Clipmarks | Chicago Clips

The Relevance of Community Organizing

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:31:02 GMT

clipped by: sillysam

Obama spent three years in housing projects in Chicago and — according to his book, Dreams of My Father — even he couldn’t explain what he was doing. “When classmates in college asked me just what it was that a community organizer did, I couldn’t answer them directly,” Obama wrote. Indeed, who could say what a community organizer does? The Obama campaign sent out an e-mail after the fact: “With the nation watching, the Republicans mocked, dismissed, and actually laughed out loud at Americans who engage in community service and organizing.” That misses the point. Palin and Giuliani didn’t mock people who work for the betterment of their communities. They mocked Obama for embracing the vague title of “community organizer,” which might as well be the political equivalent of “I’m working on a screenplay.” It also doesn’t help that “organizer” is essentially a morally neutral term and to the extent it’s political it evokes shades of left-wing labor politics.

Tina Turner Tickets Chicago

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:21:02 GMT

clipped by: xtin978

Clip Source: clearblogs.com

Tina Turner Tickets Chicago

Tina Turner Tickets Chicago – watch Tina Turner live in 2008! Buy your tickets today to see her perform live on stage on October 3 and 4, 2008 at the United Center in Chicago, IL!

Tina Turner Tickets Chicago, Friday, October 3, 2008 at 8:00 PM – Buy Here!

Tina Turner Tickets Chicago, Saturday, October 4, 2008 at 8:00 PM – Buy Here!

People whose sex lives are worse than yours;-)

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:43:29 GMT

clipped by: pcmkrfn

Clip Source: www.weirduniverse.net

Category: Sex Lives Worse Than Yours

Clip Source: www.weirduniverse.net

Apparently, the modus operandi (three episodes) of Andre Allen, a Baptist pastor in Wheaton, Ill., with 22 yrs' service, was to hang out at Lifetime Fitness, act like an employee offering martial arts training to women, and then lie down on top of them and hump around. He has recently joined the nation's unemployed. Chicago Tribune

Obama Answers Republican Ridicule

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:21:07 GMT

clipped by: wiccantexan

Clip Source: www.cbsnews.com

"You're hearing an awful lot about me, most of which is not true," he told a group of union workers at a hydro plant in York, Penn. "What you're not hearing about is you."

"You haven't heard a word about how we're going to deal with any aspect of the economy that is affecting you and your pocketbook."

In Virginia, running mate Joe Biden echoed that complaint.

"Not one time did I hear the phrase middle class pass their lips," he said.

Democrats noted the repeated attempts to ridicule Obama's work as a community organizer among unemployed steelworkers in Chicago as a way of questioning his experience.

"We're talking about being in touch with the homeless, being in touch with the under-educated, being in touch with the unemployed," said Medina. "A community organizer is that presence for hope when hope doesn't exist."

Though Obama caught only a small part of Palin's speech last night, his aides watched and were impressed. She is a skilled politician, they said, and deft at going on the attack.

Tags: obama, republican, palin, politics, community

Detroit Mayor Guilty

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:38:10 GMT

clipped by: klippety
clipper's remarks: This will have far reaching consequences for the Dems. What a pity. Glad it was not Chicago

Clip Source: www.reuters.com

Detroit mayor pleads guilty, to leave office

DETROIT (Reuters) - Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick pleaded guilty on Thursday to obstruction of justice in a plea agreement that forces him from office and caps a scandal that had threatened to spill over into the U.S. presidential campaign in a key battleground state.

The guilty plea to two felony charges stems from Kilpatrick's role in the city's $8.4-million settlement of a whistle-blower lawsuit brought by two fired police officers.

Kilpatrick, 38 and once a rising star in the Democratic Party, had faced up to 15 years in prison and loss of his office if convicted of felony charges of perjury, obstruction of justice and misconduct.

Dubbed the "hip-hop" mayor when he took office in 2002, Kilpatrick had remained defiant in the face of his mounting legal troubles, claiming that the charges against him were racially motivated.

What they have to offer

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:14:20 GMT

clipped by: sillysam

Clip Source: article.nationalreview.com

We are in a war against terrorists, and the other side has nominated a man who has been a friend and business partner of an unrepentant, America-hating terrorist. The press lauds Obama as post-partisan when even a cursory glance at his record shows he is as partisan as it gets. The press lauds him as post-racial, but he sat comfortably for years in Trinity Church, drinking in the racist ravings of Jeremiah Wright, and he sat comfortably for years in rough-and-tumble Chicago, playing by-the-numbers race-based politics.

Obama blathers about “change” but then chooses as his running-mate a Washington relic

In an era of complex, vicious, asymmetrical threats, Democrats give us a “community organizer” without a shred of executive experience wh

In a nation repulsed by partial birth abortion, Obama decided to make his stand enabling the practitioners of infanticide.

Some intelligent analysis of Palin's speech

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:10:44 GMT

clipped by: bbittner

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

Watching the speech as if Sen. Biden, I could see his eyes gleaming every time Sarah Palin said we were "so close to victory in Iraq" and that Democrats want to "cave." In their debate, he will skewer her on this. Even the White House is now for setting time tables to withdraw. Iraq itself wants us out in 16 months - which John McCain has said we must do, because Iraq is a sovereign nation

What a mistake it was for her to belittle being a community organizer in the inner-city of Chicago. Really? It was Barack Obama's first job - right out of college. Incredibly impressive. Meanwhile, 20 months ago, she couldn't even be mayor of 5,500 people without the town bringing in an outside administrator to help her.

She no longer playing with low expectations, because she chose to slash and burn. Her one ace card was always the inability of Joe Biden to be hard on her. But that's gone, because she opened the door first, directly attacking her opponents on policy.

Possible Big Three Bailout: Political Context

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:40:57 GMT

clipped by: Andrew Gillies
clipper's remarks: Pearlstein, a columnist for the Washington Post, weighs in on likely action inside the Beltway on auto biz. Later in the column, he concludes that "the best of a set of bad options might be for the government to step in and provide the Big Three with low-interest long-term loans, just as it did years ago with Lockheed and Chrysler." Note: GM's market capitalization is just under $6 billion, a shocking number given the company's $171 billion in latest-twelve-month revenues. Google's market cap is $144 billion.

Clip Source: www.washingtonpost.com

The Road to a Bailout They Don't Deserve

By Steven Pearlstein

Wednesday, September 3, 2008; Page D01

It's desperation time for the Big Three automakers. They are awash in gas-guzzling vehicles nobody wants to buy, bleeding red ink and running out of cash.

So it should be no surprise that when Congress returns next week, the companies and their unions will put on a full-court press to win approval for $50 billion in federal loans to be used to re-engineer and retool their plants for a new generation of energy-efficient vehicles.

Even before top industry executives arrive in Washington later this month to lobby for their program, General Motors' vice chairman, Robert Lutz, who never misses an opportunity to put his foot in his mouth, was telling reporters in Chicago last week that the industry "deserves" government loans because of all the challenges that have been inflicted upon it. In fact, it's hard to imagine an industry less deserving of government help.

tix

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 06:49:23 GMT

clipped by: darknhnsm

Clip Source: www.cheaptickets.com

Chicago, IL (CHI)	>>" src="http://www.cheaptickets.com/site/img/exitapp/arrowsBig.gif" />	Cleveland, OH (CLE)
Leave: Fri, Oct 10, 2008 Return: Sun, Oct 12, 2008

Would you like to expand your search to include nearby airports?

Search nearby airports

Do you have flexibility around your dates?

Search other times and dates

from

$138*

per person

($138 + $26 taxes
and fees = $164*)

Show fares

Giuliani flattens temple Obama

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 06:24:07 GMT

clipped by: The REAL Napster
clipper's remarks: I mean really. I have NEVER seen this guy so fired -up. He tore the Obamination a new rear end. They won't be able to sit for a week!

Next up was VP nominee Sarah Palin and she finished off the pieces of Temple Obama that Rudy didn't obliterate. THE BEST LINE-
"Hope, is NOT a strategy!"

Clip Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

Giuliani launches all-out attack on Obama

Ex-McCain rival says Democrat has no executive experience — ‘nada’

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani castigated Democratic Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois as a flipflopping lightweight in his keynote address Wednesday night, launching the heaviest sustained attack so far on the Democratic ticket at the Republican National Convention.

Giuliani discarded that playbook, casting Obama as “a gifted man with an Ivy League education” who was “immersed ... in Chicago machine politics.” He described Obama as a no-show during his tenure in the Illinois state Senate and a man who, once he got to Washington, was a “celebrity senator [with] no leadership, no legislation to really speak of.”

“This is not a personal attack. It’s a statement of fact,” he said. “Barack Obama has never led anything. Nothing. Nada. Nada. Nothing.”

Tags: rudy giuliani, flattens, obama

New progressive movement emerging from Denver?

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:15:13 GMT

clipped by: masbury
clipper's remarks: Beyond the spectacle, something deeper and more important was taking place.

Clip Source: www.alternet.org

I can also report that this spectacle actually had value

it will likely be remembered as one of many events that helped forge a contemporary progressive movement.

the convention's value was most pronounced at the interpersonal level where liberal activists kibbutzed with campaign operatives, bloggers met politicians, and -- as I saw firsthand -- potential Obama administration officials began dialoguing with Congress' most committed progressive leaders.

Standing in the hot sun on the convention's third day, I happened to be arguing trade policy with Austan Goolsbee, the moderate University of Chicago professor who is Barack Obama's chief economic adviser. In the corner of my eye, I saw an old Capitol Hill acquaintance, Rep. Peter DeFazio -- the progressive champion from Oregon. I introduced the two, and within minutes they were finding points of agreement on economic issues.

I considered how many similar bridge-building conversations were happening all week

Tags: denver, dnc

Radioactive Energy Drinks

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 04:44:11 GMT

clipped by: radioactiveenergy
clipper's remarks: Radioactive Energy Drink was a glowing sponsor at the 18th Annual St. Jude Charity Golf Classic. This event was held on July 14th at the Ivanoe Country Club in Chicago, Illinois, with proceeds benefiting St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Participants included football Hall of Famer’s, Gale Sayers, Dan Hampton, and Otis Wilson. Samples of Radioactive Energy Drink were enjoyed by all! Catch the Glow!

Clip Source: www.radioactiveenergy.com

Obama's Smear by Proxy Machine

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:31:39 GMT

clipped by: davboz
clipper's remarks: Any lies are OK to achieve the goal for Socialists and Marxists.

Clip Source: themountainsage.wordpress.com

Chicago Internet columnist and Obama author Andy Martin, will hold a New York news conference Tuesday, September 2nd

“I want to make the accusation loudly and clearly: Barack Obama has the most sophisticated ‘dirty tricks’ operation in American political history. His smear artists make Nixon’s ‘plumbers’ look like amateurs. David Axelrod’s smear machine is part and parcel of the way he does business. This smear machine was behind the desperate attempts to demonize Governor Sarah Palin by embarrassing and exposing her daughter.

“Obama also likes to provide plausible deniability by protesting ‘too much’ that something is ‘off limits’ when he knows that all while his smear operation is in progress. Anonymously. Why this man wants to abolish anonymity on the Internet puzzles me. He is the most pronounced anonymous smear agent on the Internet.

Andy Martin is a legendary Chicago muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic

holds a Juris Doctor degree

black star address

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:49:33 GMT

clipped by: dventon

Clip Source: www.blackstarproject.org

Location: The Black Star Project 3509 S. King Drive, Suite 2B Chicago, IL

That's just how white folks will do you

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:17:01 GMT

clipped by: n2sooners
clipper's remarks: Some nice information about his ties to ACORN as well.

Clip Source: www.riehlworldview.com

A 1995 piece in the liberal Chicago Reader basically refutes Obama's statements that he never heard Pastor Jeremiah Wright invoke his racist rants and also provides some additional insight into Obama's early years in politics.

"That's just how white folks will do you," Obama writes.

"We have some wonderful preachers in town--preachers who continue to inspire me--preachers who are magnificent at articulating a vision of the world as it should be.

"The right wing, the Christian right, has done a good job of building these organizations of accountability, much better than the left or progressive forces have. But it's always easier to organize around intolerance, narrow-mindedness, and false nostalgia. And they also have hijacked the higher moral ground with this language of family values and moral responsibility.

Collectivist? Check:

But individual actions, individual dreams, are not sufficient. We must unite in collective action, build collective institutions and organizations."

Tags: obama, racism, wright, religion, politics