OBAMA DAILY NEWS Monday Sept 08, 2008

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If we can get some volunteers, then this can be a daily thing again.

The Littleton Massacre and the Wasilla Massacre

Posted: 08 Sep 2008 The Strange Death of Liberal America

The first Littleton massacre represents a major skirmish in a crucial battle that is still waging over the future of American education and the fate of Liberal America. The shots fired in that first battle aimed squarely at the heart of public schools and their sounds reverberate today in classrooms across the country.

What happened in Littleton in 1993-94 did not receive much media attention, but anyone in education has heard the story. It revolves around a school district take-over by right wing activists campaigning against Outcome-Based Education (OBE), a loose school reform effort aimed at teaching students how to think as well as to memorize facts.

...At the time I wrote that I had never heard of Sarah Palin or Wasilla, Alaska and never did I suspect that someone who essentially had conducted the equivalent of Littleton’s “massacre” would be running for Vice President of the United States. Although a great deal of misinformation is circulating about Sarah Palin, when you examine her actions as mayor you can understand why her nickname is Sarah Barracuda–and it has nothing to do with basketball.

...As mayor her acts of retribution have become the stuff of legend. One was the firing of police chief Irl Stambaugh which eerily presages her recent firing of Alaska’s Commissioner of Public Safety. The week after Palin was elected, Stambaugh asked her if he still had a job. According to notes Stambaugh kept of that meeting

...more at the link

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheStrangeDeathOfLiberalAmerica/~3/386413780/the-littleton-masscre-and-the-wasilla-massacre.html

Clearly This Is The End Of The World…

Not Oliver Willis
Published September 7, 2008 in Barack Obama and John McCain.

I’m seeing that Sen. McCain has a bounce in some of the polls (the reputable ones - anyone who cites Zogbys voodoo Internet polls is getting played). I saw that show week before last, when Sen. Obama got his poll bump. The Obama camp (and observers like me) didn’t trumpet this because when your party gets a week of free advertising it tends to happen.

The Obama camp isn’t freaking out, just like they didn’t freak when Sen. Clinton led by 30+. They have a plan, and while I expect cons & the MSM to make a lotta noise, folks on the left just have to relax.

http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/09/07/clearly-this-is-the-end-of-the-world-not/

"The history book on the shelf is always repeating itself..."

Monday, September 8, 2008 Posted by Dr. Monkey Von Monkerstein

It's very fitting that Geraldine Ferraro,



the first woman to be nominated for the vice-presidency on a major party ticket in this country, has said that only she knows what Sarah Palin,

the second woman to be nominated for the vice-presidency on a major party ticket, is going through. After all they both are the only ones who know what it's like to be women under that kind of microscope.

I hope they share another thing in common this fall, I hope Ms. Palin also finds out what it's like to be on the losing side of an electoral landslide like ol' Gerry did in 1984. Alas though, I think that as more and more revelations about Ms. Plain rise to the surface she might find out she has more in common with Tom Eagelton than Gerry Ferraro.

http://monkeymucker.blogspot.com/2008/09/history-book-on-shelf-is-always.html

Todd Palin Business Partner Emergency Motion

Sept 5, 08 at News Spreadit .ORG

Scott Richter: Todd Palin Business Partner Emergency Motion - Todd Palin’s former business partner, named Scott .A.Richter who allegedly had an affair with Sarah Palin filled an emergency motion to seal his divorce records but it was denied.

The Palins own few undeveloped properties on the Safari Lake and Big Lake, AK in Alaska in partnership with Scott A. Richter and his ex-wife Debbie under “Richter Investments LLC.”.Debbie Richter was Palin’s campaign treasurer. Richter was awarded a job as the Director of the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend Division for her service.The State of Alaska gives its citizens “free money” checks every year out of this fund. This “free money” comes from oil royalties collected and investments. The Fund is currently worth $35 billion.Under Sarah and Debbie’s leadership in 2006, all Permanent Fund claims from residents (you have to make a claim for your check) were lost in a computer data entry failure.According courtrecords.alaska.gov:

09/04/2008 Order Denying Motion Case Motion #3: Motion to Make Case File Confidential 0.00 0.00
09/03/2008 Motion to Make Case File Confidential Attorney: Pro per (0100001) Scott Alan Richter (Petitioner); Case Motion #3 0.00 0.00
09/03/2008 Motion for Expedited Consideration of: Motion to Make Case File Confidential Attorney: Pro per (0100001) Case Motion #2 0.00 0.00
05/19/2008 Notice to Employer Re: Children’s Medical Insurance Deborah Marie Richter (Co-Petitioner); 0.00 0.00
05/19/2008 Cust/Spprt/Visit Modified. Case Closed. (no motion link) 0.00 0.00
05/19/2008 Order Granting Stipulation Case Motion #1: Standard Motion 0.00 0.00
04/03/2008 Stipulated Agreement for Child Support and Parenting Agreement Attorney: Pro per (0100001) Case Motion #1 0.00 0.00
04/03/2008 Case Reopened 0.00 0.00
09/18/2007 Child Support Order 0.00 0.00
09/18/2007 Decree of Dissolution Granted 0.00 0.00
09/18/2007 Shared Custody Child Support Calculation 0.00 0.00
09/18/2007 Amendment of Agreement 0.00 0.00
09/18/2007 Hearing Result: Hearing Held The following event: Dissolution Hearing w/Children scheduled for 09/18/2007 at 3:20 pm has been resulted as follows: Result: Hearing Held Judge: Zwink, David L Location: Palmer Courthouse 0.00 0.00
08/14/2007 Civil Deficiency Memo mailed re: agreement re retirement benefits and last quarterly statements of same; specifics of shared custody agreement. 0.00 0.00
08/14/2007 Hearing Set Event: Dissolution Hearing w/Children Date: 09/18/2007 Time: 3:20 pm Judge: Zwink, David L Location: Palmer Courthouse Result: Hearing Held 0.00 0.00
08/02/2007 Affidavit/Scheduling of Hearing Scott Alan Richter (Petitioner); 0.00 0.00
07/24/2007 Certificate of Completion of Viewing “Listen to the Children” Video Scott Alan Richter (Petitioner); Deborah Marie Richter (Co-Petitioner); 0.00 0.00
07/24/2007 Information Sheet 0.00 0.00
07/24/2007 VS401 Certificate of Absolute Divorce or Dissolution 0.00 0.00
07/24/2007 Proposed Child Support Order Submitted Prior to Hearing 0.00 0.00
07/24/2007 Petition for Dissolution of Marriage (With Children) Receipt: 268635 Date: 07/24/2007

http://news.spreadit.org/scott-richter-palintodd-palin-business-partner-emergency-motion/

no need to worry about being "fancy".

AP:


WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama plans to lunch with former President Clinton this week in what will be their first extended face-to-face meeting since the bitter primary season.

Obama intends to meet Clinton for a private lunch Thursday at the Clinton Foundation headquarters in New York City, Obama spokesman Bill Burton said Sunday. Obama will be in New York that morning for a memorial ceremony at Ground Zero, where he will appear with Republican presidential rival John McCain to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.

Clinton extended the invitation after he learned Obama would be in town, Burton said.

-snip_

During his speech at the Democratic National Convention last month, Bill Clinton expressed strong support for Obama's candidacy and made clear he will do what he can to get him elected.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080907/ap_on_el_pr/obama_clinton;_ylt=AlO2y7norRihZo48u0kvf8NsnwcF

Welcome back WYVBC and the News Thread!!

Didn't he know where he was? The VMAs? In La-La Land?

No, this was no place to voice anything like an opinion on world affairs or joke about young Christian pop stars. This is a place to look cool and thank the almighty for the honor of little moon man statuettes.

Early in his opening monologue, Brand pleaded: "Please, America, elect Barack Obama. On behalf of the world."

Most of the crowd, seemingly caught of guard, cheered, though at least a few pop stars didn't. The camera caught Britney Spears _ who in 2003 said citizens should "just trust our president" _ sitting quietly.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/07/russell-brand-mtv-vma-hos_n_124684.html

With time running out on its push to register thousands of new voters in Virginia, the Obama campaign is picking up the pace. State election officials told the campaign Friday that 49,000 new voters signed up in August, a sharp increase from the 36,500 who signed up in July and the 28,000 who registered in June.

The campaign had predicted that its August numbers could lag given the difficulty of reaching residents during vacation season. But the August gain puts the Obama campaign very much on track toward its goal of signing up 150,000 new voters by the early October voter registration deadline, on top of the 142,000 new voters who registered during primary season.

There is no way of knowing how many of the newly registered will vote for Obama, especially since Virginia does not record voters by party affiliation. But the campaign is encouraged by the demographic profile of the new voters -- about 40 percent of those who registered in August are aged 25 or under.

The campaign predicts that if it can add 150,000 new registrations before early October, it will net about 60,000 votes out of that in November, assuming that 80 percent of the new voters are for Obama and that they turn out at a rate of 75 percent. Those votes could add up to about 1.75 percent of the anticipated state vote -- not enough to make up for the eight-point edge George Bush had in 2004, but possibly enough to tip the state Obama's way if he can also make gains with existing voters.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/06/obama_helps_register_49k_new_v.html

I know this is an Obama thread, and people are sick of all the Palin posts, but I think these
two items could affect the race considerably.

Palin makes gaffe. When speaking in Colorodo Springs, she claims Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have gotten
too big for the taxpayers!!. Link to Sam Stein at Huffington Post:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/08/palin-makes-her-first-gaf_n_124792.html

Join the discussion:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=6987782&mesg_id=6987782

Palin withholds emails and a scandal is brewing!

See DU link:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=6988039&mesg_id=6988039

Another Clintonite to Obamaland

September 08, 2008
Categories: Barack Obama

Blake Zeff, a former Clinton press secretary, is starting today as Obama's New York communications director, the latest in what's become a fairly long list of arrivals from the Clinton campaign. A bit before, and immediately after, the campaign, he worked for Chuck Schumer.

A cursory search of Google (and my memory) didn't turn up any anti-Obama zingers in Zeff's list of quotes.


By Ben Smith 09:07 AM


http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0908/Another_Clintonite_to_Obamaland.html#comments

Her deadly wolf program

With a disdain for science that alarms wildlife experts, Sarah Palin continues to promote Alaska's policy to gun down wolves from planes. By Mark Benjamin



Sept. 8, 2008 | Wildlife activists thought they had seen the worst in 2003 when Frank Murkowski, then the Republican governor of Alaska, signed a bill ramping up state programs to gun down wild wolves from airplanes, inviting average citizens to participate. Wolves, Murkowski believed, were clearly better than humans at killing elk and moose, and humans needed to even the playing field.

But that was before Sarah Palin took Murkowski's job at the end of 2006. She went one step, or paw, further. Palin didn't think Alaskans should be allowed to chase wolves from aircraft and shoot them -- they should be encouraged to do so. Palin's administration put a bounty on wolves' heads, or to be more precise, on their mitts.

In early 2007, Palin's administration approved an initiative to pay a $150 bounty to hunters who killed a wolf from an airplane in certain areas, hacked off the left foreleg, and brought in the appendage. Ruling that the Palin administration didn't have the authority to offer payments, a state judge quickly put a halt to them but not to the shooting of wolves from aircraft.

....more here
http://www.salon.com/env/feature/2008/09/08/sarah_palin_wolves/?source=newsletter

I bet the majority of republicans aren't animal haters.