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7

Reason #29 to VOTE FOR Obama/Biden

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Because Barack Obama and Joe Biden have worked for my vote.

What work can I point to?

1. Fundraising

2. Travel

3. Speeches, pitstops and yes, hands he’s shaken

4. Comebacks for every charge.

5. Making good decisions that involve going to other people whom he knows know better and then listening to those people.

6. Never sticking with any one line of attack beyond its use.

7. Never substituting discussion of issues with distracting lines of personal attack.

8. Enormous attention to the Jewish vote (I’ll be writing a separate post on the campaigns extremely targeted efforts in NE Ohio).

Could he be doing better in some areas for me? Sure – women and education are two areas I’d really like him to attend to.  But compared to McCain, whose lexicon seems to have contracted to about 50 words that merely mimic his running mate’s perseveration on “maverick” “reformer” and “energy,” well – there’s just no comparison.

I go in for the serious types, I don’t care about the beer drink with me factor.  Especially not when the economy is in the tank, and I live in Ohio.  And I was a Biden, Dodd and Richardson fan before voting Clinton in the Ohio primary.  But I voted for her because I saw her as more serious and less about beer drinking in comparison to Obama.

Now, I take my sober comfort in the Obama/Biden ticket.

On November 4, vote for Obama/Biden.

Here are the previous reasons: Read more

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 5:09 pm October 7th, 2008 in 57ReasonsObamaBiden, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, John McCain, Politics, Sarah Palin, WH2008 | Comments Off 

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7

Who needs yard signs? Try Yes We Carve

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From the Yes We Carve “About” page:

Who is behind YesWeCarve.com?
Josh and Bethany Horton (Memphis, TN), Jason Powers (New York, NY), and Josh Jeter (Chicago, IL). The four met in Seattle, WA.

Are you part of the Obama campaign?
No.

Must you be an Obama supporter to make a Barack O’ Lantern?
Not necessarily. You can carve a ‘kin if you haven’t made up your mind. We welcome all creative support for the Obama/Biden ticket. Plus, McCain O’ Lantern is less snappy.

What was the worst catchphrase you thought of while building the site?
It’s a tie between Joe Pumpkin Pie-den and The Squashacity of Hope.

I haven’t carved a pumpkin in years, but they do provide step by step instructions with photos.

Hattip to this @Humanfolly tweet.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 2:15 pm October 7th, 2008 in Holidays, Humor, WH2008 | Comments Off 

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7

Why former RI Senator Chafee endorses Obama

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In an interview with NPR, former Republican U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, Lincoln Chafee, talks about why he has endorsed and is campaigning for Barack Obama for president.  He changed his party registration to Independent, and worked with both presidential candidates in the Senate.  Reportedly, McCain even campaigned for Chafee in the past.

Why Obama?

What impressed me most about Senator Obama, number one is message that he had, the direction he wanted to take this country, but also his organization, his campaign organization. He had the best organization and I believe that translates into an administration. They all like each other, they trust each other, they work well together, they don’t have cost overruns…they were very frugal, very very well oiled machine and that does translate into administration in my belief.

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I never have agreed with him on his approach to the world. It’s a very belligerent approach to the world.

In a nutshell, Chafee nails it. I recommend the full eleven minute audio.

BONUS: Here’s what Chafee had to say about Governor Sarah Palin last month: Read more

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 1:28 pm October 7th, 2008 in Barack Obama, Congress, Elections, Government, John McCain, Politics, Republicans, Voting, WH2008 | 14 Comments 

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7

Ohio U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown on WCPN now

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On the Sound of Ideas this morning:

Ohio Senators Sherrod Brown and George Voinovich voted with the majority when the Senate opted to bail out Wall Street. Said Brown, ‘inaction is not an option.’ The stock market reacted with a sharp drop Friday and another on Monday, with the Dow industrials trading at levels not seen since 2004. We’ll talk with Senator Brown about his vote and where the economy might be headed next and how it might affect the agenda of Congress and the next President. We’ll spend the hour with Sherrod Brown Tuesday on The Sound of Ideas. Join the conversation at 9:00 a.m. on 90.3.

Brown was excellent on This Week two days ago and obviously knows what many Ohioans have known for at least the last two to four years about the housing and mortgage and lending industries that the folks on Wall St. seem to have missed.

Listen live or listen later.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:59 am October 7th, 2008 in Economy, Media, Ohio, Politics, Sherrod Brown, WCPN/SOI | Comments Off 

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7

Projecting “unknown quantity” meme from McCain/Palin campaign shows weakness

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Does it strike anyone else as odd that the zingers being aimed at Barack Obama – specifically regarding what the McCain/Palin camp wants us to think we don’t know about him – are being shot by candidates who either can’t or won’t answer questions about issues like bankruptcy or the bailout at all themselves?  I’m not even going to go to the character questions of their medical records or religious affiliations that remain ignored.

First, from the Boston Globe, reporting on John McCain’s New Mexico stop yesterday:

“You need to know who you’re putting in the White House and where the candidate came from and what he or she believes,” McCain said at a rally yesterday in Albuquerque. “Who is the real Barack Obama?” he went on. “Ask such questions and all you get in response is another barrage of angry insults.”

Could you find a better example of projection?

McCain is running with a candidate whom many Americans never knew existed before August 29 and who has been cordoned off from us (read this report from TampaBay.com about how security wouldn’t let the press talk to supporters at a Palin Florida rally yesterday) for the last few weeks.  And although the litany of ways in which Governor Palin refuses to engage is too long to run through here, I’ll just offer some morning reading from the debate last week between Palin and Democratic ticket VP, Joe Biden.  In there, you can read the multiple times when Palin refuses to respond to moderator Gwen Ifill’s questions, particularly about bankruptcy and the dilemma of what promises the candidates might be unable to keep.

And yet the McCain/Palin campaign continues to wonder outloud to anyone who will listen, “Who is the real Barack Obama?”  Has it really never occurred that maybe they are the only ones who don’t get who he is?

Sigh. It’s one thing when a McCain aide tells to the New York Daily News that the candidates can’t talk about the economy for the next 28 days because otherwise they will lose.  But it’s another thing entirely when a campaign projects its abject inability and refusal to tell us what we need to know about their positions on the issues that most matter to us and then project that inability and refusal onto someone who has been campaigning openly for more than 19 months.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:43 am October 7th, 2008 in Barack Obama, Debates, Economy, Joe Biden, John McCain, Media, Politics, Sarah Palin, Vice President, WH2008 | 1 Comment 

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