“OBAMA SUPPORTERS” DAILY NEWS Sunday May 4, 2008

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL)
shares a moment with wife Michelle during a Hamilton County family
picnic in Noblesville, Indiana May 3, 2008. REUTERS/Jason Reed


It was hard to choose which picture to put in the lead of the thread,
so I settled for putting this one next.

BREAKING NEWS:

N.C. NAACP files formal vote-suppression complaint against Women's Voices, alerts U.S. DOJ of concer
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3295587

Please visit the thread, kick and recommend it if you want to see this story get further
exposure.

Thank you!

ProSense
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Where did you find them?

Yahoo has a better selection than Google.

GO to www.yahoo.com type in Obama in the search box, and before you hit enter

see the choices above the search box?

Web Images Video Local Shopping more

1. click on more, and a drop down box appears.
2. click on "news"
3. you will some photos and "News Stories for obama(Results 1 - 10 of about 52,551)"

between a few of the photos you will see something like "3,212 News Photos"

Click on that and you will arrive at a bunch of pictures. usually the top few are tied to
a slide show.

Have fun!

I'd link to it but it doesn't work.

Appreciate the time you took for that.

:}

scheming daem...
http://upload.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5804311&mesg_id=5804311

Actually, Obama is closing in on 1.5 million individual donors.

We need a few new people to donate.

Actor Tom Hanks endorses Obama.

jezebel
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Obama sails to Guam caucus victory
Ichingcarpent...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=3295280&mesg_id=3295280

Saturday, May 3, 2008 The Personal IS Political

Obama Wins Guam!!

National Environmental Group Endorses Barack Obama for President

http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/campaign-2008/2008/05/02/clinton-and-obama-locked-in-tight-race-in-indiana.html

Clinton and Obama Locked in Tight Race in Indiana
Independents and Republicans could be the key to the Democratic presidential primary in the Hoosier State
By Nikki Schwab
Posted May 2, 2008

It's the kind of political hullabaloo the Hoosiers haven't seen up close in 40 years. In the days leading up to Indiana's primary on Tuesday, the presidential candidates have bombarded the state. They've dominated Indiana's airwaves, they've showed up at Indiana's gas stations gasping at the high prices, and they've sat on Indiana's picnic tables and listened to the Hoosiers' qualms.
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The state hasn't held an important Democratic primary since Bobby Kennedy was running for the presidency in 1968, and it has been so reliably red in general elections that candidates seldom stop in. But this time around, Indiana is playing the role of political barometer. It is seen as one of the last states where Hillary Clinton's campaign can boast that the tide is turning in her direction or Barack Obama's campaign can claim that this nomination is all but wrapped up. Indiana has become not necessarily a must-win (neither campaign will go that far) but a should-win in order for either candidate to clinch the nomination.

Last week an Indianapolis Star/WTHR poll had Obama 3 points ahead of Clinton, but that was before the Rev. Jeremiah Wright controversy resurfaced. In a Rasmussen poll that came out Thursday (after Wright's inflammatory remarks and Obama's strong words denouncing the pastor), Clinton had pulled ahead of Obama by 5 points, and in a Zogby poll out Friday, the two candidates were tied. And in all of these polls, 9 percent or more have said that they are still undecided.

"I think people legitimately know that they are going to participate," says pollster Ann Selzer, whose company conducted the Indianapolis Star poll. "They're just still having an internal debate within themselves on who is the right candidate." In previous primaries, those waiting to decide until the last minute have generally favored Clinton, but Selzer says this time around it's too early to say. "I think at this point it's hard to tell who the undecideds are going to break for," she says.

Obama's Closing Argument to Indiana Voters
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May 03, 2008 3:33 PM

ABC News' Jake Tapper and Sunlen Miller report: Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., made an economic heavy closing argument to the voters of Indianapolis, Ind., summoning up a historical reminder of the last time the state’s primary was so closely watched.

“It was 40 years ago this May that Robert Kennedy took his unlikely campaign to create a new kind of politics to Indiana,” Obama said, just three days before the Indiana primary, where he's seen his poll numbers slowly dropping.

Obama painted a picture that the American dream is slipping away and it takes more than tinkering around the edges in Washington to bring back prosperity to American working families. As he has in many campaign events leading up to the Indiana and North Carolina primaries, Obama used his opposition to the gas tax holiday to demonstrate this problem -- highlighting his dissention from his two opponents, who support the plan.

“There’s not an expert out there that believes that this is going to work. There’s not an editorial out there that has said this is actually the answer to high gas prices,” Obama said of the gas tax holiday plan. “In fact, my understanding is, today, Sen. Clinton had to send out a surrogate to speak on behalf of this plan, and all she could find was, get this, a lobbyist for Shell Oil to explain how this is going to be good for consumers. It’s a shell game, literally.”

Obama was referencing Steve Elmendorf, a Clinton supporter, who told CNN that Clinton’s gas tax holiday plan was a good proposal. Elmendorf is also a lobbyist from Shell Oil.

thanks for the great video ~ he just keeps getting better and better.

K Gardner

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Obama Release on Guam Superdelegate

Guam Superdelegate Jaime Paulino Endorses Barack Obama

Chicago — Jaime Paulino, a superdelegate and Vice Chair of the Guam Democratic Party, endorsed Barack Obama today:

“Having grown up in Hawaii, Barack Obama understands the culture and challenges of growing up in the Pacific Islands. I feel Barack will make sure our voices and concerns are finally taken seriously in Washington. We’ve been looking for a leader with the character to be honest with us about the issues we face and the courage to make real change, and that’s why I am proudly supporting Barack Obama for President.”

This brings the total number of superdelegates to endorse Barack Obama to 257. Senator Obama is 275 delegates away from securing the Democratic nomination.

http://thepage.time.com/obama-release-on-guam-superdelegate/

They sum up the Clinton campaign nicely. There's a stark difference in the
two campaigns and how they work. Clinton=dirty tricks. Obama=level-headed
campaigning.

:kick:

The RBC Update: HRC in 2005: 50 years in Iraq would be just peachy-keen

2008.05.04 12:19:03


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HRC on Face the Nation, 2005:

Senator McCain made the point earlier today, which I agree
with, and that is, it's not so much a question of time when it
comes to American military presence for the average American; I
include myself in this. But it is a question of casualties.

We don't want to see our young men and women dying and
suffering these grievous injuries
that so many of them have. We've been in South Korea for
50-plus years. We've been in
Europe for 50-plus. We're still in Okinawa with respect to
protection there coming out of
World War II.


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http://WWW.samefacts.com/archives/hrc_/2008/05/hrc_in_2005_50_years_in_iraq_would_be_just_peachykeen.php

The Charlotte Observer:
http://www.charlotte.com/171/story/608888.html

Courier-Journal:
http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080504/OPINION01/805040412

The Star Press:
http://www.thestarpress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080504/OPINION01/805040326/1014/OPINION

These three just today! The momentum is building!

((((((((((((((((( The RBC Update: Expertise and elitism )))))))))))))))))

2008.05.04 13:02:51


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Of course experts sometimes get things wrong. But a politician
who breaks with the expert consensus on an issue has an
obligation to explain why and how the experts are wrong.
Calling expertise "elitism" is a slimy ploy, and we've had
almost eight years of seeing how well it works in real life.

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http://WWW.samefacts.com/archives/election_2008_/2008/05/expertise_and_elitism.php

She's even more deluded than GWB. That's frightening.

May 04, 2008
Not a gaffe
Posted by Mark Kleiman
Stephanopoulos gave Clinton a chance to back off her "obliterate Iran" statement, but she chose to reiterate it instead.

This is madness, on two different levels.

Morally: Seventy million people live in Iran. They are currently ruled by a religious dictatorship covered by a thin veneer of "controlled democracy": the voters can vote, but only for candidates the mullahs approve in advance. Threatening to "obliterate" them because of an action by the government they didn't choose means offering to outbid Hitler, Stalin, and Mao in the mass-murderer auction.

Diplomatically: The current Iranian regime has an unsure grip on power. Younger people and the educated urban elite (think of it as the Iranian version of the Obama constituency) hates the current ruling clique and would like to move toward democracy and civil liberty. Iran's wealth and military power make it a key player in the Middle East, and the fact that Iranians aren't Arabs means that Iran isn't necessarily part of the anti-Israel coalition. (The Shah was strongly pro-Israel, and that wasn't what caused him to fall.) Bringing about regime change in Iran by fostering the growth of democratic forces must rank very high on any intelligent list of American foreign policy objectives: much higher, for example, than achieving a stable Iraq.

Even within the current ruling group, Ahmadi-Nejad's fanatic anti-Western stance is controversial. He could easily lose his position in the elections next year.


.... more at the link
http://www.samefacts.com/archives/hrc_/2008/05/not_a_gaffe.php

Looks like fun.. They need more family pics like this.

http://www.indems.org/content/jjdinner

Halperin has Obama scheduled for 7:00 pm (ET)

Looks like C-SPAN is on the case, maybe tape delayed coverage of speeches --

Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) are guest speakers at tonight's Jefferson-Jackson Dinner. The Indiana Democratic Party sponsors this event from the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis, IN. DNC Chairman Howard Dean is also featured.

on C-SPAN at 9:30pm (ET)

http://www.cspan.org/

Anybody find live streams, please post them here, or start a new thread in GD-P. Thanks! :hi:

The following post has some very important information about Indiana's voter Identification rules for the primary:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/5/4/152726/6612/590/508945

These rules (recently upheld by the US Supreme Court) are much more restrictive than most other states. Among other requirements, the photo identication must have been issued by the State of Indiana or the Federal Government. University or college photo IDs cannot be used.

Hillary Clinton, Fairy Princess
Can we please stop pretending she has a plausible chance to win the nomination?
posted May 2, 2008 By Timothy Noah

http://www.slate.com/id/2190556/pagenum/2/

Tim does a point by point evaluation including the Slate Delegate calculator math.

Even with Florida she can't win.

Michigan can't be counted because Obama wasn't even on the ballot.

over at Blue NC there's a great blog on the Jefferson Jackson event.

Real life accounts from people who were there, read the comments section.

http://bluenc.com/pictures-from-jj

They say this dinner/fundraiser was like no other and that people were overjoyed
to see Barack Obama in person.

just read the comments, it will warm your heart

((((((((((((((((((((( The RBC Update: Time to vote )))))))))))))))))))))

2008.05.04 15:38:48


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Obama needs 12,000 more donors to get to the goal of 1.5
million by Tuesday. Will you be one of them?

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http://WWW.samefacts.com/archives/barack_obama_/2008/05/time_to_vote.php

... in the Barack Obama Group Forum:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=388x4828

Clinton has already spoken, it was her typical performance.

Its 9:46 PM eastern and Obama isn't up yet.