I guess that explains why he he plans to pull government oversight from the teamsters union so that they can go back to their old mafia ways and he wants to do away with secret voting in union elections so that union members will vote (pressured) out in the open on a show of hands. He was pictured with Hoffa arm in arm with Hoffa the other day after this undertaking was given. This is just like the corrupt political machine politics that "nurtured" Obama in Chicago where he was groomed ((see Ryzko ( who financed Obama's home) trial for seedy details of Chicago's corruption)). He joined Rev Wrights "Church" twenty years ago to get the voter support of his congregation (probably over twenty thousand votes there when he ran for State office). Wright practices Liberation theology which teaches us that the black gods will kill the white gods (if u do not believe me then do some research on the web). When he ran for the U.S. senate he managed to get secret/ sealed transcripts from his Senate opponents divorce case and spill their contents all over the Chicago press just before the elections and his opponent went down in flames. He has been meddling in Kenyan politics for some time, he supported a Muslim Marxist named Odinga who lost in the December elections, his supporters then went on a rampage and burned about sixty Christians to death in a Kenyan Church in January. Do u want me to continue? there is a lot more of this stuff??
I guess that explains why he he plans to pull government oversight from the teamsters union so that they can go back to their old mafia ways
He has been meddling in Kenyan politics for some time, he supported a Muslim Marxist named Odinga who lost in the December elections, his supporters then went on a rampage and burned about sixty Christians to death in a Kenyan Church in January. Do u want me to continue? there is a lot more of this stuff??
The Kikuyu, Kenya’s largest ethnic group, are accused of turning their dominance of politics and business to the detriment of others.
Odinga is from the Luo tribe, a smaller but still major tribe that says it has been marginalized.
There are more than 40 tribes in Kenya, and political leaders have often used unemployed and uneducated young men to intimidate opponents. While Kibaki and Odinga have support from across the tribal spectrum, the youth responsible for the violence tend to see politics in strictly ethnic terms.
The European Union and the United States have refused to congratulate Kibaki, and the EU and four top Kenyan election officials have called for an independent inquiry. In Britain, Kenya’s former colonial ruler, Prime Minister Gordon Brown urged Kibaki and Odinga to hold talks.
The 2007–2008 Kenyan crisis refers to a political, economic, and humanitarian crisis that erupted in Kenya after incumbent President Mwai Kibaki was declared the winner of the presidential election held on December 27, 2007. Supporters of Kibaki's opponent, Raila Odinga of the Orange Democratic Movement, alleged electoral manipulation, a notion widely confirmed by international observers.[7]
In addition to staging several nonviolent protests, they went on a violent rampage in several parts of the country. Police shot a number of demonstrators, causing more violence directed toward the police. Violence escalated and at first was directed mainly against Kikuyu people – the community of which Kibaki is a member – living outside their traditional settlement areas, especially in the Rift Valley Province.
Some of the Kikuyu also engaged in violence against groups supportive of Odinga, primarily Luos and Kalenjin.
On February 28, 2008, Kibaki and Odinga signed a power-sharing agreement called the National Accord and Reconciliation Act, which establishes the office of prime minister and creates a coalition government.[1] The power-sharing Cabinet, headed by Odinga as Prime Minister, was eventually named on April 13, after lengthy negotiations over its composition;[8] it was sworn in on April 17.
Well done Doris
very polite of you to answer the unsubstantiated claims of those who would have the rest of us "open our eye's"
Well done Doris
very polite of you to answer the unsubstatiated claims of those who would have the rest of us "open our eye's"
The mere fact that Obama needs to be photographed arm in arm and smiling with their management tells u that he is totally clueless. All he is after their money and support.
so these bomb scares, - would they be by Moslim terrorists maybe? - or redneck terrorists? or racist terrorists? etc etc... Did you hear there were bomb scares in three of Obama's campaign offices in Indiana on Tuesday their time?
My TV
words and music by Roy Zimmerman
© 2004 (From "Homeland")
My TV used to sit in my living room
Where it had sat for over 200 years
Through big family fights
Long, chilly nights
And days full of heartache and tears
My TV was the focal point of my living room
It could inform and entertain and inspire
'Til one fateful day
It was stolen away
By your brother, and your lover, and Reba McEntire
You can steal my TV
You can watch my TV
But it's still my TV
Well, I can see the metaphor is lost on some of you. And I don't wanna come off like some kind of elitist intellectual. So, at the risk of dumbin' it down for you, I'm gonna sign it again. And I'm gonna interpret for you all the deep poetical significance of each and every line.
My TV (the presidency of the United States)
Use to sit (be reposed)
In my living room (in the trust of the American people)
Where it had sat for over 200 years (Makes sense now, don't it?)
Through big family fights (the civil war)
Long, chilly nights (the cold war)
And days full of heartache and tears (my own puberty)
My TV (the presidency)
Was the focal point (focal point)
Of my living room (of the world's attention)
It could inform (Abraham Lincoln)
And entertain (Bill Clinton)
And inspire (Gerald Ford)
'Til one fateful day (December 12, 2000)
It was stolen (arrested from democratic control by means of media manipulation, voter intimidation, judicial activism, collusion, nepotism and outright fraud) away
By your brother (Jeb Bush)
And your lover (Katherine Harris)
And Reba McEntire (Sandra Day O'Connor)
You can steal my TV
You can watch my TV
But it's still my TV
Yeah, you can steal it
You can even watch it
But it's still my (belonging to the American people, many of whom have fought in grisly foreign wars, presumably to preserve the right to vote) TV
I notice that Barack Obama's book "Audacity of hope", was taken from a sermon by Rev Jeremiah A Wright. The McCain camp are probably building up a campaign plan that heavily relies on extending the damage. Obama's article "A politics of Conscience" asks as many questions as it answers.
... some pastors I was working with came up to me and asked if I was a member of a church. “If you’re organizing churches,” they said, “it might be helpful if you went to church once in a while.” And I thought, “Well, I guess that makes sense.”
Somehow, somewhere along the way, faith stopped being used to bring us together and started being used to drive us apart. It got hijacked. Part of it’s because of the so-called leaders of the Christian Right, who’ve been all too eager to exploit what divides us. At every opportunity, they’ve told evangelical Christians that Democrats disrespect their values and dislike their Church, while suggesting to the rest of the country that religious Americans care only about issues like abortion and gay marriage; school prayer and intelligent design. There was even a time when the Christian Coalition determined that its number one legislative priority was tax cuts for the rich. I don’t know what Bible they’re reading, but it doesn’t jibe with my version.
I don't know about clueless, sydneysider.
After all he is a politician and don't they do what they have to do, to get votes wherever they can.
I've no idea about his sentiments toward the teamsters, but from a political perspective it may be one of his master-strokes, eh.
Didn't Bush do something similar with the religious right... er, well maybe he is religious right!
As they said on PMWest Virginia votes/caucuses to-day. This State has two Democratic Senators and a Democratic Governor. How this state votes, and it is considered a bellweather state will determine Obama's fate in the coming elections. Current polls have Obama (v Hilary) in distant last place in a State that is very heavily Democratic. I suspect that he is toast.
"The White House is won in the swing states, and I am winning the swing states."
Mrs Clinton is expected to make the case to the superdelegates that her success among working-class whites makes her indispensable to Democrats.
He left the state before the results came out last night to campaign in Missouri, an important election battleground. Then he will turn his attention to Florida and Michigan, two states where he did not campaign because of a dispute over the primary calendar. He will spend three days in Florida next week, trying to soothe the feeling of party activists who found their votes for Mrs Clinton disallowed.
189 delegates left. Oregon and Kentucky vote next Tuesday, while Puerto Rico votes on 1 June and Montana and South Dakota on 3 June.
Obama lost by 30 points. He expected to win only 20!
28 delegates were at stake... He won 10 she won 23... 5 not allocated.
http://edition.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/scorecard/
Obama: Total 1881... pledged: 1599... supers: 282
Clinton: Total 1713... pledged: 1440... supers: 273
* He has 144 to go
* She has 312 to go
Obama is 168 ahead.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/article3701165.ece
Silly me! Back in February I thought Dodd might be the VP...
________________________________________
From: Barack Obama [mailto:info@barackobama.com]
Sent: Thursday, 15 May 2008 10:50 AM
To: Doris *******
Subject: John Edwards
Doris --
I have some very exciting news.
My good friend John Edwards is endorsing our campaign and joining our movement for change.
Last night, Joshua Denton, a Democratic Party delegate from New Hampshire who had supported Edwards, said he will support Obama following Edwards's endorsement, the Associated Press reported.
Edwards made a point of praising Clinton last night before explaining his reasons for picking Obama. "We are a stronger party because Hillary Clinton is a Democrat, we are a stronger country because of her years of service, and we're going to have a stronger nominee in the fall because of her work," he said.
During his run for the presidency, Edwards had criticized Obama for not being tough enough to challenge the special interests in Washington and for proposing a health-care expansion plan that he said was not truly universal.
At the same time, Edwards had been critical of Clinton's acceptance of campaign donations from federal lobbyists—donations that Obama rejected in his presidential campaign.
On CNN, Clinton said she agreed with one of her close friends and supporters, Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.), who said that Clinton's use of the term "hard-working Americans, white Americans" to describe a key demographic that has been rallying to her side was the "dumbest thing" she could have said.
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