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My view Of Barack Obama!
This is a glimpse of how I see Barack Obama’s point of view and approach.
McCain keeps harping that Barack's claims," to change America," are ridiculous and empty. Barack simple wants to return America to the way it used to be not so long ago with a prosperous and healthy middle class. He wants to restore our military strength and national security to their former levels by avoiding senseless conflicts while concentrating on recreating a level playing field upon which we can conduct trade with other nations. He believes a productive and prosperous nation will, as before, generate the revenue needed to afford us the most sophisticated weapons and military on earth. He is also under the impression we need to once again return this country and its constitutional rights back to its people. He believes, as I do, that if someone can affect us in such a way as to cause us to live in fear for the foreseeable future they have won. He plans to seek and find solutions by working with other nations including those who see things much differently than we do. He knows we all see things to one degree or another differently, and refusal to negotiated with those who see things differently amounts to nothing less than isolation and the nullification of all but our own national values. He realizes we must respect others and their cultures as we and our cultures wish to be respected. He knows we must attract and be willing to work with those who are sitting at the other end of the table to find mutually acceptable solutions, possible with compromise on both sides. He knows that only a bully will insist on having everything his way, and knows we need to correct that all to prevalent recently acquired perception of us. He knows no one wants to negotiate with a bully. He knows the way back to the America we were once famous for, and is willing and determined to take us there despite a likely uphill battle. He is more than willing to take on the treasonous corporate greed which has allowed the outsourcing or our nation by its wealthy aristocrats, along with their corporations and politicians.
I know it may likely take several years if not a decade or two to repair a significant portion of the damage done to America since the passing of NAFTA and the reckless negligence of the Bush presidency, and hope we can be patient and supportive and not lose our focus during this period.
Obama has swept Democrats Abroad.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/2...
Yes, we can.
9:35 AM EST
I'm a veteran myself (Air Force), so I find McCain's extra-curricular affairs, especially whilst in the military, very bothersome. I don't care if he is a former POW, there's no excuse for what he did. He came back from Vietnam and he too was disfigured. Why didn't his wife then (Carol) dump him instead ?
McCain -- an old man with old ideas
We did have an earthquake here, a 6.13. NV evidently had a larger one.
Castor and Wexler for Obama in Florida. Are they setting up for a showdown there?
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/2...
s m - I'll have to call my sister in Lake Tahoe about the earthquake.
9:37 AM EST
McCain and Gingrich - both divorced their wives when their wives had medical problems -- here's the story of POW, war-hero John:
http://www.paddling.net/message/showThread.html?fid=banter&tid=815716
McCain the family man
Posted by: waltermitty on Feb-08-08 8:49 PM (EST)
Before John McCain's tour of duty in Vietnam, he married Carol Shepp, a model from Philadelphia. On his 23rd bombing mission over North Vietnam in 1967, McCain was shot down and captured.
While he was imprisoned, Carol was in an auto wreck (1969), thrown through her car's windshield and left seriously injured. Despite her injures, she refused to allow her POW husband to be notified about her condition, fearing that such news would not be good for him while he was being held prisoner.
When McCain returned to the United States in 1973 after more than five years as a prisoner of war, he found his wife was a different person. The accident "left her 4 inches shorter and on crutches, and she had gained a good deal of weight."...
In his book, The Nightingale's Song, Robert Timberg chronicled McCain's post-Vietnam military assignments and some of his "adulterous" behavior leading to his divorce from Carol and marriage to Cindy Hensley.
Timberg wrote, "in the fall of 1974, McCain was transferred to Jacksonville as the executive officer of Replacement Air Group 174, the long-sought flying billet at last a reality. A few months later, he assumed command of the RAG, which trained pilots and crews for carrier deployments. The assignment was controversial, some calling it favoritism, a sop to the famous son of a famous father and grandfather [both were Navy admirals], since he had not first commanded a squadron, the usual career path."
While Executive Officer and later as Squadron Commander McCain used his authority to arrange frequent flights that allowed him to carouse with subordinates and "engage in extra-marital affairs." Such behavior was a violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice rules against adultery and fraternization with subordinates..
Timberg wrote, "Off duty, usually on routine cross-country flights to Yuma and El Centro, John started carousing and running around with women. To make matters worse, some of the women with whom he was linked by rumor were subordinates . . . At the time the rumors were so widespread that, true or not, they became part of McCain's persona, impossible not to take note of."...
While still married to Carol, McCain began an adulterous relationship with Cindy. He married Cindy in May 1980 -- just a month after dumping Carol and securing a divorce. The newlyweds honeymooned in Hawaii.
McCain followed his young, millionairess wife back to Arizona where her father helped catapult McCain into politics,
Today, Cindy Hensley McCain is chairwoman of Hensley's board of directors. Hensley and Company financial reports show assets worth a minimum of $28 million for the McCains
wasn't finding that fault line the reason yucca mountain was axed?
Darrell's back. I'll be darned. I wonder if Bobby O will be turning up.
Think Clinton's experience makes her the more qualified candidate to be a competent next president? It hasn't qualified her to be the most competent candidate. This excerpt is from Ken Vogel and Jeanne Cummings in the Politico:
"Hillary Clinton ended January with $7.6 million in debt – not including the $5 million personal loan she gave to her campaign in the run-up to the critical Super Tuesday elections, according to financial reports released Wednesday.
"In contrast, Democratic rival Barack Obama’s campaign’s finances continued to be robust.
"He reported raising nearly $37 million and spending nearly $31 million. His cash balance was $25 million, of which roughly $20 million can be spent on the primary. He reported a comparatively small $1 million in debts, owed largely to just three vendors.
" . . . .
"Clinton raised about $20 million in January, including her loan. She spent nearly $29 million during the month.
"She reported a cash balance of $29 million. But more than $20 million of that is money dedicated to the general election. Her personal loan accounts for more than half of the remaining approximately $9 million, leaving just about $4 million in cash raised from donors.
"But even that money is illusionary when measured against the reported $7.6 million in debts.
" . . . .
"Clinton’s strapped financial situation in late January meant she couldn’t invest in all of the Super Tuesday states, particularly the expensive ground operations required in caucus states.
"Obama won every one of those caucus contests on Feb. 5, opening up a critical lead among pledged delegates.
"He was also able to launch television advertising earlier than Clinton in subsequent primaries in Virginia, Maryland and Wisconsin and other key states, which ultimately stretched his lead and fueled his momentum today.
" . . . .
"The New York senator launched her campaign a year ago with much of the party’s establishment and financial muscle behind her. The Illinois senator, meanwhile, built a grassroots fundraising operation reliant on small givers that continue to fuel him today."
The Audacity of Hope Crown Publishers Random House New York 2006 p148,149
Howard must be smiling... I know I am! go grassroots - go Obama!
According to local news buildings have collapsed in Wells, NV, there are fires because of propane tanks.
Tom - what time zone are you in? I'm just wondering if the blog posts jumping around has anything to do with the software 'reading' the time of the post wrong - ie: my post ends up above older posts because the faulty 'clock' sees they're 'later' than my post because they're in a timezone west of me...?! just wondering why sometimes my fresh post ends up at the bottom as is expected and other times it climbs way up the thread - my 'newer' posts never end up above other posts of mine on the same thread so it got me to thinking about the time zone factor. hmmm - but my post displayed after Phil's last post - was that because he posted more than an hour ago and mine wasn't read as 'earlier' than his?
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stress headaches, ulcers and depression
Good Morning,
Thanks for the eclipse photos last night. We missed it here, though when I got up about 1AM, the moon was a bright and full as a sand dollar.
Michelle Obama graces the cover of Newweek Magazine. She's an admirable, formidable woman: honest, forthright, solid, intelligent, caring about her family, and competent. I also like her sense of humor. I think she'll be a wonderful role model for women of all ages if she becomes First Woman.
I think back over the First Women: Barbara Bush: truculent, blunt, insensitive; Jacqui Kennedy: beautiful, cultured, elite, artistic; Hillary Clinton: ambitious, polarizing, arrogant, grasping; Laura Bush: (someone on the blog called her an airhead: I'm reminded where Rove decided she was going to work with inner city gangs); ineffectual, do-nothing, retiring, willing to give up self for security. Granted all opinons without any evidence, just subjectivity. But, Michele Obama will bring independence, achievement, directness, passion for children and the underdog, and a strong sense of self and what can be accomplished. She's very impressive. She's also very honest, and as the public we are not used to this, don't take kindly to being told the truth.
I'm hopeful people will see through her statements to her character, just as many, lots in fact, have seen through words to the character of her husband.
Darrell's Bloggers Breakfast stands as the highwater mark of BFA in Iowa and the thread from there to Deanfest to Democracyfest is clear. We stand on the shoulders of giants here at BFA. someone have Jessica's link handy?
prayers and blessings to all in the earthquake zone. there seems to be a lot of quake activity this week...
Jo wrote "Tom - what time zone are you in?"
EST. I can't establish what causes the effect, either, although in general, it does seem as if posts originating from areas farther west get displaced by those farther east.
Ok we just had an aftershock, 4.0, my apt shaking again, old building, I'm getting the hell out of the building.
posts originating from areas farther west get displaced by those farther east.
Nice try Tom. I'm just up the road from you, and this completely f-ed up blog buries my posts. Why can't they just go back a year? Everything worked then.
10 am
I'm hopeful people will see through her statements to her character, just as many, lots in fact, have seen through words to the character of her husband
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If you see the unedited version of what she said you would all be nodding your heads in agreement. Michelle Obama is very well spoken and will make a great First Lady.
To the point of her husbands character, someone I am close to has recently retired after a career that included being the warden at three state prisons, and that after serving as an officer in Vietnam, and his mannerisms and self assurance are very similar to Barack's. never loses his cool, deep personal integrity (based on values), someone that would handle a crisis with a clear head
almost one hundred and eighty degrees from hot headed McCain
Pat wrote "Hillary Clinton: ambitious, polarizing, arrogant, grasping; . . . Granted all opinons without any evidence, just subjectivity."
My opinion is subjective, too, but I think there is some revisionist history involved in describing Clinton in those terms. She was unique as a first spouse for her professional status and prominent role inside the West Wing, but the profile you suggest strikes me more as the unflattering caricature used by her right wing enemies to portray her. I thought she received a lot of unfair criticism.
I mention this because in many ways, I view Clinton as the model of a First Lady that Michelle Obama might be, and I would expect that Obama will garner the same nasty reviews for her role and status within the White House from conservative troglodytes that Clinton did.
Rule #1 in an earthquake - NEVER GO OUTSIDE as you can get hit by falling bricks, debris, etc. Get in a doorway.
www.democracyfest.net for DemFest
the blog comments are probably just a basket full of letters dumped into the sorting machine at the NSA Big Brother server sucking it all in and when they come out "sorted" of course are not in the order they were mailed
and good luck trying to fix that
John wrote "Nice try Tom. I'm just up the road from you, and this completely f-ed up blog buries my posts."
Woops. As I write, your response to my post at 22 is numbered 15. So much for that theory, although, as a matter of fact, you are to the east of me; just not very much.
For my second hypothesis, I think the blog software takes the posts and rolls them around in a casino styled Bingo cage before they appear on the site.
10:11 AM EST
does John McCain have a problem with words that begin with F --
-- Fidelity has already been discussed here
-- but how about Financial management ?:
http://www.startribune.com/politics/15837132.html
FEC chair says McCain can't withdraw from public financing until loan questions resolvedBy JIM KUHNHENN , Associated Press
Last update: February 21, 2008 - 8:55 AM
WASHINGTON - The government's top campaign finance regulator says John McCain can't drop out of the primary election's public financing system until he answers questions about a loan he obtained to kickstart his once faltering presidential campaign.
Federal Election Commission Chairman David Mason, in a letter to McCain this week, said the all-but-certain Republican nominee needs to assure the commission that he did not use the promise of public money to help secure a $4 million line of credit he obtained in November.
McCain's lawyer, Trevor Potter, said Wednesday evening that McCain has withdrawn from the system and that the FEC can't stop him. Potter said the campaign did not encumber the public funds in any way.
...
McCain, a longtime advocate of stricter limits on money in politics, was one of the few leading presidential candidates to seek FEC certification for public money during the primaries. The FEC determined that he was entitled to at least $5.8 million. But McCain did not obtain the money, and he notified the FEC earlier this month that he would bypass the system, freeing him from its spending limits.
But just as McCain was beginning to turn his attention to a likely Democratic opponent, Mason, a Republican appointee to the commission, essentially said, "Not so fast."
By accepting the public money, McCain would be limited to spending about $54 million for the primaries, a ceiling his campaign is near. That would significantly hinder his ability to finance his campaign between now and the Republican National Convention in September.
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Phil is jamming me down like a pestle in a mortar.
Just my opinion but I don't think Michelle Obama has designs on becoming President one day as Hillary did.
N 26.
Look for CNN to throw several gotcha questions at Obama in tonights debate. Hillary will be tough tonight.
#33 I stand corrected, Tom You are correct in that it's unflattering, probably not true, and it mimics what her critics would say.
I do recall that she was very domineering, disliked Al Gore, pre-empted the vice president's role. Her handling of the health care issue as I read about it in various magazines: again, controlling, punishing, willing to use power to obtain her goals in a way that was unsavory. She threatened various democratic senators if they didn't approve her plan, but they hadn't even read it. There was so much secrecy that no notetaking was allowed.
I guess what it comes down to is she reminds me of authoritarian leadership, which I've always disliked. I have read over and over that people didn't dare cross her.
That doesn't mean that she hasn't done good things, that she isn't very bright and hard working.
The fact is, I don't like her management style, her ethics, her ambition that seems to make her judgments bad.
Thanks for the comment. That's what makes this worthwhile.
#24 Mary vb, in the Newsweek article, she says emphatically that she doesn't have any desire to be president.
That's another thing I don't like about Hillary Clinton. Wasn't 8 years enough? The company went through emotional turmoil with the Clinton's, and frankly, I don't want that again. What has changed? What would she do differently from what they did then? Her voting certainly doesn't indicate change.
To me, and it's my opinion, this feels very much like hubris. What's good for Hillary is more important than what's good for the country.
Clinton's Texas Ground Game is well non-existent or in Italian non che.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mayhill-fo...
typo, maybe one of the Freudian finger slips. I said company when I meant country. hmmm
Pat, I agree with your opinions about Hillary. My sister supports Barack (voted for him in CA) but also really likes Hillary so in my own family I have to walk a thin line. Sigh...
#17, Hi Denise. We had an earthquake in Pago Pago. At first I stood, holding the computer on the shelf. Then we all ran outside. The islands border the Tongan Trench, the deepest in the ocean.
This is brilliant. Chess. Not Boxing.
http://www.dylanloewe.com/
Clinton's campaigns is like boxing where Obama's campaign is like chess. I prefer chess because it requires much more thinking.
Phil wrote:
the blog comments are probably just a basket full of letters dumped into the sorting machine at the NSA Big Brother server sucking it all in and when they come out "sorted" of course are not in the order they were mailed
and good luck trying to fix that.
What I want to know is, why don't all the other blogs have the same problem?
Barack Obama is a poker player, which tells me he can read people very well, can strategize, can bluff, can take risks.
My family plays poker, and there are some great talents in being able to play well. Not me, I have no strategic talents whatsoever.
Hope people are safe in the earthquake areas.
Off for a while.
11:35 AM EST
http://www.projo.com/news/politics/content/michelle_Obama_02-21-08_0D93C87_v41.39b651d.html?npc
Obama courts R.I. vote09:38 AM EST on Thursday, February 21, 2008By Scott MacKay and MARK ARSENAULT
Journal Staff Writers
Michelle Obama takes the stage to address a full house at a rally at the CCRI campus in Warwick last night. The Providence Journal / Kris Craig
A buoyant Michelle Obama, fresh from husband Barack Obama’s 17 percentage point victory in Tuesday’s Wisconsin presidential primary, wooed Rhode Island voters yesterday at a confab on women’s issues in Providence and at a boisterous, applause-punctuated rally for her husband’s campaign at the Community College of Rhode Island’s Warwick campus.
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A Clinton victory here was once a foregone conclusion; the senator and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, were popular in the state during Mr. Clinton’s White House years in the 1990s. Both Clintons have campaigned and helped raise money for prominent state politicians, such as Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Rep. James Langevin and Providence Mayor David Cicilline.
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Pat in Colorado
Thu, 02/21/08
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Barack Obama is a poker player
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So was Richard Nixon. I might keep a lid on that little tidbit.
He wasn't very good at it obviously. ; . )
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Phil Specht
Thu, 02/21/08
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you picked a dang good winter to be in Florida instead of Iowa, worst since 1978-79 it must be that globe warming! make sence to me the earth heat up mean mild winters? not if your a liberal can you explain this one shepherd phil? keeping the flock in line pays well i bet.its the coldest winter in yrs what happen to all that co2?
Sorry if I sounded wacky earlier about the earthquake. I'm usually pretty calm. I've been in earthquakes before, but always on the ground, never in an upper story, where the walls are swaying in and out, I was pretty freaked out.
After standing out in the snow waiting for the ground to not move again, I finally decided I had better take a shower and go to work. Everything calm now.
bbl
He wasn't very good at it obviously
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He staked his political career from his winnings in the Navy, cleaned out a whole ship at sea after payday. you would be wrong about that
Guess so, but his end game wasn't all that great. Plus, seems to me he won his first election by accusing Helen Gurley Brown of being a communist.
sm, yes, I remember the feeling. When the ground shakes, there's no sense of stability or ...ground. It's pretty scary.
Cross Dressing Bush Judge Busted, Resigns
Pensito Review
February 20, 2008
That I find this story so hilarious probably says more about me than the cross-dressing federal judge in question, but as they say these days, it is what it is. The punch line is probably the best part.
[Federal Judge Robert] Somma worked in private practice for years in Boston before he was appointed to the bench by President Bush in December 2004.
Yes, the fact that Bush appointed him as a federal bankruptcy judge does crack me up, but let’s start at the beginning.
Somma’s Mercedes-Benz E320 sedan hit a pick-up truck from behind about 11:29 p.m. on Feb. 6, the police report said. No one was hurt.
Somma, who lives in Newbury, Mass., fumbled in his purse for his driver’s license before handing it to the officer who later arrested him, the police report shows.
“He had a difficult time locating his license in his purse. He passed over it multiple times before removing it,” officer Paul J. Thompson wrote in his report.
The officer offered no other details with regard to the judge’s attire or accessories. Nor would representatives of the Manchester Police Department or the city solicitor’s office, which worked out the negotiated plea agreement with Somma’s lawyer…
But lots of other people did offer those details, of which Audrey Hepburn would have been proud.
When authorities removed him from the vehicle, they said he wore a black women’s cocktail dress, fishnet stockings and high heels.
But in his mug shot, the judge appears to be wearing blue eye shadow. Way to wreck a really chic look, Robert.
And where, you might ask, was the judge going that night dressed that way?
Somma told police he had been at the Breezeway Pub where he had one gin and tonic about two hours earlier, the police report reveals. He later said he drank two gin and tonics.
The Breezeway Pub, at 14 Pearl St., bills itself as “New Hampshire’s favorite gay and alternative bar,” according to its web site.
The arresting officer reported Somma smelled of alcohol, slurred his speech and fell backwards against the door frame while getting out of his car.
The Boston-based judge chose the bar in question, according to local rumor, because his wife, Wendy, was out of town and no one knew him in New Hampshire. Sounds like Wendy is pretty cool, though.
“I suspect that he will not be interested in talking to anyone from the newspaper, and I’m his wife,” said a woman who answered the telephone at the judge’s home yesterday. She referred media calls to Gary H. Wente, chief administrative officer for the First Circuit Courts.
Somma showed his sense of style to the end. He phoned in his resignation from a vacation spot in the Caribbean. If I were him, I think I’d just stay there.
This from a friend. I don't know if the source is reliable, credible, and I'm not sure this isn't a rumor. But, in the nature of gossip, the cyber grapevine, here it is.
Clintons to face fraud trial
February 21, 2008 – 6:35 am WorldNetDaily.com | Feb. 19, 2008 Judge setting date, testimony to include ex-president, senator While Hillary Clinton battles Barack Obama on the campaign trail, a judge in Los Angeles is quietly preparing to set a trial date in a $17 million fraud suit that aims to expose an alleged culture of widespread corruption by the Clintons and the Democratic Party.
At the conclusion of a hearing tomorrow morning before California Superior Court Judge Aurelio N. Munoz, lawyers for Hollywood mogul Peter F. Paul will begin seeking sworn testimony from all three Clintons – Bill, Hillary and Chelsea – along with top Democratic Party leaders and A-list celebrities, including Barbra Streisand, John Travolta, Brad Pitt and Cher. Paul’s team hopes for a trial in October. The Clintons’ longtime lawyer David Kendall, who will attend the hearing, has declined comment on the suit. The Clintons have tried to dismiss the case, but the California Supreme Court, in 2004, upheld a lower-court decision to deny the motion. Bill Clinton, according to the complaint, promised to promote Paul’s Internet entertainment company, Stan Lee Media, in exchange for stock, cash options and massive contributions to his wife’s 2000 Senate campaign. Paul contends he was directed by the Clintons and Democratic Party leaders to produce, pay for and then join them in lying about footing the bill for a Hollywood gala and fundraiser.
New Thread about TBA
Daniel
Global warming models show ocean water retaining the heat and since mid continent winter weather is caused by the temperature difference between land and water's relative rate of cool down as the sun is at a lower angle it makes perfect sense that the middle of North America would have colder winters with deeper snow the worse global warming gets
and the greater pressure gradients mean more blizzards as winds increase
wind storms will be the hallmark of a warmer world
Generic peace symbol turns 50
'Lollypops' originated on anti-nuke signs
Tony Atherton, Canwest News Service
The most famous postwar logo without commercial purpose -- or, at least, intended commercial purpose -- the peace symbol, turns 50 on Thursday.
Half a century ago, a British textile designer came up with an idea for protest signs for a march on a nuclear weapons facility: they would be the size and shape of an extra-large pizza bearing nothing more than a upside-down V with line through the middle, rendered white on black and mounted on wood laths.
These "lollypops," as the designer called them, would be lightweight and look great on TV, he said. Seen often enough, they would trumpet the message of nuclear disarmament without the need for cumbersome words. full article: http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_symbo...
http://www.peacesymbol.org/
February 20, 2008
Bush Job Approval Ratings
2/19/08 Approve Disapprove Undecided
Overall 19% 77% 4%
Economy 14% 79% 7%
George W. Bush's overall job approval rating has dropped to a new low in American Research Group polling as 78% of Americans say the national economy is getting worse.
Details from the nationwide survey conducted February 16-19 are available at The National Economy. http://americanresearchgroup.com/economy...
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