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Obama Wins!!!

  Obama Wins 365 Electoral Votes to McCain's 162

Why Barack Obama?

Why I am for Barack Obama?

There is no other candidate that can turn this nation around.  There is no other candidate that can pull our nation out of this economic crisis.  There is no other candidate that will get our nation out of this illegal war.  There is no other candidate that will ensure affordable healthcare for ALL Americans.  There is no other candidate that will work positively to restore our nation's standing in the world.  There is no other candidate that will serve to bridge differences in our nation.  There is no other candidate that will ensure the rights and dignity of all citizens and non-citizens. There is no other candidate that will restore the honor of the White House.  There is no other candidate that will see to it that our nation doesn't engage in torture.  There is no other candidate that will ensure that privacy of our nations citizens is protected.  There is no other candidate that will make us all proud.

Who is Barack Obama?

Who is Barack Obama? John McCain and Sarah Palin keep asking that question. That's why we put together this behind-the-scenes video, so you can see Barack and Michelle as they really are.

McCain calls Obama "That One", supporters threaten Obama's life

So McCain shows the class that he doesn't have. It is really not all that surprising as the McCain-Palin ship continues to sink. So desparate McCain supporters have become, they continue to ramp up their hateful and inciting rhetoric and have even resorted to threatening the life of Senator Obama. 

UPDATE: The Republican National Committee is now wearing the "That One" insult like a badge of coolness. Fox News has it.

Keating Economics: John McCain and a Financial Crisis

The Obama Campaign has just released a new ad titled "Keating Economics: John McCain and a Financial Crisis" on their You Tube channel.  They will be following the release of this short video (below) with a full documentary to be released at 12 noon on Monday at www.keatingeconomics.com.  Be sure to tune in.

Transcript:

The current economic crisis demands that we understand John McCain's attitudes about economic oversight and corporate influence in federal regulation. Nothing illustrates the danger of his approach more clearly than his central role in the savings and loan scandal of the late '80s and early '90s. John McCain was accused of improperly aiding his political patron, Charles Keating, chairman of the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association. The bipartisan Senate Ethics Committee launched investigations and formally reprimanded Senator McCain for his role in the scandal -- the first such Senator to receive a major party nomination for president.

At the heart of the scandal was Keating's Lincoln Savings and Loan Association, which took advantage of deregulation in the 1980s to make risky investments with its depositors' money. McCain intervened on behalf of Charles Keating with federal regulators tasked with preventing banking fraud, and championed legislation to delay regulation of the savings and loan industry -- actions that allowed Keating to continue his fraud at an incredible cost to taxpayers.

When the savings and loan industry collapsed, Keating's failed company put taxpayers on the hook for $3.4 billion and more than 20,000 Americans lost their savings. John McCain was reprimanded by the bipartisan Senate Ethics Committee, but the ultimate cost of the crisis to American taxpayers reached more than $120 billion.

The Keating scandal is eerily similar to today's credit crisis, where a lack of regulation and cozy relationships between the financial industry and Congress has allowed banks to make risky loans and profit by bending the rules. And in both cases, John McCain's judgment and values have placed him on the wrong side of history.