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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ospQeSnsc8E&eurl
Barack Obama is the first president-elect since Ike to take a train to Washington. He picked up Joe Biden in Delaware.
In the background is Obama’s “Organizing for America,” which builds on Barack Obama’s campaign colossus. He announced it today.
So in case you didn’t get the message, the election for 2012 has begun and the future President Obama is not taking anything for granted. He’s going to beat the Republicans before they even anoint the new RNC chair. Permanent campaign? Maybe, but O-Biden doesn’t intend to have only one term if they can help it. Mainly because with all the challenges in front of them it will take two terms to get the job done.
I want the Presidency in the hands of the Democrats for the next 16 years. I’ll be 88 by the time 16 years goes by and trust that the country will be back on its feet. I trust the Republicans about as far as I can throw an elephant.
…and here’s an AMEN to that, JaneAustin!
Jane Austen | 01.17.2009 – 2:16 pm | #
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Not long enough for me Jane, I will turn 76 16 years from now!
fantastic speech in Baltimore
fantastic speech in Baltimore
Not long enough for me Jane, I will turn 76 16 years from now!
SusanElizabeth1949 | 01.17.2009 – 4:01 pm | #
Then if you don’t mind I’ll pass the baton to you SE. I don’t know what I’ll be able to do at 88 (God willing He gives me these years) but don’t let the 70s knock you out of political campaigning. It didn’t knock me out; was just rough on the feet. But I have dr. Scholls.
This is absolutely amazing. And Jane I will be 87 in 16 years so let’s hope we are both on this blog at least that long.
We just got home and I missed almost everything. Did see his speech in Philly which was wonderful. Had to buy a new dishwasher, coffee pot and hot water heater. What a day.
Good angle, TM.
Love Train today.
I honestly don’t see this as campaign rhetoric. I see it as recognition that they need to take care of business. If America’s democracy, which is relatively new in terms of human years, is to survive, then the cynicism must not always win.
They need to do the job they said they would do.
I’ve been giving a lot of thought to the excitement over the Obama suggestion that people volunteer on MLK day.
Skip the rest, btw, if you’re bored with my “thinks.”
But I’ve integrated volunteer work into my life seriously for 20 years. It’s just now is part of my own personal identity. It’s daily. I won’t go into the details. But I can’t imagine me without that.
I think it’s fabulous that the spirit for volunteerism is being reignited. When we work within our communities for fun and for free, then we have a stake in that community and how it thrives.
It’s that simple.
Not everything about America is sheer capitalism.
I personally watched the election and thought more than 100 times, “Good gravy, these people have no sense of anything bigger than themselves. Obama truly is representing that to them.”
I still think I’m right about that one, but I also think that Biden and Obama must follow through on that.
To the best of their abilities….
People are completely sick of themselves. The negativity has reached such a level that it’s insanity. The insane hatred of Bush, which I can now almost guarantee you, will be not a lot different than Obama’s policies, is nuts.
All that anger is simply insane.
“The insane hatred of Bush,..AnninCA | 01.17.2009 – 9:08 pm | # “
“Insane hatred of Bush”? INSANE hatred of Bush?! What, you think the hatred of Bush/WarCriminal is uncalled for?! Just because he and his crime family are responsible, DIRRECTLY responsible for the DEATHS of upwards to a MILLION HUMAN BEINGS who never did a THING to America and posed no real threat? Just because him and his repugnantklan pshycoreligus wingnuts shredded the Constitution and tried their damnedest to make us a police state? Just because he took a couple of hundred billion dollars of surplus and gave us a depression and a deficit that defies calculation? Just because of him and the inept political HACKS he put in places of responsibility our great institutions of public protection are destroyed?, “insane hatred”? AnninCA, this is a serious question. Are YOU insane?
Secular you have to understand that AnninCA voted for McCain and loves Palin. She says she’s liberal but I really find that hard to believe.
You were right on in what you said though.
I’m with secularh.
Anyone who can label this “insane hatred” of Bush needs to pull head from posterior. Considering what Bush-Cheney have done to this country’s foreign policy, but also the dismantling of our Constitution, throw in ruining the integrity of the executive branch, I’d say we have a lot to be angry about.
My fondest wish is that this criminal and all the criminals that make up this the most corrupt, lawless administration in our history will be held accountable, investigated, indicted, tried and if found guilty sentenced to the full extent of the law. Up to and including as far as I am concerned treason and a death penalty. These criminals have had NO problem demanding capital indictments against people for bogus crimes. I think they should be held to the letter of the law accountable and eligable for maximum punishment.
I wait to see how you guys will handle the exact same policies that Bush promoted.
To this date, I’ve not seen one whit of difference.
Not on TARP, not on Iraq, not on Gaza.
What makes ME laugh?
The notion that this is CHANGE.
Where?
What?
Show me!
Seriously, Obama is sure not going to prosecute the Bush administration. The angry left will just have to get over that fantasy.
And he’s not going to turn away from Israel.
He’s not going to blast out the crooks on Wall St.
Just what do you guys think he’s going to change?
Seriously, I’m asking.
He’s inspiring.
That’s all that I think he’s going to bring to the table.
Inspiration is good stuff.
I like it, which is why I’m not in the least annoyed with him.
But have you yet seen a single policy decision that reflects a change?
I haven’t.
Bush angered people beyond my own comprehension. I’ll never quite get it, I’m sure.
But Obama?
He’s no dummy. He gets it. He’s continuing the same policies.