What if They Bailed Us Out Instead

As many of you are painfully aware, assuming you have not been hiding under a rock for the past five years our national treasury, and the wealth of our future generations has been hijacked in what amounts to the largest redistribution of wealth in the history of the United States (what, you thought only Democrats like redistributing the dough?).  That’s right more more than 1.3 Billion dollars of your money and the credit of future generations has been redistributed into the pockets of bankers who opposed the regulation which would have prevented the near disaster we are currently suffering through as well as the defense contractors who happened to be close friends of the Bush administration.  I realize there is divided opinion about the war in Iraq and all that jazz -and really that is not germane to the topic of this post- but considering all the money that the Bush Administration spent bailing out the wealthy who run the banks, military industrialists, and oil barons and fighting an unnecessary war I have to ask what would happen if instead of going to war and instead of bailing out Wall Street they had bailed out the American people?

Do your remember those puny little IRS stimulus checks that some tax payers got over the past summer?  You know, the little checks  that started at 300 bucks and went as high as 1500?  The reason I ask is because those checks would be  chump change compared to what the tax payer could get in return if the government had decided to equally refund the monies given carelessly to the defense contractors, oil kingpins, and bankers  to every single one of us 310 million Americans.

If all 310 million American citizens were given an equal share of the 1.321 trillion  every last one of us would get a check for 4261 dollars and 29 cents. Could you imagine how that would stimulate the economy?  I promise you that this kind of money would prevent people from missing their rent payments, mortgage payments, car payments, they could pay off debts, and they could get food for their families and if they were fortunate enough they could start a decent little savings account.

It gets even better if instead of giving this money to every American, we make it mandatory that only taxpayers could get a stimulus check.:

For a nice round number lets say America has 200 million taxpayers. If we gave every tax payer an equal share of that 1.321 trillion we are talking about 6605 dollars.

I Told You So

First off I would like to commend the BBC for a spot on bit of journalistic excellence.  It seems that Mikheil Saakashvili is indeed culpable in a spat of war crimes and that indeed it was him and not the Russians who were engaged in Genocide

The BBC has discovered evidence that Georgia may have committed war crimes in its attack on its breakaway region of South Ossetia in August.

Eyewitnesses have described how its tanks fired directly into an apartment block, and how civilians were shot at as they tried to escape the fighting.

Research by the international investigative organisation Human Rights Watch also points to indiscriminate use of force by the Georgian military, and the possible deliberate targeting of civilians.

Indiscriminate use of force is a violation of the Geneva Conventions, and serious violations are considered to be war crimes.

The allegations are now raising concerns among Georgia’s supporters in the West.

British Foreign Secretary David Miliband has told the BBC the attack on South Ossetia was “reckless”.

He said he had raised the issue of possible Georgian war crimes with the government in Tbilisi.

The evidence was gathered by the BBC on the first unrestricted visit to South Ossetia by a foreign news organisation since the conflict.

Georgia’s attempt to re-conquer the territory triggered a Russian invasion and the most serious crisis in relations between the Kremlin and the West since the Cold War.

They went on firing all the next day without stopping. At some point there was a pause, and we saw Georgian soldiers going along the street in their Nato uniforms Taya Sitnik

And Georgians themselves have suffered. We confirmed the systematic destruction of former Georgian villages inside South Ossetia.

Some homes appear to have been not just burned by Ossetians, but also bulldozed by the territory’s Russian-backed authorities.

The war began when Georgia launched artillery attacks on targets in the South Ossetian capital, Tskhinvali, at about 2330 on 7 August 2008.

Georgia said at the time that it was responding to increasing attacks on its own villages by South Ossetia militia, although it later said its action was provoked by an earlier Russian invasion.

. . . .

The Russian prosecutor’s office is investigating more than 300 possible cases of civilians killed by the Georgian military.

Some of those may be Ossetian paramilitaries, but Human Rights Watch believes the figure of 300-400 civilians is a “useful starting point”.

That would represent more than 1% of the population of Tskhinvali – the equivalent of 70,000 deaths in London.

Find Out More Listen to File On 4, Radio 4 Tuesday 28 October 2008 2000 GMT, repeated Sunday 2 November 1700 GMT Or catch up at Radio 4’s Listen Again site Listen to Assignment on BBC World Service Assignment Tim Whewell meets a mother stricken with grief after the death of her son in South Ossetia Newsnight

Allison Gill, director of the Moscow office of Human Rights Watch, said: “We’re very concerned at the use of indiscriminate force by the Georgian military in Tskhinvali.

“Tskhinvali is a densely populated city and as such military action needs to be very careful that it doesn’t endanger civilians.”

“We know that in the early stages there were tank attacks and Grad rockets used by Georgian forces,” she added.

“Grad rockets cannot be used in densely populated areas because they cannot be precisely targeted, and as such they are inherently indiscriminate.

“Our researchers were on the ground in Tskhinvali as early as 12 August.

“And we gained evidence and witness testimony of Grad rocket attacks and tank attacks on apartment buildings, including tank attacks that shot at the basement level.

“And basements are typically areas where civilians will hide for their own protection.

“So all of this points to the misuse, the inappropriate use of force by Georgia against civilian targets,” according to Alison Gill.

Human Rights Watch will talk only of the “possible” deliberate targeting by Georgian forces of individual civilians, a still more serious charge, though some Ossetians the BBC spoke to in Tskhinvali claim to have witnessed such cases.

Wreckage

Marina Kochieva, a doctor at Tskhinvali’s main hospital, says she herself was targeted by a Georgian tank as she and three relatives were trying to escape by car from the town on the night of 9 August.

She says the tank fired on her car and two other vehicles, forcing them to crash into a ditch.

The firing continued as she and her companions lay on the ground.

She showed the BBC the burnt-out wreckage of the car on the town’s ring-road, riddled with bullet holes and with a much larger hole, apparently from a tank round, in the front passenger door.

Ms Kochieva says a nurse from her hospital was killed while fleeing Tskhinvali in similar circumstances.

She says she counted 18 burnt-out cars on the ring-road on 13 August, at the end of the war, suggesting there may have been more casualties.

Many Tskhinvali buildings were damaged during the conflict

Asked if, at night, Georgian soldiers might not have suspected her car of carrying Ossetian fighters, Ms Kochieva said: “Fighters wouldn’t have gone away from town, they would have gone towards town. We were escaping like other refugees.

“The Georgians knew this was the ‘Road of Life’ for Ossetians. They were sitting here waiting to kill us,” she said.

Georgia’s Foreign Minister Eka Tkeshelashvili told the BBC, “I can firmly say that the Georgian military, on intention, never attacked directly any civilian object.

“On the surface, the damage to some of the houses in Tskhinvali that can be observed might lead to this conclusion. But to see if some is damage inflicted by direct targeting, for that an in-depth military assessment needs to be done.

“I think the best response is a fully-fledged independent, impartial international inquiry into the issue,” she added.

Her British counterpart David Miliband, who visited Georgia immediately after the war to show solidarity with its government, said he took the allegations of war crimes “extremely seriously” and had raised them “at the highest level” in Tbilisi.

Apparently hardening his language towards Georgia, he called its actions “reckless”.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/7692751.stm

Keep this in mind when you vote as McCain took one million dollars from the Saakashvili government and keep in mind that this purchased his support for Georgia’s genocidal aggression.

Friday Funnies

As you know we are less than three weeks away from the upcoming presidential election, so lets have a look, humorous of course, into the ideas behind the guys and gals running for elected office. We will of course finish up with a look at sports.

In our first clip GOPers from all walks of life discuss why they are voting Republican:

In our second Clip we learn how to speak like a Republican

Next we learn the difference between a Democrat and Republican in a clip strangely reminiscent of a Mac advertisement.

In our next clip the folks at Jib Jab remind us one and all that its time for some campaigning

In this Video McCain reminds us that he has nothing to offer in No We Can’t

In Our Two Clips, I’m just going to let the two candidates poke fun at each other

And finally as a Bills fan, and because we play San Diego on Sunday, its time to Roast the Chargers

Go Bills.

Friday Funnies

As you know we live in a very saturnine world and the things of this life can way us down into the mire of depression. We at Inoculation Against Idiocy care about the mental wellbeing of our readers so every Friday -as a public service- we will post five to ten videos that will bring a chuckle to your face and make you chuckle

Our first two clips will be SNL’s coverage of the 2008 presidential and vice presidential race

Our first is a spoof of Palin’s interview with Katie Couric

Our second clip is SNL’s spoof of the first McCain/Obama debate

Our third clip is an outrageously hilarious Disney Movie based on Palin called Head of State

Our Fourth Video is of John Cleese and Eric Idol, who knew they worked on Wall Street

Our next clip is of some interesting people, and if they aren’t interesting they are certainly strange

and now some RAF jargon you and I have never heard before.

Finally Triumph the Insult Dog checks out Global Warming:

Tom Tancredo Saves America From the Constitution Again

This evening lets discuss Sharia law. Now, I am firmly against Islamic extremism and all the things that it entails, but I am against Tancredo’s recent moves against civil liberties and constitutionally protected rights. I realize that some out there will say, but we are at war against Islamic extremists so we must do everything we can to bring the evil doers to justice and stymie terrorist groups attempts to organize and cause mayhem within the United States. I am inclined to agree with going after terrorists and bust up possible cells, but . . . . and its a rather big but . . . . we must make sure that we stay within the limits of law and reason. The constitution is the law of the land and it must be followed at all times. I say all this to segue into my rant.

Tom Tancredo and his GOP allies are attempting to get the following piece of legislation through congress and into the law books:

110th CONGRESS

2d Session

H. R. 6975

To require aliens to attest that they will not advocate installing a Sharia law system in the United States as a condition for admission, and for other purposes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

September 18, 2008

Mr. TANCREDO introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

A BILL

To require aliens to attest that they will not advocate installing a Sharia law system in the United States as a condition for admission, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the `Jihad Prevention Act’.

SEC. 2. INELIGIBILITY FOR ADMISSION FOR ALIENS FAILING TO MAKE ATTESTATION.

Section 212(a)(3) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(3)) is amended by adding at the end the following:

`(G) SHARIA LAW SYSTEM- Any alien who fails to attest, in accordance with procedures specified by the Secretary of Homeland Security, that the alien will not advocate installing a Sharia law system in the United States is inadmissible.’.

SEC. 3. REVOCATION OF VISAS.

Section 221(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1201(i)) is amended by adding at the end the following: `The visa of any alien advocating the installation of a Sharia law system in the United States shall be revoked.’.

SEC. 4. REVOCATION OF NATURALIZATION.

Section 340(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1451(a)) is amended by inserting after the first sentence the following: `Advocating the installation of a Sharia law system in the United States shall constitute a ground for revocation of a person’s naturalization under this subsection.’.

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:H.R.6975:

In case you are not sure about the text of (8 U.S.C. 1451(a)) I have provided it for you below

Concealment of material evidence; refusal to testify
It shall be the duty of the United States attorneys for the
respective districts, upon affidavit showing good cause therefor,
to institute proceedings in any district court of the United States
in the judicial district in which the naturalized citizen may
reside at the time of bringing suit, for the purpose of revoking
and setting aside the order admitting such person to citizenship
and canceling the certificate of naturalization on the ground that
such order and certificate of naturalization were illegally
procured or were procured by concealment of a material fact or by
willful misrepresentation, and such revocation and setting aside of
the order admitting such person to citizenship and such canceling
of certificate of naturalization shall be effective as of the
original date of the order and certificate, respectively: Provided,
That refusal on the part of a naturalized citizen within a period
of ten years following his naturalization to testify as a witness
in any proceeding before a congressional committee concerning his
subversive activities, in a case where such person has been
convicted of contempt for such refusal, shall be held to constitute
a ground for revocation of such person’s naturalization under this
subsection as having been procured by concealment of a material
fact or by willful misrepresentation. If the naturalized citizen
does not reside in any judicial district in the United States at
the time of bringing such suit, the proceedings may be instituted
in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia or
in the United States district court in the judicial district in
which such person last had his residence.

http://law.onecle.com/uscode/8/1451.html

While I can support revoking the visas of foreigners who adhere to Sharia law as there is no expressed constitutional protection to them, I rail against Section 4 of this bill because it would enable the government to strip naturalized citizens of their American citizenship on the basis of religion. “So whats the problem,” you ask. Well that one is simple this piece of legislation as it stands violates the first and the fourteenth amendment. For your reference here is the text of those two amendments

Amendment One:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Amendment Fourteen:
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Section 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.

Section 3. No one shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

Section 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.

Section 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

As it stands congress does not have the constitutional authority to enact legislation to strip someone of their citizenship because of their religion. Again I am for fighting and winning the war on terror, but we must protect the constitution and civil liberties. Tom Tancredo is violating the constitution and needs to be stopped.

Things That Make You Go Hmmmm

This may be an experimental feature that dies like Tip of the Hat or it may be a weekly feature. In the coming weeks we will determine this. Anyways the idea of this forum is three pics that Make you go hmmm….

Our inaugural item is America’s Support for Iranian development of Nuclear Energy: This is an actual advertisement from the 1970s.

Yet More Reasons to Keep Palin Away from the Vice Presidency

It is a scary thing to think that this woman is a vote and a stroke or succumbing to old age from being the president.  Here is Palin talking about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac:

Did you spot the gaffe?  No, okay well these companies are privately owned and the government is now bailing them out.  They were private enterprise imbroglios which have hurt hundreds of thousands of home owners.  Now Ms. Palin its one thing to ask what exactly a vice president does, but come on this is a very pertinent issue that will need to be dealt with by the next administration and if McCain should expire you would need to know about this subject.

To review:

Palin lied about the bridge to nowhere, she did not build the bridge but she kept the money

Palin has abused her power to get an ex brother in law sacked from the Alaska state highway patrol

Palin has no experience and absolutely no clue as to what her duties as vice presient would be

For video evidence of this merely skim through my political posts

Really other than the fact that she is a mother, wears cute glasses, is a Christian, and was nicknamed Barricuda in high school what qualifications does she have to be second in line to the president?

I am extremely wary of her ever getting near the oval office.  Sorry folks, but Palin is just inadequate for the job.

How the Never Ending Cluster*&% better known as the Israeli Palestinian Conflict Began

So how did we get to the cluster**** we have today between the Jews and Palestinians? Well its complicated, but first off it has nothing to do with the six day war, or the 1948 establishment of the Jewish state, nope its a problem that began some thirty years before Israel became a sovereign nation state. The following will attempt to Explain the origins to the chaos for better understanding and you will see it is not Zionists who are the problem and nor is it the Arabs, yup they are the ones at each others’ throats but neither of them are to blame for this and at the same time both are to blame for the continuation

World War I: The whole sordid mess we have between the Jews and the Palestinians arose during the First World War when Britain and France were seeking to crack the Central Powers and assist Russia which was getting slaughtered by the Germans as a result of bad generalship, a shortage of weaponry, supplies, and munitions, and a chaotic supply system which made these shortages chronic. So to weaken the Central Powers and support Russia against Germany (keep in mind the Turks controlled the Dardanelles and the Hellespont and this prevented allied supply convoys from reaching Russia) the British decided to attack the Ottoman Turks. However, after Gallipoli (the best movie on the subject is the BBC’s All the Kings Men [about the Sandringham Regiment] and I would stay away from Mel Gibson’s Gallipoli] the British found that they could not attack the Turkish homeland directly and would have to go through the Arabian deserts and seize one Turkish province after another and cripple Turkey which would force her to sue for peace and cease to exist as an empire. The British, lest you forget, were bogged down in unending trench warfare France where they were losing tens of thousands of dead, missing, and wounded, per month and could not afford to keep prosecuting the war in France and take on the responsibility of wrecking the Ottoman Turks, which they started to do in 1915 after Turkey joined the Central Powers, without getting assistance and therefore they turned for help where they could get it and naturally they sought the assistance of International Jewry and the Arabs.

Simple Law of Physics, two objects cannot occupy the same space at the same time: Britain needed two things in its war against Turkey- as well as the war in general- money and manpower. The British brought into a common lie of that time which was that international Jewry was exceedingly wealthy and controlled international finance. In addition to this misconception, the British saw the pertinent fact that the World Zionist Conference wanted to have a homeland for Jews to protect the interest of Jewish people everywhere- keep in mind that the early decades of the last century was the high water mark of nationalism (every people group in the world needs its own homeland to protect the interests of that people group)- and although the Jews did not necessarily want what is now Israel (oddly some wanted to have Madagascar which is remarkable considering that is where Hitler originally considered putting them) the British decided that well in ancient times Israel was the Jewish homeland so lets return them. So they decided that if the Jews help us finance our war effort we will allow them to resettle their holy land and this led to the 1917 Balfour Declaration:

Foreign Office,
November 2nd, 1917.

Dear Lord Rothschild,
I have much pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of His Majesty’s Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet:
“His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country”.
I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation.

Yours sincerely
Arthur James Balfour

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour…ration_of_1917

While the Jews provided money, it was to be the Arabs -including those who now call themselves Palestinians- who would supply manpower in exchange for the establishment of a multitude of Arab governed sovereign nation states. These promises were assured in open and in secret to the various Arabs including the Palestinians in the McMahon Hussein Correspondence which promised the Palestinians the exact same land as the Jews. Unfortunately for the Arabs the British and French had no intention of following through on their promises in the McMahon/Hussein Correspondance and it was largely ignored during the drafting of the Sykes-Picot Agreement.

Why Sykes-Picot is one of the worst things in the history of this conflict: Well, before the British and French made the Sykes Picot agreement well known the Arabs under Faisal (you remember him as the Arab prince played by Alec Guiness in Lawrence of Arabia) there had been a shot at peace with the signing of the Faisal-Weiszmann Agreement where Faisal basically stated that as long as the Western Powers would allow us to be independent and establish a large Arab state we will allow the Jews to settle without question in Palestine, but if they don’t give us what was agreed to us then we will fight the Jews tooth and nail and kick them out. Well, guess what the British dropped said SYKEs-Picot and then started the ball going. By 1920 the Arabs in Palestine had decided to lash out against the Jewish settlers, whom they saw as nothing but British colonialists and the first Palestinian riots started that year. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riots_in_Palestine_of_1920

The April chaos of 1920, sure enough brought May Riots in 1921 when Jewish Communists in Palestine were conducting a May Day Parade in Jaffa when they were attacked by Palestinians. Then for about seven years there was an uneasy peace between the Jews and Arabs in Palestine but then because of illegal Jewish construction at the wailing wall and Jewish actions which antagonized the Arabs, such as raising the Jewish National flag at the wailing wall, caused tensions to boil over by the end of 1928 and in August, 1929 the crap hit the fan (needed to continue the cliche streak) during the so called Palestine Riots of 1929 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929_Palestine_riots . To protect themselves from any violence at the hands of the Arabs after the collapse of the Faisal-Weiszmann Agreement in 1920 the Jews established the Haganah which was a paramilitary group which was restrained by Jewish political leaders to only protecting the various Jewish agricultural communes and other settlements. After the horrible riots of 1929 some Jews felt the Haganah was not doing enough to defend Jewish interests and so they established the Irgun which- unlike the Haganah- killed indiscrimenently and very much acted the part of a terror group. The Irgun believed in using terror and violence to achieve their aims and were disliked by the great majority of the Zionist movement. More can be found of the Irgun at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of…ring_the_1930s and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irgun.

The Irgun made an already bad situation in the Mandate of Palestine even worse and their actions exacerbated tensions between Arabs and Jews and all hell broke loose in the 1936 to 1939 Arab Revolt in Palestine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936%E2…t_in_Palestine During this brutal conflict Jews and Arabs for the first time actively attacked and terrorized each other, and -in a precedent which should show you that partition plans and two state solutions for peace between Israel and Palestine will not work- it led to the first recommendation of a two state solution to the Palestinian conflict. The two state solution (the grandfather of all road map to peace, land for peace, and two state solution schemes to come) was suggested by the Peel commision which sought to establish a Jewish state in the north, A Palestinian state in the south and make Jerusalem and Bethlehem British Mandates. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peel_Commission Ultimately the plan was scrapped as it was rejected outright by the Arabs, caused division amongst the Jews, and was deemed unworkable by the British Government in the findings of the Woodhead Commission http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodhead_Commission. The Woodhead Commission’s findings were equally unpopular with the Palestinians and Zionists (they had three different divisions of the land and all were unpopular to all) and ultimately the British concluded that a two state solution was infeasible.

By 1946 the Holocaust had reinvigorated international plans and talks about the establishment of a Jewish homeland to protect them from ever having to suffer from such a barbaric calamity again. In 1947 the UN, proving in yet another precedent that it would never be able to come up with a lasting peace between Israel and Palestine, established its two state solution and it was widely supported and instantly led to a civil war between the Jews and Arabs that lasted until early 1949.

Conclusion by the Munshaw Commission:

1) Had Anglo-French greed in the signing of the Sykes-Picot agreement not occured the Faisal Weiszmann agreement could have resulted in a much more peaceful twentieth century

2) Foreign intervention and only foreign intervention is to blame for the original and continued failure of peace efforts in that land

3) Two state solutions have never worked and will never work in the holy land and never will. Therefore it is a waste of taxpayer money to try to continue in this nonsense

4) The only thing the Jews and Arabs are to blame for is the escalation and continuance of the violence. Nothing else, neither party started this crap and if the Western world does not quit poking its business into the situation there neither party will be able to end it. The only workable solution at this point would be to drop all military, political, and economic aid to either side until they can agree on their own initiative to develop a lasting peace.

5) I have way too much free time on my hands.

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DAY I of DNC: Advantage DNC

In a night of endings and beginnings the DNC delivered a superb opening act in the unofficial beginning to the road to the White House.  The tribute to Ted Kennedy was beautiful.and Michelle Obama, wow what can I say -she and the rest of the Obama clan did a superb job in presenting the human face of Barack Obama.  Unlike the McCain camp Obama is really offering a tingly sensation of hope.  I do not ordinarily get warm fuzzy feelings, I certainly did not in 1996, 2000, or 2004.  Obama is the next great spark in the DNC after Bill Clinton.    This election is now Obama’s to lose because he offers what seem to be real sea change in Washington DC and hope for America.  McCain offers more of the same and four more years of disastrous Bush policy.  Tonight Barack’s family gave me all the excuse needed for me to throw my support behind Barack Obama.

Kudos to America’s first black president and the most beautiful looking first lady since Jackie Kennedy.

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