Quote of the day...

"Rosa sat so Martin could walk, Martin walked so Barack could run, Barack is running so our children can fly."

I don't know who said this, but it sums it up beautifully.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WE DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OH + PA = ?

Not gonna jinx it, but we all know what just happened! ;)

A harbinger?

Glenn Adams writes for HuffPo:

Barack Obama came up a big winner in the presidential race in Dixville Notch and Hart's Location, N.H., where tradition of having the first Election Day ballots tallied lives on.

Democrat Obama defeated Republican John McCain by a count of 15 to 6 in Dixville Notch, where a loud whoop accompanied the announcement in Tuesday's first minutes. The town of Hart's Location reported 17 votes for Obama, 10 for McCain and two for write-in Ron Paul. Independent Ralph Nader was on both towns' ballots but got no votes.

...

Hart's Location started opening its polls early in 1948, the year Harry S. Truman beat Thomas Dewey, to accommodate railroad workers who had to get to work early. Hart's Location got out of the early voting business in 1964 after some residents grew weary of all the publicity, but brought it back in 1996.

Dixville Notch, nestled in a mountain pass 1,800 feet up and about halfway between the White Mountain National Forest and the Canadian border, followed suit in 1960, when John F. Kennedy beat Richard M. Nixon. Nixon, the Republican, swept all nine votes cast in Dixville that year, and before Tuesday, the town had gone for a Democrat only once since then. That was in 1968, when the tally was Democrat Hubert Humphrey eight, Nixon four.

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"Kache" also posted a comment noting the results of the last 3 Presidential contests in Dixville Notch...

2008 - Obama 15, McCain 6
2004 - Bush 19, Kerry 7
2000 - Bush 21, Gore 5

Coming down the home stretch...

It's been a crazy ride, but it ain't over yet folks!

PLEASE VOTE! NO MATTER WHAT IT TAKES!

Even if the lines are long! VOTE!

Even if you think the system is broken! VOTE!

Even if you live in a "blue" state! VOTE!

Even if you've never voted or haven't in a long time! VOTE!

WE CAN DO THIS!

WE CAN MAKE A CHANGE!

YES! WE! CAN!

Better late than never...

Obama: Ready for prime time...

Hudson Valley for Obama presents an ELECTION EVE RALLY FOR CHANGE!

Come get fired up at Bard College on the the eve of the election as we present a rally for change!

6:00 pm to 8:00 pm in the Multipurpose Room in the Bertelsmann Campus Center at Bard College.

Show your support for Barack and NY Democrats running for office this year.

Speakers include:
Red Hook Town Council candidate Robert McKeon
New York State Senate candidate Ken Dow
Poughkeepsie family court judge candidate Joan Posner
New York State Assembly candidate Anne Rubin
and Bard faculty and staff to be announced.

Multimedia, food and refreshments.

Live Ska/Reggae/Dub performance by Mother Fletcher!

Time: Monday, November 3 from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Location: Bard College

Multipurpose room
Bertelsmann Campus Center
Bard College
Annandale on Hudson, NY 12504

See our event page on barackobama.com for RSVP and directions: Rally For Change!
http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/gprspc

Ill Doctrine on why we MUST vote!...

Worth a thousand words, part 3...

Obama in Denver

The vet who did not vet...

Quickie debate recap...

That, "my friends", was a good old-fashioned ASS-WHOOPIN'!...


McCain: *@#^^%$^#!&(!@%!#&(!%(%!*^@%#!%@^#^!!!!

Obama: Step aside pops. Lemme show ya how it's done.


This was the "hot" debate we've all be waiting for and Obama was on fire.
It was almost painful to watch McCain desperately fumble his way through a botched attack strategy and fall flat on substantive issues.
Obama was so solidly on point that McCain looked like he was going to self-combust due to lack of real details to back up his assertions.

Obama was cool.
Obama was collected.
Obama was thoughtful.
Obama was detailed.
Obama was nimble.
Obama was firm.
Obama was well versed in both candidates' policy points.
Obama showed leadership.
Obama was presidential.

McCain? Was. Angry.

Who is Barack Obama?

National Organization for Women endorses Obama

AFP reports:

WASHINGTON (AFP) — The National Organization for Women (NOW) said Tuesday it had been pushed by the Republicans pick of Sarah Palin as vice presidential nominee to back Democrat Barack Obama for the White House.

"NOW is going to be endorsing the Obama-Biden ticket," NOW head Kim Gandy told National Public Radio (NPR), referring to Obama and his running mate Joseph Biden.

The 500,000-strong women's movement, which "very, very rarely endorses in a general election", broke with its tradition of neutrality after "the addition of Sarah Palin gave us a new sense of urgency," said Gandy.

"She is being portrayed as a supporter of women's rights ... as a feminist when in fact her positions on so many of the issues are really anathema to ours," Gandy said.

Republican presidential candidate John McCain electrified his party's conservative base when he named Palin, a devout Christian and staunch opponent of abortion, as his running mate some two weeks ago.

The move was seen by some as an attempt by McCain to win over disappointed women voters who had backed Senator Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries, and also saw her passed over by Obama in favor of Biden.

"There's no question that a lot of women think it's a great thing for a woman to be running for vice president," Gandy said on NPR.

"But they are completely dismayed when they find out her positions.

"The idea that she opposes abortion even in cases of rape and incest -- those kinds of positions are completely out of step with American women and once they find out about those positions, they get a little less excited about a woman running for vice president," Gandy said.

NOW was due to formally announce its endorsement of the Obama-Biden ticket later Tuesday at a news conference.

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Take no prisoners Joe!

It's official!

LIZ SIDOTI AND NEDRA PICKLER write for HuffPo:

WASHINGTON — Barack Obama selected Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware late Friday night to be his vice presidential running mate, according to a Democratic official, balancing his ticket with a seasoned congressional veteran well-versed in foreign policy and defense issues.

Biden, 65, has twice sought the White House, and is a Catholic with blue-collar roots, a generally liberal voting record and a reputation as a long-winded orator.

Across more than 30 years in the Senate, he has served at various times not only as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee but also as head of the Judiciary Committee, with its jurisdiction over anti-crime legislation, Supreme Court nominees and Constitutional issues.

In selecting Biden, Obama passed over several other potential running mates, none more prominent than former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, his tenacious rival in dozens of primaries and caucuses.

The official who spoke did so on condition of anonymity, preferring not to pre-empt a text-message announcement the Obama campaign promised for Saturday morning.

Obama's decision leaked to the media several hours before his aides planned to send a text message announcing the running mate, negating a promise that people who turned over their phone numbers would be the first to know who Obama had chosen.

Obama's campaign arranged a debut for the newly minted ticket on Saturday outside the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Ill.

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