Obama's New Site: Change.gov is online!

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Thursday November 06, 2008 · 12:59 PM PST

2008/11/06 · 12:59

After winning the election, the Obama campaign announced that there would be a new web site for the transition team: www.change.gov.

After a day of refreshing, it looks like it just went online.

Change.gov - Office of the President Elect

Jimmm

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Monday November 03, 2008 · 5:24 PM PST

2008/11/03 · 17:24

The plural of anecdote is not data, but I have observed an interesting trend among a number of conservative friends and family: the write-in vote.

Organized write-in campaigns crop up every election cycle, and rarely amount to much (although Strom Thurmond won his senate seat in 1954 as a write-in candidate). But in this case I'm talking about the disorganized write-in. The one-off. The protest.

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Do you know anyone casting a write-in vote?

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Do you know anyone casting a write-in vote?

Yes

35 votes

57 votes

Too busy volunteering to ask

12 votes

McCain Campaign says: Call a lie a lie

Jimmm

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Sunday September 21, 2008 · 12:15 PM PDT

2008/09/21 · 12:15

Over the past couple of weeks, more and more journalists have come to recognize that John McCain is running a sleazy, lying campaign... but a surprising number are still stuck on the tire swing.

Well, the word has come down from the McCain campaign: it's time for those holdouts to step up and call a lie a lie.

Jimmm

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Thursday September 11, 2008 · 9:14 PM PDT

2008/09/11 · 21:14

I was struck by something that Barack Obama said during the Nation of Service Forum tonight. In discussing the various ways in which we could channel the desire of young people to serve, he mentioned in passing the what sounded like a "Green Energy Corps".

My first thought was, "what a great idea".

Jimmm

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Thursday July 31, 2008 · 7:15 PM PDT

2008/07/31 · 19:15

Since John McCain has apparently decided that there are no rules in an "honorable" campaign, I thought that Obama might want to join in on the fact-free fun.

Jimmm

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Wednesday July 16, 2008 · 4:11 AM PDT

2008/07/16 · 04:11

Like many people nowadays, I spend the majority of my waking hours at or near a computer. I get most of my news online... and more specifically, I get almost 100% of my information about Congressional and Senatorial campaigns online. When I choose to donate to one of those candidates, I make that donation online.

So why oh why do so many of them feel compelled to send me snail mail in response?

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How many contribution thank-you notes have you recycled?

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How many contribution thank-you notes have you recycled?

None

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1 - 5

3 votes

6 - 10

2 votes

I stopped counting

13 votes

What is Obama thinking?

Jimmm

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Saturday June 21, 2008 · 7:02 PM PDT

2008/06/21 · 19:02

We obviously won't know for sure until FISA reaches the Senate floor, but two things spring to mind: Pragmatism, and political showmanship.

Pragmatism is the safe bet. Obama, Presidential nomination notwithstanding, is still the junior Senator from Illinois. It's true that he has momentum going for him... but that's not the same as political capital.

Bearing that in mind, it may be that he sees greater benefit to his election efforts by avoiding a fight now and biding his time until after the election. At that point he would be in a position to not only revisit FISA, but to appoint progressive (and Constitutionally-minded) Supreme Court justices who could potentially strike it down on Constitutional grounds. In any event, I for one am confident that it would be added to the laundry list of laws and executive orders that would be reviewed and likely overturned in the first year or so of an Obama Presidency.

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What is Obama thinking?