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The President-Elect’s Weekly Address

Aggregated from: PoliGazette — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 22:28:58 +0000

Watch it:

Click here to view the embedded video.

Obama and McCain to meet on Monday

Aggregated from: England for Obama — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 11:18:43 +0000

Barack Obama and The Politician Formerly Known As The Old John McCain - John McCain - are sitting down together on Monday. According to HuffPo, they’re set to “bury the ax”. Which I think is American for: “bury the axe”.

Announcing the meeting, an Obama spokesman said:

“It’s well known that they share an important belief that Americans want and deserve a more effective and efficient government, and will discuss ways to work together to make that a reality.”

And here was Keith Olbermann’s take on the news last night:

Blimey. First Joe Lieberman, then Hillary Clinton, now John McCain. Has Barack ever met a politician he didn’t like?

The revolution will be televised

Aggregated from: England for Obama — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:09:31 +0000

Sort of.

Starting this Saturday, Barack Obama is going to be broadcasting to the nation - nay, the world - via the medium of this here new-fangled computer thingy. Every week. Think of him as a 21st century FDR, if you will.

Obama’s weekly video addresses are an example of the promised a) transparency and b) new-fangledness (also known as ‘technology’) that the Obama campaign said it would bring to the presidency.

They’ll go out on both YouTube and change.gov - and in fact, his team have already got the ball rolling with this video below.

Are you sitting comfortably? Then he’ll begin. Or rather: transition chief Valerie Jarrett will begin:

Hillary Clinton to be Secretary of State?

Aggregated from: England for Obama — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:10:20 +0000

Ooh. Looks like Barack Obama is taking that whole “team of rivals” thing seriously.

Here’s the story.

And here.

And here:

Postcards to the president

Aggregated from: The World Wants Obama Coalition — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:50:00 +0000

Reuters has filmed a series of video messages from people in a dozen countries congratulating Barack Obama on his election victory and offering suggestions, requests and advice. You can submit your own video message on YouTube, tagging it postcardstopresident. This builds on Reuters excellent Voices without Votes project. Here are some views from Iraq (mainly in Arabic, except for the first one, translations in the reuters article).

Meanwhile, the Guardian newspaper has set up a Flick group to upload images as a message to President-elect Obama.

Baracknopohobia and Bill O’Reilly

Aggregated from: England for Obama — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:05:52 +0000

Jon Stewart interviewed Bill O’Reilly on last night’s Daily Show - and tried to calm his Baracknophobia:

Interview part one -

Interview part two -

Presser Palin

Aggregated from: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 02:57:24 +0000

Sarah Palin held a 3 minute press conference today at the Republican Governors Association meeting. It was…fun.

I know, I know. The election is over. But apparently a wing of the Republican party believes this trainwreck is their future leader. Others don’t. Either way, this trainwreck aims to entertain us for as long as she can.

It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day…

Aggregated from: England for Obama — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:43:43 +0000

…and Americans are feeling good. Despite the economy being in what we Brits would call the ‘loo’. Rachel Maddow looks at The Obama Optimism Effect (as well as press coverage of Barack’s every move; and the latest on Joe Lieberman):

In fact, it seems that everyone is feeling that little bit happier now that A Nice Man is leader of the free world. As America In The World reports, Brits’ opinions of the United States have improved since Obama was elected - to the extent that we now apparently like America more than France and Germany. Imagine!

Actually, you don’t have to imagine. Here were the results of the survey:

This just in: the recession is Barack Obama’s fault

Aggregated from: England for Obama — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:41:55 +0000

This is priceless. Yet also frightening.

Two of our least favourite lying liars, Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh*, have started to refer to “the Obama recession”. Because this current economic crisis isn’t the fault of the Bush administration, or Republican policy, or Reaganomics. No. It’s the fault of the man who isn’t even President yet:

Ladies and gentlemen: the misinforming of the American people continues. *Sighs*.

(Hat tip: Bob Cesca.)

*holy trinity completed, of course, by Bill O’Reilly

Spare a thought tonight…

Aggregated from: England for Obama — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:07:39 +0000

…at midnight, UK time.

Because at that precise moment, Joe and Jill Biden will be arriving at the Naval Observatory, Washington, for a tour of their new residence. Courtesy of its current occupants, Mr and Mrs Dick Cheney.

Bet that’ll be a fun, relaxed evening!

Actually, who am I kidding? Being shown around your new home when your new home is the Vice President’s residence is, like, *totally* awesome. Even if you have to endure Dick Cheney all night.

*UPDATE* Here’s commentary and footage from Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow - including a fascinating discussion on the powers of the Vice Presidency:

Ted Turner, global citizen

Aggregated from: JOTMAN — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:28:00 +0000

The single most unfortunate business transaction of the second half of the twentieth century was the day CNN founder Ted Turner sold the network to TimeWarner.

On Tuesday Turner gave CNN's Lou Dobbs a piece of his mind. Voicing disagreement with the host's position against Mexican migrant workers in the US, Turner said:

How about from Canada? That's what worries me. Why don't we build a wall up there too?

I don't like walls. I remember we had a president who said,"tear down this wall." Now we are building a wall against Mexico. And the Israelis are building one against the Palestinians. And I've seen it too. And I don't like 'em. I think we need a world where people can go back and forth as they want to. . . .

Here's the interview on video -- the part where he talks about walls is in the last quarter of the video. In the earlier part Turner says he doesn't think the US government should bail out the idiots running the US automobile industry. They certainly are idiots -- for all the reasons Turner gives.

Gingrich on Obama's Historic Victory

Aggregated from: The Strong Conservative — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:12:00 +0000

Newt 2012!

Tell ‘em, Keith.

Aggregated from: KABOBfest — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:43:00 +0000

A constitution is not something you can just change at will with contradictory additions in order to target minorities. I'm pretty sure doing so isn't democracy.

The thing is, why aren't people rioting yet? Do you know who this kind of legislation hurts? Sure, it hurts gay people. It hurts gay families.

But do you know who else?

This kind of legislation hurts women in abusive heterosexual relationships by removing the protection of common law rights that they previously had. It hurts children whose parents cannot take care of them: beginning January 1, 2009, a grandmother will be prevented from caring for her grandchildren if she cohabits with her heterosexual partner because marrying would adversely affect her pension or insurance. Guess where those kids will be? In the foster system. Where will kids go when their gay uncle is prevented from caring for them, even though he may be their godfather? What would take precedent there? A deceased parent's will, or new constitutional amendments?

I remember being told by my parents that should anything ever happen to them, such and such uncle and such and such aunt would be responsible for me. I knew that. Not that I thought about it much, I was a child. However I knew it. Now children can have even the security of a backup family member denied them.

Why are the majority of kids in the foster system there in the first place? Because HETEROSEXUAL people neglected them, abused them, or for whatever reason could not take care of them.

Laws should function to protect the rights of the vulnerable. That's how we need to be demanding our world be.

Obama wins and everyone goes crazy

Aggregated from: JOTMAN — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 06:50:00 +0000

The following video -- which I first posted last week -- is titled "The greatest day." Now that I have finished adding subtitles to the video, I wanted you to know that the greatest day just got better.

To our Ahmed and Ahmed the terrorists

Aggregated from: Donkeys, Elephants & Crocs — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:38:00 +0000

To our Ahmed and Ahmed the terrorists
who tend to get arrested in American airports for blogging
recommended
hilarious
first time I saw it pissed my pants laughing