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"Back in the real world, Obama is married to a black woman. He goes to a black church. He's worked with poor people on the South Side of Chicago, and still lives there. That someone given the escape valve of biraciality would choose to be black, would see some beauty in his darker self and still care more about health care and public education than reparations and Confederate flags is just too much for many small-minded racists, both black and white, to comprehend.Barack Obama's real problem isn't that he's too white — it's that he's too black. "
"For one thing, Trinity insisted on social activism as a part of Christian life. It was also a family place. Members refer to the sections in the massive sanctuary as neighborhoods; churchgoers go to the same neighborhood each Sunday and they get to know the people who sit near them. They know when someone's sick or got a promotion at work."
" 'Senator Obama feels that the Bush administration has made a humanitarian and a strategic blunder,' spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in an e-mail. 'His concern is that this has had a profoundly negative impact on the Cuban people, making them more dependent on the Castro regime, thus isolating them from the transformative message carried by Cuban-Americans.' "
"It shows courage, and it shows commitment to move beyond the status-quo politics of rhetoric, which is all the Cuban-American community has received from any party for the last half century."
I just got off the phone with Taos County Elections and was told that the only registration they showed from me was dated September 2007, the month I left for Korea. She said that if a person does not vote in four years time, their name is deleted from the system. So, in an earlier post, I mentioned voting troubles in Taos County in 2004. I know I voted, and maybe provisionally. Yet, since I was thrown out of the system prior to re-registering in 2007, a question arises as to the efficiency of the system. It also means to me that my vote was never even considered and perhaps my provisional ballot was even thrown out. The provisional ballot would have been the reason to keep me on the roll, ie; proof that I voted in 2004. If this is confusing to you, it's not to me.
The rule is if you have not voted in four years you are tossed out of the system and will need to re-register, or since you were tossed out, consider it a new registration.
It has impact as there are deadlines for new voters. Remember, thirty days before the general election, you must be registered.
One more point for new voters. You do not have to be 18 to register to vote!!!!Just be 18 before election day!
To sum up.
Check your voting status, NOW! If you had the slightest problem or concern at the last geneal election, you may not even be in the system.
Don't wait. October 4th will be your deadline, just tell yourself you have no more than the end of this month to get your affairs for voting in order.
On my absentee, she will send it to my friends house, the application that is, and he to me in South Korea, and me to him or the registrar. There is a lot at stake here and having to rely on friends and two postal services.
Take my advice, tell your friends, register your friends, print this letter, post it, but do something to let people know.
On an off note, I just read about illegal immigrants braving the storm in New Orleans, and nine out of nine comments suggested they should havebeen deported. No wonde they were afraid to leave. In any case, this election is about what kind of country we really want. There is no one central issue. Don't believe the media. This is about our lives, and our communites. Hold back emotions, and remember this is our country...why, because we live here!
I've got plenty of opinions and issues that I want to see voiced in our government, most of which include the future of this nation and the planet. Barack Obama supports my viewpoint in almost all of said issues. Most of America can relate to me right now. But there's a twist. I'm 17, and will continue to be 17 until December 20, which, as most people should know, is AFTER the election.
Well, now what? I want him to be elected, yet I cannot vote. So I've been getting educated in all of the issues, and debating with anyone who's willing to voice an opinion. And I've joined my local group here at barackobama.com
Anything further I can do for the cause?
What's good, Obama fanatics?
Let me make this short: My name is Kevin Limiti and I support Obama for a number of reasons.
1. He is well spoken and has the ability to unite this country
2. He is young and therefore the least likely to be corrupt of all the candidates.
3. He has sensible stances on many issues, even though I sometimes go much further then he would.
and finally
4. He is a vote for change. The fact that we are voting for a black president is, in itself a change. I want to send a message that we can change the fabric of this nation, to make it a better place for myself and one day, hopefully, my children.
With that aside, I am 18 years old and a full-time student. Despite my age, I've actually been studying politics for three years and am well informed on a variety of subjects. I don't consider myself a "liberal" or anything else, but my stances do tend to lean to something of a libertarian socialist posistion (the names libertarian and socialist have become somewhat tainted over the years unfortunately).
I consider myself a serious writer. I have been featured in Writersbeat.com's online magazine called 'In Pencil' for prose, and I have aspirations of doing this full-time. I also play guitar and am a fan of Various punk bands such as Rancid and the Dropkick Murphys, as well as folk artists such as Pete Seeger and Bob Dylan. Other things I enjoy include lifting weights, watching MMA, watching anime, and browsing internet forums.
I smoke marijuana and I don't apologize for it. I was very happy to see that Obama has taken a sensible posistion on the war and drugs and will not lock me in jail for something that I consider harmless, as well as very relaxing and enjoyable. Hopefully, he will continue to keep this strong stance because although decriminalization isn't a very popular political strategy, it is the honest and sane one.
Now for a few shameless plugs:
Please visit writersbeat.com I do not own or work for this website, but its a place where one of my works has been featured and if you want to read more of what I've written, it's a great place to start ;)
My email address is CitizenKane2601@yahoo.com in case you want to ask me a question or comment on something. I love getting email so don't hesitate.
That's about it.
DON'T COMPROMISE ON THE ISSUES.
We need to aim higher, people. In a few years, much can be achieved. For starters, let's get Obama elected.
This is Kevin Limiti signing out.
So, we all know Gwen Moore made a mistake in getting the hopes of the 17 year olds up. God knows I've spent the last hour calling representatives and looking through legal sites to find legislation on whether or not people who will be 18 for the november election can vote in their primaries, Wisconsin especially.
Turns out, no, 10 months can make a lot of difference. Apparently 18 is a magical number, and until that exact day, the exact hour you were born, you are mentally incapable of picking a presidential candidate or even an alderman. If your primary is on tuesday but your 18th birthday is on wednesday, the government apologizes to you but in that extra 24 hours you go through vast mental changes that render you capable of choosing a leader for your country only after the 18th revolution of the earth around the sun.
(But of course, you won't even actually be choosing in November, it's the electors from the lovely electoral college who pick the president. Who, guess what, have absolutely no obligation whatsoever to vote in proportion to the popular vote in their state. This is why Bush is President. But this is a complaint for another day.)
Apparently "State Sen. Fred Risser (D-Madison) pushed a bill last year that would have allowed primary voting by 17-year-olds who turn 18 by the general election, but he abandoned the bill because of opposition from local election clerks." (Credit to JSOnline.com)
Who are these local election clerks? Can you imagine how many people, 18 years ago, were born in America between the months of January and November? That's 10 months! We'll round it up. If, roughly, there are 4,138,349 births per year (this is using 2005 stats, I can't find 1990. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/births.htm) and 83% (10 months out of 12)of those kids are not able to vote in january or february, this means roughly 3,434,829 teenagers are 17 and unable to vote in their primaries unless they are one of the people in the 8 states that allow it.
That's right. Roughly 3 million people in America will not be 18 by their primary elections. Is it just me, or could that make a vital difference in who the candidates are?
Email Sen.Risser@legis.wisconsin.gov and proclaim your outrage. There are not 3 million "local election clerks", so let's overpower their voices that seem to make him squemish enough not to push this bill through.
Today is President's Day in 2008. So it is only fitting that today is the day I shook the hand of the next President of the United States.
Today at 10 AM, I got into a car with my cousin (seventeen) and grandfather (seventy-nine) and headed 30 minutes west to Youngstown, Ohio. It was freezing outside and our toes grew numb as we waited for an hour in line. But one thing kept us warm. The promise of hope. The dream that America would be the place that it was intended to be by our Founding Fathers. The idea that someone out there was standing up and fighting for US. Standing up for our families. That got us through, into the doors of YSU, and into the third row from the stage.
As Barack Obama spoke, so elequently, to a crowd of hundreds, tears welled up in my eyes. The time, the time that seemed so far away 8 and 4 years ago; that time has come. It is upon us. Change is in our future, and it's coming in the form of Barack. I was privaliged to see him today, and I hope to again soon. Because the feeling of empowerment that I got when standing in his presence is like nothing I've ever experienced. And that is something else.
