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Obama 286—McCain 252 (270 Needed to Win)

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After the debates Obama’s Numbers should go even higher. Don’t forget we need a big cushion to overcome the all the vote stealing the Republicans will do. Come on Barack, take off the gloves tonight and give that idiot and his pig the beating of their livesl

Late Late Nite FDL: Wake-Up, America!
Featuring the words of Dennis Kucinich, Barney Smith, Al Gore, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Music, Star Spangled Banner, by Jimi Hendrix.

Wake-Up, America!

Featuring the words of Dennis Kucinich, Barney Smith, Al Gore, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Music, Star Spangled Banner, by Jimi Hendrix.

Demand Change Now.

What’s on your mind tonight?

Sex on the Beach: What 80s Bikini Comedies Tell Us About Gender and Class
Though 1980s beach films seem objectifying and antifeminist, they offer a utopian space where class and gender hierarchies begin to dissolve.

Should we let communities “be themselves”?
“We don’t need more diverse communities, maybe, we just need to let communities be themselves, without interference beyond making sure that the basics of human rights and health are respected and cared for.”Well, that’s an option — one that, apparently,…

Heartening
According to this post by Matt Stoller at OpenLeft, every major Democratic senate challenger this year (judged by very expansive criteria) supports Net Neutrality….

Leadership! Experience! Change!

Good thing McCain dropped everything to go to Washington:

Mr. Boehner pressed an alternative that involved a smaller role for the government, and Mr. McCain, whose support of the deal is critical if fellow Republicans are to sign on, declined to take a stand.

Bush’s former Treasury Secretary: ?I don?t think Bush understands? the financial crisis.
Former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill said President Bush is “in a panic” over the financial crisis and isn’t well-equipped to deal with it. “I don’t think he understands or knows much about any of this and it shows,” O’Neill told ABC News. In his 2004 book, The Price of Loyalty, O’Neill revealed that Dick Cheney […]

Former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill said President Bush is “in a panic” over the financial crisis and isn’t well-equipped to deal with it. “I don’t think he understands or knows much about any of this and it shows,” O’Neill told ABC News. In his 2004 book, The Price of Loyalty, O’Neill revealed that Dick Cheney argued in a White House meeting that “deficits don’t matter.” O’Neill also said that he was disturbed that Bush was so disengaged on domestic issues.

Obama Addresses the Clinton Global Initiative
DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE BARACK OBAMA: It’s great to speak to you this morning. I’m sorry that I can’t be there, but I did enjoy the opportunity to sit down with President Clinton recently in New York. He has helped to create a model for individual responsibility and collective action th…

Attorney for Stevens Tells Jurors Alaska Senator ‘Is Honest,’ Did Not Lie
Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens (R) paid every bill sent to him for extensive renovations of his home and did not lie on financial disclosure forms, his attorney told jurors yesterday, as testimony began in the first trial of a sitting U.S. senator in more than two decades.

Debates Reinforce Public Perceptions
WASHINGTON — “Honesty, vigor, compassion, intelligence — the presence or lack of these and other qualities make up what is called the candidate’s ‘image,'” the commentator wrote. “While some intellectuals and politicians may scoff at these ‘images’ — and while they may in fact be based only on a candidate’s TV impression, ignoring his record, views and other appearances — my own conviction is that these images or impressions are likely to be uncannily correct.” The writer was Sen. John F. Kennedy. The publication was TV Guide and the date was Nov. 14, 1959.

Dr. Frankenstein’s Wall Street
When the mortgage bubble burst, Americans were “shocked” at how many Wall Street buccaneers had been gambling in a vast pyramid scheme with someone else’s money. Paper fortunes were made buying and selling questionable sub-prime mortgages on the silly assumption that such gargantuan inside profiting would always expand — even as the number of homebuyers able to buy overpriced properties was shrinking. Now after the recent crash in sub-prime mortgages and the stock of several investment firms, a trillion dollars in “assets” could be nearly worthless. An already indebted American government must restore some sort of trust to banks and markets by either printing money or borrowing hundreds of billions of dollars from foreign creditors to guarantee loans.