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Obama: Just VOTE
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More than ever before, in the last year I have been astounded by the power of one person.
We’re within two weeks of learning the outcome of a movement, an amalgamation of shared ideas that could alter the course of this great nation. So many of us have participated in it and the compilation of our phone calls, canvassing, $25 donations and blog posts have given it the momentum necessary to thrive, and now the courageous friends I’ve made on the campaign trail are confessing to me daily the heart palpitations we’re all feeling as we wait. Barack Obama downplays it when we credit him with this outpouring of civic participation, but at this excruciating time I think it’s important for all of us to remember why we all chose to support this exceptional man on his historic journey.
He asked us to hope. These last few days as the dirtiest zingers flood the media and the capacity for manipulation and suppression looms, as it did in Florida and Ohio the last time we found ourselves here, I’m trying my hardest to remember that this was always a leap of faith. The belief that a truck-driving, Confederate flag toting Georgian could accept a black man as our President. That a new generation would find its political consciousness and mobilize. That political strategists and poll workers could appeal to their better selves and operate under the ideal of fairness established in our constitution. That we could end a war that never should have been waged in the first place and bring our exhausted soldiers home to their families. That this looming feeling of despair that’s enveloped our bank accounts, thoughts, attitudes and dreams does not have to be the end of this story.
It started because Barack Obama believed in us and our capacity to do this together. I’m thinking back to the jitters that must have been in his stomach that night before his keynote convention speech in 2004, when a nobody made us all sit up in our chairs and really listen for the first time in a long time, making himself — and all of us — a somebody.
It’s despicable to think of four more years of this downward spiral, but we can’t operate in that mindset right now. We all owe it to these ideals we hold dear, and the collective energy we’ve created in this country to believe in him.
Last year everyone told me I was crazy to be supporting this man. They couldn’t get past their cynical beliefs that politics-as-usual was an inherent state of existence in America today. In Iowa the week before the caucus, my stomach was in knots with anxiety and the fear that I wouldn’t know what to believe in if they were right. Well, we all know that they were wrong. On January 3, I stood with my best friend in a gym and watched Obama’s victory speech, and what will always impress me about that moment was the look of subtle confidence on his face as he did what everyone else said was impossible. I was struck with the feeling that he knew the whole time that it would happen, and that knowledge came from a sincere faith in the power of millions of people thinking rationally about what it means to be a community instead of an incongruous group of individuals who have given up.
We are not going to give up this time. I refuse to look back and say I didn’t give this everything I had. I’ve even got my 83-year-old grandmother set up with a My.BarackObama.com account calling undecided voters in Nevada. I’m going to vote early on Monday, since it’s a great way to reduce the chance of confusion and suppression on election day. (See Declare Yourself’s Why Wait? initiative to find out if you can vote early in your state.)
Beyond all the usual suspects, though, I hope that all of us will be bold enough to have faith in each other. As my father the football coach would say: Put your own jitters aside and get your game face on because it’s winning time.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maegan-carberry/an-attitude-adjustment-th_b_137405.html
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SWAT Team Takes Over Sony Pictures (Obama’s Motorcade)
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Obama‘s Motorcade rolles into sony pictures under heavy protection by SWAT Teams, armored vehicles and tons of helicopters. Swat team secures the area. The LA county sheriff swat team encounters a crowd.
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Barrack Obama’s back in his presidential limo as apposed to his armored suburban that he rode around in last year. The SWAT Team has new paramilitary tricked out ford F350 transports that look awesome. Funny video as Drake ? roles rolls by in the SUV behind Obama and waves at the crowd. Crowd goes crazy over swat team, swat team packing grenade Launchers tear gas canisters. Swat team vs happy crowd. Sony HDR-Ax2000 footage. Sterling Toliver HD High Definition 2011.
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The Lionel Show – Here’s One Reason to Vote Obama
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The Lionel Show on Air America
Video Highlight of the Day 07.30.08
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Duration : 0:2:25
Lifting the Veil: Obama and the Failure of Capitalist Democracy {Full Film}
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Lifting the Veil: Obama and the Failure of Capitalist Democracy
This film explores the historical role of the Democratic Party as the “graveyard of social movements”, the massive influence of corporate finance in elections, the absurd disparities of wealth in the United States, the continuity and escalation of neocon policies under Obama, the insufficiency of mere voting as a path to reform, and differing conceptions of democracy itself.
Original interview footage derives from Noam Chomsky, Michael Parenti, Michael Albert, John Stauber (PR Watch), Sharon Smith (Historian), William I. Robinson (Editor, Critical Globalization Studies), Morris Berman (Author, Dark Ages America), and famed black panther Larry Pinkney.
Non-original interviews/lectures include Michael Hudson, Paul Craig Roberts, Ted Rall, Richard Wolff, Glen Ford, Lewis Black, Glenn Greenwald, George Carlin, Gerald Cliente, Chris Hedges, John Pilger, Bernie Sanders, Sheldon Wollin and Martin Luther King.
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“Lifting the Veil is the long overdue film that powerfully, definitively, and finally exposes the deadly 21st century hypocrisy of U.S. internal and external policies, even as it imbues the viewer with a sense of urgency and an actualized hope to bring about real systemic change while there is yet time for humanity and this planet. See this film!” – Larry Pinkney – Editorial Board Member & Columnist – The Black Commentator
Viewer discretion advised – Video contains images depicting the reality and horror of war.
Duration : 1:53:36
MoveOn, Daily Kos slam Barack Obama on FISA compromise
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The liberal blogosphere was aflame today with new accusations that Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill) is trying to win the 2008 presidential election.Suspicions about Sen. Obama’s true motives have been building over the past few weeks, but not until today have the bloggers called him out for betraying the Democratic Party’s losing tradition.”Barack Obama seems to be making a very calculated attempt to win over 270 electoral votes,” wrote liberal blogger Carol Foyler at LibDemWatch.com, a blog read by a half-dozen other liberal bloggers. “He must be stopped.”But those comments were not nearly as strident as those of Tracy Klugian, whose blog LoseOn.org has backed unsuccessful Democratic candidates since 2000.”Increasingly, Barack Obama’s message is becoming more accessible, appealing, and yes, potentially successful,” he wrote. “Any Democrat who voted for Dukakis, Mondale or Kerry should regard this as a betrayal.”Liberal bloggers said that they would be watching Sen. Obama’s vice-presidential selection process “very closely” for signs that he is plotting to win the election.
“Barack Obama still has a chance to pick someone disastrous as a sign that he wants to lose this thing,” Ms. Foyler wrote. “If not, he should brace himself for some really mean blog posts.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-borowitz/liberal-bloggers-accuse-o_b_110371.html
So many of you are upset that I pulled back my credit card last night, making a last minute decision to hold back on a $2,300 contribution to Obama. Let me explain further:
First of all, obviously Obama is a great candidate who is running a great 50-state race. That much cannot be denied. But he’s had a rough couple of weeks.
First, he reversed course and capitulated on FISA, not just turning back on the Constitution, but on the whole concept of “leadership”. Personally, I like to see presidents who 1) lead, and 2) uphold their promises to protect the Constitution.
Then, he took his not-so-veiled swipe at MoveOn in his “patriotism” speech.
Finally, he reinforced right-wing and media talking points that Wes Clark had somehow impugned McCain’s military service when, in reality, Clark had done no such thing…there is a line between “moving to the center” and stabbing your allies in the back out of fear of being criticized. And, of late, he’s been doing a lot of unecessary stabbing, betraying his claims of being a new kind of politician. Not that I ever bought it, but Obama is now clearly not looking much different than every other Democratic politician who has ever turned his or her back on the base in order to prove centrist bona fides. That’s not an indictment, just an observation.
Now I know there’s a contingent around here that things Obama can do no wrong, and he must never be criticized, and if you do, well you! I respect the sentiment, but will respectfully disagree. We’re allowed to do that here. But fair notice — I will never pull a Rush Limbaugh and carry water for anyone. Not for the Democratic Congress, and not for our future Democratic president. When anyone does something I don’t care for, I will say so. I’ve never pulled my punches before, so why start now?
Obama will be fine without my contribution, and he may even still get it before this thing is said and done, but it would be at a time when he has done something positive. That’s called rewarding good behavior. And if that opportunity fails to arise because Obama goes on a Sister Souljah’ing rampage, then no worries. Chances are good that the DNC would get the money instead. But at this time, I simply have no desire to reward bad behavior. Some of you don’t care about his behavior, or don’t think it’s bad behavior, or whatever. I didn’t ask any of you to follow suit, and don’t care whether you do or not. I didn’t pull him from the Orange to Blue list. I’m not going to start praising Nader or Barr. I’ll still vote for him. Yadda, yadda, yadda. At the end of the day, I’m pretty irrelevant in the whole affair. Obama is going to raise a ton of dough and win this thing whether I send him money or not.
Ultimately, he’s currently saying that he doesn’t need people like me to win this thing, and he’s right. He doesn’t. If they’ve got polling or whatnot that says that this is his best path to victory, so much the better. I want him to win big. But when the Obama campaign makes those calculations, they have to realize that they’re going to necessarily lose some intensity of support. It’s not all upside. And for me, that is reflected in a lack of interest in making that contribution.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/7/1/05546/22532/562/544544
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