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Video~ Barack Obama Yes We Can speech & Music Video

PinkNC — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:08:17 -0700

Vote Hope: Stevie Wonder for Obama ~ Video ~

Barack Obama: Yes We Can ^ Speech^

Obama Music Video - Something About The Man/Yes We Can

Yes We Can Song ~ Video ~

Jeremy Piven’s Blackberry lost Barack Obama’s phone numbers

justingirl1989 — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 09:13:00 -0800

Wow, talk about name dropping! Jeremy Piven is going to the presses to try and get President-elect Barack Obama to call him. Piven says he was given our next President’s digits in a voicemail left by Obama himself, but his Blackberry glitched out, as they do, and erased the message.

“I was lucky to stump for Barack in Indiana and to introduce him in Chicago. Barack left me five [phone] numbers.” he tells Extra. “It was the greatest voicemail that I’ve gotten in my life by the way… I saved it and I went back to listen to it and my BlackBerry had erased all of Barack Obama’s phone numbers. Then when I called back to try to tell them, ‘Can I get Barack’s number? He left it for me.’ They didn’t believe me and I now have nothing and I’ve been trying to find him.”

[From OK! Magazine]

Seriously, who gets a voicemail from the next President of the United States complete with personal contact information and just leaves it all in a message on your cell phone? I almost feel like Jeremy kinda asked for it by being so nonchalant with that kind of information! Murphy’s Law says if you don’t write those kinds of numbers down, your Blackberry is definitely going to eat it.

What Piven is worried about is his inauguration invite. But he has a back-up plan. Jeremy is currently working on Broadway and giving plenty of notice that with or without an invitation in hand, he’s skipping his show and crashing the DC party. If Obama reads OK! I’m sure he’ll call ya back, Piv.

LOL

http://www.celeb*tchy.com/26239/jeremy_pivens_blackberry_lost_barack_oba...

Video* Barack Obama - Daily Show Interview w/ John Stewart

PinkNC — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:11:36 -0700

"Barack Obama continued his media blitz with an appearance on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Obama's appearance comes on the heels of his half hour long infomercial which ran in prime time last night on several major networks, as well as some cable networks. Watch clips of Obama from his interview, including the candidate conceding the "Sean Hannity vote," and how Obama has been undergoing therapy to ensure that his white half doesn't prevent him from voting for himself."

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/29/obamas-daily-show-intervi_n_139...

Under Barack Obama Video (HILARIOUS)

celebrity_soup — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:10:46 -0700

OMG I couldn't stop laughing after watching this work of art.
Its the Umbrella parody from Mad TV called Under Barack Obama.
A short music video featuring "Hillary" and "Obama".

...and just for fun, here are the lyrics:

Obama: Uh huh! Uh huh! Yo my girl Hillary, former first lady, will she be president?
Who knows, maybe. Yo Barack Obama! I'm a black democrat, no I ain't no punk, Hillary's a hot mama. She's got her eyes on the prize, and I'm talking 'bout my junk. Hillary, where you at?
Hillary: I'm in the front. But what I want is a little bit of mandingo love. Bill had Monica, played him like a harmonica. So can I be blamed if I wanna get some strange? Yes, I am a firm believer of some hardcore jungle fever. He's my boy, I am his girl, hellz yeah we're both down with the swirl! We may have differed on Iraq, but no one's stiffer in the sack. I can't lie - that's why I wanna be under Barack Obama, bama, bama, ay, ay, ay, under Barack Obama, bama, bama, bama, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay ay. The polls have me in the lead, but your polls the only one I need.
Obama: Girl you're making me really hot, I'm gonna put my ballot in your slot.
Hillary: Pour your chocolate rain on me and I'll make you my VP.
Obama: Gonna put my lovin' on ya.
Hillary: I wanna be under Barack Obama, bama, ay, ay, ay, ay, under Barack Obama, bama, bama, bama, ay, ay, ay ay ay ay!

Stinging Talk About Obama? Never Mind Now -- Palin: "God Bless Barack Obama"... And other Hypocrites

dreamsugar — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 13:00:02 -0800

That whole anti-American, friend-to-the-terrorists thing about President-elect Barack Obama? Never mind.

But there she was on Wednesday, after narrowly escaping defeat because of those comments, saying she was “extremely grateful that we have an African-American who has won this year.” Ms. Bachmann, a Republican, called Mr. Obama’s victory, which included her state, “a tremendous signal we sent.”

And it was not too long ago that Senator John McCain’s running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, accused Mr. Obama of “palling around with terrorists.”

But she took an entirely different tone on Thursday, when she chastised reporters for asking her questions about her war with some staff members in the McCain campaign at such a heady time. “Barack Obama has been elected president,” Ms. Palin said. “Let us, let us - let him - be able to kind of savor this moment, one, and not let the pettiness of maybe internal workings of the campaign erode any of the recognition of this historic moment that we’re in. And God bless Barack Obama and his beautiful family.”

There is a great tradition of paint-peeling political hyperbole during presidential campaign years. And there is an equally great tradition of backing off from it all afterward, though with varying degrees of deftness.

But given the intensity of some of the charges that have been made in the past few months, and the historic nature of Mr. Obama’s election, the exercise this year has been particularly whiplash-inducing, with its extreme before-and-after contrasts.

The shift in tone follows the magnanimous concession speech from Mr. McCain, of Arizona, who referred to Mr. Obama’s victory Tuesday night as “a historic election” and hailed the “special pride” it held for African-Americans. That led the vice president-elect, Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., to get into the act. During the campaign, Mr. Biden said he no longer recognized Mr. McCain, an old friend. Now, he says, “We’re still friends.” President Bush, in turn, also hailed Mr. Obama’s victory, saying his arrival at the White House would be “a stirring sight.”

Whether it all heralds a new era of cooperation in Washington remains to be seen, and it may be downright doubtful. But for now, at least, it would seem to be part of an apparent rush to join what has emerged as a real moment in American history.

The presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin said she was hard-pressed to find a similar moment when the tone had changed so drastically, and so quickly, among so many people of such prominence.

“I don’t think that’s happened very often,” Ms. Goodwin said. “The best answer I can give you is they don’t want to be on the wrong side of history, and they recognize how the country saw this election, and how people feel that they’re living in a time of great historic moment.”

Others in the professional political class were not so sure. Some wondered whether simple pragmatism was the explanation.

“My experience is, it’s less an epiphany and more a political reality,” said Chris Lehane, a former Democratic strategist who worked on the presidential campaign of Al Gore. “I’m thinking they will continue in this direction so long as the polls indicate it’s a smart place to be.”

There are notable exceptions: Rush Limbaugh has given no quarter. And while his fellow conservative radio hosts Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham have noted the significance of his victory - on Wednesday, Ms. Ingraham said “Obama did make history” and “It’s not the time to vilify him” - they seem to be in line with Bill O’Reilly of Fox News. Relishing his new role in the opposition camp, Mr. O’Reilly said, “The guy is still a mystery, so our oversight will be intense.”

Some lawmakers also do not appear inclined to give up the fight. Representative John A. Boehner, the House minority leader, has already criticized Mr. Obama’s choice of Representative Rahm Emanuel, Democrat of Illinois, as his chief of staff.

But other people who opposed Mr. Obama, like Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut, have good reason to try to make up with the winning ticket. As an ardent backer of Mr. McCain, Mr. Lieberman angered the Democrats, who in 2000 nominated him as their vice-presidential candidate. After losing a Democratic primary challenge in 2006 and then winning as an independent, he still continued to caucus with the Democrats.

Attending an event with Mr. McCain in York, Pa., in August, Mr. Lieberman said the race was “between one candidate, John McCain, who has always put the country first, worked across party lines to get things done, and one candidate who has not.”

As a speaker at the Republican National Convention, Mr. Lieberman went further than Democrats expected by criticizing Mr. Obama for “voting to cut off funding for our troops on the ground.” (Mr. Obama voted for bills that included plans for withdrawal from Iraq and against others that did not.)

This week Mr. Lieberman, who has been asked by the Democratic Senate leadership to consider giving up his position as the chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, released a statement congratulating Mr. Obama for “his historic and impressive victory.” It continued, “The American people are a people of extraordinary fairness.”

Marshall Wittmann, a spokesman for Mr. Lieberman, said that as far as the senator was concerned, “It’s over, and it’s genuinely time to find unity and move forward behind the new president.”

And what about that whole bit about Mr. Obama not always putting his country first? “He believes that President-elect Obama - and, then, Senator Obama - is a genuine patriot and loves his country,” Mr. Wittmann said. “The only point he was making in his campaign was about partisanship.”

Mr. Obama is apparently ready to bury the hatchet with his new fans. “President-elect Obama has made it clear that he wants to put partisanship behind and work together to solve the many challenges confronting the country,” said Stephanie Cutter, a spokeswoman for the Obama transition team. “We’re pleased that others do as well.” (FORGIVE -- but don't forget Mr. President)

Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the Senate majority leader who will ultimately decide Mr. Lieberman’s committee assignment, sounded less ready to forgive, at least when it came Mr. Lieberman’s support for Mr. McCain. “Joe Lieberman has done something that I think was improper, wrong, and I’d like - if we weren’t on television, I’d use a stronger word of describing what he did,” he said on CNN Friday.

Egg on face and open wide to insert foot.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/us/politics/09memo.html?partner=rssuse...

Video* Barack Obama on You Tube LIVE

PinkNC — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:32:02 -0800

Barack Obama on You Tube Live........Ok, not really But I thought this guy was fun to watch this morning anyway.

Video~ Barack Obama Speaks at Dr. King's Church

PinkNC — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:19:55 -0700

Barack Obama Speaks at Dr. King's Church

Video~ Joel Madden Supports Barack Obama

PinkNC — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:16:10 -0700

Joel Madden Supports Barack Obama

Joel Madden for NC One-Stop Voting (North Carolina)

DMX Has Never Heard Of Barack Obama

justingirl1989 — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 05:59:38 -0700

This is hard to imagine someone, at this stage of the campaign, that doesn't know who Barack Obama is. My four-year-old niece knows who he is, but DMX doesn't. He's been too "busy". Here's a snippet from an interview he just did with XXL Magazine.

Are you following the presidential race?
Not at all.

You're not? You know there's a Black guy running, Barack Obama and then there's Hillary Clinton.
His name is Barack?!

Barack Obama, yeah.
Barack?!

Barack.
What the f*** is a Barack?! Barack Obama. Where he from, Africa?

Yeah, his dad is from Kenya.
Barack Obama?

Yeah.
What the f***?! That ain't no f*ckin' name, yo. That ain't that nigga's name. You can't be serious. Barack Obama. Get the f*ck outta here.

You're telling me you haven't heard about him before.
I ain't really paying much attention.

I mean, it's pretty big if a Black…
Wow, Barack! The nigga's name is Barack. Barack? Nigga named Barack Obama. What the f*ck, man?! Is he serious? That ain't his f*ckin' name. Ima tell this nigga when I see him, "Stop that bullsh*t. Stop that bullsh*t" [laughs] "That ain't your f*ckin' name." Your momma ain't name you no damn Barack.

So you're not following the race. You can't vote right?
Nope.

Is that why you're not following it?
No, because it's just-it doesn't matter. They're gonna do what they're gonna do. It doesn't really make a difference. These are the last years.

But it would be pretty big if we had a first Black president. That would be huge.
I mean, I guess…. What, they gon' give a dog a bone? There you go. Ooh, we have a Black president now. They should've done that sh*t a long time ago, we wouldn't be in the f*ckin' position we in now. With world war coming up right now. They done f*cked this sh*t up then give it to the Black people, "Here you take it. Take my mess."

Right, exactly.
It's all a f***in' setup. It's all a setup. All f***' bullsh*t. All bullsh*t. I don't give a f*** about none of that.

We could have a female president also, Hillary Clinton.
I mean, either way it doesn't matter. I don't care. No one person is directly affected by which president, you know, so what does it matter.

Yeah, but the country is.
I guess. The president is a puppet anyway. The president don't make no damn decisions.

The president…they don't have that much authority basically?
Nah, never

wtf? very rude.. he is out of his mind..

source: hollyscoop.com

The Seattle Times: Barack Obama for president

Woop — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 07:28:46 -0700

The Times recommends ...

Barack Obama for president

As president, Barack Obama can get America moving forward again.

"An economic Katrina is shattering the confidence of hardworking, middle-class Americans. The war that should never have been in Iraq is dragging on too long. At a time of huge challenge, the candidate with the intelligence, temperament and judgment to lead our nation to a better place is Sen. Barack Obama.

Obama should be the next president of the United States because he is the most qualified change agent. Obama is a little young, but also brilliant. If he sometimes seems brainy and professorial, that's OK. We need the leader of the free world to think things through, carefully. We have seen the sorry results of shooting from the hip."

...

"McCain is at heart a deregulator. But it is the hands-off and ineffective federal regulatory system that allowed this mess to fester. Obama offered a more coherent approach months ago when he called for regulating investment banks, mortgage brokers and hedge funds and streamlining overlapping regulatory agencies.

Our country is on the wrong track. Average, middle-class citizens have lost confidence that if they work hard, they can improve their lives, afford to send their kids to college and not be tossed out of their homes.

American optimism has been wracked by President George Bush and a previous Republican Congress. If you want change, you do not keep what is essentially the same team in power. You try something different. You vote for the stronger matchup, Obama and Sen. Joseph Biden, a smart and steady hand on foreign policy and other matters."

(The rest of the article can be found here:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorialsopinion/2008190671_obama... )

BONUS

Conservative Wick Allison, former editor and publisher of National Review, endorses Obama.

A Conservative for Obama

My party has slipped its moorings. It’s time for a true pragmatist to lead the country.

"Barack Obama is not my ideal candidate for president. (In fact, I made the maximum donation to John McCain during the primaries, when there was still hope he might come to his senses.) But I now see that Obama is almost the ideal candidate for this moment in American history. I disagree with him on many issues. But those don’t matter as much as what Obama offers, which is a deeply conservative view of the world. Nobody can read Obama’s books (which, it is worth noting, he wrote himself) or listen to him speak without realizing that this is a thoughtful, pragmatic, and prudent man. It gives me comfort just to think that after eight years of George W. Bush we will have a president who has actually read the Federalist Papers.

Most important, Obama will be a realist. I doubt he will taunt Russia, as McCain has, at the very moment when our national interest requires it as an ally. The crucial distinction in my mind is that, unlike John McCain, I am convinced he will not impulsively take us into another war unless American national interests are directly threatened.

'Every great cause,' Eric Hoffer wrote, 'begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.' As a cause, conservatism may be dead. But as a stance, as a way of making judgments in a complex and difficult world, I believe it is very much alive in the instincts and predispositions of a liberal named Barack Obama."

More of the article is here:
http://www.dmagazine.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?nm=Core+Pages&type=gen&mod=Core+... )