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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (34315)	7/11/2008 6:52:35 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224755

57% now prolife? Will Obama refine his abortion policy next? The Obama Abortion Marketing Machine July 11, 2008 \| By Jack Yoest Your Business Blogger(R) teaches business, marketing and management at the local college. I like to remind students and clients that the hardest product to sell is an intangible, an idea. The easier product to pitch has tangible characteristics -- it has a form that can be introduced through the senses, a product that can be seen and touched. One of the most interesting marketing campaigns of the century is the promotion of abortion as 'choice' and 'reproductive freedom.' And for many, abortion has become a vote-changing issue during the current presidential campaign. To learn more about this interesting abortion-vote market segment, I stepped out of the DC summer heat in Your Nation's Capital and sat in on an off-the-record meeting on abortion polling data for battle ground states. The confidential numbers revealed that 57% of the public was self-identified as Pro-Life. This raised two marketing questions: 1) Why is Obama still actively embracing an abortion position? And, 2) How did the country move from supporting abortion rights to Pro-Life? I was curious about the Obama Abortion Marketing Machine. He is in favor of abortion and in denying medical treatment of some infants born alive. He aggressively supports the feminist's power position of control of a mother over her baby. Power is an intangible and intangibles are normally a 'difficult sell' as we old sales guys are wont to say. It seems odd that any seller of public policy would take pride in working this hard. But this intangible is what has sold in the past -- a woman's complete control over her body and absolute power over her destiny, even if this meant killing her unborn baby. Power sells and people will pay most anything to get it, use it and to project the appearance of power. It was absolute power. And Absolute power corrupts absolutely. But it was not Lord Acton's theorem that changed the mind of the American public. It was a picture. Or rather two pictures: A) If a woman sees a picture, a sonogram of her baby, she will not have an abortion. B) The Chicago hospital room where babies can be left to die. Nurse Jill Stanek has the story and original reporting of the Chicago hospital's "Comfort Room" where babies born alive are left to die without medical intervention. She has more pictures. Polite society might call this 'infanticide.' Calling the venue a "Comfort Room" is clever marketing. Like "Pro-Choice." A case study on word framing to sell. Brilliant. But the new pictures are powerful images that can now sell the product: a child. The tangible child is trumping the intangible power. This provides a clear choice this presidential election between a women's power and a person's right to life. McCain is Pro-Life. Obama has a clear pro-abortion position: He would sign the Planned Parenthood backed Freedom of Choice Act which codifies Roe v Wade: youtube.com ### Thank you (foot)notes: Bill Bennett and Jill Stanek on Obama Abortion youtube.com Jack and Charmaine also blog at Reasoned Audacity. Your Business Blogger(R) of Management Training of DC, LLC, is a licensed agent for the William Oncken Corporation presenters of Managing Management Time(TM) fondly known as Monkey Management. charmaineyoest.com

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (34315)	7/11/2008 7:00:22 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 224755

Obama's $100,000 garden grant wasted He vowed to 'work tirelessly' to build an oasis for Englewood. It never happened. This seems like an idiotic project for a slum in the first place. And looks like the money just disappeared with nothing to show for it. An examination of public housing in Obama's district shows more failure and wasting of millions of public money, while Obama's backers stuffed their pockets. Is Obama's record of failure and corruption one we ought to reward? July 11, 2008Recommend (34) BY CHRIS FUSCO AND DAVE MCKINNEY Staff Reporters Obama's $100K Grant for a Garden Never Built More videos » Click to enlarge image $100,000 of taxpayers money was supposed to be spent on a garden that was never built. So how did a one-time volunteer for Obama exactly spend the money? (Sun-Times, AP) » Click to enlarge image Kenny B. Smith, a onetime campaign volunteer for Barack Obama, can't explain exactly how he spent $100,000 of taxpayers' money on a garden that was never built. He is standing at the site Thursday. The inset shows the botanic garden site in 2000. (John J. Kim/Sun-Times) RELATED STORIES Video: Inside Obama's $100K garden As a state senator, Barack Obama gave $100,000 in state money to a campaign volunteer who failed to deliver on a plan to create a botanic garden in one of Chicago's most blighted neighborhoods. Obama -- who was running for Congress when he announced the project in 2000 -- said the green space in Englewood would build ''a sense of neighborhood pride." Instead, what was supposed to be a six-block stretch of trees and paths is now a field of unfulfilled dreams, strewn with weeds, garbage and broken pavement. Kenny B. Smith, whose nonprofit group got the money, said it was spent legitimately, mostly on underground site preparation. But he admitted Thursday that the garden is a lost cause because other government money never came through. "We gave up," said Smith, who heads the Chicago Better Housing Association. "It was a losing battle." Smith -- an early Obama supporter who gave $550 to his state and congressional campaigns -- said he gave his paperwork documenting the work to a state agency and no longer has it. A Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity spokeswoman said officials would look into the matter. Smith blamed the site's current poor condition on construction material dumped there during the state's recent reconstruction of the Dan Ryan Expy. But a reporter walked the site last week with a landscape architect from the Illinois Green Industry Association who found no evidence of the work Smith cited. The only major changes since 2000: A gazebo was added, and some trees were cut down. Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, said through a spokesman he wasn't responsible for monitoring the work; the staffs of Gov. Blagojevich and former Gov. George Ryan were. "It is clear that Englewood residents have not been able to benefit from a completed community garden," Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt said. "Sen. Obama will . . . do everything he can to ensure that the Englewood community gets the resources it needs to provide its residents with a livable neighborhood." On Jan. 14, 2000, Obama and Smith announced the Englewood Beautification Plan at Englewood High School. Obama promised to help raise $1.1 million. He was running then to unseat U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush, but lost in the Democratic primary. The beautification project, planned near and under L tracks between 59th Place and 62nd Place, was outside Obama's state Senate district but within the congressional district. "I will work tirelessly in Springfield and in Chicago to raise public and private dollars to fund this worthy endeavor," Obama said then. In 2001, at Obama's direction, a $100,000 Illinois FIRST grant went to Smith's group. The garden site was part of Rosewood Estates, an affordable-housing development being built by the group, whose unpaid board chairman was Brian Washington, a Sun-Times security guard. Plans called for more than 50 homes, but only a dozen were built, Smith said. The remaining $1 million for the botanic garden was never raised. Now, Smith said he's trying to get city leaders to let him use the land and other vacant lots to build about 30 new homes in Englewood. suntimes.com

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (34315)	7/11/2008 7:18:16 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Respond to of 224755

Kerry was ahead at this point in 2004...only partisans are paying close attention this far out. By Nov the majority of voters will have identified the Empty O as exactly that--a big zero.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (34315)	7/11/2008 7:44:58 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 224755

oh Dukasis was up by 16-18 % at this point. What's he doing now ?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (34315)	7/11/2008 8:34:10 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Respond to of 224755

New Newsweek Poll: Obama's Lead Slips, July 11 2008 Posted by TOM BEVAN Newsweek turned heads with a poll two weeks ago touting a massive 15-point lead for Obama. Their newest survey has heads turning in the other direction, showing Obama's lead dwindling to just 3 points over McCain: Obama 44 (-7) McCain 41 (+5) Undecided 15 (+2) In the Newsweek poll, Obama's support among Republicans and Democrats was basically unchanged, but his support among Independents dropped 14 points, to 34% from 48% two weeks ago. McCain increased his support among Republicans by five points (to 83% from 78%) and among Independents by five points (to 41% from 36%). Slicing the data by race and gender, Obama lost nine points among white voters (dropping from 45% to 36%) and nine points among women (dropping from 54% two weeks ago to 45% in the most recent poll). Overall, Obama's lead in the RCP National Average is now 4.8%.