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Before First Pitch, Obama Hits One Out Of The Park
New York, 2:20 PM
Wed Nov 11
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10/31/08
My God America, don't let me down!
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[www.huffingtonpost.com]
Clinton rallying for Obama in FL. Great speech by Clinton.
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Me too...but I held back on this one. There's something about being deliberately manipulated into it that makes it less emotional.
10/30/08
I'm a great crier myself. But I also didn't cry last night, perhaps because I was wondering how it was going over with undecideds.
10/30/08
I honestly don't know what I'll do if he doesn't win on Tuesday.
10/30/08
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10/30/08
Amazing video that managed to be folksy, deep, emotional, and logical all at the same time without cheesiness. Kinda like B.O. himself.
Oh and if you make over $200k a year you should be happy to help out your brother/sister Americans by contributing higher taxes. My husband and I are. It's just when the bulk of the money is going to fund an irrational war that it starts to burn you.
10/30/08
10/30/08
OK, you're going to cite Katrina as proof the government is incompetent? The Bush-appointed moron fucked it up, as did his benefactor, no doubt. But using Katrina to say the government is unable to help is like saying "New Coke" proves Coca-Cola is a company doomed to fail.
And here's a little secret about the charity groups you hold in such high esteem: you rely on the government to check their accounting to make sure they're not corrupt. They rely on the government to grant them the charters, tax breaks and public resources to run. If a charity had the power, responsibilities and accountability of a government, it'd be a government.
You see, the government is not one organization of many. It is unique. It is the center of a cooperative society. Companies are beholden to shareholders, charities are beholden to donors. The government, beholden to society itself.
If you choose to live with other people, you will share your resources with them. Most of this sharing will be done through something called the government.
The solution to bad government isn't to opt for alternative groups that have far less people to answer to, not to mention far less power. It is to change the government by voting and participating.
10/30/08
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10/30/08
And I would venture to say that no one on this board is voting for McCain or ever voted for Bush. I hear a lot of this sentiment "how could you have elected that guy?" from Brits over here and i always reply, "do you have any idea how hard I worked to not get him elected or how much it broke my heart TWICE when he was? No, you have no idea."
No hates to you, COB, just that it hurts us liberal Americans to be tarred with the same brush as the conservative eedjuts by the international community.
10/30/08
And many of the issues Obama touched on, well, been there done that, particularly regarding health care and ailing family, so not crying. Instead getting furious. All the fuck over again.
Still pissed off and sad that I cannot vote 537 times. If I remember correctly, isn't that the amount Bush won by in 2000 Florida?
The anger burns. It fuels my vote.
10/30/08
10/30/08
When you think about Al Gore of today, it's hard to believe that people didn't flood the voting booths, but he had distanced himself from Clinton, he was mired in a wussy image (earth tones) and Ralph Nader took just enough votes away to make a difference. Yes, Gore won the popular vote nationwide, but his campaign didn't think strategically. Tim Russert kept saying "Florida," and nobody paid attention until it was too late.
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