Boy, it certainly did not take long for Hamas to celebrate the Obama's victory by firing 35 missiles into Israel.
Iran...During the campaign Obama declared they were not a big problem. I wonder just how much support they supply to the enemies of Israel. Also, how will they play their cards while Obama begins the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq. Will they wait until we are completely out to raise all hell with Iraq? Iran now hold the trump cards since Obama already announced what our intentions are.
(although I do recall that Obama made a statement once that it would take his first term to get all the troops out..)
Russia....Will an Obama administration take our current commitment to Ukraine and other bordering countries seriously or will he fall back on his original thinking during the Georgia crisis that the Georgians were culpable in Russia’s attack on them? Russia would never take Bush and certainly not McCain for granted on the question of involving American influence on how best to deal with Russian bulling in that region of the world. Maybe this is what Joe Biden had in mind when he said Obama would be tested within months of his Presidency.
Will we now invade Pakistan in search of Bin Laden as Obama suggested during the campaign? Will Mike Dukakis be at the tank's helm?
The Holy Trinity of William Ayers, Louis Farrakhan and Barack Obama voted just minutes apart at their polling station in Chicago. Hmmmmmmm (kudos to Mo Lauzier)
Thursday, November 06, 2008
Below, "a video representation of a letter to the Richmond Times-Dispatch. this video compares not so much people but ideologies. However people come to power is not the point. It is how they use the power they have gained. Both men pomised utopias and one has failed. Utopias cannot be done no matter how you distribute the wealth."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYEiwR2KklM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYEiwR2KklM
Obama campaign workers angry over unpaid wages
The redistribution plan has started to take place early. Read below. Welcome to the OBAMA-nation...
Obama campaign workers angry over unpaid wages
Jeremy Brilliant/Eyewitness News
Indianapolis - Lines were long and tempers flared Wednesday not to vote but to get paid for canvassing for Barack Obama. Several hundred people are still waiting to get their pay for last-minute campaigning. Police were called to the Obama campaign office on North Meridian Street downtown to control the crowd.
The line was long and the crowd was angry at times.
"I want my money today! It's my money. I want it right now!" yelled one former campaign worker.
A former spokesman for the Obama campaign said 375 people were hired as part of the Vote Corps program and said people signed up to work three-hour shifts at a time. Three hours of canvassing got workers a $30 pre-paid Visa card.
The workers showed up to get their cards Wednesday morning at 10:00 am.
"There was a note on the door saying 1:00 pm and then at 1:20 pm everybody was like why is nobody here. They just got here and they're trying to get it organized," said Heather Richards, a former campaign worker.
The large gathering of around 375 people prompted police to call in extra officers and set up temporary barricades. The barricades helped keep the crowd from spilling out onto Meridian Street. Police say the several hundred people in line were for the most part orderly.
"No arrests. Some of the people were upset at first because the line wasn't moving as fast as they thought it should. But we really haven't had any problems," said Major Darryl Pierce, Metro Police.
Eventually people did start getting paid, but some said they were missing hours and told to fill in paperwork making their claim and that eventually they would get a check in the mail.
"Still that's not right. I'm disappointed. I'm glad for the president, but I'm disappointed in this system," said Diane Jefferson, temporary campaign worker.
"It should have been $480. It's $230," said Imani Sankofa.
"They gave us $10 an hour. So we added it. I added up all the hours so it was supposed to be at least $120. All I get is $90," said Charles Martin.
"I worked nine hours a day for 4 days and got paid half of what I should have earned," said Randall Waldon.
Some people weren't satisfied with filling out a claim form for money they felt was still due to them.
"They say that they gonna call you or they going to mail it to you, but I don't know. We'll see what happens," said Antron Grose.
"Talking about they'll mail it to us. I ain't worried about that, man. They're not going to mail nothin'," said Martin.
Obama campaign workers angry over unpaid wages
Jeremy Brilliant/Eyewitness News
Indianapolis - Lines were long and tempers flared Wednesday not to vote but to get paid for canvassing for Barack Obama. Several hundred people are still waiting to get their pay for last-minute campaigning. Police were called to the Obama campaign office on North Meridian Street downtown to control the crowd.
The line was long and the crowd was angry at times.
"I want my money today! It's my money. I want it right now!" yelled one former campaign worker.
A former spokesman for the Obama campaign said 375 people were hired as part of the Vote Corps program and said people signed up to work three-hour shifts at a time. Three hours of canvassing got workers a $30 pre-paid Visa card.
The workers showed up to get their cards Wednesday morning at 10:00 am.
"There was a note on the door saying 1:00 pm and then at 1:20 pm everybody was like why is nobody here. They just got here and they're trying to get it organized," said Heather Richards, a former campaign worker.
The large gathering of around 375 people prompted police to call in extra officers and set up temporary barricades. The barricades helped keep the crowd from spilling out onto Meridian Street. Police say the several hundred people in line were for the most part orderly.
"No arrests. Some of the people were upset at first because the line wasn't moving as fast as they thought it should. But we really haven't had any problems," said Major Darryl Pierce, Metro Police.
Eventually people did start getting paid, but some said they were missing hours and told to fill in paperwork making their claim and that eventually they would get a check in the mail.
"Still that's not right. I'm disappointed. I'm glad for the president, but I'm disappointed in this system," said Diane Jefferson, temporary campaign worker.
"It should have been $480. It's $230," said Imani Sankofa.
"They gave us $10 an hour. So we added it. I added up all the hours so it was supposed to be at least $120. All I get is $90," said Charles Martin.
"I worked nine hours a day for 4 days and got paid half of what I should have earned," said Randall Waldon.
Some people weren't satisfied with filling out a claim form for money they felt was still due to them.
"They say that they gonna call you or they going to mail it to you, but I don't know. We'll see what happens," said Antron Grose.
"Talking about they'll mail it to us. I ain't worried about that, man. They're not going to mail nothin'," said Martin.
the Obama indigestion begins....
It sure began all right...with a stock market surprise. With a stock market surprise. Or as Al Goldman, chief market strategist at Wachovia Securities in St. Louis said "The celebration is over. Today we saw a bit of reality. President-elect Obama is coming into a situation with limited experience, having to handle an economy in serious trouble, a couple of wars and terrorism. It's an extremely tough job."
It all began with the Dow Jones industrials falling nearly 500 points and all the major indexes tumbling more than 5 percent.
Reality will hit home fast. Even the liberal Associated Press made the following claim in a piece yesterday..."Still, the new president — untested in foreign affairs — faces what may be the most unsettled global scene since the 1930s and '40s." While foreign leaders may or may not choose to test Obama, "the one thing I'm sure of is, events will test him, there will be coups. . . . There will be genocide. . . . There will be terrorism." Richard Haass , the president of the Council on Foreign Relations.
And he ain't even sworn in yet.....
It all began with the Dow Jones industrials falling nearly 500 points and all the major indexes tumbling more than 5 percent.
Reality will hit home fast. Even the liberal Associated Press made the following claim in a piece yesterday..."Still, the new president — untested in foreign affairs — faces what may be the most unsettled global scene since the 1930s and '40s." While foreign leaders may or may not choose to test Obama, "the one thing I'm sure of is, events will test him, there will be coups. . . . There will be genocide. . . . There will be terrorism." Richard Haass , the president of the Council on Foreign Relations.
And he ain't even sworn in yet.....
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