I have been watch Hardball on MSNBC.
They were discussing possible republicans who would support the President's Health Care Agenda and the name George Voinovich could be one of those republicans.
Asked why the White House has not reached out to him yet. The answer was keep the presure off until the final vote.
Keep the presure on Voinovich!
Ok I am here in downtown Willoughby.
We are calling and finding lot of support for the President.
More to come!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.stopthinkvote.org/
Check McCain's record - doesn't hold up when seen in the light!
It's an appropriate time: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jjXyqcx-mYY
But we must do the work. Get out, make calls, help with GOTV! VOTE!!!
If you've been waiting to get involved, the time is today.
If you've been busy and haven't been able to fit in volunteering time, make time NOW.
I know dropping things isn't easy, but if we want to win this county, this state, and this election we need your time.
Here's the deal: we have our final plan for the remainder of the campaign. We can't carry it out without enough volunteers. That means you need to send me your availability for the final week, from October 29th through November 4th. Can you take the day off on the 4th? Tell me.
Write to me at ashtabulaforobama@gmail.com. I need you. Today.
Polls show Obama opens a 6-point lead on McCain, 50-44:
http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE49J0LF20081020
AJC offers endorsement of Obama: http://www.ajc.com/search/content/2008/10/19/prezed.html
Chicago Tribune and LA Times: http://www.ajc.com/search/content/shared-gen/ap/Presidential_Elections/Obama_Newspapers.html
Esquire Magazine: http://www.ajc.com/search/content/shared-gen/ap/Presidential_Elections/Obama_Esquire.html
And more for both candidates: http://www.demconwatchblog.com/2008/09/presidential-newspaper-endorsement-list.html
I Just wanted to Post on here about the Sad Individuals who are going around town here in Mentor Ohio and Ruining the Obama For President Signs that people have in there yards!!!!...
They Have Been going around Writing VERY Derogitory Statements on them and Completely Ruining them!!
and IN this Day and Age that is Just Sad that there are people in this world that are still Acting like this...
it is people that do these things that make the Rest of America and Americans Look Horrible in the eyes of our neighbors!!!!!
A lot has been made of the now (in)famous "Joe the Plumber" after both candidates practically fallated him on national television for 90 minutes. But, as Beauty School Dropout Republican VP nominee, Sarah Palin likes to chide, we need to ask ourselves, "Who is the REAL Joe Wurzelbacher?"
Well, after some digging, it seems that all that pandering was for naught, as a search of the Ohio SOS website (you'll have to search) reveals, Mr. Joe the Plumber is not even registered to vote in the upcoming election.
It also seems that Mr. Wurzelbacher and family aren't necessarily in as tight a situation as Senator McCain would have you believe. A quick search on any small business directory pulls up six companies with the family name (four of which trace back to Joe, himself) in the Greater Cincinnati area - the only place where any Joe/Joseph Wurzelbachers can be found in my state.
Another Company - JCC Investments, Inc. - is also accredited to this "poor, poor plumber" whose chance at the American Dream is supposedly being shattered by Senator Obama's policy. Oh...and don't forget Ervin's Remodeling biz.
This poor, poor family.
Finally, let's not let loose from our minds another intriguing point. The Daily Kos is indicating that our poor friend Joe may also be related to big-time Republican donor Robert Wurzelbacher of Keating 5 infamy. (Link)
Let's see...He's not poor or even middle-class by any stretch of the imagination, he has called Obama and the idea of a Progressive Tax "Socialist", has been on right-wing blogs for over a week now, and interviewed (pre-debate) on right-wing shows.
Can we say "planted"?
BraveNewPAC has started a petition demanding that John McCain stop using hatred, baiting and other such filth on the campaign trail.
This is my posted comment:
Senator McCain,From the first time I was introduced to you at the age of 15 through CSPAN and other media outlets, I had a tremendous amount of respect for your (former) positions and (former) heroism.That respect is lost now.Senator McCain, you were victimized during the 2000 campaign by vicious smears and lies. One would think that a former victim of such filth with any sense of dignity would do anything in their power to prevent another human being from enduring it in the future. "One" would be wrong.Your heroism, your once respectable stances on the issues, as well as your desire to serve our great nation, have now taken a back seat only to your political ambition. This saddens me.Beyond this, you have now resorted to baiting your audiences through suggestive and hateful rhetoric - even to the point where they are audibly making death threats to your opponent. Not only have you ignored and refused to repudiate these disgusting calls, you continue to stoke the fire along with your running mate (yet another reason I have lost my respect for you - but that's for another day).John - can I call you John? - please bring back your dignity and your honor by first repudiating these abhorrent and illegal threats and then by controlling your own campaign and refusing to stand for hateful and hate-inspiring speech on the stump.I trust you will make the right decision.
You can watch the new video called "McCain's Mob" and sign the petition by visiting BraveNewPAC's website
Many of you know during the last elction cycle 2006 I lived in Tennessee and worked on the Harold Ford Jr campaign.
Saw this op ed from Harold Ford Jr.
Will McCain Do Anything to Win?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/10/AR2008101002558.html
With this line that brings back the nightmares of 2006
"While I am disappointed in McCain's about-face, I am not surprised. When I ran for the Senate in 2006, my opponent, Bob Corker, also found himself trailing in the October polls. His campaign and the Republican National Committee launched a series of false and vicious character attack ads, including the infamous "call me" ad, in which a scantily clad white woman looked at the camera and said, "Harold, call me."
And a good poin from Harold Frod Jr.
"Every major news organization and independent ad-checking group ruled the ad a smear and deemed it way over the line. But that didn't stop John McCain from coming to Tennessee and campaigning for my opponent while the "call me" ad and other smears were broadcast across the state. Not once did McCain speak out against that ad as he did about the smear against John Kerry. In fact, the first manager he hired for his 2008 presidential campaign was Terry Nelson, the person who produced the "call me" ad. Nelson has such a history of practicing below-the-belt politics that Lee Iacocca, a strong supporter of McCain, wrote in his book "Where Have All the Leaders Gone?": "What does it say about John McCain that he's willing to make that kind of person the head of his team?"
I just signed up on McCain's site and I'm blogging there to see if I can get any converts. You guys should do the same!
However:
DO NOT be rude or condescending, as hard as it might be. Just go in, be informative and polite and defend Obama!
All you do is go to the site and sign up under the "McCainSpace". I used a mailinator address to catch the confirmation mail so they don't email me ;)
Find "SlidingHorn" and become my fan!!! :) see you guys there!
"Kill Him!"..."Terrorist!"
Some outright disgusting tirades have been shouted by McCain-Palin supporters in the past week, with no reaction from the candidates but a smirk.
No corrections.
No condemnations.
Make no mistake about it, John McCain and Sarah Palin heard these remarks. Both did nothing but smile and continue their hate-filled diatribes.
You know as well as I do that the Obama campaign would not stand for such outbursts against their opponent. If during one of Senator Obama's speaches, someone proclaimed John McCain a terrorist, a traitor, or suggested his demise, you can bet your bottom dollar that he would stop mid-sentence, set the person straight, and have them removed.
John McCain, however, truly wants you and the rest of the country to believe that Obama is a terrorist. He does not have the stones, however, to come out and say such a shameful thing. Instead, he and his beauty-pageant-failure of a VP pick will throw out small bits and phrases, mistruths and innuendos - hoping lesser-minded bigots will make a connection and spread it to the masses.
Their campaign thrives on the notion that you can never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
These fear-mongering campaign tactics are absolutely deplorable, and even more sickening is McCain's and Palin's refusal to discredit such filth.
Call me naive, but I had faith in McCain's promise that he would run a respectful, issues-only campaign. I had this faith because I remembered the man he was in 2000 when running against George W. Bush. I watched him fall victim to these same despicable tactics and knew - just knew - that he would never let someone go through the same things he did.
It is for these exact reasons that McCain has lost the respect of the American people. More importantly, he has lost respect for himself.
Folks, this is NO time to be complacent in this campaign. McCain and his "campaign" are seeing the tailspin in the polls, and they're desperate. Now, McCain is breaking his promise to run a "respectful campaign" in a last-ditch effort to assassinate the character of Senator Obama by any means necessary. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rUTXfuz6S0
This is crunch time, ladies and gentlemen. This final few weeks is where the campaign will be won or lost. This is the time where we, as Americans, tell the rest of the world one of two things:
With some of the sleaziest campaign tactics in history coming from the other side, we have to remain vigilant. As despicable and incredible as the smears coming from McCain may be, they have worked quite well in the past, and believe it or not, there are people who fall for this crap.
This is why it is more important than ever to get out and get active in this campaign!
Go out and knock on doors. Start making calls to voters (especially in swing states like my home of Ohio!!). Talk to random people in line at the bank. Inform! Inform! INFORM! Let these people know the truth and let them know that the McCain campaign is counting on American ignorance in order to win this election!
We kicked some tail in getting folks registered for the primaries and the election, but registrations mean nothing without votes!!!!
What time is it? GAME TIME!!! (BTW, Go Browns!)
Ryan Hoover - The Trombone-Wielding JackassObama '08
Just saw this article
http://abcnews.go.com/PollingUnit/Politics/story?id=5963651&page=1
And this quote
An aggressive ground war also helps: Thirty-seven percent of Ohio's registered voters say they've been personally contacted by the Obama campaign. That beats the 27 percent who've heard from McCain, and also surpasses the level of contacts by both campaigns in 2004.
Let go out and work like we were behind and bring this victory home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YES WE CAN
I think Tuesday's debate could be critical for Sen. Obama increasing a lead that "will" not allow McCain to catch. With McCain saying they are going to pull no punches, be prepared for harsher smears on a campaign that's built around nothing but smears.
I personally think that Sen Obama should tell McCain, can't we just concentrate on what means most to the voters and move on. (although I also think he needs to defend himself on the spot against whatever McCain brings up). I do think it will be McCains strategy to keep pouncing on Sen Obama so that issues aren't the topic of discussion.
President Obama and Vice President Biden sure has a good ring to me !!!!
Yes, there have been great advances in technology that allow disabled persons to dictate to email/word processing programs through voice technology.
Yes, it IS at least a little insulting to vets who have more serious injuries who are more than capable of using a computer or writing emails.
Yes, John McCain himself said he was computer illiterate.
However, I think it was a dumb move on the part of our campaign to have run the ad they did because it simply opens us up to the attack that we're "mocking wounded vets." We all know that isn't true, and we have plenty of ammo to defend the ad (see above), but please, if anyone working from the campaign is reading this:
Don't make us work so hard to defend a negative ad again
-Everyone's favorite smart-ass
Could this be any better?? Every time Sarah Palin opens her mouth, it's like we strike political gold.
This lady is living proof that ANY idiot can be a Republican candidate. Has anyone seen the Couric interview? I laughed so hard I almost peed.
It's obvious Palin has no business anywhere near a presidential campaign, let alone the White House. I used to worry about what would happen if people were somehow duped into voting for the McShame McCain/Palin ticket, but the more she speaks, the more I realize that no one in this country would be dumb enough to put her in the second most powerful position in the world.
Keep talking, Sarah. At this rate, we won't even have to campaign - we can just let her own incompetence bury their campaign!
