Senator Obama will be President Obama.

Latest election calls from AP and NPR. NPR predicts that Ohio wil go to Obama. It is over.

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Chuck Todd: If McCain Wins All Toss-Ups He Still Loses

With two days before Election Day, the final NBC News map shows Obama remaining above the 270 electoral-vote mark, with a 286-157 lead over McCain. Last week, Obama held a 286-163 advantage.

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McCain Hits Up Russia for Money Illegally

Blog: I'm thinking this one was a waste of postage.From the Russian newswire RIA-Novosti:Russia's permanent mission to the

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McCain Hits Up Russia for Money Illegally

Blog: I'm thinking this one was a waste of postage.From the Russian newswire RIA-Novosti:Russia's permanent mission to the

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Who Won The Last Debate? Obama Dominates

Who Won The Last Debate? Obama Dominates By Largest Margins Yet.John McCain didn't just fail to get the game-changer he needed -- he was trounced in this third and final debate, if the instant post-debate polling provides any indication.

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Secret Service probing 'Kill him' cry about Obama at Scranto

Times-Tribune employees who covered the rally were interviewed today by the Secret Service.Spokesman Darrin Blackford said the agency takes the threat seriously and will make an arrest if it can determine who shouted the remark.

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Donna Brazile on this Election and Racism

An interesting point of view regarding this election and the candidacy of Barack Obama. In other words...I LOVE Donna Brazile. She is AWESOME!

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Sarah Palin Disney Trailer

Matt Damon's prediction comes true in the wackiest family comedy of the year!

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John McCain Needs Alzheimer’s Screening?

Have you heard John McCain’s newest stump speech? He's once again raising concerns of possible early Alzheimer’s related dementia or at the very best case, late stage senility. It’s the opinion of this blogger that John McCain should either take a closer look at recent history or go to a very good neurologist.

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Joe Biden's Tears: the Political Power of Paternal Love

Joe Biden did more for the equality of the sexes with his honest display of paternal emotion during the vice presidential debate than Sarah Palin's presence on the executive ticket has or will ever do. Biden visibly teared up when he rebutted the idea that "just because I am a man" he didn't understand what it was like to wonder whether a child wou

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Cash-Strapped Pakistan Appeals Friends to Provide Aid!

Saquib Sherani, Economic Adviser to Pakistan's Prime Minisiter Yusuf Reza Gilani appealed its friendly nations to immediately grant $7 billion to fulfill the basic needs of its people. At least $1 billion is needed every month to maintain the machinery which provides such assistance to the people.

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McCain takes credit for bill before it loses

Shortly before the vote, McCain had bragged about his involvement and mocked Sen. Barack Obama for staying on the sidelines.

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The 50 Things That Every Comics Collection Truly Needs

With the addition of Bone, some Tick and as much Tales of the Beanworld as you can find...I think this is a fantastic list!!!!The Comics Reporter presents a eclectic, intriguing list of 50 excellent comic book titles, a must for all comic fans.

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McCain Runs Web Ads Claiming to Win Debate - Before Debate!

Although the fate of tonight's presidential debate in Mississippi remains very much up in the air, John McCain has apparently already won it -- if you believe a web ad in the online edition of the Wall Street Journal this morning.

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Economists Support Obama Over McCain By More Than 2 to 1

Discussed McCain's Poor Decision to Rely on his Advisors and the Truth on Taxes:• 95% of working families would get a tax cut from Obama• 100 million Americans would get NO tax cut from McCain• Most would get a larger tax cut from Obama

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Palin's transparency proposal already exists in D.C.

There’s just one problem with proposing to put the federal checkbook online – somebody’s already done it. His name is Barack Obama.

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New Obama ad: on the economy

On the air...

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Obama Ad Goes After McCain For 'Fundamentals Are Strong'

"How can John McCain fix our economy if he doesn't understand it's broken?"

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Christ's Message Was A Message Of Hatred And Self-loathing?

James David Manning preaches at the ATLAH World Missionary Church on 123rd Street in Harlem. After a long career as a small time hoodlum and stints in prison up and down the East Coast for burglary, robbery and larceny he found a demented, hate-filled version of "Christianity"... and, of course, the Republican Party. He claims a PhD from some ...

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Video: Barack Obama Saw it Coming!

Obama this morning threw down the gauntlet on McCain, pointing out McCain's lack of leadership on the current economic crisis, using McCain's own words.

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Alaska lawmakers vote to subpoena Todd Palin!!!

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The abuse of power investigation against Sarah Palin, Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate, took a potentially ominous turn for her party on Friday when state lawmakers voted to subpoena her husband.

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Gallup admits to using Likely Voters when it helps McCain

Frank Newport, head of Gallup, admits that they temporarily changed to a likely-voter model for a poll that showed a large jump and lead for McCain, in the same breath that he admitted that the likely-voter model is less accurate than the registered-voter model, and that the likely-voter model was temporarily skewed Republican.

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Obama TV Ad: "Honor"

On the air...

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Wheels Come Off Straight Talk Express; Obama Memo

The memo argues, "Since naming Governor Palin as their vice presidential nominee, the McCain campaign has distorted, distracted, and outright lied to the American people about her record in a desperate attempt to hide the fact that a McCain/Palin Administration would be nothing more than a continuation of the failed Bush policies of the last eight.

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'No One Knows What War Is Like Other Than My Family'

John McCain's daughter Meghan said that her family has a special understanding of the military, and that "no one knows what war is like OTHER THAN MY FAMILY."On "The Today Show", she said the experience of having the country at war is "just different when you have someone in the military. Obviously, I think MY FATHER GETS IT MORE THAN ANYONE."

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Palin's Speech Didn't Move Undecided or Democratic Women

McCain's pandering to women improved her standing to women in focus groups in Nevada, but polling data suggests that there is no movement in national polling data, showing women are not stupid like John McCain and Karl Rove think they are.

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Even the WSJ doesn't buy the BS

Sarah lying again about the Bridge to Nowhere

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TPM: Why Palin's Interview With ABC Is Already A Farce

It makes the questioning entirely at the discretion of the person being interviewed and their handlers. The interviewer has to be on their best behavior, at least until the last of the 'multiple interviews' because otherwise the subsequent sittings just won't happen.

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Rendell: If I Was Palin You'd Be Calling For My impeachment

Gov. Ed Rendell decried a double standard in the treatment of Sarah Palin on Monday, saying that if it was he who was at the center of the "troopergate" investigation, the press would be calling for his head.

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Palin Won't Do Interviews Until Treated with "Deference"

Rick Davis, campaign manager for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., just told Fox News Channel's Chris Wallace that McCain running mate Gov. Sarah Palin won't subject herself to any tough questions from reporters "until the point in time when she'll be treated with respect and deference."

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Media Ignores Massive Voter Purges by Republicans

While the media focuses on the antics of McCain's chosen VP battleground states are purging their voter rolls.In Colorado, one fifth of all voter registrations were dropped.Florida is refusing to accept 85,000 new registrants -- overwhelmingly blacks.Ohio & Nevada are scrubbing tens of 1000s of voters who lost their homes.

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Sarah Palin's 9 Most Disturbing Beliefs

It's time to shift the discussion about Palin to what really matters: her far-right views on the issues. Let's forget for a moment that Sarah Palin likes to kill moose, has lots of children and was once voted the second-prettiest lady in Alaska; that's all part of the gusher of sensationalist, but not particularly substantive, news that has...

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Target Women: Sarah Palin

Sarah Haskins satirizes Sarah Palin supporters on infoMania.

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The Sarah Palin Smokescreen from The Nation Magazine

McCain's campaign manager Rick Davis said,"This election is not about issues." That's exactly how Republicans win. Democrats can't let them get away with it. "You did not hear a single world about the economy," Obama said. "Not once did they mention the hardships that people are going through."If voters really want real change, here are some facts.

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An Angry Community Organizer!

Last evening former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Republican Vice Presidential candidate Governor Sarah Palin sarcastically mocked, ridiculed and cast aside not only the work of Senator Obama and I but millions of others who have worked in the community organizing field as a volunteer or full-time worker. Governor Palin was the worst offend

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Obama: Would send Attorney General to review Bush War Crimes

He worried that such a probe could be spun as "a partisan witch hunt." However, he said that equation changes if there was willful criminality, because "nobody is above the law."

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Barack Obama, in Ohio, identifies with working mothers

Speaking under a hot summer sun to a largely female crowd in this small Ohio town, Obama spoke of the struggles his mother and grandmother had endured. And he promised to push legislation that would ensure equal pay for women should he win the White House.

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FBI Wanted Obama Plotters Charged,But Rove Appointee Said No

We noticed last week that it was awfully peculiar that Colorado’s U.S. Attorney, Troy Eid, had so airily dismissed conspiracy charges against the three white-supremacist tweakers who were caught planning to assassinate Barack Obama at last week’s Democratic National Convention in Denver. Now it turns out that those suspicions were fully warranted:

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AP: Palin's Obama Attacks Stretch Truth At GOP Convention

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her Republican supporters held back little Wednesday as they issued dismissive attacks on Barack Obama and flattering praise on her credentials to be vice president. In some cases, the reproach and the praise stretched the truth.

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Sarah Palin Lies, Gets Called Out On It

Watching Palin's speech, I was struck by how blatantly she could lie about her previous support for the now infamous Bridge to Nowhere (among other things). Before I could write a post about it, the Obama campaign actually printed its own (surprisingly thorough) fact sheet about Palin's awfully misleading speech. Here it is, printed in its entirety

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FactCheck: McCain Ad Continues Lies about Obama's Tax Plan

This new ad claims Obama and congressional Democrats plan to push forward "painful tax increases on working American families" and that they will bring about "years of deficits," "no balanced budgets" and "billions in new government spending." The ad is plain wrong about higher taxes on working families.

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Palin's church says Jews deserve to be victims of terrorism

Brickner, [Palin's church leader] also described terrorist attacks on Israelis as God's "judgment of unbelief" of Jews who haven't embraced Christianity. Palin was in church that day and did nothing.

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Palin Slashed Funding for Teen Moms

Because punishing ignorant teenage girls is always the best policy!

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Old Dude/ MILF '08!

"nice-looking backside i'm looking at...oop cameraman noticed me. you've got that sexy librarian thang going on."

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AP: Palin used 'Bridge to Nowhere' for gain

Gov. Sarah Palin was for the so-called infamous "Bridge to Nowhere" before she was against it, a change of position the GOP vice presidential running mate conveniently ignored Saturday when she bragged about telling Congress "thanks but no thanks" to the pork barrel project.

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Palin belonged to Alaskan Secessionist Party

How much does Sarah Palin love America? She loves it so much that she once belonged to an Alaskan political party, the Alaskan Independence Party, that wanted to secede from the Union. She loves America so much that she preferred not to be a citizen of America, but a citizen of an autonomous Alaska. There's video proof of this at the link.

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Palin thinks Pledge written by Founding Fathers

Sarah Palin, the Republican Party's vice presidential candidate, apparently needs a lesson in history. Seems she thinks the Founding Fathers wrote the Pledge of Allegiance. Um, Sarah? The Pledge wasn't written until 1892.

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Obama Says Palin's Family Is Off-Limits

"Let me be as clear as possible," Obama said. "I think people's families are off-limits, and people's children are especially off-limits. This shouldn't be part of our politics. It has no relevance to Gov. Palin's performance as governor or her potential performance as a vice president."

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Palin booed

Palin is booed when referring to Hillary. The McCain campaign think this move is going to get them Hillary's supporters - I don't think so!

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John McCain voted against Katrina relief multiple times

John McCain, now "concerned about Gustav", had numerous votes against Katrina relief in 2005, and helped to strike down Democratic bills and amendments that would bring tax benefits, health care and emergency relief to victims of Katrina, Rita and Wilma.

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Bristol Palin is pregnant...again?

Although there isn't decisive proof Trig is Bristol's son (i.e. Sarah Palin's grand child) the plot certainly thickens as the McCain ticket announces Bristol is pregnant at 17 and going to marry the father... Anyone else getting confused by all of this?

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Sarah Who? Proud Mayor of Wasilla, Pop. 5,500

Before her meteoric rise, just two short years ago Sarah Palin was the mayor of Wasilla, a population of about 5500 people. Thinks creationism should be taught in our public schools, homosexuality is a sin, and life begins at conception. She’s a gun-toting, hang ‘em high conservative. Imagine her negotiating a nuclear non-proliferation treaty?

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Top Seven Key Green Election Issues

The Daily Green compiled a list of the top seven key green election issues.

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McCain's Record of Blocking Veterans Health Funding

Yesterday, Sen. John McCain promoted his veterans private health care “plastic card” in a speech to the American Legion. Though he insisted the “card is not intended to either replace the VA or privatize veterans’ health care,” veterans groups aren’t buying it.

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McCain Campaign: There are no uninsured-Wow!

Mr. Goodman, who helped craft Sen. John McCain's health care policy, said anyone with access to an emergency room effectively has insurance, albeit the government acts as the payer of last resort. (Hospital emergency rooms by law cannot turn away a patient in need of immediate care.) "Instead, the bureau should categorize people according to...

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Why McCain would be a mediocre president

(Rosie's notes: And now for something completely negative. McCain has squandered his career and has nothing to show for it. What experience is he touting? How many times will McCain be wrong and Obama be right for people to understand? McCain = Bush)

The assumption seems to be that McCain's years of experience in the military and in Congress of course give him the background and tools he'd need in the White House.But is that true? Does McCain have the right stuff? A careful look at McCain's biography shows that he isn't prepared for the job. His resume is much thinner than most people think.

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ObamaTaxCut.com - What's your Obama Tax Cut?

(Rosie's notes: We'll start with something positive):
53% of Americans think Barack Obama will raise their taxes, which means at least 52% of Americans don't know anything about his tax policies. In fact, 95% of Americans will see a tax cut from Obama, and 80% of Americans will get a bigger cut than they'd get from McCain. Calculate your Obama Tax Cut at ObamaTaxCut.com!

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Welcome to the Blog

Welcome to my blog. Just a quick introduction...I am a regular citizen not being paid by or coordinating with any political organization to my knowledge. (The payments I am sure of...coordination is what is up in the air...I'm just not sure of the legal definitions here.)

Anyways...the basic premise of the blog is two-fold. One to re-iterate why I am supporting Barack Obama for president and second to re-iterate why I am opposed to John McCain. You will find that the recurring theme is that articles about Obama tend to make me fired up and ready to go, while articles about McCain tend to remind me that he is equal to or worse than George W. Bush. But my snarky comments aside...please follow my links and read the articles for yourself. It is up to you to make up your own mind.

Fired up? Fired up! Ready to go? Ready to go!
Can we finally return America to the heights that it deserves? Yes, we can!!!