Presidential election 2008
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Who is Caroline Kennedy?
The daughter of a popular President assassinated when she was just a young child who has faced tragedy with grace and courage.
Caroline Kennedy was recently appointed by Barrack Obama to serve on his committee in search of his Vice-Presidential running mate. But who is Caroline Kennedy? The daughter of a popular President assassinated when she was just a young child who has faced tragedy with grace and courage. ... more -
Scholar finds original writer of "Obama is a Muslim" false chain letter
Laid out before Allen, a razor-sharp, 36-year-old political theorist, was what purported to be a biographical sketch of Barack Obama that has become one of the most effective -- and baseless -- Internet attacks of the 2008 presidential season. The anonymous chain e-mail makes the false claim that Obama is concealing a radical Islamic background. By the time it reached Allen on Jan. 11, 2008, it had spread with viral efficiency for more than a year.
During that time, polls show the number of voters who mistakenly believe Obama is a Muslim rose -- from 8 percent to 13 percent between November 2007 and March 2008. And some cited this religious mis-affiliation when explaining their primary votes against him.
As the general-election campaign against Sen. John McCain has gotten underway, Obama's aides have made the smears a top target. They recently launched FightTheSmears.com to "aggressively push back with the truth," said Obama campaign spokesman Tommy Vietor, and go viral with it. The Web site urges supporters to upload their address books and send e-mails to all of their friends. "
But long before this, Allen had been obsessing about the origins of her e-mail at the institute, which is most famous for having been the research home of Albert Einstein. Allen studies the way voters in a democracy gather their information and act on what they learn. She was familiar, of course, with the false rumors of a secret love child that helped sink McCain's White House bid in 2000, and the Swift boat attacks that did the same to Democrat John Kerry in 2004. But the Obama e-mail was on another plane: The use of the Internet made it possible to launch anonymous attacks that could reach millions of voters in weeks or even days.
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Presidential Nominees and Winners from 1789-2004
Check out this list of the nominees and winners in past U.S. Presidential Elections since 1789.
Look at the nominees and result for years since 1954 when I was born, and you may begin to understand why loyal Democrats my age, are done with trusting the Democratic Party to pick a presidential nominee who can beat the Republican in the General Election.
Since 1954, when General Dwight D. Eisenhower was president, the Democrats have put up only 4 successful nominees for President. Of those, one, Kennedy was assassinated before the end of his first term, Lyndon Johnson enacted Civil Rights legislation, but escalated the Viet Nam War, Carter came in on a ticket of change championed as a Beltway outsider and was able to do NOTHING, not even get US hostages out of Iran. Only Bill Clinton, elected in 1992 was successful getting re-elected for another term and used his 8 years to grow the economy and lift up millions out of poverty for our first period in decades of relative peace and prosperity.
Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out why wise elder ethnic women, blue collar workers and the poor of many colors favor Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nominee over another candidate who promises to come in and change everything as a Washington outsider, especially since this inexperienced candidate is one of only 100 senators, thus already very much an insider. Some say this is a unique situation, and Obama is special, but to observers of American presidential elections, and world history, this is a movie we've seen before and we don't like the ending. Senator McCain and the Republican Party has already started to de-construct Senator Obama for the General Election and to cast himself as the experienced moderate. His crony and lobbyist bought and renamed Diebold and is now in control of lots of electronic voting machines.
- Charleen Touchette
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0781450.html
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From TouchArt.net and OneEarthBlog.blogspot.com.
Photo of Pacific Ocean at Carmel by Charleen Touchette.
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