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Gov. Richardson made my head hurt from laughing..."He [McCain] may pay hundreds of dollars for his shoes, but we'll pay for his flip-flops"
Hotness!
- Barack Obama
I hope their doing a bumper sticker/magnet.
Let the games begin!
" I need a president who is going to put Barney Smith before Smith Barney."
Cute play on words.
And I just got an email begging for money. Its a sign!
Also, thank you for the reference to the quality of videos on the Jed Report!! :>) :>)
Sigh, can I tell you I took today off because it has been so emotional for me. I have been doing the ugly cry and I look like shit.
God bless this country, let us continue to grow to a true America where all men,all women all people are EQUAL.
It would be great if we could round up all the great pictures and videos of this convention and have it in one place where we could always access it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pGUlg18-E8
Thanks so much, rikyrah, for your kind comment on my Daily Kos diary.
Now I've got to take care of some bidness regarding my girl, Mrs. Michelle Robinson Obama.
Fired Up!! Ready to participate in the PROCESS!!! :>) :>)
BOUGHT ME TO TEARS
oh and..Chitown stand UP!
Where is my choir robe!!! :>) :>) :>)
That little old lady reminds me of my grandma every time she sees Barack on tv. She never thought this would happen and she has to always sit down just thinking about it.
Very touching.
Bring it!! :>) :>) :>)
Guess who I got a call from?? Loraine - a childhood friend who lives back East!!
She wanted ta know what time Mr. Obama was going ta speak 'cause she had ta make a grocery run!!!
"Whycome" she couldn't Google the DNC schedule? She's not quite in the 21st Century. So, I have ta cut her some slack!! :>) :> ) :>)
Whew! Shaking my head Deep Breaths!!! :>) :>)
She said: UH-HUH!!! That's nice!! :>) :>) :>) I jes let her get back to her SOAPS!! :>) :>) :>
Whew! Shaking her head & laughing Deep Breaths!!! :>) :>)
Thomas Jefferson is real upset now, too. He's regretting not just claiming Sally Hemmings and sending one of his red-headed mulatto offspring to the White House.
I implore you to go read, rec and tip my diary, Land That I Love on Daily Kos! It's worth it, and there's even a picture of me included!
REALLY INSPIRING!!!! :>) :>) Thanks for sharing!!! :>) :>)
Thank you, GreenLady, TruthSeeker, Lilytiger! Y'all are about the only ones who have visited. Even popular diarists who are encouraging people to try to get it on the rec list are going unheeded.
But ain't nothing spoiling this night.
Lilytiger, you saw last night's too? I was too wiped out with the emotions of yesterday after HRC made the acclamation to even monitor my diary post.
I love y'all....
Now we've go win the election.
Oh and one last thing - I love me some Stevie but he needs to be letting that old hairline that starts at the crown of his head go now. It ain't right, it just ain't right. Let it go, Stevie. Just let it go! :)
LOL
BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!! :>) :>)
Please accept my APOLOGIES!! I read 2 fast!! :>)
Darn that "speed reading class!" :>)
I don't know if I have read a more heartful and sad yet hopeful piece. I have read many posts here that slay me. I just want to say that I am happy no grateful to be your witnesses. I am humbled. I am inspired. I am moved.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoE6864ToRk
and support the womens right to choose
stop torture
http://www.gallup.com/poll/109897/Gallup-Daily-...
Whew! Pitiful Deep Breaths!! :>) :>) :>)
By MICHAEL LUO
Published: August 28, 2008
DENVER — When Gordon Davis, a top fund-raiser for Senator Barack Obama, made partner at his white-shoe law firm in New York in 1983, it was a vastly different world for aspiring black professionals like him.
At the time, there were just five black partners at major law firms in New York, Mr. Davis recalled. That group had a tradition of taking each new partner out to an intimate congratulatory lunch. Today, more than 200 take part in the ritual at the Harvard Club.
The change over just a few decades offers a glance at the advances that have enabled a cadre of black elites like Mr. Davis to emerge as a force in the most successful fund-raising operation in presidential campaign history.
Mr. Obama’s acceptance of his party’s nomination on Thursday, on the 45th anniversary of the speech by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington, signifies a powerful moment of arrival for blacks. But the milestone is especially telling for this upper-crust group, which has mobilized like never before to raise mountains of cash to power his campaign.
“There’s a sense of not only pride but of a point in the culture we’re a part of, the society we’re a part of, that this is different,” said Mr. Davis, now a partner at Dewey & LeBoeuf. “It’s a measure of how far we — and I don’t mean just black people — how far this country and the business world have come.”
There are 57 blacks out of the roughly 300 people on the Obama campaign’s national finance committee. Each member commits to collecting at least $250,000, a formidable task that typically requires deep business networks, something relatively few blacks had until fairly recently.
The list of top Obama bundlers includes John W. Rogers Jr., the founder of Ariel Investments, the country’s first black-owned money management firm; William E. Kennard, the first black chairman of the Federal Communications Commission; and Mr. Davis, who drove across the country 45 years ago as a newly minted college graduate to take part in the March on Washington, and went on to serve as the first black parks commissioner of New York City and the first black president of Lincoln Center.
Mr. Kennard and Mr. Rogers are among a half-dozen black bundlers who have raised more than $500,000 for Mr. Obama, putting them in a select group of just three dozen fund-raisers.
Most of Mr. Obama’s major black donors are new to big-money political fund-raising, but there are signs that at least some could go on to become players in Democratic circles. Some, for example, have already begun flexing their muscle by raising money for politicians who endorsed Mr. Obama early on.
At 67, Mr. Davis is something of an elder statesman for the group. Most are part of a younger generation that has benefited from the new vistas opened by the civil rights movement but had not participated directly in those struggles. Like Mr. Obama, they have learned to navigate white-dominated fields, climbing through the ranks by earning approval not among fellow blacks but among whites. Yet they remained keenly aware of the sanctums that were still inaccessible.
Now they have witnessed a breakthrough at the highest levels of the political realm, a culmination in many ways of the long struggle for acceptance that many of them have spent their professional lives waging.
“When you grow up living in a white corporate world, there’s always a part of you that thinks, ‘Gee, if I sold out,’ or ‘How can I do this and also stay true to myself and true to my own identity,’ ” said Jeh Johnson, another top fund-raiser and New York lawyer who today serves as the informal chairman of the group of black law partners.
Of Mr. Obama, Mr. Johnson said, “Here we have a guy who’s running for president and managed to do it in the political world and managed to do it so well.”
When Mr. Johnson became the first black partner in 1994 at his firm, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, he was part of a wave of blacks earning the same distinction at other major New York firms. What was happening in law was unfolding elsewhere in corporate America, on Wall Street and in other rarefied circles, with blacks finally penetrating the ranks of money and influence in increasing numbers.
“This is now a situation where many of us have arrived at a certain level — lawyers, doctors, professional people,” said Ralph Dawson, who is in charge of African-American donor outreach for the Democratic Party and is himself a black law partner. “And all of that is coming together around this very special individual.”
Valerie Jarrett, a close friend of Mr. Obama and one of his most trusted advisers, pointed out that her experience had been vastly different from that of parents’ generation. Her father, who was the first black medical resident at his Chicago hospital, was asked to enter through the back door on his first day of work, she said.
“There hasn’t been the kind of overt, in-your-face discrimination my parents experienced,” said Ms. Jarrett, who is now the chief executive of one of the country’s largest real estate firms.
Nevertheless, stories of slights, or a nagging sense of “otherness,” are prevalent even among this accomplished group.
Mr. Kennard, who was general counsel to the F.C.C. before he became chairman in the Clinton administration, recalled his first day on that job. He deliberately went in early to his new office. When he arrived, a secretary asked in a snippy voice whether she could help him.
“There was just a tone in her voice, ‘You’re really not supposed to be here for an appointment that early,’ ” said Mr. Kennard, who more recently became the first black partner at his private equity firm, the Carlyle Group, and who sits on the board of The New York Times Company. “I said, ‘Well, yes, I’m the new general counsel.’ Her jaw dropped and she said, ‘You’re the new general counsel?’ ”
Indeed, for all of the signs of progress, there remain feelings of frustration about what has not been accomplished.
Mr. Rogers, who was a crucial early supporter of Mr. Obama when he first ran for the Illinois Senate, and helped connect him to others in the black business community, said he looked around at his industry and still saw few black faces at the highest levels.
“I think the good news is, once Barack is elected,” Mr. Rogers said, “he is going to be a beacon of hope for all of us.”
IT LOOKS LIKE AMERICA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uONF0zJz2Oo
Aquarius [Let the Sunshine In]
Lawd Ha'Mercy! Give me a little edumencation and I act like a craz-ee person!! :>) :>)
"I Got the Music In Me" [have ta look this one up! :>) ]
LET THE SUNSHINE! LET THE SUNSHINE IN! THE SUNSHINE IN!
when you want your car to go forward, put it in 'D'
when you want your car to go backward, put it in 'R'
just like our country.
I don't have video capacity
Sorry if it's linked somewhere and I missed it.
CNN watch party in New York
I also heard the campaign distributed 20,000 more tickets than the 75,000 and there are still people lined up outside to get in. The fire marshalls are trying to find spaces to allow as many people as possible to get in.
Wow look at all the brothas and sisters
LAWD HA'Mercy!!! :>) :>)
"Biggy Jo Bi"
LAWD Ha'Mercy!!!! :>) :>) :>)
did you just go DAYUM when they did that panning shot of Invesco?
wow
To show the perversity of the right wing...they are trying to turn O's following into a negative....WHO ARE THEY KIDDING!!
NOT EVEN THEMSELVES!!! THEY ARE JUST HATIN" :>) :>)
The election is 11/4...Let's enjoy tonight, but let's be sober...the election is 11/4.
There's a lot of work to be done, contributions to be made, and sleep to be lost.
The Clintons were easy. Anyone who saw the Rick Warren Forum should know these mofos gonna be doing some hokey shty to win. Let's not get it twisted.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uONF0zJz2Oo
ENJOY!!! :>) :>)
I'm past the tears because around every corner I've been moved to tears. Obama wasn't given this nomination, he won this nomination and because of that this makes it that much more better!
I sat down with her and showed her a picture of Barack Obama. I explained, in America, because people came together -- like the ones we saw on TV tonight, and fought for equality -- she can be anything she wanted to be. Proof positive was Barack Obama, our next president of the United States. If she worked hard and studied hard -- the sky was the limit.
She then asked me how did
Obama has become my hero, not because I'm a young black man, but because I'm a young black man that loves people and if Obama can pull this thing off, I believe in my heart he will be about people.
This is a moment in time I'll never forget!
Thank you for the story...
That is the story of America!
This is World history in the making! I have my children, right here besides me waiting for Barack to speak. Kiddie cocktails for them and Mimosas for mommie!
Yay!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tox2PBP3mOg
McFadden & Whitehead!!
ENJOY!!! :>) :>)
Now where did I put my MP3 player?? :>) :>) :>)
Oh! wait. . . . . I don't have one!! I don't even know what they look like!! :>) :>)
Can you all imagine what Barack is feeling right now?
I promise you this...He "ain't scurred!" Gotta Love Him!
how utterly American.
the visuals tonight are stunning.
SIDE NOTE - Michelle's edges are BONE STRAIGHT.
I have a request.....can you do a best moment or best one liner post from the convention?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m1UWSD-FaA
XANADU
ENJOY!!!! :>)
http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/bladesofglory/xa...
Olivia Newton-John - Xanadu Lyrics
(Jeff Lynne)
A place where nobody dared to go
The love that we came to know
They call it Xanadu
And now, open your eyes and see
What we have made is real
We are in Xanadu
A million lights are dancing
And there you are, a shooting star
An everlasting world and you're here with me
Eternally
Xanadu - Xanadu (now we are here)
In Xanadu
Xanadu - Xanadu (now we are here)
In Xanadu
Xanadu your neon lights will shine
For you Xanadu
The love, the echoes of long ago
You needed the world to know, they are in Xanadu
The dream that came through a million years
That lived on through all the tears
It came to Xanadu
A million lights are dancing and there you are
A shooting star, an everlasting world and you're
Here with me eternally
Xanadu - Xanadu (now we are here)
In Xanadu
Now that I'm here, now that you're near in Xanadu
ENJOY!! :>) :>)
- Barack Obama
For me, that's the Money$$$-line thus far.
Brooks And Dunn, Only In America Lyrics
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Artist: Brooks And Dunn
Song: Only In America
Album: Steers And Stripes Brooks And Dunn Sheet Music
Brooks And Dunn CDs
Complimentary “Only In America” Ringtone
Sun coming up over New York City
School bus driver in a traffic jam
Starin' at the faces in her rearview mirror
Looking at the promise of the Promised Land
One kid dreams of fame and fortune
One kid helps pay the rent
One could end up going to prison
One just might be president
Only in America
Dreaming in red, white and blue
Only in America
Where we dream as big as we want to
We all get a chance
Everybody gets to dance
Only in America
Sun going down on an La. freeway
Newlyweds in the back of a limousine
A welder's son and a banker's daughter
All they want is everything
She came out here to be an actress
He was the singer in a band
They just might go back to Oklahoma
And talk about the stars they could have been
Only in America
Where we dream in red, white and blue
Only in America
Where we dream as big as we want to
We all get a chance
Everybody gets to dance
Only in America
Yeah only in America
Where we dream in red, white and blue
Yeah we dream as big as we want to
[ More Brooks And Dunn Lyrics ]
He kicked ass!!!!!!!!!
This is the Barack I know!
I don't think she'll ever be the same.
She's not alone.
Notice how still 70,000+ people can get when joined in ONE purpose!!
How ECUMENICAL!!!!
Truly, Lord Have Mercy!!! :>)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIekamBDiAw
ENJOY!!! :>) :>)
LAWD: This DJin' isn't easy!!! :>) :>)
I don't want to read about you stalking Michelle
Yes!!!
Republicans: it's a wabbit!
Can we really? I don't know.
But even if we try and fail, we'll be the greater for trying.
LMAO!
Serious though, just go ahead and cast that vote for Obama. Otherwise it'll be wasted on McCain
I don't agree with all of Obama's ideas, and I'll have to reconcile that before I can say I'll vote for him.
But I see in him a chance to find a common ground....and that might be a chance worth taking.
But I am finding that ideas/ideology aren't as important to me as I have thought. It's kind of shocking to me actually. And I am only saying this about myself -- specific to my own perceptions and life experiences/
Anyway. D, as long as you are clear and thoughtful and solid and okay in yourself in how you cast your vote and why, I myself personally would support what you choose to do with your vote -- whatever it is. (this is kind of why I would suck at trying to convince people to vote how I wish they would, but that's where I'm at).
Thank you for answering my question.
What was he saying???
KOOL AID FOR EVERYONE!!!!!
"Whoever didn't get picked for Republican VP today, maybe is a lucky Republican."
He looked confident, and focused, and ready for business when he said that!
She says...I have some Hillary supporters here....and they all chime in: "FORMER Hillary supporters."
The Black woman looked visibly moved....maybe someone will post the clip on YouTube.
She had an amazing little speech there herself.
Now it occurs to me...I wonder if some black women who couldn't bring themselves to support O, did so because when they look at him, all they see is every black man who's every hurt them or let them down. I wonder if they just couldn't bring themselves to have faith in Barack...to believe, again.
I can't wait for the debates.
LMAO!
We need to pray for America to select maturely, soberly.
I found C-Span!
- Sen. Obama
That's what Ben Stein is whining about....Obama is just a typical Chicago politician.
Like a "puerile" [forgot who I stole this from :>)] child, "McAncient" kept coming out with more and more ads!! Just what O needed, in order to see all of M's "cards"!!
Perfect "rope-a-dope"[a la Mohammed Ali]/chess strategy!! :>) :>)
Having shown his "hand", Mr. Obama NOW knows what "chess piece" he need ta move! This "game" had to be carefully TIMED!!
OUR TIME IS NOW in very many ways!! :>) :>) :>)
IMHO :>) :>)
hahahahahahahahah!
- Sen. Obama
such a great moment.
Sing Sam!! A Change Gone Come
A change gone come.
THANK YOU!! :>) :>)
Now, I was checking the weather in Denver everyday, but if this is true...hhhmmmm....
Well! Well! Well! O.J. in the news!!!
http://www.newser.com/story/36007/ojs-kid-decks...
Kid Decks Him In Brawl Over Girl
The "kid" is his daughter!!!!
Hmmmmm???
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/livecoverage/?...
Obama Claims Historic Nomination
Great pic!! Positive/supportive article! :>)
The Man of the Hour
http://thedailyvoice.com/voice/2008/08/clintons...
2 great pics!! :>) :>)
Looking at the scene with Barack, Michelle and the girls waving to the crowd, I was touched. As a black man, a husband and a father. And when he turned from the crowd to give his boo a squeeze he whispered something to her and she sort of swooned. I hope he said, "Girl, you betta stop playin' and have those chirren in bed by the time I get back to the hotel. Don't be fakin' like you sleep, neither. I'm the Commander-in-Chief up in herre, and, baby, don't forget the pumps." LOL.
BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA
hilarious.
Obama just showed his hand. He has no record, and thus will hope that running against Bush by linking him to McCain will be enough. We shall see.