The Obama wave keeps building.
I have not seen anything like it in forty years.
We may actually get a President who doesn’t ride into office on a wave of sewage in the form of attack ads and playing to our basest fears. (It will also be nice to have one who can actually pronounce “nuclear” and who doesn’t cause me to wince in dread every time he gets up to speak.)
I was so sick of the meanness and triviality which has marked presidential campaigns for years that in the last election I couldn’t even bring myself to vote for either candidate. I was that disgusted and discouraged.
As a citizen of Illinois, on Tuesday, I will feel something I haven’t felt in a very long time when I mark my ballot for Barack Obama…genuine enthusiasm.

Me too Bob. Won’t be holding my nose.

I am working on Barack Obama’s campaign in Denver. We have lists of folks from the DNC’s databank that we initially called to determine whether or not they supported Barack. The lists have been purged and we’re now in the process of confirming caucus sights and volunteer responsibilities.
The response to the initial list was like nothing I’ve ever seen. Senior Citizens, Independents, Latinos, and Suburbanites are supporting Mr. Obama overwhelmingly when we ask who they support.
Because I identify myself as an Obama guy my view may be askew. Maybe folks don’t wanna argue or their curious about what I’ve gotta say. They usually listen how I’ve reasoned out support for Obama(which has a lot to do with Hillary authorizing the Iraqi mess and green-lighting a war with Iran by labeling Iran a terrorist state.) Hardly anyone hangs up or argues after the pitch, and the good majority expresses some level of support for Mr. Obama.
The media talking heads were saying after Nevada that Latinos would be pitted against Blacks in the support of Hillary over Obama.
Mayor Pe?a, who was initially a Clinton Cabinet Member, and Denver Mayor before that was hanging around the HQ in Denver. He gave a moving speech for Barack on the Denver University campus at the Obama rally.
The media needs to stop pushing the idea that it’s one group versus another whether it’s us vs. us; or us vs. a foreign entity.
I was a Denver Public School teacher. We have huge wonderful populations of Latinos and Blacks in our metro school system. I taught Middle School and saw Latino kids who loved Hip Hop. There are Black, White, Asian, Muslim, Jewish, Christian folks who love to eat at a good Mexican or Peruvian establishment (Sorry I couldn’t fit all of the ethnic groups in).
If the Clintons will have failed tomorrow, it will be because Bill discussed the most banal activity in campaigning: dividing up folks in demographic categories, genders, races, etc. in remarks alluding to Jesse Jackson’s South Carolina ‘black thing’.
Bill, if you ever read this, that’s how Republicans campaign, not good Democrats.
When I supported you in 1992, Papa Bush’s campaign started talking about your trips to the former Soviet Republics. The information used by the Bushes in the campaign was probably illegally obtained via CIA connections of Big Papa Bush. It had to be the US vs. those Commies, even after the threat of mutually assured destruction had just been averted if we would only follow up on helping former Soviet Republics adjust and integrate into the Global Community.
Instead there’s nuclear proliferation results in Pakistan where al Qaeda has more popular support than the de facto government. All of our attention has been consumed with a useless war in Iraq to line the pockets of the Bush and Cheney empires.
Wild Bill, at least you never stooped to recent Republican lows. Just know that division is a very vulgar aspect of campaigns and wars.
Reagan said tear down this wall and Papa Bush was only ready to re-erect it again to let us all know you were in the Commie group.
I prefer Reagan’s beautiful statement about tearing down walls (as it relates to the ideological separation imposed by tyrannical a$$holes) to Bush’s ‘either yer with us or yer against us’ approach.
That statement is how one group justifies an attack on another in the hopes of completely suppressing them. It’s part of an attitude that actually invites violence: ‘Bring it on.’
And that’s what we’ve seen in torture, war profiteering, gay bashing, and corporate pornography that passes as news since Bush was (supposedly) elected.
It did seem the media woke up after Katrina a little.
Americans do want change in the form of peace that unites and doesn’t pit anybody against anybody. I’ve never seen such an ethnically and socio-economically diverse group come together for anything… period as I’ve seen in the Obama campaign.
I think Obama represented change the minute he said that going to Iraq would be a ‘stupid war’. Republicans had Democrats cowering in fear over being labeled and separated as peace necks. Democrats like Hillary could’ve insisted on a real coalition of Europeans and other UN members working together determining the fate of Iraq instead of having Halliburton determining that fate in such divisive sick ways.
It’s the old Washington that unfortunately has been built up by Hollywood thinking that war and separation is sexy because they’ve seen Chuck Norris action porn.
Oddly enough Chuck supports the candidate that most blatantly promotes himself on Christian laurels, Mike Huckabee. And Huckabee’s never given a stance on the messages of movies like “Missing in Action III: Braddock’s Revenge” that Chuck’s starred in. Give it spin in the ol’ DVD and you’ll see what I mean by action porn.
Enough bashing and war mongering. Hillary you should’ve known better than to play ball with folks that promote separation through such vile means like corporate wars. Didn’t experience teach you anything? Don’t you remember President Eisenhower’s speech on the ‘military industrial complex?’
Halliburton’s and Blackwater’s business is bloody separation.
Let’s try unity and hope for the next couple years. Let’s elect Barack. He can call it like it is when it counts.

The state Republican party, which has striven heroically to build a single-party California, has forbidden independents from voting in its primary this year. Since I can’t vote today for the candidate I’d most like to see as President. I expect, instead, to join the J-Walking consensus this morning.

First and foremost, 99% of Hollywood is backing Obama and Clinton. Hollywood IS porn and violence. They have literally built their society on it. A debauched and lost generation of abandoned children are clamoring for Obama. I have no doubt that he will lead them as do his million dollar supporters in Hollywood. (I live in the real world.)
If you want to talk numbers of those killed and injured by ideology and behaviors, the Progressives and Liberals have hundreds of millions of humans slaughtered for convenience and ill from encouraged immorality. For example: It is a Progressve desire to grow human beings to make them into medicine for rich actors to stay young looking. Pederasty has paid off for the Democrats.
If Obama is to bring real change, then he will have to represent something different than what he actually does represent. Right now, he represents Sodom and Gomorrah in real time. His new movement should be labeled “Maherism.” That’s what it is. Same old behaviors as Noah and Lot’s days, with the one thing common in today’s youth, ignorance of past history. Repeat is not change.

Great video and great posts – save that last one.
Blah blah blah sodom, blah blah blah hollywood. Blah blah blah sinners in the hands of an angry god.
YAWN

Donnie is right about the state of Hollywood, but it is really the state of all mankind…mired in hopelessness and looking for meaning. They don’t really want to be porn and violence. They don’t know how to be anything else and are just looking to satsify their need for meaning. America watches what they produce because so many of us are also searching. Hollywood, like so many in America, is lost.
This same search for purpose and meaning in life carries over into our life as a nation, as a people. Obama is striking a cord in many of us, including Hollywood, because he encourages us to beleive that things can change and change for the better. Obama gives hope for purpose and meaning. Maybe he can lead us out of the mess we find ourselves in and to a place of higher moral ground in the world and of greater respect for ourselves. He articulates a vision for us as a people, working and sacrificing together for our common good and the common good of the world. We want to feel like our lives/votes count for something and that our country does/can make the world a better place. Our confidence in this has been shaken and we’d like to see it restored.
Obama’s campaign has mastered the use of iconic American images. He seems connected to all of the best of America’s past and all the dreams for her future. He has recalled the hope emboddied in the civil rights movement, the space race, and the Camelot/New Jerusalem visions for America. America can be restored and she can be a beacon of light! None of the others, with the possible exception of Huckabee, have been able to convince me that they have a vision for the way ahead. They either lack an inspiring vision or the ability to communicate that vision. Obama inspires me and so, this conservative, veteran, evangelical, homeschooling, stay-at-home mom just can’t cross him off of her list of potential presidents. He talks like a visionary leader. Now, can he lead?

Well let’s take a look at Obama’s “New Jerusalem,” and his connection and support for America’s worst past, present and future: Hollywood. Chicago is a corrupt, violent and immoral city. Women of all ages are held out as b—-es and ho’s, and have to raise their multi-fathered children with other people’s taxed away from them and their famliy’s money. Hollywood debauches and victimizes more children in one minute then Planned Parenthood does in a week. Obama supports abortion for conveniance as well.
Obama’s world “after” he worked there for years, and Obama’s supporters. Not exactly good moral role models.
Obama has tens of millions of dollars in which to create all of those iconic American images. Huckabee for example, has gained millions of supporters on a moral message of hope and a handfull of quarters. The Hollywood guy supporting Huck has a history of “good guy battles the bad guys” movies to his credit, and his risking his life (making a living) with his support for Huck is down right real-life bravery.
I agree with James Dobson on this election.
(And in my case, David’ll probably get his wish granted. I’ll be fasting from politics on election day.)

Of course, Barack Obama is personally responsible for all the crime and corruption in Chicago, so let’s reject him! And I’m sure he refers to all women (except the welfare queens he has no doubt personally knocked up) as Ho’s and b*****s. He does it all the time in his speeches.
Meanwhile, apparently Arkansas has been swept clean of all sin and ignorance, even though no one has noticed. Surely, if Obama is to be held responsible for the sins of a city after spending several years as a community organbizer, then a governor must be even more responsible for the state of his state. Gee, let’s all move there and feel what’s like in the kingdom of God.
Puh-leeze

Oh yeah, and the fact that Church Norris played the “good guy” in his violent movies makes him better than all those other stars endorsing other candidates. Because, as we all know, only a truly good guy would ever play a good guy. (We will just overlook those early movies that had naked women in them and where he often played hard-drinking, and foul-mouthed types.)
And Lord, it is so brave of him to “risk his life” by supporting Huckabee. His personal fortune might be diminished somewhat and he would have do another exercise machine infomerical. The horror…the horror. What a martyr for the cause.
Actually, I thought Huckabee’s ad using Chuck was delightfully clever and a welcome bit of whimsy, though it didn’t really say anything about Huckabee’s immigration policy. And I have nothing in particualr against Church Norris.
It’s just ridiculous to claim he is somehow a hero because of his movie roles and his endorsement of Huckabee.

Wow, what an interesting Freudian slip… I just noticed it.
Or maybe I misspelled Chuck’s name because I was talking to someone from my church at the time I was writing this.
As Freud said, “Sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar.”
BTW: Brandon Routh who played Superman has endorsed Obama, and I think he’s even a btter hero than Walker, Texas Ranger.
Oh but wait, Superman is an illegal alien!

Alas, Sen. Clinton played the breakwater to Sen. Obama’s wave last night

Yes, but remember that not so long ago, this was supposed to be the night that she clinched everything and truly became inevitable. Obama proved the breakwater to her “inevitability” and he did it by winning more “red states” than she did.
His appeal transcends so many old dividing lines. He got the majority of white men in Georgia! And he has raised vastly more money without putting the pinch on lobbyists and cronies. He also won by a larger percentage in Illinois than she did in New York, where she has had eight years to build her rep and her machine. Eight years ago, no one had heard of Obama.
It’s very likely that more Hillary supporters would back Obama in the national campaign than vice versa. Obama is bringing new people into the party, while Hillary is working the same old levers. That’s a vitally important point for the Democratic Party to remember.

I was having YouTube problems and finally watched the video.
Looks like Michelle — and Obama Girl, for that matter — have some serious competition. Aisha Tyler and Scarlett Johansson, bestill my heart!!

I met Michelle – cameras do not do her justice. And, she’s an extraordinarily sensible woman. Sometimes I think Hilary never worked through her adolescent unattractive smart girl perceptions of herself -Michelle is so comfortable in her skin it radiates. Actually, Barack is the lucky one in this marriage. He found the right person. I understand that one – because I did too. Makes such a difference in the vagaries of life. It is what you wish for everyone.

Folks, I’m kidding about Michelle — Barack seems to adore her, and rightly so in smarts, personality, empathy and looks from what I can tell. She seems like quite a woman — and (hopefully) First Lady.
I don’t know if Sen. Obama is QUITE as saccharine as Mitt Romney is with his beloved Ann, but it sure beats the, uh, complicated marriage of his primary opponent in any case.