Finding the Toilet in Stockholm
Last week a mix of water and sanitation experts gathered for World Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden to mull over the world's biggest public health crisis. The problem is that not enough people paid attention.
Last week a mix of water and sanitation experts gathered for World Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden to mull over the world's biggest public health crisis. The problem is that not enough people paid attention.
Biden's competence will help Obama be able to remain Obama. Insider or not, Biden is liked by the country -- and he's smart.
The infusion of national resources builds on a surge of grass-roots volunteerism. "I can remember when you could hold a committee meeting in a phone booth. This campaign will put us on the map!"
Here's why I like Bayh the father so much and why he sets a standard for leadership that we should be comparing others to.
This morning I had breakfast with Valerie Jarrett, Michelle and Barack Obama's close friend and a senior advisor on the campaign. She'd flown in yesterday with Michelle and the kids and heard her practice her speech -- which she described as very personal and very emotional. The introductory video is narrated by Michelle's mother, who Valerie says regularly pinches herself and says, "I can't believe that's my little girl." Meanwhile, the HuffPost Oasis has become a must-visit destination for harried conventioneers. When I left the Oasis this afternoon, one high-powered magazine editor was slumping contentedly on the coach. "I've gotten two massages and taken an incredible yoga class," he said. "I can't seem to leave the Oasis." He's not the only one.
An estimated 18,000 people gathered in Virginia Beach to see presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama. "This has got to be the biggest political rall...
If the left is ever going to get serious about winning elections, we need to stop insisting on 100% ideological purity from our candidates. News flash: politics is about assembling winning coalitions.
Obama should take a page from George Bush and pick the head of his search committee: Caroline Kennedy. She's been witness to the inner-workings of government for decades while maintaining her role as an outsider.
Tim Kaine did his best to look vice-presidential this weekend in Manassas, but while Kathleen Sebelius, for example, is taking on Big Coal, Kaine proposes to take the country into a coal-fired future.
Virginia governor Tim Kaine set a new standard for politician mealy- mouthedness with a letter to his Air Board. The situation is clear to most Virginia watchers: Kaine is terrified of Big Coal.
A military commander tested in wartime, a Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, a Secretary of State, a Vice President Powell would strengthen Obama's candidacy more deeply and more consummately than any other American.
Obama is seriously courting Virginia. Its turning blue this election would be historic. We haven't voted for a Democrat for president since Eisenhower. Eisenhower! So why are we in play now?
Unfortunately, the coterie of cautious centrists being touted by the Obama campaign as short-listers for the vice presidential nod are hardly up to the task of taking on the Republican attack machine.
We are a nation at war -- why are two neophytes on the world stage, Bayh and Kaine, at the top of the list when Obama himself has zero foreign policy or national security chops?
Eyes west, everybody. That would be Denver, where the Democratic National Convention opens on Monday. The suspense is not over the nominee - Senator O...
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If voter turnout for Obama is huge, there will be no denial or ability to steal the results. Landslide. Lets all get out the vote and never get complacent. If Obama supporters turn out in massive numbers it will be glaringly obvious and a mandate that says ENOUGH! and a signal to the world that yes we can turn our destructive ways around.
C'man people. Let's keep our Hopes up. This election will not be stolen or "swiftvoted" by silly smears from the republican machine. Obama will be the first AFRICAN AMERICAN president of the United States. All the sacrifices and hard work his mother, grand parents and even father put into him will make him a successful president. If he was my son I would be very proud of him. Obama 08
McCain and the Replubs are going to be really shocked with Virginia turns blue on Nov 4th....
Let's see what the McPalins think of community organizers once this is over.
Your police state in action
By the way, ever wonder what Bush told the idiots in the House that made them vote for the bailout bill?
It seems there was this secret briefing of congressional leaders a while back on why the bailout packaged HAD to be approved. What was said at that meeting? Well, it seems that folks like you and me weren't worthy of being told. Rep. Brad Sherman did spill the beans, but somehow, the corporate media didn't think the issue worth pursuing.
SEE FOR YOURSELF HERE:
http://www.thoughtcrimes.org/s9/index.php?url=archives/2618-BushCo-threatens-martial-law-to-get-bill-passed.html&serendipity[csuccess]=true#feedback
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