One sentence in one speech in eight years says Eric Boehlert of Media Matters, for Tom Tancredo that makes Sotomayer a racist, even though the context in which she was speaking is left out of the racist repetition.
After listening to Tancredo, he really represents the style, tenacity and repetition of the Republican Party that won a lot of elections and wielded held a great deal of power and control over the all branches of government.
Take a little something-something and repeat it with great passion over and over and over again, (especially, if there is no basis in truth, no facts to be found) until it becomes 'true' in the hearts and minds of many people.
They always loves them some nuance too. Where there is nuance there is a Republican attack line.
I thought this was a wonderful story. There is some good in this world
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
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Update: March 02, 2009 - Congressman Markey
speaking at PowerShift 09.
Keynote address. More to follow...
http://www.jtmp.org - Power Shift 09 - A gathering of thousands of young people to network and train on lobbying their representatives to bring about a "green revolution". This is a movement to promote sustainability, combat global warming, and green technology and jobs.
We will be releasing several speeches in this series. Please see our website for more information.
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs in Chicago this morning spoke with Bob Schieffer of CBS, Face the Nation.
“He wants to get out of Washington and show people all across America the benefits of what’s inside this economic recovery and reinvestment plan,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
“We thought Denver would be as good a place as any to highlight some of the investments to put people back to work – particularly clean-energy jobs – and to focus people on those long-term investments that will help our long-term economic growth.”
...“He is going to continue to reach out to Republicans, and he’s hopeful that Republicans will start to reach back,” Gibbs said. “Their suggestions have been taken seriously, Bob. … It’s an outreach plan that includes … more than just Wednesday night cocktails. We’re going to listen for their ideas.” source: Politico
Today, Colorado Governor Bill Ritter announced that he had selected Denver Public Schools Superintendent Michael Bennet to fill Colorado's vacant seat in the U.S. Senate. Following the Governor's announcement, President-elect Obama released the following statement commending the selection of Bennet:
Filling Ken Salazar's boots in the US Senate is a tall order. But in selecting Michael Bennet, Governor Ritter has made an excellent choice.
Michael Bennet perfectly reflects the qualities of the ruggedly independent state he has been chosen to serve. An innovator in the public and private sectors, he has shown himself willing to challenge old thinking and stale policies.
His breakthrough work at the helm of Denver's schools has reflected that commitment, and established Michael as one of the nation's leading education reformers.
He will be a breath of fresh air in Washington.
Bennet will serve the remaining two years of the term of U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar, who has been picked by President-elect Barack Obama as the next secretary of the Interior.
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From the New York Times:
Senators John McCain and Barack Obama began their final push for the White House on Saturday across an electoral map markedly different from four years ago, evidence of Mr. Obama’s success at putting new states into contention and limiting Mr. McCain’s options in the final hours.
Mr. Obama was using the last days of the contest to make incursions into Republican territory, campaigning Saturday in three states — Colorado, Missouri and Nevada — that President Bush won relatively comfortably in 2004.
Across the country, there was abundant evidence of just how much excitement the contest had stirred: In Colorado, 46 percent of the electorate has already voted in that state’s early voting program. Voters in states like Missouri, Montana, North Carolina and Virginia were getting knocks on their doors, telephone calls and leaflets slipped under their windshield wipers.
...“After 12 months and three debates,” Mr. Obama said in Henderson, Nev., “John McCain has not been able to tell the American people a single major thing that he would do different from George Bush on the economy.”
...The campaign’s final days brought a reminder of how Mr. Obama’s financial might had allowed him to redraw the political map. In addition to the states he visited on Saturday, Mr. Obama was planning stops Sunday in Florida, North Carolina and Virginia, which went Republican four years ago.
From the Missouri News-Leader:
"Yes we can," Obama said, his slogan across 21 months of campaigning.
...Obama was in Nevada, then Colorado and Missouri, all states that voted for President Bush four years ago. Obama's visit to Colorado marked his sixth trip to the swing state since he clinched his party's nomination in June.
...When Obama arrived in Pueblo, Colo., his family was waiting for him on the tarmac, wife Michelle and daughters Malia and Sasha. Obama kissed his wife, hugged his daughters.
"We are three days away from bringing fundamental change to the United States of America," Obama said. He told the crowd not to let up. "Not when so much is at stake," he said.
...Campaigning in Missouri became a family affair for Obama, who appeared on stage with his wife and daughters before tens of thousands gathered on a high school football field in Springfield, Mo. The location was in Green County, where 62 percent of voters cast ballots for Bush four years ago.
"After eight years of failed policies from George W. Bush," Obama started, sparking a chorus of boos from the crowd at the president's name. "We don't need to boo, we just need to vote," he responded.
...Obama seized on Cheney's fresh endorsement of McCain, praising the vice president for climbing out of his "undisclosed location."
"I'd like to congratulate Sen. McCain on this endorsement, because he really earned it," Obama said in Pueblo, Colo. "That endorsement didn't come easy. Sen. McCain had to vote with George Bush 90 percent of the time and agree with Dick Cheney to get it."
Like Obama and McCain, the vice presidential running mates campaigned toward the finish line.
Sen. Joe Biden was in Indiana, another traditionally Republican state where Democrats are running hard, and later in Ohio, a competitive state. He accused Republicans of "trying to take the low road to the highest office in the land. They are calling Barack Obama every name in the book."
...Early voting statistics were large, and tilted Democratic. In North Carolina, officials said 2.3 million ballots had been cast as of Saturday morning, 52 percent of them by Democrats and 30 percent by Republicans.
In Missouri, spokesman Justin Hamilton said Obama's campaign had agreements with cab companies across the state to provide Election Day rides to the polls for any voter who wanted one.
He said the callers would not be asked how they intended to vote.
From the Kansas City Star:
More than 100 Obama supporters have cut through Saturday’s thick fog to await last-minute instructions at campaign headquarters in midtown Kansas City.
Some have coffee and donuts before starting phone calls or marching through neighborhoods, looking for votes.
“This is kind of our rehearsal for Tuesday,” said volunteer Jackie Gafford. “Everybody knows what they need to do.”
“I might not have done this in Kansas, with all their early voting,” said volunteer Caroline McKnight, who will be making phone calls for Obama. “But they’re really excited in Missouri to get out on Election Day.”
...Obama has the biggest political ground effort in Missouri’s history.
“These are all folks now, no matter what happens November 4, who are really engaged in their communities,” said Buffy Wicks, Obama state director.
Penny Hershman is one of Obama’s 250 neighborhood leaders in Jackson County. There are 2,500 of them in the state, workers who have been trained in political outreach — after promising to work a minimum of 20 hours each week for the Democrat.
Hershman stopped last week at the south Kansas City home of Mark Bureman, who quickly told her she would not have to work too hard. Bureman was firmly onboard with Obama.
“This is going to be an easy house for you,” he said.
Hershman asked whether Bureman and his wife, Linda, could volunteer to make phone calls at Obama headquarters over the weekend. Check and check. Both signed up for shifts.
Being from the area helps, Hershman said. “You say, ‘I’m Penny, and I’m from the neighborhood.’ I think they respond to you a little better.”
...The campaign has established a sophisticated, computer-based outreach program — all data wind up getting poured into a big database in Chicago — that climaxes this weekend.
Campaign staff leadership has been divided into 400 similar teams. A team supervisor works with coordinators of canvassing, data processing, volunteer recruitment and phone banks. The teams are in charge of a particular area and keep meticulous notes about each contact made, either in person or over the phone.
...“There’s been this disconnect,” said Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat and Obama supporter. “There’s not been a focus on connecting people who want to be a part of the campaign to the campaign.”
The tools, of course, have changed. Door knocks and phone calls have been added to cell phone outreach and text-messaging, a technological advantage that has brought the Obama campaign millions of dollars and thousands of extra volunteers.
Charles is a volunteer from Boulder, CO. He won a raffle to meet Barack at the rally in Denver on 10/26/08.
What about you Colorado, Virginia and Pennsylvania?
We need you. It's not about him, it's about you.
It's not about them, it's about us.
Vote. Volunteer.
Kerrie was there registering voters. She talked to us about the movement for change in eastern Colorado.
She said:
I came on board with the campaign in February, and we had a great turn out for the caucus in our small little town in Wiggins -- we had 14 people show up. Some of the women cried because they were just so excited.
Here's a video from the event:
"It's the biggest event in the history of the city," says Richard Grant, spokesman for the Denver Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau. "We've never had anything close to it."
The Democratic National Convention opens its four-day run next Monday at the Pepsi Center arena downtown. The convention concludes Aug. 28 when Sen. Barack Obama accepts his party's nomination for president in an outdoor speech at nearby Invesco Field, home of the Denver Broncos football team.
More than 70,000 people are expected to hear Obama at the football stadium and two-thirds of those seats will be filled by people living in the Mountain West and Southwest regions — both areas of growth for the Democratic Party, according to the convention website. "Republicans, independents — everyone was invited," says Natalie Wyeth, spokeswoman for the convention committee.
City officials and those involved in event preparations say Denver easily handled a world economic summit and visit by Pope John Paul II more than a decade ago and baseball's World Series last year. Its only other political convention was when Democrats met here in 1908. read more here
Want Tickets to Obama’s Acceptance Speech? Forget Ticketmaster By June Kronholz, July 30, 2008
Democratic officials tour Invesco Field where Obama is scheduled to deliver his nomination speech on the final night of the Democratic National Convention. (Associated Press)
Money won’t get you into Denver’s Invesco Field when Barack Obama gives his acceptance speech at next month’s Democratic convention, but a pledge to volunteer time to his campaign might do the trick.
Colorado’s Democratic Party and the Obama campaign are talking about distributing tickets to the Thursday, Aug. 28, speech to those who pledge to do door-to-door canvassing, make phone calls, register voters, work on get-out-the-vote projects and otherwise help the party in Colorado this fall. read more here
by Greg Palast
Listen to Palast on the Thom Hartmann show.
In swing-state Colorado, the Republican Secretary of State conducted the biggest purge of voters in history, dumping a fifth of all registrations. Guess their color.
In swing-state Florida, the state is refusing to accept about 85,000 new registrations from voter drives – overwhelming Black voters.
In swing state New Mexico, HALF of the Democrats of Mora, a dirt poor and overwhelmingly Hispanic county, found their registrations disappeared this year, courtesy of a Republican voting contractor.
In swing states Ohio and Nevada, new federal law is knocking out tens of thousands of voters who lost their homes to foreclosure.
My investigations partner spoke directly to Barack Obama about it. (When your partner is Robert F. Kennedy Jr., candidates take your phone call.) The cool, cool Senator Obama told Kennedy he was “concerned” about the integrity of the vote in the Southwest in particular.
He’s concerned. I’m sweating.
It’s time SOMEBODY raised the alarm about these missing voters; not to save Obama’s candidacy – journalists should stay the heck away from partisan endorsements - but raise the alarm to save our sick democracy.
And that somebody is YOU. Joining with US, the Palast investigative team. Here’s how: read more here
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| Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) on Tuesday praised an effort by Barack Obama’s campaign to use $20 million to “engage and inspire” Latino voters ahead of the election. Calling the $20 million sum “unprecedented,” the CHC members, many of whom supported Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s (D-N.Y.) presidential campaign, said the effort to target Latino voters in Colorado, Florida, Nevada and New Mexico is both a recognition that Hispanics will be a critical voting bloc in the general election and that Sen. Obama (D-Ill.) must not take these voters for granted. read more here |
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