Barack Obama is the first presidential candidate to put out a statement in response to the protests by Tibetans inside and outside of Tibet and China’s brutal crackdown in response.
I am deeply disturbed by reports of a crackdown and arrests ordered by Chinese authorities in the wake of peaceful protests by Tibetan Buddhist monks. I condemn the use of violence to put down peaceful protests, and call on the Chinese government to respect the basic human rights of the people of Tibet, and to account for the whereabouts of detained Buddhist monks.
These events come on the 49th anniversary of the exile of the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists, the Dalai Lama. They demonstrate the continuing frustration of the Tibetan people at the way in which Beijing has ruled Tibet. […]
Tibet should enjoy genuine and meaningful autonomy. […] Now is the time to respect the human rights and religious freedom of the people of Tibet.
While this is a good statement - far better than what the Bush...
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Presidential Material: John McCain and Barack Obama
Every once in a while a comic book comes out that attracts the attention of the national media. This week we were lucky to have TWO! Unfortunately, neither of them has anything to do with comic books.
I am of course talking about the pictured John McCain and Barack Obama comic book biographies from IDW.
What I notice right away is that John McCain kind of has a creepy grin thing going, like The Smiler from Transmetropolitan, while Obama looks ... more
["...And nowhere are the media more horrendously slanted than in their coverage of the presidential campaign of Illinois Sen. Barack Obama. They are (to say the least) very, very sweet on him."] Media Research...... more
The steel mills and coal mines of western Pennsylvania helped fuel the nation’s economic engine. Today, old factory shells and boarded-up storefronts stand as bleak reminders of those once-prosperous times.
But the voters in working-class enclaves such as this still are a sought-after prize in presidential politics, and many are belatedly backing Democratic nominee Barack Obama.
In the Democratic primaries, working-class whites consistently supported Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. Later po... more
Look at this : A) Rush Limbaugh & Sean Hannity wanted Mit Romany so they trashed Mike Huckabee by linking him to McCain in an attempt to get both out of the race. They even accused Mike Huckabee of running a fake campaign to help McCain by taking votes away from Romney. It got Mike Huckabee out but ended up helping McCain rather than Romney.
B) Rush Limbaugh & Sean Hannity were so sure a Black Man could not win The Presidency that they pushed hard to help Senator Obama get Nominated. The... more
Spring Ball From: carsaloon.net Post Date: 2008-10-11 10:10:29
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The Audacity of Hope In The Audacity of Hope, Senator Obama calls for a different brand of politics — a politics for those weary of bitter partisanship and alienated by the “endless clash of armies” we see in congress and on the campaign trail; a politics rooted in the fait... more
For the last few weeks, I have been holding the presidential campaign in the Light, asking for Truth to be make known, and for Truth to prosper. It is my constant prayer, on waking, laying down to sleep, and most of the time in between. When Governor Palin started saying at rallies that “Obama is not like us, he sees a different America than we do,” effectively playing the “us” vs. “them” game, I was disappointed. When it went further and Senator Obama was accused of ‘pallin’ aro... more
Eric Boehlert of Media Matters has a great piece about how progressive blogs, lead by FireDogLake, orchestrated a massive push back on an Associated Press story by Nedra Pickler of Republican smear attacks on Barack Obama.
What prompted the organized outpouring of angst last week against the AP was when the website Firedoglake took action, embraced a new organizing tool, tapped into a wellspring of enthusiasm for Obama, and pointed angry readers not in the direction of the AP itself, but toward ... more
Huge Texas Turnout From: holdfastblog.com Post Date: 2008-03-04 19:35:32
Via Markos, First Read reports:
An Obama source emails First Read that the campaign is expecting turnout between 3.6 to 3.8 million in the Texas Democratic primary.
Consider that John Kerry received 2.8 million votes in the Lone Star State in the 2004 general election.
“That’s a lot of ‘new’ Democratic voters,” the Obama source says. “Will be great for Texas Dem Party that’s working to rebuild and only needs to pick up four seats to take back the state h... more
McSame As Bush From: holdfastblog.com Post Date: 2008-03-05 08:00:51
The Campaign to Defend America, a 501(c)4 that will be doing a whole lot of work against John W. McCain this cycle, has released their first ad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN10_6pyshQ
Greg Sargent at TPM Election Central reports:
The Campaign to Defend America — which will be running ads on issues like Iraq, the economy, energy, and health care, from a bent that appears to be pro-Democratic — is spending more than $1,000,000 on the buy, the group tells me.
This is great... more
Lhadon at Beijing Wide Open reports:
Bjork took a stand for Tibetan independence at a concert in Shanghai on Sunday. Following what the BBC described as a “powerful performance” of her song, Declare Independence, Bjork yelled “Tibet, Tibet” and “Raise your flag” repeatedly from the stage. She did the same thing but for Kosovo at a concert in Tokyo last week and was promptly dropped from the lineup of a summer festival in Serbia.
Not surprisingly, may Chinese are not happy with Bjork... more
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