Greetings from Las Vegas where I will be through election day.
This morning I was at a big Obama rally in Henderson. Here’s my report.
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November 1st, 2008 at 1:17 pm
The pull of history is strong. I hope people car-pooled.
November 1st, 2008 at 6:15 pm
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2008/10/31/vo.peru.shamans.ap
I love it
November 1st, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Made the drive from L.A. Friday night to Vegas. Here til Wednesday morning. Comrade Cooper, if I bump into you, please accept a round on me.
The Henderson Rally was awesome. When my girlfriend & I came upon the High School football field, Obama staffers approached us and asked if we’d like to be in the bleachers behind Obama as he spoke. How could we say no? Got to shake hands with Jesus, I mean Sen. Obama, as he thanked everyone for coming.
Did the whole volunteer canvass thingy. Have to say, the Obama staffers are incredible. These Nevada folks are really good. The ability to multi-task and answer endless questions from volunteers and get people focused on doable tasks (cat herding) while keeping a smile on one’s face and not go crazy from lack of sleep, lack of clean clothes, lack of decent food when it’s ‘all hands on deck time’ makes for a huge asset for Obama. Couple of the staffers I talked to had been on site for the Henderson rally since 5 a.m.
The actual canvassing was fairly easy. Voters were psyched to talk up Obama’s candidacy. Great response for Obama. Very few seemed proud enough to voice support for McCain. But overall, seeing some of the neighborhoods close up, it was very depressing. Nevada is the foreclosure capital of the US and it showed. Way too many people are ‘upside down’ on their mortgages. The one sign in the neighborhood I was in that outnumbered the Obama signs were ones by the realtors and banks. I went up and down street after street seeking out voters. Constant patches of burnt lawns, faded paint, cobwebs, vehicles on cement blocks, gathering dust, and U-Haul trailers in driveways… A lot of people are hurting in Nevada.
November 2nd, 2008 at 8:01 am
Brazilian President Lulo da Silva compared Obama to socialists Hugo Chavez and Evo Morales, but Obama’s not a socialist!
”Just as Brazil elected a metal worker, Bolivia elected an Indian, Venezuela elected [socialist leader Hugo] Chávez and Paraguay a bishop, I think that it would be an extraordinary thing if, in the largest economy in the world, a black were elected president of the United States.”
November 2nd, 2008 at 8:08 am
P.S. That comment was made in Havana in a visit with President Raul Castro (D-Cuba).
November 2nd, 2008 at 8:28 am
“The one sign in the neighborhood I was in that outnumbered the Obama signs were ones by the realtors and banks.”
Supreme irony. The candidate most responsible for the worldwide financial meltdown, beginning with preasure on local banks by Community Organizers to lend to risky people, then taking the preasure to DC and finding friends in DC, Barney and Dodd et al to preasure Fred and Fannie to accept these risky loans from risky people, then DC failing to manage or allow any controls on Fred and Fannie thanks to huge contributions to Obama, Barney, Dodd et al, then the stock market buying up more and more of these risky loans made to risky people, assuming they were backed by you and me, then foreign banks and investors buying into these stocks thinking they were AA rated, then finally unravelling when these risky loans made to risky people made possible by risky politicians succumbing to noisy Communitity Organizers looking for pseudo handouts, finally caused the risky chickens….to come home….. to roost on Wall Street.
The irony of course is the very candidate that not only supported but was active in Community Organizing activities preasuring Banks and bleeding heart politicians that began this world wide disaster has his political signs right next to the For Sale signs on the highly devalued and unsaleable properties he and his screwed up get-something-for-nothing Community Organizers began.
Can only happen in America
November 2nd, 2008 at 9:34 am
Roper, you fucking idiot. Nobody gives a shit. You’ve got nuthin’ on issues so you’re just spitting and drooling. Everything you’ve tried to sell here has turned out to be total bullshit. But you can’t stop your silly ass, can you ?
Laughing At You Out Loud !!!!!
November 2nd, 2008 at 9:37 am
Jim R – that’s the dumbest analysis I’ve read of the financial crisis to date. Really just buttfuck dishonest and stupid.
November 2nd, 2008 at 9:39 am
You guys need to sharpen your knives and keep hacking away at Obama over the next 8 years with this kind of crap. Pleeeeze. Your marginalization will be complete…the political Depends crowd who can’t even hold in your own piss.
November 2nd, 2008 at 9:48 am
JimR, I’m not sure why I’m wasting my time doing this, because you sound willfully ignorant. But it irritates me to read ill-informed comments about a very serious issue. Let’s make this very simple: the housing and credit crisis was not caused by liberals and Democrats. I could make an equally simple statement and say it was caused by Alan Greenspan, and George W. Bush’s wrong-headed “ownership society” policy, which fed toxic loans like gasoline to a wildfire. This statement would be much closer to the truth than anything in your comments.
Here’s a better answer, however:
http://calculatedrisk.blogspot.com/
http://www.irvinehousingblog.com/
I’ve been visiting these sites regularly since ’06, when it was unfashionable to claim we were in a housing bubble and headed for a meltdown (which they foresaw). These smart writers are not interested in spouting “Democrats” vs. “Republicans” nonsense, but rather explore how we got into this mess, and how long it will be before we get out of it.
Again, it’s not a Dem vs. Repub issue, but if you want to bark up that tree, then you will definitely lose that fight: the Republican Party is as much or more responsible for the credit mess than the Democratic Party. You would be wiser to focus on what actually caused the problems in the first place, and support policies that will prevent it from happening in the future.
Now, be a good boy and educate yourself before droning on again in empty partisan talking points. It’s not informative at all.
You’re welcome.
November 2nd, 2008 at 11:01 am
”Just as Brazil elected a metal worker, Bolivia elected an Indian, Venezuela elected [socialist leader Hugo] Chávez and Paraguay a bishop, I think that it would be an extraordinary thing if, in the largest economy in the world, a black were elected president of the United States.”
Boy is that willfully dense. I think it shows that Obama came from humble means and made a name for himself through hard work as did Lula, Chavez, Morales and Lugo.
November 2nd, 2008 at 11:01 am
Anyone want to read my history of the Wall Street Crash of 1929?
It reveals how community organisers, the Negro NAACP and the Irish conspired to promote ill-advised Wall Street speculation so they could advance their Marxist agenda.
Read how Woodrow Wilson laid the foundations for the collapse by forcing helpless banks to lend money to Catholics to buy houses far beyond their means and inappropriate to their station in life… (continues for 70 years)
November 2nd, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Those comments weren’t from Roper, who has more self-esteem than to talk with reg.
November 2nd, 2008 at 11:16 pm
Roper, you fucking idiot.
I read that comment and thought “fuck but that is stupid”. No surprise that it was from Roper Woody.
November 2nd, 2008 at 11:19 pm
Boy is that willfully dense.
Just like everything Woody has ever said.
November 2nd, 2008 at 11:22 pm
it’s not a Dem vs. Repub issue
In the same sense that Phil Gramm is neither a Dem nor a Repub.
November 3rd, 2008 at 5:41 am
A fool is known by a multitude of comments.
November 3rd, 2008 at 11:02 am
Tell that to reg. A fool is known by inspection of his words, and you are an obvious fool.