From George Washington To Barack Obama - 44 Presidents of the United States
The video is created with a Face Morphing program...It's set to the music of Maurice Ravel's Boléro.
The person who created this video must've put a lot of time and effort into the morphing all those faces...
by http://www.youtube.com/user/poldivideo
h/t: Silent Patriot - Crooks and Liars
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I could be wrong but I think that Obama will win SD-15 with approximately 60% of the vote...If I'm right, this is another example of Serf being out-of-touch with the district...
It is one of the most hotly contested races on the ballot for the general election. Nonetheless, State Senator Serphin R. Maltese says that he is encouraged about his re-election prospects on Nov. 4, because he expects to benefit from the presence of John McCain at the top of the Republican ticket.
Mr. Maltese, a Republican who represents a moderate- to conservative-leaning district in Queens, said that his party’s presidential candidate is popular enough in the 15th State Senate District to provide coattails for candidates, like him, who are farther down on the ballot.
“I think that John McCain will run a very competitive race in my district,” Mr. Maltese said in an interview on Tuesday. “I expect he will get perhaps 50 percent of the vote in my district. That means I have more of a shot of getting not just the Republican votes, but the votes of other independent voters in my district.”
Two years ago, Mr. Maltese, who was first elected to the Senate in 1988, was challenged by Albert J. Baldeo, a lawyer who was not particularly well known in the district and who was not backed by the Democratic Party organization in Queens. That year, Mr. Baldeo came within 2 percentage points, about 900 votes, from defeating the longtime senator.
In this year’s race, Mr. Maltese’s Democratic challenger is City Councilman Joseph P. Addabbo Jr. Mr. Addabbo has the enthusiastic support of the Democratic organization in Queens and has a well known family name (his late father was a congressman from the borough). And the party — in Queens and in the state — has made Mr. Addabbo’s campaign a priority.
The district, where registered Democratic voters outpace Republicans, stretches from Howard Beach through Middle Village to Maspeth.
Apart from the help he expects to get from Senator McCain’s presence on the ballot. Mr. Maltese also points to his support from unions this year, saying that they will provide him with needed campaign volunteers. Just last week, he was endorsed by 1199 S.E.I.U., the large healthcare workers union.
“I’m especially pleased with that endorsement because they put their men and women where their mouth is,” Mr. Maltese said. “They have assets and men and women who are willing to come out and campaign door to door.”
But Mr. Addabbo said that he has his own list of unions supporting him and that the Democratic ticket will also draw many voters to his side of the ballot.
“We have a list of unions supporting my campaign, too,” Mr. Addabbo said. “And we’re proud to have so many labor unions with us. But in the end, it’s not who endorses you that counts as much as what the voters themselves do. And we’re out there talking to voters and I think they’ll do the right thing.”
"Former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell endorsed the presidential bid of Senator Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee, during an interview Sunday on “Meet the Press.”
Seabrook then asks the education adviser to Sen. Barack Obama, Linda Darling-Hammond, and the adviser to Sen. John McCain, Lisa Graham Keegan, to explain the candidates' plans for U.S. education.
If a boob like Homer Simpson votes...shouldn't you..??
Be sure to Vote on November 4th...
I still think Hillary is the best candidate to beat John McCain and the GOP...and lead the nation and the world to peace and prosperity..!
Also Published July 4th in the Rockaway Wave - Troubling Election Season
Dear Editor:
I am writing to comment on recent troubling developments in the presidential race.
After what was described by many pundits as a interminable race in the democratic primary between Senator Hillary Clinton and Senator Barack Obama, Obama emerged as the presumed candidate of his party.
For the record, I am a strong supporter of Senator Hillary Clinton's candidacy.
For months all we were told by those in the media was how Senator Obama was a new type of candidate, that he was a non-political politician, that he was above the fray, and that he was running to change politics as we have known it within the Washington beltway. Obama portrays himself as transcending traditional divides
You all must have heard thousands of times how he was a NEW type of politician, Senator Obama was billed as a “reformer” cast from the same mold as was Robert F. Kennedy. He was certainly said to be from the progressive wing of the democratic party.
I never bought into this theory, I never saw or heard how his campaign rhetoric really explained how he planned to do anything of substance nor did I hear any semblance of what he had already accomplished, all I heard was flowery vacuous speeches in front of mostly young enthusiastic crowds, ala a rock star.
Now within weeks of virtually securing the democratic party nomination, he has thrown the progressive principles he was supposed to stand for out the window.
For starters, he has decided to break his promises to run his campaign outside of the federal campaign finance limitations. Foregoing, his prior commitments to run his campaign within the campaign finance laws for which he until recently advocated.
Barack Obama’s decision not to take public funds for the general election was a total reversal of his previous positions, as the huckster/wizard in “The Wizard of Oz” says, “in the vernacular of the peasantry”, it's nothing short of a flip-flop, a sheer calculation designed for political expediency. Obama’s decision here reflects a Washington “business as usual” attitude toward politics. All of a sudden, Obama, after agreeing for 2 years with the public financing of presidential campaigns, he now says that "the system is broken".
And secondly and most importantly, he has decided to vote in favor of the Bush/Cheney cabal corporate mindset and has chosen to trample upon the US Constitution by supporting the FISA bill which can be summed up as the Telecom Immunity Act.
There is absolutely no need for a new FISA bill, the facts are that the current law allows the President to engage in secret wiretapping, even to the extent of waiting three days after beginning a wiretap to ask permission from a secret court. There is no imminent security threat nor any loophole that demanded additional action, as far as I can ascertain.
As reported in “The Politico” on June 20 - It’s official: Obama will back a filibuster of any Senate FISA legislation containing telecom immunity, his campaign has just told Election Central. The Obama campaign has just sent over the following statement from spokesman Bill Burton:
“To be clear: Barack will support a filibuster of any bill that includes retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies.”
Then in a stunning reversal of everything we were told he was against, he supports the very bill he just two weeks before spoke out against.
Lets be clear, this Act totally eviscerates the Fourth Amendment to our sacred Constitution and allows the telecom industry to operate outside the law and helps the federal government spy on each and everyone of us.
This is in my mind, a total capitulation to a lame duck president who is at historic lows in popularity with the American people. Senator Obama has embraced and is pandering to an extreme right wing position and it is surely a prime example of him helping to inch our nation closer towards Fascism -- the merged efforts of government and corporations that answer to no government. Senator Obama has chosen to "retroactively immunize corporate criminals," instead of standing up up for our Constitution and the common man .
I can't say strongly enough how I feel the Senator has cowered to the ultra right wing Republican thugs and I believe these actions display a demonstrated weakness and a monumental lack of strength.
In closing, if Senator Obama cannot show courage now and stand up to those who would harm our basic American freedoms, as our forefathers clearly articulated in the Constitution, how can we trust him to stand up for the American people in this violent and ever stringent world of terrorists and enemies throughout the world.
Sincerely,
David M. Quintana
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