 19, 2008.

I published the following blog post that morning 4.19 am EST, my time 1.19am PST causing fury and anger among the Clinton campaign and their surrogates in the media, especially Chris Matthews of MSNBC.

Post from Padmini Arhant’s Blog: - www.my.barackobama.com

Electability Factor
By "Voice behind the movement" - Jan 19th, 2008 at 4:19 am EST

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Electability Factor:

The voters should focus on the electability factor when casting the vote in the primaries for their respective candidates.

The candidate, who can eventually lead the Democratic Party to victory in the general election in November 2008, will be the ideal nominee.

There will be various issues discussed and debated between the two parties during the general election.

Given the track record of the Republican Party in the general election, the Democratic Party would be well positioned with a candidate voting against the Iraq war.

Senator Barack Obama had consistently opposed the Iraq war.

He voted for the funding of the Iraq war to protect the interest and security of our brave young men and women in harm’s way and enable Iraq stabilize as a sovereign nation ultimately leading to the withdrawal of our troops.

The illegitimate Iraq war has been a major catastrophe for our national economy, security, credibility to deal with International crisis, and our image as the leader of the new world.

The Republican Party nominee voting for the Iraq war could be challenged and held accountable by the Democratic Party nominee voting against the war.

The victory strategy for the Democratic Party in the general election should be on the premise of Iraq war to honor the sacrifice by brave young men and women who lost their lives and all those currently serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The victory for Democratic Party would then truly represent the ‘real change’ against the ’status quo’ or the establishment.

Padmini Arhant - Copyrights reserved

OBAMA SUPPORTER

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To emphasize again, the blog post created enormous outrage with the Clinton campaign bitterly complaining about my attempt to influence the election negatively on that date.

As usual, mainstream media lend support to the power and establishment expresses their reaction in a manner to warn a private citizen like myself to stay off the campaign trail.

Like the BET CEO, Mr. Robert Thompson a close Clinton surrogate, with his exclusive appearance on–

The Situation Room, hosted by Mr. Wolf Blitzer, on CNN specifically advised me by referring to me as,

The “woman of color” to cease my campaigning for the candidate then, Senator Barack Obama.

The Nevada Primary was won by Senator Hillary Clinton.

President-elect Barack Obama had the caucus victory.

The MSNBC coverage on Saturday, January 19, 2008, the day Nevada results was declared, is evidence to the outburst of a media commentator against a private citizen.

Chris Matthews, in particular admonished me directly by wagging his finger and in uttermost condemnation of my interference in the Presidential election.

He said, “This is not a horse race for betting. It is a serious Presidential race.

Individuals with no knowledge or experience should stay out of political campaigns.”

It was a clear indication that individuals like me have no place in politics or public forum.

The sentiment was shared by another MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell who initially tried to remain objective during the discussion with Clinton aid about that particular blog post that morning.

However, she later on made a bizarre remark about a possible substance abuse by me because of my daring attempts to envision a future with an African American Presidency.

Only, if Andrea Mitchell would have played a similar role in critiquing her spouse and the ex-Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan,

Equally responsible for neglecting the warnings of the economic turmoil that nearly brought the domestic and international financial markets on the brink of collapse,

The recent bailouts may not have been necessary.

Thankfully, we are living in a technology driven age, where such incidents cannot possibly be buried in a time capsule with a hope of never being found until it becomes irrelevant.

All these blatant attacks and innuendoes were to demoralize me and debilitate my effort in spreading the message of our movement.

I owe my passion, commitment and drive to get further involved in the campaign to my children especially my eleven-year-old child.

He encouraged me to stand up to partisan politics and send a strong message to commentators like Chris Matthews, Andrea Mitchell and the likes,

That, ordinary people can do extraordinary things in life.

In fact, he was targeted as well with a nickname sidekick by the President-elect Barack Obama’s opponents for his exceptional role in exploiting the web technology with the publication of my blog posts.

My son’s advice to me was, not to rest until Senator Barack Obama is elected "The President" Barack Obama.

I am glad and proud of my son’s advice to fight against the odds given the extreme stressful situation at that time.

Surely, children have a better sense of rationality enabling them to behold a different vision for the world.

They realize the burden on them with respect to the national debt, credibility and financial security as future taxpayers of the economy.

Prior to the election coverage, MSNBC’s show –

The Countdown by Keith Olbermann targeted the American idol contestant Sanjaya Malakar and

Sadistically mocked him almost on a daily basis to survive competition with condescending remarks through critic like Maria Melito.

Maria Melito in her brutal attack against Sanjaya Malakar claimed that the reason for Sanjaya to gain unprecedented votes was because…

“The people of his ethnicity i.e. India, voting for him never had anyone rise to the hall of fame in history.”

Sadly, such comment reflected ignorance as anyone born on Planet Earth, should know the ancient Indus valley civilization which is India is not new to fame and wisdom.

The land in South East Asia is the origin and birth place of celestial beings like the Holy Lord Krishna, Holy and Graceful Gautama Buddha and sentient beings of the twentieth century such as Mahatma Gandhi –

The noble soul, the light of the world, the mentor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Dr. Nelson Mandela, preached and practiced non-violence, peace and unity that are oxy-moron in the contemporary world.

Not excluding other notable scholars like Nobel laureates…

The Poet Rabindra Nath Tagore for literature in 1913 and DR. Har Gobind Khorana for Physiology or Medicine in 1968 to name a few.

Besides, Sanjaya Malakar fan base sprawled across the social spectrum as demonstrated by his young admirer, Ashley Ferl awestruck during his performance.

Young Ashley Ferl, was in return summoned to the Senate for rigorous interrogation by the elected officials…

Prioritizing investigation of genuine admiration for a young performer on the national stage over serious issues like Abu Ghraib, Katrina and deliberate exposure of CIA overt operative Mrs. Valerie Plaim.

To revert to the article by Victor Davis Hanson, ref. San Jose Mercury News, Nov 13, 2008, titled — “The kind of real ‘hope and change’ we can believe in for next year”

“The media, meanwhile should be careful not to abandon fairness and discretion for short-term political advantage.

When the wheel turns - and it too, always does - what you did or said will come back to haunt you.”

I could not agree more with the affirmation.

I hope Chris Matthews and others learned a lesson or two from this historic political event.

When Change occurs, it happens all around much to the dismay of those consumed with fallacy and egocentrism regardless of the empire they reign.

The mainstream, far left and right media as well as some news organization with an exception of cable network like –

“The Daily Show with Jon Stewart”, “The Colbert Report” and “The Late Night Shows”,

Failed to meet the journalistic standards of objectivity and professionalism required in the presentation of views and analysis of any events particularly a Presidential election or for that matter, serious missions like the war.

The role of MSNBC and FOX in their relentless bashing of the candidates from both political aisles successfully drove the viewers to the cyberspace in search of…

Truth and Transparency desperately sought by people of the human race.

Whether it is young Sanjaya Malakar reaching for the stars or young Senator from the State of Illinois, President-elect Barack Obama successfully taking a shot at the highest office on land,

Their audacity of hope was challenged with rhetoric filled with racial slur, negative attacks and divisive politics to deny them the spotlight.

It is admirable that both individuals displayed a decorum signifying unity and poise seen unlike before in dealing with excessive criticism from the entities exhibiting power in the corporate media and Public office.

United States is a nation of immigrants from all over the world.

Any social progress to the satisfaction of all those feeling disfranchised is attainable only if the media and the elected officials recognize their share of responsibility in the service to democracy.

Further, the author of the cited article, Mr. Victor Davis Hanson, concluded with the following passage:

“Obama and his giddy Democratic majority sound like they think they will now be novel exceptions to these iron laws of politics, as if they really believe their hype that they are the “change” we have been waiting for, with cosmic power to stop the planet from heating and the seas from rising.

But the only real difference from the past old politics is that the present avatars of “hope and change” apparently don’t believe that the age-old adage - “The more things change, the more they remain the same” - will really apply to them as well.”

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It does not require the cosmic power to stop the planet form heating and the seas from rising.

It is doable by the ordinary human power to respect life in general and act responsibly for their survival now and in the future.

Failing that,

Perhaps the cosmic power could influence the resisting human nature to preserve and protect the ecological balance necessary for the sustenance of the planet.

As for the age-old adage referenced above applying to the present avatars of ‘Hope and Change”,

It entirely depends on the agents of change and their target.

The age-old adage applies to those involved in cosmetic change rather than fundamental change, the ultimate goal and mission of the present avatars of “Hope and Change.”

Cosmetic change is delusional and beneficial for short-term gains affecting a selective few, hence it yields “more of the same” result.

Whereas, fundamental change target the philosophy of the institution as the sovereign power and,

Therefore, it is real, long lasting and universal.

As per the Hindu mythology, Almighty God Shiva is depicted the

“Lord of Destruction.”

Destruction is Deliverance for a New beginning with a divine commitment to depart from the age-old adage towards new-era prophecy, a divergence from

“The Oscillating Pendulum.” –

The significance and the sole purpose of the avatars of “Hope and Change.”

Thank you.

Padmini Arhant

If Hillary Clinton (D-Israel) does not accept the Secretary of State job, then it appears Bill Richardson is next in line.

John Lewis-Dickerson, Atlanta — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:08:34 EST

Secretary Of State Update (+)

by: Chris Bowers

If Hillary Clinton does not accept the Secretary of State job, then it appears Bill Richardson is next in line:

President-elect Barack Obama has interviewed primary election rivals Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bill Richardson for secretary of state, according to Democratic officials who revealed his secret meetings with both as he weighed the decision on folding former foes into his new administration. Obama met with Richardson late Friday afternoon, a day after conferring one-on-one with Clinton at his Chicago office, said several Democratic officials.

Richardson has already proven his diplomatic mettle in places like Sudan, North Korea and Iraq. Also, it would be great to have a proponent of No Residual Forces in Iraq so high up on the power ladder. So, should Clinton not accept, I think Richardson would be a very good choice......

ENTIRE POST - http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=9951

Barack Obama No Friend to the Philippines?

Unknown user — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:06:44 EST

In his Philippine Daily Inquirer column, Amado Doronilla argues that US President-elect Barack Obama is "no friend to the Philippines" because Obama snubbed President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's congratulatory call.

Amado Doronilla is wrong. Since when did we equate Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo with the Philippines? Certainly, Gloria as an unpopular leader comes strong in Barack Obama's radar. Joc Joc Bolante's trial in Chicago, put in spotlight by very vocal anti-Gloria protesters outside the courthouse, was too scandalous to escape Obama's attention. (Joc Joc Bolante, a Department of Agriculture under- secretary, was accused of pocketing for the the first couple 3 biilion pesos that were intended for farmers and was eluding Philippine Senate investigation when arrested in Chicago). Gloria's misconducts are also all over the Web. Even US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice is no fan of Gloria.

Secretary of State

BlueDotInRedState — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:10:50 EST

Beginning with the Democratic Primaries I assigned myself this task: stay abreast of the conservative and right-leaning media's take on this presidential election. This endeavor was more enlightening and uplifting than I could ever have imagined, with the word "onerous" applying only to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity.

One night close to the end of the ongoing Barack-Hillary battle I was watching a panel of Fox Cable News pundits weigh in (read "whine") about the probability of an Obama candidacy. You remember when the prevailing thought was that a Republican could more easily defeat Hillary. I'll never forget hyperconservative Bill Cristol's comment: "If Obama gets it and if he's elected, he needs to pick Hillary for Secretary of State. She's TOUGH."

I agree whole-heartedly with Cristol, for whom I developed much comparative respect during my sojurns into FCN and (shudder) talk radio programs. Plus, you get a bonus, if you need one, with Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State:

the rest of the world LOVES Bill. She doesn't NEED him, but what an asset he can be.

Although we know whomever Barack chooses will be outstanding, my suggestion is Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State.

Clinton is Not the "New Face of America"

Citizen — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 05:45:04 EST

Leading up to the election, foreign newspapers were filled with expressions of hope that Obama would be elected as President of the United States and put forth a "New Face for America".

There are several reasons Clinton would be a disasterous selection Secretary of State: 1. Clinton represents the same old face of America, albeit not as much as Bush the Lesser does.

2. During the primaries, Clinton expressed herself time and time again as antipodal to Obama's foreign policy positions.

3. Clinton is a limelight seeker and would detract from the importance of both Obama and Biden on foreign affairs issues.

4. Over half the Democrats and all of the Republicans have expressed that they don't trust her judgment on foreign affairs issues.

5. Clinton can do more in the Senate working for Universal Heath Care.

6. Clinton has a history of mistaking little girls with gifts of flowers as machine gun fire and the need to duck into airplane hangers. (If she lied about that, ...)

Clinton to State? Is Mid-East Peace Back On The Table?

John Lewis-Dickerson, Atlanta — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 22:19:09 EST

Clinton to State? Is Mid-East Peace Back On The Table?

By: bmaz @ fireddoglake.com

There has been a lot of chatter the last 48 hours or so about Obama considering Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State. The chatter practically exploded this afternoon with the report that the President-Elect had formally offered the job to her and she was considering the offer.

Most all of the discussion to date as to why Barack Obama might be so motivated has centered on the "Team of Rivals" aspect and the general cache of the Clinton name internationally and diplomatically.

Perhaps the best take in this regard was stated by Ian Welsh at FDL:

Clinton does offer one big advantage as Secretary of State: the Clinton name. The Clintons are loved overseas, and there is no one else in America (other than her husband, who will presumably be by her side in any case) who would demonstrate more clout than having Hilary Clinton arrive in your country. Likewise she already has relationships with many world leaders and doesn't have to build up that trust from scratch. Clinton can hit the ground running, and assuming Obama makes it clear that he's backing her, she can speak with more authority than perhaps anyone else could, on his behalf.........
ENTIRE POST - http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/11/14/clinton-to-state-is-mid-east-peace-back-on-the-table/

President-elect Barack Obama has interviewed primary election rivals Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-Israel) and Bill Richardson

John Lewis-Dickerson, Atlanta — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:05:45 EST

Obama interviews ex-rivals Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bill Richardson as secretary of state

by NEDRA PICKLER

President-elect Barack Obama has interviewed primary election rivals Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-Israel) and Bill Richardson for secretary of state, according to Democratic officials who revealed his secret meetings with both as he weighed the decision on folding former foes into his new administration. Obama met with Richardson late Friday afternoon, a day after conferring one-on-one with Clinton at his Chicago office, said several Democratic officials.

He plans to meet there Monday with his Republican opponent, John McCain, but advisers to both of the general election rivals say they don't expect Obama to consider McCain for an administration job.........

ARTICLE - http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2008/11/obama_weighs_clinton_richardso.php

Why I don’t want Hillary Clinton as Sec of State

Emma — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:47:49 EST

(Commenting on the unsubstantiated rumors of Hillary Clinton in President-elect Obama’s cabinet.)

I don’t really care if he puts her in the cabinet, as long as it’s not in any prominent position, such as Secretary of State.

A list of a few of the reasons why Hillary Clinton should not be Sec. of State:

1. She’s not much of a diplomat, the primary told us that.

2. Her ties to Bill Clinton would weigh her down and along with her the crucial efforts of the Obama administration. Bill might be well liked in some circles “out here”, but he doesn’t command much respect, and that will affected her by proxy.

3. She has no actual experience with foreign policy, at least not on the level that will be required considering the dangers we face.

4. Hillary, like most women in her age group, has a tendency to try too hard. It makes them appear desperate and weak. These are not good qualities in a Secretary of State, a position that is very similar to a soldier in the midst of a battlefield, except you use words and psychological manipulation instead of guns and missiles. Obviously the Sec of State can’t be an actual soldier, if you are no one will trust you not to use guns and missiles…

I kind of like the idea of Bill Richardson as Sec of State, but mainly because of his experience in the UN, brief as it was. In my opinion, anything that pushes President-elect Obama closer to the UN is a move in the right direction.

Choosing John Kerry would be disaster though. The last thing we need is another military man in the US State Department! He has campaigned too convincingly on his war record and it will be very difficult to ignore. The world will not trust a soldier to be a US representative of peace ever again.

But the only American I would really trust handling the deceptive waters of high state diplomacy is James Baker. Unfortunately he is far too Republican for comfort. Anyway, I hope President-elect Obama at least calls him on the phone often.

I do hope, however, that President-elect Obama keeps Robert Gates as Sec. of Defense. There’s no reason not to (that I can think of), and many, many reasons to keep him. Most importantly, the US will be extremely vulnerable for the first year of Obama’s presidency. The less strain put on the military community the safer we’ll all be. Considering the situation the US military is in at the moment and will continue to be for a foreseeable future, I’d strongly advocate not rocking the boat.

Anyway, that’s my two cents’ worth.

Now I’m off to bed.

Good night.

If Hillary became Secretary of State, it would be a disaster for the Palestinians

John Lewis-Dickerson, Atlanta — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 02:07:36 EST

Please puncture this trial baloon

by Jerimiah Haber

The Washington Post and other media outlets suggest that the Obama transition team is considering Hillary Clinton Secretary of State. The Chicago Tribune reports that the Obama transition team will not confirm this.

If Hillary became Secretary of State, it would be a disaster for the Palestinians, hence, for the Israelis.

Let's be clear: Hillary Clinton is virtually a Jewish senator; ever since moving to New York she has kow-towed entirely to her Jewish constituency.......

POST- http://themagneszionist.blogspot.com/2008/11/please-puncture-this-trial-baloon.html

The World Wants to know . . . GOT HOPE?

Nervie — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:31:59 EST

JULY 16, 2008

THE WORLD WANTS TO KNOW …GOT HOPE?

By Minerva L. Williams

The world wants to know. . . how many American women will show up to vote in the 2008 Presidential election? It amounts to, will women vote hope as strongly as they are responding in national polls, state rallies and town hall meetings?

Those that supported Hillary are vowing to not even go to the poll or expressing overwhelmingly McCain. Young women are most interested and support Barack Obama. What the pundits see is how largely young women showed up for Obama in Iowa and the same group didn’t show up at all in New Hampshire. So what happened that made the same group of women vote largely the first state and not at all in the second state? Where is the pattern?

The world trade balance is off, economies are low, job rates are inching higher, and the policies of the Bush Administration are still not reflective of the American people’s wants. Bush’s popularity poll numbers are the lowest of any president ever!

Mortgage rates are so over the top that millions are loosing their homes daily. Gas prices are out of site. The cost of food, transportation, and supplies are rising. Media exclaims that McCain is 4 more years of Bush policies. Does anyone want to see more attempts of bankrupting the country? Although the captains of industries appear to be doing a great job. Check out your stock portfolio if you dare.

Am I witnessing the insurgence of the Naomi Klein’s warning of the national “shock and awe syndrome” because the students of University of Chicago’s professor Milton Friedman’s philosophy are coming of professional age hence, it will require another University of Chicago’s professor Barack Obama who believes in community organizing to organize the United States to try to save us from Friedman pirates?

I agree that Obama more forceably needs to address Social security, poverty and minimum wage but he also needs to address the millions of jobs going overseas.

Do check out the interview with Chris Matthews: June 16, 2008 http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2008/6/16/amy_goodman_on_msnbcs_hardball_with_chris_matthews_at_5_30pm_est_repeated_at_7_30pm_est

Women are opposed to war and overwhelmingly so. McCain says he sees Iraqi withdrawal tables non negotiable and dangerous to publically discuss but he says we will be in Iraqi for 100 years, if necessary. Isn’t this a public answer?

How many more women are willing to send their children to a war that obviously was based on a huge lie ala Scott McClellan ,the present bearer of Bush first hand bad news, to satisfy our addiction to oil, at the expense of millions of Iraqi women and children who have had to flee their country due to our bombing and blasting them out of their homes or to increase the Bush family financial legacy?

Isn’t this the same family that benefitted from the economic increases during the German war? Why isn’t the media talking and reminding us of this?

Women under 50 may not know that at one time abortions were illegal and women rights advocacy in the 60’s and 70’s made Roe vs. Wade (1973) overturned. Women under 50 have seen women in powerful positions, heads of corporations, political leaders and may take it for granted that McCain wants to over turn Roe vs. Wade, where back alley abortions were unsafe and the norm. These same young women don’t know when women had to fight for equality in wages although in some industries women still aren’t in parity to their men counterparts.

Check out “Standing up to the Madness” by Amy Goodman, reknowned “DemocracyNow! Radio and television commentator, if you wish to know more details on why so many voters should pay close attention to what is politically going on.

Hillary is out on the trail to shore up her 18 million supporters to encourage them to support Barack Obama the first trip being Unity, New Hampshire this week but the follow through of the ladies and gentlemen of Obama supporters is supreme to the election numbers being not only a big deal but the next four years with a Democrat in office. Some republicans say “let them have it”, while they blame the aftermath of Bush’s policies on the Democrats. You hear this now, with Republican leaders blaming Pelosi and Harry Reid for “the nation falling apart”. And what planet are these Republican leaders on? Are they getting their footage from Mars?

Republicans did their dirty here in California under Pete Wilson’s utilities scandal, Davis never was able to figure it out. Even with the Governator play to the partisan legislators, Californians are still in a tales spin; drought imminent, billions in educational cuts, families loosing their homes to mortgage rate manipulation, jobs being packaged to India and China, and oil prices affecting everything from food supplies, cost of food and traveling expenses. But hopefully with a lot of educational forums, classroom sessions, and family dinner discussions the voting age American women will not only wake up but smell the coffee and take charge to the ballot boxes this November. What does it take to get these women’s attention that their voices must be heard at the ballot box or we are going to be seeing more of the past seven years? The world wants to know. . .Got Hope?

Minerva L. Williams is a freelance writer, residing in Santa Clarita Valley who is a strong advocate of Barack Obama and says change is something you can believe in, because it is inevitable.

In Dreams I Wander Nameless Streets in Search of Faceless Voters

Mark Wiznitzer — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:11:10 EST

Dear Friends:

To those of you who so kindly congratulated me for Tuesday’s election outcome, as if Barack Obama’s victory resulted from my personal and deeply committed efforts. I thank you for your generous comments.

To those who may have wondered how I fared in “radio silence” for six weeks on the Ohio battleground. Be assured that I survived.

To those who do not know me or are unfamiliar with my previous descriptions of the realities and ironies of the 2008 election. What follows is the final chapter of my life as a political activist, a missionary for democracy, an apostle of Change. Hopefully you will also understand how it is that for the first three nights after I returned home I woke up from the same dream in which I wander nameless streets in search of faceless voters.

The Buckeye State

On September 23 I joined the Ohio Campaign for Change as a member of its newly created Vote Corps. The invitation had warned of 14-hour days, seven days a week, right up through Election Day. I accepted because the Obama campaign considered this important enough to make it a paid position and because it was in the one state McCain had to win to become President.

I left home certain that my life experiences -- in retail sales, as diplomat and political officer, and Obama volunteer in seven states – would be useful in the Buckeye State. Stopping at Starbucks on the way out of Burlington that Sunday morning, I noticed the first trace of red on the outer edge of a leaf on a small maple tree in the parking lot. I realized that by the time I returned to Vermont the leaf peepers would have come and gone. Fortunately, it turned out to be a mild autumn in Ohio that showcased the Buckeye State’s own colorful foliage.

The Akron Vote Corps

A hundred of us reported to Columbus for Vote Corps training and by the first night we were already deployed across the state. I was assigned to the city of Akron, birthplace of Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James and Pretenders’ singer-songwriter Chrissie Hynde, who wrote about her birthplace in “My City Was Gone”. The Akron Campaign for Change Office was headed by Regional Field Director Max Lesko. In charge of Summit and Portage Counties, he proved himself a very capable and genial manager. My hosts, Cathy and David, and their daughter Nicky, lived in a northwest suburb. Their friendship and cozy accommodations would be my home for the next six weeks.

At first the Akron Vote Corps consisted of six whites, from metropolitan DC, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Texas and California. Like most of the Obama staff and volunteers I met during the primaries, they were young and well-educated. In fact, I was two-and-a-half times their average age. By the end of the second week we lost one and gained five new members. Our new team-mates were all African Americans, from California, Texas and Georgia. Their average age was early forties and many had worked on the Kerry campaign. One of my first initiatives was to buy half a dozen fingerless gloves for our new friends from the warm weather states. Our Vote Corps was rounded out by a “Lead,” a young lawyer from Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown’s Washington staff.

The Vote Corps’ mission was to register voters, identify supporters and get out the vote for Barack Obama. Our primary targets were “Sporadics,” first time voters and people who voted Democratic in the past, but did not always turn out. For a while we were also instructed to knock on every single door in a targeted neighborhood. I successfully resisted attempts to create competition within our group for most doors knocked, “Doors” being the campaign’s primary measure for the work accomplished by staff and volunteers. My feeling was that competition focused on this imperfect metric would distort our effort, demoralize some members of our group, and sacrifice quality for quantity. For in the end, the real measure of our success would be the vote count on Election Day. And to that end, it was our diligence after the “knock” that would help determione the outcome.

Registration

Our first task was registering new voters and re-registering people who had moved before the deadline of October 6. We knocked on doors and scoured bus stops and other public places to register as many people as possible. Most people were already registered, as they clearly understood the importance of this election. Those who had not yet done so enthusiastically signed up, particularly in the African-American community. My first Saturday in Akron, I missed my first grandchild’s first birthday party back in Virginia. But my reward on that day was registering many first-time voters, including former felons who had recently regained the rights of other free men and women.

Many of our Sporadics were transients who frequently moved from one run-down Akron neighborhood to another. This city was in decline for a long time, and the recent economic downturn just aggravated conditions. In older residential neighborhoods there are a growing number of abandoned homes or houses soon to be vacated due to lost jobs or foreclosure. Many porches are marked by hand-painted signs announcing “Copper Already Stolen” or littered with trash by people who have given up. It is in this environment that we spread our message of Hope and Change.

Starting on September 30, we entered “golden week” when voters could both register and vote early. Ohio’s new rules allowed “no fault” early voting by absentee ballot or in person. A single polling place was created for Summit County at the Job Center in northeast Akron. The Job Center is well-known, because job losses have been ongoing for many years. The building, also known by locals as “the old library,” is next to another landmark, the County’s Auto Title Office. For those without cars, bus number 12 took people there from downtown in 15 minutes.

Early Voting

Registration and early voting at the Job Center was very convenient. Open every day, including Saturday and Sunday, there were 50 polling booths and seating for voters waiting for their paper ballots. But many Ohioans, especially African Americans disenfranchised in previous elections were suspicious. They worried that ballots were going to “disappear,” as reportedly happened in 2004 in Cuyahoga County. Overcoming these legitimate concerns required some persuasion. Our most important argument was: “Barack Obama wants his supporters to vote early.” That usually did it. We helped to spread the word that this process would protect, not suppress voting rights. And by November 3, the daily early vote turnout had grown from hundreds to thousands, the wait from 15 minutes to three hours.

By my third week I had developed a routine for creating a multiplier effect in conversation with early voters. Once they had made an Early Vote Commit, I introduced community organizing techniques to build on the widespread desire to help Obama get elected. Within the family, a grandparent or parent, or maybe the principal driver would agree to take responsibility for getting the entire household to vote early. I also encouraged voters to take along a relative or friend, or a neighbor who needed a ride.

Finally, I would make the following pitch:

“I’m working for Obama and I want you to work for him too. So I’m going to deputize you. No badge, no pay, just the satisfaction of knowing you helped to elect Barack Obama."

That always earned a smile. Then I continued:

"Now I'm sure you know someone who wouldn’t vote unless you drag their lazy a-- to the Job Center to vote. Do you know anyone like that?”

I could tell when they were hooked. Eyes turned skyward. Faces revealed minds thinking of who they would get to early vote. A knowing smile indicated they knew exactly who they would take along. In closing I urged them to let everyone know how easy it was to vote at the Job Center and that Obama wanted them to do so. By the time I left their door, the early voter had been empowered and had taken ownership of the Obama campaign. Now it was their campaign too.

Get Out The Vote

During our last week in Ohio, the Vote Corps was dissolved. We were detailed to assist Field Organizers with their neighborhood teams of volunteers, which were part of the Ohio get out the vote (GOTV) strategy at the precinct level.

I was assigned to Barberton to work for Sol, an energetic field organizer from Texas. My main “turf” was the south Akron neighborhood of Kenmore. Unlike my earlier work with Sporadics in largely African American neighborhoods, I was instructed to “persuade” and “motivate” the remaining “Undecided” voters. But with Election Day closing in fast, there would only be minutes to talk to any single voter.

In Barberton and Kenmore, the Undecideds were predominantly white, working class Democrats. Most did not want to vote for McCain, but were not yet sure about Barack Obama. I understood their concern. Not only was Obama a relatively new and unknown political personality. Most of these voters had supported Hillary in the March primary. And like voters elsewhere, they were being bombarded with smear emails, Republican mailings about Ayers and NRA propaganda warning Obama would take away their guns.

With openly racist voters there was the curt “Thanks for your time.” But it was not difficult to pull the other undecided voters off the fence, especially with the credibility of being an older white man with a knowledge of history and 23 years of federal service under five US Presidents. These voters knew that Obama and Hillary shared a common policy agenda and that she was campaigning hard for the Democratic ticket. They also recognized Rove tactics and our argument that: “They can’t win with the truth, so they are attacking him with lies.” Second amendment concerns were easily neutralized with Biden’s quote: “No one’s taking away my Beretta.” But the simplest most effective argument was “Are you happy with the way things are going or do you want change?” And Change is what voters wanted more than anything this year.

Election Day

November 3rd and 4th were taken up with the final GOTV effort, primarily distributing door hangers and reminding voters of their polling places. From 3:30 pm on Election Day until it was too dark to read house numbers, I scoured for remaining undecided voters who had yet to cast their ballots. I actually found several and they agreed to go to their local poll station, which by then was no longer crowded.

I was at the Barberton volunteers’ party at Lake Anna Hall when MSNBC announced Ohio for Obama. Having already won Pennsylvania, I knew it was all over except for reaching 270 electoral votes. While happy, I was so physically and mentally exhausted that the victory did not seem real. I headed back to my host family home and watched the candidates’ speeches before turning in and resting for the long drive home. Now as my dreams of knocking on doors in Ohio recede, the enormity of our achievement and the challenges facing Barack Obama are coming into better focus. I have no idea what my next step will be, but I will continue to do what I can to get our country back on the right track.

Epilogue

After 40 days of walking the streets of Summit County, I had knocked on or distributed campaign literature at over 4000 doors.

More importantly, I had in-person conversations with more than 1500 voters and obtained about 1000 Early Vote Commits, which probably understates the number of people who were convinced to go to the Job Center. Along the way I also helped remove several hundred bad addresses from our “Turf,” easing the task of later attempts by volunteers to find our voters.

The Akron Vote Corps’ effort over five weeks contributed greatly to the early vote turnout, which by Election Day totaled 90,000, or fully one-third of the 272,000 ballots cast in Summit County. And while he won Ohio’s 20 electoral votes with 51% of the state’s popular vote, Barack Obama won Summit County with 57.45%.

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There's nothing more to say, except...

John from WillObamaWin.com — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:50:46 EST

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Of course, you can choose which one(s) you'd like to download, but why not grab 'em all? They're FREE!

Yes We Did!

John, http://willobamawin.com/

Will Obama Win?
"Pleased to serve the cause"

Hillary Clinton's Case for Barack Obama

Dave — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 12:34:10 EST

From the Daily News: The man for the moment: Hillary Clinton makes the case for Barack Obama

"We cannot afford four more years of the same broken ideological policies. Barack Obama must be our President. Joe Biden must be our vice president. And Democrats must once again clean up an economic mess the Republicans left behind. We've done it before, and we'll do it again."

Thanks Hillary, we will never forgot your vigorous efforts to get Obama elected.

Blog Bonus: Play with the "Palin as President" web page, you and your kids will love it!

Truth Media Presents a Song For Barack Obama

Jennifer Purnell — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 04:01:49 EST

PLEASE GO TO:

http://truthmediagroup.podbean.com

WE WANT TO KNOW WHAT YOU THINK. PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT.

Dialing For Destiny

G. Marie from Chicago, IL — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:08:19 EDT

Tonight I completed my first batch of Neighbor to Neighbor phone calls, 25 in all. I will call another 50 tomorrow. I chose Colorado because of the 2-hr time difference and because it is a key battleground state in this election. I also have some affinity for Coloradoans: I used to camp near Colorado Springs as a teen and near Fort Collins as an adult. I have spent hours in the Denver airport waiting for the weather to clear so I could get back to Chicago. That, and that one of my BFF's lives in Denver, makes me an "almost Coloradoan." I can relate.

So, how was it? Not bad. Mostly I left messages telling people where to find their polling place and the hours of operation. The hard part was leaving my reasons for voting for the Obama Campaign for Change in a voicemail soundbite. Should I share the political reasons, the philosophical reasons, or the common sense reasons? Could I get them all in?

Not sure, I plugged away at it anyway, leaving messages that were a little herky-jerky on the "how come" side but clearly leaving people with a call to action, to vote as if their life and life as we once knew it depended upon it. Because I believe it does.

This political apparatus of ours has become more than moribund. I remember being inspired by Jack and Bobby Kennedy, by the idea of a Peace Corps where even I could be an ambassador and give of my talents and abilities. I was inspired by the young men and women who went into the South by the busloads to teach in Freedom Schools so young black children could learn to read and write. And I was inspired by the courage of those who were undaunted in the face of billy clubs and waterhoses and death, and by the leadership--albeit reluctant for some-- of lawmakers who passed the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts.

No doubt about it, there have been other times when my heart stirred at the promise of what this country could be as a force for good. I could go on with a long litany but what would be the purpose of that? The point is that somewhere along the way I became resigned and cynical about what's possible for that America, probably right about the time that Jimmy Carter was defeated.

I wasn't inspired by Bill Clinton, but I was hopeful and intrigued. I admired his ability to make complex things understandable for the simplest of us. He was charming and even his enemies loved him. What could have been an extraordinary presidency turned into tabloid fodder. Deeds perhaps forgiven, but never forgotten.

I was an early supporter of Hillary Clinton even though I wasn't sure she could win "the big one". Still, I hung in there because I thought she'd earned the right to have her shot at history. And, sisterhood is powerful. Still, something was missing; and even though my friends and family were early Barach Obama supporters, I held out. I was burned out on hope and change, and change for the sake of change wouldn't make me want to leave from my armchair in the stands. Transformation might.

Somewhere along the way, I allowed myself to venture into that rarified air called hope. Maybe it was the debates, where the Senator went from the off-the-rack suits and perriennial blue and white striped tie he always seemed to wear to those infamous $1500 2-button suits and beautiful ties that made him look as elegant as he is eloquent. The more "presidential" he became, the more hopeful and inspired I became. Inspire: to breathe life into me, you, us, our political system. Now that's transformative, and change I can believe in. I'm prepared to go to work to see that it happens.

And that's what I'll be leaving in my next voicemail soundbite messages.

Senator Clinton Returns to the Granite State!

Anne Marie @ NH HQ — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:25:04 EDT

This blog was written by Colin at NH HQ

Today, Hillary Clinton returned to New Hampshire for the first time since her rally in Unity with Senator Obama back in June. She was welcomed with open arms by raucous crowds which greeted her in Manchester and Pelham. With the election only a week away, Hillary Clinton came to the Granite State to let everyone know why she is working so hard to elect Senator Obama to the White House.

Her first event was at Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester. She was introduced by former Gov. Jeanne Shaheen who is running for Senate against incumbent John Sununu. To get our country moving on the right track, Senator Obama will need Jeanne Shaheen in the Senate, so help elect her and Barack Obama by working as hard as you can this last week.

Hillary spoke passionately about the issues affecting our country - lack of access to health care, high energy prices, failing schools, and the sense of malaise sweeping the country due to the financial crisis. Hillary told the Granite State that a vote for McCain is a vote for more of the same and four more years of George W. Bush. She closed by urging all of her supporters from the primary to go out and work and vote for the Democratic ticket up and down the ballot.

Music for Victory Night!

John from WillObamaWin.com — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 11:19:48 EDT

Hi, Friends,

I would love you to pass this on for me...

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Look at these great titles:-

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This Is Our Moment.
Will Obama Win?
ObamaRamaLamaLammaLoo. (!!!)
Hey, Yes We Can! (Radio Mix).
Hey, Yes We Can! (Barack Mix).

Go to http://willobamawin.com/getmp3s.htm and you can download the MP3s or even the audio files to make your own CD for Victory Night! Don't forget - just imagine playing my song "This Is Our Moment" as the winning votes come in. WOW!

This is exclusive, the only site to let you make your own audio CDs so easily. Nothing in it for me, simply saving America with Barack.

And I'm not even American...

P.S. If you're having a watch party for Barack's half-hour TV show on Wednesday (CBS and NBC, 8.00 pm Eastern), you'll need Obama music! You'll *love* these songs, and they're FREE...

Thank You Obama, Biden, Hillary ...

Scott A. Giordano — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:24:15 EDT

Win or lose in the weeks ahead,it is time for Democrats to take great pride in knowing our primary candidates came together for the home stretch ...

Online Poll: Who should Obama pick as his Sec. of State?

XDOW — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:40:38 EDT

You can vote at http://www.ObamasPrayer.com

I believe Barack will win this election by a landslide. However, we must continue to post on blogs and support Barack in our home towns to accomplish that goal.

"You deserve better than you've been delievered the last eight years"

Xavier Lopez-Ayala — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:45:39 EDT

Yesterday, Iron Range gave the type of hometown welcome its famous for when nearly 5000 people welcomed Senator Hillary Clinton to Hibbing.

Folks started lining up as early as 3 o'clock for their chance to hear Hillary outline Barack's vision for the kind of change Minnesota needs.

As Hillary looked out at the audience in the Hibbing Memorial Arena, she noted that the folks gathered there were "people who have been at the core of making America safe and making America work."

Just as the iron ore that made the steel enabled us to win these conflicts, Minnesota's Iron Range casts the votes that made the difference in statewide campaigns that elected John F. Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey, Walter Mondale.

You have given more than your iron ore, your steel, and your votes. You have sacrificed for America... Northeastern Minnesota had the highest per capita enlistment rate in WWII, one of the highest in other conflicts after the Great War, and many of you, your children, and loved ones have served and proudly serve today. Our nation owes you a great gratitude. The working men and women of Northeastern Minnesota--the miners, the loggers, the building trades, the steelworkers, the teachers, the laborers--people who have worked for yourselves and your family, your community, and your country.

And you deserve better than what you've been delivered the last eight years by the Republican leadership in Washington.

Among the veterans in the crowd was retired U.S. Marine Breanna Osterhoudt, who wants to see change in the veterans benefits.

"We'll, I'm here because I'm a strong supporter of Hillary Clinton and Obama. I served four years in the United States Marine Corps, and I think we need a change.

Barack has a plan to help our veterans. The Obama-Biden plan will strengthen VA care by fully funding the VA and improving care for polytrauma vision impairment, prosthetics, spinal cord injury, aging, and women's health. Learn more about the Obama-Biden plan for veterans here.

Hillary spoke of the important role the next thirteen days play in determining whether the country continues down the same course or charts a new course in a new direction:

In these next days, people will be reaching a decision that will impact America for years to come. This is truly a fight for the future and its a fight we must win, and its a fight we have waged and won before.

Yes, times may be tough, but we're tougher than the times and you need to look no further than the hardworking, nation-serving, patriotic people of the Iron Range and Northern Minnesota.

With such a short time left, we need everyone to get involved and make phone calls, and canvass as part of our grassroots campaign for change.

As Hillary said last night, "So my friends, this is our moment, this is our time... Let's go win the election and change America!"

How to Decipher CHANGE to Undecided Voters. (Helpful for Phone Calls)

Amy — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:31:02 EDT

Introduce voters to CHANGE.

Obama in this campaign offers change in its most absolute way: change from failed policies but also change in terms of opening a new page which will burry the racial divide in this country. That change, as exciting as it sounds, needs to be defined so it doesn't scare older and less informed people, into voting for Obama. Change should not be perceived as ‘the unknown’ but “the fundamental”

You guys need to emphasize the long terms effect of Change so they understand the impact their vote will have on their children and future generations.

In terms of communicating race, I think you need to confront racism in a very considerate way so people understand this is not about electing the first African American president in history but electing the one who has the judgement to lead us out of this financial turmoil.
(Insist on the numbers: over 600,000 jobs lost)

When someone tells you the only reason why they wouldn't support Barack Obama is because he is black, tell them “this is not about Obama, this is about you and your children”.

When someone tells you, I like Sarah Palin tell them, “I hate to break it to you but chances are you're never going to sit with her. Once these elections are over, whoever wins will be presiding from the White House, and what will strictly matter then on are the ways in which their policies are going to affect your life, your children. Children can't vote but the impact of your vote, will be part of the legacy you are going to leave them.”

Talk about the power of democracy. (Insist on everything they are going against by supporting the McCain Palin ticket)

If we have a democracy today where women can vote it is because:

Þ Democratic President Woodrow Wilson stood up for Change in 1918 in support of the 19th amendment which forbid any state to deny any woman a right to political expression.

Þ It is the Democratic Party that promulgated Hillary to almost becoming the first female president.

Þ Sarah Palin goes against every thing Hillary has ever fought for:

Þ she is on a ticket which rejects Equal Pay for women.

Þ Insist on the fact that there are 10.4 million single moms in the United States who live with children younger than 18, up from 3.4 million in 1970 and that today more than ever, we need to support those moms so they can have a decent lifestyle and give to their children a sense of education. You can't say you support those women if you stand against equal pay and you stand against raising the minimum wage.

Þ And make the case that if you support the McCain-Palin ticket, you are also denying those proud American citizens the right to a better existence.

The Democratic Party never stopped fighting for the women's rights.

Þ In 1994, President Clinton provided $1.6 billion to enhance investigation and prosecution of the violent crime perpetrated against women by signing the Violence Against Women Act, which John McCain firmly opposed.

Þ This VAWA was drafted by Joe Biden who now runs on the democratic ticket as VP

Þ It is thanks to Biden that domestic violence became a public health policy and human rights concern. (You need to insist on that)

Þ According the National Organization for Women, which stepped out of its usual neutrality to proudly endorse the Obama-Bide ticket, every day in America:

Þ Four women die as a result of domestic violence bringing the number to 1,400 women a year.

Þ two to four million women of all races and classes are battered each year, and 170,000 of those violent incidents are serious enough to require hospitalization

Thanks to Joe Biden, this has become a real human rights concern.

If Hillary Clinton chooses to put pride aside and step up for a "rally for change" it is because she understands the vital necessity to all be on the road for Barack Obama.

By helping each others, women pave the way for their daughters, granddaughters in ensuring that they won't be denied any fundamental human rights.

As you know, many of these women are affected by the economy crisis and for McCain to stand firm and say that he won't raise the minimum wage is simply unacceptable when he supports sending 10bn$ monthly in US taxpayers' money to a country which has an 80bn $ surplus.

Yes, the war in Iraq needs to end and it will end under the presidency of Barack Obama.

Painting the surge as having worked does not take away the fact that this war, which killed 4,152 (as of September 3rd 2008) and wounded 30,568 American soldiers should have never been authorized. Isn’t it fair to remind people that 600, 000 Iraqi civilians, who had absolutely nothing to do with September 11th, were also killed in this war, along with thousands of other soldiers and journalists.

Careless of all the critics Obama has heard on his experience and position against the war, "soldiers have donated more presidential campaign money to Democrat Barack Obama than to Republican John McCain, a reversal of previous campaigns in which military donations tended to favor GOP White House hopefuls, a nonpartisan group reported Thursday", according to USA Today. (8/14/2008)

Yes, soldiers are putting their trust in Obama and so should we when it comes to handling the economy and the foreign policy of this country.

So when John McCain says he is going to fight, ask yourself for what…or better yet, against what? Is he going to keep fighting against the elements so desperately needed for Change, like funding for education, funding for healthcare…?

John McCain doesn’t have a record to claim that he can bring real change. What has long years in Washington ever brought to a candidate? If it mattered so much why is Palin in a position which puts her heart bit away from the presidency, when more experienced Republican candidates are available? If he just wanted to rally the right wing base, he could have chosen Huckabee, if he cared about the economy, he would have appointed Romney but instead he opted for someone with absolutely O experience.

Are you ready to have Palin as President and take a 10% risk of having change? Well after all, McCain voted 90% of the time with Bush and a 100% in 2008.

If Obama wins, America wins and therefore you win.

You should have banners saying If Obama wins, America wins / If Obama wins, you win.

Live from Scranton...

Voter4Change — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 19:16:58 EDT

Last weekend we made the drive to Scranton to see Bill and Hillary and Joe and Jill Biden. Lovely scenery through the Poconos, and about 7,000 people showed up. We waited in a long line along the Lackawanna River for over an hour to get into the indoor recreation complex where the rally was held.

Many people from different backgrounds, different walks of life were there: senior citizens, Hillary supporters, Biden fans, veterans, Catholics...such a diverse group all there for one thing: change. People were selling t-shirts and campaign buttons (and other things--one creative guy was selling men's red briefs with white trim that said "No more Bush" on the front. The gentleman behind us bought a pair for $15). Dozens of volunteers wandered around with clipboards to register everyone and remind us all of the security rules (no liquids brought inside, electronics on so they could make sure they were working).

When we finally got inside, rally signs were handed out to the VIP section ahead of us (firefighters and FTA teachers' union, I believe), but we got a few passed back to the rest of us. Lots of "Hillary Sent Me" buttons, too. Handpainted signs endorsed Biden and reminded us that Scranton supports Obama. A giant flag hung on one side.

The heat overcame a few people, despite the air conditioning. We were packed in tightly trying to see. We had a good spot next to the stage. Jill Biden spoke first, and then Bill took the stage. Hillary spoke next and introduced Joe Biden. The crowd was excited throughout and were really charged up.

I highly recommend attending a rally if you can.

Introduction to Exploration of Hope

Tunisia — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:29:40 EDT

When people ask me why I support Barack Obama, I always feel slightly tongue-tied. I lose a little bit of confidence even though I do have some clear beliefs why he should win office. However, they always end up sounding cliché. For instance, I usually think of the word ‘change’ but how many times have you heard that from an Obama supporter? It’s an abstract truth but not a concrete reason that holds weight with candidates like Hillary Clinton, whose political experience outweighs his or John McCain who has been in politics since I’ve been born. So with this in mind, I’ve been searching for better reasons why I support the Black man with the “funny name”.

Over the last few months, I have been immersed in Obama’s campaign. I’ve read both of his books, the autobiography Dreams from My Father and the more politically driven, The Audacity of Hope, which gives me a more personal and specific look into the man’s upbringing, beliefs and political views. I have also been reading some articles from various sources about his campaign and how he’s been stacking up against his relentless, unflinching opponent, Hillary Clinton. In the evenings, after I come home from work, I sometimes watch Youtube clips from his page, hoping to gain a firmer stance on my position on the issues. I’ve also, sometimes reluctantly, watch CNN, MSNBC and even FOX News (all thanks to my brother whose sudden interest in politics may be all due to Mr. Obama himself). I’ve even volunteered on his behalf, making donations, going to rallies, making a few calls to voters, sending out postcards and agreeing to a random interview with a university as a young supporter.

Now, I will say that prior to this election, I was not into politics that much at all. I’ve never been to a rally for a candidate nor read a political book in my life. I was even a Hillary supporter at first, thinking that Obama really didn’t have a chance at winning the presidency. So I wonder, “What is it about him that makes me believe so much? Why do I feel so driven to be involved and to learn as much as I can about the issues and the candidate himself?”

I’m still in search for that answer. I’ve had some discoveries over the last few months that I will share with you and I know I will have quite a few more during the general election. In consequence, I will share my journey with you on this quest to find out the answer to this very question. I will call it, for now, “The Exploration of Hope”. Cheesy maybe but I kinda like it.

Written on May 19, 2008

"Jobs, Baby, Jobs!"

Aviva — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:38:36 EDT

Ohio has played host to the Clintons these past couple days while they hit the trail for Barack. Today, Senator Hillary Clinton held rallies in Youngstown and Delaware to address why Ohio needs a Democrat in office.

In Delaware, she was preceded by Delaware County Field Organizer Libby, who told the heart-wrenching story of her reason for change: her father, who worked hard, paid his taxes, and passed away in January of a heart attack, with no access to healthcare. She asked the crowd to think of their own reasons for change, whether it be a parent or a child, adding,

It's not enough to hope for change, or pray for change, or vote for change. You have to bring about change.

She encouraged everyone to volunteer, make calls, and go door to door to bring about change.

Another Delaware volunteer, Linda, was thrilled to introduce Hillary, her longtime personal heroine.

Hillary looked right at home in the Buckeye High School gym, and her speech proved her deep understanding of Ohio and Ohioans' needs.She recounted her last trip to Ohio earlier this year, as well as her impressions of the people of Ohio:

I was heartened and impressed, not just by the resilience of the people I met, or by how hard Ohioans work, but by how much Ohio deserved a better future.

Everyone knows that Ohio is a critical state for every presidential election. However, Hillary pointed out how this election is especially critical for Ohio. She noted that four of the top ten cities most affected by foreclosures are in Ohio. The crowd broke out in cheers and applause as she explained why she believes her fellow Democrats, Barack Obama and Joe Biden, are the answer to Ohio's troubles.

I have been fighting for the middle class for a long time...because I know that if we don't have a prosperous middle class, we don't have a prosperous America. That's who I'm fighting for today, that's who Barack and Joe are fighting for, and because that's who they're fighting for, I'm fighting for them.

In the course of the afternoon, Hillary also unveiled her idea for a new slogan, one she feels captures the feeling of our times. To the delight of the crowd, she shouted,

Jobs, Baby, Jobs!

While the enthusiasm and energy in the gym was infectious, Hillary warned that no one should take this election for granted, no matter what the polls say. She reiterated Libby's call for volunteers, also noting the importance that young Americans who are excited and involved for the first time encourage their friends to get out and vote.

This campaign depends on you. Not only your vote, but your canvassing, your phonebanking, your conversations with your friends, will determine the outcome of this election. As the Senator concluded,

On the morning of November 5th you're going to wake up and think one of two things...either four more years, or change is on the way!

18 days to go...

Jeff Blodgett — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:17:51 EDT

On Wednesday night, Barack Obama made a clear and compelling case for change during the 26th and final debate of his campaign for president. John McCain only offered angry, negative attacks.
Throughout the course of the evening, Barack offered specific plans to rebuild the middle class while John McCain couldn’t name a single way that his economic policies would be any different than those of George W. Bush.

After the debate, Barack Obama and Joe Biden urged their supporters to join the biggest get out the vote operation in history, and work to make sure that every voter has their voice heard. John McCain and Sarah Palin, meanwhile, unleashed another wave of dishonorable, dishonest attacks in their continued effort to distract voters from the real issues facing American families.

Time is running out. McCain’s erratic response to the economic crisis and his angry political attacks raise serious questions about whether he is ready to lead our economy. Wednesday was his last chance for a game-changer and he didn’t get it done.

The debates are now over and there are less than three weeks left until Election Day. We’ll continue to take our message of change directly to the people of Minnesota, and next week we’ll have a special guest to help us out: Sen. Hillary Clinton will visit the Iron Range on Tuesday, October 21, to talk about her trust in Barack’s steady leadership and ability to turn around our economic crisis.

Now, the high-profile campaign surrogates and television ads are nice, but the way elections are won in Minnesota is through direct voter contact. That is why we are building the largest grassroots campaign this state has ever seen, and why we need you, your friends, family and neighbors to sign up to volunteer for the campaign. Just visit: http://my.barackobama.com/mnteamobama.
Thanks for all you do.

Jeff

Jeff Blodgett
Minnesota State Director
Obama for America

TUESDAY: Sen. Hillary Clinton to Campaign for Obama on the Iron Range

Xavier Lopez-Ayala — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:23:50 EDT

The Obama campaign just announced that Hillary Clinton will campaign for Barack and Joe up on the Iron Range next week.

ST. PAUL – U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton will hold a public rally for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign next Tuesday evening on the Iron Range.
Sen. Clinton will speak with Minnesotans about her trust in Sen. Obama’s steady leadership and ability to turn around our economic crisis. Sen. Clinton will discuss the current crisis and the leadership required to bring the change we need.

More details will be announced in the coming days.

Hillary said it best in Scranton last week:

Barack Obama and Joe Biden are for you and that’s why I am for Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
My friends, this is an all-hands-on-deck moment for America. We’ve got to work hard and we’ve got to work together. This is a fight for the future and it is a fight we must win.

All hands-on-deck!

Let's change this country!

New National Video

Anthony from Scranton, PA — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:30:28 EDT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1exiyBYnJ00

Scranton Rally Photos

Anthony from Scranton, PA — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:55:44 EDT

Get Up and Volunteer

Barbara from White Plains, NY — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 02:59:47 EDT

We trekked over to Scranton, PA from North White Plains, NY to listen to Hillary, Bill, Joe and Jill. After a 2 hour trip we found a tiny driveway almost obscured by a car wash and I wondered if this was the place. When we arrived we found an almost empty parking lot, since we got there at 10:30 AM for a 3:00PM show. Technically the doors were set to open at 1:15 PM. After finding way too many t-shirts that we loved we settled on a few and donned them. We walked toward the line forming outside the Sports Arena, which was a metal sided building similar to the Office's Dunder Miflen building. Waiting in the hot sun we met a few really great people and it helped to pass the hours away as we all shared our stories and how we came to be there in Scranton today.

At about 12:00 a Volunteer came over and asked us if we wanted to be on the stage and we said of course. So we all got green bracelets and were sent to stand with the media trucks until it was time to go inside. We were sent through security ahead of everyone else on the line, which had grown to the entire length of the parking lot, and they sat us on bleachers directly behind the stage. We were told that we had to be on our best behavior and they gave us all signs to hold. Cameras pointed at us directly. After standing in the sun for 3 hours it was great to be in an air-conditioned building even if we had to sit sqashed together on metal bleachers that swayed when we all stood on them.

But after a brief speech by Jill Biden who introduced Hillary Clinton who then introduced Bill Clinton, it was all worth it. Bill Clinton is still charismatic and sounds so genuine. He still looks great too! Then Hillary talked and I had never seen her speak in public. I have met her and spoken with her personally, but she is such a great speaker. Then we heard Joe Biden, and if I liked him before today, I love him now. He is a great speaker and he had everyone in that place screaming. I had heard a lot of his speech in bits and pieces, but altogether it is very impressive. At one point he stopped the teleprompter to say a few words about Hillary Clinton and how they were really friends. But the end of his speech was so powerful. He said: "Get up", and fight. He kept saying Get Up and the crowd went wild. I really love Joe Biden and he is such a strong candidate.

Biden said a few choice things about Palin, but when the crowd booed her he said it was okay. He also talked about why the McCain/Palin ticket has gone into the negative because they have no plan to save the economy. He says that the Obama/Biden ticket has a plan for taking care of small businesses and jumpstarting the economy. He talked about Health Care and one thing he said that got the greatest ovation: "We will stop the war in Iraq!!!" As he kept repeating it he got enthusiastic loud cheering.

We need Barack Obama and Joe Biden to win this November and it is time for everyone who has been sitting home and thinking that will do it to think again. Unless you are physically unable to get out please try to volunteer in your local campaign office. Also, talk to your friends and family and try to sway those undecided voters or even those who are leaning toward McCain/Palin. Joe Biden said that "this is the single greatest election we have ever had." We all need to make sure that this time we don't fail to elect the right people. Could you stand another 4 years of McSame? Or do you want to see a way out of this chaos that the Bush Administration has left for us? It is time to do whatever you can to get out the vote.

After being at this rally I am going to donate as many hours as I can to electing Obama and Biden. My children's future and my own and more importantly, 90% of this country needs them to be elected. So don't wait. Do whatever you can. If you speak to an undecided voter ask them which candidate is going to do the most for them. Get Up and go speak to whomever you can. Our country's life depends upon it.

There Will Be Racism II: "White People, Vote Race -- Not Party!!"

Vanessa Edwards from Houston, TX — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:24:43 EDT

http://transpolitical.blogspot.com/2008/08/there-will-be-racism-ii-white-people.html reprint of TransPolitical blog 8/3/08

Exitus acta probat (the outcome justifies the deeds) — Niccolo Machiavelli

After processing what I heard the other day, the reality of this election season, this is what the message in the upcoming election boils down to:

For democrats, it’s Corporate America (big business) vs. the people.

For republicans, it’s blacks and muslims (terror) vs. white people.

In a nutshell, that’s how this all plays out. Democrats are going to point out the classism inherent in our current state in America and how it’s created the ills we’re seeing economically. Republicans are going to focus on terrorism and remind everyone of their fears of terror, whether it be from muslims or from blacks who they will try to conflate with them, whether muslim or not. For the vast majority of Americans, the economy is the urgent issue. For conservatives, it must be shifted to fear and terror.

Grace In Victory For Obama, Sowing Sour Grapes For LesBiGay Leaders

Vanessa Edwards from Houston, TX — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:54:56 EDT

“Well I'll be damned, here comes your ghost again.But that's not unusualIt's just that the moon is full and you happened to callAnd here I sit, hand on the telephone,Hearing a voice I'd known a couple of light years agoHeading straight for a fall” — Diamonds And Rust, Joan Baez

“They were fast-moving opportunists encased in cynicism and proud of it.” — journalist, Jay Carr

For some reason, it seemed like a lot was going on while we were convened in Texas’ Democratic Convention last weekend. The economy tanked. Hillary Clinton suspended her campaign. And for trans supporters, Barack Obama held a conference call with the LGBT community. (No, I don’t get invitations to those things … I just volunteer on the campaign, organize, get others involved in volunteering and win a delegate slot to Denver instead. That’s plenty on the plate, I reckon.)

The Obama Campaign LGBT conference call focused on bringing in (of all people) HRC leaders, as in Human Rights Campaign or Hillary Rodham Clinton supporters – however you want to slice it. Indeed during the conference call, there was apparently some issue with the HRC (the group) focus and how “99% of the issues voiced” were gay or lesbian, while transgender was mostly never heard. For those in Trans America, we know we’re not Johnny-come-latelys and had long ago thrown our support to Obama (knowing Clinton’s gay/lesbian-only propensity).

Some of the trans participants in the conference call expressed surprise, hurt or “dismay” (as Donna Rose noted in her blog) at the focus of the subject matter due to HRC’s prominence in the call. For those who’ve been at this since the 90’s, especially old-line NTAC folk like me, having transgender being an equal part of something HRC-focused would’ve been the surprise. This opportunism and self-focus was classic HRC. If anything, how the conference call played out should serve to remind trans leaders that HRC is still HRC, and is still (as always) gay and lesbian. Period.

Obama needs Hillary on the Health Care Front NOW

Blair from Gig Harbor, WA — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:39:03 EDT

Obama,

You need to bring Hillary back into the lights of your health care plan now. A GREAT LEADER IS THE ONE THAT SURROUNDS THEMSELVES WITH THE GREATEST ADVISORS! Put Hillary in charge of this as a notion now and reasure a real plan with the American people.

OBAMA CAN LEAD ON A BETTER BAILOUT -see below...

Gaurav from Lawrence Township, NJ — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 21:28:11 EDT

This is an idea for a bailout plan, one that effectively splits the losses between corporations and government, and that I believe is possible under the passed proposal. I am no fan of big corporations but consider:

If the government is willing to bail out distressed corporations, let it do so as the purchaser of mortgages of distressed homeowners. The government becomes the mortgage lender and is able to reduce the monthly payment such that the family can afford to remain there. The government would do that by purchasing the home at the noninflated actual value (ex $350,000)of the home to the mortgage lender. So the lousy lender corporation takes a financial hit, but not a knockout blow that would have resulted from writing off the overly valued $500,000 home, in the example.
If the family still defaults, the government (ie taxpayers) takes the heavy $350,000 hit, which would be sizable but still less than what we stand to give away right now to the corporations who did this. AND the families are rescued, not the executives. Better for the executive who'll land on his feet anyway to lose his job than a farmer who will lose his family's home.

This would be a great time for Obama to lead on the bailout and would probably win him the election. If you agree with this, pass it on to someone you know who knows Barack and maybe he'll think it's a good idea.

Sorry I don't know anyone! I'm new here.

Photos of Senator Clinton in Grand Ledge and Flint

Josh In Michigan — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:30:11 EDT

From The Onion...

Beth from ColoradObama — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:08:52 EDT

What's Hillary been up to lately? This is a HILLARious must-read!!!!!!!!!

Low Blow Obama Team

SRG_Legal — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:39:37 EDT

I loves you, but I ain't a fool.

That McCain ad about him not being able to use a computer was skanky. If I were voting for McCain, it wouldn't matter to me a hill of beans that he can't use a computer or doesn't know how to email. That is not a qualification for being president and it shouldn't be.

Overall, this campaign has been highly negative and based on the wrong things, and that is coming ot of both parties. Can we please get off the tabloid soap operas about pigs, lipstick, who's too old, how beautiful Sarah Palin is compared to Michelle Obama (as if there IS any comparison between the two who are both gorgeous in their own rights), Palin's abstinent-but-knocked-up daughter and her redneck son-in-law-to-be, but her abuse of office charges are valid and should stick as an issue. It says a lot about how she does or does not manage to keep her oath of office and personal affairs separate, as they should be.

This whole campaign is starting to sound like a bitchy PMS-ing slapfest that's just missing the mud and wet t-shirts and I am getting sick of it.

I KNOW we, the nation, have important business coming up: Finance and economy, putting America back on track and fiscally sound, dealing with world affairs and re-establishing our reputation on the international scale, wars and impending wars, sliding scale dollar issues, racism, crime control, poverty, death penalty injustices, medical and healthcare, abortion, family rights, women's issues, escalating costs with no cost of living salary increases, the whole nine. Nobody's got time for this 'yada yada' that has nothing to do with anything that's on the table. Time to grow up children.

We're down to the wire on November 2, and nothing matters now except that Mr. Change and Mr. Country First need to be looking forward to the next four-eight-16-32 years instead of backward. Sorry, but Bush's last-minute attempt to revive his presidential legacy mean absolutely nothing to me.

I look forward to some good and serious debates on Sept. 26 and Oct. 2. Obama and Biden kick BUTT! (And please spare us the rest of the "pointless noise" for the remainder of this campaign year, PLEASE.)

McCain tried to leverage the race and gender cards against Obama's campaign because it was all he had left to deal...meaning he's a loser on all counts. He knew it when he announced Palin as a running mate. It was his last trump and he played it with all his might.

If Obama loses it won't be due to racism, it will be because of white privilege 'in favor of' Sarah Palin, because she is absolutely not qualified to be vice president OR president of the United States by ANY means, so if she is put in office, it will be only to keep Obama out. They put this in the media as a duel between Obama and Palin when it was anything BUT that. The two couldn't even compare, mainly because one was running for president and the other for vice president. McCain, earlier, spoke to Obama's "experience" level and then turned around and put a pure political Zero up front and center to prove his point? Palin is so inexperienced, she ought to vote against herself. McCain himself is more experienced than she, and should have named himself president and vice-president -- the McCain/McCain ticket.

Bottom Line: I can't stay enthusiastic about this lean mean Democratic campaign machine if I have to keep hearing petty crap about people's families and looks and motor skills and computer capabilities. Let's get to the meat of this election, so dessert can be served on November 4.

If we want to talk EXPERIENCE, I'm all for that, because McCain absolutely shot himself in the booty with that one. I don't think them trying so hard to bring Palin "up to speed" in the next 5.5 weeks is going to work out as well as they think.

John McCain: A Maverick No More

Cheryl Rhodes — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:27:03 EDT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRRze04JvK4&watch_response

Obama’s Surge Strategy: a Page from Petraeus’ Book?

Mark Wiznitzer — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 22:32:36 EDT

I got the call last week and tomorrow I leave for the American heartland to join the Obama campaign officially. My “deployment” is not a total surprise, as I did my “basic training” in Chicago at Camp Obama in June 2007 and since then have volunteered in seven states. Independent of the campaign, I conducted “psy-ops” on the net as a blogger and worked with other supporters in “rapid response” to online critics and negative media. But now I am called to official duty and by this time next week I will be on the “front lines” in a crucial swing state.

Am I to be part of a Pre-electoral “Surge”, a sort of “counter-insurgency doctrine” applied to this election in the closing days of the Presidential campaign? That may be what Obama’s deputy national campaign director Steve Hildebrand has in mind to ensure Victory on November 4. He is the “four-star general” who won the first battle for the nomination when Obama took the Iowa caucus. Lately Hildebrand has been moving his troops around in what looks like an attempt to “clear, hold, and build” support in swing states. That is where organization, registration, and turnout could deliver the vote margin that spells the difference between “victory and defeat.”

Reports from Georgia confirm Hildebrand has “drawn down” his forces in Georgia and redeployed elsewhere. That does not imply Obama has abandoned Georgia, but does mean a greater reliance on remaining staff backed by an army of local volunteers who delivered a decisive primary win. At the same time, the redeployment reflects a need to strengthen Obama’s presence in states where he lost to Hillary Clinton and did not develop as much grass roots support. It looks and sounds like its erstwhile namesake in Iraq, but this surge too can only succeed if certain other conditions apply.

Perhaps the most important of those conditions is “political reconciliation.” The Denver convention speeches of Hillary and Bill Clinton marked a symbolic end to internal Democratic opposition to Obama’s nomination. Some small “rebel factions” of the party had intended to continue “resistance”. But John McCain’s subsequent nomination of Sarah Palin as his running mate sparked a “civil awakening” and the rebellion fell flat. Now former adversaries are working to elect Obama and avoid the frightening prospect of a “fundamentalist” religious right Republican Administration. What remains for the Obama forces is to reassure independent voters and moderate Republicans that Obama is a “safe” choice who will represent their interests.

The Obama campaign also benefits from improved intelligence on voting conditions in some key swing states where there were serious problems at the polls in 2000 and 2004. His base is alert to Republican tactics designed to intimidate and disenfranchise voters, and sabotaging elections. As they obtain “actionable intelligence” the campaign will be able to address problems promptly. And after replacing some local elected officials with Democrats, they can count on better cooperation to ensure the integrity of the electoral process.

As I leave for the front I anticipate this will be my last posting for a while. But I expect that this surge too will succeed “beyond our wildest dreams.”

Obama/Biden Weekly Videos (09-20-08)

Stephanie Williams — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 09:00:10 EDT

New Videos from BarackObamadotcom

Debunking the Palin Gender Politics Game

Irish Musician for Progressive Solutions — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:20:10 EDT

From: Cafe, Election Central

OK, I've Had Enough of the Palin Gender Politics Game. Now I'm Really Pissed.

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY 8-YR STRATEGY

Johnny Nosike — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:09:55 EDT

2008 - Secure the base. Convince Hillary Clinton supporters that an Obama loss means Hillary runs and wins in 2012. Never mention that she can run even if Obama is president. Make everyone think the Clintons are faking their support for Obama/Biden.

Republicans win!

2012 - Secure the base. Use 2008 voting statistics to show Obama supporters that it was Hillary backers that put John McCain in the White House. Enforce and re-enforce.

Republicans win!

2016 - Democrats are disoriented.

Republicans win!

Isn't It Time To Give Hillary a Break?

Robin Z — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 02:12:31 EDT

We spent so many months during primary season watching this amazingly accomplished woman rise to the level of senior stateswoman while taking hit after hit from the media.

The primary race was a whopper, and ended in stunning frustration and disappointment for so many of us.

Since then, we have watched Hillary conduct herself with an astounding level of grace. She has thrown her support 100% behind Barack and asked us to reconsider our own motives as her supporters. She stood in front of the DNC and did the right thing for the party in a speech that blew the socks off everyone in the convention hall. And that was all before she hit the road for Barack in the battleground states.

Today there were two controversial news stories about Hillary, and STILL the press seem to want to court controversy around her.

First, Hillary pulled out of a high-profile Washington rally protesting Iran, after learning Sarah Palin scheduled herself to appear. Did she do the right thing by canceling? To my mind, yes. There would have been a media side show waiting to see if the two women would collide. Hillary made it known from the beginning she is steering clear of the Palin situation. Don't we owe her decision the appropriate deference?

Second, why is Hillary taking the heat for Lynn Forester De Rothschild, a big money Democratic supporter, decamping to the Republicans? Hillary put eighteen million cracks in our glass ceiling. It's not her responsibility to caretake a rich woman who was disappointed in how the primary turned out.

In these days when we are all working so hard for Barack and Joe, I really wish the press would give Hillary a break, even for just a little while.

Welcome Hillary Fans!

Candi — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:12:33 EDT

I think there needs to be a bigger welcome for Hillary Clinton supporters so here it is! WELCOME YA'ALL!

John McCain is trying his best to collect those Hillary fans that now feel disenfranchised since her loss of the Democratic nomination and disappointed she did not end up as the Vice Presidential Candidate.

In supporting Hillary, Americans sent the message that we are ready for a woman in the White House. But we did now mean any woman, we meant Hillary. Any woman will not do, certainly not Sarah Palin. McCain's selection of Sarah Palin is a big flag waving "Hillary Supporters Welcome Here!" I caution you all... don't fall for that! You did not just fall off the turnip wagon.

Vote for Sarah Palin (Best Impersonation, That Is)

Mark Wiznitzer — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 22:31:30 EDT

Okay. Before the campaign gets really serious again, here is your chance to vote for Sarah Palin -- that is for the best impersonation.

And there are two really great impersonators too. You may already have seen Saturday Night Live's "A Nonpartisan Message from Sarah Palin & Hillary Clinton". In case you missed it, click on the pic for Tina Fey and Amy Poehler in their SNL opening skit:

But Tina's got competition! Here name is Lisa Vega (aka Lisa Donovan), who was once featured on MADtv, and she has done three Palin sketches already. The first had her corner Obama on a stairwell as he comes home, and she browbeats him till he turns into the "angry black man"; this may explain why the clip is no longer available. But her parental guidance skit called "Is McCain Palin's Bitch?" is already a YouTube classic, and showcases the other side of Sarah:

You can click on the photo. That's Dan Oster as John MCcain.

So here's your guilt-free chance to vote for Sarah Palin (impersonator, that is). Please cast your vote below on the comment section.

Clintons aid Palin and GOP, Again; Absent from Party Discussion

Stephen — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 16:42:31 EDT

All that fuss during the primary. All Bill and Hillary Clinton's rankering about the 18 million women supporters she brought into the primary - is now being used to aid Sarah Palin and the McCain/Palin GOP ticket. No, it wasn't just Hillary's 3am add about her supposed foreign policy experience that then hurt Barrack Obama. She caused the American voter to re-think what Presidential experience is, and what it is NOT. She spoke of how critical it is to have women serving in high office.

There is no doubt Hillary "opened the door" for Sarah Palin and the GOP, again. Palin, who could well become the President in that McCain's health and age are in question, is no Hillary. The only thing they have in common is gender and big oil. But Palin is a radical religious right loyalist, hand picked by Carl Rove. She's more right than George Bush. The only change she would bring is further to the right! The American people are getting waxed by the Rove machine!

So - where is Hillary? Where are her communications with the 18 million women she claimed were democrats in the primary? Her SILENCE is remarkable. It raises serious questions about her loyalty to the party and future in the Senate.

Wake up New York. Your Senator is about to hand the GOP the 2008 election!

Palin = Cheney II

SRG_Legal — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 14:49:59 EDT

653.5 in reply to 653.4

Well, she is a pig--and not because she's a woman who wears lipstick, but because she's as much a liar as McCain, Bush AND Cheney. Rice? Well, Rice is just saying whatever she's told to say--she knows it's all a lie that is coming to light, because she said herself that Obama would make a wonderful president. Colin got out while the gettin' was good--he couldn't deal with the lies any more. Good man.

However, we know that's NOT what Obama was talking about when he referred to pigs and lipstick. He repeated John McCain's own words, which were lodged directly at Hillary Clinton at the time. Obama knew better than to try that out even in jest; he's too smart for that. She just blew it out of context, as she does with everything Obama says, like the Whining Drama Queen that she is.

She has no choice but to misquote Obama, because she doesn't have a clue what else to say about him except that she knows that he is a better candidate than McCain. There's nothing else she can say about Obama - she's outclassed, outnumbered, outdone, out-experienced, and her "media fame" has a ticking clock attached to it that's slowly going to fizzle out in about 45 days.

Sarah Palin is much like Condoleezza Rice--in it for her own political and personal gains while trying to make history. She is not the least little bit concerned with Americans or what this country is going through right now. She claims to be a Patriot, but can't stand Americans who don't look or act or think like her.

She even put down community organizers, to the chagrin of all the community organizers out there whose job it is to carry on executive responsibilities and run well-maintained organizations by working alongside people instead of standing over them barking off orders.

The difference between CO work and "executive" work is that community organizers are REAL leaders who inspire, and show people that who they are and what they do is important to the community at-large, then lead and point them in the right direction and trust them to do the right thing when it comes to their own futures.

Sole executive types with no leadership skills, on the other hand, are just lazy people who look down their snouts [literally], and tell everyone else what to do. They think their subordinates are beneath them and subject to their every whim and whine. The leadership roles, other than that, [a team leader vs. an authoritarian dictator] are exactly the same and carry the same weight of responsibility.

Palin is so functionally and fundamentally under-educated that she doesn't know that community organizers ARE executives AND leaders in their field. But this is coming from a woman who's running for vice-president who also doesn't know what a vice-president does, let alone a community organizer--which says a LOT about where her head is. Stuck up in a pig's asz, apparently.

What a crock and barrel of farm dung, along with a pitchfork full of BS, she is.

Hillary Hits the Trail for Barack in Elyria and Akron!

Michael in Ohio — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 13:53:39 EDT

Tomorrow, Hillary Clinton will hold two big events in Elyria and Akron, to speak about Barack's plan to strengthen Ohio's economy and help working families struggling in these tough times. She'll make it clear to voters just how necessary the change Barack represents really is, and how the McCain ticket represents four more years of the same Bush Administration policies that have led to such economic strain and hardship.

Details are below, and click the buttons for more information, and to RSVP. See you there!

CHANGE WE NEED RALLY WITH HILLARY CLINTON
Sunday, Sept. 14th - Doors Open at 11:30 AM
Lorain County Community College
1005 N. Abbe Road
Elyria, OH
NOTE: This event will be held inside.

CHANGE WE NEED RALLY WITH HILLARY CLINTON
Sunday, Sept. 14th - Doors Open at 2:00 PM
Ellet High School Gymnasium
309 Woolf Ave (entrance on Berne Street)
Akron, OH

The Democratic National Convention 2008 –Highlights

Stephanie Williams — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 09:59:23 EDT

My previous blogs have VANISHED (apparently into thin "web" air)!! Oh well, I am not going to spend anytime crying about that. I am also not going backwards (i.e., trying to repost items lost) because the election is less than 60 days away! That being said, I have few exceptions: highlight speeches of the historical 2008 DNC, Obama's acceptance speech, Fact Checking Gov. Sarah Palin and Republican Pres. Nominee John McCain's RNC Acceptance Speeches. With respect to the highlights of the 2008 DNC, I have compiled a list of my favorite speeches with links to the video. The list is in reverse chronological order. If, for some reason, a link is broken, you can always Google the speech or search for it on YouTube.

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION

Denver, CO (August 25-28, 2008)

Pres. Nominee Barack Obama’s Acceptance Speech:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZCrIeRkMhA

Sen. Joe Biden’s VP Acceptance Speech:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVH58DeUThg

Beau Biden Introducing his father, Sen. Joe Biden:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFNdA6fxKpo

Sen. John Kerry’s Speech:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO2PAm4iCtE

Fmr. President Bill Clinton’s Speech:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3r6xvwPGcY