Clipmarks | masbury's 'obama' clips

What a Hillary supporter saw at Invesco

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:33:07 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Someone ready to fight for what matters, not just inspire

Clip Source: sage

When Obama emphatically said "ENOUGH!" and began to demand that the
Republicans own their failures, I grew hopeful. When he talked about
watching his mother argue with insurance companies while she was in bed
dying of cancer, I felt his quiet, appropriate and protective rage. When he
looked straight into the camera and committed to fighting for equal pay for
equal work "because I want my daughters to have the exact same opportunities
as your sons," I believed him. And when he called John McCain out to have a
debate about who has "the temperament, and judgment, to serve as the next
Commander-in-Chief," I trusted him to be capable of holding his own in such
a debate. Through his demeanor, Barack Obama did what no other person,
including Bill or Hillary Clinton, could do for him: he proved he has what
it takes not just to inspire but to protect and defend all of our lives and

rights.

Tags: obama, speech, hillary

I can relate, but you don't want me as president

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 06:22:23 GMT

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clipper's remarks: When the call comes at 3AM I want a mind who was at the top of their class, who has gravitas and a real intellect
I want a leader who is a scholar who can hold the history of civilization in his head and will read and learn from the past as he charts the future.

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

The scariest thing I hear about the Palin nomination was that she would appeal to voters because they would be able to relate to her and she to them

I am a recovering addict alcoholic and finding another group that relates to my struggles is/was key to my sobriety

The problem is I may be relatable and share some of your experiences and concerns but you don't want me as president of United States.

I couldn't hold my own for one minute in a debate on any issue with someone like a Barack Obama or Joseph Biden and neither can Sarah Palin

When the call comes at 3AM I want a mind who was at the top of their class, who has gravitas and a real intellect

I want a leader who is a scholar who can hold the history of civilization in his head and will read and learn from the past as he charts the future.

This is the hardest time this generation has ever faced and people are all scared about the economy, our health care and

our children's futures. That is what millions of Americans and I can relate to.

Tags: obama, palin, biden, mccain, politics

Obama to Media: "Back off!" Palin pregnancy

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:44:29 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Amen.

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

Obama To Media: "Back Off" Palin Pregnancy

At a brief press availability in Monroe, Mich., ABC News asked Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., if he had any response to Gov. Sarah Palin's statement that her unmarried 17-year-old daughter Bristol is pregnant.

"Let me be a clear as possible: I have said before and I will repeat again, I think people's families are off limits," Obama said, "and people's children are especially off limits.

"This shouldn't be part of our politics," he continued, "It has no relevance to Gov. Palin's performance as governor, or her potential performance as a vice president.

"And so I would strongly urge people to back off these kinds of stories," he said. "You know my mother had me when she was 18, and how a family deals with issues and, you know, teenage children, that shouldn't be the topic of our politics and I hope that anybody who is supporting me understands that's off limits."

Tags: palin, obama

McCain on Palin and Obama

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 06:11:16 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Be honest, now.

Clip Source: talkingpointsmemo.com

When asked about criticisms of Sarah Palin's readiness to serve as president, McCain responded: "If they want to go down that route, in all candor, she has far, far more experience than Senator Obama does."

Set aside the bravado. Can McCain possibly believe that? And if he does, what are we supposed to think of his own fitness to serve? Sen. Obama is certainly new on the national scene. But he's serving his fourth year in the US senate. He's run a successful national primary campaign. He's deeply versed on all the relevant policy issues. Palin has been the governor of one of the smallest states in the country (by pop.) for 18 months. As recently as 2006, she said she hadn't focused enough on Iraq to have an opinion one way or another about the surge. Even now, her off-hand comments about Iraq are completely at odds with Sen. McCain's.

it says a lot about McCain that he says it.

Tags: mccain, palin, obama

Politifact: Obama's birth cert real; end of story

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:53:07 GMT

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clipper's remarks: No different from any Hawaii birth certificate. Matches records from all other points in Obama's life. "It's a valid Hawaii state birth certificate," Hawaii state spokesman verifies.

Clip Source: www.politifact.com

How do you prove something to people who come to the facts believing, out of fear or hatred or maybe just partisanship, that they’re being tricked?

the big issue that’s being raised is the lack of an embossed seal and a signature,” Okubo said, pointing out that in Hawaii, both those things are on the back of the document. “Because they scanned the front … you wouldn’t see those things.”

There is not one shred of evidence to disprove PolitiFact’s conclusion

we took an extra step: We e-mailed it to the Hawaii Department of Health

to ask if it was real

“It’s a valid Hawaii state birth certificate,” spokesman Janice Okubo told us.

Okubo says she got a copy of her own birth certificate last year and it is identical to the Obama one we received.

if this document is forged, then they all are.

And that’s true no matter how many people cling to some hint of doubt and use the Internet to fuel their innate sense of distrust.

Tags: obama, birth certificate

What Obama's done in the US Senate, Part 1

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:17:50 GMT

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clipper's remarks: It's a rather distinguished record for a four-year Senator.

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

Legislation

See also: List of bills sponsored by Barack Obama in the United States Senate

Obama introduced two initiatives bearing his name: "Lugar–Obama," which expanded the Nunn–Lugar cooperative threat reduction concept to conventional weapons

and the "Coburn–Obama Transparency Act," which authorized the establishment of www.USAspending.gov, a web search engine.^[

Obama sponsored legislation requiring nuclear plant owners to notify state and local authorities of radioactive leaks

In December 2006, President Bush signed into law the "Democratic Republic of the Congo Relief, Security, and Democracy Promotion Act," marking the first federal legislation to be enacted with Obama as its primary sponsor

In January 2007, Obama co-sponsored the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act, which was signed into law in September 2007.

He introduced S. 453, a bill to criminalize deceptive practices in federal elections

Obama also introduced the Iraq War De-Escalation Act of 2007.

Tags: obama, senate

Obama's recognitions/honors while a Senator

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:38:57 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Distinguished service recognitions received during his four years as a U.S. Senator.
You are certainly free to disagree with Obama, but the suggestion that his service as a Senator is less than exemplary is simply ill-informed propaganda.

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

[edit] Recognition and honors

An October 2005 article in the British journal New Statesman listed Obama as one of "10 people who could change the world,"

the only politician included on the list

In 2005 and again in 2007, Time magazine named him one of "the world's most influential people."

During his first three years in the U.S. Senate, Obama received Honorary Doctorates of Law from Knox College (2005),

University of Massachusetts Boston (2006)

Northwestern University (2006)

Xavier University of Louisiana (2006)

Southern New Hampshire University (2007)

and Howard University (2007)

The audiobook edition of Dreams from My Father earned Obama the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album in 2006.

He won the award a second time in 2008 for the spoken word edition of The Audacity of Hope

Tags: obama, honors

Obama's Senate service, Part 2

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:28:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Especially focused on foreign policy and veterans' affairs; becomes chair of Foreign Relations' Committee's subcommittee for European Affairs.

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

Later in 2007, Obama sponsored an amendment to the Defense Authorization Act adding safeguards for personality disorder military discharges

sponsored the "Iran Sanctions Enabling Act" supporting divestment of state pension funds from Iran's oil and gas industry

co-sponsored legislation to reduce risks of nuclear terrorism

sponsored a Senate amendment to the State Children's Health Insurance Program providing one year of job protection for family members caring for soldiers with combat-related injuries

Committees

assignments on the Senate Committees for Foreign Relations

Environment and Public Works

Veterans' Affairs

ook additional assignments with Health, Education, Labor and Pensions

Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

Chairman of the Senate's subcommittee on European Affairs

As a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee

has made official trips to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia and Africa

Tags: obama, senate

38 million watch Obama acceptance speech

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:03:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Not counting C-Span and PBS

Clip Source: thinkprogress.org

Obama’s speech watched by 38 million viewers.»

Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-IL) acceptance speech last night reached a quarter of America’s households, according to Nielsen Media Research. In all, with over 38 million viewers, “more people watched Obama speak than watched the Olympics opening ceremony in Beijing, the final “American Idol” or the Academy Awards this year.” The AP notes that “Obama’s audience might be higher,” since Nielsen didn’t estimate how many people watched on PBS or C-SPAN.

Tags: obama, speech

Pat Buchanan cheers Obama speech!

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:49:40 GMT

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clipper's remarks: “I stand with Obama! It was a genuinely outstanding speech, it was magnificent."

Clip Source: www.crooksandliars.com

Pat Buchanan gushes over Obama speech, hell freezes over

Q: How do you know Obama’s speech was well-received?

A: Pat Buchanan can’t shut up about how much he loved it.

BUCHANAN: “I stand with Obama! It was a genuinely outstanding speech, it was magnificent. I saw Cuomo’s speech, I saw Kennedy in ‘80, I even saw Douglas MacArthur, I saw MLK; this is the greatest convention speech and probably the most important because unlike Cuomo and the others, this was an acceptance speech, this came out of the heart of America, and he went right at the heart of America. This wasn’t a liberal speech at all. This is a deeply, deeply centrist speech. It had wit, it had humor, and when he used the needle on McCain, he stuck it into McCain and it was funny. It was Kennedy’s speech in ‘80. I laughed with Kennedy when he was needling Ronald Reagan.”

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Tags: obama, buchanan

"Enough!" - excerpt from the Obama speech

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:19:19 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This country is more decent, more generous, more compassionate ...
Bravo! How true.

Clip Source: sage

This country is more decent than one where a woman in Ohio, on the brink of retirement, finds herself one illness away from disaster after a lifetime of hard work.

This country is more generous than one where a man in Indiana has to pack up the equipment he's worked on for twenty years and watch it shipped off to China, and then chokes up as he explains how he felt like a failure when he went home to tell his family the news.

We are more compassionate than a government that lets veterans sleep on our streets and families slide into poverty; that sits on its hands while a major American city drowns before our eyes.

Tonight, I say to the American people, to Democrats and Republicans and Independents across this great land -- enough!

Because next week, in Minnesota, the same party that brought you two terms of George Bush and Dick Cheney will ask this country for a third. And we are here because we love this country too much to let the next four years look like the last eight

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Personal responsibility AND care for each other

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:28:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Obama speech: government cannot solve all our problems, but what it should do is that which we cannot do for ourselves

Clip Source: sage

Ours is a promise that says government cannot solve all our problems, but what it should do is that which we cannot do for ourselves -- protect us from harm and provide every child a decent education; keep our water clean and our toys safe; invest in new schools and new roads and new science and technology.

Our government should work for us, not against us. It should help us, not hurt us. It should ensure opportunity not just for those with the most money and influence, but for every American who's willing to work.

That's the promise of America -- the idea that we are responsible for ourselves, but that we also rise or fall as one nation; the fundamental belief that I am my brother's keeper; I am my sister's keeper.

That's the promise we need to keep. That's the change we need right now. So let me spell out exactly what that change would mean if I am President.

Tags: obama, speech

2008 Virginia Republicans: Greek Columns

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:18:55 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Wingnuts working overtime to ridicule the stage for Obama's acceptance speech failed to criticize the 2008 VA Republicans for doing the same - not to mention the new Bush White House briefing room. This all ya got, McCainies?

Clip Source: thinkprogress.org

2008 Virginia Republican Convention Featured Stage With Greek Columns»

Reuters reports that Barack Obama will deliver his Thursday night acceptance speech before an “elaborate columned stage resembling a miniature Greek temple”:

Conservatives are mocking the stage as a “temple of Obama.” Ed Morrissey writes, “That this scales heights of presumptuousness can hardly be refuted.” One anonymous McCain adviser quipped, “Is this from the Onion?” No, but it may be inspired by the stage at the 2008 Virginia Republican Convention:

Watch some video highlights of Virginia conservatives presumptuously speaking before Greek columns:

[Video]

Former Sen. George Allen delivered the keynote before the Greek columns. Watch here and here.

Clip Source: thinkprogress.org

Featured Comment: CitiDC says, "The newly redesigned multimillion dollar Bush White House press briefing room features Greek columns as well."

Tags: mccain, obama

Bill Clinton home run as DNC celebrates

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:02:36 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A truly magnificent speech: "My fellow Democrats, I say to you: Barack Obama is ready to lead America and to restore American leadership in the world."

Clip Source: www.crooksandliars.com

Bill Clinton Throws His Full Weight Behind Obama, Blasts Bush/McCain Legacy

My fellow Democrats, I say to you: Barack Obama is ready to lead America and to restore American leadership in the world.

Barack Obama is ready to honor the oath, to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. Barack Obama is ready to be president of the United States.

People the world over have always been more impressed by the power of our example than by the example of our power.

In this decade, American workers have consistently given us rising productivity. That means, year after year, they work harder and produce more.

Now, what did they get in return? Declining wages, less than one-fourth as many new jobs as in the previous eight years, smaller health care and pension benefits, rising poverty, and the biggest increase in income inequality since the 1920s. American families by the millions are struggling with soaring health care costs and declining coverage.

Full transcript below:

[Video]

Tags: clinton, obama