Obama's New Secret Service Code Name

Barack : Renegade

Michelle : Renaissance

Mahlia : Radiance

Sasha : Rosebud

Joe : Celtic

Jill : Capri

Obama 08 Victory Shirts

A message from the President...

guy --

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Change.gov

• http://change.gov/

So you can keep up with what is going on in the Obama Government. You can even apply for a job. Right now it covers the transition and what not, but this is building the foundation for his transparency in Government plan. People will be able to go to the website to see what is going on in our Federal Government.

Rahm Emanuel To Be Obama's Chief Of Staff

Talking points memo is reporting a source saying that Rahm Emanuel has been offered the Chief Of Staff position and has taken it.

Seeing as how he was responsible for keeping party members in line for the house I'd have to say this is a perfect choice. We will see if it pans out but it looks pretty solid.

Update: He has accepted according to aides.

We just made history.

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Sent: Nov 4, 2008 9:46 PM
Subject: We just made history.

We just made history. All of this happened because you gave your time, talent and passion to this campaign. All of this happened because of you. Thanks, Barack

Historic

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Obama Wins!!!

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Obama Wins Ohio, Wins Presidential Election

I'm calling it for Obama. Just so I can be one of the first really. If I'm wrong I can just delete the post later. I don't think anyone reads this thing anyway...

But anyways I am calling the 2008 Presidential Election for Barack Obama because I don't see how McCain has a chance now.

Whoo Hoo!!

Finally a good President...

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Dixville Notch Votes For Barack Obama

Dixville, New Hampshire has voted 15-6!

Let's hope that's a trend. They usually vote Republican...

Skins Lose! Obama Wins! Right?

Skins lost to the Steelers on MNF. If that trend for Skins home games before elections I posted about earlier is true then the incumbents are out!

But! That didn't hold true last year making it a 17 out of 18 run for that rule. So we will see, but sure would be great...

Will the Redskins Presidential Election Rule prevail?

• http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/postedsports/archive/2008/11/03/2nd-amp-short-will-the-redskins-rule-prevail.aspx

Well its late in the third quarter and the Steelers are up on the Skins 16-6. Go Steelers!

Obama's grandmother dies after battle with cancer

• http://cnnec.mlogic.mobi/latest_headlines/4112/;jsessionid=1B2C19B383E2D9DF96312464E8BFDC61.cnnec2
  

This is so incredibly sad. The day before the election. I can imagine this will bring about a very emotional acceptance speech for Obama tomorrow, yes I am confident.

RIP Grandma Obama, Your grandson I believe will be one of our greatest Presidents. You did a great job in raising him.

Palin Leaves Out The Facts About Rashid Khalidi

• http://m.cnn.com/cnn/lt_ne/lt_ne/detail/188366;jsessionid=47464A832CC87283EA5CEC63D8F130D3
  

Does Sarah Palin Know That John McCain has Twice donated over a half a million dollars to this man? Once as chairman of a committee they gave Rashid Khalidi $500,000 to do a study on Politics and Palestinians and another time for polling services for another large amount of money.



Now that's fine because Rashid Khalidi is not a terrorist and not a former speaker for the PLO. Its ludicrous actually for her to even be saying that. Maybe this is her going rogue with some bad information. However she came across it, there is no fact to it.



The funny thing is that by McCain donating money to this guy, if you look at this through Palin's glasses John McCain supported financially, a speaker of the PLO and shady guy. I guess either she has no shame, or she thinks Americans are stupid. If its the latter then I just want to know how right she turns out to be. How many people can she get to believe this? Why even go there? Couldn't she of spent that time saying something that she would be doing for America? Or at least find something that's true to attack him on. I actually think she has no shame and thinks Americans are stupid.



I guess we will see on the fourth who America believed. Ill end with this; Sarah Palin, You should be Ashamed.

John McCain Lies About Obama Ad Delaying World Series

The Regular scheduled start of the World Series was 8:30. The World Series tonight started at 8:30. FOX news had even put out a statement saying the ad was not delaying the series and was only cutting out the pre game show.

The truth was out there and known on the schedule and by statements from the broadcaster. Yet John McCain lied on the stump, in interviews, and ads that Obama was delaying the World Series when it was simply just not true. No fact checking just Lie.

I cannot wait until this Dumpster Fire is put out for good.

Barrack Obama: A Real Leader

So here is Obama today in the rain getting soaked so he can speak to the American people. Ahead in polls no less.

That is a real leader. John McCain? Well he canceled his rally because of the rain. Not a leader...
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When Someone Steals Your Obama Magnet

You make your support a little more permanent.

Someone stole my girlfriends magnet from her car, so she painted one on. I'd like to see them steal that.

Alaska's largest newspaper endorses Obama

• http://m.statesmanjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081026/UPDATE/81026017&template=wapart
  

Oh man...
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Barry Goldwater's Children Endorse Obama

Barry Goldwater the Senator of Arizona before John McCain, the man John McCain touts as one of his greatest friends. His daughter today speaking for all her siblings and family, endorsed Barack Obama.

That's harsh, I wonder how McCain is going to answer that question if asked. . .

Republican Attacks Obama For Visiting Ailing Grandmother

I wish it wasn't true but it is. Today after being asked about Palin and her $150,000 new clothes, Brad Blakeman attacked Obama for going to visit his Grandmother saying he was wasting gas.

Everyday I think Republicans can't possibly go any lower, and yet everyday they do...

Plumbers should be supporting the Obama tax plan

• http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/avantgo/2008289850_opin21krugman.html

Words of wisdom...

Plumbers should be supporting the Obama tax plan

By Paul Krugman

Forty years ago, Richard Nixon made a remarkable marketing discovery. By exploiting America's divisions — divisions over Vietnam, divisions over cultural change and, above all, racial divisions — he was able to reinvent the Republican brand.

The party of plutocrats was repackaged as the party of the "silent majority," the regular guys — white guys, it went without saying — who didn't like the social changes taking place.It was a winning formula. And the great thing was that the new packaging didn't require any change in the product's actual contents — in fact, the GOP was able to keep winning elections even as its actual policies became more pro-plutocrat, and less favorable to working Americans, than ever.

John McCain's strategy, in this final stretch, is based on the belief that the old formula still has life in it.Thus we have Sarah Palin expressing her joy at visiting the "pro-America" parts of the country — yep, we're all traitors here in central New Jersey.

Meanwhile we've got McCain making Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, aka Joe the Plumber — who had confronted Barack Obama on the campaign trail, alleging that the Democratic candidate would raise his taxes — the centerpiece of his attack on Obama's economic proposals.And when it turned out that the right's new icon has a few issues, like not being licensed and comparing Obama to Sammy Davis Jr., conservatives played victim: See how much those snooty elitists hate the common man? But what's really happening to the plumbers of Ohio, and to working Americans in general?

First of all, they aren't making a lot of money. You may recall that in one of the early Democratic debates Charles Gibson of ABC suggested that $200,000 a year was a middle-class income. Tell that to Ohio plumbers: According to the May 2007 occupational earnings report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average annual income of "plumbers, pipe fitters and steamfitters" in Ohio was $47,930.Second, their real incomes have stagnated or fallen, even in supposedly good years.

The Bush administration assured us that the economy was booming in 2007 — but the average Ohio plumber's income in that 2007 report was only 15.5 percent higher than in the 2000 report, not enough to keep up with the 17.7 percent rise in consumer prices in the Midwest.
As Ohio plumbers went, so went the nation: Median household income, adjusted for inflation, was lower in 2007 than it had been in 2000.

Third, Ohio plumbers have been having growing trouble getting health insurance, especially if, like many craftsmen, they work for small firms. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, in 2007 only 45 percent of companies with fewer than 10 employees offered health benefits, down from 57 percent in 2000.And bear in mind that all these data pertain to 2007 — which was as good as it got in recent years. Now that the "Bush boom," such as it was, is over, we can see that it achieved a dismal distinction: For the first time on record, an economic expansion failed to raise most Americans' incomes above their previous peak.

Since then, of course, things have gone rapidly downhill, as millions of working Americans have lost their jobs and their homes. And all indicators suggest that things will get much worse in the months and years ahead.

So what does all this say about the candidates? Who's really standing up for Ohio's plumbers?

McCain claims that Obama's policies would lead to economic disaster. But President Bush's policies have already led to disaster — and whatever he may say, McCain proposes continuing Bush's policies in all essential respects, and he shares Bush's anti-government, anti-regulation philosophy.What about the claim, based on Joe the Plumber's complaint, that ordinary working Americans would face higher taxes under Obama?

Well, Obama proposes raising rates on only the top two income tax brackets — and the second-highest bracket for a head of household starts at an income, after deductions, of $182,400 a year.Maybe there are plumbers out there who earn that much, or who would end up suffering from Obama's proposed modest increases in taxes on dividends and capital gains — America is a big country, and there's probably a high-income plumber with a huge stock market portfolio out there somewhere. But the typical plumber would pay lower, not higher taxes under an Obama administration, and would have a much better chance of getting health insurance.

I don't want to suggest that everyone would be better off under the Obama tax plan. Joe the plumber would almost certainly be better off, but Richie the hedge-fund manager would take a serious hit.But that's the point. Whatever today's GOP is, it isn't the party of working Americans.

Paul Krugman

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