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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (68275)	1/18/2010 8:08:15 AM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

It does more than pale. dude was a baseball player. a man who made many many millions playing a game, games most people can't afford to take their families to see. a baseball player? pffft. if anyone votes on that or takes it into consideration at all, they get the govt they deserve.

To: tejek who wrote (68275)	1/18/2010 11:17:51 AM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

If Joan walsh is correct and the Obama's people never cared about movement building (progressive agenda), then why should we progressives support him? Last week Tech President's Micah Sifry wrote critically in these pages questioning how real the Obama "movement" ever was. His people-power campaign certainly benefited from an outpouring of money and gruntwork from starry-eyed progressives, many of them young, to get elected. But he also relied on the largesse of the financial, insurance and real estate sector as well as and the votes of independents who weren't necessarily embracing the liberal agenda advanced by Obama's "movement" voters – they just wanted change, and fast. Sifry sees the Obama team's failure to develop an early and far-reaching agenda for its grassroots supporters as proof that they never cared about movement-building, merely about getting elected. I mostly share that view, and yet Obama's sermon today – it wasn't really a speech – provoked a few second thoughts.

To: tejek who wrote (68275)	1/18/2010 2:04:34 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 149317

Curt Schilling ia a local hero to have earned BoSox a World title with a bleeding heel. When she is contesting a local election and botches who Curt Schilling is, I think it is tantamount to the gaffes that Palin made in a National contest. I read in the Boston Globe today that over 2 million contacts via hone was made by the Dems over the weekend. The local station here in my area said 500,000 voters during its newscast yesterday.