David Both

Thanks to you all!!!
Vickie

I received an email today about a huge anti-Palin rally in Alaska. I have put it up on the MoveOn-Ral.org web site. Here is the link: http://www.moveon-ral.org/?page_id=137

Barack Obama has just released a very interesting new ad in which he discusses the current economic crisis and describes his plan for dealing with this and the underlying causes.

Here is the link to his complete economic plan: BarackObama.com/plan

Today, the Obama campaign released two new 30-second TV ads, Real Change, which details what “change” is to Senator Obama and Still which details why John McCain would just be another out of touch president offering more of the same.

Watch Real Change…

Watch Still…

Please make a donation now and help share these ads with voters around the country.

Why is it that so many of the restaurants in the Raleigh area are like meat lockers in the middle of summer? I bring this up because we are at the beach this week and the restaurants — and other stores — here seem to be able to maintain their temperatures in the comfort range for most humans. It is noticeable by comparison.

I do not understand how the owners of these places can be so stupid as to not realize how much money they can save and how many customers they can please just by adjusting the temperature up to a level that won’t freeze a penguin.

I have to ask most places we eat to turn up the temperature. Some places we don’t even go anymore because they are so cold. Is yours one of them? You will never know because you won’t ever see us again.

1. John McCain voted against establishing a national holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Now he says his position has “evolved,” yet he’s continued to oppose key civil rights laws.¹
2. According to Bloomberg News, McCain is more hawkish than Bush on Iraq, Russia and China. Conservative columnist Pat Buchanan says McCain “will make Cheney look like Gandhi.”²
3. His reputation is built on his opposition to torture, but McCain voted against a bill to ban waterboarding, and then applauded President Bush for vetoing that ban.³
4. McCain opposes a woman’s right to choose. He said, “I do not support Roe versus Wade. It should be overturned.”⁴
5. The Children’s Defense Fund rated McCain as the worst senator in Congress for children. He voted against the children’s health care bill last year, then defended Bush’s veto of the bill.⁵
6. He’s one of the richest people in a Senate filled with millionaires. The Associated Press reports he and his wife own at least eight homes! Yet McCain says the solution to the housing crisis is for people facing foreclosure to get a “second job” and skip their vacations.⁶
7. Many of McCain’s fellow Republican senators say he’s too reckless to be commander in chief. One Republican senator said: “The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine. He’s erratic. He’s hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me.”⁷
8. McCain talks a lot about taking on special interests, but his campaign manager and top advisers are actually lobbyists. The government watchdog group Public Citizen says McCain has 59 lobbyists raising money for his campaign, more than any of the other presidential candidates.⁸
9. McCain has sought closer ties to the extreme religious right in recent years. The pastor McCain calls his “spiritual guide,” Rod Parsley, believes America’s founding mission is to destroy Islam, which he calls a “false religion.” McCain sought the political support of right-wing preacher John Hagee, who believes Hurricane Katrina was God’s punishment for gay rights and called the Catholic Church “the Antichrist” and a “false cult.”⁹
10. He positions himself as pro-environment, but he scored a 0—yes, zero—from the League of Conservation Voters last year.¹⁰

SOURCES

1. “The Complicated History of John McCain and MLK Day,” ABC News, April 3, 2008
“McCain Facts,” ColorOfChange.org, April 4, 2008

10. “John McCain Gets a Zero Rating for His Environmental Record,” Sierra Club, February 28, 2008