Another campaign ad from the past - the likes of which you will not see these days.

One of the greatest moments in Presidential history - When the President declared war on poverty

Intrade now scoring 61.2% for Obama

I realize these numbers go up and down and Intrade values are only good for the moment - I would not want to encourage complacency - It is still entirely possible that Romney could win -- but this is another favorable indicator

http://www.intrade.com/jsp/intrade/contractSearch/

Can anyone imagine a presidential campaign ad like this running in any swing state today?

right-wing fundamentalist intentionally distorting Obama's words to make him appear anti-Christian

When he was in fact giving a talk on how his Christian faith played an important role in his public life.

In 2006 then Sen. Barack Obama was a keynote speaker at a conference of progressive leaning Evangelical Christians

This is a video taking a few comments from his keynote address and then creating a video they titled:

Obama Mocks & Attacks Jesus Christ And The Bible / Obama Is Not A Christian

Humphrey's 1968 DNC Acceptance Speech

Latest Obama Ad: What Romney had to say in his acceptance speech

Republican Women for Obama

Poll: Republicans REALLY dislikes Muslims and Arabs

A new survey shows just how uncomfortable the Republican base is with Muslim and Arab people

By Alex Seitz-Wald for salon.com

Anyone wondering why Rep. Michele Bachmann would launch a witch hunt against Muslims or why the Republican Party would add a plank to its platform opposing Sharia law need look no farther than a new poll conducted by the Arab American Institute.

The results are split sharply along partisan lines. Overall, Republican voters hold strongly negative views of Muslims, with 57 percent saying they view them unfavorably and just 26 saying they view them favorably — more than double. The numbers are similar for Arabs, whom Republican respondents view negatively by a slightly smaller margin of 26 percent, 53 to 27 percent. When asked about “Muslim Americans” and “Arab Americans,” the numbers improved slightly, with a 12 and 15 percent net unfavorable rating, respectively.

By contrast, Democrats held favorable views of these groups by margins of at least 20-35 percent in all four cases cases. The view of Muslims and Arabs among Democrats was still less positive than other religious groups included in the survey, however, underscoring a resilient problem of post-9/11 America. Still Democrats gave no group a net negative rating, while Republicans gave negative ratings to Muslims, Arabs, Muslim-Americans and Arab-Americans.

Of the 13 religious or ethnic groups included in the survey, only Sikhs had anywhere close to the negative ratings Muslims and Arabs. Among all respondents, the religious group is viewed favorably 45-24, but Republicans are split 36-35, with almost a third unfamiliar. All other religious groups had strongly favorable views by margins of up to 60 percent in the cases of Presbyterians and Jews.

On the question of Muslims and Arabs in the government, the results were similar. While about twice as many Democrats said they were confident a Muslim-American could do their job and those who said ethic loyalty would interfere, the results were flipped among Republicans. A slim majority of 51 percent said ethnic loyalty would trump job responsibly, while 25 percent said they were confident Muslim-Americans in government could do their job.

http://www.salon.com/2012/08/23/poll_republicans_really_dislike_muslims/

Thomas Frank: Obama’s squandered hope by David Daley for salon.com

Obama’s conciliatory nature has been a tragic flaw, one exploited by conservatives in Congress again and again. But he also argues that Obama has “enthusiastically adopted” the ideas of the right when it comes to deficit spending, Wall Street regulation, torture policies, healthcare and more. And his reward for reaching for compromise and grand bargains, “for bowing to their household gods,” has been to be depicted as a socialist and a radical leftist.

Well, certainly there are differences, of course. I don’t think Bush would have pulled out of Iraq so quickly. How soon we forget. That would still be dragging on in some way, I think. The stimulus would have been handled differently. Bush did several rounds of stimulus as president, and they always involved tax cuts. And I don’t mean to brush off the way the Obama team runs the apparatus of the state; go back and look at something like the Labor Department under George Bush, which was a joke. They were cracking down on labor unions. That’s what they thought their mission was. Of course, that’s no longer going on. The EPA — the Republicans put it in the hands of a series of people who were hostile to the mission, and that’s not going on any longer.

Obama cleaned the Republicans’ clock in 2008. And then, as you write, handed “a vanquished but utterly intransigent foe a veto” over his agenda. How does that happen?

That part of it, it’s the insult added to the injury. The worst part of it is that he didn’t seal the deal after he won in 2008. He did not want to talk about the economy and what went wrong; he did not want to talk about what went wrong with the Bush administration, and you think of all of the sort of regulatory disasters … You want to talk about what went wrong, about the people regulating Wall Street, and you couldn’t have an easier way of making that case about regulatory capture. You look at these agencies, who was in them, who was in charge of them, who they answer to, and they’re filled with lobbyists from the financial industry. It was open and shut. He doesn’t want to go back and talk about it.

Every financial commentator of the last 20 years was proven to be an ass; Alan Greenspan and all of them, looked like fools. All the people who were put in charge, all the people who were on the Op-Ed pages, like the New York Times, all the popular financial books, everything. I thought that we really had arrived at a kind of day of reckoning, and here was Barack Obama to make it happen. You think back to the 1930s, and there was this huge intellectual shift. It wasn’t just political, it was intellectual, in the academy and in magazines, everywhere you looked, in the way people felt about the economy. And that didn’t happen this time. All those people who were so badly discredited, they hung on. They’re still there; they got to keep those jobs. They just went from the old administration to the new one. He just brought in a couple of Clinton retreads and even a couple of Bush retreads, and they just kept going. There was no fallout for these people. There were no consequences for these people. The most disheartening thing when you look at it is that we didn’t make the turn. History came to a corner and we didn’t turn.

http://www.salon.com/2012/08/22/thomas_frank_obamas_squandered_hope/