Check out their statement on the Google Blog.
“…it is the chilling and discriminatory effect of the proposition on many of our employees that brings Google to publicly oppose Proposition 8.”
Watch the interview and try to imagine how you would explain away her lack of knowledge…
Then check out Anonymous Liberal, who has an interesting theory on why McCain pulled his campaign suspension stunt.
Barack Obama held a press conference about the current financial crisis and what needs to be done to resolve it. Meanwhile, John McCain has suspended his campaign and wants to postpone Friday’s debate on national security.
Watch the video of Barack’s remarks:
In fact, it’s not a change at all, it’s more of the same from Republicans. It’s the 2008 version of caging, and an obvious attack on voting rights. If you live in Michigan and you’re in danger of losing your home to foreclosure, Republicans will try and take away your right to vote. Voter-suppression at its worst–taking advantage of hard times for political gain and kicking people while they’re down.
McCain’s response? Silence. Like Bush in 2000 and 2004, he’s trying to keep a safe distance from these tactics, while benefiting from them at the same time. McCain could end this with a phone call. But he won’t.
It’s time to expose McCain’s connection to this strategy. I signed on with ColorOfChange.org to demand that McCain denounce these tactics, you can too:
From Jesus’ General this morning:
Sunday, September 07, 2008
No You Can’t: Republicans Offer Strong Alternatives to Democratic PoliciesEmphasizing their permissive, liberal philosophy, the Democrat leaders have been encouraging the people to chant the slogan “Yes we can,” as if it were appropriate for them to allow people to do things or want things that are bad for them. Americans might forget that the world is a scary place, that there are evil people out there who want to kill us because we’re free, and therefore that they need to submit to strong leaders who will protect them by making them less free. Americans need to learn not to abuse their freedoms and to accept the lot God has assigned them in life. To that end, Republican leaders are emphasizing what Americans must learn to do without.
See the full list of “No You Can’t“.
Watch it.
It struck me last night that both Rudy Guliani and Sarah Palin mocked “community organizers” as though that was a bad thing, with no responsibility attached. Yet, as the Obama campaign responded, “Community organizing is how ordinary people respond to out-of-touch politicians and their failed policies.”. It seems that maybe the reason they’re mocking it is because it’s a response to their own inadequacies. They’re out of touch, and their policies are clearly, like their leader, failures.
Anyway, it seems that the Republican mocking of “community organizers” is their code for pulling the race card against Obama. The image it’s supposed to invoke is one of the scary, angry black man yelling about being repressed, etc. The bad news for them is that Obama has taken what he learned as a local community organizer, and applied it at the national level to his campaign. He’s used that model quite effectively to build a strong grass roots organization, and the tools to energize and activate them. How much have you donated to his campaign? The grass roots nature of this strategy flys well below the radar of the traditional media reporting and polling, but is clearly responsible for his success in the caucus states where getting activists out to vote (or vote twice as in Texas) was key to winning in those races.
