Furthermore, I believe that Justice Sotomayor was relating to the process she uses to evolve her decisions as appropriately as conceivably possible to the needs of the society in which she represents. Her life history will allow her to think of other criteria in which a white male may not consider when assessing the facts of a legal case.
Justice Sotomayor is absolutely correct in relating to her individual history in assisting her dissemination of facts related to her decision making process.
I believe that this is the message that needs to come out of the White House regarding their excellent choice for the Supreme court.
AP: Name by name, Obama's Cabinet taking shape
By The Associated Press
Tue Dec 16, 6:46 pm ET
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081216/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama_appointees
Day by day, name by name, President-elect Barack Obama's Cabinet is taking shape, and other top jobs are being filled.
A look at who has made the list and who is being talked about for jobs that are still open:
NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED:
TREASURY SECRETARY:
Timothy Geithner, president of Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
SECRETARY OF STATE:
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y.
ATTORNEY GENERAL:
Eric Holder, former deputy attorney general.
DEFENSE SECRETARY:
Robert Gates, holdover from Bush administration.
HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY:
Gov. Janet Napolitano, D-Ariz.
NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER:
Retired Marine Gen. James Jones.
COMMERCE SECRETARY:
Gov. Bill Richardson, D-N.M.
NATIONAL ECONOMIC COUNCIL DIRECTOR:
Lawrence Summers, former treasury secretary.
OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET DIRECTOR:
Peter Orszag, director of Congressional Budget Office.
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES SECRETARY:
Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D.
VETERANS AFFAIRS SECRETARY:
Retired Gen. Eric K. Shinseki.
HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT SECRETARY:
Shaun Donovan, New York City housing commissioner.
ENERGY SECRETARY,
Steven Chu, director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
EPA ADMINISTRATOR,
Lisa P. Jackson, former commissioner of New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.
ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE,
Carol Browner, former EPA administration.
WHITE HOUSE COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY CHAIR,
Nancy Sutley, deputy mayor for energy and environment in Los Angeles.
EDUCATION SECRETARY,
Arne Duncan, Chicago schools superintendent.
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INTERIOR SECRETARY
Sen. Ken Salazar, D-Colo.
AGRICULTURE SECRETARY
Tom Vilsack, former Iowa governor.
Gov. Palin commented about Sen. Obama and William Ayers at a rally in Carson, California Saturday. 
The Statement: Republican vice presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin said Saturday, October 4, that Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is "someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect that he's palling around with terrorists who would target their own country."
Get the facts!
The Facts: In making the charge at a fund-raising event in Englewood, Colorado, and a rally in Carson, California, Palin was referring at least in part to William Ayers, a 1960s radical. In both appearances, Palin cited a front-page article in Saturday's New York Times detailing the working relationship between Obama and Ayers.
In the 1960s, Ayers was a founding member of the radical Weather Underground group that carried out a string of bombings of federal buildings, including the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol, in protest against the Vietnam War. The now-defunct group was labeled a "domestic terrorist group" by the FBI, and Ayers and his wife, Bernadine Dohrn — also a Weather Underground member — spent 10 years as fugitives in the 1970s. Federal charges against them were dropped due to FBI misconduct in gathering evidence against them, and they resurfaced in 1980. Both Ayers and Dohrn ultimately became university professors in Chicago, with Ayers, 63, now an education professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Obama's Chicago home is in the same neighborhood where Ayers and Dohrn live. Beginning in 1995, Ayers and Obama worked with the non-profit Chicago Annenberg Challenge on a huge school improvement project. The Annenberg Challenge was for cities to compete for $50 million grants to improve public education. Ayers fought to bring the grant to Chicago, and Obama was recruited onto the board. Also from 1999 through 2001 both were board members on the Woods Fund, a charitable foundation that gave money to various causes, including the Trinity United Church that Obama attended and Northwestern University Law Schools' Children and Family Justice Center, where Dohrn worked.
CNN's review of project records found nothing to suggest anything inappropriate in the volunteer projects in which the two men were involved.
Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt told CNN that after meeting Obama through the Annenberg project, Ayers hosted a campaign event for him that same year when then-Illinois state Sen. Alice Palmer, who planned to run for Congress, introduced the young community organizer as her chosen successor. LaBolt also said the two have not spoken by phone or exchanged e-mail messages since Obama came to the U.S. Senate in 2005 and last met more than a year ago when they encountered each other on the street in their Hyde Park neighborhood.
The extent of Obama's relationship with Ayers came up during the Democratic presidential primaries earlier this year, and Obama explained it by saying, "This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood … the notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago — when I was 8 years old — somehow reflects on me and my values doesn't make much sense."
The New York Times article cited by Palin concluded that "the two men do not appear to have been close. Nor has Mr. Obama ever expressed sympathy for the radical views and actions of Mr. Ayers." Other publications, including the Washington Post, Time magazine, the Chicago Sun-Times, The New Yorker and The New Republic, have said that their reporting doesn't support the idea that Obama and Ayers had a close relationship.
The McCain campaign did not respond Saturday to a request for elaboration on Palin's use of the plural "terrorists."
Verdict: False. There is no indication that Ayers and Obama are now "palling around," or that they have had an ongoing relationship in the past three years. Also, there is nothing to suggest that Ayers is now involved in terrorist activity or that other Obama associates are.
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I new article posted to cnn.com entitled, "Bailout talks implode, economy's fate in peril", is suggestive of the talks imploding. However, it is conceivable to me that it is not the talks that are imploding, but rather the Republican Party that is imploding before our very eyes.
They can see that everything they have run on since President Reagan, less government; de-regulation; supply-side economics; and last but not least the trickle down theory, is the root cause of our current economic mess. The question for them is not how they save our economy, but how do they save their Party?
Popular opinion is solidly behind the Democratic Congress with demanding that the bail-out of our financial market meet the conditions of regulation and oversight; mortgage assistance for people whose mortgages are in trouble; scrutiny over the amount of the bail-out; and language to stop any "golden parachute" payments going to the CEO's of the organizations involved within the bail-out.
Now what has made the news is that the ranking Republican member of the House Banking Committee, Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-AL), has conceded that he does not have authorization to speak for his colleagues. This is a very troubling assertion, but it also shines a bright light into the vast darkness that is the current Republican Party.
It appears that committee appointments mean nothing to the House Republican Leadership, and that every issue must be approved by leadership, albeit minority leadership, in order to be recognized by all Republicans in the House. This is the House Republican modus operandi that equals their Senate counterpart's use of the filibuster.
What happens now? It is really quite obvious. We've seen it before. After the media gets hold of this and projects a picture of a static Democratic Congress, then, the House Republicans will reach consensus. We then will be told, lead by Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), how they stood together for the American people and solved this economic crisis.
This cheap political grandstanding by the Republican Party is hope only of stopping the implosion of their political affiliation. Call your Congress person, call the media, tell them that this political nonsense must end. It is time to put all Americans first, and end politics as usual.
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We can now see the meaning to McCain's madness of picking Sarah Palin for his VP. There have been numerous pundits, the latest being Ed Rollins with this beauty click here, in which attempt to keep the Democrats appearing as they are not united by keeping the Hillary Clintonnon-issue an issue.
The republicans, or the MSM for that matter, did not get the the upheaval in which they desired from the democratic convention. Therefore, McCain, in all his ineptitude, decides to try to reignite the flames of despair for the Democratic party with his selection of a female VP with seemingly less (that's debatable) experience than O8ama, and of course the media will assist with this contemptible attempt at fanning this conflgration because it sells air time and news print.
As I've said so many times on this blog. BEWARE THE MEDIA! They care more for their own balance sheet than for our country,or any that live in it.
Here is a link from the Economic Policy Institute with a nice graph that compares income from the 1990's to income from 2000 -2007. As Joe Biden so poignantly stated, "Barack was Right, and McCain was wrong!"
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How does Palin's age, at 44, somehow justify and/or relieve the tensions of voters whom are concerned about his age of 72, when she has absolutely no experience? If anything now his age becomes even more of an issue in the minds of voters because of her lack of knowledge of the global community? How can they pare off, or spin, the experience issue of Barack O8ama when their VP selection does not even know what the Vice President does? In her own words!<br />
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Oh, and as for the gender credibility of this choice? There is none; period! Does McCain really believe that Hillary Rodham Clinton's supporters will support Palin solely on the basis that she's a woman? The one thing that John McCain missed is the fact that Hillary Clinton was just as qualified as Barack O8ama, and that is why their primary battle was soo-ooo close and grueling. <br />
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Yep, his first most important decision, and John McCain blew this one big time. Maybe what they're not telling us is that nobody really wanted this position. For that matter, maybe the repubs are already distancing themselves from this election and planning on rebuilding their party in 2012?<br />
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I've said before that that was the reason they wanted Hillary to take the nomination. They all know, especially KKKarl Rove, what a screwed up mess they have made the past eight years. Now they are planning on undermining Barack O8ama's administration allowing him (and the Democrats) to take the wrath of the American people just like Jimmy Carter did in 1976-1980.<br />
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I think what we Democrats need to be assessing is who the Republicans are planning on putting up as their candidate in 2012. They seriously are planning on O8ama being a one-term president. The only thing that will alter their plan is if the Democrats can achieve a filibuster proof senate majority. In which case, President O8ama will become an A ONE two term president.
Register to vote, and send Voltage to play at the Democratic National Convention. We have songs that are perfect for the event already written, and I am already the number one democrat at the DNC.
Last night Hillary Clinton made a very difficult heart warming speech, after winning in the South Dakota primary, in which she congratulated Barack O8ama for his primary success. She then went on to thank a multitude of campaign staff employees, her supporters, etc. Hillary then ended her speech with not knowing what her next move will be.
This statement, which I paraphrased, has been misinterpreted into meaning that she is not conceding. Well, duh!! On the last primary day in which all the votes are not even counted she's supposed to come out and concede? No way! Why should she be forced, or coerced, into conceding by CNN, Fox, MSNBC, or any other MEDIA outlet's schedule?
In the first place, she had 18 million votes, which is about the same as O8ama had, so she must ensure that the voters that voted for her are duly represented by the Democratic party platform agenda. She will ensure that before she concedes Barack will unite with her in creating the Democratic party agenda. Just as John Edwards did before throwing his support behind O8ama. It's just the way it works, and she owes that to her supporters.
Secondly, is the possibility of a political appointment amongst the O8ama administration. She will need to think out how she feels about a potential request from Barack O8ama. That's only natural. How would she fit into his administration and/or is that what she wants to do with her future, not to mention the political capital that she has developed through this campaign.
Lastly, is the fact that she does not need to concede in a negative 'I lost and Barack won' fashion. In my mind she conceded on Tuesday night when she congratulated O8ama and thanked all of her staff and supporters. It has been a long, very long, hard campaign. Give her a break and allow her to assess where she goes from here. All of this talk that she did not concede was generated by the media that is hoping that she will do as Harold Ickes warned and take her fight to Denver.
Beware the media hype because that is precisely what this concession, no concession, story is about.
However, it's not a loss to Barack O8ama because the delegate math (including Florida and Michigan) indicates that after WV Hillary will need to win in excess of 70% of the vote in each of the remaining primaries to secure the nomination.
So, a loss is not a loss when the ultimate win is just weeks away, but a win is huge when one is on the threshold of losing.
It seems from watching the political pundits on the TV, that Hillary's only chance to win is to make an argument that Barack Obama can't become president when he, his family, and all of his supporters believe that "Yes He Can." Obama's "Yes We Can" campaign and movement speaks to the real possibility of people realizing their dreams. Obama's dream is to be president of the United States. Everyday he and his supporters say to themselves "Yes We Can." Hillary for her part tries to those are just words. It's no wonder she would say that to try to stop the flow of positive energy and enthusiasm the Obama campaign has been generating throughout the country with every cheer of "Yes We Can."
Everyday the Obama campaign continues is another day of raising spirits based on the campaign's "Can Do" attitude. They have raised millions of dollars from people who all believe that "Yes We Can." Call it momentum, I'm not sure the word for it. It has alot to do with the way Obama awakens the American spirit in people. That is genuine and needed in a leader.
Hillary lags behind in that particular type of leadership experience. No matter what her campaign says, his supporters and he himself will be giving all of their energy into making the words "Yes We Can" a reality.
Keep on cheering, chanting, singing, and believing!!!
from speakout.com
Everything he's 'voted for or against' matches Clinton.
Also see comparision from
http://www.thetaskforce.org/downloads/reports/reports/final_candidates_positions.pdf Read More »
would love any other links or information anyone has on Clinton. Read More »
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My reasons aren't the typical "fluffy distractions" that the media and others seem to "lightly" address. It isn't because of Rezko, Michele's "proud to be American" speech, or even the "Rev Wright issue." I have difficulties voting for Obama because of the highly conflicting message his campaign has effectively delivered.
Obama is the candidate for Change. Obama gives Hope back to America. Obama believes in changing politics and doing things differently. Read More »
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Here's this week's announcement
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23918341/
This one was interesting to me because it addresses Ohio and Florida as two key states in the General election. In the end I think Michigan will be the key state this time around, but I don't disagree that these two states are critical for a democratic win in November.
So I ask... What do you think of this article? does it change your mind about which candidate you support? why or why not?
Personally, it made me think. It doesn't change my mind about who I support but it did make me look a little closer as to why I support them. Read More »
BTW, I wrote this poem shortly after 11 September 2001
Well, I guess I can't use the extended function either. Man, has this blog ever gone to H***! So, here it is, hate me now haters!
I wrote this poem shortly after 9/11/2001
Oh, say ma,
By the way,
I do love you!!
Sorry ma, for being so deadened
In the name of freedom, there
Is no reason for resentment.
You must agree, though, lately
The temper tantrums,
Are much out of hand. Huh, what say?
I cannot hear your blighted
Utterance over the sound of our equality.
I love you, ma, but only because I do agree
With your main argument: that
There is only one God.
My heart has been saddened, that
Through our agreement, we learn
Only disagreement and hatred.
We are the stronger victim all right,
Now you’re a man without a world.
What do you mean the world hasn’t changed?
We annihilated your annihilation, we offered your
People our freedoms. They bit from our apple
And saw it is good.
The world is black and white,
We’re up and you’re down, in and out, back
And forth, over and under, through.
Bigger,
Better,
Righter.
A spade is just a shovel, Muhammad and Jesus,
Two men under God. With liberty
And justice…
God bless America,
And forgive us our sin.
Please, thank you, and Amen.
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