First, I have to say that Barack Obama has already won the Democratic nomination and is very well on his way to becoming our next president.
This is exciting not because Obama will replace Bush but it will be the end of the age of conservatism that has dominated both parties (i.e. Zell Miller, Joe Lieberman and the DLC gang).
What does that mean for us, down here in the local municipalities and school departments?
I am working on a letter to the editor. I would love feedback and input before I send it in.
The New Republic reports that Michigan "plans to get out of its uncounted delegate problem by announcing a new caucus in the next few days."
Said the source: "They want to play. They know how to do caucuses. That was their plan all along, before they got cute with the primary."
"Michigan Democrats had originally planned on caucuses after the legally permissible Feb. 5 date, but then went along with top elected Democrats, including Gov. Jennifer Granholm, who pushed for an early primary."
Senator John McCain is now officially the Republican nominee for the 2008 Presidential contest.
Looking at the red/blue divide of 2004 and it looks like John McCain has a better than 50/50 chance of winning the White House for the Republicans for a third time in a row.
George W. Bush is no where on the ballots so his radioactive disapproval poll numbers will not really matter come November.
Click here, https://www.ri.gov/..., and enter your address to find your polling location.
Polls are open until 9:00 pm local time. Try to vote at non-high-peak hours to avoid long lines; best times would be between 9:00 and 11:30 am, 2:00 pm and 5:00 pm and 7:30 pm and 9: 00 pm.
What we have here is not a cult nor is it just a movement, what we have here is a popular uprising.
The pent up energy of the populace has been spurred not by Barack Obama but by Sir Isaac Newton's Third Law stating that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
After the George W. Bush Error of hanging chads, Iraq, Swiftboaters, Katrina and everything else since the first year of the 21st Century, the population has decided that it has had enough.
Barack Obama can best articulate this reactive energy.
The wife of the Illinois senator visited Rhode Island yesterday to try to parlay his national surge into Rhode Island support in the run-up to the state’s March 4 presidential primary.
"We’ve learned a lot this year," Obama told a CCRI gathering estimated at 2,200. "We’ve learned that people are hungry for change. ... Hope is making a comeback. I like it."
The ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee wants N.F.L. Commissioner Roger Goodell to explain why the league destroyed evidence related to spying by the New England Patriots.
In the stretch of 12 days, from Sept. 9 to Sept. 20, the Patriots were caught filming the Jets’ defensive signals in violation of N.F.L. rules, ordered to hand over all tapes of illegal filming to the league office, fined $750,000 and made to forfeit a first-round draft pick.
A young idealistic president with lofty goals and an eloquent gift of oratory skills that would inspire a nation to touch the moon coupled with an energetic and pugnacious attorney general that would rush forward against the corrupting forces of organized crime and the severe injustices of racism.
Jack and Bobby were the duo that was the head and heart of the all-too-brief executive team we remember as Camelot.
Is it possible that we are about to embark on a return voyage to Camelot via Barack and John?
**INTERNET EXCLUSIVE Photo surfaces of smiling Clintons with Tony Rezko... MORE... Clinton injected the indicted developer's name this week in heated debate with Obama: 'I was fighting against those ideas when you were practicing law and representing your contributor, Rezko, in his slum landlord business in inner city Chicago'... Clinton tells NBC 'TODAY' show on Friday: 'I probably have taken hundreds of thousands of pictures. I don't know the man. I wouldn't know him if he walked in the door'... Developing...
South Carolina finds Sen. Barack Obama leading the Democratic presidential race with 44% support, followed by Sen. Hillary Clinton at 28% and John Edwards at 15%.
Barack Obama campaign statement on Nevada caucus results.
We currently have reports of over 200 separate incidents of trouble at caucus sites, including doors being closed up to thirty minutes early, registration forms running out so people were turned away, and ID being requested and checked in a non-uniform fashion. This is in addition to the Clinton campaign’s efforts to confuse voters and call into question the at-large caucus sites which clearly had an affect on turnout at these locations. These kinds of Clinton campaign tactics were part of an entire week’s worth of false, divisive, attacks designed to mislead caucus-goers and discredit the caucus itself.
We will investigate all of these thoroughly and would encourage anyone who had concern about actions at the caucus sites to call (866) 675-2008.
According to the 2007 National Urban League Equality Index, although many black men are doing well, glaring gaps continue to exist between black men and their white counterparts. These gaps are caused and aggravated, in large measure, by the under performance of a disproportionate number of black men in a variety of areas and for a variety of reasons.
Because of its devastating and far-reaching ramifications, this under performance of the black male is the most serious economic and civil rights challenge we face today.
