IF YOU'RE FEELING SICK AT THE MERE THOUGHT THAT VOTES WILL BE CAST FOR McCAIN and PALIN

THEN YOU AND I HAVE SOMETHING IN COMMON

By the way, where was John McCain's patriotic flag pin? And where was the media flack about him not wearing one for the debate? Maybe, POW's aren't open to the haranguing that Barack received over not wearing a piece of medal on his lapel.

It is a mystery how anyone can cast a vote for these two. McCain and Palin. Especially after 8 years of a republican administration.
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From Cool Hand Luke ~ Uploaded by sandynroses
"What we've got here is failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach, so you get what we had here last week which is the way he wants it. Well, he gets it. And I don't like it any more than you men."

What we've got here is not only a recession of the economy but of intellect in the United States of America. If you have developed your intellect and are deeper than a shallow bucket, you are called an elitist with negative connotative implication.

What we have got here is people lacking minds that can apply critical thinking.

Our republican Presidential candidate Senator John McCain graduated 894th out of 899 at the Naval Academy. He joked that Eisenhower - at his graduation - asked to shake hands with the lowest ranked graduate and if he, John McCain, had just done worse he could have shaken hands with Eisenhower.

If
McCain-Palin win this election, the same pool of people will be drawn from for cabinet positions and Supreme Court Justices and we will have two self-proclaimed, word-toting mavericks priding their way through left-overs. Left-overs of our shredded U.S. Constitutional rights and international credibility.

It has been interesting - the day after the debate. Because I have increasingly felt better about Barack's performance the day after. Not so much because of my internet perusing or listening to the pundits. Frankly, the pundits bother me. Their read on how it went only carries more weight than mine, because they are on the screen spouting off. But because what has stuck with me about what Barack said is better than how I was feeling during the debate. I wanted Senator Obama to stop being defensive on the economy and make offensive statements too. I wanted him to say the debt amount that we have been building up over the Iraq war waaaaaay before he finally said it in an almost passing way. It is the one time I cheered outloud when he finally said it. More could have been said about our HUGE debt to China and Japan. But, on the whole Senator Obama was carrying many layers of pressure on his shoulders and did a fine job.

I went looking for posts about the reaction from those outside the USA and came up with this one:
Spokespeople for Pakistan, China and Moscow Give Reaction to the Presidential Candidates

Here is a blog called England for Obama

Voices without votes ~ 9/27/2008 ~Around the World Bloggers React to Debate

The BBC has the entire debate on their website.

As does the cable sponsored TV station C-span

	From Friday, September 26
	Obama Campaign on Debate

While looking around the internet I found this
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From the producers of College Humor comes the wackiest family comedy of the year, an Alaskan hockey mom becomes Vice President.
Found at Teeth Maestro
Teeth Maestro is the blog of Dr. Awab Alvi, a Pakistani dentist practicing in Karachi.

I found this What McCain Didn't Do At the Debate: Force a Sarah Palin Moment
and felt better after reading the comments.

Yes, I am worried about closet and openly discriminative white vote that would rather vote for the devil than Barack Obama. The other day I read some comment on Youtube saying she wasn't racist, but she would never vote for Obama and to prove it she named three black people she would vote for. I only remember two names: Bill Cosby and Al Sharpton. Seriously, Barack is by far more qualified than these two. Just because a white person says that they aren't a racist is no measurement.

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A recap of John McCain's debate performance
Uploaded by HuffPolitics

McCain and Team Have Many Ties to Gambling Industry

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Plain talk

Senator McCain speaks to us about what we should fear and shows us how to put-down others such as Senator Obama in his own actions. From the way he runs his campaign we see his governing style will be from impulsiveness and has no real vision to move us in incremental ways to a better future.

Senator Obama speaks to us of how it can be better within our own country and how to maintain a level-headedness about huge problems. And Senator Obama illustrates how to maintain rare decency in the world of politics while letting us see his thoughtful way of governing
by the way he runs his campaign.

I see a mantra from some im-posters around the blogs, which is that Barack Obama is an empty suit who is a lot of hot air. I disagree. We know an empty suit. He has been President for the last 8 years. It will be a mistake to put McCain into that same suit.

Just some straight talk

ARE WE WHO WE THINK WE ARE?

The most important things to me are truth and justice. I would like my country and my government to be based on these things. But if We the People don't know what is being done in our name, we are missing the point of being a government "of the people, by the people and for the people".

We've been wrong: The USA and slavery
We've been wrong: The USA and indigenous people
We've been wrong again
and we've been wrong again
and we've been wrong again
and again

"Abraham Lincoln best described democracy as 'government of the people, by the people, and for the people.' For that government to be 'by the people,' however, requires that the people decide who shall be their leaders. Without free and fair elections, there can be no democratic society, and without that constant accountability of government officials to the electorate, there can, in fact, be no assurance of any other rights. The right to vote, therefore, is not only an important individual liberty; it is also a foundation stone of free government." Source: usinfo.state.gov

The Gettyburg Address

A speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. Lincoln was speaking at the dedication of a soldiers’ cemetery at the site of the Battle of Gettysburg. The opening and closing lines are particularly memorable: “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal…. [We must] be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the Earth.”

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‡ Lincoln surprised his audience at Gettysburg with the brevity of his speech. He delivered the Gettysburg Address, which lasted about three minutes, after a two-hour speech by Edward Everett, one of the leading orators of the day.

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John Dean on George W Bush

From: THXl138

The Presidents of the United States of America
I think we have had some awful Presidents. In my opinion, we have voted for the wrong candidate sometimes. Also, in my opinion, a word to describe us is fickle. Just tonight, I heard pundits on MSNBC make generalizations about the country's feelings about Barack Obama based on a poll taken tonight only with people in Mississippi. Poll those same people in 7 days and it could be a different result. And a poll of Mississippians surely isn't enough to gauge the entire population. But not one pundit on the panel, thought to mention this possibility. The danger is that these people make statements that perpetuate their personal feelings and they get amplified because they are on television.

My experience is that many people don't think for themselves and are influenced by immaterial and irrelevant things they hear, as well as lies and manipulations by candidates.
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Women for Obama

From: AkinScribe5

Democratic Primary and Caucus Results Center

IT'S THE PEOPLE'S EXPERIENCE WITH DECEIT THAT NEEDS A WAKE UP CALL

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TAKING CHANCES WITH HILLARY

Change
Hillary Clinton in a way is the candidate of change. If she doesn't like the truth, she reframes it. If she doesn't like the numbers of delegates she reframes the numbers to mean something entirely different than what is the truth. Since she doesn't win caucuses she just says they aren't important. Any state she doesn't win is unimportant. People who take a day out of their lives to hear Barack Obama speak are dismissed by Hillary. IF SHE DOESN'T LIKE THE RULES, SHE CHANGES THE RULES JUST BY WHAT SHE SAYS. In this way, Hillary is the candidate of change. She changes like a * Chameleon.

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Experience
It isn't Hillary's experience that makes me not trust her. It is her tenacious trait to say untruths so convincingly. It is the same trait that George W Bush has humbled our good judgment with these last 7 years. Because he says something, even though it is blatantly a lie or just plain stupid, he expects us to believe him. The sad thing is we have been so gullible and have given him a pass over and over.

It is my experience with the void of truth from my President that is of importance. It is the people's experience with the President not being straight with us and taking us for a fool's ride.

I'm fine with Barack Obama's experience. George W Bush has had 7 years of experience. Do you want him answering that 3:00 a.m. phone in Hillary's ad? Do you put much stock in his experience? Seriously, free-thinking people.

It is time for the people to exercise some good judgment and read between the lines and go beyond what Hillary says and scrutinize it just a little. I don't think all the vetting of Hillary Clinton has been done.

The personalities and egos that have been on display will represent you and me. Hillary's ego lacks balance. Just the latest where she claims Barack isn't ready to be President, but she and her consultants claim at the right moment she would declare him ready to be her VP is unbalanced at best. But in truth, it is conniving. It is an insult that she expects us to be stupid. That is a huge difference between Hillary and Barack. He expects us to be smart. She offers up that a vote for her is a vote for both of them. Which she can't offer, but she does anyway. She can't offer because Barack would have to agree and he has said "no" to that idea. Who would want to be her VP and have to lug her Clinton baggage onto their legacy?

Countdown ~ March 10, 2008

States of Confusion: In a span of 48 hours, Senator Clinton has gone from trying to poach some of Senator Obama's support by hinting he might be her choice for the Vice Presidency, and a vote for her now might be a vote for both of them later..To having her chief strategist say that right now, anyway, Obama has not passed whatever qualification test for Vice President the Clinton campaign has -- but maybe he can later. Perhaps he has to take the SAT's. In the same time span, Senator Clinton has gone from referencing the two kinds of delegates -- pledged and super -- to inventing a third category all her own... "Caucus Delegates." Even though her victory in Nevada was in a caucus, and her victory in New Mexico was in a caucus hybrid. Our fifth story on the Countdown: Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote it in 1841: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." Whatever else you think of her: Hillary Clinton's... is not a little mind.

You Say Dubai, I say Hello: If it doesn't sound like cynical political manipulation... Does it at least sound like a logical disconnect? Senator Clinton turns her campaign into a declaration that Senator Obama is not ready to be President. Then Senator Clinton suggests she might chose Senator Obama as her Vice President, even though two of the last eight Vice Presidents, and four of the last sixteen, have had to unexpectedly and suddenly succeed to the Presidency. And then Senator Clinton's advisor says, well, no, Obama is not ready now... but he might be... and he suggests that the date he might be, would fall just after, say, Senator Clinton had been nominated for President. Our fourth story on the Countdown: no, I'm not kidding.
Countdown

If Hillary Clinton was such an integral part of Bill Clinton's presidency, then why did she not know about his activities in the Oval office with Monica Lewinsky for starters?

Hillary has a lot of experience dealing with a cheating husband. I believe she has that experience. And I believe she has experience pretending to be someone with leadership experience. She has not led the people on her staff. Today, Howard Wolfson and she seemed to not know what the other was going to say today on the trail of Hillary's message.

Hillary, Barack and John. Which one has run the best campaign of the three? Which one has had the most infighting amongst the campaign staff? Which one has been steady and kept their message clear? Which one bounced all over the place and we don't know which personality will show up? Which one has been able to stand up against the lies and smear campaigning with grace, dignity and honor?

Rhode Island ~ One of Hillary's Wins ~ Not a Big State
Here in Rhode Island, we knew it was a state that is entrenched with the Clintons. I believe Hillary Clinton won this state for two or three reasons. One is that the Clintons have a hold here that has been going on for fifteen years. And one is that many here think Barack Obama is Muslim. We who support him know this is not true. And we know that Hillary perpetuates this falsity with her ambition to be President. We, also, know that there are good people who are Muslim. It's just that Barack has never been a Muslim and people are spreading this rumor as it is true.

Lies Multiply Rapidly
Those of us who volunteer for Barack Obama's campaign receive updates and today I received a copy of an email that is being circulated about Barack that is hateful and untrue. There is a lot of ignorance, hatred and unhinged fear that is easy to tap into that makes it difficult for Barack Obama. But that doesn't mean that he will give up and it doesn't mean that we will give up.

Please check out a blog that addresses some of these untruths and lies about Senator Barack Obama at barackfacts.blogspot.com

Hillary Dianne Clinton Claims to Have Helped Bring Peace to Northern Ireland
"There seems to be a little bit of a Transatlantic divide on this issue. Those in Northern Ireland of whatever political stripe are apt to be more sceptical about Bill Clinton having a really big role, let alone Hillary. To read into this more, check out the Boston Globe here, the Washington Post here and today’s Chicago Tribune here . There are a couple of tough takes on it from Dick Morris here and the inimitable Eamonn McCann here, who concludes that the people of Northern Ireland are being 'used' by the former First Lady, who is lying about this issue." Source: blogs.telegraph.co.uk/
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Think Positively

From: AkinScribe5

FOR WHOM THE red phone BELL TOLLS

OOPS. THE EXPERIENCE OF MAKING A PRESIDENTIAL AD
FOUND EXPERIENCE ISN'T ALWAYS ENOUGH

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"COME ON BABY LET'S TWIST AGAIN" ~ THE RED PHONE TWIST

Seventeen year old Casey Knowles is the sleeping child in the Hillary Clinton Red Phone Ad. The footage used is stock footage, not shot for this particular ad, but filmed 8 years ago and owned by Getty Images. Casey had no idea that she was "starring" in the ad, until she saw it on TV. She was a bit disconcerted when she saw it, as she is a staunch Barack Obama supporter. Casey thinks "it would be really wonderful if Barack Obama and I could get together and make a nice counter ad".

John Donne's quotation from a work, in which he explores the interconnectedness of humanity: For whom the bell tolls...

However, First Things First
First let’s talk middle names. Do you know what Hillary Clinton’s middle name is? And I don’t mean her maiden name as a middle name. Do you know what John McCain’s middle name is?

Everyone must know by now that a middle name is vitally important to picking a Presidential candidate.

I don’t mean that seriously. But since so many keep using Barack’s middle name, Hussein, in order to scare up votes for Hillary Dianne Clinton and John Sidney McCain I did a quick search for meanings of the three middle names.

Hussein means "Good, handsome or beautiful". King Hussein of Jordan is generally admired by the United States of America.

Diane is a French version of the old Latin name Diana. Diana, In roman mythology, was the goddess of the moon. She was also the goddess of hunting. Diana lived in the forest with her maidens; she was pictured as a beautiful virgin, and men who tried to approach her or harm her favorite animals were punished. Source

Sidney means "wide, well-watered land".

Barack means “Blessed” and derives from Africa or the Hebrew heritage.

Hillary means “Hilarious, cheerful” and is used for both men and women.

John means "YAHWEH is gracious". Yahweh is another name for God.

While I was at it I looked up my name, Sandra and after a few quick link checks I found this: Greek, Form of Alexander and means “Defender of mankind”. But nevermind, I would never want to be President.

My middle name means “Rejoice” and the origin is also Greek like my first name. Cool.

Secondly, Clinton Political Ad Actor
Sleeping Child in the Red Phone Ad Plans to Vote for Obama in November

Local Obama supporter shocked to see herself in Hillary ad

Saturday, March 8, 2008

By ELISA HAHN / KING 5 News

BONNEY LAKE, Wash. – The political ad that sparked nationwide controversy turns out to have a surprising local connection.

One of the actors in the Hillary Clinton ad was shocked to see herself, especially because she's a fierce supporter of Barack Obama.

The so-called "red-phone ad" was played all over the country and helped turn the tide for Hillary Clinton leading up to her big win in Ohio. The ad shows a sleeping child and asks voters who they would want to see answering a 3 a.m. emergency phone call to the White House.

But the young girl starring in the ad will actually be voting age next month and says she's no fan of Hillary Clinton.

Thursday night, the Knowles family of Bonney Lake, Wash., watched the Jon Stewart Show and saw the ad for the first time.

"I looked and saw a girl that looked like my sister and we rewound it and sure enough it was my sister," said Brady Knowles.

The first girl in the ad is young Casey Knowles. It's stock footage from eight years ago when she worked as a TV extra - footage owned now by Getty Images and used by the Clinton campaign.

But they couldn't have picked a more unwilling star.

"It's really sort of ironic that my image would be used to advocate for Hillary when I myself do not," said Casey.

She may only be 17, but Casey has some very strong political opinions. She turns 18 - legal voting age - in April, in plenty of time before the general election.

"It's perfect timing because I have a candidate that I really identify with," she said.

"I've been campaigning for Barack Obama for a few months now," she said. "I was actually a precinct captain at the caucuses a few months ago. I attended his rally a few months ago and I'm a very, very avid supporter."

In a conference call Saturday afternoon, Obama's campaign manager David Plouffe gladly accepted the endorsement.

"We think that the young actress in that stock footage who's now supporting us has got sound judgment as to who the strongest commander in chief would be," he said.

The Knowles family admit they have no control over how the footage is used. And while they see the humor of it all, they are mildly annoyed.

"I think it would be really wonderful if me and Barack Obama could get together and make a nice counter ad," she laughed.

Despite all of this, Casey Knowles admits if Clinton wins the party's nomination, she will vote for her. Source: www.king5.com

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Hillary’s Sleeping Child Supports Obama
by Doug Mataconis
March 8, 2008.

One of the children shown in Hillary Clinton’s 3:00am ad is a Barack Obama supporter:

BONNEY LAKE, Wash. – The political ad that sparked nationwide controversy turns out to have a surprising local connection.

One of the actors in the Hillary Clinton ad was shocked to see herself, especially because she’s a fierce supporter of Barack Obama.

The so-called “red-phone ad” played a big role in Clinton’s win in Texas, suggesting Barack Obama is too inexperienced to handle a national crisis.
But the young girl starring in the ad will actually be voting age next month and says she’s no fan of Hillary Clinton.

Thursday night, the Knowles family of Bonney Lake, Wash., watched the John Stewart Show and saw the ad for the first time.

“I looked and saw a girl that looked like my sister and we rewound it and sure enough it was my sister,” said Brady Knowles.

The first girl in the ad is young Casey Knowles. It’s stock footage from 8 years ago when she worked as a TV extra - footage owned now by Getty Images and used by the Clinton campaign
And Casey knows who she’d like to have answering that phone:
“It’s really sort of ironic that my image would be used to advocate for Hillary when I myself do not,” said Casey.

She may only be 17, but Casey has some very strong political opinions. She turns 18 - legal voting age - in April, in plenty of time before the general election.

“It’s perfect timing because I have a candidate that I really identify with,” she said.
“I’ve been campaigning for Barack Obama for a few months now,” she said. “I was actually a precinct captain at the caucuses a few months ago. I attended his rally a few months ago and I’m a very, very avid supporter.”
Source: belowthebeltway.com

After this week of topsy-turvy, this is a good end to the week.We Can Work it Out

Thirdly, New Candidate Tim Calhoun announced on Saturday Night Live
He plans a Cow College and will start teaching the word “moo”. It was hilarious. Maybe he should change his name to Hillary.

OBAMA WON TEXAS and WYOMING

McCAIN SUPPORTER PAT BUCHANAN
CAMPAIGNS FOR CLINTON ON MSNBC

Tonight, I heard Republican Pat Buchanan once again campaign for Hillary Clinton. As I stated before, he does this as he admitted himself on Hardball, because he expects she will galvanize the Republican party. Buchanan was "reporting" on MSNBC tonight, why Hillary is ahead of Barack Obama, even though, it isn't true. He consistently campaigns for Hillary.

Wyoming
Tonight, with 96% of Wyoming reporting Barack Obama has 59% of the vote and Hillary Clinton has 40%. And according to Tucker Carlson and Pat Buchanan you would think Hillary had won, not lost by 19%.

Barack Obama won Wyoming tonight by 19% and there are 12 delegates to be divided between the two candidates. Clinton says she is thrilled with the split in Wyoming delegates and claims to have won 4 of the 12 delegates there according to CNN.

Texas
Buchanan also again repeated the same rhetoric that the Clinton's use. He said Hillary won Texas. Here is Texas' results at this time:


Barack Obama
Texas Primary ..61 Delegates
Texas Caucus ...38 Delegates
Total .............99 Delegates

Hillary Clinton
Texas Primary ..65 Delegates
Texas Caucus ...29 Delegates
Total .............94 Delegates


So, that is the math.

www.barackobama.com results center

Hillary and Bill Clinton interpret losing as a win. Will the American people be duped again? We have had a President for the last 7 years that constantly reframes reality, as not the reality.
Lies have been hidden.
Truth has been minimalized.
That is what the Clintons continue to use as their campaigning and political tactics.

Barack Obama has won 25 states with the inclusion of Washington, District of Columbia.

I am pleased that Barack Obama has said that he is not interested in being Vice President, tonight.

I wouldn't vote for him being Vice-President. I wouldn't want him getting involved with the Clinton scandals and their legacy.

I SUPPORT SAMANTHA POWER AND BARACK OBAMA

It took me a night and some time to feel compelled to write about Samantha Power. Last night I emailed her.

It is obvious that I strongly support Barack Obama as the Presidential candidate. And it is transparent that I have been a grass roots volunteer for his campaign, but also for ending genocide, specifically in Darfur for four of the five years that it has been allowed to go on.

I own two copies of Samantha Power's book, A Problem from Hell ~ America and the Age of Genocide~ one for me and one for my 20 year old son, who used it in high school for a term paper on genocide. I have given speeches about the Darfur and the Rwandan genocide, always having this one of several books that I own about genocide on display at my speeches. The tenth chapter is about the genocide in Rwanda. And this is the genocide that President Bill Clinton made Prudence Bushnell avoid calling the genocide genocide. It it the genocide that President Clinton got calls for and chose not to answer many times. With Jared A. Cohen, Prudence Bushnell has authored a book One Hundred Days of Silence: America and the Rwanda Genocide.

Samantha Power spoke at Salve Regina University, in Newport, Rhode Island, April 10, 2006, where she signed both of my copies of the Pulitzer prize-winning book. She has endlessly spoken up and out about the Darfur genocide as well as other genocides. Her record on human rights far exceeds Hillary Clinton's.

I have said things about Hillary Clinton that are what I feel and would be seen by supporters as wrong. No doubt. I have only heard the entire quote of Samantha Power once and when I heard the entire statements, they sounded correct to me. As someone who supports Barack Obama and who is one of his visible supporters, it was not the best choice of words to call Hillary a monster by Samantha Power, even if it is an appropriate adjective in the speaker's mind. Even though she is an unpaid supporter. It doesn't come across well for our wish to elect Barack Obama as the Presidential candidate. I am sure what I have written about Hillary and her very, very well paid consultants being SLEAZY would not be acceptable to Barack either. And I do feel badly about that. But for me, it is the truth of how I see her and her consultants. How do you say "sleazy" and use words like "untruthful" to have the same kind of ringing of the truth of how I see things?

The Battle of Attacks

Barack has a difficult time winning the "battle of attacks" because even if he ONLY answers Hillary's attacks he looks weak, the pundits tell us. The suggestion is that he needs to play offense and not defense. And Barack doesn't want to bring up the scandal-ridden Clinton lifetime of EXPERIENCE in order to get the public to remember the waste of time and focus the Clintons will bring back to the Administration should Hillary become the President. And it WILL be a major part of the Republicans' and the 527 groups who will have a heyday with the Clinton history. All the work has been done in the books and online with all of the rhetorical weapons to load up the ammunition against Hillary. What they have on Barack is the lie that he is Muslim, that he has a middle name that means beautiful or handsome and that some relish relying on the divisive ignorance, apathy and fears of those who want to claim he secretly is running President with a hidden agenda. All this is untrue. And most voting Americans know it. Some like Mrs. Clinton like to perpetuate the untruths to further their personal ambition. They simply aren't interested in the truth if the truth hurts their quest for political power.

Samantha Power has never run for political office. She is an activist. She cares about humanity. She so passionately cares about Barack Obama that she let her guard down and said something that would have been best to not say. It wasn't helpful. I am sure she knew that the second she said "that is off the record" to the Scottish reporter.

Samantha Power speaks out to Irish news RTE.
Question: "Do you regret (the words you said)?"
Samantha Power answers: "Of course I regret them, I can't even believe they came out of my mouth. The campaign was getting very tense, and I -- in every public appearance I've ever made talking about Senator Clinton, I have sung her praises as the leader she's been, the intellect. She's also incredibly warm, funny. I've spent time with her. I think that I just had a very weak moment in seeing some of the tactics, it seems, that were getting employed. I was just afraid really that the campaign would not stay at the level it had been on and I let out in a wave of frustration."

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Gerri Peev talks about her interview with Samantha Power with Tucker Carlson

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Prudence Bushnell is asked how many "acts of genocide" does it take to make a genocide.
Youtube uploaded by: AmatekaRwanda
In 1994, the President Clinton's spokeswoman, Prudence Bushnell, talked about "acts of genocide" referring to the genocide of Tutsi in Rwanda. (Page 359 of the Power book, A Problem from Hell). She was not allowed to say the word "Genocide". Notice this was posted not by an American, but it is an important expose of our not picking up the ringing phone, or even jamming the Rwandan radio waves (the main form of communication , not television) well within our capabilities. The radio was instrumental in rallying the people to murder and naming the lists of people to be murdered. If our government called it genocide, it would have meant that we were compelled to act. But President Clinton didn't have the political will to act. He was busy with a personal scandal at the time. The United States of America Clinton administration "blocked deployment on UN peacekeepers (to Rwanda. Page 373 of Samantha Power's Pulitzer prize-winning book.)

Furthermore, page 383 states about the Clinton administration, "It is striking that most officials involved in shaping U.S. policy were able to define the decision not to stop (the Rwandan) genocide as ethical and moral. The administration employed several devices to dampen enthusiasm for action and to preserve the public's sense ~ and more important, its own ~ that U.S. policy choices were not merely politically astute, but also morally acceptable."
Page 366: "...during the entire (1994) three months of the genocide, (Bill) Clinton never assembled his top policy advisers to discuss the killings...Rwanda generated no sense of urgency and could safely be avoided by Clinton at no political cost." And he knew. (Page 354 ~ 389)


Text of Prudence Bushnell's interview by Frontline after Bill Clinton was no longer President.

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From PBS' Frontline Ghosts of Rwanda Part 1 of 12 parts uploaded on Youtube by assaultivebear

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From PBS' Frontline Ghosts of Rwanda Part 2 of 12 parts uploaded on Youtube by assaultivebear

OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT

SLEAZY CANDIDATE, SLEAZY CONSULTANTS

HILLARY CLINTON IS NOT FIT TO REPLACE GEORGE W BUSH

TRUTH is NOT a TOY

Definition
sleazy

Sordid in character
Dishonest or immoral
Contemptibly low, mean or disreptutable sleazy politics

1. Senator Clinton is campaigning for John McCain. She stated today that only she and John McCain have “experience” and all Barack Obama has is one speech. Is this showing us her outstanding leadership experience, integrity and good judgment? This is hurtful to the Democratic Party...the one she belongs to.

2. Senator Clinton is and she hires people, who are dishonest and contemptible. For example, The Clinton rhetorical "hit" people of Mark Penn, Howard Wolfson.
Howard Wolfson today likened Barack Obama to Ken Starr. Links about Ken Starr
Knowledge about Ken Starr
Kenneth Starr Wikipedia
and the internal Clinton problems ~ not an example of experience helping Hillary Clinton:
Finger-pointing, frustration in Clinton camp

The Clinton consultants have likened Barack Obama to Karl Rove, George Bush and Ken Starr.
Clinton aide likens Obama to Ken Starr
Thu Mar 6, 2008
By John Whitesides, Political Correspondent

WASHINGTON, March 6 (Reuters) - An aide to Hillary Clinton likened Democratic presidential rival Barack Obama to independent prosecutor Ken Starr on Thursday, comparing criticism of her to the 1998 probe that led to President Bill Clinton's impeachment.

Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson criticized Obama's promise to take a more aggressive stance with the New York senator after she won three of four states on Tuesday in their hard-fought battle for the Democratic nomination to face Republican John McCain in November's election.

"I for one do not believe that imitating Ken Starr is the way to win a Democratic primary election for president, but perhaps that theory will be tested," Wolfson told reporters.

Starr was the independent prosecutor who led the investigation of Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton's husband, in a 1998 controversy that led to his impeachment on perjury and obstruction of justice charges by the House of Representatives and his subsequent acquittal in a Senate trial.

Starr's probe, which focused on Clinton's denials under oath about his sexual relations with White House intern Monica Lewinsky, came under heavy attack at the time from Democrats who called it politically motivated. Source: Reuters

If there weren’t an important national election in the balance, this would be laughable.

3. Hillary Clinton is a narcissist, that means, characterized by extreme self-centeredness and self-absorption, and disturbed interpersonal relationships. She made statements today that are not in the best interest of honest voters, the Democratic Party or the country.

a. Today, stated that Florida and Michigan could choose anyway that their states saw fit to have delegates from an election.

b. Today, stated that Florida should not have a reelection, but should seat the delegates from the rule-breaker election already done. The reason this is unjust is that many people most likely stayed home and didn’t vote because they had been informed that the DNC would not accept the votes.

This is a contradiction by Hillary Clinton.

4. Canada and NAFTA ~ Hillary once again LIES, turns the story against Barack Obama when it was HER who was the one who did it. There’s a concept…do something wrong and say your opponent did it.
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“A storm of reports in the Canadian media say that the Nafta-gate flap last week involving Barack Obama was started by a key aide to Canada's prime minister - who told journalists that Hillary Clinton's campaign - not Obama's - had contacted the Canadian government to play down its Nafta-bashing…”
Source: The Guardian of Great Britain

Article:
PM's (Canadian Prime Minister's) top aide set off storm with Obama NAFTA leak

CAMPBELL CLARK

March 6, 2008

OTTAWA -- The leak of a confidential diplomatic discussion that rocked the U.S. presidential campaign began with an offhand remark to journalists from the Prime Minister's chief of staff, Ian Brodie.

(Canada’s) Prime Minister Stephen Harper vowed yesterday to use whatever investigative means necessary to find the source of leaks that, he said, were "unfair" to U.S. Democratic candidate Barack Obama and may have been illegal - although opposition leaders insisted the Conservatives cannot be trusted to investigate political players on their own team.

But the story that reverberated through the U.S. presidential campaign began as a terse, almost throwaway remark that Mr. Brodie made to journalists from CTV, according to people familiar with the events.

Mr. Brodie, during the media lockup for the Feb. 26 budget, stopped to chat with several journalists, and was surrounded by a group from CTV.

The conversation turned to the pledges to renegotiate the North American free-trade agreement made by the two Democratic contenders, Mr. Obama and New York Senator Hillary Clinton.

Mr. Brodie, apparently seeking to play down the potential impact on Canada, told the reporters the threat was not serious, and that someone from Ms. Clinton's campaign had even contacted Canadian diplomats to tell them not to worry because the NAFTA threats were mostly political posturing.

The Canadian Press cited an unnamed source last night as saying that several people overheard the remark.

The news agency quoted that source as saying that Mr. Brodie said that someone from Ms. Clinton's campaign called and was "telling the embassy to take it with a grain of salt."

The story was followed by CTV's Washington bureau chief, Tom Clark, who reported that the Obama campaign, not the Clinton's, had reassured Canadian diplomats.

Mr. Clark cited unnamed Canadian sources in his initial report.

There was no explanation last night for why Mr. Brodie was said to have referred to the Clinton campaign but the news report was about the Obama campaign. CTV president Robert Hurst declined to comment.

The Prime Minister's communications director, Sandra Buckler, has said that Mr. Brodie "does not recall" discussing the issue.

…Although Mr. Harper has for days brushed aside allegations that his government interfered in the U.S. presidential campaign, yesterday he promised to "get to the bottom" of the matter and said laws may have been broken.

"It is not in the interest of the Government of Canada, and the way the leak was executed, Mr. Speaker, was blatantly unfair to Senator Obama and his campaign," the Prime Minister said in the Commons. Read more

Check the facts

Providence, Rhode Island Obama Office

OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT

NEWPORT COUNTY RHODE ISLAND VOTERS TELL WHO AND WHY THEY VOTED FOR A CANDIDATE MARCH 4, 2008

At the Newport, Rhode Island Obama Campaign Office

Below is a front page article from our local paper today. Barack Obama won in Barrignton, East Greenwich, Jamestown, Newport, New Shoreham, Providence and South Kingstown of Rhode Island. Hillary Clinton won big with the elderly. In my town of Portsmouth Hillary won by 187 votes. Hillary won at my polling location by 33 votes.

People came to the polls and voted also for John Edwards and Uncommitted. Why does anyone take the effort to vote for Uncommitted, I wonder?

Voting results by towns and precincts can be found at
RI.gov/election/results/2008/presidential

Election

Posted: Wednesday, March 5, 2008 10:55 AM EST

Locally, many voters had trouble choosing

By Sean Flynn
Daily News staff

Many local voters were split in their sympathies between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama on Tuesday as they went to the polls Tuesday. Some had just recently figured out which way they wanted to vote.

“I decided today to go with Obama,” said Kim Shute, 37, of Middletown. “I’m unsettled about my decision. I have concerns about whether Hillary would be able to win the general election. Still, I sort of feel like I’m betraying the sisterhood.”

“I did the opposite,” one woman said in response to Shute’s comments. “But I don’t want to say it in the paper. My family would kill me.”

“I like what Hillary stands for and what she’s going to do,” said Pat Vorro, 46, of Middletown. “I don’t dislike Obama; I just don’t think he’s ready yet.”

The women commented after casting their votes at Gaudet Middle School in Middletown. Other voters there, at St. Peter’s Church on Broadway in Newport and at Aquidneck Christian Academy on East Main Road in Portsmouth also reflected divided loyalties.

June Weeden, 62, of Newport said she voted for Obama because of his commitment to change.

“I’ve been listening to Obama the last two months, and I think we’re ready for him,” she said. “I was on Hillary’s side for a long time, but she’s just working on her experience. I was very pleased with what she did for health-care issues in the 1990s. I’d like to see her as Obama’s vice president.”

Patricia Archer, 63, of Newport said she came down on Clinton’s side.

“I’m going with her Washington experience and her ability to deal with Congress,” she said. “Her experience as first lady and now as a senator is invaluable. Compare that to Obama’s lack of experience and pie-in-the-sky attitudes. He thinks all these things can just happen, but he would have to persuade Congress.”

Colleen Pilat of Portsmouth said she voted for Obama.

“I think people are skeptical of Mrs. Bill Clinton,” she said. “Obama has that Jack Kennedy spark. He seems to be full of hope and promise to me.”

Divided on Hillary

Some of the voters had specific reasons for their late decision-making.

Jack Warner, 65, of Newport said he decided about a week ago to support Obama.

“What Hillary has done in the past week has turned me off,” he said. “There was that photo of Obama in a turban that showed up on the Internet. I think it came from her campaign. We can’t do any worse than what we have in the White House now. Let’s give someone new a shot at it.”

Kelly O’Connell, 35, of Portsmouth said she does not like what she has heard from Clinton during the campaign.

“It sealed the deal for me when she said she could get the troops out (of Iraq) in 60 days,” O’Connell said. “I thought that was reckless.”

But Clinton also has her staunch local supporters.

“I think she would do a lot for the United States,” said Luz Santos, 42, of Newport. “We all need health care and she realizes that. A lot of families are without insurance and her health plan addresses that.”

Theresa Burgess, 38, of Newport said she decided to support Clinton as soon as she heard she was running.

“She is a very smart woman,” Burgess said.

“I’m Scottish and I’m voting for Hillary,” said Lorreine Harrison, 49, of Newport, who has been a U.S. resident for the past 18 years. “Any woman who has put up with what she’s put up with and is still running for president — good for her. She’s been there, done that.”

However, her husband, Richard Harrison, 50, went with Obama.

“He and Hillary are basically saying the same things, but I like his plans a little better,” he said.

Inspired by Barack

Richard Osborne, 40, of Middletown said he decided he would support Obama 3½ years ago, when he heard him speak at the Democratic National Convention.

“I thought then he would be president someday, just not so soon,” he said.

Shannon Crutcher, 34, of Newport also said she voted for Obama.

“I’ve seen a lot of him and I like what he has to say,” she said. “We need a change and he has good values.”

Was there any particular reason for not supporting Clinton?

“Yes, mostly because of Bill,” she said.

“I decided early on to vote for Obama,” said Charlie Machado of Newport’s Point neighborhood. “I like the idea that he doesn’t have the lobbyists in his back pocket. The lobbyists tie the hands of many politicians.”

“Barack Obama is inspiring and we need to be inspired,” said Elizabeth Seveney of Portsmouth. “He is making us care again. He is getting people interested in politics again.”

Other favorites

The election was not all about Clinton and Obama, though. Some voters had trouble letting go of early favorites.

“I’m voting for John Edwards because I would have supported him for president,” said Kathryn Conrad of Middletown. “I will vote for John McCain in the general election, but I feel like I owe it to Edwards now.”

Conrad said she likes McCain’s personal story and even ran into him at an airport once. She said she has reservations about him, particularly because of his support for the Iraq war, “but not as many as I have with Hillary and Obama.”

Marty Dever, 37, of Newport said he is an independent and only decided in the past week to support Obama.

“I was waiting to see if (New York Mayor Michael) Bloomberg was going to run,” he said. “He decided not to. Now, I think Obama is the best of the candidates who are in the race.”

Low-profile Republicans

It was hard to find Republican voters at the polling places — at least among those willing to speak to a reporter.

“I voted for John McCain,” said Virginia Carrellas, 84, of Newport. “I preferred Romney, but he’s not in it anymore. McCain is more qualified than Huckabee. Huckabee’s a nice fellow, but he doesn’t have a prayer.”

Ray Farrow of Portsmouth said he is a McCain supporter, but he decided to vote for Clinton in the Democratic primary since McCain already had a lock on the Republican nomination. He cast a vote for Clinton because he believes she would be a weaker opponent for McCain than Obama.

“I’m voting for Hillary because I want John McCain to win the general election,” he said.

“I’m a rare breed in Rhode Island, a registered Republican,” said one man, one of several who said they voted in the Republican primary, but declined to give their names.

“My family are all Democrats,” one woman said. “I don’t want them to know I voted Republican.”

“Don’t discuss politics or religion, and certainly not in the newspaper,” another man said. “That’s a good rule to live by.”

Source:
NewportDailyNews.com

HILLARY ~ SOME SEE HER LILY WHITE AND SOME OF US SEE THROUGH HER FACADE

DON'T LET HOPE GO DOWN THE DRAIN


Angry African on the Loose wrote a thoughtful post "Obama, don't ever forget the burden of hope" and it prompted me to write the following comment.

I so agree it is about race especially when I see Hillary Clinton respond that “as far as she knows” Barack isn’t Muslim, but a Christian….when she indeed knows! She knows it is about race and she deliberately uses the fears of racists to perpetuate the use of fear to win at any cost. She doesn’t care that by doing this she feeds the divisions and cares less about bringing us healthily together than gaining power. A true leader aids in appealing to our goodness and lifting us to be the best that we can be. It is about race when a middle name causes so much outright disdain and rejection of a person of pretty clear integrity.

“People are giving up on democracy. …People are losing hope… Because everywhere they go they see lies and more lies….It would have been called propaganda if it wasn’t for the facade of democracy.” This part jumped out at me.

Personally, I have hope IF Barack Obama gets the opportunity to lead our nation of the unengaged, the cynics and those of us who have been energized by his message that rings clear and that we are hungry for. But if we get Hillary for the nominee, the energy will be sucked out of me. I will be stunned and hope-starved.

and about Barack Obama:
“…We are you… Be us. Be with us.” It is really us that needs to step up to the plate. The grass roots has brought him this close, but it will be the grass roots who have failed if he doesn’t get the nomination. That is my opinion and I have been involved in the grass roots efforts. I am thoroughly disappointed in my state of Rhode Island tonight. We have one word on our state flag and it is HOPE. The flag isn’t waving for me tonight.

The hope isn’t dead but Hillary for me is like throwing water on my fire.

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Even though, Hillary Clinton has not run a well-organized campaign and there has been infighting within her campaign leaders, she continues to tells us she is the best candidate to lead us. She hasn't led her campaign well. My belief: She wins, we lose. She says that the states that she has won are the only important states. And when she has lost she ignores that fact and never publicly acknowledges Senator Obama's victories. And at the same time, she dismisses the people in those states as deserving to be dismissed. But she claims that she cares about all Americans. This is a contradiction at best.

I don't see the Hillary that her supporters see. She repels me. Though this is a personal thing, my Republican brother who just voted for the first time for a democrat Presidential candidate, feels the same way that I do, only more intensely against Hillary Clinton. He has a friend who knows Hillary personally and has some very alarming stories about her. I don't believe what Hillary says. I don't wish her ill. But I certainly will be seriously considering voting for someone else who is not a Democrat if she gets the nomination. But that is not a good alternative for me.

So I continue to hope Barack Obama will be the Democratic Presidential nominee.

There is still that chance. But even so, Hillary is giving John McCain plenty for his politicking arsenal to use against Barack Obama should he be the Democratic nominee for President. Nothing about the way she campaigns says she cares more about the nation's people than her personal victory for President. Never once have you heard Barack Obama dig up all the dirt and thrown muddy statements about all that vetting she likes to claim as a crown of laurel. Never once has anyone asked about her childhood, her religioius affiliation, and all those books written unflatteringly about her. Certainly it will be open Hillary season including all of this should she be the nominee. Barack simply decided not to run his campaign with that kind of stuff as a part of it.

As someone who has gone door-to-door and done phone calls for Barack Obama, I can say with clarity that many if not most Americans do not put the time and effort into determining their vote. They vote on a whim. That is how we got George W Bush for the last four years. It is lazy voting. I just heard an MSNBC pundit say that Hillary won back her base, tonight. The base is the white women segment ~ most likely not college degree types ~ who they say came back for Hillary. And not women under 30 years old.

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America's Young Adults

Tonight I received a message from an Obama supporter:

I have noticed that since the Iowa caucuses, the strategy of nuance and divisive politics keeps raising it's ugly head, again and again. I'm actually old enough to remember the politics of the 1990's, and it's devastating effects on the Democratic Party. The slash and burn Clinton's we knew well in the 1990's, have returned "back from the future," with a vengeance.

Every democrat that remembers this political re-run, has to wonder whether the Clinton's are trying to re-destroy the new Democratic Party in 2008. The political team that now claims to "embody" "change," is seemingly very comfortable using their same old strategy of divisive politics to reclaim their throne in the White House. Anyone truly interested in the future of our Democratic Party has to be very alarmed. The Clinton's political strategy of slash and burn will serve them well now, but the eventual cost to the Democratic Party will be devastating once again. The same strategy of half-truths, nuance, right-winged conspiracies, and divisive ideological battles, that won the Clinton's the presidency in 1992, and a subsequent New York Senate seat, will cost our national and local party, seats in the 2008 upcoming elections.

The last time we allowed the Clintons to lead our party, we suffered historical political losses, never seen before in American politics. The net result of the divisive, self-serving Clinton political machine of the 90's, shrank the Democratic Party base, and cost the party control of the United States Senate and the House of Representatives. The sad result of the Clinton politics, and continuous scandals, eventually empowered George W. Bush past the setting incumbent vice president, Al Gore in the 2000 presidential elections. As a result the Republicans have taken firm control of the Supreme Court, appointing 7 of the last 9 justices, currently serving.

Looking at the complete picture, I don't believe that the Clinton administration or politics have lead, served, or is currently serving our Democratic Party well in any capacity. We have to understand, that as a Democrats, we have yet to fully recover from the political damage of the Clinton administration scandals, investigations, and politics during the "1990's. As a party, if we don't learn from our past mistakes, and demand a new leadership, we will surely suffer the same devastating consequences in 2008 and beyond. We have to move forward and turn the page of division, if we are going to expand our electorate and chart a stronger, more inclusive future for the Democratic Party. Please Share This With Everyone You Know!!!
H. Smith*

*I thought it was thoughtful enough to share here.

Meet Barack Obama

Barack Obama has never been a muslim

Barack Obama is a patriot who loves his country and flag

And here is a link to an article: Democrats locked in close fight for Texas; resurgent Clinton beats Obama in Ohio

SAM COOKE ~ SOME ARE JUST BORN WITH SOMETHING SPECIAL

The great thing about music is that it remains even though the artist or composer leaves us. So inspired by Erik Greene who left a comment on my previous post, I have added some great youtube and dailymotion videos of Sam Cooke. Thanks to the gracious people who upload the videos, we can see Sam perform and display "cool". Some people have that certain something that the rest of us are drawn to. And Sam Cooke had it. How sad he died so young.

It is easy to find Sam Cooke CDs. I bought mine at amazon

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Sam Cooke The Legacy Pt1
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Sam Cooke & Jackie Wilson
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sam cooke - tennessee waltz
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Sam Cooke Twisting the Night Away - The Riddle Song
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Here is Sam Cooke's appearance on a 1963 television show.

http://www.ourunclesam.com
by Erik Greene who also penned the book The Sam Cooke Story from The Family's Perspective. This website is a treasure chest of interesting things about Sam Cooke, including an interview with Erik Greene and information about:

Sam Cooke Tribute
The Sam Cooke Fan Club will celebrate their Fifth Annual Sam Cooke Tribute in Memphis, Tennessee April 3-5, 2008 at the Downtown Double Tree Hotel.

It'll be a weekend no true "Cookie" would dare miss!

Go to this website for Schedule of Events, Pricing, and Reservation information.

Sam was born in 1931 and would be 76 years old in 2007.