Now, thanks in no small part to the absolutely ruthless and rancid campaign that's being run by John McCain and his attack bimbo Sarah Palin, I simply can't wait to cast my vote for Barack Obama once absentee voting commences in the islands.

So I've gotten involved, and if you have even an hour a week, you should to0.

Here's what I'm doing:

1. Phone banking. I signed up at the Obama website and they gave me the numbers and scripts, and I do that about two hours a week.

2. Texting - I have a list of people to text on a regular basis.

3. Volunteering - I do a couple of hours a week at the Obama office locally.

just thought i'd enlighten you.

sincerely,

cp

what would have been a better democratic ticket you ask? glad you asked! why, that would have been clinton/obama.

if i vote for obama/biden, it's only because they're somewhat less scary than mccain/palin. sen. obama's done nothing to cause this "feeling" i have, the "feeling" that i can't trust him as far as i can throw him.

why's that you ask? glad you asked! because sen. obama's (brief) history belies his (and your's jeralyn) attempts to paint the good senator as some kind of "progressive". he isn't. i know it, you know it (or should), BTD knows it (or should) and so does every other thinking person.

unless, of course, by "progressive", you mean someone who doesn't believe small children should be burned at the stake, in the town square. by that measure, i guess sen. obama would qualify as one. i think. unless, he saw some immediate political advantage in burning those children.

I've been quietly thanking John McCain for picking her and Sarah Palin for being arrogant enough to accept his invitation.  It was like an extremely motivating shot in the arm for many, many Democrats I know - even Obama supporters.

However, it's time now to chalk up all that other stuff, that I was so pissed about, to politics, except of course for the animal imbeciles on the Daily Kos.

Bush took us back half a century but Palin wants to take us back even more.  And forget Palin, look at the slime McCain has become.  I never thought he would have stooped to the crap we have seen here, although it's not terribly unlike some of the things many of us said about Obama.  But at least we did it because we had a better candidate, McCain doesn't give a shit about America anymore, just about him.

I hope Obama once and for all makes us proud and says that Republicans have f___d us over for too long.  Their ideas don't work and they never have.  Trickle down economics has halfway killed us and if we elect McCain, he might finish the job.  Republicans f_k things up and the Democrats always have to fix it.  They gave and gave and gave to the wealthiest so that Amex could produce a black card for the true Gordon Gekkos and then they make fun of regular people who have credit and debit cards that have superheroes on them.  

You put a twisted mirror up to all of us who strive to work hard, keep learning and become better women.

A now retired former professor of mine said Sarah Palin makes him want to get back to teaching...because he thinks he could get 6 years of classes out of exploring exactly who this woman is and what she means in our society and why people are reacting the way they are (this is a sociology prof).  

I am not quite sure anymore what the moment was that made me decide to volunteer for Obama at some point, maybe it was the convention.  And then three or four weeks ago an office opened locally, and the head of the office called me and asked if I would like to volunteer.  I said yes.

the main reason sen. obama couldn't pick sen. clinton as veep, is because she'd make him look positively amatuerish by comparison.

she's more experienced, better read, has a better grasp of the issues, and comes across with far more warmth and empathy than does sen. obama. that all his positions dovetailed onto hers was the icing on the cake; the man has no original thoughts of his own.

she's also a far better democrat than obama; i just can't envision sen. obama urging his supporters to turn their energies to electing sen. clinton, were the roles reversed. sen. obama is in it for sen. obama, period. he has no soul.

The idea of John McCain as Prez is scaryscaryscary all by himself (for more info read the amazing DailyHowler archives  and recent Counterpunch McCain articles). I don't need Palin to tell me that NOW.

McCain's choice of Palin as his running mate is very telling. But that move does not turn the Dem ticket into a shining star IMHO because only one person alone can make that happen: Obama

P.S. There have been other male GOP candidates in the past who seemed plenty arrogant and stupid. Guess nobody noticed since acc. to the media punditry it was always the Dem candidate who was lying abd evil (i.e. Gore) and the devil (Imus' regular Hillary Clinton description) while the GOP candidate was trustworthy and honest and could do nothing wrong. Many of the pundits who now get their knickers into a tight twist over the oh so nasty McCain/Palin followed that exact script election after election.  

1.   She wasn't necessarily interested and wasn't too interested in being vetted more thoroughly.

2.  She was intensely negative on Obama during the primaries, bringing up the "slumlord Resko," etc.  That would have given the McCain campaign an incredible amount of video to use letting America know that "politics comes before principle for those Democrats."

3.  It also would've meant bringing Bill Clinton into the picture a bit too much...and there was quite a bit of friction there (still is).