Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Obama Supporters Anxious


WBUR's Bob Oakes sits down with Joe Williams, the deputy chief of The Boston Globe's Washington D.C. bureau, to talk about why the anxiety.

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Democratic Strategy


With the Democratic nomination still too close to call, we talk about party strategy, going forward.

Jim Roosevelt, co-chair of the Democratic Party's Rules and Bylaws Committee, speaks with WBUR's Bob Oakes from DNC headquarters in Washington.

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in which i become a delegate



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Where have all the Protestors gone?

I have noticed that the News no longer shows any protest in Washington any more. Has anyone else seen any on the News in your local area?

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Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Hillary Takes Ohio

Hillary has now won 2 tonight, and Barrack has picked up Vermont. Texas still close.

It would appear that Barack Obama has done something wrong. I'm guessing that Rezko is starting to play a role in things. I have to wonder though if the Farrakhan thing may have resonated poorly with people.

During the debate the other night, I thought he had a witty rebuttal, but he looked bad when he was talking about Farrakhan before Hillary spoke up and pointed out that he sounded bad.

He may have won the witty rejoinder battle, but his gut response didn't sound like something a leader would say.

FAIR DISCLOSURE - I don't like either of them. :)

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Texas Showdown


All tied up in Texas.

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George Bush Endorses McCain? Favor for the Dems?



Just saw the above in my Twitterstream (see the original here: http://twitter.com/…/766812442 ).

Now, does Bush want McCain to win or not? ^_^

Also, doesn't McCain understand how this makes him look? I still remember him saying to George W.'s face: "You oughta be ashamed" in the 2000 debates. Check out the above video clip to see McCain slam Bush for dirty politics. The clip was a commercial for McCain during the primaries, but it depicts a scene from a Republican debate.

Here in the future, is McCain is cool with a Bush endorsement?

To be honest, I have yet to read about McCain's reaction, but regardless, he should be distancing himself from a man he once slammed in a TV debate (not to mention a man who let 911 happen and got us into Iraq for nothing).

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Texas Caucus In Progress



Texas isn't ready for this. Voting is still going on.

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12,000 LA Indy Voters Get Disenfranchised


Well, thankfully, it looks like things are (so far) going not-to-suckily in the four states holding their primaries today. Sadly, it may be days or weeks before we become aware of anything wrong. Likewise, here in LA county we've only now discovered that 12,000 independent voters who failed to indicate which party we were going to vote for *on top* of which candidate, will not have their votes counted.

The above screencap comes from a post from today at BradBlog.com (here: http://www.bradblog.com/ ) that reports: "As we wait for the next round of thousands of disenfranchised voters to emerge from OH, TX, VT, RI or beyond, Los Angeles County has finally finished counting its infamously disastrous "Double Bubble" ballots from the Feb. 5th Super Tuesday Primary in California.

The final numbers, in just in time to meet today's local certification deadline, are supposed to hearten us because the county Registrar's office chose to only not count some 12,000 valid, legally cast votes in the state's open Democratic Primary."

See, the ballot was designed so that certain circles were reused for different parties' candidates. So, in my case, I checked off the circle for Obama, right? If I were to pull that ballot out and slide it into the American Independent ballot "machine" I'd see it already filled in for one of their guys.

(I don't vote for American Independent party candidates because I'm independent, not American Independent.)

ANYway, so in order for ballot machines to tell the difference between a vote for Obama in the Democrats and a vote for Mr. Nochanceofwinning in the AI party, the machines must check to see which circle I filled in for which party I voted for. Only then does it know whether circle #8 filled in means Mr. Obama or Mr. Icecubeschance.

Yep, for some reason the ballot, with all those damn circles on it (there were easily more than fifty or sixty and too many to really estimate beyond that), they just HAD to make candidates share circles on independent voter ballots.

This is clearly a case of intentionally treating indy voters as 2nd class citizens. If it wasn't 100% intentional, it was 100% incompetence, then.

Either way, I have no way of knowing if my vote was counted. I could very well be one of those 12,000 people. So, in a sense, there are a lot more than 12,000 of us who have been alienated from the system because not a single indy voter who *may* have missed that first circle can know for sure if their vote was counted.

If you missed it, you can see just why it was so easy to miss that first ballot in a video of me not filling in the circle where I should have here:

http://tv.thepete.com/…feels-like

What's worse is that vote tallies are all over the place, according to the BradBlog post:

"Unfortunately, unlike all the other results from L.A. County [PDF], the "supplemental" tallies are posted only by Congressional District, not by precinct, so the specific numbers of ballots which were thrown away wholesale, are impossible to see.

Where the final "supplemental" totals (Clinton 51%, Obama 42%) are reportedly in line-ish with all of the previously reported results for the entire county (Clinton 55%, Obama 41%), various Congressional District results from the "supplemental count" are way of proportion from that.

For example, while some of the CD results are in line with the overall totals, most are proportionally out of whack. Here's just a few to give you an idea...

29th CD: Clinton 59%, Obama 24%
31th CD: Clinton 68%, Obama 26%
34th CD: Clinton 61%, Obama 31%
35th CD: Clinton 27%, Obama 67%
36th CD: Clinton 62%, Obama 31%

Of course, there could be perfectly legitimate reason for such imbalanced numbers, in an otherwise close over-all election. The more likely reason, however, for the imbalance is that Logan chose to simply toss out votes for any candidate listed on the #8 to #10 bubbles in most precincts (if there were any Non-Partisan voters who chose to vote in the American Independent Primary in that precinct, since that party was assigned the same bubbles for their own candidates), while choosing to count the votes for any Democratic candidate who happened to have the good luck of being assigned the #11 to #15 bubble on the ballot."

So, even the numbers representing the ballots that were counted seem to be inconsistent. Lovely system we've got here.

I'm glad I'm moving. Of course, New York has had it's problems too (http://www.bradblog.com/ ).

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Amarillo Evening



Canvassing for Obama...

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Live from Houston caucus



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Huge Crowd at the Caucus



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Live from Houston Democratic Caucus


Via my dad, Obama on left and Hillary on right. Even split.

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Don't Give Hillary Any Ideas...



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Super Tuesday Politics on Utterz -Pre-Reveal


I put together a sampling of some of the political reports on Utterz. I used a few better methods for pulling in the audio, but the end result seemed about the same as when I used Low Tech means (holding a mic near my computer speaker). :)

I didn't push this one together in an artsie way, just trying to gather a bit of perspective together from the personal reports from people using Utterz.com.

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Barack Obama & Dynastic Leadership



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Obama in Wax


Found in Madame Tussauds Washington, DC location. Not a bad likeness. This photo is from a coworker who visited Madame Tussauds over the weekend.

For some reason, wax statues creep me out. Probably from visiting the Royal London Wax Museum when I was a kid.

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I Am Not Allowed to Vote As I Wish



I am very displeased that I was not given the chose to vote as I wish today. I walked to the judges table and was informed that I had to declare "republican" or "democrat". I stated "Libertarian". I was told "we have an issues only ballot, but you cannot vote for any candidates." That's ridiculous! I stated one of their two animal choices and was given the option to only vote for the candidates on that party ballot. This is not how the US voting system is supposed to work.

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Texas and Voting



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Texas Caucus Report




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Just in time for another election theft?

http://thinkprogress.org/…ght-board/

White House guts Intelligence Oversight Board On Friday, the White House issued a new executive order effectively gutting the Intelligence Oversight Board (IOB), “created in 1976 in the wake of widespread abuses by U.S. intelligence agencies.” Under the order, many of the IOB’s investigative powers will now be transferred to DNI Mike McConnell. “Rather than intelligence agencies reporting their activities to the board for review, they will now report them to McConnell,” the AP notes. Smintheus has more.

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Precinct 6 in Pampa, Texas



Chilly duty for Obama on a big day on the campaign trail.

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Big Vote in Smallest State


The Ohio and Texas Primaries attract most attention Tuesday, there are polls in Vermont and Rhode Island as well. This time around, the candidates have spent a lot of time wooing voters in the Ocean State.

For a look at the big vote in the smallest state, WBUR's Bob Oakes turns to Scott MacKay. He is a veteran politics reporter with the Providence Journal.

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Ohio Voter Mugging 2008



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Obama Rally



More fuzzy Obama

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Monday, March 3, 2008

Obama Event Thoughts



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Obama Event:



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Report your primary news...lets get a fair vote!


Report your news from your polling stations. Be sure to tag your utterz with vote 2008 or your state name.

We want this to be a fair election! If you notice anything out of the ordinary or have news to report, utter it!

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First Utter & Texas Caucus



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OBAMA & MoveOn.org: How To Motivate Volunteers



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Marc Andreessen's 90 Minutes with Obama


I just came across this interesting blog post from Marc Andreessen's blog.pmarca.com on why he'll be voting for Obama.

http://tinyurl.com/35q8k9

I've tried very hard to keep politics out of this blog -- despite nearly overpowering impulses to the contrary -- for two reasons: one, there's no reason to alienate people who don't share my political views, as wrong-headed as those people may clearly be; two, there's no reason to expect my opinion on political issues should be any more valid than any other reader of what, these days, passes for the New York Times.

That said, in light of the extraordinary events playing out around us right now in the runup to the presidential election, I would like to share with you a personal experience that I was lucky enough to have early last year.

Early in 2007, a friend of mine who is active in both high-tech and politics called me up and said, let's go see this first-term Senator, Barack Obama, who's ramping up to run for President.

And so we did -- my friend, my wife Laura, and me -- and we were able to meet privately with Senator Obama for an hour and a half.

The reason I think you may find this interesting is that our meeting in early 2007 was probably one of the last times Senator Obama was able to spend an hour and a half sitting down and talking with just about anyone -- so I think we got a solid look at what he's like up close, right before he entered the "bubble" within which all major presidential candidates, and presidents, must exist.

Let me get disclaimers out of the way: my only involvement with the Democratic presidential campaigns is as an individual donor -- after meeting with the Senator, my wife and I both contributed the maximum amount of "hard money" we could to the Obama campaign, less than $10,000 total for both the primary and the general election. On the other hand, we also donated to Mitt Romney's Republican primary effort -- conclude from that what you will.

I carried four distinct impressions away from our meeting with Senator Obama.

First, this is a normal guy.

I've spent time with a lot of politicians in the last 15 years. Most of them talk at you. Listening is not their strong suit -- in fact, many of them aren't even very good at faking it.

Senator Obama, in contrast, comes across as a normal human being, with a normal interaction style, and a normal level of interest in the people he's with and the world around him.

We were able to have an actual, honest-to-God conversation, back and forth, on a number of topics. In particular, the Senator was personally interested in the rise of social networking, Facebook, Youtube, and user-generated content, and casually but persistently grilled us on what we thought the next generation of social media would be and how social networking might affect politics -- with no staff present, no prepared materials, no notes. He already knew a fair amount about the topic but was very curious to actually learn more. We also talked about a pretty wide range of other issues, including Silicon Valley and various political topics.

With most politicians, their curiosity ends once they find out how much money you can raise for them. Not so with Senator Obama -- this is a normal guy.

Second, this is a smart guy.

I bring this up for two reasons. One, Senator Obama's political opponents tend to try to paint him as some kind of lightweight, which he most definitely is not. Two, I think he's at or near the top of the scale of intelligence of anyone in political life today.

You can see how smart he is in his background -- for example, lecturer in constitutional law at University of Chicago; before that, president of the Harvard Law Review.

But it's also apparent when you interact with him that you're dealing with one of the intellectually smartest national politicians in recent times, at least since Bill Clinton. He's crisp, lucid, analytical, and clearly assimilates and synthesizes a very large amount of information -- smart.

Third, this is not a radical.

This is not some kind of liberal revolutionary who is intent on throwing everything up in the air and starting over.

Put the primary campaign speeches aside; take a look at his policy positions on any number of issues and what strikes you is how reasonable, moderate, and thoughtful they are.

And in person, that's exactly what he's like. There's no fire in the eyes to realize some utopian or revolutionary dream. Instead, what comes across -- in both his questions and his answers -- is calmness, reason, and judgment.

Fourth, this is the first credible post-Baby Boomer presidential candidate.

The Baby Boomers are best defined as the generation that came of age during the 1960's -- whose worldview and outlook was shaped by Vietnam plus the widespread social unrest and change that peaked in the late 1960's.

Post-Boomers are those of us, like me, who came of age in the 1970's or 1980's -- after Vietnam, after Nixon, after the "sexual revolution" and the cultural wars of the 1960's.

One of the reasons Senator Obama comes across as so fresh and different is that he's the first serious presidential candidate who isn't either from the World War II era (Reagan, Bush Sr, Dole, and even McCain, who was born in 1936) or from the Baby Boomer generation (Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, and George W. Bush).

He's a post-Boomer.

Most of the Boomers I know are still fixated on the 1960's in one way or another -- generally in how they think about social change, politics, and the government.

It's very clear when interacting with Senator Obama that he's totally focused on the world as it has existed since after the 1960's -- as am I, and as is practically everyone I know who's younger than 50.

What's the picture that emerges from these four impressions?

Smart, normal, curious, not radical, and post-Boomer.

If you were asking me to write a capsule description of what I would look for in the next President of the United States, that would be it.

Having met him and then having watched him for the last 12 months run one of the best-executed and cleanest major presidential campaigns in recent memory, I have no doubt that Senator Obama has the judgment, bearing, intellect, and high ethnical standards to be an outstanding president -- completely aside from the movement that has formed around him, and in complete contradition to the silly assertions by both the Clinton and McCain campaigns that he's somehow not ready.

Before I close, let me share two specific things he said at the time -- early 2007 -- on the topic of whether he's ready.

We asked him directly, how concerned should we be that you haven't had meaningful experience as an executive -- as a manager and leader of people?

He said, watch how I run my campaign -- you'll see my leadership skills in action.

At the time, I wasn't sure what to make of his answer -- political campaigns are often very messy and chaotic, with a lot of turnover and flux; what conclusions could we possibly draw from one of those?

Well, as any political expert will tell you, it turns out that the Obama campaign has been one of the best organized and executed presidential campaigns in memory. Even Obama's opponents concede that his campaign has been disciplined, methodical, and effective across the full spectrum of activities required to win -- and with a minimum of the negative campaigning and attack ads that normally characterize a race like this, and with almost no staff turnover. By almost any measure, the Obama campaign has simply out-executed both the Clinton and McCain campaigns.

This speaks well to the Senator's ability to run a campaign, but speaks even more to his ability to recruit and manage a top-notch group of campaign professionals and volunteers -- another key leadership characteristic. When you compare this to the awe-inspiring discord, infighting, and staff turnover within both the Clinton and McCain campaigns up to this point -- well, let's just say it's a very interesting data point.

We then asked, well, what about foreign policy -- should we be concerned that you just don't have much experience there?

He said, directly, two things.

First, he said, I'm on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where I serve with a number of Senators who are widely regarded as leading experts on foreign policy -- and I can tell you that I know as much about foreign policy at this point as most of them.

Being a fan of blunt answers, I liked that one.

But then he made what I think is the really good point.

He said -- and I'm going to paraphrase a little here: think about who I am -- my father was Kenyan; I have close relatives in a small rural village in Kenya to this day; and I spent several years of my childhood living in Jakarta, Indonesia. Think about what it's going to mean in many parts of the world -- parts of the world that we really care about -- when I show up as the President of the United States. I'll be fundamentally changing the world's perception of what the United States is all about.

He's got my vote.

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Steinem Stumps For Clinton in TX


Doing my Sunday reading now. I am definitely a McCain hater so I enjoy it when even a feminist like Gloria Steinem trashes his vaunted wartime credibility because he was a P.O.W.

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AUSTIN, Texas—Feminist icon Gloria Steinem took to the stump on Hillary Clinton’s behalf here last night and quickly proved that she has lost none of her taste for provocation.

From the stage, the 73-year-old seemed to denigrate the importance of John McCain’s time as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. In an interview with the Observer afterward, she suggested that Barack Obama benefits—and Clinton suffers—because Americans view racism more seriously than sexism.

Steinem also told the crowd that one reason to back Clinton was because “she actually enjoys conflict.”

And she claimed that if Clinton’s experience as First Lady were taken seriously in relation to her White House bid, people might “finally admit that, say, being a secretary is the best way to learn your boss’s job and take it over.”

Steinem raised McCain’s Vietnam imprisonment as she sought to highlight an alleged gender-based media bias against Clinton.

“Suppose John McCain had been Joan McCain and Joan McCain had got captured, shot down and been a POW for eight years. [The media would ask], ‘What did you do wrong to get captured? What terrible things did you do while you were there as a captive for eight years?’” Steinem said, to laughter from the audience.

McCain was, in fact, a prisoner of war for around five-and-a-half years, during which time he was tortured repeatedly. Referring to his time in captivity, Steinem said with bewilderment, “I mean, hello? This is supposed to be a qualification to be president? I don’t think so.”

Steinem’s broader argument was that the media and the political world are too admiring of militarism in all its guises.

“I am so grateful that she [Clinton] hasn’t been trained to kill anybody. And she probably didn’t even play war games as a kid. It’s a great relief from Bush in his jump suit and from Kerry saluting.”

To the Observer, Steinem insisted that “from George Washington to Jack Kennedy and PT-109 we have behaved as if killing people is a qualification for ruling people.”

Other Clinton proxies, notably Black Entertainment Television founder Bob Johnson and a New Hampshire campaign chair, Billy Shaheen, have generated controversies with their criticisms of Obama. By contrast, Steinem told me the Illinois senator was “an intelligent, well-intentioned person.” She added: “I would like very much to see him be president for eight years after Hillary has been president for eight years.”

But she also opined that “a majority of Americans want redemption for racism, for our terrible destructive racist past and so see a vote for Obama as redemptive.” Then, using a term for the mass killing of women, she added, “I don’t think as many want redemption for the gynocide.”

“They acknowledge racism—not enough, but somewhat,” Steinem continued. “They would probably be less likely to acknowledge that the most likely way a pregnant woman is to die is murder from her male partner. There are six million female lives lost in the world every year simply because they are female.”

Steinem has been a Clinton supporter for several years—even though, as she reminded me, she protested against Bill Clinton’s welfare reforms outside the White House. Her support for the former First Lady has become more high-profile of late. She penned a January op-ed for the New York Times backing Clinton and asserting that “gender is probably the most restricting force in American life.” She was also one of the women’s rights activists who signed a February 15 letter published on the Huffington Post that insisted, “It’s time for feminists to say that Senator Obama has no monopoly on inspiration.”

Yesterday’s event, billed by the Clinton campaign as “One Million for Hillary with Gloria Steinem,” was one of several appearances scheduled for the veteran feminist across Texas as Tuesday’s primary looms. It was held in a downtown music venue and was attended by around 200 people, the vast majority of whom were women. Before Steinem spoke, two Clinton campaign ads focusing on female support were shown, to applause.

In her speech, Steinem argued that there was a major sexist component to the murmurs from some quarters suggesting Clinton should abandon her presidential quest.

There is, she said, “a great deal of pressure at play for her to act like her gender and give in.” Several shouts of “No!” came from the crowd. Steinem went on: “It’s a way of reinforcing the gender roles, right? Men are loved if they win and Hillary is loved if she loses…But maybe we shouldn’t be so afraid of an open convention that actually decides something. After all, it was an open convention in New York City that gave us Abraham Lincoln.”

Steinem’s speech offered, Letterman-style, ten reasons why she was supporting Hillary. Most were serious, though one of the more flippant was “We get Bill Clinton as Eleanor Roosevelt.”

Steinem, like any good politician, also made sure to praise her surroundings. True to her own spirit, though, she did so in less decorous terms than any candidate for office would dare.

Other than Austin, she said, “there is no community in the whole world that understands how to include everybody, how to be serious and have a good time at the same time, how to be fan-fucking-tastic” quite so well.

UPDATE: The Clinton campaign sends over the following statement from Howard Wolfson: "Senator Clinton has repeatedly praised Senator McCain's courage and service to our country. These comments certainly do not represent her thinking in any way. Senator Clinton intends to have a respectful debate with Senator McCain on the issues."

Arcade Fire Rocks Ohio 4 Obama


http://tinyurl.com/27zy83

Win Butler can talk the talk, and now he and several of his Arcade Fire bandmates are prepared to walk the walk in support of Barack Obama's bid for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.

With several major primaries going down this coming Tuesday (March 4) that could decide the contest once and for all, Butler, Regine Chassagne, Jeremy Gara, and Sarah Neufeld will hit Ohio on Sunday and Monday to drum up support for Obama.

On Sunday March 2, they will play a show at Stuart's Opera House in Nelsonville. Then on Monday, March 3, they'll play at the Beachland Ballroom in Cleveland. Start lining up now, because the shows are free and first come, first serve. Colin Stetson will open.

BUT WAIT! Aren't Arcade Fire Canadian? Why are they meddling with our political process?

NOT SO FAST. A press release clarifies: "Though the Arcade Fire is known as a Canadian band, Win and Will were born and raised in the U.S. (and spent their formative years in Texas), Regine is a dual citizen whose dad served in Vietnam, and Jeremy Gara is just a really nice Canadian who likes playing music and is sick of explaining to Americans what universal health care means."

GOBAMA!

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National Blog Out - Barack Obama



This is an event that was easy to sign up for. To blog about why I support Barack Obama to be our Democratic nominee and ultimately our President as of November of this year.

My husband and I have been listening to Barack Obama's book (in audiobook form) "The Audacity of Hope". We are both moved by how Senator Obama addresses the problems of how our nation got into the fix we are in at present and how we can get back to/forward to our true American values. He also addresses, in other forums, how we ALL can help our communities, our nation, to become great again. This is not about him--it's about US.

He is the leader we need who can take us forward into the future, to bring about the changes that will benefit all of us, not a few. He is strong, but he listens. If you have watched any of the debates he has been in, you have witnessed his cool unflappable nature. He is logical, but compassionate. He has concrete plans for helping this country, but he also expects us all to do our part too.

For four years I have clung to Rev. Jesse Jackson's admonition: "Keep hope alive!" because that's all we could do. It felt like a tiny spark in the darkness. Now Senator Obama has said, "WE are the hope we have been waiting for!" What a revelation! With him as our leader, we can accomplish so much! Let us move forward with a true leader we all can be proud of!

To learn more about Barack Obama and where he stands on the issues, visit his website at Barack Obama - Change We Can Believe In: http://www.barackobama.com/

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National Blog Out - Barack Obama



This is an event that was easy to sign up for. To blog about why I support Barack Obama to be our Democratic nominee and ultimately our President as of November of this year.

My husband and I have been listening to Barack Obama's book (in audiobook form) "The Audacity of Hope". We are both moved by how Senator Obama addresses the problems of how our nation got into the fix we are in at present and how we can get back to/forward to our true American values. He also addresses, in other forums, how we ALL can help our communities, our nation, to become great again. This is not about him--it's about US.

He is the leader we need who can take us forward into the future, to bring about the changes that will benefit all of us, not a few. He is strong, but he listens. If you have watched any of the debates he has been in, you have witnessed his cool unflappable nature. He is logical, but compassionate. He has concrete plans for helping this country, but he also expects us all to do our part too.

For four years I have clung to Rev. Jesse Jackson's admonition: "Keep hope alive!" because that's all we could do. It felt like a tiny spark in the darkness. Now Senator Obama has said, "WE are the hope we have been waiting for!" What a revelation! With him as our leader, we can accomplish so much! Let us move forward with a true leader we all can be proud of!

To learn more about Barack Obama and where he stands on the issues, visit his website at Barack Obama - Change We Can Believe In: http://www.barackobama.com/

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