Obama Biden USA

Lots of vigilant police, union members, families, and CA volunteers rally 4 Obama. Voters? TBD

♦♣♥ Thelma Gutierrez, The Casino Worker, is aware that McCain-Palin are firmly against labor unions, isn’t she? ♥♣♦

Barack Obama’s Free-Market Fundraising Totals Cause Otherwise Flaming Laissez-Faire Capitalists To Call For The De-Regulation Of Everything Unless It’s The Obama Campaign.

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October 19, 2008 - Today the Obama Campaign announced fundraising totals of $150 million for the month of September.  ’It’s amazing what those damn kids can do when they pool their allowances,’ said someone.  Another said, ‘I’d give a sawbuck to hear Andrew Jackson and Alan Greenspan react to this outrageous breach of decorum.’

A Dynamic Duo of Hapless Disenfranchisement, each leaving one if not several 'Great Depressions(s)' in their wake, former gold standard supporters Andrew Jackson and Alan Greenspan stare smugly past we little people (2004).

“I have always been afraid of banks.” 

“I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you’ve probably misunderstood what I’ve said.”

“What Washington needs is adult supervision.”

• Barack Obama

As they reach for their nitro-glycerin tablets, the nation’s fiscal conservatives call for an investigation into Obama’s ‘Entrepreneurial Socialism’, which they consider to be a suspect entity without license or category that has nonetheless publicly disclosed unprecedented earnings from peddling pure rhetoric. The appeal was made to the USDOJ to investigate conspicuous contributions by millions of Americans resulting in net zero financial gain to any approved corporation or conglomerate in the private sector.  They further requested DOJ to identify profligate, non-tax deductible contributions to the ether as blasphemous and treasonous. God made no comment vis-a-vis blasphemy. More to follow.  [Sarcast-Insert™ by author]

* The original cronyist, Jackson legislated to benefit his wealthy friends in private banking and, ironically, adamantly renounced ‘paper’ currency in favor of gold and silver.  Jackson’s portrait famously appears on the twenty dollar bill. He has appeared on $5, $10, $50, and $10,000 bills in the past, and on  a Confederate $1,000 bill.  Jackson was a mega-slave master, holding up to 150 people as chattel, and as President authorized and implemented the Indian Removal Act of 1830. The Choctaw were the first to go; their journey is  known as the ‘Trail of Tears’. Thousands died from exposure, disease and starvation enroute from sunny Florida to Oklahoma. The forced exodus of the Seminole, the Creek, the Chickasaw, and the Cherokee followed. Shouldn’t  Jackson be on the $3 bill?

For a scary parallels between the GOP’s current platform and 1., Andrew Jackson’s ‘uncertain policy agenda beyond a vague craving for “reform” (or revenge)’ and 2., his deregulation of banking that caused the depression of 1837, go to the University of Virginia’s excellent elitist online resource: 

http://millercenter.org/academic/americanpresident/jackson/essays/biography/4

Requested Zeiss Starmaster; unfunded by Congress

An Incitement to Riot on Behalf of the Human Imagination

If we find an answer to that [why it is that we and the universe exist], it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason - for then we would know the mind of God.

Steven J. Hawking, A Brief History of Time, 1988

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There is not now, nor has there ever been, a greater source of imaginative space than the idea of the universe, the heavens, the galaxies, the cosmos, the Biblical “world without end”, our outer space. International efforts to explore space involve unprecedented levels of capital investment, an unselfish exchange of intelligence in anticipation of conditions and goals that, literally beyond us, cannot be defined. Manifestly these explorations affirm that we are one planet, Shakespeare’s “pendent world”, with a unique set of natural laws and a unique place in the universe. Symbolically, without any standard measure of return value, space exploration is an investment in hope, innovation, cooperation and curiosity.

Man Ray’s 1938 Tube Poster

I call on fellow educators, the intellectually curious, the believers in ingenuity, those dwellers in the unknown and purveyors of creativity to protest the suffocation of the American imagination as promoted by John McCain and Sarah Palin. Their dismissive ignorance of poetic and scientific curiosity is an affront to progress and a promise to further erode America’s once unchallenged leadership in technological and creative innovation. In repudiation of McCain’s embarrassing and disdainful rant against the “3 million dollar ‘overhead projector’” for the Adler Planetarium that Barack Obama supported (with a bipartisan group of Congressional representatives from Illinois), we must declare, “Enough! Enough of your embodied support of arrogant stupidity, your fear of research, your vow to manifest a lack of education.”

Just as McCain/Palin have a right to adhere to their own narrative of the creation of the universe, with no further exploration desired, we have a right to expand our knowledge of the natural world and explore uncharted territories both literal and poetic. I dare them, in their myopic world-view, to reject as non-existent what they simply have no ability to imagine. I riot on behalf of those who hold that ability sacred.

Our inner cities with occluded night skies and insular pockets of poverty hold extant venerable institutions built to share the kind of knowledge that metaphorically transports, and we should take pride in upgrading them to standards that dignify the information they present. None are more iconic than Chicago’s Museum Campus, and the Adler Planetarium, the oldest planetarium in the western hemisphere with its 40 year-old projector. Planetariums alone, as convincing simulacra, powerfully showcase the achievements of space exploration and feed the imaginations of curious visitors including millions of school children from whom the next American visionaries will likely emerge.

The planetarium experience is unlike any other, a world view made possible by the insistent commitment of centuries of visionaries, and actualized through the initiative of a few leaders willing to gamble on potential. The return on the gamble is a sure bet - that by acknowledging that all courageous advances are first conceived of in the limitlessness space of the human imagination - future innovators are encouraged to reach for the stars.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081010/ap_on_el_pr/palin_troopergate_24

Palin pre-empts state report, clears self in probe

Thanks, but no thanks!

*Beta version, deinstalls Gravitas 2000 & later. Lipstick Patch 08.29.08 delivers improved compatibility with gender platform v.02.05.08. Known conflicts: stability issue when running Intel_truth_ethics_GOP_08. Reports of frequent system crashes and hardware malfunctions, overrides wildlife, morality and decencyware. For other known and foreseeable conflicts see: www.universeandeverythinginit.org

Enjoying Himself Like a Child

WASHINGTON—At a press conference on Monday, members of the Vietnam Veterans Alliance blasted Democratic nominee Barack Obama for his failure to serve in the Southeast Asian war that ended 33 years ago, alleging that during the conflict the candidate frequently engaged in games of T-ball.

Obama AWOL, just before a playdate with Bill Ayers

“While our boys were dying in Vietnam, Barack Obama was running around a little league field, laughing and having fun without a care in the world,” VVA spokesman James Lowry said. “John McCain left his wife and three children behind and fought bravely, but I guess Sen. Obama decided that practicing cursive and learning how to ride a bike was just more important than defending his country in her hour of need. I bet he wasn’t even able to point out Vietnam on a map.” Lowry later speculated that if Obama had been sent over to fight in the conflict, he probably would have peed his pants and cried for his mommy as soon as he touched down in Saigon.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081004/pl_nm/us_usa_politics_6

Palin says Obama Friendly with Terrorists

Reuters Sat Oct 4, 2008 10:56pm EDT
With polls showing McCain trailing Obama in many battleground states, including several won by Republicans in the 2004 election, Palin said “There is a time when it’s necessary to take the gloves off and that time is right now.”… Later, at a rally in Carson, California, Palin again said the Republican campaign would become more negative.

“As one of my campaign staffers reminded me as I was walking out, ‘Ok now the heels are on, the gloves come off’,” she told thousands of people at a rally in a sports stadium.

A marquee in valley where Wasilla is located. Intent unknown.

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During Thursday night’s performance for the incongruous GOP base and whomever she was winking at (you third-graders know who ya are), Sarah Palin either didn’t hear, didn’t care or didn’t want to waste her time trying to feign compassion when Joe Biden, unexpectedly, and ever-so-gently reminded us that his long career in national service and as a statesman has been forever tempered by an epic tragedy he suffered as a father and husband. What Joe lost, and almost lost, just 40 days after first winning his US Senate seat, should have been requisite knowlege for Palin, as family values is one of the emblems that Governor Palin, at least photogenically, claims to embody and care about. Biden’s emotional moment at the podium came in reaction to the sharp-shootin’ Governor’s sexist claim to her exclusive insider status with American parents who have it tough. Joe’s anguish surfaced for a second or two, I took longer to recover than he did, but Miss Igloo, gosh darn it, showed the rest of us what tough means in tundra country. Take that ol’ Joe – how ya gonna face down Russia if ya melt down over your own past?

Governor Palin apparently takes to ‘inhumane’ just as well as Dick Cheney, and opened her equally empty chest cavity for all to see this weekend as she took a busman’s holiday through gated communities across this great land. She made Karl Rove blush as she made threats involving leather goods and high-heels on Saturday; barely able to disguise the dominatrix role her inner-Pentecostal hungers for. We caught a glimpse of the ‘real’ Sarah during Thursday night’s performance; the Sarah heard at the RNC in St. Paul, the Sarah who knows the only good bleeding heart is one ripped from the warm body of a bear cub. Pundits gleefully yelp this is once again the true Sarah, and are relieved that she got her bitch back on! Whew! Brazen ignorance is nothing that a quick look-see at The USA Today [sic] won’t fix, and is absolutely charming when paired with a wink, a low-blow, and a sneer that causes the timorous liberals to question whether their definition of ‘ignorance’, once again, might be just a tad different than the one that Sarah goes by. Sarah had a new, but not extreme, look for her evening show and was sheathed in a black satin, form-fitting suit. All smiles, she confidently strode toward the podium in those slightly higher heels, assertively yet gracefully pausing to disarm Joe by letting him know that titles and last names are for wine-sippers.

She has been rolled-out as a new messiah for the GOP, a hybrid vehicle of Bush and Cheney ideologies, not only more guided by an all-seeing master with plans of his own, but also displaying a now fashionably translucent lust for world domination. What seemed diabolical coming from Dick Cheney is a fantasy that men are willing to pay for from a woman - the whip costs extra.

The antidote to the Poison Palin is an Obama blog tradition. We challenge each other to determine a symbolically appropriate dollar amount to donate to the campaign, depending on the situation. It has worked splendidly - $10 million the night Sarah denigrated “Community Organizers”. So, for the next few days, the dollar amount is a combination of the numbers 1 and 7, adjacent in that order ( i.e., $1.70, 11.70, 17.00, 117.00, and so on, according to your means) in honor of the 17 electoral votes that are now Straight Talk Express roadkill. The driver deliberately backed over those ‘sound fundamentals’ of Michigan on Friday. McFalin are on their way to place with fewer labor unions and fewer Universities I suspect, to stir up some good old American racism and xenophobia.

You are welcome to donate through my Obama fundraising page linked below or anywhere on barackobama.com.

http://my.barackobama.com/page/outreach/view/main/BMcCtheEdgeDweller

http://www.borowitzreport.com/article.aspx?ID=6945

Palin Blasts Obama for Ties to Weather Channel

Love to Love You, Baby

The Obamas take a moment in Iowa on January 2, 2008, the day before Barack won the Democratic caucus. Exactly ten months later, I retrieved my 01/14/08 issue of Newsweek to look at this remarkable picture again. It depicts a couple in love, at peace, contented that they have a private moment of respite at the beginning of an important journey. Their most important possession, they have and will keep where ever they end up. I’m sure of it.

When I look a bit longer, I fancy I hear Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme” (the opening of Part I Acknowledgment, slower and lower than usual). When I walk away from the open magazine, just 4 feet or so on this anniversary, I can’t remember the details in the photo, but I cautiously hope I preceive the nation shifting a little bit too, minutely, each day coming around to Iowa. At the distance I let myself feel it possible, I hear Diana Ross and the Supremes singing “Ain’t Nothing Like The Real Thing, Baby”, swaying in unison like the Supremes did, but not dancing. Not yet.

Thank you Iowa for recognizing the thoughts of a visionary as simply the beauty of truth, a comprehensive common sense. Iowa. Iowa’s vote on January 3, 2008, an enormous glowing narrative on my iPhone screen sent by my secret sharer, shining in the pitch dark of our car as we crawled up the Coast Highway, through torrential rain, on a no moon night toward the Henry Miller Library to read more. More. We rained too into puddles. I love you supreme Iowa, for seeing the best and knowing it first.

Thank you Geeru, and have a wonderful birthday.

And thank you Brian, for trying it once and trusting it matters.