An open letter to President Obama and ALL Democrats, from a Canadian.

An open letter to President Obama and ALL Democrats, from a Canadian.

I have been a fan of Barack long before the Primaries. I have followed each and every step very carefully. In fact I am more up to date on your politics than my own here in Canada. Frankly, Canada needs an Obama clone. We have our own version of Bush to contend with right now.

Lately, of course I have been following your incredibly vicious health-care debate. It seems anyone can put out bold faced lies, be (disguised) racists, and even coercing the odd Canadian to pee on their own health-care system. But such is your First Amendment were people can do or say anything they want… without any limits.

I am sensing President Obama, that you are starting to crack regarding the Public Option. If you do cave in, your dream of health-care coverage for all WILL evaporate forever. Mr. President, now is the time to be more determined than EVER and resist the fake hysteria the right wing is generating. The American public will take a while to understand everything about health-care reform.

It is time for you Mr. President, and all Democrats, to get some cojones!

Health-care is a huge and very complex issue. It is starting to sink in slowly, but there are too many Rep/right winger’s throwing “ied’s” and other roadblocks in your path. Resist big pharma, the insurance providers, Wall Street and all the rest. You must.

Health-care for ALL is essential to the US. There MUST be a Public Option, period! All your predictions for the future (if nothing is done) are as bleak as you said it would be, and worse. And they WILL come true. I know businesses that prefer to be in Canada BECAUSE of our health-care system. Don’t blow this chance.

You must be strong and fend off your wealthy or uninformed foes. Middle America (85%) want the Public Option, so be prepared to settle for nothing less. Get the cojones together, and fight this to the bitter end. You have everything to gain, and so does the American public (just some of them don’t know that yet).

Listen America! This is a GOOD thing for you ALL… and it won’t hurt a bit. Go for the GOLD!

IW
Toronto, Canada

(Sent via email to the White House)
August 17, 2009

Barack Obama at 2009 White House Correspondents' Dinner

Parts 1 and 2 will play back to back automatically. Lots of audience reaction shots.

Wanda Sykes at 2009 White House Correspondents' Dinner

Parts 1 and 2 will play back to back automatically. She was brilliant! Lots of audience reaction shots.

An amazing speech Mr. President!

It's one hour long and worth watching every frame. A masterfully executed speech. Historical in every way. At times I forgot I was watching reality. Like a movie. All that was missing was music reaching a soaring crescendo!

Watch the full screen version here CLICK HERE (advisable considering its length)

Or you can watch a smaller version here...

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Four days in Denver - A behind the scenes mini doc - Delightfully real

A behind the scenes look at the Obama family in Denver.
This is what family is all about. Beautifully done. Beautiful family.

CONGRATULATIONS MR. PRESIDENT ! ! !

Yes he can! Yes he did!

A new era begins. Sanity reigns!

Obama/McCain 'Dance Off' video - Brilliant !!!

Watch this brilliantly done video of John McCain and Barack Obama in a 'Dance Off'. A lot of very hard work went into this. Special guest appearance, Tina Fey...err... Sarah Palin. For more interesting videos check out minimovie.com

Canada wishes Obama well

Canada needs someone like Barack... desparately! It is my hope that the Canadian Liberals follow Obama's lead and elect an Obama clone to rescue our government from the clutches of Stephen Harper and his Bush-like cronies and policies. Yes we CANada!!

Colin Powell - The headline says it all - Goodbye McCain

"It's Over: Why Bill Ayers Won't Save John McCain" - Howard Wolfson

"This race will not be decided by lipsticked pigs. And John McCain can not escape that reality. The only unknowns are the size of the margin and the breadth of the Democratic advantage in the next Congress."

Perpetually fretting Democrats will not want to accept it. The campaigns themselves can't afford to believe it. Many journalists know it but can't say it. And there will certainly be some twists and turns along the way. But take it to a well capitalized bank: Bill Ayers isn't going to save John McCain. The race is over.

John McCain's candidacy is as much a casualty of Wall Street as Lehman or Merrill. Like those once vibrant institutions, McCain's collapse was stunning and quick. One minute you are a well-respected brand. The next you are yelling at the messengers of your demise as all around you the numbers start blinking red and stop adding up.

McCain's road was difficult to begin with: the President of his party has had record-low approval ratings for two years and the number of Americans who say the country is heading in the wrong direction is stratospheric. He also had the misfortune to be pitted against an exceptional candidate running an extremely well-executed campaign.

Still, before Wall Street's collapse Senator McCain was ahead. His approval ratings remained high, his VP pick had generated excitement and interest, and his campaign operatives were capable, on any given day, of winning news cycles and giving their opponents fits. And then the underpinnings of American capitalism begin to sink -- and with them sunk McCain.

An election dominated at its inception by the war in Iraq is now overwhelmingly focused on the economy. More than half of voters in polls say that the economy is their top concern and Senator Obama enjoys double digit leads among voters asked who can better fix our economic mess. Put simply, there is no way Senator McCain can win if he continues to trail Senator Obama by double digits on the top concern of more than half of voters.

State polls are beginning to reflect this. If the election were tomorrow, Obama would win all of the states John Kerry carried and add...
Read rest of post HERE

Michael Moore's new movie "Slacker Uprising" free to download !

Young voters in the US have the unique opportunity of deciding the Presidential election, and ending the eight years of turmoil generated by the Bush administration. Official Selection - Toronto Film Festival.

If you are a US citizen... no matter what age, register to vote. YOU have the power to oust the Bush administration, and their vile cronies. Every vote counts, and the world is counting on you to set things straight.

Free download HERE

Right on Barack! Go for their Achilles heel(s)!

McCain bottom of the barrel ad against Obama (30sec)

Barack responds (well) to that 30 seconds of trash you just saw...

Labour Day Reflections - Bill Moyers PBS

What is happening in the US is happening here in Canada too. Well worth watching.

August 29, 2008

Bill Moyers reflects on the meaning of Labour Day.


See video HERE

Question: "Mr McCain, how many houses do you own?" . . .

Answer, "I'm not sure. I will have to ask my staff" "...at least four..."!!!!!

Oh really! Check out Obama's response...

REPUBLICANS for Obama!

Their numbers are growing...

These two Republicans I actually admire. They predict double digit figures of Republicans voting for Barack! Thank God there are R. Americans with a brain in their head, and not afraid to speak out about what is wrong with their party.

HISTORIC ! OBAMA WINS NOMINATION !

Well, it's finally over. Barack Obama is now the Democratic nominee for President of the United States. This is truly historic.

The truly sad part is that Hillary Clinton STILL refuses to concede and throw her support behind Senator Obama. Talk about a sore loser! It's disgraceful. Also yesterday she said she is willing to be Vice-President! That is not her decision to make! As the Democratic nominee, Obama gets to pick his running mate... not her! She is essentially trying to bully him into it.

You would think after being defeated, Hillary would quickly jump on the band wagon and endorse Barack, but no... she refuses to accept the outcome. She is living in her own little dream world.

Talk about lack of class!

UPDATE: ABC News is reporting Hillary will officially concede Friday. Yeesh... she should have done it last night.

UPDATE II: New York Times
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton will endorse Senator Barack Obama on Saturday, bringing a close to her 17-month campaign for the White House, aides said. Her decision came after Democrats urged her on Wednesday to leave the race and allow the party to coalesce around Mr. Obama.

For more in-depth analysis, see video below.

Hillary waiting for assasination attempt on Obama?!! She cannot survive any longer in this race.

Images via Huffington Post ;)

Just how low will Hillary Clinton go? Well she has now reached the absolute bottom of the barrel. An explosive new low from a desperate candidate.

Listen to MSNBC's Keith Olbermann in a "Special Comment" explain why Hillary Rodham Clinton should NOT be the next President of the United States. If you were still leaning towards Hillary, you probably won't after seeing this.

Video of her incredible comment and her very weak apology HERE. (includes some MSNBC commentary)

Keith's Special Comment...

IAN'S EDITORIAL: If you DON'T like Obama... Then WATCH this...

If you agree that short sound "bites", and everything compressed to fit a 2 minute TV news slot is unfair to a politician... then here is a chance to get to know the REAL Barack Obama. No interruptions.

23 Minutes. That's all I ask for. Watch this, and remember, he will probably (God willing) be the next President of the United States of America. Take the time to get to know him better. You're gonna hear a LOT more about him! So, kiss and make up... Love your enemy, and all that stuff. You will ONLY see this on the web. Too long for television.

Please comment on how you feel after viewing the ENTIRE 23 minute interview? Do you feel a little more comfortable now, knowing this gentleman will probably * be in the drivers seat, instead of Bush and his crooked cronies??

I think the world will be in better hands. Canada will soon be dealing with a GENTLEMAN for a change. Imagine that! I applaud our American cousins. Now everyone is starting to go in the CORRECT direction. This will help the environment too.

NO CHEATING! 23 minutes Only when you have time... and an open mind.

NBC's Brian Williams interviews him. Full length. No interruptions.



A full screen version is available HERE

"Clinton too obsessed to call it quits" - Richard Gwyn

April 25, 2008 Richard Gwyn - Toronto Star

After her victory in Pennsylvania, Hillary Clinton has made it clear she's going to continue fighting until the cycle of primaries ends early in June.

Assuming that at that point Barack Obama still holds his lead in elected delegates and in votes cast in the Democratic primaries, Clinton will then have to make up her mind whether to quit right away or to hang on until the August presidential nominating convention. Her one hope would be that a clear majority of the remaining uncommitted "superdelegates" comes off the fence onto her side.

Much more probably, these superdelegates, who range from former vice-president Al Gore to party officials barely known inside their own state, will decide that they should vote as ordinary party members have already done in all the primaries. At that moment, it will be all over for Clinton.

Or so all the political experts take for granted. Most probably, they are right. But they've overlooked one alternative possibility. One way does exist for Clinton to continue to run even after losing the Democratic nomination. She could run as an independent.

Not likely, of course. But not impossible.

This thought first occurred to me while watching a clip of Clinton being interviewed on TV the morning after her Pennsylvania victory.

She was, I realized, totally consumed and utterly obsessed by the contest she's now engaged in.

Political contests do of course send an addictive surge of adrenaline through almost all of those engaged in them. But fighting to become president has become Clinton's entire life, her very reason for existing.

A day later I came upon a blog by an American political commentator, Andrew Sullivan, that eloquently expressed my own thoughts.

Clinton can't win the Democratic nomination, he wrote, "But she won't leave. She will never leave."

Sullivan then gave an analysis of why Clinton won't leave, which went far beyond the standard commentary about her toughness, her determination, her take-no-prisoners style of campaigning.

"Ceding to someone younger is unthinkable to her. It would be a form of death to her," he wrote.

That's rough. But Sullivan has spotted something essential about Clinton. There's something quite out of the ordinary about the magnitude of Clinton's ego, about the scale of her sense of entitlement, about her conviction that the presidency is her birthright.

The chances that Clinton would run as an independent really are remote. She'd be turning her back on the party to which she and Bill have given their lives. Raising funds would be all but impossible.

All Clinton could hope to achieve would be to make certain that Obama lost and that Republican John McCain won.

Except that this is exactly what she's – mostly – now done. Her relentless, ruthless, "kitchen sink" attack on her rival has already significantly damaged Obama.

She has made him look too nicey-nice to be president. As damaging, she's made him look less like a new kind of politician. Any time Obama counterattacks, as he does occasionally and reluctantly, he sounds like an old-style politician, like Clinton herself.

Although Obama may figure out a way to be true to himself while dodging the rocks Clinton keeps hurling at him, she has already to a considerable degree achieved what running as an independent could do for her.

She has ensured that "someone younger," in Sullivan's insightful observation, will not become president in her place. The remote chance that she might still win the Democratic nomination has become an excuse for her to continue fighting – against the kind of hopeful young politician she once was.

As a politician, Clinton is decidedly conventional, except for her professionalism, her competence, her resilience, her ruthlessness.

But as a personality, she's the most interesting character in American public life in ages.

http://www.thestar.com/comment/columnists/article/418175

Why Hillary STILL can't win . . . No matter what . . .

Here... in just a few minutes, you can find out why it is impossible for Hillary to win the nomination... even though she won Pennsylvania. Skeptical? Watch, and you do the math...