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Badass Obama is Badass…but he still needs our help.

Badass-Obama, originally uploaded by noveltimes.

Allrighty. I’m officially putting out the call to all of my peeps to help get out the vote. As the polls continue to tighten, these last two weeks before the election are critical to fight Republican smears and Democratic/Undecided complacency.

Helping to ensure a long-overdue regime change is easy. Sure you can donate, but time is running out. We need people hitting the phones to make sure that all registered Obama supporters actually vote, and vote early if at all possible. I spent three hours phonebanking yesterday and it was fun, inspiring and contagious. I met a bunch of great folks and I’ll be going back as much as possible between now and November 4.

If the very sight of John McCain or Sarah Palin make you cringe, or if you care about where we are headed as a country, than you owe it to yourself and any progeny you may have (or choose to have in the future) to get off your ass and doing something. Remember, this time around we are fighting racism, voter fraud and suppression, ennui and so much more that threaten the remaining shards of democracy in America. But we are also fighting the good fight. So get out there, people! Visit www.barackobama.com today and contribute your time, money and hope. We need it, and now.

As some final motivation, watch this clip of John McCain lying through his teeth about his campaign’s desperate, last ditch attempt to use fear-mongering robocalls to scare Americans his way. Truly disgusting.

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Phone for Change

Right now I am sitting in a San Francisco alley, calling Indiana voters and encouraging them to vote Obama and vote early. So far I’ve talked to two Barack supporters! It feels great to be encouraging democracy and I’ll definitely be doing more of it in the final run-up to the election.

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A More Perfect Union

I’m not going to deny that I’m none too proud of my country’s history of violence and oppression and inequity.  In fact, this very sentiment fuels my cynicism about the state of politics in America.  However, I just watched the big “racial” speech Senator Obama delivered this morning in Philadelphia and, I must say,  Barack Obama makes me damn proud.  I was huffing and puffing on a treadmill, Iron Maiden blaring, reading the closed caption version of his speech scroll across a tiny screen 50 feet away, and yet I still felt tears well up inside of me.  His words were a refreshing breeze in an era of childish national dialogue — honest and poignant, hopeful yet challenging.  I’ve never heard such frank nuance about the plight of the disenfranchised shared by a politician in his position.  Shades of MLK, indeed, however muted those shades might be due to the sound-bite slugfest that is the campaign trail.  After this speech — one for the ages, it would seem — I’m further convinced that Barack Obama is a step in the right direction for our country.  Not the final step, but a critical one.  For if we don’t raise the caliber of our discussion about America’s woes, we will continue, as Obama boldly asserted today, to be a nation distracted and divided and without hope.

I finally donated to Senator Obama’s campaign today.  I’m not asking you to do the same, but I am asking you to watch this video.  Asking something of my readers might actually be a first on this here blog.  Personally, I’m taking it even one step further.  Obama spoke today of his pastor and his grandmother, two beloved influences in his life that have also espoused divisiveness and ignorance.  I’ve got my own skeletons to reconcile, those parts of me shaped by people of a previous generation that require a second look, one of compassion and transcendence. But that’s my pledge. All you need to do is watch the video.

Filed under: Politics, U.S. of A.

I’ve Got A Bad Feeling About This….

How much more disgusting can politics get? Now that the love affair is out in the open, Hillary and Mac should announce their ticket today. Republicrats in 2008!

Read this link to put the “wink wink nudge nudge know what I mean” look above in some context. Hillary would rather throw her party under the bus than lose. SO slimy.

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Brent Wilkes Enters the Wall of Shame!

Wilkes_sentenced_to_12_year, originally uploaded by noveltimes.

I haven’t added anything to the Wall of Shame in some time. Unfortunately things have been quiet on the political corruption prosecution front. But, lo and behold!, Brent Wilkes is here to save the day. 12 years for bribing big fat Califnornia Republican Representative “Duke” Cunningham. Sit down and shut up, mister.

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