Jack & Jill Politics

Obama's Fascinating Interview with Cathleen Falsani

FALSANI:
Jack Ryan [Obama's Republican opponent in the U.S. Senate race at the time] said talking about your faith is frought with peril for a public figure.

OBAMA:
Which is why you generally will not see me spending a lot of time talking about it on the stump.

Alongside my own deep personal faith, I am a follower, as well, of our civic religion. I am a big believer in the separation of church and state. I am a big believer in our constitutional structure. I mean, I'm a law professor at the University of Chicago teaching constitutional law. I am a great admirer of our founding charter, and its resolve to prevent theocracies from forming, and its resolve to prevent disruptive strains of fundamentalism from taking root ion this country.

As I said before, in my own public policy, I'm very suspicious of religious certainty expressing itself in politics.

Now, that's different form a belief that values have to inform our public policy. I think it's perfectly consistent to say that I want my government to be operating for all faiths and all peoples, including atheists and agnostics, while also insisting that there are values tha tinform my politics that are appropriate to talk about.

A standard line in my stump speech during this campaign is that my politics are informed by a belief that we're all connected. That if there's a child on the South Side of Chicago that can't read, that makes a difference in my life even if it's not my own child. If there's a senior citizen in downstate Illinois that's struggling to pay for their medicine and having to chose between medicine and the rent, that makes my life poorer even if it's not my grandparent. And if there's an Arab American family that's being rounded up by John Ashcroft without the benefit of due process, that threatens my civil liberties.

I can give religious expression to that. I am my brother's keeper, I am my sister's keeper, we are all children of God. Or I can express it in secular terms. But the basic premise remains the same. I think sometimes Democrats have made the mistake of shying away from a conversation about values for fear that they sacrifice the important value of tolerance. And I don't think those two things are mutually exclusive.

The Editorial cartoons of the day are running rampant w/ the Fist bump. You racist ass M@#$%^&*()_+%^&. Yes, you are guilty of institutional racism. Not a single one of you had the stones to call FOX news out on their whack behavior. Now you all want to be "down" w/ Obama. F@#$ you and your mothers. Nailing your asses to the cross from sea to shining sea is to good for you.

rikyrah: ANNNNNND WAITING. . . . . . . . . . . . [From: MUDFLATS]

Srevens and Begich - The Counting Continues

Another day of counting has begun. What started on election day as a 3200 vote lead for convicTed Stevens, swung to an 814 vote lead for Democratic challenger Mark Begich on Monday when a huge stack of absentee and early ballots were counted.

Today is round two. Here’s what will be counted today.

• About 510 questioned ballots from Southeast, the Peninsula and Southwest Alaska

• About 5,180 absentee and questioned ballots from Mat-Su

• Questioned, absentee ballots from Richardson Highway and the Interior

• About 3,600 absentee and questioned ballots from Western and Northwest Alaska, and North Slope

To Be Counted on Monday

• Leftover absentee ballots from Richardson Highway and the Interior

To Be Counted on Tuesday

• About 15,700 questioned and absentee ballots from Anchorage

• About 8,300 absentee ballots from Southeast, Kenai Peninsula and Southwest Alaska

Begich made a big push for his supporters to vote early. Also, Republicans believe Stevens got a boost when he returned to Alaska from his trial less than a week before the election and began rallying supporters. People who voted earlier would not have been part of that lift.

Stevens’ supporters think he can come back as more absentee votes cast following his homecoming are counted. Still, the fact that the votes are coming from Begich majority districts leave the Democrats’ supporters quietly optimistic.

Yes, one can only imagine how many of those who were on the fence decided to align themselves with the convicted felon after his inspirational, and victorious homecoming from the trial.

On Monday, the Division of Elections released one batch of numbers during the day, and the final tally at about 8:30pm. It’s anyone’s guess how they’ll release the information today. Stay tuned.

Waiting To Exhale! :>) :>)

Michael Steele really, really wants to be the RNC Chair. In the linked piece, he really, really wants the Republicans to continue to attack PE Obama. He really, really regrets that John McCain did not use Re. Jeremiah Wright as a political bludgeon in the presidential campaign.

T.

Some of these Black Republican males are Slave Catchers and Lawn Jockeys for real though.

http://actsoffaithinloveandlife.blogspot.com/20...

PLEEEEEEEEEEEZE RNC, I'm begging you, please take it to Obama! Hit him where it hits! I'm begging you


James T. Harris...I mean, Michael Steele

Harriet Tubman would have had to shoot this knee-grow.

Michael Steele reminds me of that Story Harriet Tubman supposedly told about how many slaves she freed....then cracking that she would have freed even more if only she could have convinced them they were slaves.

Keep Tokenism alive. Steele for RNC Chair 08.

from We are Respectable Negroes.

Obama's Office of Urban Policy playfully satirized.

While Barack Obama has made his position on "sagging" pants known on MTV, we have decided to move forward with a bolder policy initiative than the mere creation of an Office of Urban Policy. Introducing the Office of Ign't Affairs at:

http://wearerespectablenegroes.blogspot.com/200...

ChaunceyDevega: Introducing the Office of Ign't Affairs


BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!! 2 MUCH!!! :>) :>) :>)

Need Some more food help.

I have bags of shredded carrots.

1. I can't stand carrot and raisin salad.
2. I don't really want to cook carrot cake.

Anyone have carrot recipes?

Special Fried Rice
Ingredients
2 3/4 cups water
1 1/2 cups white rice
3 tablespoons vegetable or wok oil, 3 turns of the pan
2 eggs, beaten
2 cloves garlic, chopped
2 inches fresh ginger, minced or grated
1/2 cup shredded carrots, available in pouches in produce section, a couple of handfuls
1 small red bell pepper, diced
4 scallions, thinly sliced on an angle
1/2 cup frozen peas
1/3 cup Tamari, dark aged soy sauceBring water to a boil. Add rice, reduce heat, cover and cook over medium low heat until tender, 15 to 18 minutes. Spread rice out on a cookie sheet to quick cool it.
Directions
Heat a wok, wok shaped skillet or large nonstick skillet over high heat. Add oil to the pan. Add egg to hot oil and break into small bits as it scrambles. When eggs are scrambled, add garlic and ginger to the pan. Add carrots, pepper, scallions to the pan and quick stir-fry veggies 2 minutes. Add rice to the pan and combine with veggies. Fry rice with veggies 2 or 3 minutes. Add peas and soy sauce to the rice and stir fry 1 minute more, then serve.

Yum Yum,

I love Fried Rice!

Carrot souffle?


I don't have an exact recipe; I do know you need carrots, flour, sugar and an oven.

Town: CLOSE! LOL!! LOL! :>)

Annnnnnd, a bowl, pot, dish.

But I don't want to complicate life! :>) :>)

rikyrah: This is NOT as interactive, BUT . . .helpful? :>) :>)

AFRICAN -AMERICAN HERITAGE COOKBOOK



COOKING CARROTS and CARROT RECIPES

CARROT SIDE DISHES

HeeeeY! I didn't know that there were these MANY recipes! WHEW!! :>) :>)

ENJOY!!! :>)

thank you both!

Obama to YouTube weekly address

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/AL...

A smart move I think, given everyone's exposure to online viral video. Make it a free podcast too, President-elect.

this is a good idea

Somewhere...a lone college GOP student is steamed because this very idea got shot down like a wolf from a plane when proposed to the McCain campaign months ago. LOL

You are probably correct..

BWA HA HA HA HA

and in revenge, they emailed it to the Obama campaign, and thought, when nobody said anything, that it had just gone into the blackhole of unanswered emails.

Probably Josh Simmons!!
http://washingtonindependent.com/16496/florida-...

LMAO

rikyrah: Carrying this over from yesterday: Media Alert -

PRESIDENT-ELECT OBAMA On 60 Minutes Sunday [Nov. 16]

(CBS) President-elect Barack Obama has agreed to give his first post-election interview to 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft. The interview includes future first lady Michelle Obama and is to take place on Friday, Nov. 14, in Chicago.

The interview is scheduled to be broadcast on Sunday at 7 p.m. ET/PT.

60 Minutes has covered the campaign and the election closely. Most recently, Kroft and 60 Minutes cameras were with Obama's top aides on election night for a segment broadcast on last Sunday's 60 Minutes that drew 18.5 million viewers, ranking it America's number-one program for the week.

Obama and Republican presidential candidate John McCain both appeared on 60 Minutes in separate exclusive interviews for a special one-hour broadcast of 60 Minutes on September 21. Kroft interviewed Obama and Scott Pelley spoke with McCain.

60 Minutes also did the first joint interview with Obama and his running mate, Vice President-elect Joseph Biden, with Kroft on the 60 Minutes broadcast of Aug. 31.

In addition, Obama and McCain also had separate exclusive interviews on 60 Minutes earlier this year in conjunction with the primary election, as did former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, who was interviewed by Katie Couric.

Kroft also reported on the political battleground state of Ohio in a segment broadcast last March.



Produced by L. Franklin Devine, Michael Radutzky and Andy Court
© MMVIII, CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved.


President-Elect Obama! :>) First Lady Michelle! :>)

HILLARY CLINTON FOR SECRETARY OF STATE THREAD IS UP

forget dennis miller obama got a lot of work to do after eight years of a drunken fraternity party

I may be starting a firestorm here...

But check out what one of the wingnuts is now claiming!

Dennis Miller: Liberal women hate Sarah Palin because ‘she has a great sex life.

On the O’Reilly factor last night, Dennis Miller declared that liberal women hate Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) because “she has a great sex life”:

She’s a great dame. People are fascinated by her because the Left hate her. I think the Left hate her — mostly women on the Left hate her — because to me from outside in it appears that she has a great sex life, all right? I think she has non-neurotic sex with that Todd Palin guy. … I think that snow mobile looks like mechanized foreplay to me and that’s why people are fascinated.

Watch it here:

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/13/miller-pali...

So Dennis Miller still sulking because he thought he was gonna be what Jon Stewart IS?? LOL!!!

She does have a good sex life- with Todd's friend (the one with the sealed divorces papers.)

I just came to post that exact comment.

She and Cindy are getting their hypocritical swerves on.

But I thought all the left wing women were having all TEH SEX which is why they need abortions and birth control?

LOL!!!

I'm not aware of any conservatives in my circle that take Dennis Miller seriously.

Right wing "Sexual Healing" is a...

Snowmobile?

They definitely missed the lyrics on that one.

BTx: LOL! :>) :>)

BUT, just for your review - - - - - - - Guess they did! :>) :>)

SEXUAL HEALING


ENJOY!? :>)

Add Dennis Miller among others, to the list of people that contribute to young people's strong dislike for the GOP:

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily...

Dennis Miller has got to be kidding! As if...

Dennis Miller needs to worry about not looking like a Pillsbury can about to burst and get himself a properly fitting jacket.

Town, hee,hee,hee! I caint hep myself. LOL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icWy4eeTJuU

rikyrah: Monday NOVEMBER 14, 2008; DAY 67 on his "JOURNEY TO JANUARY":

1. WORD(S) For The DAY: PRESIDENTIAL PLANNING

2. HEADLINE(S):
OBAMA'S TRANSPARENT PRESIDENCY: WEEKLY YOU TUBE ADDRESSES

The media is already running out of ways to present Barack Obama as Franklin Roosevelt 2.0. The Obama campaign gave them some new fodder Friday, announcing that it will modernize FDR's fireside chats by posting the President-elect's weekly radio addresses on YouTube.

Each address will appear on Change.gov on Saturday, after it airs in audio. An Obama spokesperson says that this innovation is just the beginning of the digital, transparent presidency. The plan appears to be in the mold of what the campaign did with videos like "Four Days in Denver" and Campaign Manager David Plouffe's conversations on the state of the race. These videos allowed supporters to feel like they had a direct connection to the campaign, a connection that bypassed the media. Already, the Obama team has made good on the post-election plan. It posted a video from Valerie Jarrett, one of Obama's transition chairs, discussing plans for the new administration. Watch it here:

Can the Obama team use the tools they built during the campaign to drum up support for complicated government initiatives? With a campaign, there were clear goals: raise money, organize, get out the vote. With a presidency, you have over 305 million Americans to motivate. We will be watching, texting, commenting, twittering, and of course, blogging the results.


OBAMA GIVES EBONY FIRST POST-ELECTION INTERVIEW, PHOTOSHOOT

So which magazine was the first to get a sit down interview and photo shoot with President-elect Barack Obama?

Ebony Magazine, which was visited by the president-elect at its Chicago offices in the Michigan Ave. headquarters building of its parent, Johnson Publishing Co.

That Obama would give his first magazine and photo session to Ebony seems fitting. The magazine was a pioneer in publishing in much the way Obama's a trailblazer in politics.

Evolved from Negro Digest, which was founded in 1942 by John Johnson, Ebony for decades was one of the few periodicals African-Americans could turn to for images and stories about black strivers and movers and shakers rarely ever seen in the mainstream media.

Read the whole story here.
[NOTE: REMEMBER, I'm PREPARED for this. :>) "O.M.", AIR CONDITIONER, Rev. Dr. MLK Church fan! :>)]

3. President-Elect Obama rewards his staffers:
BARACK OBAMA Gives Campaign Staffers Extra Cash, Blackberrys, Laptops

Long-suffering political foot soldiers who toiled tirelessly, at least since September, to put President-elect Barack Obama in the White House recently learned they will be getting extra paychecks worth a month's salary.

IMHO, this is a KIND MOVE. :>)

4. Giving First Lady Michelle some play:

Future First Lady: Michelle Obama BEAUTIFUL PHOTOS!! :>)

THAT'S ALL FOR NOW! :>) :>)

President-Elect Obama! :>) First Lady Michelle! :>)

Again, Obama proves to be on top of things. I can't remember listening to one Presidential radio address so this is great!! Where would be with YouTube?!!!!

h & f: ABSOLUTELY!!! :>) :>) He's da man!! :>) :>)

I'm digging the "fireside chats" for the 21st century. Good stuff!

sdg1844: Yeah!! He is that - waaaaay into the 21st Century!! :>) :>)

Thanks for all these links! I'm especially looking forward to those YouTube addresses.

claudia_m: My pleasure! :>) Me 2! :>)

President-Elect Obama! :>) First Lady Michelle! :>)

yeah!!! about Ebony - collector's issue and you know it.

rikyrah: "Virtual 'DAP'!" :>) :>)

This is a post from Al Giordano. I am sooo sick of Stuffleupagus and his antics. He is NO JOURNALIST when he can't separate his political agenda as talking head for the Clintons. he REALLY annoyed me when he was cheesing on Oprah last week for the Friday live show (and why did she hire his wife?) about how glad he was blah blah blah. I remember April!!! That primary debate proves he is NOT to be TRUSTED. We at least know how the Rethugs are going to act and who they are. It's these frenemies we have to keep an eye on. (HUGE EYE ROLL).

Ha....We remember that debacle of a debate George Stephanopoulos & Charlie Gibson pulled. It was unfreakingbelievable BS! Can you believe he asked questions given to him from racist Sean Hannity? OMFG!

George Stephanopoulos definitely cannot be trusted, right along with Andrea Mitchell. She was trying to sell the BS that if Obama doesn't give SOS to Hillary after all this publicity, it will be another slap in the face. I'm fed-up with her! Ughhhh!

Justice58: Co-sign on the Ah Ha! :>)

I said this yesterday.

yes you did, craig.

indeed you did.

Happy Holidays from the Obama Family

A message to you.....

Hope it runs on every station and all through Fox's lineup....

Every time I hear Sasha talk my ovaries twitch. Not doing good things for my "clock."

Ha! I feel the same way. We don't have children yet., but our parents are begging us for them. My husband and I just passed our one year anniversary in September.

I just love the interaction President Elect Obama has with his girls period. I get emotional just seeing pics and video of the them.. I start to think about my deceased father. Most of all, I start to want to give my hubby babies. Especially little girls. He already knows if we have any girls they will have wrapped around their fingers.

I guess I need to stay off JJP sometime and get to work on that.

Wonderful clip from the First Family, but you do know that this is the Christmas message from 2007...

Peace

yeah, I know.

But it's that time again

I do hope they make a new one for this year.

I am NOT down with bailing out the Big 3 automakers without some serious restrictions in place.

First things first: drastically lower the prices of vehicles. There's no need for a family vehicle to cost as much as the median national family income. When prices are lower, people won't need to apply for credit (that they already can't get nowadays), go into debt, and continue the current cycle of debt-default.

Second, a portion of downstream revenues goes toward mass transit and commuter rail in major metropolitan areas (Amtrak!?!?). If the car companies want to compete with mass transit, then they can do so on their own dime.

Third, address legacy costs. Health care and pension plan costs are already built in the prices of vehicles. And this is tricky because we ought not punish retirees for the poor planning of the executives and managers. But unions will have to take some concessions on health care, and trust that an Obama administration and a willing Congress will lower health care costs significantly.

Yeah, they had the option of running their business better and focusing on smaller, fuel efficient cars, but noooo they had to the gas guzzling tanks.

http://tinyurl.com/5fj83y

I'm not a fan of bailing them out under any circumstances.

When and where did we become a country where people/organizations became "too big to fail?" Isn't failure just as American as success?

Besides, look at AIG: once the door's opened, who's to say people won't come running back for more? And at what point do you turn the faucet off?

Well, businesses like Enron, Worldcom and Lehman Brothers were all "too big to fail", but they were left to go bankrupt anyway. And guess what? We're still alive.

So what makes the auto industry special? What-besides the number of people employed by them-makes them "too big to fail?"

it is because of the millions of people who will be out of a job D. Can't afford to do nothing for the Auto industry. Tag on some stipulations before helping. I am for that.

But what would bailing them out do? Put them on life support until their all-but-inevitable collapse? The American auto industry hasn't been competitive in years.

Besides, wouldn't we pay just as much-if not less-in dealing with the unemployed workers than we would trying to save an industry that's well on it's way to death?

I feel for the workers who would lose their jobs, but that can't (shouldn't?) be a criteria as to who the government steps in to help.

D,

I agree that the 700B bailout did not have the kind of strings that should have been there, especially the requirement that the banks use the money to give more loans and help people stay in their homes. If we look at it as an investment, however, it might turn out to be a good deal. The taxpayers earned money after we bailed out Chrysler in the 80's. A similar plan could be worked out here, but it needs to be done with a lot more attention to detail. Also, b/c banks and the auto industry are interconnected to so many other parts of the economy, letting them fail will affect the whole system in ways no one can really imagine or predict. I agree that bailing them out after their failures is not good precedent, but we could bail them out and take control and demand that they do things our way.

You could....

....but really, I'm against bailing out anyone at all. If a company fails because of bad business or bad business practices, well, that's the nature of business.

It's not the government's place to be the deep pockets to keep funding people/organizations that are screwed up by their own doing. Sorry, no sympathy.

At some point, people have to learn that the promises of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" do not extend to the government keeping your sinking ship afloat.

So much for the Republican small gov't theory. We won't have a small gov't again for a very long time - if ever (not that there ever was) again.

And that-oddly enough-is the fault of the Republicans who (in one of Bush's more accurate statements) "got drunk."

Do you guys/gals think Obama wants to get Hillary out of the senate so she is not an inpeadment to his policies and goals. She could be too powerful in the Senate. Bring her closer to him and giving her a defined role were it is his polices and her not agenda is being talk about. Also she could form pockets to undermined his administration during health care reform and other major reforms. She stated that the supreme court was not were she wanted to go, so where do you put her? A Sec State position is too high profile and it does not send a good message internationally. Is this the change? I can not trust Hillary on anything. Way too polarizing and devisive. Putting Hillary in that position will be on par with the Mccain/Palin marriage. Just like Palin it will be all Hillary all the time.

If Hillary does that she can forget EVAH running for Chappaqua dog catcher, much less President.

Town: LOL! :>)

BUT, Actually, I didn't think that she had planned to run again. [for a variety of reasons including $$$, President-Elect Obama's potential successful 1st term, etc. (She won't have a chance! SHE KNOWS!! :>))]

President-Elect Obama! :>) First Lady Michelle! :>)

When you don't have anything meaningful to bring to the conversation....

Barack Obama’s car could fuel more problems

Why this is a problem with some elements of the right, I'll never know. I say put him in a Hummer, if that's what it takes to keep him safe.

Hmm they need to have security for the security! I hope they have decoys as well. He should have anything and everything he needs. It's just ridiculous to even consider arguing about something like that. I don't want Joe Biden as my President - sorry!

It'll piss off my friends on the right, but I say get DOD involved in his security.

It's security for THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

Now, either that's of national security importance, or it's not.

As much as I hated Bush, I never argued a moment for anything done to increase his safety, if there was a perceived threat.

More importantly, it's security for a person who's now the nation's biggest target. I dare say Obama's a bigger target than the presidency itself.

First - Obama didn't order the car...

The secret Service did, based on their threat assessment for the previous President.

A threat assessment cognizant of the danger to the President from whack-job right wing groups now armed with 50 caliber sniper rifles capable of penetrating our Military armored troop carriers from more than a mile away - and rendering the armor on the existing Presidential Limo as being as useful as tissue paper...

As well as the potential for State Sponsored terrorism utilizing roadside IEDs.

tell it

Ya think? You're not telling me anyhing I don't know.

Go back and check my comments at the end of that post, as well as what I said in the second one below. I think we're probably in agreement.

Good lawd, the premise of that entire column is stupid. He really is equating BHO's personal car (as a Senator) to the presidential motorcade.

"Boston College political science professor Kay Schlozman said security concerns are likely behind the vehicle’s design."

If I can get less than intellectual for a moment: NO SHIT, SHERLOCK!!!!!!

Wow, this is truly mind-numbing. Not the professor, the columnist--he really needed to ask a political science professor about this? Even the wingnuttery that possesses the anonymous comment section thought this was a cheap nitpick. Wedge needs to STFU.

Yeah, I thought that would be a little obvious. You know, Obama being the first black president and all.

Boston Herald, huh?

If I see environmentalists make an issue of it, I'll be surprised. We're talking one car where security is important. Sticking any president in a lightweight car for symbolism value isn't as important as what the president does in setting environmental policies. Bush lived in a "green" brush ranchhouse in Texas, but that symbolism didn't result in good policies

My friends over at American Thinker aren't enthused:

Remember when Obama, played car mechanic - the concerned everyman worrying about paying the high cost of fuel, and green candidate? Well, that was before the election; this is now, the week after the election.

Barack Obama has won, his followers are in ecstasy, so no problem with violating campaign promises and themes.

I had this discussion with a friend after Obama won; my opinion is that he needs all the security he can get, up to and including National Guard activations when he shows up (long as that isn't a posse comitatus violation).

The American Thinker column is equally stupid, IMO. Seriously, they're suggesting dude bring or drive his own Ford Escape--that it should or could be retrofitted.

They're clueless of basic vehicle engineering. The weight of the reinforcements alone (assuming any could be done) would easily kill any fuel efficiency benefit granted by the hybrid powertrain. Even with the full-size GM SUV hybrids, the designers used every bit of weight-saving measure possible to squeeze every bit of efficiency out their setup.

A armored Ford Escape? That would be hilarious. Excursion, maybe.

Clinton Met With Obama About Role In New Administration

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/14/clinto...

A Democratic official confirms to the Huffington Post that Sen. Hillary Clinton met with President-elect Barack Obama on Thursday to discuss her role in the new administration.

Clinton's trip to Chicago, described in press reports as "personal business," came following a request from Obama, the official said.

The New York Senator is reportedly under consideration for Secretary of State, but it is unclear whether she had discussed that position with the transition team before making the trip. "If they told her beforehand, she did not tell her people," the official said.

Clinton spokesman Philippe Reines referred questions to the Obama transition team.

You know she was begging for money!

Obama - "kiss my pinky ring and bow to the don"

This, hopefully, is a public hat-tip to the Clintons, and not an indication of serious consideration for S.O.S., the woman who used Bobby Kennedy's assassination as a political angle.

Hopefully, this is no different than PE Obama's "consideration" of Clinton for his VP.

Major Co-signing ,RonnieB.

And to HELL with environmentally friendly vehicles PERIOD for President-Elect Obama!

Between Billary's comments about Kennedy's assasination and the SnoHo inciting hateful rhetoric, race-baiting and the skin-heads threats against Barack Obama, I don't care if he rides in an army tank down 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

Major Co-Sign, Spirit!

I hope you're right, RonnieB, because this sh%t is killing me. I don't want her @ss anywhere near the position of SOS!

Hey! Hey!

A blogger gets a well deserved Thank You from Obama!

http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Seven-year...

WTG kid!

Beautiful

Don't sleep on SPAGHETTI SQUASH as a substitute for pasta! Off the chizzzang!

How do you make it?

Bake it until tender, remove the seeds, and scoop out the stringy flesh. It looks just like spaghetti pasta and stands up very well to savory seasonings.

Delish!

Co-sign! You can't tell the difference.

A cartoonist should redraw "Uncle Sam" to be a little more racially ambiguous to reflect the new America

Could we please have a thread about Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State? I don't like it. She claimed that PE Obama wasn't ready to be Commander in Chief. That leads me to believe that she and Bill would attempt to take matters into their own hands and would be detrimental and controversial at least to the Obama presidency.

msmartin - I don't think that will happen. Too many qualified people are able to fit the bill. I say she should get a position that deals with Education or Health.

Exactly!

Ms Martin,

I agree. We need a new thread about this - only I am at a loss for for words. I don't know what to think about it. It's very confusing/curious to me!

I hate it, as well as him loading up on both Clinton & Bush former staffers. It stinks. I also think Bill is going to exploit the hell out of this, if given the opportunity. There is a huge conflict of interest since he is a lobbyist for foreign nations. We're going to have to innundate his website with our opinions, though I probably need to wait until I'm in a better mood so I won't sound so demanding.

David Shuster just said in passing that John Kerry told someone close to him that Hillary will likely be the SOS.

Hillary said Barack was naive about wanting to meet with our enemies. She lied about Ireland. She lied about sniper fire.

If Barack puts her in this post, it will be his first really big mistake and I'm going to cut him a new hole.

If he needs Hillary in the cabinet, this is simply not the role for her.

You don't think the bigger humiliation is making her the executor of said "naive" foreign policy?

You should have learned by now that Obama shouldn't be taken likely.

lol

http://www.amazon.com/Team-Rivals-Political-Abr...

This book was mentioned all morning as an important influence on PE Obama's governing style and staff selections.

One of my favorite quotes from Lincoln: "Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"

I'd prefer Clinton as SecState than Kerry, but that's just me. If she's working for Obama and gets out of line, he can make a public scene of her firing (flipside being that may be what she wants).

I said it last night but I'll say it again: I don't believe the Obama people are considering Hillary for Sec. of State and even if they were I don't believe they would have leaked it. It doesn't make sense that this Obama group, who hasn't leaked ANYTHING all year would all of a sudden start leaking stuff. IMO this is the HillaryStans "leaking" stuff trying to force the issue.

I'm taking the Hillary for SoS talk with a big grain of salt.

I'll wait for Obama to announce his selections, thank you very much.

agreed Town. All this is just speculation and it simply doesn't jive with the Obama decision making process.

Town,

I agree. Clinton doesn't have the personality to negotiate and listen to other competing ideas and develop a solution that can incorporate common principles from everyone. She is also a divisive figure even in international politics, and it would not serve Obama's purpose of demonstrating that the U.S. is going to make a significant change in the direction of our foreign policy.

Although he's an old head, (slang) I think Gov. Richardson would be the best candidate, if he's interested. I'm not sure Kerry would be the best choice either. Give Hillary something, but not this position.

it was mentioned below, but I'm going to ask...where do you go to buy the Obama trading cards?

You can buy them here
http://www.toppsonlinestore.com/servlet/the-Oba...

rikyrah: I posted this information on the "Countdown to the Inauguration: 68 Days.

Here it is:

http://www.tmz.com/2008/11/13/barack-obama-gets...
OBAMA GETS TRADED

Enjoy! :>)

just wanted to say THANK YOU for the squash suggestions. It was so good - on its own, without any meat. I have a new vegetable - yeah!!

You can make a butternut squash ravioli with snap peas and walnuts.

Butternut squash is a favorite of vegetarians.

Which recipe did you use?

craig hickman's.

but, since I have more, I'll use the others too. :)