campaign 2008 News

148 years after our beloved 16th president Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation and dreamed of freedom for all people Barack Obama became the 44th president of the US fulfilling Lincoln's dream. Both came from Illinois.

Today for the first time since the party conventions in August the candidates finally acted presidential and carefully and calmly laid out agendas for the future of America. It was a refreshing change from the attacks of the recent past.

Our Democratic candidates for president have engaged in such a bitter, personal battle they are in danger of throwing away any chance to win in the fall thus destroying over 140 years of political evolution in America as the world looks on.

With record oil prices sending the USA and world into an economic crisis why are so many elected and appointed government officials and candidates for office virtually silent on the matter and failing to offer solutions? Maybe they should listen.

As primary day in Pennsylvania begins Hillary has given us another indication of the type of president she will be when the phone rings at 3 AM in the White House.

The final Democratic debate in Philadelphia saw co-host George Stephanopoulos, a former Bill Clinton insider and current ABC political analyst attempt to associate Barach Obama with unsavory characters as Hillary stood by and smiled.

Senator Mike Gravel (D-AK), Democratic Party candidate for President in 2008, and VotingOnTheInternet.com have jointly released today a Petition on the Internet that will require the Bush administration to bring all US Troops home from Iraq by Xmas.