7 posts tagged “election 2008”
Originally uploaded by hessam ebrahimi.
I have supported Hillary Rodham Clinton since January. I support her message of experience and respect. Sadly both Obama and Clinton have made a fair share of mistakes during the campaign but Obama has made less of them and tonight the people spoke he has won more votes for some time now. Hillary Clinton needs to make some tough choices in the next few days.
This Past week CBS News did story Inside Barack Obama's "War Room" it was hosted by CBS News anchor Katie Couric it was to show alleged behind the scenes look at the Obama's Campaign the people that have made it so successful. I watched the report and it pretty good for a Network New Story but after the report was over I was left with a strange feeling and all of sudden it hit me All the Key Positions in Obama Campaign are Staffed by Whites (See it for Yourself). Watch the story it runs about 5:30mins. About 11 Staff People were featured in the store and all I saw were three Black Staffers and there were not in featured positions. Obama is getting 85% of the Black Vote in the US. Something just seem funny about this picture. I am not the only person that noticed it either Wanted: basically young and white, no black need apply. Location: Chicago. Job: help an African-American become President of United States. I cannot understand why the media has been so silent about the people working at Senator Obama headquarters. The people working at the headquarter do not represent the highest percentage of people that are voting for him. is a post from a CBS news viewer on it web site. To me this very much part of the Conversation on Race that Barack Obama wants America to Have.
Originally uploaded by acerminaro.
Hillary Clinton wins by 10 points of Obama tonight. Hillary Clinton is on to something saying Obama is having trouble closing the deal.
If Hillary would have lost Pennsylvania Tonight or even won the primary by a point or two I would have said it time for her to pull out of the race but after tonight's landslide win I say Run Hillary Run!
Brian
Today there is a whisper campaign for Hillary Clinton to stop running her campaign for the Democratic Party Nomination.
Hillary Rodham Clinton don't listen to them for a minute you can still win the Nomination. There is still five months till the the Convention. Clinton may very well win a Landslide in Pennsylvania a month from now this will motivate your base of Women Votes over Thirty Five years old and they may be able to effect the views of their Husbands in the race for White House in November, but let not get ahead of ourselves.
Today while getting a slice of Pizza in Vancouver Canada the young woman at the counter told me she supported Obama for President. I asked her why and she said Obama was for Hope and Change.
My Response to her is the American People are choosing a Leader of the most important Democratic Country in the world we are not electing the Spiritual Leader American.
Yes, being President has a spiritual component but being President also has so many other components and I believe Hillary, does those components very well over the last fifteen years that your name has been in the news on the daily basis.
Hillary Clinton you have brought American closer to meaningful health care reform then any other elected or unelected person in History of America in the last 50 years. Hillary Clinton you understand what New Deal is all about, it not a study in book it is something you live everyday on your campaign trail.
Barack Obama will make mistakes, but, Hillary Clinton's campaign is not about her opponents mistakes but about your message of leading American Society forward as a Secure and Just Nation in the second decade of the new millennium.
Say it not so Obama, you said to the American People that you are a different kinda of Politician someone that you can believe in some the you place you hopes and dreams with.
Hope may spring eternal in the words of Barack Obama but the Politician Barack Obama sounds like he flip/flopping on NAFTA and that not what I saying. That facts are being reported in the Canadian Press Clinton didn't brief Canadian officials on NAFTA stand: PMO CBC which is like the BBC of Canada reports
Hillary Clinton's campaign team has never told any Canadian officials that their candidate's anti-NAFTA statements are just political posturing, the Prime Minister's Office said Friday.
In the midst of the so-called NAFTA-gate affair, the PMO clarified — two days after it was first asked a question about the matter — that Canadian officials never requested, nor received, a private briefing from Clinton's aides on her position on the continental trade treaty.
The Globe and Mail one of Canada's two national newspapers reports PMO: Officials only got briefing from Obama campaign
Mr. Obama had stinging criticism for the North American Free Trade Agreement while campaigning two weeks ago in Ohio. That rust belt state has lost thousands of jobs and the unions courted by Mr. Obama have blamed the trade pact for their job losses. Ms. Clinton was also unsparing in her criticism of NAFTA, stating flatly that the United States should withdraw from the agreement if it could not be renegotiated.
Suggestions of hypocrisy cost Mr. Obama critical votes in the Ohio and Texas primary — both of which were won by Ms. Clinton — and put a stop to his streak of a dozen straight primary wins.
The Associated Press obtained a Canadian government memo that suggested Austan Goolsbee, Mr. Obama's senior economic policy adviser, met Canadian diplomats the consulate in Chicago last month.
I am the kind of Voter who likes the facts a bit more then hope. I sticking with Hilary Clinton and maybe we should rethink how good a Democratic Candidate Barack Obama will be for the 2008 Presidential Election.
Democrats by the Ten's of Thousands wait on line to hear Barack Obama speak the words of hope and change to the faithful who are very much in need of the lift. Democratic Americans are looking for change and its clear from this primary election so far they are looking for two types of change. First Democrats are looking to put the George W Bush years behind them and the second they are looking for a change of energy in their leader.
Obama message injects three key change elements into the choice for American Presidency.
First, Freshness, Obama is a fresh face for Millions of Americans who have grown tired of hearing the name Clinton on almost daily in the media for the last Fifteen years.
Second is Vitality at Obama use the words "Hope, Change and Believe" in his speech's every chance he gets.
Third is Charisma, Obama's Tailored Suits, Good looks and Attractive family projects the hopes and dreams of so many Americans.
Obama likes to be compared to John F Kennedy but myself I hear and feel Late 50's Soul Music Sensation Sam Cooke in Obama's message.
Obama's likes to remind his audiences of the Power of Words the word I most associate with Obama is Infatuation.
In Sam Cooke's 1957 hit song " Darling You Send Me" Cooke projected the joy of new love to the American Public which long grown tired of the repression of the 1950's.
If you dropped the Word's "Darling" form Cooke's and insert Obama you capture the feeling inside the body politic of many Democrats today.
Obama You send me
Honest you do
Obama You thrill me
At first I thought it was infatuation But woo, it's lasted so long
Now (Obama) I find myself wanting To marry you and take you home
This Democratic Primary has captured the attention of world. Canada CBC's Neil MacDonald says in The tribal call of U.S. politics that Obama projects himself as the future of American. "He will take Americans to a colour-blind, rational, humanist place where a common good will overpower narrow self-interest." but then MacDonald notes a let down in this message "It is a lovely idea, after all, if utterly ungrounded reality. And one suspects that the senator from Illinois, for all his transcendent rhetoric, knows that."
Isreals's Haaretz Newspaper Avirama Golan says in An American change, perhaps A scan of U.S. newspapers reveals that while the charismatic "Democratic Candidate (Obama) is very eloquent, there is nothing behind the words he bandies about". Golan ends is posting on up note Obama's " The longing for change, which seeks to violate the old order, defy the connection between capital, power, religion, and government and to create a new administration, ought to interest Israel."
Obama may be Infatuating at least half of the Democratic voting base with his message of hope but Infatuation always has a downside this is best expressed by David Brooks of New York Times Beware Obama Comedown Syndrome who sees a certain emptiness in Obama's message but says voters still see power in it nevertheless Brooks ends his post saying "fact that they can share this dream still means something. After the magic fades and reality sets in, they still know something about his soul."
In the end Obama's message could play just like the Sam Cooke's Song "Infatuation" ending in marriage.
