Barack Oblogger: Obama Ethics Bill Put Squeeze on Blagojevich

Barack Oblogger: Illinois Gov. Says "F**k Obama"

Barack Oblogger: Supreme Court Rejects Obama Citizenship Challenge

Barack Oblogger: Can Hillary Fight for Women Worldwide?

Barack Oblogger: First Policy Priority: Healthcare

Barack Oblogger: How Much Do You Know about Your Government?

Barack Oblogger: Barack Oblogger's Shopping Picks

Barack Oblogger: The Power of Change DVD

Barack Oblogger: 40 Acres: A Poem for Obama

Barack Oblogger: Barack O'Bama

This video will be misunderstood by some just for its title. I ask you to listen to what I say. I'm am against California Proposition 8. I've made videos to show the World how stupid and hateful the people who back the initiative can be. But what does bother me is the discovery that of all groups, African Americans voted more for it than against it. Why? I think one reason is that the message those who were against Prop 8 put out was off-putting to many who are Black. While I agree that gay marriage is a civil rights issue, one can't then make the cognitive leap and say that Blacks and Gays share the same path and past. The reason is simple: if I walk down the street you already have made up your mind how you're going to adress me because of my skin color. That's not true if the person's Gay -- you can't tell by looking. The bottom line is civil rights for all -- but the message that's sent by "No on 8" seems to say that if a person's straight White and male, they're normal. No one Black wants to hear that.

Barack Oblogger: The New Website of President-Elect Barack Obama

Barack Oblogger: The Black McCains: An American Story

Barack Oblogger: More GOP Racism

Barack Oblogger: CNN on Palin's Association with the Secessionist Party

Barack Oblogger: Batman vs. Penguin: Brilliant Recap of the Last Presidential Debate

This video was created just before the debate, but my prediction seems to have held and for the reasons I state here.


This American Economy is in trouble. It's in bad straights for three basic reasons:


1) According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Civilian Labor Force Participation Rate topped out 10 years ago and then decreased and continued to do so through to present day. What that means is that more and more people basically stopped looking for jobs and working at jobs than ever before for the first time.


2) The total rate of job growth started to increase at a rapidly smaller rate in the late 1990s and that continues today. You can see the BLS data I collected right on the video. We added about 20 million jobs each decade from the 60s to the 90s, but again in 1999, the job growth party stopped cold. We added just barely 5 million jobs in ten years, that's a drop of 75 percent over what we've produced in the past.


3) During the period of the job losses and labor force participation problems consumer credit shot to rapid rates of annual increase starting just before the turn of the 21st Century. What that means is as we were losing our capacity to produce jobs, we were relying on the credit system to essentially make up for the lack of job growth we experienced in the past.


That's why we're in trouble now. Job losses due to the increased number of competitive market economies -- not the sub-prime mortgage issue -- is the real problem and its been years in the making. 


We have to fundamentally alter our economy and the current proposals and the Bailout Bill are only a start of getting at the problem -- but they don't impact this combination of forces that basically creates constant job loss and part of that is the overall International Division of Labor, where cheap workers overseas do jobs that were once located here.


There's an answer, and it's in something I call Zennie's Plan. Stay tuned.


On CNN IReport -- click here. 

I sat down with Oakland's Top Lawyer John Russo just a day after the Vice Presidential debate between Senator Joe Biden and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, and to talk about who won the debate, and what Palin's assendency says about American Government and Culture.

We have a difference of views and it centers on the idea that Palin did a terrible job -- my contention. Russo says that in debates one must "hold their ground" make sure their point is gotten across. He says she did that.

My point was that she just repeated talking points and failed on many occasions to answer questions Gwen Ifel asked of her.

What do you think? Watch the video and let me know here.

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Barack Oblogger: Alan Greenspan: "We Can't Afford McCain's Tax Plan"

Barack Oblogger: Gibson Schools Palin on Foreign Policy

Barack Oblogger: Gibson Schools Palin on Foreign Policy

Barack Oblogger: Under Palin, Wasilla Billed Victims for Rape Kits

Barack Oblogger: Alaska Has Less People Than Brooklyn

Barack Oblogger: How Do Pro Lifers Plan to Legislate?

Barack Oblogger: Thoughts on the Saddleback Forum

Barack Oblogger: John McCain Should Denounce Corsi Book "Obama Nation"

Barack Oblogger: "Obama Nation" Author Corsi to Appear on White Supremacist Radio

Barack Oblogger: Obama Action Wire: Spread the Truth about John McCain

Barack Oblogger: GOP Voter Rolls Decrease

Barack Oblogger: McCain Fumbles on Race Card Question

Barack Oblogger: The Truth About Fiscal Conservatives

Barack Oblogger: McCain Consistently Votes Against Our Troops

Barack Oblogger: Surge or No Surge... It's Still the Same Damned War!

Barack Oblogger: Waterboarding Is Torture

Barack Oblogger: Barack Obama on Public Service

Barack Oblogger: McCain's Tax Plan Benefits the Rich

Barack Oblogger: The Origin of the Muslim Smear Email

Barack Oblogger: Obama vs. McCain Energy Plans

Barack Oblogger: AFL-CIO Endorses Obama: "The endorsement is not only a stamp of approval; it marks the beginning of a huge, united political mobilization among working class voters."

Barack Oblogger: McCain and Madonna

Barack Oblogger: Barack Obama on the New Green Economy

Barack Oblogger: Obama's Statement on Dangerous Drug Testing on Veterans

Barack Oblogger: Fight Against Telecom Immunity

Barack Oblogger: Fight Against Telecom Immunity

Barack Oblogger: Obama's General Election Ad

Barack Oblogger: Iraq War About Oil...Confirmed!

Barack Oblogger: Michelle Obama on "The View"

Barack Oblogger: Olbermann: "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq Oil War

Barack Oblogger: John McCain: "I Didn't Love America"

Barack Oblogger: On Obama Not Taking Public Finance Money

Barack Oblogger: Understanding Michelle Obama

Barack Oblogger: $5 a Week to Elect a President!

Barack Oblogger: Barack Obama's Pro-Choice Record

Barack Oblogger: McCain Says Wiretapping Is OK by Him

Barack Oblogger: Obama Speaks to HQ Staff and Volunteers

Barack Oblogger: Barack Obama's Record on Women's Issues

Barack Oblogger: 20 New Voters for Obama

Barack Oblogger: McCain Emerges as Master Economic Flip-Flopper

Barack Oblogger: The Wife John McCain Left Behind

Barack Oblogger: Barack Obama's Legislative Record on Women's Rights

Barack Oblogger: Obama Addresses AIPAC Conference

Barack Oblogger: Barack's Statement on Climate Change Bill

Barack Oblogger: Obama Tells DNC No More Money from Lobbyists

Barack Oblogger: Barack Obama on Jobs and the Economy

Barack Oblogger: John McCain's Record on Women's Issues

Barack Oblogger: Lest We Forget...Shirley Chisholm

Barack Oblogger: Irate Clinton Supporters

Barack Oblogger: Hillary's Apology Lacking

Barack Oblogger: Hillary Supporters Willing to Cut off Their Noses to Spite Barack Obama

Barack Oblogger: Playing the Race Card in Puerto Rico?

Barack Oblogger: Pat Buchanan in Racist, Paranoid Meltdown

Barack Oblogger: McCain in Favor of Negotiating with Hamas

Barack Oblogger: Huckabee Makes "Joke" about Obama Getting Shot

Barack Oblogger: John McCain's Murderers' Row

Barack Oblogger: The Death Rattle of the Republican Party

Barack Oblogger: Michelle Obama en Puerto Rico!

Barack Oblogger: 75,000 at Portland Rally

Barack Oblogger: 15 Whitest States in America

Barack Oblogger: Postmortem: What Went Wrong in Hillaryland?

Barack Oblogger: Racism in West Virginia#links

Barack Oblogger: Tennessee GOP Attacks Michelle Obama#links

Barack Oblogger: Newsflash: Southern Redneck Sells Racist Obama Gear

Barack Oblogger: Huckabee Makes "Joke" about Obama Getting Shot#links

Barack Oblogger: Conservative Agenda, or White Supremacist Agenda?

Barack Oblogger: New Blog in Support of Trinity United Church

From an email I received:

Hey everyone! We have all been aware for some time now that there have been viral e-mail smears going around about Senator Obama. The newest one is that he is the anti-christ... Isn't that lovely? I say we make the TRUTH viral and set the record straight once and for all. Below is an e-mail that I copied from the DailyKos. It is in an effort to get the truth out about Obama and debunk all the lies. Please post it on your blog, send it to your e-mail list, post it on MySpace, Facebook and anything else you can think of. We can debunk all the lies.

Subject: The Real Truth About Barack Obama!

As enthusiastic volunteers in the Barack Obama campaign for the Presidency, we have put together a list of facts about Barack so that you will know the truth about him. Please follow the links we have included for documentation of these facts. If you value the truth as we do, please spread this information via email, blog, or any other means, to everyone you know.

1. Did you know that Barack Obama is a devout Christian? He has been a member of the same United Church of Christ congregation for 20 years, and was married there to his wife Michelle in 1992.
2. Did you know that Barack Obama often leads the US Senate in the Pledge of Allegiance?
3. Did you know that Barack Obama is a strong friend of Israel and has spoken out strongly against anti-Semitism?
4. Did you know his grandparents from Kansas were part of the "Greatest Generation?. His grandfather served with Patton's Army during World War II, and his grandmother, a real "Rosie the Riveter", worked in a bomber assembly plant back home.
5. Did you know that Barack Obama was opposed to the war in Iraq from day one, before we invaded, even while he was running for the Senate, and knowing his opposition might be politically unpopular?

   "I know that even a successful war against Iraq will require a U.S. occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences. I know that an invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East and encourage the worst, rather than best, impulses of the Arab world and strengthen the recruitment arm of al Qaeda. I am not opposed to all wars. I'm opposed to dumb wars." --Barack Obama, 2002

6. Did you know Obama favors transparency over secrecy in our government? Did you know that Obama worked with Republican Senator Tom Coburn to pass one of the strongest government transparency bills since the freedom of information act? He's calling it Google for Government and you can see the results at www.usaspending.gov. Sen. Obama has also released his own tax returnsfor public review.
7. Did you know that after graduating with honors from Harvard Law School, Barack practiced civil rights law and also taught Constitutional Law for 10 years at the University of Chicago, one of the nation's best law schools, where he was consistently rated by his students as one of their best instructors? Did you also know that he was the first African-American elected president of the prestigious Harvard Law Review?
8. Did you know that Barack Obama is an outspoken advocate for women's rights and has been a principled defender of the civil rights of women?
9. Did you know that despite the grueling schedule of running for President, Senator Obama remains a devoted family man, making time to do things like pick out a Christmas tree with his wife and two young daughters, or hurrying home to spend Valentine's Day with them? Did you know he hasn't missed a single parent-teacher conference while running for President?
10. Did you know that Barack Obama has a stellar environmental record, including having the highest rating from the League of Conservation Voters (96%) of any Presidential candidate, Democrat or Republican?
11. Did you know that Barack Obama has been an elected legislator longer than Senator Clinton?
12. Did you know that Barack is a member of all of these Senate Committees: Foreign Relations; Veteran's Affairs; Health, Education, Labor & Pensions; Homeland Security and Government Affairs?
13. Did you know that Senator Obama has sponsored or co-sponsored 15 bills that have become law, and has introduced amendments to 50 bills, of which 16 were adopted since he joined the Senate in 2005?
14. Did you know that Senator Obama sponsored legislation working together with Indiana Republican Senator Richard Lugar, to keep Americans safe by keeping dangerous weapons out of terrorist hands? The two senators also visited the former Soviet Union to inspect the decommissioning of nuclear weapons. Sen. Lugar said of Sen. Obama, "He does have a sense of idealism and principled leadership, a vision of the future."
15. Did you know that Barack Obama is the only candidate running for president who voted against using cluster bombs in Iraq and the only candidate who supports banning the use of landmines?
16. Did you know that, as an Illinois state senator, Barack Obama succeeded in passing legislation requiring the videotaping of police interrogations, gaining the respect and support not only of fellow legislators but that of the police, who had initially opposed the legislation?
17. Did you know that Theodore Roosevelt, Grover Cleveland, Ulysses S. Grant, John F. Kennedy, and Bill Clinton were all younger when they took office than Barack Obama will be?

During election season many emails are circulated about the candidates. Some are true, some aren't. It's often difficult to determine the truth. We encourage you to visit the following non-partisan sites that do a good job of fact checking the candidates.

http://www.snopes.com/
http://www.factcheck.org/

In response to the latest smear tactic by the Clinton campaign:

Barack Oblogger: REAL Reasons to Vote for Barack Obama

This is a resource for all to use to contact Nevada newspaper editors in the state.

http://action.barackobama.com/page/speakout/dailies

Nevada Zip Code

Listed numerically by zip code
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88905 The Lakes 702
89001 Alamo 775
89001 Rachel 775
89001 Tempiute 775
89003 Beatty 775
89003 Rhyolite 775
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89004 Old Nevada 702
89005 Boulder City 702
89005 Willow Beach 702
89006 Boulder City 702
89007 Bunkerville 702
89007 Riverside 702
89008 Caliente 775
89008 Carp 775
89008 Elgin 775
89009 Henderson 702
89010 Dyer 775
89011 Henderson 702
89012 Henderson 702
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89013 Lida 775
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89014 Henderson 702
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89017 Hiko 775
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89019 Goodsprings 702
89019 Jean 702
89019 Primm 702
89019 Sandy Valley 702
89020 Amargosa Valley 775
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89036 North Las Vegas 702
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89191 Las Vegas 702
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89193 Las Vegas 702
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89199 Las Vegas 702
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89414 Golconda 775
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89415 Babbitt 775
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89415 Hawthorne Army Ammunition Plant 775
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89415 Whiskey Flats 775
89418 Apache 775
89418 Humboldt 775
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89418 Nevada Mass 775
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89448 Pinewild 775
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89451 Incline Village 775
89452 Incline Village 775
89460 Gardnerville 775
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89502 Reno 775
89503 Lawton 775
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89506 Anderson Acres 775
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89506 Lemmon Valley 775
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89506 Rancho Haven 775
89506 Red Rock 775
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89509 Reno 775
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89833 Shantytown 775
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89835 Metropolis 775
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89883 Wendover 775
89883 West Wendover 775

The argument favoring foreign policy experience is getting a little bit silly at this point.

Joe Biden, Bill Richardson, and John McCain are the only people running for President that have legitimate foreign policy
experience. Biden dropped out (which I think is a real shame), and Bill Richardson, despite his experience, keeps making completely asinine foreign policy proposals (like proclaiming that the United States has the leverage to convince Musharaf to step down).

John McCain is the only one with a chance of winning, but I believe that at this point in his career, he's not going to be able to form the new political coalitions we're going to need to make progress on important issues in America over the long term.

Moreover, I would ask that people consider that the U.S. has a completely unprecedented foreign policy challenge. We have never faced an asymmetrical stateless entity whose objectives are ideological and whose reach is global. The traditional conception of "experience" doesn't work here, because no matter who gets elected, they're going to have to implement new strategies in our foreign policy that haven't been tried before.

What Barack brings to the table is a degree in foreign affairs, a history of sound judgement on the most important foreign policy issues of our time (correctly predicted the outcome of Iraq in 2002, did not support escalating tensions with Iran, identified the threat in Pakistan early on, etc.), and a willingness to bring all the relevant experts to the table, regardless of ideological attachment.

That's what we're going to need over the next decade, because currently, we don't have anyone operating in the foreign policy establishment that has an effective way to get at terrorism from the source. We need someone willing to bring outsiders to the table. Moreover, there is no one else running for President who can bring any credibility to a debate with the Muslim world over pluralism and moderation. Barack IS pluralism and moderation.

I would wager that part of the reason this President got our foreign policy so wrong over the last 7 years is that he chose his advisers strictly out of the extremist neocon camp- people who were considered absolute psychos when they were working for Reagan and Bush I. This is why Barack's approach is so much better and so important- he has demonstrated a willingness to seek advice from across the spectrum, and to not be concerned with "isms" when crafting policy.

This is why his healthcare plan doesn't have a mandate- because it was crafted by going to the people and asking them what they need, and they all said they didn't want or need a mandate to buy health insurance. You can see some of the town halls that crafted this policy at http://www.barackobama.com (look under "Media"). It's why he didn't get the teacher's union endorsement- because best practices in other states show that merit pay and rewarding innovative programs does work, whether the unions like it or not. It's the reason he didn't get AIPAC's endorsement- because even though it's politically correct to value our allegiance with Israel above all, he went to AIPAC and told them that the next President must consider the suffering of the Palestinian people.

This election is not about who has been most tempered by experience in a system that is not working. This election is about who will restore Federal leadership that actually works and isn't an obstacle. I believe Obama is that man, and America, and indeed the world, are beginning to agree.

Don't be bitter just because your candidate is losing. Read Obama's policy proposals if you don't like his rhetoric. He's definitely the man for the moment, and he's definitely got my vote.

This is a cool video to see. Upon learning of a crowd so large that the church in Lebanon, NH was filled to overflow and thousands of people were stuck outside, Senator Barack Obama came outside to give a stump speech that energized the people. See it in this video:

Obama picks up Wisconsin governor endorsement - Chicago Tribune

Posted at 8:37 PM
by John McCormick - Chicago Tribune

NASHUA, N.H. -- As the Democratic presidential candidates prepare to debate this evening in this first-in-the-nation primary state, Sen. Barack Obama's campaigned announced an endorsement from Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle.

In a statement, Gov. Jim Doyle said he was backing the Democrat from a neighboring state because he believes Obama can build a coalition of Democrats, Republicans and independents to win in November and make changes in Washington.

“Obama listens to competing points of view, but makes strong decisions," Doyle said. "He has campaigned like he will govern, by bringing people together and inspiring average Americans to participate in the political process so that we can take on the special interests and the great challenges we face.”

First elected in 2002, Jim Doyle is serving his second term as Wisconsin's governor.

Barack Oblogger: Judge Obama by His Laws

Barack Oblogger: Inside the numbers: "extensively about Obama's electability.

Here are the numbers from the latest Zogby poll. Obama is the one who is the hardest to beat:

A new Zogby poll shows that Barack Obama is the most electable of the top three Democratic candidates, followed by John Edwards and Hillary Clinton.

Of the three Dems, Obama is the only one to beat five Republicans in all match-ups. Hillary loses to Mike Huckabee, Rudy Giuliani and John McCain, while Edwards can beat Huckabee but loses to Giuliani and McCain.

The full numbers are available after the jump.

Obama (D) 53%, Romney (R) 35%
Obama (D) 47%, Huckabee (R) 42%
Obama (D) 48%, Giuliani (R) 39%
Obama (D) 47%, McCain (R) 43%
Obama (D) 52%, Thompson (R) 36%

Clinton (D) 46%, Romney (R) 44%
Huckabee (R) 48%, Clinton (D) 43%
Giuliani (R) 46%, Clinton (D) 42%
McCain (R) 49%, Clinton (D) 42%
Clinton (D) 48%, Thompson (R) 42%

Edwards (D) 50%, Romney (R) 38%
Edwards (D) 47%, Huckabee (R) 41%
Giuliani (R) 45%, Edwards (D) 44%
McCain (R) 46%, Edwards (D) 42%"