"We Don't Quit, I Don't Quit"

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Obama's balls have officially dropped.

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Obama, Medvedev Pledge to Reduce Nuclear Arsenals

Once again, Obama is, in one day, mending the massive two-term mistakes of Bush. It takes more than looking an ex-KGB is the eyes to get things done.

"The U.S. and Russia agreed to open a new round of arms control talks aimed at cutting their weapons stockpiles and curtailing the spread of nuclear arms to Iran and North Korea.

President Barack Obama said he expects results by July, when he will visit Moscow for talks with President Dmitry Medvedev."

Looks like that missile shield in Eastern Europe and failed Cold War tactics used by Bush were tremendous FAILS. Glad we wasted those years.

Check out the body language. Get a room guys.



Source: Bloomberg

Obama's DNC Speech

President Barack Obama. Get used to it. This speech was amazing.

America Is Ready

This is my dream.

Baracky II

Politics should be fun.

Obama Attracts Crowds, McCain Searches For Them

Now matter how you look at it, the Obama brand is much bigger and stronger for leading the US into the next stage, Post-Bush hellstorm. He raises money in a new way, he excites people, he unites them, he gets people to register to vote, he gives hope, he gets the world energized about our country. He is the new paridigm.

In order to keep up with the genuine charisma of Obama, who can get 200,000 people to see him give a speech, McLame must find crowds "to bask in the unwarranted limelight". So McLame heads to Sturgis to bogart a crowd of lawless, extremist bikers. I'm sure his $500 loafers were all the rage. These signs might as well have said "Bikers For The Old White Guy".

This exchange from Keith Olbermann highlights the difference between McLame and Obama:

OLBERMANN: Also, maybe a somewhat serious point contained in all this malarkey; on stage at Sturgis, he referred to the—preferring the roar of the 50,000 Harleys to 200,000 Germans cheering in Berlin. But in doing that, did he not underscore the fact that those 200,000 Germans in Berlin actually showed up to hear Barack Obama speak, but the 50,000 bikers on the roar of their Harleys, they had shown up at Sturgis not to see John McCain, but to see Kid Rock, Kelly Pickler and a bunch of female wrestlers and other women not wearing tops?

MADDOW: This is a critical and basic difference between the John McCain campaign for president and the Barack Obama campaign. Barack Obama creates large crowds when he gives speeches. John McCain‘s campaign has just figured out to find out where there‘s going to be a large crowd for another reason and to hope to slip their candidate in between other acts.

How out of touch is McCain? How desperate? He really counts on the room-temperature IQs of his crowds. I wonder if reformed-junkie Cindy McCain was looking to score some meds off the bikers?

Bob Herbert's NYT Column

Bob Herbert's NYT column

"Let’s see if I’ve got this straight. Barack Obama is a United States senator, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and his party’s candidate for president of the United States — and yet it was somehow presumptuous of him to meet with foreign leaders last week during his trip to the Middle East and Europe.

I’ll say this about Senator Obama. He sure raises people’s hackles. I’ve never seen anyone so roundly criticized for such grievous offenses as giving excellent speeches and urging people of different backgrounds to take a chance on working together. How dare he? And 200,000 people turned out to hear him in Berlin. Unforgivable.

The man has been taken to task for promoting hope, threatened with mutilation by Jesse Jackson for suggesting that a lot of black fathers could do better by their kids and had his patriotism called into question because he wants to wind down a war that most Americans would dearly love to be rid of.

John McCain can barely stop himself from sputtering at the mere mention of Senator Obama’s name. He actually ran an ad blaming Mr. Obama for high gasoline prices. Even Republicans had a good laugh at that one.

And yet Mr. Obama continues to treat Senator McCain respectfully. As far as personal character is concerned, Mr. Obama has scored very well, indeed...

So this is not your ordinary election. Senator Obama will have to turn people on big-time just to win by a little. And for all the tedious talk about timelines and what the surge in Iraq has or has not accomplished, the top three issues in this campaign are still the economy, the economy and the economy...."

Barack will have to work twice as hard, as he did against Hillary in the primaries, but, in the end, it will all be worth it. Winning the right way, bringing the American brand back to something you can respect, inspiring people and industry, leaving the sour politics of yore to Grampy McLame.

Our economy was driven into the ground by the people at the top, the Bush Administration, not by Americans working any more or less competitively. Running up massive debts has a consequence. Catering to a small demographic of wealthy people hurts the country as a whole.

If you want to continue this slide into the depths of cheap labor, high prices, and outsourced opportunity, let the "I'm free market yet I subsidize the banking industry" Republican hypocrites continue to sell you there tired broken story by the likes of John McSame.

Obama's First National Ad

Lincoln Would Be Proud