Let's '47' this great Patriot Blogosphere for his 47th birthday!!

That's Barack Birthday donations like $.47 or $4.70 or $47.00 or $470.00 or you get it..

If you'd like a place to do so, please feel free to use our group 'thermometer' fundraising button at: http://my.barackobama.com/page/outreach/view/maingroup/newsmyrnaforobama

YES WE CAN!!

This month Barack Obama is going it without big donor lobby money and without public financing. He's going to do it with us, the small donor.

So, it's up to us, please help. Here's our group's fundraising page for Barack.
http://my.barackobama.com/page/outreach/view/maingroup/newsmyrnaforobama


Here's the campaign's info:

Tonight is the crucial financial reporting deadline for June.

Together we are setting a new standard for how presidential campaigns will be organized and funded.

For the first time in a generation, a presidential campaign is putting staff in every single state for the general election. Our staff and the Obama Organizing Fellows are getting to work right now to build on grassroots energy in all 50 states.

And -- unlike John McCain -- we're going to do it without contributions from Washington lobbyists and special interest PACs that have held too much power for far too long in this country.

http://my.barackobama.com/page/outreach/view/maingroup/newsmyrnaforobama

YES WE CAN!!

The campaign sent out this email this morning...

Friend --

Barack Obama recorded a video message with an important announcement that he wanted you to hear first:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Snsnqbq_OCo

We have made a crucial decision that will impact how we compete in the general election, and it's important that you understand the decision, its implications, and the challenge ahead.

Please take a moment to watch the video.

Thank you,

Obama for America

If you'd like to help our local fundraiser, here you go: http://my.barackobama.com/page/outreach/view/maingroup/newsmyrnaforobama

YES WE CAN!!

If you are not a adent backer I would like to sugguest all Democrats boycott giving money to Hillary or Obama for the rest of the Year.

Both have raise an embarrassing amount of money from the special interest and the party hacks. They have each spent some 6-7 million in advertising in Iowa alone. It is greed and brides from the special interest that have funded their campaigns and with Hillary Fading Fast it is good to see the More experienced less greedy third tier candidates finally getting a voice.

If you have 10, 20, 0r 100 bucks to spare for politics give it to Biden, Dodd, Gravel, Richardson, or even Denny.

I donated to Edwards, Dodd, Biden and Gravel. So lets spread it around and let hear the voices and make this a real race.

The military refuses to come clean, insisting the high rates are due to "personal problems," not experience in combat. Link

Earlier this year, using the clout that only major broadcast networks seem capable of mustering, CBS News contacted the governments of all 50 states requesting their official records of death by suicide going back 12 years. They heard back from 45 of the 50. From the mountains of gathered information, they sifted out the suicides of those Americans who had served in the armed forces. What they discovered is that in 2005 alone -- and remember, this is just in 45 states -- there were at least 6,256 veteran suicides, 120 every week for a year and an average of 17 every day.

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Link = OUR SPACE HERE

MY RESPONSE:

I am a vietnam vet

Ever since i got out in august 1974 i have had a tough time finding stable work. The only real job i had was the C.E.T.A. job = comprehensive employment training act.
i was given in N. Calif working for parks and recreation and then solid waste, where in 1975 in redway Calif I started a recycling center as i picked through trash to separate bottles and cans.

Since being a UCMC soldier i found that i am the kind of person, who wants to serve others. Its ingrained in me. Many call me nuts. I don't know how to work so called regular jobs. I have been a volunteer off and on ever since. I was fortunate in one way moving to Garberville calif where we had many pot growers. that gave me something to smoke to allow myself the ability to hide from my past. I was also told never to mention my service because people would hate me. I kept quiet until this past year. Along the last 33 years i had many stops in VA hospitals. Many times i had cut my wrist. I have scars all over my left arm. I over dosed on tylenol and had my stomach pumped and hung myself and became a cocaine user and over-dosed many times in the 80's. I was told in 1999 i had HEP-C from the injections to prevent it in boot camp. I prepared to die and began to drink hard again, only to find out i was one of the so called lucky ones (15%) who was actually immune to it. Why am i still alive in beyond me. I cut my wrist many times just to get a bed at the VA. However, some VA hospitals did offer me food to eat. Finally in 2004 i was sent a check after i got out. My only friends are those who have died.
Today i volunteer my time for the Obama campaign. I sleep on an 84 yr old womans couch and cook for her to get food. I am her friend and she appreciates me. The very old seem to understand and well they do need help. I have done this since 2004, when i went back to N. calif again to find hope or pot to hide from my past. Today i am in Phila pa suburbs helping another woman.

I am just one and i could go on and on and tell you about how when i got my check i bought a RV to live in but gas got too high so i gave it away to another vet who got a big check than me. Along the way i picked up hundreds of vets along the roads and highways and i fed them.

You people need to understand soldiers like my Dad a deceased 2nd WW vet, who was the second wave at normandy (D-Day) don't have the ability to fit in to so called normal life. Yes there are a few and some of them get involved in politics and try to help others or they get corrupt.

What we need is a place a farm a home where we can work together and then reach out to others from a place of safety. http://www.farmsnotarms.org/

I have heard recently about a farm that is in the works. I pray that it becomes a reality. Link

http://www.nchv.org/women.cfm

I would have never found these above sites without having volunteered for the Obama campaign.

Finally i will say i know how our soldiers feel to be in a war we should have never been in!

Danielle Clarke USMC volunteered disharged honorably august 74 mos 6075

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I posted about the attempt to steal California's votes from under the feet of Democrats by Republican dirty tricks.

Here is what you can do about it.

Go to Courage Campaign and give 'em some $'s to fight the well funded Republican machine.

Link