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Whether a Democrat or Republican or anything in between, we need to change this country for the better, NOW!
Ladies and gentlemen, if we were to look at Mccains record on womens rights, it would remind us of Chinas record on human rights.
It is abominable. John Mccain has spent over 25 years working against womens rights. He voted against womens healthcare 125 times. He plans to overturn Roe VS Wade and outlaw abortion.
I admit im no fan of abortion myself, but who am i to think that i know better than a woman or her doctor about an issue that doesnt affect me AT ALL!? I wouldnt force my views on the American people, and neither should John Mccain!!!
Because his views are not right for the american people! or the women of america!!!
Moreover, who is John Mccain to decide? Or his judges in black robes?
What do they know? Asking a judge on advice about abortion is like asking a Soccer player to perform surgery! The two just dont go together!
Then theres also Mccains Birth Control and Viagra Moments:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6IlGXhCUHo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkQDbfF4RqA
Ladies, is THIS the guy you want in the Oval Office making decisions about YOUR rights that he doesnt even KNOW ABOUT?
Ladies, vote for Barack Obama, he supports womens healthcare, and a womans right to choose.
Men everywhere, do the right thing, be a real man, stand up for women and vote for Barack Obama.
Do it for your wives, sweethearts, daughters, sisters, nieces, cousins, aunts, mothers, grandmothers, and all your female friends.
Help us STOP John Mccain!
DO THE RIGHT THING MEN!!!
It is abominable. John Mccain has spent over 25 years working against womens rights. He voted against womens healthcare 125 times. He plans to overturn Roe VS Wade and outlaw abortion.
I admit im no fan of abortion myself, but who am i to think that i know better than a woman or her doctor about an issue that doesnt affect me AT ALL!? I wouldnt force my views on the American people, and neither should John Mccain!!!
Because his views are not right for the american people! or the women of america!!!
Moreover, who is John Mccain to decide? Or his judges in black robes?
What do they know? Asking a judge on advice about abortion is like asking a Soccer player to perform surgery! The two just dont go together!
Then theres also Mccains Birth Control and Viagra Moments:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6IlGXhCUHo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkQDbfF4RqA
Ladies, is THIS the guy you want in the Oval Office making decisions about YOUR rights that he doesnt even KNOW ABOUT?
Ladies, vote for Barack Obama, he supports womens healthcare, and a womans right to choose.
Men everywhere, do the right thing, be a real man, stand up for women and vote for Barack Obama.
Do it for your wives, sweethearts, daughters, sisters, nieces, cousins, aunts, mothers, grandmothers, and all your female friends.
Help us STOP John Mccain!
DO THE RIGHT THING MEN!!!
the Wall Street speculators rich.
They will come up with some goofy plan for Fannie and Freddie that will leave serious invesstors wondering how it will affect the stock price
But the insiders will know beforehand and get rich ahead of us.
They should stop trading the stock and have a true takeover just like with the banks where the stock is wiped out forever
But the Wall Street insiders will get rich and you and I will probably pay $10,000 per person in taxes for the bailout
I want to hear barack saying we will not bail out the insiders
They will come up with some goofy plan for Fannie and Freddie that will leave serious invesstors wondering how it will affect the stock price
But the insiders will know beforehand and get rich ahead of us.
They should stop trading the stock and have a true takeover just like with the banks where the stock is wiped out forever
But the Wall Street insiders will get rich and you and I will probably pay $10,000 per person in taxes for the bailout
I want to hear barack saying we will not bail out the insiders
Fellow Americans, the saying is true.
ITS TIME FOR CHANGE.
Mccain and Palin offer nothing but the same, albeit with minor changes. But the message they send is loud and clear!
They want to maintain the status quo and give us 4 more, and even, founding fathers help us, 8 more years of Bushonomics!
I have friends that are uninsured, because they just cant afford it. I have friends that have to put their head down and keep going when theyre sick or hurt because they cant go and be treated.
And ladies and gentlemen, there are 47 MILLION more uninsured Americans!! 47 MILLION!!! 18 MILLION women! 9 MILLION CHILDREN!!!
CHILDREN!!! UNINSURED and UNPROTECTED!!!
This is NOT acceptable! What has happened to America!?
We know the answer! BUSH AND MCCAIN!!!
They have worked against progress at every turn and led us to ruin!
Now Mccain wants to take over and lead us further down the path to ruin!!
Enough is enough!!
This November we will face a choice... But when you compare Mccains record to Obamas, there is no choice! it is clear and undeniable!!
We must elect Barack Obama president, and put an end to this needless suffering of 47 million Americans! We must protect womens rights, as Mccain has voted against them for nearly 30 years! We must STOP the oil madness and pave the way to the future with investment in alternative energy! We must withdraw from Iraq, an unauthorized, mismanaged drain on our resources and most importantly our FINEST, BRAVEST and BRIGHTEST! Who even now fight, bleed and DIE for a war that is based on a LIE!!!
We MUST make changes! We MUST elect Barack Obama not only for ourselves, but for our CHILDREN, and for WOMEN!!!
Women will suffer with Mccain as president!! His record on womens rights reminds me of Chinas record on human rights!!
We must stop funding aggression and start funding our future!
Men EVERYWHERE, vote for Barack Obama! Not only for yourselves, but for your children! Your daughters, sisters, mothers, grandmothers, friends, aunts, nieces, cousins!
VOTE FOR REAL CHANGE!!
Stand together, unite for change, spread the word and elect Barack Obama the next president of the United States!
http://www.democrats.org/page/group/STOP
ITS TIME FOR CHANGE.
Mccain and Palin offer nothing but the same, albeit with minor changes. But the message they send is loud and clear!
They want to maintain the status quo and give us 4 more, and even, founding fathers help us, 8 more years of Bushonomics!
I have friends that are uninsured, because they just cant afford it. I have friends that have to put their head down and keep going when theyre sick or hurt because they cant go and be treated.
And ladies and gentlemen, there are 47 MILLION more uninsured Americans!! 47 MILLION!!! 18 MILLION women! 9 MILLION CHILDREN!!!
CHILDREN!!! UNINSURED and UNPROTECTED!!!
This is NOT acceptable! What has happened to America!?
We know the answer! BUSH AND MCCAIN!!!
They have worked against progress at every turn and led us to ruin!
Now Mccain wants to take over and lead us further down the path to ruin!!
Enough is enough!!
This November we will face a choice... But when you compare Mccains record to Obamas, there is no choice! it is clear and undeniable!!
We must elect Barack Obama president, and put an end to this needless suffering of 47 million Americans! We must protect womens rights, as Mccain has voted against them for nearly 30 years! We must STOP the oil madness and pave the way to the future with investment in alternative energy! We must withdraw from Iraq, an unauthorized, mismanaged drain on our resources and most importantly our FINEST, BRAVEST and BRIGHTEST! Who even now fight, bleed and DIE for a war that is based on a LIE!!!
We MUST make changes! We MUST elect Barack Obama not only for ourselves, but for our CHILDREN, and for WOMEN!!!
Women will suffer with Mccain as president!! His record on womens rights reminds me of Chinas record on human rights!!
We must stop funding aggression and start funding our future!
Men EVERYWHERE, vote for Barack Obama! Not only for yourselves, but for your children! Your daughters, sisters, mothers, grandmothers, friends, aunts, nieces, cousins!
VOTE FOR REAL CHANGE!!
Stand together, unite for change, spread the word and elect Barack Obama the next president of the United States!
http://www.democrats.org/page/group/STOP
Dear Barack Obama,
The jobless rate went up yesterday to 6.1% nationally with a loss of 84,000 jobs... Here in California that number is even higher on the whole. Los Angeles for example has an 8.1% unemployment rate and the state is at 7.1%. People are loosing their homes. I sympathize cause I've already lost mine and my wife and I are coming out of bankruptcy.
I watch all the news stations and saw you somewhere out in what appeared to be western Pennsylvania talking about the poor jobs report...What I didn't see was a follow-up in that same excerpt, that same couple of sentences, about how you are going to put America back to work. Please tell us. We want to believe!
As you well know this election is close. It might very well be won on 'sound bites' that those not so close to the news cycle will be following... You must be tired, you look tired...I know I would be if I were you but we've got less than 60 days to win this election. I believe in you and what your team will do to take this country back for the people and what you and your team will do to unite the electorate. Please find the strength within and the energy to get more aggressive on the economy. I grew up in the Pennsylvania Dutch country and lived in the suburbs outside Detroit Michigan as well, two key battleground areas. The people want to believe. You are the candidate of hope and change! Please hit the eonomy harder and lead us all back to greater prosperity.
Sincerely,
A concerned American and a strong believer in you
The jobless rate went up yesterday to 6.1% nationally with a loss of 84,000 jobs... Here in California that number is even higher on the whole. Los Angeles for example has an 8.1% unemployment rate and the state is at 7.1%. People are loosing their homes. I sympathize cause I've already lost mine and my wife and I are coming out of bankruptcy.
I watch all the news stations and saw you somewhere out in what appeared to be western Pennsylvania talking about the poor jobs report...What I didn't see was a follow-up in that same excerpt, that same couple of sentences, about how you are going to put America back to work. Please tell us. We want to believe!
As you well know this election is close. It might very well be won on 'sound bites' that those not so close to the news cycle will be following... You must be tired, you look tired...I know I would be if I were you but we've got less than 60 days to win this election. I believe in you and what your team will do to take this country back for the people and what you and your team will do to unite the electorate. Please find the strength within and the energy to get more aggressive on the economy. I grew up in the Pennsylvania Dutch country and lived in the suburbs outside Detroit Michigan as well, two key battleground areas. The people want to believe. You are the candidate of hope and change! Please hit the eonomy harder and lead us all back to greater prosperity.
Sincerely,
A concerned American and a strong believer in you
A few days ago I criticized the Repub for defrauding investors for permiting trading in the stocks of Fannie mae and Freddie Mac.
http://www.democrats.org/page/community/post/franklynch/CxMV
Today its was announced that 9 percent of mortgages are late or delinquent. Astoundingly, One of eleven mortgages are bad.
When those people become homeless, things will get much worse.
The cost to the economy and to us taxpayers for all the bank bailouts that will follow will place the US on the verge of bankruptcy.
Homeprices are going to continue to decline, which means more mortgages will be upsidedown (where the mortgage is larger than the home value). That will result in even more people walking away from their mortages, and HOME PRICES WILL DECLINE EVEN FURTHER
for years. . . .
and revene from property taxes will continue to decline, robbing our already short-changed schools of much needed revenue, so our children will pay the price of government lack of regulation
If you saw John McCain's speech you like I heard no mention of economic policies to bring jobs back to this great nation, no real health-care reform for those with skyrocketing costs or perhaps as with many friends of mine, no health-care insurance period. He did talk about removing barriers for Corporations doing business in the US, no trade restrictions for business(which will result in more lost jobs as McCain would push for the South American Free Trade Agreement to be put into law), privitization of Social Security, elimination of Unemployment Insurance as we know it (eluding to the unemployed being given menial jobs before paying them the unemployment money they themselves paid into the fund)and a drill drill drill rhetoric.
The latest McCain campaign strategy is to paint the Obama-Biden ticket as being "on the fringe". We must, each of us refocus this election on the economy and other issues at hand! I urge each of you to reach out and write to a friend in a battleground or red state letting them know the facts. Let's put Amercia back to work and restore our standing of prestige in the world order!
The latest McCain campaign strategy is to paint the Obama-Biden ticket as being "on the fringe". We must, each of us refocus this election on the economy and other issues at hand! I urge each of you to reach out and write to a friend in a battleground or red state letting them know the facts. Let's put Amercia back to work and restore our standing of prestige in the world order!
The 2008 Republican National Convention was more confused and unfocused than any other convention of either party in recent memory. Sen. John McCain knows it.
In complete contrast, the GOP conventions of 2000 and 2004 both had a set goal, and they reached it. In 2000, it was the creation of the passionate conservative. Gov. Bush promised a satisfied America that he would continue the growth, prosperity, and peace of the 90's, but with the home grown moral compass of the average American to bring back integrety to the Oval Office. The convention of 2004 was much different. The goal was to remind Americans of the horrors and realities of the post 9-11 world, and the determination and success of Bush's leadership in keeping America safe. The passionate conservative phenomenon won two unwinnable elections for a party that unashamefuly took America back the Reaganomics of deficit spending. Democrats must not forget those lessons, even if the Republicans themselves have.
John McCain is a republican of another generation. He has never fully identified with the Reagan conservatives or the Bush elites. McCain is now the head of a party not yet willing to admit the wrong doings of a failed administration, so will find it difficult to give the power of full leadership to that of McCain. The Senator from Nevada is fully aware of this challenge. If he didnt before the convention, he sure knows it now.
Neither convention made an attempt to sway and rewrite the narrative of this election to focus on the issues. Things are still more about personalities,rather than the lives of struggeling Americans. It is shameful, and irresponsible.
In complete contrast, the GOP conventions of 2000 and 2004 both had a set goal, and they reached it. In 2000, it was the creation of the passionate conservative. Gov. Bush promised a satisfied America that he would continue the growth, prosperity, and peace of the 90's, but with the home grown moral compass of the average American to bring back integrety to the Oval Office. The convention of 2004 was much different. The goal was to remind Americans of the horrors and realities of the post 9-11 world, and the determination and success of Bush's leadership in keeping America safe. The passionate conservative phenomenon won two unwinnable elections for a party that unashamefuly took America back the Reaganomics of deficit spending. Democrats must not forget those lessons, even if the Republicans themselves have.
John McCain is a republican of another generation. He has never fully identified with the Reagan conservatives or the Bush elites. McCain is now the head of a party not yet willing to admit the wrong doings of a failed administration, so will find it difficult to give the power of full leadership to that of McCain. The Senator from Nevada is fully aware of this challenge. If he didnt before the convention, he sure knows it now.
Neither convention made an attempt to sway and rewrite the narrative of this election to focus on the issues. Things are still more about personalities,rather than the lives of struggeling Americans. It is shameful, and irresponsible.
I received the following email from aBarbara Davis this morning. She is apparently also a member of the 2008 Presidential Blog group. Barbara wrote:
"The fact that the taxes are too high on American Companies is why they are leaving the US. The US will become a service nation soon if we raise their taxes more. This will cause even more crime and poverty. We have to lower their taxes in order to bring the companies back to the US and put people back to work.
You need to get your facts right before you place the blame."
Someone please explain to me how an "American Company" can relocate to a communist nation - like China - and make a profit? The tax rate there is suppose to be 100%.
If a democrat can believe the real problem is that companies are taxed too much then we certainly should not take victory in November for granted. No matter how silly the republican policies may seem to us.
I've watched all the RNC attack dogs speak this evening during the Republican Convention. After Sarah Palin's speech energizing their base with vicious attacks on Barack Obama, the smear and several factual inacuracies have been duly noted. 'Sarah the Barracuda' as she was known in high school, has bitten us all and this deed will not be forgotten!
Sarah Palin was FOR the 'Bridge to Nowhere' before Congress told her state, Alaska would have to pay for the project. As Mayor, Sarah Palin hired a consultant to bring earmarks to her city when she's publicly claimed to be against earmarks. Sara Palin has not even traveled outside the US until last year and she managed to leave office with the city of Wasilla in debt (perhaps better spoken of as an 8,000-10,000 person town rather than city). I've even heard she attempted to fire a librarian who refused to ban some books at the library not to mention the current 'trooper gate' scandal. And not to mention, I haven't even touched on her far right Creationist views including no sex education whatsoever in the class room other than abstinence. It resulted in her 17 year old having a child out of wedlock so like it or not it's news.
What we as Democrats truly can benefit from is to get Sarah Palin in front of a camera speaking her true views in an unscripted atmosphere. She was scheduled to appear on Larry King Live but the McCain campaign canceled her appearance for fear of this very thing.
The time has come to step into the ring. There is no room for error. We must keep our attacks to arguments that make sense to swing voters, independents and Republicans on the fence. I'd like you to remember one thing and that's McCain and Palin = MP and that spells Military Police which is not good for my America!
Sarah Palin was FOR the 'Bridge to Nowhere' before Congress told her state, Alaska would have to pay for the project. As Mayor, Sarah Palin hired a consultant to bring earmarks to her city when she's publicly claimed to be against earmarks. Sara Palin has not even traveled outside the US until last year and she managed to leave office with the city of Wasilla in debt (perhaps better spoken of as an 8,000-10,000 person town rather than city). I've even heard she attempted to fire a librarian who refused to ban some books at the library not to mention the current 'trooper gate' scandal. And not to mention, I haven't even touched on her far right Creationist views including no sex education whatsoever in the class room other than abstinence. It resulted in her 17 year old having a child out of wedlock so like it or not it's news.
What we as Democrats truly can benefit from is to get Sarah Palin in front of a camera speaking her true views in an unscripted atmosphere. She was scheduled to appear on Larry King Live but the McCain campaign canceled her appearance for fear of this very thing.
The time has come to step into the ring. There is no room for error. We must keep our attacks to arguments that make sense to swing voters, independents and Republicans on the fence. I'd like you to remember one thing and that's McCain and Palin = MP and that spells Military Police which is not good for my America!
First of all, congratulations to Gov. Palin for making history as the GOPs first female vp candidate. We all should recognize what a step this is for the GOP and America.
However, we are losing our focus. Obamas numbers, as we have seen, go up whenever the election is about the issues. Obama and supporters alike need to get back to that. McCain cannot win if the election is about the issues and the solutions.
If this election is about personality-i.e. character- McCain will win thanks to the midwest. Obama needs to get his focus and talk about the economy, healthcare, education, and hammer away on his tax policy. As someone from the great state of Ohio, I know first hand that people will vote for the candidate who talks about job creation. Obama needs to talk about the 5 million jobs he wants to create. If he doesnt, he will lose big here.
Obama supporters...
During the primary, you talked more about character than you did about the issues. You cannot do that in the general election. Outline and explain in simple english Obamas plans for America to your friends and family. Dont go around bashing on Palins daughter, YOU WILL LOSE VOTES. Talk about the economy, job creation, and healthcare. Hammer away on those three, and youll get the votes Obama needs.
We cannot make the same mistakes of 2000 and 2004. This year HAS to be different. Obama-Biden need to win.
However, we are losing our focus. Obamas numbers, as we have seen, go up whenever the election is about the issues. Obama and supporters alike need to get back to that. McCain cannot win if the election is about the issues and the solutions.
If this election is about personality-i.e. character- McCain will win thanks to the midwest. Obama needs to get his focus and talk about the economy, healthcare, education, and hammer away on his tax policy. As someone from the great state of Ohio, I know first hand that people will vote for the candidate who talks about job creation. Obama needs to talk about the 5 million jobs he wants to create. If he doesnt, he will lose big here.
Obama supporters...
During the primary, you talked more about character than you did about the issues. You cannot do that in the general election. Outline and explain in simple english Obamas plans for America to your friends and family. Dont go around bashing on Palins daughter, YOU WILL LOSE VOTES. Talk about the economy, job creation, and healthcare. Hammer away on those three, and youll get the votes Obama needs.
We cannot make the same mistakes of 2000 and 2004. This year HAS to be different. Obama-Biden need to win.
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