On another note, he decided to chum it up with Bush. Surely they are out there, but I haven't met many republicans that feel too confident voting for someone that's a buddy with the guy. In my opinion, I don't think this was such a smart move. When going against someone as articulate as Obama, you've got to be ready for everything.
Today, I'm calling upon every American to support and vote for Senator Barack Obama in this presidential election. As a young American, I want to see a America that everyone that wants a job, can have one. As Americans, we can make history and turn this country back on the right direction!
Senator John McCain and Governor Sarah Palin is not the change that Americans are looking for. Senator Obama's speeches come from his heart and from what he has learned. Governor Palin's 2008 Republican National Convention speech was written by President George W. Bush's speechwriter. If Senator McCain and Governor Palin wants to define ‘change’ as voting with George Bush 90% of the time, that’s their choice.
Each and every time, a new generation has risen up and done what's needed to be done. Today we are called once more - and it is time for our generation to answer that call. Let us be that generation that elect Barack Obama and put America back on track and made it truely great once again.
I've said this from day one of this presidential campaign. I thank Senator McCain for his service for this country but he is not the person that I believe is ready to lead America or even ready to understand the problems that Americans have.
Do we want a President that supports George W. Bush's policies and goals? Do we want a President that opposed creating a federal holiday in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.? Do we want a President that is against funding of sex education?
Do we want a Vice President that hates community organizers? Do we want a Vice President that abuses her powers? Do we want a Vice President that strongly supports development of oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge?
Senator Obama is not in this race for President just to hold an office, but to gather with you to transform America. Senator Obama wants us to win that next battle - for justice and opportunity. Senator Obama wants to win that next battle - for better schools, and better jobs, and health care for all.
I want a President that favors the concept of equal pay for everyone. I want a President that supports a tax plan which includes an $80 billion tax cut for American poor and middle-class families. I want a President that has strong record of support for clean air. I want a President that understands Americans problems and issues. I want a President that wants healthcare for every American.
I want a Vice President that supports teachers and schools. I want a Vice President that wants funding to find new energy sources other then drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. I want a Vice President that favors adding sexual orientation to the criteria for a hate crime. I want a Vice President that is against giving tax cuts for big corporations.
Democrats, Republicans, and Independents, please join me in supporting Barack Obama for President and Joe Biden for Vice President of the United States of America. I may not be able to vote in this election but tose can vote in America can show the world that we want REAL change!
Asher Heimermann is a teenager from Sheboygan, Wisconsin. You can learn more information about Heimermann by visiting his official website at www.AsherHeimermann.com.
Frank Rich on Obama's win. Even though I post a lot on other folks' blogs, I don't write that many from scratch. After all Frank Rich is a trained writer; and I'm a tired preacher.
Anyway, here is a link to Frank Rich's column in todays New York Times:
The candidates have been narowed by those that droped out but to those that are still in they should be there.
Where is OUR democratic party at and why doesn`t it stand up and say he oughta be in it!
Write an e mail today to MSNBC or NBC and let them know what ya think! And make them defend there decision ..ask them why?
Even if you dont support Dennis you wouldnt want a future candidate of yours to be treated this way.
We are all democrats arn`t we? then lets stand for whats right!
In response to this post ( Link ), I wrote a rather lengthy reply (not devoid of hostility) that seemed like it shouldn't go to waste.
I covered a lot of this in another post of mine, but it clearly bears repeating when such ignorance and racism is bearing its head and getting support in a supposedly Democratic and Liberal blog.
It was basically said that letting Mexicans in was going to make America a third world country, and this was my reply:
For all my time in the public education system - and I was in about a score of them in three different states - none of them did a very good job. I attended schools in Madison, Wisconsin, supposedly among the best Public Schools in the nation; an inner city school in Dayton, Ohio; and a small town school in North Carolina. There were short periods in my life when I was home-schooled, educated in suspension, and even educated in a psychiatric hospital. I have experienced most aspects of our education system, from the mainstream to the alternative, and as one might gather from reading that lengthy list, it wasn't a smooth sea to sail. Read More »
Look at what has happened with Europe; they formed the EU, and the value of the euro is higher than the dollar, and gaining every day. They are a much greener continent than the U.S., there are much less sweatshops, and the tackle issues with a realism that is unheard of in American government. Plus, it should be even easier for us, since we only have three countries to unite, when the European Union had to bring together twenty-seven.
In addition to the first three reasons, making an American Union would free southern Mexico from the grips of the drug lords, and give the Mexican government a much better chance, with our help, to end the fighting. It would give all of northern America the drugs that it needs from Canada, without congress saying that it would ruin our economy; it would actually help our economy greatly! We would be able to make a more effective checks and balances on the government itself, and keep the power centered and even. It might even bring an end to the embargo of Cuban goods!
I’m going to e-mail this article to my local congressmen, I’m going to send it to the president, and I’m going to start a petition to get this idea to the senate, and I’d greatly appreciate it if you would wait a little while for me to make an online petition.
A concentration camp is another word for death camp. It is a place where hundreds or thousands of people are systematically physically and psychologically tortured and killed every day because of their race, religion, or political stance. It is a place devoid of hope, where you receive horrible, unhealthy, rotten food that will sometimes make you die just from eating it. Water and light are scarce; you have to privacy, and no rights. If the people holding you have their way, it will take years for your slow and painful process of death to come to its end.
Thankfully, we live in a country where that does not exist. Even Guantanamo isn’t that bad. So anyone that calls a corrupt and unjust prison a concentration camp is ill-wishing, and their point loses its meaning. Once we start calling our country something that bad, all the justice in the world won’t matter. We will have trapped ourselves in despair, and it’s bad enough with Bush lying, we don’t have to add to it; just call them prisons.
I just wanted to say that.
During the Cold War, a time that is very much similar to the current American idea of forcing democracy on the Middle-East, the Korean War started. Now, when the country divided into North and South Korea in 1953, the American forces began to leave. Today, over fifty years after troop pullout began, there are still 35,000 of the 480,000 troops that were there at the peak of the war. These troops have been put on an indefinite post in South Korea, just to keep the peace in the unstable area.
If we use the same kind of half-baked troop withdrawal tactic for the Iraq War, there will be no more troops stationed in Iraq by 2027. Now, all of you troops out there shouldn’t start packing just yet, twenty years is may seem like a short time, but it’s really longer than it sounds!
“Aryeh says: I also want to say that I am pro death penalty, but only after the Judicial System is fixed, and it isn’t so easy to get on death row.
Brittany says: I would only support the death penalty if there was a guarantee that the person was guilty of a very severe crime, that the punishment was handed out according to that crime and not something arbitrary like race or class, AND if it was literally the only way to prevent that criminal from escaping and committing that crime again. In other words, I’m against the death penalty.”
I found these comments and began to study the judicial system to see where it had gone astray, so that an almost harmless criminal might find himself on death row, and I have to say, the guys who designed this did a pretty bang-up job. The courts are simple, and yet very productive, and amazingly easy to understand for a U.S. system. And they seem to be almost as fair as they can be. Read More »
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