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On page 103 of Rules for Radicals is this quote from Alinsky, The organizer’s job is to inseminate an invitation for himself, to agitate, introduce ideas, get people pregnant with hope and a desire for change and to identify you as the person most qualified for this purpose. [Emphasis added] Is there anything inherently wrong with wanting people to have hope and to wish for change in their lives? Of course not, but that is not the issue. As is so often the case with Liberals, their original intentions are noble, but the results are often antithetical to those intentions....

WASHINGTON, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Winning The Future. Greater Together. We Don't Quit. They may not be official but those are all phrases that could in one form or another be candidates to become President Barack Obama's re-election slogan. Advisers say a fresh slogan to replace the winning "Change we can believe in" mantra of 2008, is unlikely to appear before Obama knows who his Republican opponent will be and starts big campaign travel swings, likely in the spring or summer.

The 2008 candidate who was “Fired Up and Ready to Go” is coming here: It will cost you $35,800 to go see Barack Obama close up in Medina and perhaps ask the 44th president a question. But this visit will have no public events. The message should go out to Obama from those who still have faded “Hope” stickers on their cars, along with faded hopes: We’re here, too. The failure of Obama to hold a public event is insulting. The man’s job is to serve: Serving requires listening and learning. Instead, the Sunday visit is an exercise in using....

Obama’s Secret Plan? by Ari Bussel “Obama’s Window for Change May Close With Republican Win,” was the headline leading into the mid-term elections, followed the next day by: “Republicans Win Most Governorships, Sweep Midwest on Mounting Discontent,” and “Democrats Face Biggest House Midterm Defeat in Seven Decades.” The President, though, had a pre-planned party in India and elsewhere. Three thousand attendees were invited along, in a celebration that has been ongoing for two years and is expected to last another two. Unemployment at home? Tax the Rich! Broken promises, tough conditions? Blame the Republicans. Health insurance rates will not go...

Patricia Reid is not in her 70s, an age when many Americans continue to work. She is not even in her 60s. She is just 57. But four years after losing her job she cannot, in her darkest moments, escape a nagging thought: she may never work again. College educated, with a degree in business administration, she is experienced, having worked for two decades as an internal auditor and analyst at Boeing before losing that job. But that does not seem to matter, not for her and not for a growing number of people in their 50s and 60s who...

Vanity - cannot link to the source. I went to the state of NV web site anyway.

It seems that Britain is about to make the same mistake America made in 2008. Last week here in England, we had the first of three "leaders debates" between the leaders of the three main political parties in the run-up to the May 6th General Election, and a new sensation is making waves. The background to the debates is one of cynicism and boredom from the public, thanks to a failed Labour government and the lack of a substantial alternative. The current Prime Minister Gordon Brown is highly unpopular, and the 2010 General Election should be an easy win for...

Nearly 20 percent of U.S. workers underemployed: poll 4:01am EST By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nearly 20 percent of the U.S. workforce lacked adequate employment in January and struggled to make ends meet with reduced resources and bleak job prospects, according to a Gallup poll released on Tuesday. In findings that appear to paint a darker employment picture than official U.S. data, Gallup estimated that about 30 million Americans are underemployed, meaning either jobless or able to find only part-time work. Underemployed people spent 36 percent less on household purchases than their fully employed neighbors in January, while six...

CBS’ Mark Knoller reports that the Obama Administration is on pace to more than triple the output of rounds of golf played by a president while in office. In his first nine months in office, President Barack Obama has played 24 rounds of golf. It took President Bush 34 months to play as many holes. The President’s Press Secretary, Robert Gibbs, attributed the feat to “the superior dynamism of an agenda focused on hope and change. The faster pace set by the President is emblematic of the energy he has brought into the White House. It should bolster confidence in...

Despite signs of stabilization at the end of 2009, next year could prove treacherous for the housing and mortgage markets as a variety of woes could rekindle the falloff of the last two years, according to mortgage-industry veterans speaking at the Mortgage Bankers Association annual convention in San Diego Tuesday. "I'm a firm prophet of the 'W' shaped recovery. Housing is going to go down again in the first quarter of 2010," said Steve Horne, chief executive of Wingspan Portfolio Advisors, a firm that facilitates loan modifications. "The real healing won't begin until all these nonperforming loans start trading in earnest, until...

Stimulus Money Available For Low-Income, Homeless Detroit Residents POSTED: Tuesday, October 6, 2009 UPDATED: 3:04 pm EDT October 6, 2009 Video at link

We must never again allow our leaders to have unaccountable trust! EVER! People are corruptible! We must always question and watch very closely everything they do! Our Freedom, Our beloved Constitution, Our National Sovereignty, “We the People” and the fact that we are a Constitutional Republic is why the United States of America is the Greatest Nation in the World! Any bad truths about our Country are the slow results of the corruptible human nature of a few individuals! Power and wealth can corrupt a person if not kept in check! After we fix our current problems, and we will,...

It's over. I don't know for sure, of course. But my guess is the sun is going to come out this morning. I'm thinking that when I open the back door, Tennessee the dog is going to follow her usual routine and charge outside in the direction where the squirrel is usually sitting and then stand there jumping up and down as the squirrel chatters down from the tree. It seems unlikely the power company will have shut down and I won't be able to make coffee. Hopefully, Mother Trib will be lying out there on the lawn and there...

Two black conservatives -- one a pastor, the other a leader of an urban ministry -- say they can't understand why a number of black Republicans have publicly said they are considering voting for Barack Obama this election. It should be about character, they say, not skin color. Ken Hutcherson, an African-American pastor in suburban Seattle, says black conservatives who are supporting Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama must remember what they have been saying about race for decades. Several prominent conservative African-Americans have said they are at least considering supporting Obama because of his race. The list includes talk-show host...

Waiting on hope, I stood outside for two hours in Wisconsin snow with frozen feet. I listened to people's intimate conversations because we were that close. I felt pressed by white people around me, and I felt fine. I saw African-Americans from a distance without panic. I was one of thousands, and no fear gripped me, even as the thousands pressed forward. I let myself be carried, then I walked and walked up stairs, finally arriving at the tiptop. There was no place but the top for a woman who doesn't like heights. This night I was a woman waiting...