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Michelle & Teresa In Pittsburgh

Monday, March 31st, 2008

I’m jealous.
“Michelle Obama, wife of presidential candidate Barack Obama, will visit Pittsburgh Wednesday for the first time during the Pennsylvania primary season.
She will host a “Stand for Change” rally at Carnegie Mellon University’s Skibo Gymnasium.
Michelle Obama will be joined at the rally by special guest Teresa Heinz Kerry, who is making her first appearance on [...]

Kerry Says Clinton Health Plan “Nonstarter”

Monday, March 31st, 2008

I happen to agree with this completely.   There is a huge difference between mandating the government to provide health care, the way we mandate school; and mandating people pay up to 10% of their income for insurance that may have huge deductibles and co-pays, that will essentially leave people without health care anyay.  It will [...]

PA Teamsters Out For Obama

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Out in front, across the street, an 19-wheeler emblazoned with the Teamsters’ logo and organizing messages is parked. The guys who drove it here have VIP seats on the right side of the mezzanine level, part of a group that includes Thieblemont.
“We brought the truck to show the support of the Teamsters,” said union spokesman [...]

Obama Organizing Fellows

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

In the coming week, the Obama for America Campaign is
launching a program called “Obama Organizing Fellows”.
This summer we are looking for students or recent
graduates who want to be a part of a new generation of
leadership that believes, like Senator Obama, that real
change comes from the ground up.
Fellows will be trained on the basics of organizing [...]

Obama Organizing Fellows

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

In the coming week, the Obama for America Campaign is launching a program called “Obama Organizing Fellows”.
This summer we are looking for students or recent graduates who want to be a part of a new generation of leadership that believes, like Senator Obama, that real change comes from the ground up.
Fellows will be trained on [...]

“Obama Works” Change From The Bottom Up

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Adam LeGrand’s new group, walking the walk, changing the world, bottom up, one neighborhood at a time.
Hello from Philadelphia!
I want to share with you a new grassroots movement, one that empowers
citizens to organize public service events that both demonstrate support for
Senator Obama, and make meaningful, concrete contributions to their
communities.  It’s called Obama Works, and we’ve had [...]

Alice Walker Endorsement

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Noted author of “The Color Purple” has written a stirring endorsement of Barack Obama, which addresses the key purpose of his election for America.
After a painful reminder of the consequences of racial disparity, the kind of thing that might have moved Rev Wright to wonder if God, indeed, ought to damn America, she goes on to [...]

Obama Cooper Union Speech

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

“In the more than two centuries since then, we have struggled to balance the same forces that confronted Hamilton and Jefferson - self-interest and community; markets and democracy; the concentration of wealth and power, and the necessity of transparency and opportunity for each and every citizen. Throughout this saga, Americans have pursued their dreams within [...]

Fr Michael Pfleger Defends Rev Wright

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjJlsGrlbUs
“When you take out him, you take out all of us”
“Since when is truth unacceptable.  Since when is dissent unpatriotic”

The World Beyond Iraq

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

“..Now we know what we’ll hear from those like John McCain who support open-ended war. They will argue that leaving Iraq is surrender. That we are emboldening the enemy. These are the mistaken and misleading arguments we hear from those who have failed to demonstrate how the war in Iraq has made us safer. Just [...]