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Some are pleading that regardless of which man gets elected--McCain or Obama--things will not change, business will go on as usual. That might encourage some to opt out of the election process, but it is astonishingly naive. First, observations on the clinton eight years from such voices are flawed, possibly poisoned by democrat party talking point lies claiming clinton era federal tax revenue surpluses. There has not been a surplus since the Democrats funneled all tax revenues (even FICA social security taxes collected) into a 'general fund' from which Democrats and Republicans have over spent, creating an ongoing national debt...

From the website Atlas Shrugs, June 17, 2008: Watch this video of the conflict in Kenya months back [see link below]. Odinga and Obama are Luo. Odinga and his American counterpart and strategist Obama both campaigned on this canard of "change". Obama campaigned for Odinga. Adam pointed out that Obama's been in Nairobi politicking more recently than he's been to Iraq. Why now does Obama pretend he doesn't know him? Listen as the Luo calls itself the "Taliban" in the video. It's graphic, it's gruesome but it is who Obama supported. Watch the whole thing, particularly the Luos burning a...

I have an idea for a commercial .... opens with CHANGE, CHANGE, CHANGE, CHANGE, CHANGE, CHANGE ..... then you see someone hold out their hand holding some CHANGE (nickels, dimes, etc) talking about how obama plan would worsen economy and small business .... then at end coin toss ... end up on "tails, you lose !"

BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, Oct. 10, 2008 – A new park is setting the stage for progress in one of Afghanistan’s most impoverished areas. A soldier from the New Zealand provincial reconstruction team stands guard while U.S. Army Capt. Eileen Stiffey, Task Force Warrior project purchasing officer, and John Weckera, political advisor to the New Zealand PRT, await access into the Woman’s and Family Park in Afghanistan’s Bamyan province, Sept. 25, 2008. U.S. Army photo  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Bamyan Valley has a rugged beauty unmatched by most of Afghanistan, but it remains one of the poorest and...

Raila Odinga's official website: Your "Agent of Change" (no joke)http://www.raila07.com/

Obama Song Brings Back Memories By Nonie Darwish FrontPageMagazine.com | 10/3/2008 I was born and raised as a Muslim in the Middle East and lived for 30 years in oppressive dictatorships and police states. I remember the daily bombardment on Arab radio of praise and songs of adoration of the Egyptian dictator president Gamal Abdel Nasser. ‘Ya Gamal ya Habib Al Malayeen, ya Gamal,’ that is Arabic for Gamal beloved by millions and the song goes on to say, we are following you in your road and mission. Day in and day out songs like that was chanted by Egyptian...

Michael Bloomberg is expected tomorrow to announce he will seek a third term as mayor of New York, challenging the city's term-limits law during a financial crisis that threatens to damage its economy. In running for re-election, he would be reversing course after years of supporting mayoral term limits. The 66-year-old mayor could help bail out beleaguered Wall Street with a personal cheque – he has a net worth estimated at $20bn and has waived a salary from the city. He was once a partner at now-defunct Salomon Brothers investment bank and his company's financial terminals grace virtually every trading...

Sing for Change About Us Sing for Change was a confluence of hard work, good will, and shared vision. Inspired by ideas raised at a grassroots Obama fundraiser, a music teacher, Kathy Sawada, and the children composed and rehearsed the songs in less than two weeks. Several musicians heard of the effort and volunteered to accompany the children. Parents and older siblings designed and provided the T-Shirts and the banner. There’s a first for everything, but rarely do so many firsts come together at once: for the children and their parents, this is their first performance, first video, first banner,...

Democrats are noted for some real catchy slogans during campaigns. In 1960, John Kennedy ran under “A time for greatness.” By 1964, his successor, Lyndon Johnson used “All the way with LBJ.” In 1976 Jimmy Carter used, “A Leader, For a Change.” What a canard that one proved to be. In 1984 we heard “America Needs a Change” from the failed candidacy of Walter Mondale. By 1992 Bill Clinton won with “Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow” followed by another win with “Building a bridge to the 21st century” in 1996. Nancy Pelosi ran under “A New Direction for America” in...

McCain/Palin 2008 “Change You Won’t Regret” © 2008 by Lisa Mei Norton & “BigDawg” Liberals on the left, conservatives on the right Independents on the fence, the media startin’ fights... Bloggers posting rumors in place of the facts Wasting our time with their personal attacks. Well, here’s a little something we can promise you, We won’t sit around and “yak” the way the others do. We put our country first, the way it ought to be Protect our way of life in the Land of the Free. *Change is only good if it makes things better We can make a...

These are serious times," said Barack Obama recently. "And they call for a serious debate about where we need to take the nation.”[5] That's true! So where does he want "to take our nation?" How does his version of "service" fit his vision of CHANGE? And what will it cost in terms of freedom, privacy, taxes, and government control? There's nothing wrong with the old voluntary, personal service to the poor and needy. For centuries, Christian missionaries have given their lives and comforts to serve God among the sick, hungry and dying people in distant parts of the world. Others...

FORWARD OPERATING BASE WAR EAGLE, Iraq, Sept. 18, 2008 – A Spring, Texas, native who’s serving his second tour in Iraq has seen Baghdad’s Sadr City district as the scene of heavy fighting and as a community with a promising future. Army Staff Sgt. Matthew Radcliffe, a Spring, Texas, native, provides security for a member of the Striker Brigade command team during a patrol through northern Baghdad’s Adhamiyah district, Aug. 14, 2008. Radcliffe is a team leader with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3rd Special Troops Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Multinational Division Baghdad. U.S. Army photo...

James Duke Mason, son of famous international singer and former Go-Go's lead singer Belinda Carlisle is an Obama supporter and wants to raise $1,000 for the campaign prior to Oct. 24th. He says "I recognize that Obama will change America".... he also said that "My Mom and her friends have already given me $315.00".... he wants to be part of the "movement of change in America". James has lived in France since he was a toddler. Belinda moved her family (her husband is Morgan Mason, son of famed film actor James Mason) to the French countryside in 1992.

Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois today exhorted his supporters to get extremely aggressive in their communities to persuade their neighbors to vote for Obama in November.Speaking to a crowd in Elko, Nevada, Obama was quoted by the AP as urging the people to be his 'ambassadors':"I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face. "And if they tell you that, 'Well, we're...

The constant whining from the press is like a gnat in your ear: "McCain stole Obama's Change message!" But it brings the issue front and center: Which man is best equipped to usher in "change"? First off, lets drop the kick-butt, take names fantasy. We may relish the vision of a muscular Obama or an angry McCain swinging senators and lobbyists around by their expensive neckties, or publicly shaming them on national TV, but that's just not going to happen. The entrenched DC powers are a bipartisan collection of moneyed backscratchers and button-holers who do a lot of winking...

“I've been talking about change since we started this campaign. I talked about change when we were up, I talked about change when were down. But now suddenly John McCain and his running mate Sarah Palin, they're out there saying 'we're for change.' 'We're for change too.' Well I'm glad that they now agree with me but we've got to change America. But let's be absolutely clear about what change means – change isn’t just a word.” – Barack Obama, Democratic Presidential Nominee Although, in case change is just a word, it’s Obama’s word, not McCain’s. It’s true. “Change” has...

ABC New's Sunlen Miller reports: Hey, what happened to "Change We Can Believe In?" Barack Obama has suddenly changed his campaign slogan and signage replacing the 19 month Obama campaign event staple with a new one: "Change We Need." Obama_change_closeThe new slogan slowly started debuting after the convention but wasn't fully debuted as a package until this weekend in New Hampshire. The new campaign slogan is coupled with a new podium donning the familiar – yet slightly different - message, new campaign signs, and a large banner on stage behind Obama.

Love him or hate him, John McCain is a maverick. Whether as a lone wolf initially pushing the surge, or in Conjunction with Democrats he is a maverick. He seems to be at the epicenter of every major issue. In fact, with McCain it is not a love or hate relationship… it’s a love and hate relationship. Sometimes the right loves him and the left hates him, sometimes it the other way around. That’s a maverick. Sarah Palin, too, is a maverick. In two years as governor she has brought more true reform than Joe Biden and Barack Obama combined...

ASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military conceded it was not winning the fight against an increasingly deadly insurgency in Afghanistan and said on Wednesday it would revise its strategy to combat militant safe havens in Pakistan. Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee success in Afghanistan would require more civilian effort beyond the military fight. "Frankly, we're running out of time," Mullen said.

FLINT, Michigan (AFP) — Democrat Barack Obama savaged his White House opponents John McCain and Sarah Palin Monday as hypocrites who were trying to hoodwink US voters with a late conversion to the mantra of change. With polls suggesting the White House race is now deadlocked or turning to McCain's favor, Obama hurled some of his sharpest language yet in attacking both the Arizona senator and the Republican's new running mate from Alaska. At a meeting with workers here in the heartland of Michigan's distressed auto industry, the Illinois senator said he himself had been running as the change candidate...

It’s a shame there are so many stupid people in this country. What’s scary is that these people have the same number of votes as you and me. One. (Well, one legal vote any way.) Watching the political conventions these last two weeks, we’ve seen just how stupid these idiots are. While many political protesters were content to demonstrate their displeasure with America in an orderly fashion, still more of those in the hate-America crowd felt the need to go above and beyond the scope of simple political protest, escalating their actions to criminal acts against people and property. Granted,...

Editor, Times-Dispatch: Each year I get to celebrate Independence Day twice. On June 30 I celebrate my independence day and on July 4 I celebrate America's. This year is special, because it marks the 40th anniversary of my independence. On June 30, 1968, I escaped Communist Cuba and a few months later I was in the United States to stay. That I happened to arrive in Richmond on Thanksgiving Day is just part of the story, but I digress................

It's certainly true that either the next president or next vice president will not be a white male. But does that mean de facto that the country will be run any differently? There is, however, one area where we might have seen real change. The Democrats could have not nominated another lawyer. This may partly explain why former military officer John McCain and working-mom Sarah Palin are polling near even with Obama and his running mate, Joe Biden, in a year that otherwise favors the Democrats. A snowmobiling, fishing and hunting mom of five who was trained as a journalist...

Illinois employers eliminated a total of 9,700 jobs statewide during the month of July, state officials said today, pushing the Illinois unemployment rate leaped from 6.8 percent to 7.3 percent -- the state's highest jobless level in almost 15 years. The national unemployment rate was 5.6 percent.

The Obama Campaign has run on a theme of change… a theme planted like a seed in the fallow minds of his listeners through the supposed “souring” oratory served up by one Barack Obama. A rather tenuous seed as change in this context is no more than a promise that the future will be different. What follows are some of the things that are usually taken for granted when a liberal talks about change, namely: The playing field will be made more level. All Americans will be treated fairly, such as, equal pay for equal work. All Americans should have...

"You have shown what history teaches us - that at defining moments like this one, the change we need doesn't come from Washington. Change comes to Washington."

2004 DNC Schedule Monday Bill Clinton Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) Al Gore Jimmy Carter Gov. Bill Richardson (N.M.) Sen. Barbara Mikulski (Md.) Rep. Tammy Baldwin (Wis.) Rep. Steny Hoyer (Md.) Tuesday Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (Mass.) Sen. Tom Daschle (S.D.) Former Gov. Howard Dean (Vt.) Gov. Janet Napolitano (Ariz.) Barack Obama, Ill. Senate Candidate Wednesday Sen. Patrick Leahy (Vt.) Jesse Jackson Sen. Harry Reid (Nev.) Gov. Ed Rendell (Pa.) Gov. Bill Richardson (N.M.) Thursday Gov. Mark Warner (Va.) Rep. James Clyburn (S.C.) John Sweeney, President of AFL-CIO Sen. Joe Biden (Del.) House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) Sen....

You heard it here first: The Democratic Convention in Denver will go down as a disaster the likes of which have not been seen since Patrick Buchanan's 1992 speech to Republicans in Houston. It's hard to know what Senator Obama was thinking. After returning from speaking to a large outdoor rally in Germany, he headed to Hawaii for a vacation. Meanwhile, the candidate of "change" somehow managed to allow the first night of his convention to be dominated by Senator Kennedy, who ran for president in 1980 and who has been in the Senate since 1962.

Saying we need to break the country’s addiction to fossil fuels, presidential candidate Senator Obama proposed that the nation “exploit it abundant human resources.” Rather than permit oil drilling in Alaska or offshore, Obama suggested that clean energy could be generated by “pedal-power.” Obama boasted that his plan would “not only address the energy crisis, but would simultaneously fight obesity and unemployment.” “We see that a majority of Americans are overweight,” Obama observed. “Why not put these people to work in a way that will not only supply power, but help them slim down?” Under the plan, the 5 million...

The question is: what's wrong with this picture? Think for a moment and then click the link below. Aral Sea in the 21st century Full size

OBAMA/BIDEN: SAME OLD CHANGE I awoke Saturday to find Delaware Senator Joe Biden on the ticket. As I slurped my first cup of coffee and rubbed my sleepy eyes, the enormity of this began to sink in: The Agent for Change We Can Believe In just changed his motto to: "Same Old Change". I will not hide who I am in order to paint false pathos, to pretend (like Claude Rains in "Casablanca") that I am "shocked, shocked to find gambling go on" at Ricks Place, and feign that Senator Obama's choice for the person to be a heartbeat from...

Barack Obama will lose the November election to John McCain unless he overhauls his message of change, outlines specific plans and reassures Americans that he is one of them, according to swing voters in Denver. The results of a focus group held by Frank Luntz, the leading American pollster, on the eve of the Democratic convention should sound alarm bells for the Obama campaign after a month in which Mr McCain, the Republican, has drawn level in the polls. "The way that he gets here to the Democratic nomination - 'change' - is not how he gets there, to the...

Sen. Barack Obama has a problem. And it lives in a hut. His name is George Hussein Onyango Obama, and he is the 26-year-old half brother of Mr. Obama, the multimillionaire autobiographer who neglected to write that his paternal sibling lives on less than a dollar a month in the outer slums of Nairobi, Kenya. They have met twice. Unearthed by Italian Vanity Fair and virtually ignored by the American press, the inconvenient George Obama could emerge as a compelling character in the freshman senator's carefully edited road-to-the-White-House narrative - especially now that his campaign has unleashed a personal attack...

So I just saw the lineup of speakers for the DNC tonight Nancy Pelosi Ted Kennedy Jimmy Carter This is change?

After a century of green uniforms, the last one is being retired from the U.S. Army. The new "Class A" uniform, as of August 21st, 2008, will be the current blue "Dress Uniform.". By 2010, troops graduating from basic training will be issued the "dress blues" as their "Class A" uniform. The "Class B" uniform will be the dress blue trousers and a white shirt with decorations (ribbons, combat badge and so on). For both enlisted and officers, rank will be worn on epaulets. The new uniform "system" is similar to the one the U.S. Marine Corps has been wearing...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVi4rUzf-0Q As a person who is partly of african american descent, I just want to say the comparisons between MLK and Obama are pathetic.

Things Are Getting Rough Out There From McCain spokesman Brian Rogers, in response to the Obama campaign's new offensive on John McCain's houses: Does a guy who made more than $4 million last year, just got back from vacation on a private beach in Hawaii and bought his own million-dollar mansion with the help of a convicted felon really want to get into a debate about houses? Does a guy who worries about the price of arugula and thinks regular people “cling” to guns and religion in the face of economic hardship really want to have a debate about who’s...

http://www.tvland.com/causechange/?cid=YSSP Did you ever want to get involved with a local charity? How about mentoring a child? Maybe you always wanted to volunteer at the senior center down the street? Well now's the time and TV Land is reaching out and encouraging its viewers to give back to society. With the Cause Change initiative you will see regular people just like you who are learning that giving a little can make a big difference. Click on the links below to learn more about different organizations that may need your help.

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An Ohio man with a hatred of paper money slapped down $8,000 in coins at a car dealership to buy a Chevrolet pick-up - then paid the rest by cheque. James Jones, 70, produced 16 coffee cans full of coins to buy his new Chevrolet Silverado in Cincinnati and staff spent 90 minutes counting it. But his coin hoard only covered half of the $16,000 (£8,500) price tag. The man's son said the most amazing thing for him was his father deciding to replace his 1981 pick-up at all. As far back as he could remember, Dennis Jones told the...

Obama Will ‘End 30 Years of Ultra-Right Rule,’ Communist Paper Says Tuesday, August 12, 2008 By Fred Lucas, Staff Writer (CNSNews.com) – The Communist Party USA’s newspaper is defending Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama against potential defectors on the left, saying his candidacy represents a “broad multi-class, multicultural movement.” In a July editorial, “Eye on the Prize,” the People’s Weekly World, the official newspaper of the Communist Party USA, admonished anyone on the left who might consider abandoning Obama. “Barack Obama is not a left candidate,” the editorial said. “This fact has seemingly surprised a number of progressive people who...

Sound familiar? Before you jump to conclusion about the quotation … this is what a gnat might say, finding itself nearing windshield impact. Yes, the brainpower of a gnat is sufficient to know, when things aren’t going well, “Change” is a good idea. Why, then, has the “Change” mantra generated so much excitement over Obama? If good “Judgment” accompanied “Change” … with the aim being better, not just different … “Judgment” that, metaphorically, can keep us from going splat … I could understand. Sadly, many who are excited about Obama and “Change” remain so in the face of indications of...

The Obama campaign announced that from now on all media questions must be submitted in writing, in advance. “Too many trick questions are being asked,” said Harvey Sain, deputy media specialist for the Obama campaign. “The Senator’s message is getting lost in the media’s demand for answers to trivial matters. Iraq, Iran, drilling, taxes…these petty concerns should not be allowed to distract voters from our promise of hope and change.” Sain also questioned the motives of reporters asking such questions. “Are they shills for McCain?” Sain asked. “Or are they closet racists? Either way, we’re putting a stop to it....

The Morning Sun Posted Aug 10, 2008 @ 12:11 AM PITTSBURG — This is just a reminder, for all voters to remember the blurry pictures of your favorite Congressional Democrat running out of the House of Representatives recently, once again not allowing a vote on offshore drilling.  Our supposedly “most ethical congress in history”, with their staggering 9% approval rating, would rather get an early start for their weekend in the Hamptons, instead of doing the job that Americans voted them to do in 2006. I give the House Republicans the “Thumbs Up approval” for staying on the behalf...

Posted at http://www.hillaryclintonforum.net/discussion/showthread.php?t=22916 hipelayne Presidential Member = >1000 Posts Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Atlanta Posts: 1,358 Poster Rank: #59 A powerful message from someone who's "been there!" I just got this from the Confluence. Does this sound familiar This will be considered off-topic — but it isn’t. I thought I’d share this letter which was sent to the Editor of the Times-Dispatch by a gentlemen who escaped Cuba in the 1960’s. His words come from the experience of believing in someone, without taking the time to know who they really are, and the consequences that followed: Subject: Celebration From...

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has seen his lead in Massachusetts and across the nation slip precipitously over the past few months, especially with older, more experienced, voters. In June, Obama was ahead of Republican candidate John McCain by 23 percentage points, but this summer, Obama has been virtually bleeding support in the Bay State. He now leads McCain by only 9 percentage points here. Nationally, Obama's lead varies on an almost daily basis. In recent days, he has been tied with McCain, ahead by 3 points and ahead by 1 point. The fluctuating numbers come on the heels of...

The survey results, obtained prior to Congress breaking for its annual summer recess, is an indication that significant change may be afoot in this year’s congressional elections. In the 1994 and 2006 mid-term elections, just 38 percent of registered voters said they would back incumbents for Congress, which resulted in control of the House switching from one party to the other. In the presidential election year of 1994, only 29 percent of registered voters said they would back incumbents running for re-election, which resulted in a number of congressman losing office, though party control of the House remained unchanged.

Is Obama nano-thin or jello? ... Chris claimed that Obama’s policy and character were “nano thin” — so slight as to be transparent and thus impervious to serious assault. Try to spear his position and like morning mist his position separates, engulfs and reforms. My more simplistic take was that Obama is like a fist full of Jello: whenever you squeeze to get a grip on it’s substance, it simply squishes through your fingers. And oddly a newspaper that is slightly to the left of the American Communist Party agrees. ... Obama offers voters something of which to be wary....

> Dear Editor, Times-Dispatch: > > 'Each year I get to celebrate Independence Day twice. > On June 30 I celebrate my independence day, and on July 4 I celebrate > America's. This year is special, because it marks the 40th anniversary > of my independence. > > 'On June 30, 1968, I escaped Communist Cuba, and a few months later, I > was in the United States to stay. That I happened to arrive in > Richmond on Thanksgiving Day is just part of the story, but I digress. > > 'I've thought a lot about the anniversary this...

Obama’s in trouble. His poll numbers show him losing popularity. Once people got to know him, they began to dislike him. He could no remain a blank slate on which people could project their hopes for the duration of the campaign. When his past began to define him and his politics his “coolness” has morphed into a negative. His self assurance has become obnoxious brashness. McCain’s campaign, no longer immobilized by its desire to be “Mr. Nice Guy” has taken “The Messiah" and have begun to turn his own hype and his adoring acolytes against him. The one thing a...