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8月22日 Going, Going, Gone...
The Democrats have screwed up yet another election. Along with the presidency, they could have won a bunch of seats in the House and picked up some in the Senate, too. Obama is running well behind his party which is not a good sign, either. I haven't heard anything from the Obama campaign since I told the last caller to get Hillary on the ticket, and I would think about voting for Obama. Actually, Hillary at the top of the ticket would be better, but the Democrats screwed that up in the primaries in Florida and Michigan. Those two states would have won for her. When you eliminate the red states from consideration--the ones that Obama has no chance of winning such as Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Arkansas and probably Virginia--it's hard to see how Obama can win. McCain is now either even or ahead of Obama in the polls. He is sinking fast. How many times can you say, "the change is now, and we are the change?" After a while, people begin to wonder just what you have to offer. He needs Hillary on the ticket. If she is not on it, I'm going to have a problem. I won't vote for McCain. Maybe I'll just skip that part of the ballot.
Two for the Price of One?The question Pastor Rick Warren asked Barack Obama at the forum on August 16, 2008 was .
Is there a possibility that Barack Obama will choose his wife, Michelle, as his choice for VP? One thing is for certain, if he doesn't name her as his choice for VP, Michelle Obama will certainly play a bigger role in the White House than any other first lady has in the past. If you listen to the news channels it seems to be a fact that Obama will lose a fair number of Hillary Clinton supporters - will he be able to eventually turn those voters around based on simply naming a woman as VP, or will he further infuriate the Clinton followers? 8月21日 It Has to Stop
Every morning it was the same routine, I would walk over to the bakery and Elaine and I would immediately begin filling up the bakery truck with pans filled with bakery goods. Elaine was my best friend and her parents owned the bakery. Our contribution to their business was to see that the donuts were delivered to our high school every morning in accordance with the contract the school had with the bakery. When we finished unloading we would drive back to the bakery and her dad would have our donuts ready for us. Ours were special, he would make sure we had the freshest chocolate donuts dipped, and redipped, in hot chocolate frosting. There was no doubt we had the best job in the world and you couldn't tell which was better. The taste of the chocolate, or the smell of the bakery. Life was good for us and it seems our only real concern was how to avoid getting chocolate frosting on our clothes. How times have changed for high school students. Today's kids go to school and never know whether or not they're going to get home safe or if they're going to be gunned down by the angry boy in their first class or knifed by the unhappy girl in their last class. Today a student was shot at Central High School in Knoxville TN. The student was shot right before morning classes began and later died at the University of Tennessee Medical Center. http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/08/21/tenn.school.shooting/ The name of the victim, and the name of the suspect, that was picked up by police shortly after the shooting, have not been released but what has been released is the fact that this terrible shooting was not an accident. Is the life of a high school student worth less than the life of an embryo? Anti-abortion activists will do everything in their power to save the life of an unwanted child, that will probably grow up abused by a parent that does not want a baby in their life, yet you never here anything louder than a whisper when it comes to teenagers dying at the hands of another teen. How are we going to stop the madness? 8月16日 A Slap in the Face?So little time - so much to learn. This afternoon I came online with hopes of being able to put together a very short piece that might be of interest, but immediately became sidetracked by reading the list of scheduled speakers for the Democratic National Convention. A lot of the big names are there, but so are names that didn't ring such a loud bell, for me, like Maya Soetoro-Ng and Craig Robinson [Barack Obama's sister and Michelle's brother]. When I saw the name Michelle Obama as Headline prime-time speaker for the opening of the convention, and saw Senator Clinton's name for the next night, it bothered me. I think it's very nice that the DNC/Obama afforded Senator Clinton the opportunity to speak, but it seems like the order of the names should be changed. Michelle may be the most important person in Obama's life, but the convention floor just doesn't seem to me to be the place to showcase Obama's family, unless he's giving us a preview of what's to come if he's elected POTUS.
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