How Do We Seize the Obama Moment?

[NicholeW.]

How Do We Seize the Obama Moment?
By Robert L. Borosage and Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Nation. Posted August 18, 2008.

Obama will be the president we want him to be if we mobilize support on the progressive issues and ward off the influence of entrenched interests.

http://www.alternet.org/election08/95503/

Electric. When Barack Obama receives the Democratic presidential nomination before 75,000 people in Denver's Mile High Stadium on the forty-fifth anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, new possibilities will be born. A historic candidacy, a new generation in motion, a nation yearning for change. Even the cynics running the McCain campaign might be touched, if they weren't so busy savaging Obama as a vain celebrity not up to the task of leading a nation.

... this election features a stark ideological contrast. Although marketed as a trustworthy maverick, McCain accurately describes himself as a "foot soldier in the Reagan revolution" and attests that "on the transcendent issues, the most important issues of our day, I've been totally in agreement and support of President Bush."

[lisagurl]

Americans comfortable with trusting a young African-American with an unusual name

It has very little to do with trusting the leader . It has all to do with working to make things happen. No leader can have their way unless millions of people want the same way and work for it. Americans want to sit back, half do not even vote,  and they expect the Government to work in their favor by it self. The fact is it takes a lot of sacrifice on behalf of all citizens to get this country back to being the greatest place to live.

I do not think the general public is up to the task.

[Mnemosyne]

I will be very, very surprised if Obama is elected as our next POTUS.

[Hazumu]

I will be very, very surprised if Obama is elected as our next POTUS.

I want Barack Obama to win, as I feel the USA will only continue to be repressive under McCain.

Having said that...

I agree with you, 'Syn.  There is a huge wall of distrust and rejection by non-colored, non-diploma'd, non-secular, non-intellectual, non-LGBT folks out there who will manifest their inherent distrust for him in the voting booths and increasingly at the kitchen table.

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Karen

[Mnemosyne]

And now McCain is up in the polls.

[lisagurl]

And now McCain is up in the polls.

Lieberman is speaking at the GOP convention. Could he be McCain's VP pick?  Say good-by to the last vestige of secularism this Government has if they get elected.

[tekla]

Polls are nothing, silly stuff.  People don't elect the president, the states do through the Electoral College, given that, its all about five states.  How they will go will determine who is POTUS.

[lisagurl]

How they will go will determine who is POTUS.

They willl ask God, silly.

[tekla]

Nah, not so much in the states that are really in play, its going to be economic more than anything else.

[lisagurl]

The left coast has no clue. The KKK had a rally at the court house Saturday. To the middle it is about materialism to the far right it is about beliefs. The bible talks about the second coming when Jews and Christians unite. Fire = Nukes. The age of consumerism is ending there is simply not enough to go around no matter how you slice it.

[NicholeW.]

Damn!!! Brahma is about to inhale!!! It's the end of the age of clay!!!

How many times has the sky fallen?

Lisa, are you serious, like, the KKK or just a group you are designating as the KKK?

I know they die hard down in MS, but I'd have thought that if Trent Lott cannot admit supporting their viewpoints then they were prolly not around anymore. *sigh*

If they are there I suppose that means no more camping along the Natchez Trace Parkway!!! Shoot!! *stamps foot*

Nichole

[tekla]

I don't think Mississippi was ever in play - its red and going to stay red, neither by the way is Cali, were its as blue as can be along with New York.  Its going to be Ohio, Minn, Mich, Wisconsin, Penn and sort of Iowa and Indiana where this election is going to be won or lost.

[lisagurl]

Lisa, are you serious, like, the KKK or just a group you are designating as the KKK?

Serious!  But not many supporters. Trent Lott is now a lobbyist as his bother in law and son sit in jail for bribing a judge saying they could get him a federal judge chair with Lott's help. A fight over the appointment of Wicker a republican to Lott's seat was thrown out by a MS judge but the election will come in NOV, mean while a Democrat won Wicker's old house seat.

If they are there I suppose that means no more camping along the Natchez Trace Parkway!!! Shoot!! *stamps foot*

LOL, their is a pond on the Trace that homosexuals like and the cops know it. I have seen naked men running from the pond through the woods to a local street.

[NicholeW.]

have seen naked men running from the pond through the woods to a local street.

LOL!!! And we thought the Jersey Devil was something!!  >

Nekkid men from the swamp running down city streets!! Does Mississippi ever rock or what!!! 

Nichole