Obama in 08 ?? Why one rabbinical student is intrigued...

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Sunday October 22, 2006 · 12:28 PM PDT

2006/10/22 · 12:28

I just saw Barack Obama speak yesterday at Temple University at the big campaign rally for Casey, Rendell, and everyone else in Pennsylvania. (on Shabbat, no less).

I began to believe.

I was impressed. It's not his charisma. It's not his good looks. It's not his ethnic diversity. It's that the man's got some serious communication skills. He knows how communicate to people. It's his three years of working as a community organizer for Gamaliel in south-side Chicago. He knows how to communicate a vision. He knows how to share his public story in a way in which people can relate - in a way that people can understand. He knows how to listen to people. After listening to him talk, you learn something about him -- how he works and how he operates - how he's come to the decisions that he's made. Whether or not you ultimately agree or disagree with every political position that he takes, you leave respecting his judgement and his character. I want the opportunity to help elect this man into the white house. Read More

YearlyKos panel airing at CSPAN2 right now

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Monday June 12, 2006 · 8:27 PM PDT

2006/06/12 · 20:27

[Beginning Monday evening, 11:30 pm, eastern time] Yearly Kos panel now airing at CSPAN2 or streaming on the web.

I think they're airing three sessions. Communicating the Progressive Vision, Blogosphere Experts, and Political Journalism Read More

Breaking ... Ray Nagin declared winner in New Orleans

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Saturday May 20, 2006 · 9:01 PM PDT

2006/05/20 · 21:01

It's up on WWL's website:

442 of 442 Precincts 100%
Ray Nagin (I) 59,460 52%
Mitch Landrieu 54,131 48%

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Friday May 19, 2006 · 9:44 AM PDT

2006/05/19 · 09:44

Tomorrow's the big smack-down in the Big Easy... If you're there, who are you voting for?

If you're only a New Orleanian in spirit, who do you think can best build some levees, clean up the trash, rebuild the lower ninth ward, bake beignets, pour some hurricanes, and "Laissez les Bon Temps Roulez"? Read More

Voting Machine Problems in Pennsylvania

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Tuesday May 16, 2006 · 9:22 PM PDT

2006/05/16 · 21:22

This doesn't bode well for November... Read More

Link to 'President' Al Gore SNL skit

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Saturday May 13, 2006 · 11:26 PM PDT

2006/05/13 · 23:26

via ifilm.com, here's the link to Al Gore's SNL skit, with the alternate presidential reality, that opened the show tonight. Very bittersweet - funny and sad at the same time.

So what does this mean for Gore in 2008? Read More

Go to New Orleans, Volunteer and See it for Yourself...

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Thursday May 11, 2006 · 7:09 PM PDT

2006/05/11 · 19:09

A trip to New Orleans should be required for anyone running for Federal office in November.... Read More

Giuliani Played Politics with HUD Funds in the 90s, and Lost

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Tuesday May 09, 2006 · 4:45 PM PDT

2006/05/09 · 16:45

The current Brouhaha over Alfonso Jackson's illegal refusal to award HUD contracts to groups who criticize Bush, echos the New York City battles in 1997 (and again in 1999) between Mayor Giuliani and Housing Works, a local AIDS-activist group. This was also a denial of HUD funds to a group critical of the administration in charge. But in this case, the HUD secretary, Andrew Cuomo, stepped in to ensure fairness:

It began when citywide fears about the homeless were high. Two non-profit agencies, Housing Works and the Coalition for the Homeless, were among the most outspoken opponents of Mayor Giuliani's plan to "clean up the streets," and put the homeless to work. They soon found themselves kicked to the back of the line of programs seeking federal funds.
Housing Works sued. The federal judge hearing the case decided that the Giuliani administration had indeed retaliated against the agency. In response to this ruling, HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo rescinded control of federal funds for the homeless, some 60 million dollars, from the city in order to distribute them directly from the federal level.

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Monday May 08, 2006 · 3:31 PM PDT

2006/05/08 · 15:31

This is what happens when 100,000 people run out of food...

KALMA CAMP, Sudan, May 8 -- An African Union official was hacked to death in this vast, squalid camp today after his post, manned by an unarmed team of eight civilian police officers, was overrun and looted by a mob of angry demonstrators.
The discontent bubbled in a concoction of frustrations. Conditions had gotten worse in the past month, and this month, residents will get half as much food because the World Food Program, short of money, was forced to cut aid.

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Sunday May 07, 2006 · 8:41 PM PDT

2006/05/07 · 20:41

This just sucks - apparently the current solution for moldy debris from New Orleans is to put it in a big un-lined landfill, in the middle of a Vietnamese-American neighborhood and the largest urban wildlife refuge in the country. From the NY Times:

Block after block, neighborhood after neighborhood, tens of thousands of hurricane-ravaged houses here rot in the sun, still waiting to be gutted or bulldozed. Now officials have decided where several million tons of their remains will be dumped: in man-made pits at the swampy eastern edge of town, out by the coffee-roasting plant and the space-shuttle factory and the big wildlife refuge.
But more than a thousand Vietnamese-American families live less than two miles from the edge of the new landfill. And they are far from pleased at having the moldering remains of a national disaster plunked down nearby, alongside the canal that flooded their neighborhood when Hurricane Katrina surged through last year.

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Saturday May 06, 2006 · 9:11 AM PDT

2006/05/06 · 09:11

Just in from the Times Picayune, Bush and pals are thinking of disbanding part of Americorps: the National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC):

NCCC members, trained in first aid and team building, were among the first federal relief groups sent to the Gulf Coast, arriving within a day of Katrina's impact, officials said. Numbering as many as 300 at a time in Louisiana, and working in teams of about 10 members, they have tackled a litany of tasks in the New Orleans area, including house gutting, house building, delivering food, setting up a warehouse for donated household items and coordinating other volunteers. The NCCC, with workers ranging in age from 18 to 24, has provided more than 500,000 hours of service to post-Katrina recovery projects, officials said.
AmeriCorps officials don't see a conflict between eliminating the NCCC, which began in 1992, and the president's call for more volunteers during a visit to New Orleans last week. "If you're interested in helping the victims of Katrina, if you want to help them get back on their feet, then come on down to New Orleans," Bush said in the Lower 9th Ward.

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Friday May 05, 2006 · 7:12 AM PDT

2006/05/05 · 07:12

One of the biggest hurdles to solving the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Darfur is to inform the American public what's going on.

NBC has started to cover it, with the Today Show sending Ann Curry, as well as a Sudan plot-line on ER (wasn't that a good episode last night!) The next step is to get the rest of the MSM to jump onto the bandwagon.

Click here on AJWS's website to send a quick email to the producers at ABC, CBS, CNN and Fox News, urging them to follow NBC's lead and inform the American public about the ongoing dire situation.

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