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Help Gulf Coast residents and first responders

Posted September 01st, 2008 at 04:31pm

Today, the thoughts and prayers of all Americans are with those in the path of Hurricane Gustav -- and many of you are asking what you can do to help.

We do not yet know what the impact of Hurricane Gustav will be, and we hope with all our hearts that the damage will not be as great as it was three years ago.

But we know there will be damage, and there is something you can do right now.

Your financial support will strengthen organizations like the American Red Cross that are evacuating Gulf Coast residents and planning to help communities get back on their feet.

Make a donation to support the American Red Cross today.

At times like this, it is our compassion and resilience that define who we are as a nation.

Please give whatever you can afford, even $10, to make sure the American Red Cross has the resources to help those in the path of this storm:

https://donate.barackobama.com/redcross

Thank you for your generosity, and I hope you will join Michelle and me in praying for the safety of those in the path of the storm and the first responders who are doing all they can to ensure the safety of their communities.

Barack

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Video: Barack Obama at Mile High -- "The American Promise"

Posted August 29th, 2008 at 10:27am

On a cloudless August night in Denver, before a united party and thousands of grassroots supporters from all across America, Senator Obama accepted the Democratic Party presidential nomination.


Obama made the case for why America cannot afford four more years of the same failed policies and laid out his vision to bring about fundamental change at home and abroad. He reminded us of the extraordinary promise of America at its best and challenged us to continue to fight for that promise, to march ahead, to not turn back...

That promise is our greatest inheritance.  It’s a promise I make to my daughters when I tuck them in at night, and a promise that you make to yours – a promise that has led immigrants to cross oceans and pioneers to travel west; a promise that led workers to picket lines, and women to reach for the ballot.

And it is that promise that forty five years ago today, brought Americans from every corner of this land to stand together on a Mall in Washington, before Lincoln’s Memorial, and hear a young preacher from Georgia speak of his dream.

The men and women who gathered there could’ve heard many things.  They could’ve heard words of anger and discord.  They could’ve been told to succumb to the fear and frustration of so many dreams deferred.

But what the people heard instead – people of every creed and color, from every walk of life – is that in America, our destiny is inextricably linked.  That together, our dreams can be one.

“We cannot walk alone,” the preacher cried.  “And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead.  We cannot turn back.”

America, we cannot turn back.  Not with so much work to be done.  Not with so many children to educate, and so many veterans to care for.  Not with an economy to fix and cities to rebuild and farms to save.  Not with so many families to protect and so many lives to mend.  America, we cannot turn back.  We cannot walk alone.  At this moment, in this election, we must pledge once more to march into the future.  Let us keep that promise – that American promise – and in the words of Scripture hold firmly, without wavering, to the hope that we confess.

To all of our supporters, from those who have been with this remarkable campaign from the beginning to those of you who are just joining this movement for change: if you agree that we cannot turn back now -- that this is our moment to seize -- please make a donation today.

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Joe Biden Accepts Vice Presidential Nomination: "This is the time to get back up"

Posted August 28th, 2008 at 04:41pm

Since I've never been called a man of few words, let me say this as simply as I can: Yes. Yes, I accept your nomination to run and serve with Barack Obama, the next President of the United States of America.

Joe Biden formally accepted the nomination for Vice President for the Democratic Party last night. Joe came onto the stage after a moving introduction by his son Beau. And with his family in the audience, including his mom who taught him that "you are defined by your sense of honor, and you are redeemed by your loyalty," he gave a rousing acceptance speech.

Joe told America about his childhood, about being picked on because of his stutter, about his father teaching him to always get up after you've been knocked down, and about the promise that if you work hard, you can succeed in the world. And he spoke about how that promise is slowing slipping away.

Fortunately, Joe told the audience, in Barack Obama, we have a candidate who can and will restore the American Dream for people across the country.

You know, you can learn a lot about a man campaigning with him, debating him, seeing how he reacts under pressure. You learn about the strength of his mind, but even more importantly, you learn about the quality of his heart. I watched how Barack touched people, how he inspired them, and I realized he had tapped into the oldest belief in America: We don't have to accept a situation we cannot bear. We have the power to change it. And change it and change it is exactly what Barack Obama will do. That's what he'll do for this country.

Our greatest presidents from Abraham Lincoln to Franklin Roosevelt to John Kennedy they all challenged us to embrace change. Now, it's our responsibility to meet that challenge.

Millions of Americans have been knocked down. And this is the time as Americans, together, we get back up. Back up together. Our debt to our parents and grandparents too great, our obligation to our children is too sacred.

These are extraordinary times. This is an extraordinary election. The American people are ready. I'm ready. Barack is ready. This is his time. This is our time. This is America's time.

Watch Joe accept the vice presidential nomination below.

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I was fortunate to be able to grow up seeing America from varied viewpoints. My childhood was spent in Hawaii and Indonesia. After college I worked as a community organizer on the South side of Chicago focusing on improving living conditions in poor neighborhoods.

I came to understand that to truly solve the problems facing our communities, it would take a change in our laws and our politics. I ran and served for seven years in the Illinois state Senate, where I fought for expanding children's health care, providing tax cuts for the working poor and enacting welfare reform. In 2004, I was elected to the U.S. Senate, where I have worked to pass laws securing dangerous weapons and making government more accountable. I have also opposed the Iraq war from the start, and believe that we need to bring our troops home so we can refocus on the wider struggle against terrorism.

Of all my life experiences, I am most proud of my wife Michelle and my daughters Malia and Sasha.


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Vopors

Female, 54, Baton Rouge, LA

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Hi Everybody:

Surprise visit from Sen. Hillary Clinton in battle ground state with Sen. Barack Obama would be nice.

Inexperienced, Pitt bull, Gov. Sara Palin will be hiding in forest if crises happen in USA. Some people have a lot of hot air , like Gov. Sarah Palin



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foreverm...

Female, 39, Hattiesburg, MS

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Mr. Obama,

I don't want to sound condescending, but I just want to say to you that I am so proud of you, sometimes I feel like I will burst. I'm also a lawyer who comes from very humble beginnings but your story is just awe-inspiring!!! Your speech at the DNC brought tears to my eyes and I was so proud as I explained to my 10-year old son why what you were doing was so important...why the fact that your acceptance came on the 45 year anniversary on Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech was so monumental.

I pray that God will continue to bless and keep you as you direct our nation into a new day.

You are an inspiration to us all.

Take care and be blessed.

Gay



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Sylcal__...

Female, 45, Memphis, TN

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I heard on the radio were a voter decided to double check her information since she had moved. Well, come to find out she was not registered to vote. No record on file.

Please double check your registration card to make sure all is correct and that it's showing the right district. We do not need any problems at the poll. And please ask your neighbors have they registered.

This election is the one, for your children future. We can not allow the republicans back in the Whitehouse for another 4 years.

Voter Registration Deadline is October 3rd.



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BigSwingin

Male, 31, Jacksonville, FL

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I'm worried everyone here is turning to socialism for answers. I am from China and a combination of socialism and communism rule the economic order. Obama speaks as if he is running for president of China with his policies of increasing taxes, increasing government spending, and erecting tariffs on imported goods.

Obama is not a fan of capitalism and capitalism is what created the USA. The world doesn't need another country ruled by socialism.



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msfinanc...

Female, 38, Alexandria, VA

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Well said MntlXtra...I could not have said it better.

More FYI,

I worked on the phone lines at the Obama/Biden phone lines, many of the republicans have registered Independent and will vote for Obama for President and our popular x-democratic governor for U.S. Senate--Mark Warner.

85% of Alaskans believe Palin lied in troopergate---darn, we don't need anymore lie'n repub. cons. in the whitehouse.

www.Msfinancialsavvy.com



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MntlXtra...

Male, 39, Duarte, CA

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Greetings again family! I also wanted to share an email that I sent to both Michael Baisden and The View. As you can see, I'm just trying to connect and organizr anyway I can, Lol. Seriously, I AM one of those community organizers who Palin exclaimed has no actual responsibilities. Well I'm ACTUALLY RESPONSIBLE for providing youth and family services that help encourage and increase the family's self-sufficiency. The kind of work that's crucial to underprivileged communities, the kind of work that Palin wouldn't be caught dead doing. Ok enough ranting, enjoy the piece, lol...

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Palin Could Be Trouble

As I reluctantly peeked at pieces of the RNC, I was surprised to hear President GWB refer to the Democratic Party as the "Angry Left"-- Surprised but strangely validated. See when I think of how hard life has been and how members of my own family have struggled, been uprooted, and led into despair over the last 8 and definitely the last 4 years, when I think of the high volume of families who have lost homes due to foreclosure, the children who are suffering as a result, the endangered education system, higher gas and food prices, more lost jobs, the Viet... Oops I mean Iraq War, etc., HOW CAN WE NOT BE ANGRY!! And how can we not understand that this American Tragedy is a result of basic republican governing. How can we not understand that John McCain means More of the Same!!

Sarah Palin is a whole nother nut. It's no doubt she was chosen as a part of a truly slick political strategy to appeal to frustrated Hillary supporters, middle class moms, and the ultra conservative evangelicals. Well, we can kiss that conservative evangelical vote g'bye, but we can amass the others if we expose Palin for the tyrant, self-serving, unqualified, fake, con artist she really is. I mean who else would use their 17 yr old daughter's pregnancy as a political tool to blatantly promote their backward Family Values (a major issue motivating voters on both sides in every election), then condemn and forbid everyone else from even discussing it, let alone rebutting it, because as we all know the kids are off limits. WOW! I know EVERYBODY is thinking that attacking a woman might appear harsh, that folks might be seen as bullies if they really go after Palin. But, I fear that if folks don't go hard on this woman early, that she could be just enough of a distraction to some less informed voters to keep things too close for comfort come November.

It is my belief that the last two elections were lost because the Dems have engaged in the same high-road, bigger man, passive politics (I often found myself shouting at the television, "Why won't he respond to that", while thinking of clever responses myself, lol). I think it's time to get just a lil gangsta on this one, but do the one thing the GOP doesn't-- check our facts first. Double and triple check them, and when we got it right shoot hard and straight with both barrels. Analyze and identify every lie the GOP tells and expose and vanquish the liar QUICKLY-- kill the messenger. I've seen where Brother Barak wants to basically ignore Palin and concentrate on McCain, and I agree Johnny Boy needs smashin' too, but we cannot give Palin a free pass through big time politics, we have to let her know she's in it and in it deep. I believe myself to be a gentleman and while I have never in life hit a woman, my mother still use to tell me "If a woman is hitting you like a man, you treat her like a man", Lol. Food for Thought!!

BELOW: Several links of groups unhappy with and lobbying against Sarah Palin, emails of Alaska residents who know Palin, and more. I hope the information proves useful.

http://www.crosscut.com/politi cs-government/17341

http://news.aol.com/political- machine/2008/09/05/abortion-ri ghts-groups-target-palin/?icid =100214839x1208570698x12004901 73

http://www.propeller.com/story /2008/09/05/community-organize rs-strike-back/

http://news.aol.com/article/pa lin-church-promotes-converting -gays/162999?cid=3272

Best Regards,

OBAMA/BIDEN '08 - IT'S SO NECESSARY !!



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MntlXtra...

Male, 39, Duarte, CA

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Greetings President-to-be Obama and fellow supporters. Below is a comment I left on Black Voice as my opinion on an article ran entitled "New Republican Family Values", and I just thought I'd share it with my family of Barack Supporters. I hope you feel it...

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Many questions have been raised about what Sarah Palin really thinks about family values since it was reported that her 17 yr old daughter is with child. First, 17 yr old Bristol's choice to have sex that resulted in pregnancy doesn't really speak much to Sarah Palin's ideals about family values. It does however speak to 17 yr old Bristol's ideals about family values. Underaged, unwed, unprotected sexual intercourse resulting in unwanted pregnancy-- not a great example of the family values that the staunch republicans favor and attempt to promote.

However, my issue is not with 17 yr old Bristol's pregnancy. Millions of youth in America, from all ethnicities and walks of life, make the same choice, the same mistake, and are burdened with the same new responsbility. And, most don't have such a huge, well to do family as a support system. So Bristol's NOT special, she IS lucky though.

My issue is twofold:

1st) It is unconscienable that Sarah Palin and the McCain Camp would use the information of Bristol's pregnancy as a political tool. The McCain Camp tossed this bone to the media and created the feeding frenzy we now see. They spun the story to muster up support for Republican Family Values by showing this teenager's mistake and her parent's public response as family values at work. They made the pregnancy a symbol of a major issue that has been a motivating factor of voters for years (family values)-- from both sides. They made it a part of their campaign and then they cried foul when people commented, reported, and investigated it sighting that children are off limits. They are in fact implying that they can campaign on this but if you/we (Democrats) rebut it at all you're/we?re just whining or being unethical. McCain put Bristol in the pot but takes issue with how hot the water's gotten. Now you know what politics look like.

2nd) It bothers me tremendously how republicans interpret family values to suit their needs at the moment. If Bristol was the daughter of a democratic candidate, McCain and his cult would be on a witch hunt to condemn this girl and her choices, sighting a lack of family values as the reason for the underaged, unwed, unprotected sex resulting in unwanted pregnancy. They would work overtime to show how if you elect this democrat that this is the example they'll be setting for young people and the country, that this will be every American's lot in life, and when your daughter comes home knocked up you have the democrats to blame. BLAME and FEAR, republican campaign tactics practiced for generations. When that's not generating the desired response they just outright LIE-- or rigg the balloting. Anything to win because the end justifies the means, right? Speaking of FEAR, you know what my biggest FEAR is-- that they actually believe the LIES they tell. That's the equivalent to having no conscience. There was no republican conscience in the campaigns of 2000 or 2004. Because this my friends is how you win elections.

17 yr old pregnant teen or not, America can't survive another 4 yrs of republican government.

OBAMA/BIDEN '08 - IT'S SO NECESARY !!



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Female, Age Private, Cupertino, CA

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Wishing you and all your supporters a happy Ethiopian New Year, which will be on Sep 2008



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Female, 55, Auxier, KY

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I'll tell you right now that Obama is going to win this election.Mark my words today as a sure thing.



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woodie48

Female, Age Private, Washington, DC

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Hello Everyone,

My cousin sent this to me and asked that I share it with everyone I know. I share her concerns. If you share these same concerns pass it on to your friends, family, and individuals with like minds. Thank you in advance for your consideration.

Cynthia--



This is a personal letter to all Voters for a Positive Change:

I am afraid that I do not have a lot of connections. However, I am concerned that with the way things are going in this campaign, the country may be looking at another 4-8 years of Republican rule.

The Republican National Convention has nominated a vice-presidential candidate who took all of the thunder, attention and rise from the Democratic National Convention last week. That was hard to do, so they used extreme measures and found an unlikely person with a lot of potential and charisma. However, she is being pitted against Obama, not Biden! I have never seen a VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE blast the PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE the way that Palin did in her speech. The Republican party is constantly comparing her to Senator Obama. Why is she competing against Obama? Shouldn't she be competing against Senator Biden, the democratic Vice Presidential candidate who takes the train home to Delaware every evening to be with his family ? Who will she be debating, anyway? It is clear that McCain has put a controversial and aggressive person in front of him to distract people from his political inconsistencies and inadequecies.

Rather than focusing on what Obama has not done, we should continue to focus on what he intends to do to repair the negative effects of 8 years of Republican dominance.

Most importantly, we need to be prepared, probably by October, to see the Republican party begin an onslaught of ads that invoke the fear factor into their campaign. They will do the "3 in the morning phone call" all over the place, in ads and in their speeches. They will try to get the "Home of the Brave" Americans frightened and running blindly to "rally around" their "Maverick McCain" and accuse Obama of being inexperienced to deal with a crisis.

There should be a series of Democratic commercials done before they start their tactics of confusion. For example, show Bush sitting in the classroom in September 2001, numb and with a blank look on his face as he is informed about the events taking place on 9-11!!!

Show how this country's administration dealt with Hurricane Katrina in 2005, a classic example of the Republican lack of ability to deal with a crisis!!!

* Over 15 million people were directly affected by Hurricane Katrina
* An estimated 400,000 jobs were lost
* 1,836 people were killed
* Over 700 people are still missing
* The hurricane cost the United States over 100 billion dollars
* The homeless population in New Orleans has doubled from 6,000 to 12,000 since the flooding.
* Katrina wiped out much of New Orleans' affordable housing. Since the flooding, rental prices in the city have skyrocketed. A two-bedroom apartment that went for $500 to $600 a month two-and