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It is a video made by various musicians --they transformed Baracks "Yes We Can" speech into a song. It's actually BREATHTAKING. And It is sure to go viral.

Here is a link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHA_ZTvOgUM

What a joke. As long as she's at why don't they just use a little computer imagery and show her with John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jesus, and perhaps they could have her parting the red sea.

Robert Kennedy Jr. wants Hillary's Senate seat. That may not be the only reason he's supporting her, but it has to be a big one:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article1294908.ece

Could you possible have made the sign in procedures more dysfunctional and annoying. Fix the damn thing. This is not the beginning of the Online age, so why are you not able to provide a user friendly graphic user interface. Get with the times.

Just sad. Greg's title say it all. People will see it exactly like that.

It sort of how HRC has been as a Senator. Waiting to see how the winds are blowing before coming out for or against something.

The Kennedy name is working for Obama so, "let's do that too."

Sad.

A key question that has not been addressed: If Hillary wins the nomination, what Democrat in their right mind would want the VP slot. Big Foot Bill would be the Virtual VP, and the actual VP would become invisible. Should Hillary offer the VP spot to Senator Obama, he should turn it down, unless wants he to see his future disappear.

In a Hillary administration, Big Foot Bill would shut out the VP, and leave the party with no future leadership.

Hillary Clinton will "represent the people's interests and NOT the special interests?" Give me a freaking break. I just lost all respect for RFK Jr.

Wow! All this acrimony just doesn't make sense!

It's really sad. Intelligent people have the right to support Clinton or Obama. Everyone has their reasons and are not 'stupid' or 'naive' or "part of a cult". I don't like to see either candidate bashed about by OTHER DEMOCRATS! Hillary is NOT the "she-devil" (thank you MSNBC, how professional)that the press has made her out to be.

To my mind, the Republicans have done enough damage domestically and internationally and our number 1 priority has to be defeating McCain (and believe me, this WON'T be easy). I wish that we could rise above this bickering and discuss each candidate's ELECTABILITY rather than his or her perceived personality.

Can we all please show each other a little more respect?

Susan Eisenhower, Ike's Granddaughter has written and endorsement of Senator Obama,in the Washington Post.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/01/AR2008020102621_pf.html

Why I'm Backing Obama

By Susan Eisenhower
Saturday, February 2, 2008; A15

Forty-seven years ago, my grandfather Dwight D. Eisenhower bid farewell to a nation he had served for more than five decades. In his televised address, Ike famously coined the term "military-industrial complex," and he offered advice that is still relevant today. "As we peer into society's future," he said, we "must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering, for our own ease and convenience, the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow."

Today we are engaged in a debate about these very issues. Deep in America's heart, I believe, is the nagging fear that our best years as a nation may be over. We are disliked overseas and feel insecure at home. We watch as our federal budget hemorrhages red ink and our civil liberties are eroded. Crises in energy, health care and education threaten our way of life and our ability to compete internationally. There are also the issues of a costly, unpopular war; a long-neglected infrastructure; and an aging and increasingly needy population.

I am not alone in worrying that my generation will fail to do what my grandfather's did so well: Leave America a better, stronger place than the one it found.

Given the magnitude of these issues and the cost of addressing them, our next president must be able to bring about a sense of national unity and change. As we no longer have the financial resources to address all these problems comprehensively and simultaneously, setting priorities will be essential. With hard work, much can be done.

The biggest barrier to rolling up our sleeves and preparing for a better future is our own apathy, fear or immobility. We have been living in a zero-sum political environment where all heads have been lowered to avert being lopped off by angry, noisy extremists. I am convinced that Barack Obama is the one presidential candidate today who can encourage ordinary Americans to stand straight again; he is a man who can salve our national wounds and both inspire and pursue genuine bipartisan cooperation. Just as important, Obama can assure the world and Americans that this great nation's impulses are still free, open, fair and broad-minded.

No measures to avert the serious, looming consequences can be taken without this sense of renewal. Uncommon political courage will be required. Yet this courage can be summoned only if something profoundly different transpires. Putting America first -- ahead of our own selfish interests -- must be our national priority if we are to retain our capacity to lead.

The last time the United States had an open election was 1952. My grandfather was pursued by both political parties and eventually became the Republican nominee. Despite being a charismatic war hero, he did not have an easy ride to the nomination. He went on to win the presidency -- with the indispensable help of a "Democrats for Eisenhower" movement. These crossover voters were attracted by his pledge to bring change to Washington and by the prospect that he would unify the nation.

It is in this great tradition of crossover voters that I support Barack Obama's candidacy for president. If the Democratic Party chooses Obama as its candidate, this lifelong Republican will work to get him elected and encourage him to seek strategic solutions to meet America's greatest challenges. To be successful, our president will need bipartisan help.

Given Obama's support among young people, I believe that he will be most invested in defending the interests of these rising generations and, therefore, the long-term interests of this nation as a whole. Without his leadership, our children and grandchildren are at risk of growing older in a marginalized country that is left to its anger and divisions. Such an outcome would be an unacceptable legacy for any great nation.

Susan Eisenhower, a business consultant, is the author of four books, most recently "Partners in Space: US-Russian Cooperation After the Cold War."

When did a former corporate lawyer who sat on the board of directors at Wal-Mark become the voice of the voiceless? I have lost of respect for Bobby Jr., but this ad is beyonds the bounds of credibility.

"Once again, Ted Kennedy vs Bobby Jr...not much of a contest. Nice try Hillary, you still suck."

Not exactly a thoughtful response to a brilliant political ad, but I do think it's a contest. Bobby Jr. is a beloved activist & Air America host -- in many ways a radical. Ted Kennedy is a great man, but his reputation with the general public is not great. I think these ads are more effective than Caroline Kennedy's ad. The emotional moments in Watts, Appalachia, etc. really pull on the responsive chords. I think Hillary has neutralized Teddy. She cleans up the Latino vote.

God, the Hillary-haters have gone over the edge today. Y'all must have looked at Gallup and Rasmussen today.

As far as polls go: Sunday's Washington Post.

So, Clinton now has Kennedy's too? Me-tooism at it's finest. I guess that's just one more way Barack is making his presence felt this campaign and setting the terms of the debate. I'm just waiting for Clinton to ask her supporters if they're fired up. You know it's coming soon.

Can a Real Feminist Support Obama?

Is it possible for committed feminist like myself to actively campaign for Obama? I remember the first time I heard Hilary speak, almost 20 years ago, so impressed by her, and wondering if I would ever live to see the day when she might become our president. Now that this is a distinct possibility, I am shocked to find myself where I presently am. I have to say it isn’t easy to abandon Hilary, who is smart, ready, and able to be president. I can’t help but respect her command of the issues when I see her in the debates. But, and this is a big BUT, as a feminist I am concerned for the future of our children, and unborn grandchildren, as well as for the planet if our broken system of corporate-domination of American politics is not radically changed.

As a long-time feminist activist and founder of two successful women’s organizations, I would love to see a woman president. But the very future of our nation, and world, depend on bold leadership, buttressed by a massive movement for political change. Whoever, can galvanize such a movement has my vote, regardless of gender. The critical issues facing our nation today transcend identity politics, whether racial or gender-based.

The survival of the planet, and of the American middle/working class, require bold leadership, backed by a Congress that is willing to do the right thing, regardless of corporate concerns for how this will affect their profitability. It is not news to anyone anymore that the huge multi-national corporations care only about their own bottom lines, and have abandoned any sense of good citizenship to this country, to their workers, to the environment, and to the communities they operate in. It is an open secret that their lobbyists are writing the laws, and that our legislators owe their first allegiance to their corporate donors, rather than to the public interest. I admire Hilary Clinton, but the Clintons, no matter how personally liberal, are very much products of this system, and owe their political careers to their mastery of it. For every social justice or women’s rights program they get, they give away the store in the back rooms where economic deals are made. (NAFTA, media conglomeration, and the wholesale appointment of corporate lackeys to the positions on the federal regulatory commissions that oversee their own industries, are but a few examples).

Hilary, no matter how sincere, is a product of this system, and even if she honestly wanted to, would be unable to change it, since it would require the cooperation of the Congress, who itself is corporate-sponsored. I supported Hilary when I believed that the undue influence of lobbyist money was an intractable part American real-politics, and given that, felt she would at least use the power she did have to tinker around the edges on behalf of social programs that benefited the rest of us. That was the best I thought possible given the reality that elections are massively expensive, and to win them required accepting huge corporate donations, with strings attached. Until now.

Although Edwards campaigned vigorously on the issue of getting corporate money out of politics, I never believed that he would have the ability to actually do anything about it even if he were elected President. I figured that the corporate-owned Congress would sabotage anything he proposed, just as Bill Clinton’s Democratic congress sabotaged Hilary’s healthcare plan. At least Hilary had the political skills to game the system, and manage to fulfill some social agenda issues, I thought. While in theory I believed that a mass movement from the grassroots might possibly be strong enough to win an election without taking corporate money, I never thought the slumbering masses of exhausted Americans would ever rise up to organize. Until now.

Barack Obama’s campaign is unique in modern American history in that it is much more than a political campaign for high office. He is building a viable mass movement of folks, like myself, who are mobilized, energized, and actively working to reinvigorate the Democratic party so that it once again represents the public interest. He/we have already demonstrated what this means: (1) millions of dollars can be raised to go toe-to-toe with the corporate donations received by the Clinton machine, and (2) voters can be turned out in huge numbers, sufficient to win where it counts, at the ballot box. This is the true meaning of grassroots democracy, and it represents real political strength. Obama, if elected by this mass uprising of a newly energized electorate, will have a true mandate to change the system. For real. A Congress that doesn’t go along will find itself replaced by a new generation of Obama Democrats, because our movement will have proven that it can formidably win elections against corporate-sponsored candidates.

As a feminist I have been active on almost every front of our historic quest for gender justice. But the movement that Obama is creating to build a grassroots organization capable of sending honest politicians to Washington, in order to take back our government institutions from the undue influence of the special interests, is perhaps the defining issue of these times. If feminism’s core value is equality, then, it can only achieve marginal victories within a system that is so unequal, with the power of the political machinery controlled by the corporate elite, dominated by a white male old boy system that does not reflect the demographic changes that feminism has achieved on the ground.

For the first time ever I, like so many others, volunteered to be a precinct captain and to call my neighbors on behalf of Obama—a task I was at first hesitant to take on. I was amazed that people were really receptive to the fact that a real person, a neighbor yet, was calling instead of some paid script reader, or telephone droid. Many of them were impressed that this was not the first phone call they had received from the Obama campaign, and were awed that indeed he seemed to be mobilizing an army of volunteers. Also, to my great surprise, many told me that their Republican family members, who would never vote for a Clinton, were thinking about voting for Barack should he get the nomination. And others told me that their adult children who had never voted, and had been turned off to politics, were voting for Obama as well. And I saw for myself the massive turn-out of young adults at an Obama speech I attended. Out of 8,000 PAYING attendees in the audience, over half were young. Like me, they came out, paying $15 for a ticket (non-students paid $30), and stood in line for 3 HOURS to wildly cheer this amazing man’s message of hope, determination, clarity and vision. Everyone who attended was asked to sign up on the campaign, and the majority did. This campaign truly understands how to effectively organize and raise money as well as volunteers. This is nothing short of impressive.

Last weekend we were challenged as a statewide organization to make 100,000 calls on behalf of Obama. I did my part for about 2.5 hours, and wondered if we had reached our collective goal. I was heartened to hear that at the end of the day we had actually managed to contact 200,000 likely voters—double the goal. Many hands make work light. What an incredible organization this is. The people united cannot be defeated is what we used to chant, and now I can proudly say, the truth of that slogan is being played out in this remarkably well-run and effective campaign.

If our movement secures the nomination for Obama, I admit a part of my heart will break for Hilary’s personal loss. But with an Obama presidency, Hilary will be able to go back to the Senate and actually get passed the kind of social and economic justice legislation that she has always dreamed of. With an Obama mandate, and her hands untied from corporate influence, she will rise to greatness as the change-agent she once aspired to become, before she understood that in deference to her corporate sponsors she had to lower her sights, and compromise her goals. She will no longer have to be satisfied with small incremental changes, but can at last put her incredible vision to work actually crafting the kind of system-changing legislation we as a nation need and deserve. She will be able to fully walk her talk, and we will all be the beneficiaries—women, children, and our men. The energy of Obama’s movement is the only way for this to become possible. So I guess I am a feminist for Obama.