First event is in Raleigh. Good stuff.

Barack will set the agenda, not Grampy McSame.
Well done, Team Obama!

Finally a post that's all about Obama. Finally.

I guess this doesn't really count as the "poverty tour" Edwards asked Obama to make.

But it seems close!

"Change that works for you"

Yeah, well if gas prices keep going up like this all we're gonna have left is spare change.

I better not hear a peep from Obama about gas prices. The price of oil is going to wreak havoc on the entire economy, war or no war. Reduction in consumption will not reduce the price of oil as India and China will buy whatever we don't.

I'll remind you that he was against any relief on gas prices and belittled the notion that anything could be done about the oil cartel. Our reliance on imported oil will not diminish significantly in the foreseeable future. I also better not hear about tapping Alaskan oil.

here we go....setting the agenda...unemployed rate uo 5.5%(.5% in this month alone)..large increase in oil costs today...get the train moving!!

Fired Up and Ready to Go!

" Stocks fall sharply on surge in oil, jobs data

Wall Street has plunged, with the Dow Jones industrials closing down more than 400 points, after oil prices shot higher and neared $140 for the first time.
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The prospect of higher energy prices that could hobble consumers and worsen a slowing economy had investors frenetically pulling money out of stocks.

Wall Street began the day falling on a disappointing unemployment report."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080606/ap_on_bi_st_ma_re/wall_street_339

OT and may have already been posted.

Click on "Meet Barack Obama" at right of top window.

http://www.rnc.org/

Gee, thanks, Hillary!

Ok, here's some news. Obama could pull in 40% of the evangelical vote! Could he break 400 in the electoral college? The only time in this country we ever got a gd thing done is with a landslide. We need a landslide in november. Let's all pray!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/06/religious-right-figure-ge_n_105667.html

According to McCain Obama wants to talk about the economy because he is afraid to talk about foreign policy (or something like that). Um yeah, it couldn't possibly be that he wants to talk about the economy because people actually care about it....

The Xcel center, Virginia & NC right off the bat. He has sent a nice shot across the GOP bow.
I am loving the aggressive GE Obama. He definitely seems to have more enthusiasm for this than attacking his fellow democrats.
A Democrat - on the offensive, with some testicular fortitude... Excellent.

On another nice note - it looks like we are getting a post nomination bump baby! Obama has shot ahead in Rasmussen and Gallup is reporting that last night's polling was great for Obama - there was a 4pt swing over McC overnight.

Even WV looks like there is an opening. McC only has 45% and Obama only trailing by single digits. If he can work on the working class/union vote a bit maybe he can pull it off. A long shot but its another state McC will have to defend.

Maybe it just me - but it looks like the Bushies are going to burn McCain on his election.

McCain doesn't every stray very far from the will of Cheney and certainly everyone can see that. That said how is out-of-control oil price going to benefit McCain - because it doesn't benefit and the Bushie doesn't care. They are on the way out - so why should they.

Once it was said that the housing bubble was keeping the economy afloat but now that the bubble is busted - what other bubble is keeping the economy afloat right now - what is everybody else investing in??? OIL - the oil bubble.

If that bubble bust? We are in a heap of shit. REALLY, REALLY, REALLY.

Today's google news says that oil raised $ 5 and even $ 7 dollars and now we have this news:

Iran to Stop Accepting Dollars for Oil - Raise the HammerSo how is Iran refusing to sell oil for dollars is connected to the US current accounts deficit? .... What do you get if you subtract five from eight? ...

And I wonder can Saudi Araba be far behind?

This is why Nancy Pelosi should NEVER have taken impeachment off the table. We need to get Bush and Cheney out of there and cautiously back oil down real slowly to an afford price - because if it bust, and it well bust - we're all be screwed -BUT Nancy Pelosi help put us there. Never, ever take impeachment off the table, never do it. We are about to find out why letting a company manipulate something as necessary to national stability as the price of fuel is a very bad idea. Right now because there is nothing else to invest in so that when the oil price bust - it'll absolutely take everything with it.

Every day that goes by with his numbers improving in swing states and against McCain, the weaker the Hillary for VP argument gets. Still I think he has to use her as an asset. So his chess game right now is how to do that without having to share the ticket. His first order of duty is to win back at least some of Hillary's minions, and he needs Hillary to do that. That explains a lot about why he went to visit her at her place. This is what her followers want...RESPECT. That was the chant Tuesday night, BTW.

Going to be interesting.