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Gatsby
Joined: 09 Feb 2007
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 Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 5:20 pm Post subject: Barack Obama endorsements |
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Scott McClellan is on Larry King talking about his endorsement of Obama. Very interesting. This is a guy who knows a thing or two about how the White House runs.
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Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan, the consummate Bush loyalist no more, has a knack for dropping bombshells.
He did it with his tell-all book about life and lies in President Bush's inner circle.
And now comes his grinning declaration, taped for a new weekend CNN show, "D.L. Hughley Breaks the News," that he has a favorite in the presidential election, and it is not John McCain.
His face lighting up as bright as his French blue shirt, it is clear what he's going to say before he opens his mouth.
"I will be voting for Barack Obama," he declares.
So the week that began when one former top Bush administration figure, former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, endorsed Obama ends with the endorsement of another.
White House Press Secretary Dana Perino indicated as recently as Wednesday that the president indended to vote for McCain.
� James Gerstenzang |
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/presidentbush/2008/10/mcclellan-obama.html
I wonder how many other Republicans will jump ship before the election?
And then there's Opie for Obama, and Fonz for Obama, and Andy Taylor, and ....
http://www.ajc.com/services/content/news/stories/2008/10/24/pebrief.html |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 5:32 pm Post subject: |
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This thread is for praising "the people's hero," Barack Obama.
We have not seen one of this for at least several minutes on this forum... |
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Gatsby
Joined: 09 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 6:26 pm Post subject: |
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The New York Times:
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October 24, 2008
Editorial
Barack Obama for President
Hyperbole is the currency of presidential campaigns, but this year the nation�s future truly hangs in the balance.
The United States is battered and drifting after eight years of President Bush�s failed leadership. He is saddling his successor with two wars, a scarred global image and a government systematically stripped of its ability to protect and help its citizens � whether they are fleeing a hurricane�s floodwaters, searching for affordable health care or struggling to hold on to their homes, jobs, savings and pensions in the midst of a financial crisis that was foretold and preventable.
As tough as the times are, the selection of a new president is easy. After nearly two years of a grueling and ugly campaign, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois has proved that he is the right choice to be the 44th president of the United States.
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Mr. Obama has met challenge after challenge, growing as a leader and putting real flesh on his early promises of hope and change. He has shown a cool head and sound judgment. We believe he has the will and the ability to forge the broad political consensus that is essential to finding solutions to this nation�s problems.
In the same time, Senator John McCain of Arizona has retreated farther and farther to the fringe of American politics, running a campaign on partisan division, class warfare and even hints of racism. His policies and worldview are mired in the past. His choice of a running mate so evidently unfit for the office was a final act of opportunism and bad judgment that eclipsed the accomplishments of 26 years in Congress.
Given the particularly ugly nature of Mr. McCain�s campaign, the urge to choose on the basis of raw emotion is strong. But there is a greater value in looking closely at the facts of life in America today and at the prescriptions the candidates offer. The differences are profound.
Mr. McCain offers more of the Republican every-man-for-himself ideology, now lying in shards on Wall Street and in Americans� bank accounts. Mr. Obama has another vision of government�s role and responsibilities.
In his convention speech in Denver, Mr. Obama said, �Government cannot solve all our problems, but what it should do is that which we cannot do for ourselves: protect us from harm and provide every child a decent education; keep our water clean and our toys safe; invest in new schools and new roads and new science and technology.�
Since the financial crisis, he has correctly identified the abject failure of government regulation that has brought the markets to the brink of collapse.... |
More:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/24/opinion/24fri1.html?hp=&pagewanted=all |
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Gatsby
Joined: 09 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 2:48 am Post subject: |
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GOP defections buffet McCain as end draws near
Carolyn Lochhead, Chronicle Washington Bureau
Saturday, October 25, 2008
(10-25) 04:00 PDT Washington - -- Republican nominee John McCain heads into the final week of a historic presidential election beset by a wave of high-profile GOP defections and the second-guessing and recriminations from ostensibly friendly quarters that losing campaigns attract like flies.
McCain still could pull out an upset on a last-minute wave of voter hesitation about Obama, much like Hillary Rodham Clinton came back in New Hampshire after the polls counted her out, but political professionals are putting their bets on McCain going back to Phoenix, not rising like one.
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell's broadside on Sunday was only the first of the recent GOP defections. The latest arrived Friday from former Republican Gov. William Weld of Massachusetts, who had endorsed former Gov. Mitt Romney over McCain in the GOP primary. Now Weld endorses Obama, calling the Democrat "a once-in-a-lifetime candidate who will transform our politics and restore America's standing in the world."
On Thursday, former Republican Gov. Arne Carlson of Minnesota endorsed Obama and ripped McCain in an essay for the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Carlson said he saw in the Democrat "a remarkably disciplined and focused leader who has the potential to become a truly great president."
Just as striking as the tone of the GOP endorsements for Obama was the noticeable chill coming from the state parties in such McCain must-win states as Virginia and Florida.
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, whom McCain considered and rejected as his running mate, said he had not appeared in any McCain ads because he wasn't asked. Reports aired that the state GOP is saving some of its war chest for the next election cycle. Similar tensions between the McCain campaign and the state party have surfaced in Virginia.
Former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge, also rejected for the vice presidential slot, offered that McCain's chances in his state would have been better if he had been on the ticket. "I think we'd be foolish not to admit it publicly," Ridge said.... |
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/24/MNU113NN0A.DTL&type=printable |
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caniff
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Location: All over the map
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| Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 3:30 am Post subject: |
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| Gopher wrote: |
This thread is for praising "the people's hero," Barack Obama.
We have not seen one of this for at least several minutes on this forum... |
There's still time to change your mind, Gopher. I know that personally I wouldn't think any less of someone who did. I'm sure most here feel the same way.
C'mon, just between you and me, don't you get the feeling that perhaps you picked the wrong horse in this race?
(Although you switching sides would detract from the forum somewhat in that we'd be left with a circle-jerk.) |
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ReeseDog
Joined: 05 Apr 2008
Location: Classified
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| Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 3:53 am Post subject: |
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| Gopher wrote: |
This thread is for praising "the people's hero," Barack Obama.
We have not seen one of this for at least several minutes on this forum... |
There's still time to change your mind, Gopher. I know that personally I wouldn't think any less of someone who did. I'm sure most here feel the same way.
C'mon, just between you and me, don't you get the feeling that perhaps you picked the wrong horse in this race?
(Although you switching sides would detract from the forum somewhat in that we'd be left with a circle-jerk.) |
He won't switch sides, and he's not backing the wrong horse. Just because it appears that the better man won't win this time doesn't mean that he's going to bail on his principles. |
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itaewonguy
Joined: 25 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 3:57 am Post subject: |
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| Barack Obama for President ! |
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Gatsby
Joined: 09 Feb 2007
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newteacher
Joined: 31 May 2007
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| Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 6:30 am Post subject: |
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| ReeseDog wrote: |
| caniff wrote: |
| Gopher wrote: |
This thread is for praising "the people's hero," Barack Obama.
We have not seen one of this for at least several minutes on this forum... |
There's still time to change your mind, Gopher. I know that personally I wouldn't think any less of someone who did. I'm sure most here feel the same way.
C'mon, just between you and me, don't you get the feeling that perhaps you picked the wrong horse in this race?
(Although you switching sides would detract from the forum somewhat in that we'd be left with a circle-jerk.) |
He won't switch sides, and he's not backing the wrong horse. Just because it appears that the better man won't win this time doesn't mean that he's going to bail on his principles. |
Who gopher or McCain? Because McCain bailed on his principles a few years ago. I think it was the moment he gave the speech at Bob Jones U. |
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