Tom Green County Democratic News

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NBC: Obama elected 44th president

Illinois senator to become first African-American executive in U.S. history

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• A Voter Activation Network (VAN) Training will be held on August 23, 2008.  The session will be held at 2:30 at Angelo State University. Please call the headquarters for more info at 655-VOTE.

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• Young Democrats at ASU Secretary, Heather Guthrie is currently in Denver, Colorado attending seminars that deal with the Democratic Party. She will also be present at the Convention. Please check frequently with us as she will be sending us blogs and photos of her inspiring journey.  For info on Young Dems. at ASU please email President Manny Campos at gcampos@angelo.edu. 

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• Are you wanting to fight on the front lines? Are you ready to help put America back on the right track? If so San Angelo for Obama (SAFO) has mobilized locally.  Please call Adam Torres at (325) 212-1146 for more information.   

  

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November 2008 Talking Points:

President-Elect Obama Meets with Economic Advisers, Calls for "Swift Action" on the Economy:

"Immediately after I become president I will confront this economic crisis head-on by taking all necessary steps to ease the credit crisis, help hardworking families, and restore growth and prosperity," President-Elect Obama said. Click here for more.

Emanuel to be Obama's White House Chief of Staff:

President-elect Barack Obama announced yesterday that Congressman Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.) has accepted his offer to join the White House as Chief of Staff. Click here for more.

Change has come to America:

Last night, President-Elect Barack Obama delivered the final speech of a presidential campaign that promised change in Washington. Click here for more.

Stop runaway spending on war:

I am worried about the current financial crisis and how it will affect what the next administration can do. Click here for more.

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October 2008 Talking Points:

Biden winner in VP debate:

U.S. Sen. Joe Biden clearly won Thursday's debate. While Sarah Palin did a good job presenting rehearsed talking points, Biden looked like a real vice president. Click here
for more.

Time for Palin to put up or shut up:

Is Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin running for vice president of the United States or vice president of the student council? Click here for more.

Sarah Palin Has Never Seen Russia From Alaska:

Just when you thought the whole "I can see Russia from Alaska" thing couldn't get any funnier...CNN's Gary Tuchman delivers the goods: it turns out that Sarah Palin has never seen Russia from Alaska.Tuchman went up to the part of Alaska from which you can actually see Russia, a remote island called Little Diomede located just 2.4 miles from it's Russian twin, Big Diomede.It turns out Gary Tuchman's trip to Little Diomede sets him apart from Sarah Palin -- because she's never actually been there, nor has she set eyes on its neighbor in Russia. Click here for more.

McCain Rewrites Palin's History, by Rep. Les Gara:

Over the past few weeks we Alaskans have been scratching our heads over the interesting claims the McCain campaign has made about our Governor. A lot of them have been news to us. Governor Palin's nomination to the McCain ticket has created unusual common ground for Alaskans. Whether we support her or not, we've been furrowing our eyebrows a lot lately as we watch the McCain campaign re-write Alaska history. Click here for more.

September 2008 Talking Points:

Palin on World Affairs: Just not Ready for:

Sarah Palin revealed herself in the Charlie Gibson interview on ABC to be nervous, uninformed, green and generally not ready for prime time. The interview was full of stock phrases she was made to memorize, and which she repeated over and over again when stumped. She knows nothing about how Iran is run, or about Pakistan, or about al-Qaeda, and even is ignorant of the Bush doctrine of preemptive warfare. It was a shockingly bad performance. Click here for more.

McCain: Barack Made Me Lie!:

Speaking last night at the national service forum, John McCain got asked a question about why his campaign keeps making false accusations. /;"First of all this is a tough business," the Arizona senator said. "Second of all, I think the tone of this whole campaign would've been very different if Sen. Obama had accepted my request for us to appear at town hall meetings all over America." Click here for more. . .

More Americans Have Died in Iraq Than Died on 9/11:

Today is the seven-year anniversary of September 11, 2001. It remains one of the most tragic, and historic, days in our country's history, and there's no question that the events of that day changed the course of our nation's destiny. Click here for more.

Obama Campaign Urges Texas Supporters To Help in New Mexico:

Today, Obama's Texas state director Juan Sepulveda sent out an e-mail asking Texas volunteers to help Obama win New Mexico, the Houston Chronicle reports. Click here for more.

MCCAIN CAMPAIGN LIES ABOUT LIES:

Report: McCain Pushed Woman In A Wheelchair:

On Sunday, McClatchy Newspapers published a story on Sen. John McCain's oft-discussed temper, detailing one incident in which McCain allegedly pushed a woman in a wheelchair. Click here for more.

Real McCain of Genious:

This is just great. And well produced, too. Click here for more.

What Sarah Palin didn't tell us:

On September 3rd, Republican VP candidate and current Alaska Governor Sarah Palin gave a very impressive acceptance speech. She seemed strong, bright, poised, and confident. Her speech seemed to fire up the audience. Lots of applause. Standing ovations. And, based on interviews by the television reporters on the convention floor, Palin even seemed to win over some moderate pro-choice Republican women. It was that easy. But that was just one speech, and it was written to strategically touch on talking points that would win points with the audience, and ignore others. And the points they chose to ignore could make all the difference in voters' minds. Click here for more.

We need strong energy bill:

This summer, the U.S. Senate and U.S. House passed their own versions of a clean-energy bill. These victories were an important step in the larger battle for strong energy policy in America. Congress must continue to move forward and agree on a strong and clean final version of this energy bill. Click here for more.

RNC speeches fact-checked:

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her Republican supporters held back little Wednesday as they issued dismissive attacks on Barack Obama and flattering praise on her credentials to be vice president. In some cases, the reproach and the praise stretched the truth. Click here for more.

Biden: Criminal charges against Bush Admin. on the table:

Holy crap. Boy howdy, did Political Radar bury the lede in a big way. I direct your attention to the 9th and 10th paragraphs of their blog post about Biden ripping into Bush today: Looking to the future but with one eye on the past, Biden also promised that an Obama-Biden government would go through Bush administration data with "a fine-toothed comb" and pursue criminal charges if necessary. Click here for more.

McCain offers four more years of Bush:

I look forward to November's election with great excitement. The presidential race, local races and school bond proposals will produce record turnout. Click here for more.

Scandal-Plagued Ted Stevens Endorses Palin For VP, Says He's ‘Known And Worked' With Her ‘For Over A Decade':

In a statement announcing the choice of Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate, Sen. John McCain's campaign emphasized that "in Alaska, Governor Palin challenged a corrupt system." But that claim was undermined today when Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK), who was indicted last month for not reporting gifts from an Alaskan oil company, endorsed her as McCain's vice president. Stevens said that he had "known and worked" with Palin for "over a decade": Click here for more.

McCain's VP choice under investigation:

The office of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is the target of an investigation involving the firing of the state's top public safety official, authorities said. Click here for more.

Is McCain out of his mind?:

John McCain needs what Kinky Friedman calls "a checkup from the neck up." In choosing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be his running mate he is not thinking "outside the box," as some have said. More like out of his mind. Click here for more.

McCain's veep choice is historic and hardly known:

In two short years, Sarah Palin moved from small-town mayor with a taste for mooseburgers to the governor's office and now - making history - to John McCain's side as the first female running mate on a Republican presidential ticket. Click here for more.

Obama blasts Bush's ‘failed presidency':

Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois accepted the Democratic presidential nomination Thursday night, declaring that Sen. John McCain of Arizona, his Republican opponent, was not up to the task of resolving America's economic and foreign policy problems. Click here for more.

What Bush Taught McCain:

The woman, a venture capitalist from the Denver area, looked a bit like Cindy McCain, and so it was disconcerting when she announced, in a focus group of undecided voters conducted by the Republican pollster Frank Luntz, that she had decided she just couldn't vote for John McCain this year. "I supported him enthusiastically in 2000, but he's hired the same people who ran him into the ground last time to run his campaign," she said. McCain's tone was more negative now. "It breaks my heart." Click here for more

Biden goes after McCain as he joins the ticket:

Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware set the stage for Sen. Barack Obama's historic address as the Democratic presidential nominee by launching a heated attack Wednesday night tying Sen. John McCain to the Bush White House and telling voters they had the power to change the country's direction. Click here for more.

Bill Clinton leaves no doubt:

Bill Clinton lays to rest any speculation that he would not enthusiastically back Barack Obama by making a forceful call for voters to elect Obama president. Click here for more.

Dems choose Obama in thunderous acclamation:

Barack Obama stepped triumphantly into history Wednesday night, the first black American to win a major party presidential nomination, as thousands of Democrats transformed their convention hall into a joyful, shouting celebration. Click here for more.

Clinton doesn't back down:

With all eyes on Hillary Clinton at the DNC, she takes dead aim at John McCain. Click here for more.

Obama's Family Night Out:

After an emotional speech by an ailing Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the face of the Democratic Party shifted on Monday night to a new generation of leaders, as Michelle Obama opened the Democratic National Convention with a tribute to her husband and a call to the country to listen "to our hopes instead of our fears," and "to stop doubting and to start dreaming." Click here for more.

Kennedy rallies Dems for Obama as convention opens:

Ailing and aging, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy summoned fellow Democrats to rally behind Barack Obama's pioneering quest for the White House Monday night, providing a poignant opening to a party convention in search of unity for the fall campaign. Click here for more.