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An Update.

I will commence posting regularly, starting tomorrow.

Some family issues have kept me from blogging.

This Week With Barack Obama will be posted, December 14, 2008.

Sorry for the interruption, but this is a Barack Obama portal and all the information that you need can be obtained from the right or left.

Thanks for understanding.

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This Week With President-Elect Barack Obama, November 16, 2008

Downtown Chicago

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If you did not read this, then do so. A definite, must read, all seven chapters.

How He Did It

Barack Obama had a gift, and he knew it. He had a way of making very smart, very accomplished people feel virtuous just by wanting to help Barack Obama. It had happened at Harvard Law School in the mid-1980s, at a time when the school was embroiled in fights over political correctness. He had won one of the truly plum prizes of overachievement at Harvard: he had been voted president of the law review, the first African-American ever so honored. Though his politics were conventionally (if not stridently) liberal, even the conservatives voted for him. Obama was a good listener, attentive and empathetic, and his powerful mind could turn disjointed screeds into reasoned consensus, but his appeal lay in something deeper. He was a black man who had moved beyond racial politics and narrowly defined interest groups. He seemed indifferent to, if not scornful of, the politics of identity and grievance. He showed no sense of entitlement or resentment. Obama had a way of transcending ambition, though he himself was ambitious as hell. In the grasping race for status and achievement—a competition that can seem like blood lust at a place like Harvard—Obama could make hypersuccessful meritocrats pause and remember a time (part mythical perhaps, but still beckoning) when service to others was more important than serving oneself.

Gregory Craig, a lawyer in Washington, D.C., was one of those Americans who wanted to believe again. Craig was not exactly an ordinary citizen—he had served and worked with the powerful all his life, as an aide to Sen. Edward Kennedy in the 1980s, as chief of policy planning at the State Department in the Clinton administration and as a lawyer hired to represent President Clinton at his impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate in 1999. He had seen the imperfections of the mighty, up close and personal, and by and large accepted human frailty. But, like a lot of Americans, he was tired of partisan bickering and yearned for someone who could rise above politics as usual. A 63-year-old baby boomer, Craig wanted to recapture the youthful idealism that he had experienced as a student at Harvard in the 1960s and later at Yale Law School, where his friends included Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham. In the late fall of 2003, he was invited to hear a young state senator from Illinois who was running for the U.S. Senate. Craig was immediately taken with Barack Obama. "He spoke 20 to 30 minutes, and I found him to be funny, smart and very knowledgeable for a state senator," Craig recalled. Craig was so visibly impressed that his host that evening, the longtime Washington mover and shaker Vernon Jordan, teased him, saying, "Greg has just fallen in love." continue

Dems get new crop of military voters
Michelle Obama expected to carve own niche as nation's first lady, daughters to keep her busy
Democrats set sights on Texas
Obama Reviews Bush’s Executive Orders
The West Wing Teaches Real Civics
Sorry, GOP: This Is Bigger Than 1992


President-Elect Obama's Radio Address (Audio/Video/Transcript)

Photo Blogs

President-Elect and First Lady To Be Welcomed at the White House by icebergslim; President-Elect Barack Obama and Vice-President Elect Joe Biden, Pictures, November 4, 2008 by icebergslim; Celebrities on Election Night; From the Obama Blog: Michelle and Barack on Ohio; --- A PERFECT STORM --- --(w/ GOTV Eye Candy)-- (UPDATE) – Morning Lines by Al Rodgers; The Whole World is Watching !!! (w/ World Wide Eye Candy) by Al Rodgers; Chicago Tribune: Grant Park; Behind the Scenes Photos of Obama on Election Night by Magnifico; Chicago Treasures: Grant Park, Election Night w/Photos and Video by sheddhead; Mega-diary for today's gay marriage rallies by jamesia

No Blackberry for the President, but is it possible?
Obama’s Letter to Illinois Newspapers
Obama Names Valerie Jarrett Senior White House Advisor
What is Michelle gonna wear?
For friends who see Michelle Obama often, things are going to change
Michelle visits D.C. Schools
Designers: First lady's ball gown should be bold


Barack and Illinois Veterans Affairs Director, Tammy Duckworth on Veteran's Day

Audio/Video

Where Does The Republican Party Go From Here?; Hillary Clinton As Secretary Of State?; Obamas' Place In History, Fashion Sense Hot Topics; Job Seekers In Administration Face Tough Questions; Meet the Press, November 16, 2008; Obama's Inner Circle; I hear America singing! by noweasels; McCain Campaigned Hard But Failed In Pa., Ohio; Top 60 Memorable Campaign Ads; President-Elect Barack Obama's Election Night Acceptance Speech, November 4, 2008

Michelle Obama speaks from her heart -- and broad experience
A labor-union problem looms for Obama
Former Senator Obama Adds 3 to Staff
Durbin has private lunch with Obama
Barack Obama Watch
Obama's grandmother 'Toot' eulogized
Obama gives Ebony first dibs


London's Evening Standard

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icebergslim's last word: yes we did and i am exhausted

Ok, I am back on line, somewhat.

There are many of us out there who have been on the O-Train since 2007, and many more since 2006.

I have been posting "This Week With Barack Obama" since July, 2007. Hey, that is a LONG TIME!!! So, I think it is JUST DUE that I took some time off to savior a very sweet win.

Many of us have been hopping around from different states since the Iowa Caucuses, working the peeps, and getting our peeps out to the polls, caucuses, performing the campaign's what knots.

Many of us have been orchestrating, participating in voter's registration drives since 2007. And it was these drives that made the difference in the primaries and November 4th.

So, if I am a bit lazy, lackadaisical, sipping my 'tini's while pouring through my Obama memory lane, be patient with me.

It is not every day that a masterful, sincere, real politician is elected through the most adversarial odds and comes out the winner.

All of us need to follow the lead of the Obamas and just chill, savor and be jubilant.

In the end, this moment is temporary because Barack's got a lot of shit on his plate and the rubes are lining up to jockey their position, to get a piece of the pie, just want a meet.

And us? We are watching because we expect big, bold things from the Obama Administration, this country needs just that right now.

Barack, 'ya heard????

Hope so.

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Moving Forward

I have had a blast with this blog, following Barack and Michelle on this incredible journey, then to see them become victorious. Amazing.

This blog will continue up until inauguration, then I will redirect you to my new blog, "This Week With President Barack Obama".

Since the general election is over, I will post "This Week With President-Elect Barack Obama" tomorrow evening, and on Sundays moving on.

I would like to thank many of you for reading, clicking and getting your information. My main purpose was to have live feeds from many outlets and for you to read and make you own decisions.

This week was a very high outcome for me, personally, and I am just getting back in the groove.

Again, thanks for reading and continue to stop by.

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This Week With "The Democratic Nominee", Barack Obama, October 19-25, 2008

45,000 for Barack in Albuquerque, New Mexico

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Photo Blogs

The Hunt for Blue October: GOTV Ohio! by JulieUnplugged; Barack does Denver, 100,000+, No Joke (Pictures) by icebergslim; Obama Rally - Leesburg, VA - Photo Blowout! by nsfbr; Michelle Obama in Ohio by jmknapp; Obama in Reno....If You Vote For Me Nevada....Change! by Parisgnome; 35,000 Hoosiers gives Obama a send off to Hawaii, October 23, 2008 by icebergslim; 100k People in Denver For Obama w/pics! by acsguitar; 50,000 in Orlando, Florida for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and Obama in Tampa, Too (Pictures) by icebergslim; Michelle Obama incites 10,000+ FL hopemongers! Pics & Video! by Bob Sackamento

Economic strife drives Latino vote
Republican fears of historic Obama landslide unleash civil war for the future of the party
Anchorage Daily News Endorse Obama for President
Obama picks iconic Chicago park for election night
Obama To Deliver Closing Argument Speech
Obama, McCain fight for Western Swing States
McCain downplays smaller audiences
Newspaper Endorsements for Obama


Barack and Michelle in Miami, Florida

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The Making (and Remaking) of McCain

On the morning of Wednesday, Sept. 24, John McCain convened a meeting in his suite at the Hilton hotel in Midtown Manhattan. Among the handful of campaign officials in attendance were McCain’s chief campaign strategist, Steve Schmidt, and his other two top advisers: Rick Davis, the campaign manager; and Mark Salter, McCain’s longtime speechwriter. The senator’s ears were already throbbing with bad news from economic advisers and from House Republican leaders who had told him that only a small handful in their ranks were willing to support the $700 billion bailout of the banking industry proposed by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. The meeting was to focus on how McCain should respond to the crisis — but also, as one participant later told me, “to try to see this as a big-picture, leadership thing.”

As this participant recalled: “We presented McCain with three options. Continue offering principles from afar. A middle ground of engaging while still campaigning. Then the third option, of going all in. The consensus was that we could stay out or go in — but that if we’re going in, we should go in all the way. So the thinking was, do you man up and try to affect the outcome, or do you hold it at arm’s length? And no, it was not an easy call.”

Discussion carried on into the afternoon at the Morgan Library and Museum as McCain prepared for the first presidential debate. Schmidt pushed for going all in: suspending the campaign, recommending that the first debate be postponed, parachuting into Washington and forging a legislative solution to the financial crisis for which McCain could then claim credit. Exactly how McCain could convincingly play a sober bipartisan problem-solver after spending the previous few weeks garbed as a populist truth teller was anything but clear. But Schmidt and others convinced McCain that it was worth the gamble. continue

White support for Obama at historic high
Palin allies report rising camp tension
Obama says goodbye to 'Toot,' heads back to presidential campaign
The Polls May Be Screwy But Barack Obama's Lead Is Real Because He's Strong Among White Voters
Candidates should seek votes of Muslim-Americans
Students Charged in Dead Bear/Obama Sign Incident
Polls see rising tide for Dems
As Election Day Nears, Poll Shows Obama Leads McCain
Sorry, Senator. Let's Salvage What We Can.

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WE GOT THIS!!!

Um, not yet.

You must understand that I am like Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde. My one mind says, “We got this”, but my other mind says, “Uh, no we don’t.”

See, I get that all fuzzy, warm feeling seeing all these picture diaries with record breaking crowds. I love putting them up. Then I start to think, “Will these people actually vote Obama?” I then remember Obama doing his 11 state tours during the primaries after Super Tuesday, the crowds were unbelievable!! He got them all fired up and they ran to the polls and caucuses in record breaking numbers. Wonderful. Then I remember Hillary telling Obama stop with the speeches and big rallies and then Obama, well got kicked around the second half of the primary season.

I know my scientific mind is telling me that with all the information, i.e. polls, metrics, analysis that Obama will win. But, my other mind says, “What is the vote total?”

We are in uncharted waters here, democrats. It is called, the “L” word. No one wants to say it, we don’t want to believe it, but it just may happen. When was the last time we were in “L” land? Was it Jimmy Carter, when the country rebuked the Republican Party and Nixon? Was it FDR, who was swept into office because of the Stock Market Crash? Whenever it was, it was a long time ago, that now we may just be looking at history on November 4th and we may just witness the “L” word in process, all evening.

I am humble, not cocky. I can’t be with two minds working simultaneously, but I must write again that “We ain’t got this.” We have 9 days left, for politics it is an eternity, but still 9 days left. Each one of us should be working extra hard to ensure victory on November 4th. Until the votes are counted, we must not assume anything.

I hope you all understand and work to the end. To the bloody end.


Joe in Martinsville, Virginia

Video/Audio

Meet the Press, October 26, 2008; Obama Ad, "New Subject"; In S.D., Native Americans Face Voting Roadblocks; Ohio's Election Ground Game; Internet Grass Roots Changing Political Machine; Joe Biden Speech in Danville, VA; Joe Biden Destroys Right Winged TV Anchor in Orlando, FL; Obama Ad, "Defining Moment"; Andy, Opie and Fonzie for Obama; Voter Uncertainty Clouds Tossup State Indiana; Obama Ad, "Erratic"; Obama Speech in Miami, Florida; Obama on CBS Early Show; Obama on Good Morning America; What's Next In The Presidential Race?

Obama Rallies Supporters In Colorado
Obama launches anti-robocall site
Michelle Obama fills in for husband in swing state Ohio
Democrats Show In Early Voting
Africans mull what an Obama presidency may mean for continent
Sarah Palin's make-up artist earned $22,800 for two weeks' work
Obamacans: Prominent Republicans Line Up Behind Obama
‘No Drama Obama’ and the art of looking presidential

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Weekly Review.....

Shoutouts, Stuff You Should Read....

Obama for America, en español; Charles Stuart, Susan Smith, Ashley Todd And Reflections On Leadership… Again by Jack Turner; Presidential Transitions & the Arc of History by Maureen; Time Machine: Don't Say I Didn't Tell You by BooMan23; TV ad spending: 10/13-19 by kos; Early Voting Summary by brownsox; Missouri GOP distributing Obama $100 bills: "In Ahla we trust" by itsnotbutter; Today in Albuquerque: Obama Draws 45,000+ by kubla000; Obama draws 50K in Fort Collins, CO by pointsoflight; Frank Rich: "In Defense of White Americans" by Nuisance Industry; Lynch Mob by Meteor Blades; McCain Advisor endorses OBAMA by batchelorjc; The GOP's Death List, in all its glory by kos; WV Woman Quits Job Over anti-Obama Calls by wv voice of reason; Sarah Palin, freeloader. by Kagro X

Early-voting trends appear to favor Barack Obama
McCain's Warning: Perils Of One-Party Rule
Counting on Colorado
Obama's Transition: Orderly, Quiet, With A Few Early Decisions Made
Palin's 'going rogue,' McCain aide says
Obama targeting McCain's own state?
What is happening to GOP electoral tactics?


well, that is michelle and a cutie pie being sent over to her at the miami rally. i have been busy with family and obama stuff, but back on track. i hope all of you are working this final week, like you have never worked before. this campaign is truly in our hands and gotv is not a hope, but mandatory for november 4th. as always, focus on obama and not "mccain's" drama.....

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Campaign Apperances
go to barackobama.com, click on states to find times and rsvp info

Tomorrow, October 27th

Barack: Pittsburgh, PA; Canton, OH

Joe: Greensboro, NC; Grenville, NC; New Port Richey, FL

Michelle: Las Vegas, NV

Tuesday

Barack: Chester, PA; Harrisonburg, VA; Norfolk, VA

Joe: Melbourne, FL; Ocala, FL

Michelle: Las Vegas, NM; Colorado Springs, CO

Hillary: Manchester, NH; Pelham, NH

Wednesday

Joe: Jupiter, FL

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This Week With 'The Democratic Nominee' Barack Obama, September 28-October 4, 2008

Barack in Asheville, North Carolina

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Polls

GW National; PPP North Carolina; Rasmussen Colorado; Rasmussen Ohio; Rasmussen Virginia; Rasmussen Pennsylvania; Rasmussen Florida; SUSA Ohio; PPP Florida; SUSA Indiana; SUSA GA, IN, OH, NJ; Insiders Advantage Virginia; Insiders Advantage Ohio; ABC/Washington Post National; Quinnipiac FL, OH, PA; SUSA Oklahoma; Franklin & Marshall Pennsylvania; Pew Research National; Time National; CNN/Opinion Research FL, MN, MO, NV, VA; AP/Gfk National; Suffolk University Florida; Rasmussen MS, TN, TX; CBS National; R2000 IA, IN; Insiders Advantage FL, GA, NV; Strategic Vision Wisconsin; SUSA New Mexico; PPP Michigan; Marist College National; Mason-Dixon Virginia; Ciruli Associates Colorado; Rasmussen KY, MT, NE, NM, NC; SUSA Minnesota; Saint Anselm College New Hampshire; Elon University North Carolina; Rasmussen NV, NH, WA; Star Tribune Minnesota; Columbus Dispatch Ohio

Obama Edging Into More Active Role On Crisis
Why It (Probably) Won't Work
Desperate McCain gets tough with attack on Obama’s character
Economic Unrest Shifts Electoral Battlegrounds
Push to register felons to vote could aid Obama
Public funding limits pushed McCain out of Michigan


Michelle in Boulder, Colorado

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A Broken Record

When I was growing up, at times my mother sounded like a broken record. Well, I am writing like a broken record on speed. REGISTER FOLKS TO VOTE!!!

There I capped it. Just register folks to vote.

Tomorrow, Monday, October 6th, for many states across this nation the voter registration deadline is close of business. If you know someone who is not registered point them to the Obama Website, click on states at the top and go to the nearest Obama Office and register to vote. If you don't see an office, go here, print out your state's registration form and take it your county registrar's office.

Florida, Colorado, Georgia, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, the swing states registration ends close of business tomorrow, October 6, 2006. It is critical and mandatory that we get as many folks to register in order to flip these states and WIN IN NOVEMBER.

Every vote count. We win the states with the VOTES, then we win the electoral college. If you don't vote, you have no right to gripe, bitch, moan or have a hissy fit. We have less than 24 hours. Get busy.

Photo Blogs

Let's Roll: Polls are open in Ohio by jmknapp; Bruce Springsteen PROVES he is truly,"The Boss" in Philadelphia for Obama by icebergslim; Obama the populist captivates 15,000+ in Reno by LaughingPlanet; Obama Campaign Blog, LaCrosse, Wisconsin; WIPEOUT!! - Biden TROUNCES Palin By 2 to 1 Margin by Al Rodgers; Obama Campaign Blog, Joe Biden Debate Day; Me, my Dad, Obama, and 18,000 others in Newport News by CK7; Anti-Palin Rally in OC by Kif Kroker; No Bruce Springsteen for me! by casperr; Gen. Clark PWNS in Florida for Obama! by jordans11; "McCain Lost My Vote" by bRan; VOLUNTEERS - Change for Colorado w/Pictures by aurabass; The Obamas and The Bidens in Detroit, Michigan, September 28, 2008

GOP Strategists Whisper Fears Of Greater Losses in November
Dems could hit 60 Senate seats
Palin: Obama Is ‘Palling Around With Terrorists’
Biden’s Unified Theory of Biden
Obama: Economic Crisis "Not A Time For Politics"
Blacks Forming a Rock-Solid Bloc Behind Obama
Springsteen, Joel team up for Obama
GOP, RIP?


Bruce Springsteen, Vote for Change Rally, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Shoutouts, stuff you should read....

McCain Campaign Claimed Credit for Passage of Bailout Bill . . . Right Before It Collapsed! by Reggid; WSJ: "Palin Flubbed Mock Debates In NYC & PHILA", Infighting, Leaks & Poll" by Excelscior1; Tom Brokaw Will Try To Sink Obama in Debate by dthom71; The Worst Sarah Palin Clip Yet by Cenk Uygur; McCain's Non-Support for Troops and Veterans: The Master List by Brandon Friedman; McCain just broke his BIGGEST campaign pledge by butchcjg; David Plouffe Rolls on Tom Brokaw After McCain's Gwen Ifill Complaint by Steven R; OMG!!! Just found out I CAN VOTE!!! by UneasyOne; ABC News: Palin flub on bankruptcy has McCain camp flailing by awkward007; Obama Campaign Phonebanks The Deaf Community!!! by slinkerwink; Obama Going For Jugular!! McCain's "Radical" Health Care Plan by Steven R; We’ve Now Registered 12,814 Voters! by kath25; ABC News Exposes Palin Lie by OHDem; Sunday Morning Reaction: Obama +7 in Ohio by Kula2316; Could Obama win Appalachia? by Underground in Ohio; John McCain's Angry Interview with the Des Moines Editorial Board by Bryan Lefwitz; C.H.A.N.G.E. — Come Help A (N-word) Get Elected. WTF? by The Christian Progressive Liberal ; TV spending, week ending 9/30 by kos

More see Obama as helpful on economy
McCain, Obama call for greater bank security
PAC funds anti-Obama TV ad in California
Obama tells La Crosse crowd action needed on crisis
Jay-Z rallies Detroit audience at Cobo concert supporting Obama
Obama to call McCain 'erratic in crisis'
On the Road: St. Louis County, Missouri
McCain Adviser Admits That Campaign Doesn't Want To Talk About Economic Crisis


The American Promise

Va. GOP fears McCain could lose the state

Virginia Republicans are warning that John McCain's prospects for winning a state that has been in the GOP column in every presidential election since 1964 could be in jeopardy. With Barack Obama treating the Old Dominion like a battleground state and reliable polls showing a margin-of-error race there, some are cautioning that McCain is making a critical mistake by allowing the Democratic nominee to outpace him in terms of visits and resources committed.

The two best indicators of which states the campaigns are serious about – time and money – tell the story.

Since wrapping up the Democratic nomination in June, Obama, his wife, Michelle, and his running mate Joe Biden have visited the commonwealth a combined 12 times. The candidate himself was in the Tidewater city of Newport News Saturday.

Obama is also plowing millions into Virginia, blanketing the airwaves with TV and radio ads, filling up mailboxes with leaflets and, along with the state party, operating 49 campaign offices.

Together, McCain and his running mate, Sarah Palin, have held just one campaign event in Virginia. And the campaign has taken its ads off the pricey Washington, D.C. network affiliates that reach into the entire swath of the Northern Virginia, the commonwealth’s most populous region. continue

How will Missouri blue collar voters break?
Obama adds another campaign office in Omaha
McCain Plans Fiercer Strategy Against Obama
Every trend looking good for Obama
Obama says McCain out of touch on jobs
Obama talks jobs in Michigan
Examining the candidates
Sarah Palin Endorses Hamas
Nervous GOP urges McCain to attack
The Obama channel

Audio/Video

Meet the Press, October 5, 2008; Electoral Map Favors Obama; Obama Ad, "Coin"; Obama Ad "This Year"; Obama Speech in Newport News, Virginia; Obama Ad, "One Word"; Obama Ad, "Prescription"; Vice Presidential Debate; Foreclosure Alley; Obama Ad, "Can't Explain"; Michelle in Boulder, CO; Obama Reno, Nevada Speech; Obama Speech in Detroit, Michigan; Joe Biden Speech in Detroit, Michigan; AFL-CIO's Richard Trumka Must See Video; Obama Ad, "Spending Spree"; Obama Ad, "Same Path"; Fareed Zakaria, CNN, "...She Clearly Does Not Understand...."; Obama Ad, "Figured"

In the mail, and on the phones, in Missouri
McCain Says Bailout Bill Must Pass
Palin Knows Roe...And Nothing Else
A New Low
Poll Finds Obama Gaining Support and McCain Weakened in Bailout Crisis
Report fears potential 'partisan manipulation' in voter purges
The Wright card
Union Drops New Mailer In Battlegrounds Hammering McCain On Health Care
McCain's fate hangs on three states

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Make-Believe Maverick

At Fort McNair, an army base located along the Potomac River in the nation's capital, a chance reunion takes place one day between two former POWs. It's the spring of 1974, and Navy commander John Sidney McCain III has returned home from the experience in Hanoi that, according to legend, transformed him from a callow and reckless youth into a serious man of patriotism and purpose. Walking along the grounds at Fort McNair, McCain runs into John Dramesi, an Air Force lieutenant colonel who was also imprisoned and tortured in Vietnam.

McCain is studying at the National War College, a prestigious graduate program he had to pull strings with the Secretary of the Navy to get into. Dramesi is enrolled, on his own merit, at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in the building next door.

There's a distance between the two men that belies their shared experience in North Vietnam — call it an honor gap. Like many American POWs, McCain broke down under torture and offered a "confession" to his North Vietnamese captors. Dramesi, in contrast, attempted two daring escapes. For the second he was brutalized for a month with daily torture sessions that nearly killed him. His partner in the escape, Lt. Col. Ed Atterberry, didn't survive the mistreatment. But Dramesi never said a disloyal word, and for his heroism was awarded two Air Force Crosses, one of the service's highest distinctions. McCain would later hail him as "one of the toughest guys I've ever met." continue

Joe at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, Vice Presidential Debate

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icebergslim’s last word: hail mary = negative train to november 4th

I watched Sarah Palin through all these interviews and the debate. It is obvious that the woman is not qualified for the Vice Presidency and I give her props for her good debate performance. She can read off her cue cards, well.

When Palin was plucked from obscurity the question for me was not WTF? The question was, “Why her?” Well, we have seen that she has somewhat solidified the conservative base. I state somewhat because the fundamentalists love her, would follow her over a cliff, but the fiscal, non-conservatives still are not totally sold on her.

Palin’s job was to shore up that base. This is the base that GOTV’d for Bush in 2004 with fervor. To bring women to McCain’s fold, especially any disenfranchised Hillary voters and independents. Well, I am proud to state, it ain’t happenin’. After her disastrous interviews, being caricatured to death by SNL’s Tina Fey, and her teenaged student council performance at the Vice Presidential debate in St. Louis, Palin has shown she is just not ready at all.

But let’s back up a minute. John McCain was the ‘presump’ since February, late February. He has campaigned during this time, on leisure. He has raised money, dismally. His campaign was on the down low. They watched and followed the Hillary Clinton strategy. He hired the ex-Rove attack dogs, turned negative all summer, paid off temporarily, still could not totally get Obama. McCain then stopped using his brain and allowed the Rove strategists to pluck Palin from nowhere. Totally stepped on Obama’s post convention bounce, she became a star, temporarily. Then something really important happened during the Palin demise, the economy. Real issues to Americans.

McCain must come out Tuesday night, cohesive, understanding, sympathetic, and knowledgeable on the ills of the economy. And I mean, not just the Wall Street/Main Street mortgage mess, but jobs, college tuition, the cost of gas, the cost of food, and the health care crisis in this country. He has to go beyond a tax cut, because people need more than that. He must have solid plans and policies to argue Obama on Tuesday night in Nashville. If he comes off abrasive, condescending, angry and erratic, he will sink even further in the polls.

We know and understand the last leg of this campaign, for the McCain Campaign is the hail mary to the extreme negative. Infantile Palin started already with the ridiculous Ayers comment. The campaign desperately want this off the economy, but the campaign don’t get to make that call, the public does. As, long as we hear about jobs being lost and for September it was 159,000, people will worry. For the record, these numbers are the ninth straight month of job loss in this country. Folks are worried about their security, their pension/retirement funds, about holding onto their job, paying for college, etc. The list of worry is endless. Right now the mood is not on, “Who Obama may or may not have associated with?” The mood is which candidate will help me FINANCIALLY and ECONOMICALLY.

And the McCain Campaign, just don’t seem to have an answer.

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Campaign Appearances
times and reservations can be found at barackobama.com

Michelle

Tuesday: Jacksonville, NC

Barack

Wednesday: Indianapolis,IN

Joe

Wednesday: Tampa, FL

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This Week With "The Democratic Nominee", Barack Obama, September 14-20, 2008

Women for Obama rally at Bank United Center in Coral Gables, Florida

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Polls

The Bergen Record New Jersey; Suffolk University Ohio; Siena College New York; Elway Washington State; SUSA Virginia; Deseret News Utah; SUSA Ohio; Rasmussen CO, FL, OH, PA, VA; Quinnipiac New Jersey; Economist/YouGov National; ARG National; PPP Ohio; Monmouth University New Jersey; George Washington University National; Rasmussen New York; Zogby/Reuters National; ARG 25 Statewide Surveys; PPP Virginia; Field Poll California; Ipsos/McClatchy National; CNN/Time Battleground FL, IN, NC, OH, WI; Christopher Newport University VA; Rasmussen Oregon; Rasmussen Wisconsin; Rasmussen Rhode Island; CBS News/New York Times National; SUSA New Mexico; Indianapolis Star-WTHR Indiana; SUSA Georgia; ARG FL, NH, NE, SC; Rasmussen Vermont; Allstate/National Journal CO, FL, NM, OH, VA; SUSA Florida; Big Ten/University of Wisconsin Madison Battleground States; Pew Research National; Portland Tribune Oregon; Public Opinion Georgia; Rasmussen CT, GA, NJ; Insider Advantage CO, GA, VA; Daily Kos/R2000 Alaska; SUSA Alabama; Strategic Vision Washington State, New Jersey; ARG IN, ND, OK, WA; Marist Michigan; Marist Ohio; Marist Pennsylvania; Rasmussen Indiana; Daily Kos/R2000 Kentucky; SUSA Iowa; Elon University North Carolina; Rasmussen Maine; Daily Kos/R2000 North Dakota; Detroit News/EPIC/MRA Michigan; Rasmussen South Carolina; ARG CT, MD, MI, TN; Rasmussen IL, SC; St Louis Post-Dispatch/R2000 Missouri; PPP North Carolina; University of Cincinnati Ohio; Florida Times-Union/South Florida Sun-Sentinel/R2000 Florida; St Petersburg Times/Miami Herald Florida

Fox's Megyn Kelly Works Over McCain Flack
Palin on Economics: Worse Than C+ Augustus
Palin Offers An Idea That Obama Has Already Done
Jewish Voters Report Anti-Obama Poll
Crowds jam Obama rally at Fairgrounds
U.S. Considers Bringing Fannie, Freddie on to Budget
McCain, Obama trade heated jabs over the economy
Voter Suppression Wiki
Obama rips into 'panicked' McCain as Wall St crisis mounts



Billboard of Barack at one of London's Train Stations

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John McCain has 13 cars. Barack Obama has 1.
Lehman Files for Bankruptcy; Merrill Is Sold
Obama mocks McCain promise to bring change
Obama Campaign Organizers Trying To Win Election Instead of Get You Yard Signs
Blue-collar vote, one gaffe at a time
Connect with your neighbors for Barack
No One in the Paint, Obama has the Ball
Obama gets big welcome in Republican Country
Seattle Times Endorses Barack Obama for President


Panel ABCs 'This Week' Tears Into John McCain, h/t jedreport

The Urgency of Registering to Vote and Getting People to the Polls

I wrote a diary earlier this week that went viral, and THANK GOD IT DID. The Motherlode of All Voter Registration Information That You Need.

This diary has ALL THE INFORMATION YOU NEED to register to vote in all 50 states. It also contains information on absentee ballot per state, a website to request an absentee ballot for your state, early voting information per state, felon information per state, national voter registration form applicable for all 50 states, the Obama Campaign website for registering to vote, and all the download and online voting per state you need.

This is vital and important. The first date when voter registration ends is October 4, 2008. The way we win is getting people registered to vote and getting them to the polls.

There is NO EXCUSE for anyone not registering to vote, period.

My request is to pass my diary link along to 5 people and ask those 5 people to pass it along. Make the request urgent for folks to register to vote. People can print the voter registration request off at work, at home, at Kinko’s, or wherever. If you know someone that cannot get the application printed, PRINT IT FOR THEM and have them to fill it out and mail in to their county registrar/clerks office. Or drop the application off at the county office.

I am reeling about this because I found out today that Florida has 900,000 AAs between the ages of 18-24 that turned 18 in 2004. That’s votes folks. Indiana has registered over 500,000 new voters this year, that‘s votes folks. Virginia registration is off the chain and surpassing republican registration, that’s votes folks.

We win this by the VOTES, not the poll numbers. Again, your mission, if you accept, is to send my diary link around, talk to folks and find out if they are registered to vote, if not HELP THEM ALONG. See those teenagers on skate boards, ask them if they are 18 by November 4th, if so, guide them to a voter registration form.

We must smash the voter registration through the ceiling in all 50 states for Obama to win in November. Then our next mission is getting folks to early vote and to the polls on election day, but that is another write up.

All I am stating is this, elections are won, per state, by the MOST VOTES. Nothing more nothing less. Let's get busy, the clock is ticking away.


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icebergslim’s last word: what goes around, comes around

The John McCain Campaign decided before Obama went to Europe that they would run a “personality” campaign. They attacked Obama while in the Middle East and Europe. The created the celebrity ads to make the public believe that he was a walking “empty suit”. And along the way decided they would lie, distort the truth, make shit up, rinse and repeat until the public would believe what they said as TRUE.

It was working. The polls were showing it. Obama took a hit on the “celebrity ads” and the negativity from the McCain Campaign was daily, as in ads daily. He picked Sarah “empty skirt/dress” Palin to challenge the women vote and shore up his base for GOTV. Hell, things were POPPIN’ at the McCain Camp.

Then reality set in, smack dab in the middle, after Labor Day, when the kids are back in school, PEOPLE ARE PAYING ATTENTION, the stock market and banks are about to go under!!

Politics of Personality, off the front page, and the economy is everyone’s concern. Can’t lie your way around or out of this one, it is real. Not trumped up or made up, but folks are LIVING IT. It makes issues and the responsibility of the press important now. Handing Wall Street and these banks a safety net of up to 1 Trillion Dollars without strict regulations and guidelines, do not sit well with the public. We have handed Bush/Cheney our dollars and look what happened? We don’t have anything to show for it. In fact, this country is far worse off than 8 years ago.

So, the trick bags of the McCain Campaign must be set aside. He must now face up to his record of siding with deregulation, which got us in the mess we are in today. He must face up to wanting to put social security in the free market. He must face up to wanting to manage our health care crisis like Wall Street. And so far, folks don’t like it.

The reality is that the Republican Party has been in charge these past 8 years and they ruined this country. Simple as that. Now that the Politics of Issues are front and center in Americans minds, McCain don’t have a pot to piss in.

See what happens when you do wrong? Comes right back TO YOU.

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This Week With "The Democratic Nominee", Barack Obama, September 7-13, 2008

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Polls

PPP Michigan; CNN/ORC National; Tarrance Group Colorado; SUSA Virginia; CBS/NYT National; ABC/Washington Post National; Fox Battleground States; SUSA Washington State; Gonzales Research Maryland; SUSA Oklahoma; IBD-TIPP National; ARG National; PPP Florida; NBC/Wall Street Journal National; Fairleigh Dickinson University New Jersey; Rasmussen Montana; SUSA North Carolina; PPP North Carolina; Fox National; Time Battleground States; Strategic Vision Pennsylvania; Rasmussen Alaska; Rasmussen North Dakota; Rasmussen New Mexico; Quinnipiac Battleground States; Insider Advantage Georgia; Insider Advantage Georgia; Dem Corp National; PPP Colorado; Insider Advantage Florida; Blankenship Enterprises West Virginia; Daily Kos/Research 2000 North Dakota and National; Daily Kos and Research 2000 Maine; Rasmussen Michigan; Capital Survey Research Alabama; Garin Hart Yang North Carolina; Civitas Institute North Carolina; Insider Advantage Colorado; Insider Advantage Ohio; Insider Advantage Michigan; Strategic Vision Ohio; Strategic Vision Georgia; Daily Kos/Research 2000 Mississippi; Rasmussen Michigan; Rasmussen Wyoming; Rasmussen Idaho; Public Opinion Strategies National; Insiders Advantage Nevada; Rasmussen Washington State; Ipsos/McClatchey National; University of Cincinnati Ohio; Rasmussen Missouri; AP-Gfk National; Hoffman Research Group Oregon; Marist College New Jersey; Newsweek National; Rasmussen Oklahoma; Rasmussen Nevada; SUSA Minnesota; Minnesota Star Tribune

Palin's statements on climate change murky
Lose your house, lose your vote
Bill Clinton and Obama to campaign together this month
Biden: Second wife 'restored my life' after tragedy
McCain's Integrity
Out of bounds! McCain misstates Obama sex-ed record

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Lies, Fabrication, Sick, Cunning, Unscrupulous, that is McCain

I know many are caught up on Sarah Palin. You can read all you need about her, here. Just listen to Palin on national security, nuff said. There is so much documentation on her lies, thus far in this campaign; it just makes one shake their heads. I literally can not keep up!!

In the end, this is about John McCain and how he and his campaign has just accepted all these lies trumped up about Obama, made them public, repeat them as true, and just don't give a mickey-fickey if we like it or not.

Enter; the electorate is stupid, frame. This is what the McCain Campaign is running on.

Secondly, the McCain Campaign is running against the press. Joe Scarborough stated that he did not think this strategy would work, but it is a wait and see. The bloggers have been effective in documenting and pushing "McCain is a liar" narrative, forcing the McCain Campaign to respond. But they have been tepid, at best. The explanation that McCain has given about the lies and smears against Obama is this, "I think the tone of this whole campaign would have been very different if Senator Obama had accepted my request for us to appear in town hall meetings all across America, the same way Jack Kennedy and Barry Goldwater had agreed to do so. I know that because I’ve been in enough campaigns." As if this would not have happened anyway? Like this is a solid explanation to lie away? Again, expecting the electorate to be stupid and believe whatever comes out of this campaign's mouth.

The media has also been called out for not doing their PAID JOBS, which is reporting the news accurately. It took the women from "The View" to make McCain squirm on that couch. Expecting this would be a nice, touchy-feely interview, turned into why are you lying and stating "I approve this message?" When you, John McCain know this ad was a lie! Or Ari Melber on MSNBC to call out Brad Blakeman, Republican hack for backing an outright liar. Recently, there have been some hard hitting media pieces on McCain's untruthful ads, but my concern is this, "Is the public hearing this or listening?"

That for me is the million dollar question.

In closing, John McCain has traded his stature as a honorable, straight-talk, honest candidate to one who will do or say anything to win. Overall, he is misleading, a fraud, and a fabricator, corrupt, crooked, shady, deceitful and dishonest.

If McCain is all of that, throw Sarah "the empty skirt" along in that pile, too.


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Greenspan Says McCain Tax Plan Needs Corresponding Budget Cuts

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said the country can't afford $3.3 trillion of tax cuts proposed by Republican presidential nominee John McCain without corresponding spending reductions.

Greenspan, a lifelong Republican and longtime friend of McCain, said today on Bloomberg Television's ``Political Capital With Al Hunt'' that ``I'm not in favor of financing tax cuts with borrowed money.''

McCain has said he would balance the cost of most of his tax cuts with budget reductions, while providing few details beyond eliminating earmarks and other pork-barrel spending, which have totaled about $171 billion since 2001. Democratic nominee Barack Obama is proposing fewer tax cuts and more ambitious spending programs.

Greenspan said he has ``mixed feelings'' about a second government economic-stimulus bill after the U.S. provided a $168 billion package in February. While such an action may increase the budget deficit at a time when spending on retirees' medical benefits is about to cause ``big'' financial problems, it may also boost economic growth, he said. continue

Obama attacks McCain on Boeing deal, trade issues
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Clueless Palin Peddles Cliches Under Gibson's Glare: Commentary
Change now a campaign theme for both McCain, Obama
McCain fumbles Palin's record on earmark requests
Michelle Obama tapes cooking show with Paula Deen
Obama Implies McCain Puts Other Countries First


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Obama/Biden Campaign Appearances

September 15, 2008, Flat Rock, MI, "Change We Need" Rally with Joe Biden
September 15, 2008, Pueblo, CO, Change We Need Rally with Barack Obama
September 16, 2008, Golden, CO, Barack Obama in Golden
September 17, 2008, Elko, NV, Change We Need event with Barack Obama

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Biden: Scrapper from Scranton
Obama Raises $66 Million for August
Ohio secretary of state prevents vote caging
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Palin camp clarifies extent of Iraq trip
Obama camp: 'Disgusting lies,' 'not worthy'
Why McCain is going so negative
McCain: Mr Straight Talk?


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icebergslim's last word: runway for obama!!!

Oh brother. I can see it coming. WTH??? Runway fashions for Obama?

One word: YES.

For those that want and desire, um, more, and if you are a Project Runway junkie like me, these items are for you.

Runway to Change, by some of your favorite designers.



These are just a few, there is something for everyone, with more stuff coming from your favorite designers. If this is not your cup of tea, there is always something brewing at the Obama Store, just take a peek.

Remember, everything purchased is a donation to the Obama Campaign. And if you don't like anything, tip my Obama Jar!!

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