Barack Obama is quite taken with Oregon ... perhaps too much so
BEND, Ore. -- Central Oregon doesn't see many presidential candidates, particularly Democrats, which perhaps explains why a rocking high school crowd this weekend let Barack Obama get away with a cardinal sin around these parts: Expressing a desire to move in.
Not so long ago, Bend was a sleepy little cowboy town that doubled as a jumping-off point for some of America's best skiing (Mt. Bachelor), rafting (the Deschutes River) and backpacking (the Cascade Range). Then the outside world discovered it. Some folks came from Portland three hours north, some from California. Most brought money, which fueled a huge wave of building and sent housing prices soaring. The newcomers and various annexations served to quadruple the town's population over two decades.
And so, when the Obama campaign and the national press descended on Bend and marveled at the crisp air, the sagebrush smells and the snow-capped mountain views, the general, only half-joking response from the local press was, yes, it's a great place. But you'd hate living here. Please, please ...
don't move here.
Obama took multiple opportunities to admire his surroundings. "You guys have some pretty real estate out here," he said at the beginning of his speech at Summit High School, which serves a side of town that barely existed in the mid-1990s. "I'd like to stick around. Who's going to teach me fishing?"
The crowd cheered its approval. But somewhere, we're sure, some native Central Oregonians grumbled.
Hillary Clinton hasn't hit the region yet, but if she comes back before the state's May 20 voting deadline, we suggest a new slogan: Vote for me. I'll keep your secret.
-- Jim Tankersley
Photo credit: Getty Images
Jim Tankersley writes for the Swamp of the Chicago Tribune's Washington bureau.
Short Version: The REAL Math
(McCain + Obama) - Clinton = Another Republican in the White House.
Cheney Energy Bill = 29 New nuclear power plants
[ (GE + Westinghouse = Nuke power plant builders) + Dick Cheney ]
x (McCain + Obama) = 29 New nuclear power plants
McCain's VOTE on The Cheney Energy Bill = YES
Obama's VOTE on the Cheney Energy Bill = YES
Clinton's VOTE on the Cheney Energy Bill = NO
Clinton/ { NBC+MSNBC+CBS+Fox+(All the MSM) } = Another Republican in the White House
Clue: GE owns NBC & MSNBC; Westinghouse owns CBS; (GE= 2nd largest corporation on the planet); BOTH have been pumping $$$Billions of ADvertising dollars into every FORM of MEDIA they don't own, for generations.
i.e. [ Cheney + (McCain + Obama) + The Media ] vs. Clinton.= Bush's Third Term
Posted by: elme13 | May 12, 2008 at 12:05 PM
LONG Version: [ Cheney + (McCain + Obama) + The Media ] vs. Clinton.= Bush's Third Term
(Your Copy of an email I am sending to all our CongressPeople Today.)
NO Obama = NO NUKES!
NO to Dick Cheney! & GE!
****EXTREME WARNING****
** to ALL DEMOCRAT Senators & Representatives**
DEMOCRATS Voting in the PRIMARY States CHOSE CLINTON.
Do NOT Allow REPUBLICANS in the CAUCUS states to "choose" our Candidate.
IF YOU Throw this Election to the Republicans--The Democratic Party
IS HISTORY--and YOU will be OUT.
TABOO words the MEDIA doesn't Mention:
Cheney Energy Bill
Rezko Trial
Quoting Obama: "The American people deserve honest answers."
QUESTIONS All of US should be ASKING The MEDIA: Phone, Fax, email, post, blog & Asking ALL your Congress people/SuperDelegates.
QUESTIONS:
1. WHY isn't THE MEDIA providing NEWS Coverage of The BIGGEST---ENERGY ISSUE? i.e. Are WE going to LET Cheney, GE, Westinghouse et al, Build 29 New nuclear power plants, or Not?
ANSWER: The TV MEDIA isn't providing NEWS coverage of one of the BIGGEST ISSUES of our time --BECAUSE: the BUILDERS of those nuke power plants will be GE, Westinghouse, Excelon Corp. of Illinois, Entergy; 3 Consortiums of nuke industy companies...
... and .... GE owns NBC/MSNBC, Westinghouse owns CBS...PLUS-(GE, 2nd largest corp. on the planet) & Westinghouse have $BILLIONS of Adverising $$$ to spend in EVERY FORM OF MEDIA they don't own.)
i.e. The NEWS you GET to SEE & HEAR on TV is the "news" GE/Westinghouse et al...WANT You to SEE and Hear. THEY do NOT want YOU to KNOW Anything about The Cheney Energy Bill.
2. What's the Cheney Energy Bill about?
ANSWER: The Cheney Energy Bill passed in 2005 (H.R. 6). McCain Voted FOR it. Obama Voted FOR it. Clinton Voted AGAINST it. (i.e. McCain & Obama already SOLD OUT to the nuke industry in 2005. Clinton did not: will not.)
The Cheney Energy Bill decreed that US Taxpayers would REPAY the Nuke Building LOANS that DEFAULT. (The Congressional Budget Office rated the risk of default at 50% or greater.) No new nukes were built for 30 years because the banks wouldn't loan the money--too risky.
Why Should we build nukes?
ANSWER: There is NO Good Reason for US to build nukes. We NEED De-Centralized, Clean, Renewable, INEXPENSIVE ENERGY Technology. Nukes are NONE OF THE ABOVE. There's PLENTY of excellent NEW Technology that will fill the bill...given greater INVESTMENT.
Why Shouldn't we build nukes?
ANSWER: Nukes are OBSOLETE 70-Year OLD Technology. WE already have a 50 YEAR NIGHTMARE Legacy of MILLIONS of TONS and BILLIONS of Gallons of NUKE WASTE all over the USA in leaking tanks, crumbling buildings, contaminated rivers...GOOGLE: Rocky Flats Denver Plutonium & Hanford WA nuclear waste...and READ about the NIGHTMARE that = nuke waste.
ALL the Nuke waste dumps are CLOSED. The nuke waste at the 100-Plus existing reactors has been stored ON-SITE for DECADES. All of them represent Terrorist TARGETS of opportunity & potentially catastrophic accidents.
3. Why isn't the TV MEDIA providing NEWS coverage of the Rezko trial? Why did NONE of the TV MEDIA even mention last week's SENSATIONAL Court Testimony that:
Two Witnesses testified that Rezko told them the prosecutor in the Rezko case (Patrick Fitzgerald) was going to be fired to stop the criminal prosecution of Rezko.
ANSWER: GE, Westinghouse, et al = the Corporate Controllers of the Corporate-Controlled MEDIA. They will not be covering NEWS from the Rezko Trial--UNTIL--AFTER Obama gets the Nomination.
The so-called "left wing" & "right wing" MEDIA have ALL been PROMOTING Obama on TV everyday since last November. Their GOAL is to get Obama nominated, THEN Start reporting the REAL News/REAL DIRT the FBI has been gathering on Obama, Rezko, Auichi, Alsammarae for more than 4 years.
5. Here's some Words the MEDIA says A LOT: Obama hasn't been VETTED.
QUESTION: WHY Not?? HOW can the "news" MEDIA keep repeating that FACT.. without it ever occurring to them it's THEIR JOB to VET HIM?
ANSWER: The NEWS MEDIA'S--JOB--isn't to Report the News; not anymore. Their JOB is to Put out WHATEVER Propaganda their Corporation wants to SELL to the American people...to make them MORE MONEY.
ALL the "faux" "journalists" on MSNBC, et al are now Media "Stars" making $$$Millions per year to Convince YOU of anything their Corporate Masters WANT you to Believe.
QUESTION: Why hasn't he been VETTED by the Democrat Party Leaders?
ANSWER: MONEY. The Democrat party leaders already KNOW most of the Real News/REAL DIRT the Republican Party will Spring on Obama as soon as he's nominated, but, a whole lot of them are SELL-OUTS to the same Big Corporations that are running McCain&/Obama for President.
Many of the smaller fry...a whole LOT of the Congress People/SuperDelegates are already bought and paid for.
Obama Formed HIS Own PAC. The military-industrial complex, insurance companies, drug companies etc. already put their cash into his PAC---before he started running. THEN Obama's PAC made "campaign contributions" to a WHOLE LOT of his fellow Congressmen & Senators/ SUPERDELEGATES.
i.e. THE FIX was IN -- BEFORE he even started running.
[You have to greatly admire the extreme fortitude,
Honesty, and GUTS of ALL the DEMOCRATIC CongressPeople/ SUPERDELEGATES who are STILL Standing AGAINST CHENEY/ GE/Westinghouse/their MEDIA].
MOST Americans RECOGNIZE the Republican Party as their ENEMY. WE the People Threw a WHOLE LOT of those bums OUT in 2006. Millions of us also yelled, phoned, wrote, and emailed Congress & WE succeeded in STOPPING the Dubai Ports Deal.
What YOU can do to STOP the Democrat Party SELL-OUTS from giving Obama the nomination and throwing this election to the Republicans: Phone, fax, email, write, to your Representatives/Senators & SUPERDELEGATES:
*DEMAND they VOTE to Nominate CLINTON*
INFORM them that those who SELL OUT the Democratic Party and the Majority of the population of the United States---by Voting to nominate the FAKE Obama candidate--will be duly noted and thrown out of office at the earliest opportunity.
**DEMAND that they FAIL to nominate THE Candidate who
HAS NOT BEEN VETTED**
*Tell them "The MATH" does NOT Add Up*
WITH two to five times more MONEY than Clinton, and the FULL SUPPORT of--ALL---the TV MEDIA--Obama is less than 1% ahead in the pledged delegate count and the popular vote count--Proving beyond any question that CLINTON is BY FAR the Strongest CANDIDATE: BEST FOR PRESIDENT.
Tell them: The ACTUAL number of VOTES cast by INDIVIDUALS - does NOT correspond to the Pledged Delegate TOTALS, or the popular vote TOTALS given that; the Caucus states do not even have to report ACTUAL Vote Totals; & given the EXTRA Delegates AWARDED in some precincts.
i.e. The "Criteria" by which Obma (Falsely) Claims that Superdelegates voting Clinton in as the nominee...goes against "the will of the people" and "TAKES the Nomination Away" from him is SPECIOUS and FALSE on its Face, and the SuperDelegates know it.
A. The ACTUAL Real PRIMARY Vote Totals ARE a true reflection of the will of the people, and that WILL = Clinton for President.
B. Obama Does Not HAVE the Nomination;
The SuperDelegates can't TAKE AWAY something Obama does not possess.
Obama has not EARNED or DESERVED the nomination. Clinton EARNED IT: Clinton DESERVES IT. Clinton WILL WIN.
... cut, copy, paste--use any or all of this message, or write your own...AND Send to everyone on your email list & ask THEM to email it to everyone on their email list.
IF Most of the people on your email list...& their email list...WILL do that AND Phone, fax, write, email their Congresspeople & Senators... POST on blogs: Local, State, National--TV "news", newspapers, radio, colleges--& (posting as much as possible in all the Upcoming PRIMARY States)...
...WE THE PEOPLE can CHANGE the dastardly direction this election is headed:
WE WILL GET the Clintons back in the White House:
RE-GAIN Good Government:
RE-GAIN a better future for our children and grandchildren:
RE-GAIN the Trust and Respect of the rest of the nations and peoples of OUR WORLD...just like WE THE PEOPLE-STOPPED-the Dubai Ports deal.
Post this REAL News everywhere you can:
Obama's campaign is based on ONE BIG LIE:
*Working across the Aisles to bring
*CHANGE*
OBAMA = NO Experience/NO CHANGE
Obama claims 7 years experience in the Illinois legislature -Working Across the Aisles, Bringing people together to get good CHANGES passed-as exemplified by 26 good bills with his name on them.
A Chicago neewspaper reporter says all 26 bills were passed in ONE Year and they were NOT Obama's.
http://wweek.com/editorial/3418/10516/
EXCERPTS:
But what’s interesting, and almost never discussed, is that he built his entire legislative record in Illinois in a single year.
Republicans controlled the Illinois General Assembly for six years of Obama’s seven-year tenure.
Then Emil Jones Jr. (became the Senate Majority leader), He became Obama’s kingmaker.
Jones appointed Obama sponsor of virtually every high-profile piece of legislation, angering many rank-and-file state legislators who had more seniority than Obama and had spent years championing the bills.
During his seventh year in the state Senate, Obama...sponsored a whopping 26 bills including many he now cites in his presidential campaign when attacked as inexperienced.
Making CHANGES = ZILCH
INTEGRITY = ZERO
(His book "Audacity ..." confirms:
Democrats had Majority Control of the Illinois Senate when those bills were passed. They were passed during his last year in the state Senate.)
Dick Cheney has Pulled Off,
& made US PAY for:
Energy Ripoff # 1: ENRON: Electricity Rates
Energy Ripoff # 2: Oil & Gas: Market Manipulation
Ripoff #3: Iraq War
Let's ALL Get Together and STOP Cheney's NEXT Big
Energy Ripoff #4: Nuclear power plants
(SOUND THE ALARM in every City, Town, Village & Farm - the Redcoats are coming! The Redcoats = The MEDIA/ "King George's SOLDIERS)
Posted by: elme13 | May 12, 2008 at 12:08 PM
I thought they had a length limit on these things. Anyway, Yes, Oregon is in the tank for Obama! Everybody is in the tank for Obama except for older uneducated whites.
Posted by: Oregon Obama Supporter | May 12, 2008 at 01:16 PM
Isn't it cool that you can make anyone look bad, if you use enough crap.
SOUND THE ALARM = elme13's tinfoil hat has come loose!
Perhaps you should watch the "Number 23" again...
Clinton is out, Obama is in - the world will not end due to this. BUT, if McCain wins, the world *might* end! ;)
Posted by: Franky | May 12, 2008 at 01:23 PM
On "Vetting":
Obama has been "VETTED" more than any other candidate for POTUS. The focus has been on him during this, the harshest vetting season ever!...and he stood up to the test.
Unlike Clinton, who shows she can never be "VETTED" due to all her and her husband's previous abuses of power.
McCain's "VETTING" hasn't really started yet...and there is a lot here to be concerned about!
On "Experience":
I don't blame you for must being unaware of Obama's legislative achievements, the media gives it little attention, as it's not entertaining. I believe if you compare Obama and McCain (I guess if you want to include Hillary for fun, go for it) legislative achievements, Obama would come out far on top.
Posted by: Sally | May 12, 2008 at 01:37 PM
Yes, Obama may have the "math" for the nomination,
But Hillary has the "math" for the General Election!
So instead of nominating Hillary.... we find a way too lose! DNC Chairman Howard Dean MUST be fired!
Posted by: Core Dem | May 12, 2008 at 02:04 PM
You must think you are a journalist. Too long, far, far too much detail - in other words, not worth spending time to read. Even your short version.
Betcha I could have summed it up in one sentence. Why couldn't you?
Posted by: Jean | May 12, 2008 at 02:14 PM
So Jean why didn't you sum it up in one sentence? I guess that means you lose the bet. I've been wondering what all the pro-'Bama press was all about and Barracks Obamas Exelon ties were. Anyone get a chance to look into Michelle 'Bamas ties to University of Chicago Health Systems and her six-figures-plus salary? Why has U of Chicago Health dumped so much money on 'Bama? Don't give me that goodness of their heart nonsense, most 'Bama followers ("I think someone just fainted over there." what a stupid thing to say at a campaign rally or is it 'Bama followers are generally unconsious?) are so naiive and uninformed to check out anything nefarious that their "chosen one" might be involved in. What is the Nukes connection and Obama? C'mon Obama supporters give us "the truth," as you all are so fond of saying. Never mind, anything resembling the truth and Obama are generally mutually exclusive, I can't believe most of you still think he isn't elitest or doesn't live in a $2+million dollar house in an exclusive neighborhood or that any of the Rev. Wright scandal was anything but politics as usual. But you 'Bama supporters come cheap, "let them eat cake... er, uh, I mean Hope and Change, yeah that's the ticket."
Posted by: Bob | May 12, 2008 at 04:47 PM
It's unfortunate that the Obamamatrons will never admit their candidate is flawed.
I happened to like the way elme13 went the full mile. God only knows the media hasn't done its job or the voters. And, yes Hillary is and will be the real winner even as those who want to hijack the truth of the way this election is handled. Let these people who think they know Obama so well, blogging lies to promote him, actually get the real information for themselves. It's out there, it exists, and you better know the facts before you pull that lever.
I will write Hillary's name on the ballot if I have to come November.
Posted by: cynthia | May 12, 2008 at 05:25 PM
Barack Obama wins the nomination!
The Democratic Party loses in November! Try as they may, they keep shooting themselves in the foot. And people wonder why the Republicans have been in power so long? Because the Democrats are too liberal and stupid for their own good.
They have 2 very good candidates, and instead of grooming one while the first takes the presidency away from the Republicans... they PIT BOTH against each other, and literally wipe each other out!
The Republicans DID NOT have a viable canidate during their nomination process... YET, from the ashes rises a candidate that WILL WIN inspite of himself and the legacy of Bush!
GO FIGURE!
Posted by: BJ | May 12, 2008 at 05:50 PM
HI OBAMA PREACHER BOY AND HIS FOLLEWERS ARE VERY RELIGIOS VERY DOMINATING IGNORANT CHICKENS THEY HAVE TO BE SO LOUD AND TROUBLE MAKING SO PEOPLE CAN SEE AND HEAR THEM. OBAMA THE PREACHER BOY AND FOLLOWERS ARE CHICKEN THEY ARE AFRAID OF STRONG WOMEN THEY CANT HANDLE HER COUSE SHES TRONG AND KNOWS WHAT SHE WANTS AND SHES LOUD AND CLEAR. OBAMA PREACHER BOY AND HIS GANG LEADERS ARE MOST MEN AND IGNORANT MEN AND STUPED CHICKEND AFRAID OF STRONG WOMEN AND PRECHERS WIFE WHEN SHE TALKS HER MOUTH OPENS SO BIG LIKE BALOON. PREACHER BOY AND FOLLEWERS CANT HANDLE STRONG WOMEN THEY CHICKENS MARIA
Posted by: MARIA | May 13, 2008 at 01:00 PM
HI CLINTON IS WINNING AND YOU STUPED MEN CANT HANDLE IT CHICKENS PREACHER AND GANG MEMBERS CELEBRATING FOR WHAT? CLINTON DONT NEED TO CELECRATE ANYHING SHE IS STRONG AND VERY POSITIVE WOMEN SHE DONT NEED TO CELEBRATE ANYTHING. PREACHER BOY IS SO INSICURE HE NEEDS TO MOVE AND TALK ALOT TO GET HIS POINT ACROSS OR HIS BIG MOUTH ACROSS LIKE HIS WIFE. CLINTON WILL NEVER GIVE UP WHATS HOW WE ALL WOMEN ARE STRONG AND PROUD OF OUR SELF AND NOT AFRAID OF NO ONE EVEN STUPED CHICKEN HEADS LIKE MEN OR WATEVER THEY ARE MARIA
Posted by: MARIA | May 14, 2008 at 09:24 AM