Ohioans for Obama
Buffalo Wild Wings is not generally known as a hotbed for political discourse, but on Saturday, Feb. 10, the BWW in Kenwood will witness the birth of the Barack Obama presidential campaign in Ohio.
Local Obama supporters are launching an Ohio chapter of DraftObama.org, the organization started last year by Ben Stanfield, a computer technician from Rockville, Md.
Of course, nobody is really going to have to "draft" the Illinois senator to run; he's already made it clear he is going to do that. So what we will see on Feb. 10 at Buffalo Wild Wings is the first meeting of a nascent Obama campaign organization, aimed at the March 2008 Ohio presidential primary.
Those who want to get in on the ground floor are asked to e-mail Ohio organizer Carey Markoe at carey@DraftObama.org and put "RSVP" in the subject line. The meeting starts at 11 a.m. at the BWW at 7714 Montgomery Rd.
And, of course, you can stick around the BWW for the 4 p.m. tip-off of the UC-Villanova game, if you like.
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Posted today on the Cincinnati Beacon:
FOIA Documents Show Collaboration Between Cincinnati Enquirer and The Pentagon
Made Romanesko today, too.
John Edwards started One Corps last summer and there are several local chapters and a huge contingent nationwide-
eat our dust Barack...
Gosh, the Politics Extra blog broadcast information about an event supporting a Democratic candidate for President. I guess this just proves that this newpaper is little more than a propaganda rag for the Democrats.
< / sarc >
Well, Obama is just the cleanest black candidate in a long time...
Why is everyone laughing?!
hey, I mean it, knock it off, I am running for president.
Barack Obama is the AntiChrist
I'm willing to give Obama a chance to prove himself to be something other than another ambitious, greedy, two-faced pol. It's unlikely to happen, but my ears are always open to a new voice.
The rest of the field ( both dem & GOP) are proven losers, liars, lobbyist lap dogs and/or Hillary Clinton. We have had a Bush or Clinton in the White House since 1980 ( when George The Elder became VP) -- we should really stop that.
2:01 anonymous-Nothing personal, but that kind of mindless spew is just wrong.Is your life that bad that you have to get your kicks by making stupid racist remarks? It's just as well that you didn't identify yourself. I'm glad you're not Barbaro--he only suffered for eight months.
Alter or Abolish- Right on, except for two people. Dennis Kucinich is probably the most honest man in government, but money will put him out in a hurry. The other is none other than Al Gore, who should run because he really deserves a chance to serve his second term as President.(and,like Kucinich, isn't owned by anyone).
Anon 4:40- I am not Anon 2:01, but I am curious about why it is racist to call someone the Anti-Christ? Is it because the target is black? It's not like he/she said "colored" or the N word. If I was to call Hillary the Anti-Christ am I also a racist? Don't throw the racism charge aroung lightly or people won't take it serously when it really matters.
John, I agree with you re: Dennis Kucinich. I believe you are going out on a limb, however, when you portray Gore as some sort of political maverick ( 'isn't owned').
I'm hoping Chuck Hagel will make a move soon for the GOP. He's the only potential republican candidate (as of now) that I would bother with.
If in the end, it's a choice of Hillary vs. McCain, I'll just vote libertarian or wont bother voting.
WE NEED REAL LEADERSHIP TO CLEAN UP 6 DEVASTATING YEARS OD REPUBLICAN FULL CONTROL:
Published on Friday, February 2, 2007 by CommonDreams.org
Game Over: Thirty-Six Sure-Fire Signs That Your Empire Is Crumbling
by David Michael Green
So. You’ve built yourself an empire, eh?
Well, bully for you!
What’s next, you ask? Well, now you’ve got to do what everybody does when they have an empire, of course. You’ve got to worry about it falling apart, mate!
But how to tell for sure? Let me see if I can be helpful. Here are some rules of thumb to keep in mind, thirty-six sure-fire indicators that your empire is falling apart:
You know your empire’s crumbling when the folks who are gearing up their empire to replace yours start blowing up satellites in space. And then they don’t bother to return your phone calls when you ring up to ask why.
You know your empire’s crumbling when those same folks are cutting deals left, right and center across Asia, Latin America and Africa, while you, your lousy terms, and your arrogant attitude are no longer welcome.
You know your empire’s crumbling when you’re spending your grandchildren’s money like a drunken sailor, and letting your soon-to-be rivals finance your little splurge (i.e., letting them own your country).
You know your empire’s crumbling when it’s considered an achievement to pretend that you’ve halved the rate at which you’re adding to the massive mountain of debt you’ve already accumulated.
You know your empire’s crumbling when you weaken your currency until it looks as anemic as a Paris runway model, and you’re still setting record trade deficits. (Hint: Because you’re not making anything anymore.)
You know your empire’s crumbling when “the little brown ones” (thank you George H.W. Bush – certainly not me – for that lovely expression) in country after country of “your backyard” blow you off and proudly elect anti-imperialist leftist governments.
You know your empire’s crumbling when you can’t topple those governments and replace them with nice puppet regimes – like in the good old days – even if you wanted to. And you badly want to.
You know your empire’s crumbling when one of their leaders comes to the United Nations and makes fun of your emperor, calling him the devil, and joking about smelling sulphur where he just stood. And though a few folks cringe, everybody laughs.
You know your empire’s crumbling when just about your entire military land force is tied up in a worse-than-useless war launched on the basis of complete fabrications, that every day is actually making you less – not more – secure from external threat.
You know your empire’s crumbling when almost half the soldiers in that war are high-paid mercenaries, and you don’t dare institute a draft.
You know your empire’s crumbling when you send soldiers into war with two weeks training and a lack of armor, and then you keep them there for three, four and five rotations.
You know your empire’s crumbling when a member of the Axis of Evil can test missiles and explode nuclear warheads, and all you can do about it is mumble some pathetic warnings about how they better not do that again or there will be consequences.
You know your empire’s crumbling when you even think that there is an Axis of Evil.
You know your empire’s crumbling when a rag-tag military hodge-podge of irregulars has you pinned down in an endless fight you can’t win, but also can’t lose.
You know your empire’s crumbling when you’re too dumb to even ban Humvees as a first step toward ending your dependency on a foreign-owned crucial resource.
You know your empire’s crumbling when you trade your prior moral leadership on human rights issues for global disgust at your torture, ‘extraordinary rendition’ (a.k.a. kidnaping for torture) and the dismantling of nine centuries worth of civil liberties progress.
You know your empire’s crumbling when you blow off international law that you once helped create, and undermine the institutions of international governance that you once helped build.
You know your empire’s crumbling when opinion polls confirm that every month you’re more and more despised throughout the world.
You know your empire’s crumbling when you can’t even pull off the hanging of a tin-pot murderous former dictator without turning him into a hero.
You know your empire’s crumbling when you’re the richest country in the world, but nearly 50 million of your people don’t have basic health care coverage.
You know your empire’s crumbling when the World Health Organization ranks your healthcare system 37th ‘best’ in the world, just above Slovenia, and just below Costa Rica. (And far below Colombia, Cyprus, Saudi Arabia and Morocco.)
You know your empire’s crumbling when instead of making it easier for citizens to obtain a higher education, you’re making it harder and more expensive.
You know your empire’s crumbling when your government gives tax breaks to industries as a reward for exporting your jobs elsewhere.
You know your empire’s crumbling when the so-called ‘opposition’ party can’t even turn that obscenity into a viable campaign theme and use it to clobber the worst emperor in your history.
You know your empire’s crumbling when your middle class has been stagnant for three decades, while the wealth of the hyper-rich continues to climb through the roof.
You know your empire’s crumbling when your reaction to that is to exacerbate the problem by enacting tax policies that massively increase further still the gap between the rich and the rest.
You know your empire’s crumbling when the predatory class has taken over your government and is stripping the country of everything not bolted down to the floor. And then it sells the floor itself, as well, to your rivals.
You know your empire’s crumbling when you’re spending tens of billions of dollars you don’t own on new nuclear warheads and space weapons that don’t work, to be used against an enemy you don’t have.
You know your empire’s crumbling when one of your cities drowns and your government does next to nothing before, during and after.
You know your empire’s crumbling when a massive environmental nightmare is looming around the corner, and your emperor not only ignores it, but claims it isn’t real while taking steps to exacerbate it.
You know your empire’s crumbling when your emperor is warned by a CIA briefer of an imminent terrorist attack of vast proportions, and responds by remaining on vacation and dismissing the briefer with the words: “All right. You've covered your ass, now.”
You know your empire’s crumbling when the same emperor drops everything to fly across the country from his vacation home in order to sign a bill intervening on the wrong side of a personal medical drama involving a single family.
You know your empire’s crumbling when gays and immigrants are used as diversionary issues to keep people from thinking about the pillaging of their country and their wallets actually taking place. And it works.
You know your empire’s crumbling when people are getting more religious and less scientific, not the other way around.
You know your empire’s crumbling when your political leaders start to be chosen by dynastic rules of succession.
And you especially know your empire’s crumbling when the most idiotic child of one of the least accomplished leaders in its history is not only crowned as the next emperor, but is even revered for a time by most of the public as a great one.
Rome? Britain? Spain?
At this rate we’ll be lucky to end up like Belgium.
David Michael Green is a professor of political science at Hofstra University in New York. He is delighted to receive readers' reactions to his articles (dmg@regressiveantidote.net), but regrets that time constraints do not always allow him to respond. More of his work can be found at his website, www.regressiveantidote.net.
Yes I agee that the Anti-christ comment was a low blow and pretty lame. Probably not a racist comment(I hope that is so) but a pretty stuid comment to make. Come on you can at least come up with an arguement for why he is the wrong guy. But the name calling is very low.
I question Obama's lack of experience and feel like he may be getting into this 4 or 8 years to soon. He has not been in DC long and is only part way through his first senate term. I am by no means saying he is bad of good. I think he would be better off with more experience and we would know him better. I just think we don't really know enough about where he stands on alot of things.
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