From an email by Obama’s Campaign Manager, David Plouffe: Barack Obama is about to make one of the most important decisions of this campaign — choosing a running mate. Want to be the first to know Barack Obama’s choice for VP?
The Obama campaign is announcing Barack’s running mate to supporters via email and text messaging.
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A World That Stands as One
Berlin, Germany - July 24th, 2008
From TED Talks: In Al Gore’s brand-new slideshow (premiering exclusively on TED.com), he presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than scientists were recently predicting, and challenges us to act with a sense of “generational mission” — the kind of feeling that brought forth the civil rights movement — to [...]
Yes..We..Can… Barack Obama inspires me and gives me hope for positive change and leadership. will.i.am’s video tribute captures this hope.
I’ve made a Barack Obama “Yes, We Can” facebook application that showcases the video and some helpful links. Click on through and add it to your facebook profile and then share it with all of [...]
I chopped up the Obama’08 graphic into a new buddy icon for my meebo. A couple of people said they wanted it, so here you go…
btw, if you don’t use meebo yet, you should check it out. It lets you use all of your AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk, [...]
In a recent article on Reuters, the author points out the limitations companies like Apple place on your online music downloads. Issues like limitation to Apple iPods, multiple computer use rights and CD burning.
Before people erroneously get the impression this issue is limited to Apple, there are a few points to consider:
You don’t own [...]
Do you buy books online, use Google, or download to an Ipod? These activities will be hurt if Congress passes a radical law that gives giant corporations more control over the Internet.
Internet providers like AT&T and Verizon are lobbying Congress hard to gut Network Neutrality, the Internet’s First Amendment. Net Neutrality prevents AT&T from choosing [...]
A senior at [tag]Georgia Tech[/tag] is suing the University for the right to be intolerant. I’m always amazed at how much effort certain [tag]Christians[/tag] can expend condemning others and defining new ways to form divisions between people. The excuse most often cited is ‘Holiness’ and the Greater Morality™. My concern is that I [...]
Last Thursday, the Senate Budget Committee cut back funds to the President’s plan to fight global AIDS and extreme poverty-but we still have a chance to make a difference!
Right now, two U.S. Senators are reaching across political divides and asking the Senate to add $566 million to fund critical AIDS, TB and malaria programs running [...]
This week, the director of “Uncovered: The War on Iraq” and “Outfoxed” released his latest film, “Wal-Mart: the High Cost of Low Prices.” It’s a powerful expos
Something tells me that Halliburton is about to start a bird flu research company.
Yes, it’s true. If you are a registered sex offender in California, we will no longer be spending our tax dollars to buy you Viagra. No, really. You’re going to have to buy it from India just like the rest of us, I mean, them, I mean… So the question begs to [...]
Former Bush speechwriter David Frum, writing of her recently in National Review, said, “[Harriet Miers] once told me that the president was the most brilliant man she had ever met.” really? uh-oh…
Wesley Clark’s op-ed from the Washington Post - reprinted here:
August 26, 2005
In the old, familiar fashion, mounting US casualties in Iraq have mobilized increasing public doubts about the war. Now, more than half the American people believe that the invasion of Iraq was a mistake. They’re right. But it would also be a mistake now [...]
Send a letter of support to Cindy Sheehan as she sits vigil outside George Bush’s Crawford, Texas ranch. MoveOn is publishing a 2 page spread in the Crawford local paper with the best submissions and total signatures of this campaign. As more families head to Crawford to add their support to Cindy and [...]
According to Cincinnati Channel 5, Republican Jean Schmidt has narrowly defeated Democrat Paul Hackett for Ohio’s Second Congressional District. The unofficial vote tally is in at 57,974 to 54,401, a margin of 3,573 votes. The 52 to 48 percent loss is much closer than expected and the Democratic Party considers even a loss [...]
Sojourners is one of my regular and favourite reads. Anyone interested in where faith meets politics meets culture needs to read this magazine and website. The man behind the mission is Jim Wallis, author of God’s Politics:
Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It, a welcome voice of reason, [...]
John Glenn, hero, astronaut, veteran, and respected politician, calls on the 2nd Congressional District of Ohio to elect Paul Haskell as the first Iraq War veteran to serve in Congress.
Here’s the release from the OH02 blog:
A recent press release by a conservative PAC in Cincinnati is urging conservatives and republicans to not vote for Jean Schmidt in Tuesday’s special election. Schmidt’s election chances have taken several surprising hits recently in what should be a conservative stronghold in Cincinnati and southwestern Ohio. John Glenn’s endorsement of her opponent Paul [...]
Check out MoveOn.org’s slogan contest to combat the cover-up operation being mounted to protect Karl Rove. Between the facts surrounding this scandal and the Downing Street memo, is there any reasonable excuse why there is no mass call for employment termination, criminal investigation and/or impeachment of certain corrupt political figures?
For more background, please read [...]
