Wake The F Up!

Following the same formula of the delightful children's story, (for adults) Go the F**k to Sleep, this 2012 Obama ad is funny and poetic yet still delivers an acutely effective message for American Voters. Highly recommended. This ad was paid for by the Jewish Council for Education and Research.*new link should work now*

8 Great Reasons To Vote For President Obama

Well, said.  I agree with the author who has clear and legible writing!

President Obama and Romney on Same Sex Marriage

President Obama:

"I think same-sex couples should be able to get married."

Mitt Romney

  “I believe that marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman.

 Romney supports a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage in the U.S., and has also said he’s opposed to civil unions that would legally recognize a same-sex relationship. He has said in the past that he supports some domestic partner benefits, like hospital visitation rights.

The board of the NAACP voted 62-2 to endorse same-sex marriage this week, calling it the civil rights issue of our time.

The "Rahm" We Traveled

I almost stopped watching this video after the second appearance of Rahm Emmanuel appearing way too close on camera. Didn't they screen this film? Why they would include one of the most divisive and unloved characters in the Obama administration is beyond my understanding.   At least they didn't have Robert Gibbs narrate.  Was this film directed by a republican? With Rahm included I give this film a d-.  Cut Rahm out of the film and it gets an A.   I'll admit to a bias here, this is my mental image of Rahm, he's the little guy in red.

Image Credit: The Simpsons

Stock Market under President Obama

From Think Progress

Who would have thought the stock market would respond so well to the supposed "socialist" president.  Sorry, Romney, we already have a president that understands business.

President Obama Denies Permit for Keystone XL Pipeline, Hurray!!!

Image by Sterling College via Flickr

From Bill McKibben 

We wanted to share with you the news: this afternoon the Obama Administration announced that they are denying the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline. You did good work, against some of the longest possible odds.

For years, the knock on the President Obama was that he backed down too easily in the face of opposition. Not here. When Republicans in Congress forced the issue again by passing a 60-day time limit on the President's final decision, he stood strong and denied the permit. And that was despite the most explicit threats from Big Oil: that they would exact ‘huge political consequences’ if he did the right thing on Keystone. Make no mistake—this is a brave decision.

And make no mistake about this either—Big Oil will do everything it can to overturn that decision, because they are not used to losing. They have one weapon—money. They’ve used it to buy the allegiance of many Representatives and Senators and now they’ll use Congress to try and get their dirty work done. That’s what happened when the President delayed the permit last November, and we should expect them to try again now.
 Blocking one pipeline was never going to stop global warming—but it is a real start, one of the first times in the two-decade fight over climate change when the fossil fuel lobby has actually lost.

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