voice and vote is honored to make sure her name is put into nomination,” a person close the negotiations said.
The next U.S. president could shape cybersecurity, government research initiatives, intellectual property laws, and wired and wireless communications services in ways that affect both enterprise IT executives and average citizens. Yet some experts say he could handle all this without having Twittered, texted or even used a PC, although his familiarity with information technologies might strongly affect his policies. Much has been made in the media of a seemingly wide gulf in tech smarts between Republican John McCain, who has described letting his wife handle his computer tasks, and Democrat Barack Obama, who has appeared on video using a BlackBerry while walking down the street. President George W. Bush has been ridiculed for talking about rumors on "the Internets," but only one other president has even been in office in the age of the Web, laptops and ubiquitous cell phones. [read more]
  Social Security was signed into law on August 14, 1935. 73 years later, 42 million Americans rely on Social Security to get them through retirement. It’s kept millions out of poverty as one of the last tried-and-true safety nets.American retirees need a secure Social Security system more than ever. Nearly half of U.S. workers do not have defined benefit retirement plans. And the half that do have a pension plan live in fear as more and more employers try to go back on their promises. In today’s failing economy, Social Security is one of the few things left to count on. Americans are being squeezed as never before. Gas, groceries, healthcare, and all essentials cost more at a time when wages are just not keeping up. For seniors on a fixed income, it’s even more difficult to pay the bills. That’s why Labor 2008 is mobilizing against Senator McCain’s opposition to Social Security.“McCain showed just how little he cared about Social Security when he recently called it a disgrace at a town hall meeting. When President Bush tried to push through his privatization scheme, McCain was right there beside him, lobbying to turn a popular, secure retirement program into a risky program that will penalize millions of middle-class retirees,” says Vince Beltrami, AK AFL-CIO President.  “Barack Obama has said that he would never consider privatizing Social Security, that it is the most successful social program ever created. He understands that seniors need to be able to rely on a monthly check.”AFL-CIO endorsed candidates Mark Begich (U.S Senate) and Ethan Berkowitz (U.S. House) are also on record opposing social security privatization.America's workers and retirees deserve the best. Social Security has never missed a check, and Labor 2008 is fighting to keep it that way.
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Can you imagine living in a place where birth control is considered an "abortion" and health insurers won't cover it? Where even rape victims are denied emergency contraception?It seems unbelievable, but the Bush Administration is quietly trying to redefine "abortion" to include birth control. The Houston Chronicle says this could wipe out dozens of state laws that protect women's reproductive freedom and protect rape victims.1 Access to basic health care for millions of women would be jeopardized. And it's being pushed as a "rule change"—meaning, it doesn't need congressional approval.Can you sign an emergency message to Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt, whose department is considering this rule change right now? Tell him: "Contraception is NOT abortion. The Bush Administration's proposal to change the definition of abortion and reduce women's access to birth control must be stopped."Clicking here will add your name to this message: contraception/o.pl?id=13468-9606000-mI_hDFx&t=4The best way to beat back this proposal is to show Secretary Leavitt massive public outrage—that's why today we're launching this petition jointly with Planned Parenthood Action Fund. Together, we'll deliver every signature to Leavitt. You can help add to our momentum by forwarding this message to friends.Here's what some others are saying about this proposal:The draft regulation would define birth control as abortion...it could deny access to critical family planning for women across the country. —Letter signed by Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and 26 other senators.The draft rule could void laws in 27 states that require insurance companies to provide birth control coverage for women requesting it [and] laws in 14 states requiring that rape victims receive counseling and access to emergency, day-after contraceptives.—Houston Chronicle editorialThe administration needs to stop playing word games with women's health and state clearly they will reject any regulations that will undermine women's access to basic health care.—Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America.[It's] a spectacular act of complicity with the religious right... —RH Reality Check, Information and Analysis for Reproductive HealthThe birth control pill, the IUD, and emergency contraception might all become unavailable—illegal—as a result.—Brigid Riley, executive director of a Minnesota teen pregnancy prevention organizationCan you help send a loud message to Secretary Leavitt that birth control is NOT abortion? Clicking here will sign your name: contraception/o.pl?id=13468-9606000-mI_hDFx&t=5HERE is an in depth article about the bill forwarded to me by betmo at life's journey.
  Thank you, amazon.  You looked at "The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media's Favorite Candidate." You might also consider: "Holy Bible: New American Standard Bible."  I worry about November...ETA: Just to be clear, the above quote isn't satire. Amazon actually did recommend the Bible because I browsed to an anti-Obama book.
  And this is a good thing, incase the worst thing happens that Hussein Obama wins in November. He would never place these Missiles in Poland because he is weak on Defense. That is what is wrong with the Democrat party of today. It is weak on defense. This tension in Georgia really makes it clear that the better candidate is Sen. McCain.
While the world waits with baited breath for their text message detailing Obama’s veep choice, there is the slightly less news-worthy (i.e. doesn’t make the cut for the Daily Show or Colbert) nugget.  The diligent workers in the Indecision2008 blog-mines have compiled an insightful review of NPH characters as VP candidates to join Barack in his run.“Vote for Doogie!” has a highly-electable ring to it, but as such a young mousy prodigy he runs the risk of being mistaken for Dennis Kucinich.  How I Met Your Mother’s Barney and Cabaret’s Emcee are sure to lock in the lefties and solidify the Democratic vote from former Hillary supporters.  NPH as portrayed in Harold & Kumar is the obvious choice.  If you’re hoping to convert some Patrick-Harris popularity into motivated voters then you have to go with NPH’s role as NPH playing NPH.  That’s like NPH^3, though technically it is the quantity (NPH) cubed or N^3 P^3 H^3.  Regardless, meta-NPH is more powerful than partisan politics.  It is Neil we can believe in!Notably missing is Dr. Horrible, the unstoppable internet sensation.  It swept the web, the wave receded and returned with renewed ferociousness-ocity.  Buy it on iTunes, buy some swag, and watch it on hulu in as many simultaneous browser windows as your computer can handle. Super villains have made forays into politics before (see Rockefeller), but America has yet to see which demographics go for the mad scientist archetype.  He is well-educated and worldy which plays well with Democrats while still being a hard-working American oppressed by a government trying to take away his guns (and other, more elegant inventions).  via Indecision2008
 ***OH COME NOW ... WOMEN HAVE BEEN 'FAKING IT' SINCE EVE STARTED WEARING SKINS ... AND MAYBE EVEN BEFORE  So how come everyone is so surprised that:The Chinese faked their fireworks on TV, had a "perfectly" cute girl lip-sync for the real singer who had crooked teeth, and passed off girl athletes who still have their baby teeth as 16-year-olds.Russia faked a cease-fire deal with Nicolas Sarkozy, actually increasing the intensity of their invasion of the tiny but sovereign democratic nation of Georgia.The media faked reports of collapsing glaciers using special effects footage from sci-fi movies, showed "Arctic" footage with "endangered" penguins (get it?) in the background.John Edwards faked his devotion and loving relationship with his cancer-stricken wife, then faked and fibbed his way through his interview with ABC-News.  ***  He didn't mean to be funny, but Walter Shapiro wrote a hysterical column lamenting how he was suckered into believing in John Edwards ... an admission made more incredible in that anyone with the sense of a cat knew this slip-and fall lawyer was a phony and an empty suit.opinion/feature/2008/08/14/edwards/Is he serious? Are these people really that gullible, or is this Shapiro's way of washing his hands of any complicity for promoting an empty suit because it fit his template and furthered his agenda?You have to be a pretty rotten piece of work to give trial lawyers a bad name but Johnny Boy has managed to do that. What makes this so funny is that these same people have fallen for the "charms" of Bill Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi, and now Barack Obama. They have all been exposed and have disappointed and/or will be eventually ... especially if they start to actually address who these people are, especially Obama, and reveal what they want to do.Unfortunately, these media crusaders for the "liberal" agenda want to be so much part of the "history" they are working so hard to create, and to convince us the story they are telling us is true by hiding the real plot.It's fakery of the highest order, and Mr. Shapiro has unwittingly let the cat out of the bag. Half of the country is pretty much aware of what's going on out there in fantasy-land. Now the job is to keep hammering down the truth about these people.It shouldn't be hard, if you just remind yourself how long fibbing and fakery have been around, and especially how women have been faking it since before recorded history.At least that is what I've been told. ;-)  ***Tricky Dicky was a fast talkerBut his promises were always a lieNostradamus was a doom-watcherPredicted when we're gonna dieCleopatra was a love-giverJesse James was a born killerMe, I'm just a rock 'n' roll singer I'm not fakin' itFoolin' myself that I'm makin' itI'm not fakin' it.***
“I think Hillary Clinton has been very gracious. I think some of her supporters have been less than gracious.”  -Nancy “windmill” PelosiHow dare you Clinton supporters feel this way about Obama, let alone speak without Shepherd Pelosi’s permission  ?~Dan Lee
 John McCain recently tried to underscore his seriousness about pushing through a new energy policy, with a strong focus on more drilling for oil, by telling a motorcycle convention that Congress needed to come back from vacation immediately and do something about America’s energy crisis. “Tell them to come back and get to work!” McCain bellowed. Sorry, but I can’t let that one go by. McCain knows why. It was only five days earlier, on July 30, that the Senate was voting for the eighth time in the past year on a broad, vitally important bill — S. 3335 — that would have extended the investment tax credits for installing solar energy and the production tax credits for building wind turbines and other energy-efficiency systems. Both the wind and solar industries depend on these credits — which expire in December — to scale their businesses and become competitive with coal, oil and natural gas. Unlike offshore drilling, these credits could have an immediate impact on America’s energy profile. Senator McCain did not show up for the crucial vote on July 30, and the renewable energy bill was defeated for the eighth time. In fact, John McCain has a perfect record on this renewable energy legislation. He has missed all eight votes over the last year — which effectively counts as a no vote each time. Once, he was even in the Senate and wouldn’t leave his office to vote. “McCain did not show up on any votes,” said Scott Sklar, president of The Stella Group, which tracks clean-technology legislation. Despite that, McCain’s campaign commercial running during the Olympics shows a bunch of spinning wind turbines — the very wind turbines that he would not cast a vote to subsidize, even though he supports big subsidies for nuclear power. Barack Obama did not vote on July 30 either — which is equally inexcusable in my book — but he did vote on three previous occasions in favor of the solar and wind credits. The fact that Congress has failed eight times to renew them is largely because of a hard core of Republican senators who either don’t want to give Democrats such a victory in an election year or simply don’t believe in renewable energy. What impact does this have? In the solar industry today there is a rush to finish any project that would be up and running by Dec. 31 — when the credits expire — and most everything beyond that is now on hold. Consider the Solana concentrated solar power plant, 70 miles southwest of Phoenix in McCain’s home state. It is the biggest proposed concentrating solar energy project ever. The farsighted local utility is ready to buy its power. But because of the Senate’s refusal to extend the solar tax credits, “we cannot get our bank financing,” said Fred Morse, a senior adviser for the American operations of Abengoa Solar, which is building the project. “Without the credits, the numbers don’t work.” Some 2,0