Please read the article below.  Pay close attention to the comments after the article.  

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/12/palin-attacks-obama-over_n_143362.html

Sarah Palin's unwillingness to recognize her own short comings and those of her party are exactly what is wrong with America as a collective.  She is has no vision, no new ideas and earnestly believes that staying on the same course of discourse is the right thing to do. And unfortunately the mainstream media keeps giving this shallow individual air time.  

Corporate America today does not have any vision, no new ideas and that is why we are in the mess we are in.  When you work in Corporate America, you know that often times new ideas are immediately squashed, so we stay on the same unoriginal paths.  That is why our economy is going down the tubes.  No innovation and no desire to do something bold and orginal on the parts of our financial institutions. 

Nate Silver at 538.com is great. He was dead on.

Why I like being black.  I like being black because as I read the doubts of some and listen to the pundits who resist the change that is coming.  I know what hope is from the very depths of my soul to the very tips of my fingers.  And it is that knowledge and that hope that makes me tough.  As I look back over the history of my people I am proud and disappointed all in one.  But most of all I never doubt the resolve of my people once they put their minds to achieve.

You see being a minority in the United States of America is a blessing.  Often people like to think of it as a curse or a punishment but I think of it as a blessing because when we achieve great things we have done so against all odds.  We have succeeded through hard work and sacrifice.  We learn very early to take nothing for granted because when you do, you fail.  We are made tough and when we fail, that failure is not the ultimate defeat, it is the fuel to future triumph.

If Barack Obama is not president on November 5th, we still win.  Because today there is a little Jewish boy is dreaming of becoming president, there is a Muslim girl dreaming, a black child dreaming, and a disabled child dreaming.  Because of Barack Obama the dreams of all the children of this great nation have just become a little larger and a little more attainable.  We have been reminded this year that through hard work, a plan and our faith, we can achieve anything that we put our minds to.  We do not have to accept the limitations of our environment, the culture divide in our country, nor listen to the naysayers. 

For those that thought this country would be forever divided culturally, we now see that we are one step closer to being a stronger union.  All it takes is someone with vision and the strength to fight the forces that keeps us from coming together to be the best that we can be.  All it takes is someone to stand strong and do what we all know is right.  All it takes is one person to stand up and say, enough is enough. 

What is truly great about living in America is that all things are possible here and I know that one person on this earth cannot change the world alone, but I know that my people have gone from shackles to being formidable leaders in the United States of America within a relatively short amount of time given world history.  I have great faith in the goodness of all in this country because no man is island. 

I vote for Barack Obama because he chooses to remind us of our inherent goodness as people and citizens.  He chooses not to focus on the negative nor take advantage of the cultural leeriness that lingers in our politics.  He is strong.  He respects us all.  Respect is what has been lost in our political landscape.  He has restored a sense of pride in all people but especially those of us of color. 

Yes We Can!

I just read a post regarding CNN moving AR and LA to lean McCain. 538.com never had them in our column. 538.com is a site that was more accurate during the primaries than CNN and MSNBC. I don't think those two states were ever in our column.

Below is a link to a website called Republicans for Obama:

http://republicansforobama.org/?q=node/3341

PHILLY.COM ENDORSES OBAMA.  Please read their words.  It is well written.

In concrete terms, the United States is faced with a range of crises - economic, military, diplomatic - that are increasingly complex, that defy ideology and demand an uncommon, united effort. Failure to address them in the past has put the well-being of our children and our planet in doubt. Failure to address them now will, we fear, seal their doom.

But history also includes things that are less prosaic, more poetic: We could be on the verge of picking a president who symbolizes what our country stands for. Opportunity. Equality. Leadership. And big ideas. In the process, we as a country may be becoming the change we want to see.

That's why we endorse Barack Obama.

At this point, maybe no one has the solutions to the country's problems, but Barack Obama has the best chance, by far, of finding them.

He is big enough for the moment.

As he has throughout his career as a community organizer, a law student, a state legislator and a U.S. senator, he will apply an intellectually rigorous approach to making decisions, crafting policy and bringing people together.

But it is his core temperament - and the movement that he has built, and that has been built around him - that will allow him to lead Americans into a challenging future with confidence.

In fact, Barack Obama is about everything our recent history has not been - and which the campaign of Republicans John McCain and Sarah Palin have no chance of becoming. Obama offers a clean break with "us vs. them" and "you're on your own" mentality. Instead, he presents the hope - and challenge - to be a country in which "we're all in this together."

No one can question John McCain's long service to this country, as a soldier and a senator. But on one big thing, he is wrong: Americans are not so much angry, as he keeps on saying, as they are worried, and afraid. With each new economic shock, they are in danger of losing not only their homes and their jobs and their health, but also their spirit of optimism.

They are worried, too, about the distrust and disappointment with which the world greets United States foreign policy, and the consequences of forsaking our ideals - rationalizing torture and ignoring constitutional safeguards of civil rights.

Long before 9/11, but intensely afterward, they longed to answer a call to join in a common purpose, to ask what they could do for their country - and to receive answers that are worthy of them.

When he met Obama on the campaign trail in Ohio, the now-famous Joe the Plumber illustrated how inadequate those answers have been. Joe was concerned only with the remote possibility that some day he might have to pay somewhat more in taxes, failing to see the benefits of policies in which the overwhelming majority of Americans would share in gains from new technology, new approaches to providing health care - not to mention basic fairness.

Tellingly, Obama's response was seized on by McCain and Palin as "socialist." Obama had said, "I just want to make sure that everyone who is behind you has got a chance to succeed too. I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody."

Perhaps only someone who owns seven houses would worry about sharing a fair amount of the wealth that America helped him gain. Making sure everyone has a chance at success ought to be what America is all about. But isn't now.

People - most recently Colin Powell - keep saying that Barack Obama is a transformational figure. And he is.

In concrete terms, this means that he has, in his own words, "shown up" to campaign in areas in which there was little support for him initially. The electoral map reflects the result.

By embracing the use of new technology, the Obama campaign has invited millions of Americans to be a part of the movement for change. His fundraising strategy has transformed campaign financing, attracting a mind-boggling 3.1 million individual donors giving an average of $86. No one can know how this change will affect future elections, but the breadth of participation has loosened the hold that lobbyists and big fundraisers have had on past campaigns. It has promoted a "buy-in" by ordinary citizens. And that's only in money. Thousands of Americans also have enlisted as volunteers for Obama, many of them becoming politically involved for the first time in their lives.

Joe Biden was wrong, too. When campaigning against Obama in the primary, Biden said the presidency didn't lend itself to "on the job training." The fact is, there is no "experience" that fully prepares a person to be president.

But there are ways in which a true leader motivates people to take the risks for change, to make the sacrifices that are needed, to look beyond divisions of race and religion - and to meet well-founded fear with resolve. By the campaign he has run and the policies he has proposed, Obama has begun being that leader even before he was elected, even before he takes the oath of office.

The McCain campaign tried mightily to make this a "big election about small things," but Obama succeeded in making it about the biggest thing of all: America's future.

Not long ago, he began reassuring Americans that we will rise to the moment. "We can restore our economy and the fundamental belief that in America, our destiny is not written by us but for us," he said.

On Nov. 4, Americans can begin to write that destiny. *

Police said the woman admitted making up the report she was attacked because of a John McCain sticker on her car.

The 20-year-old from Texas told investigators a man approached her Wednesday night at an ATM in Pittsburgh's East End, put a blade to her neck and demanded money, Pittsburgh Police Department public information officer Diane Richard said.

She said she gave him $60 and stepped away from him, Richard said.

She further said the man "punched her in the back of the head, knocking her to the ground, and he continued to punch and kick her while threatening to teach her a lesson for being a McCain supporter," according to a police statement.

The woman also told police her attacker "called her a lot of names and stated that 'You are going to be a Barack supporter,' at which time she states he sat on her chest, pinning both her hands down with his knees, and scratched into her face a backward letter 'B' on the right side of her face using what she believed to be a very dull knife."

At the time, Richard said, "We, the police, cannot substantiate this yet. This is what she told police."

The woman refused medical attention, Richard said, although she told the investigating officer she would see a doctor Thursday.

Richard said the woman described her alleged attacker as an African-American, 6 feet 4 inches tall with a medium build and short dark hair, wearing dark clothing and shiny shoes.

Before the revelation that the report was false, McCain spokeswoman Jill Hazelbaker said that McCain and running mate Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin "spoke to the victim and her family after learning about the incident."

Would someone please tell the Senator it is okay to purhcase a new pair of shoes? Now this is a guy working hard for all of us.