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Barack Obama is our next President!

// November 5th, 2008 // 5 Comments » // Personal/Blog News

I can’t express how proud I am of our nation right now, not just because we’ve elected the first African American, but because we’ve elected a truly great man and the leader our country needs. Barack Obama will guide us back to the just path our country needs to be on, and right all of the wrongs our past leaders have done to us as a people.

McCain’s concession speech made enough reference to Barack’s race to imply that was why he was elected. Such an implication is not true. He won because he stuck to the truth and promised us change. We all now wait to see this change, and I for one am not worried.

That said, I still am immensely proud of seeing this happen in my lifetime. Mock me if you will, but I’ve always loved Tupac Shakur’s aptly titled song Changes. One line of the lines in this song reads:

“And although it seems heaven sent, We ain’t ready, to see a black President”

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Look how far we’ve come not only in the decade since that line was written, but more importantly, since the Civil Rights and Voting Rights acts of 1964 and 1965.

The Democrats are back in control and its time to make this nation great once again. I’m proud to be an American.

Election Night 08, 6pm

// November 4th, 2008 // No Comments » // Personal/Blog News

With just an hour to go until the first polls close, many people have asked me if I’m nervous. I voted two weeks ago and even then I was cautiously optimistic. I am by no means cocky and I knock on wood as I write this, but I think Obama has a fantastic shot.

Matty B. Turned me onto a great website for electoral vote projections and information in general about the elections, www.fivethirtyeight.com, and I’ve been there throughout the last couple of months. One of the latest articles posted there affirm my optimism:

If those states go roughly as expected (meaning, say, an Obama win in Virginia and a close race in Indiana), we can conclude with almost literal 100 percent certainty that Obama will win the election

fivethirtyeight.com

C’mon Virginia! Vote Obama!

I’m crossing my fingers, eating bread and cinnamon butter in lieu of popcorn, and watchin’ the map

Who Told You These Things?

// September 23rd, 2007 // 4 Comments » // Activism and Awareness, Politics

There is a very moving and intelligent article over at thisisby.us that I think everyone should read. It, um, asks some very interesting questions.

“Who told you this?” I began. “Who told you supporting our troops meant supporting endless war; that disagreeing with our administration’s policies meant turning my back on my country? Who told you that I have to follow our President into the pits of a hell of our own making, never questioning the course though my heart and head scream for sanity? As for our fighting men and women, who told you I’ve no compassion for their sacrifice or respect for their service? As I beg my elected representatives to bring them home, so they might be safe until the day a war of choice becomes a war of necessity – who told you that makes me a traitor?

Comments from a Pissed-off Soldier

// April 23rd, 2007 // 2 Comments » // Activism and Awareness, Politics

Just wanted to share this.

Also this,
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PS: Forgive the metafilter-style non-descriptive links

Total General Recall

// April 21st, 2007 // No Comments » // Books, Movies, Music, and TV, Politics

I think the gist of Gonzales’ testimony is he does not recall.

Geezuz. I couldn’t even get through this whole video. I wonder if he gave them ANY information AT ALL? What a pussy way to plead the 5th amendment. I hope nobody believes him. If he has that poor a recollection he needs to step down and seek medical attention for amnesia.

The Irresponsibility of the Press

// April 7th, 2007 // No Comments » // Activism and Awareness, Politics

And yet we wonder why Americans are so ignorant to the rest of the world…

Bush Admits Flawed Intelligence

// December 15th, 2005 // 3 Comments » // Activism and Awareness, Politics

Today brought something I never thought I’d see: Bush not only admitting that the intelligence about Iraq was faulty, but also taking responsability for… well, for anything!

via CNN.com

On the eve of Iraq’s historic election, President Bush took responsibility Wednesday for “wrong” intelligence that led to the war, but he said removing Saddam Hussein was still necessary.

He still states that he was justified and it was the right thing to do, which is bull, but I can’t exactly expect miracles here. The article goes on to state that his aproval rating is at 42%, up 4% from November, which I don’t understand, but I also don’t understand how ID has gotten as far as it has, so logic doesn’t exactly enter into it.

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Rumsfeld Slips Up

// December 28th, 2004 // 4 Comments » // Politics

During Donald Rumsfeld’s surprise Christmas Eve trip he made a freudian slip in reference to Sept. 11th’s Flight 93.

via WorldNetDaily

“I think all of us have a sense if we imagine the kind of world we would face if the people who bombed the mess hall in Mosul, or the people who did the bombing in Spain, or the people who attacked the United States in New York, shot down the plane over Pennsylvania and attacked the Pentagon, the people who cut off peoples’ heads on television to intimidate…”

I hate to be a conspiracy theorist– hell, I still think Tupac is dead even though they’ve just released his 12th+ (i lost count) album since his death on September 13, 1996– but there is some very real controvercy over what went on before and during 9-11-01.