w00t! here's hoping obama comes to corvallis for more than just pizza this trip!

The tsunami commeth.

Hang on to your hats Obama volunteers.

Congrats Obama supporters! He's won!! Now you can just forget all about any upcoming primaries and go back to your iPods, games and Facebook pages. Wasn't it all just so much fun! "We are the champions...We are the champions!..."

Wow, avwrobel, that's an incredibly cynical and off-base snipe at Obama supporters. You have basically relegated the supporters of the presumptive nominee as not people who want to move their country forward after years of staggering demoralization, but rather as shallow fad chasers. In the future, I would hope you would refrain from such snarky comparisons, as they are not constructive to the ultimate goal of defeating John McCain and taking taking our second seat in the U.S Senate.

First of all, Obama has not "won" yet. He's not officially the nominee and he won't have "won" in my mind until he takes the oath of office next January.

Secondly, I have been an Obama supporter from the start and while I am beyond happy that so many young people have become involved in politics via Obama, I'm getting a little tired of the snarky comments of anti-Obama people who a) treat these young people in such a derogatory manner and b) are convinced somehow that ONLY people under 30 are supporting Obama.

Get a clue. I'm 42, single, female, politically active my whole life. I don't own an Ipod and have never seen Facebook. And the only games I play are card games. Pinochle, anyone?

It is telling that Senator Clinton is charging $250 a head for her Oregon visit, yet continues to try and argue she is the woman for the blue collar white male worker. Afraid to make a free public appearance in Little Beiruit, perhaps?

Times and locations on the Barack Magical Mystery Tour of Oregon!

I think Tim Russert hit the nail on the head last night.

The only Progressive Candidate for President is coming: Tuesday May 13th 7:30pm Ralph Nader Rally Benson High Auditorium 546 NE 12th Ave Portland, OR $10 contribution/ $5 student/low-income (no one turned away) More Info Call – (503) 484-6626 or [email protected] Volunteers needed. See you there! I am looking forward to a debate between the 3 of them. Yea, fat chance, what cowards!

Congrats Obama supporters! He's won!! Now you can just forget all about any upcoming primaries and go back to your iPods, games and Facebook pages. Wasn't it all just so much fun! "We are the champions...We are the champions!..."<<<

Wow. Ditto everything that Ms. Mel Harmon said, except I'm 40, married, female, politically active since Bush took office. I do own an iPod and I do have a college degree, so do you want to throw my vote out?

By the way, my entire immediate family supports Obama. Let's see, we have:

-a 46 year old white male who went to tech school, but doesn't have a four year degree (my husband) -an 80 year old white female who never attended college, and spent most of her life as a single mom (my mother) -a 49 year old white male, who dropped out of high school to join the military, and now is a blue collar worker (my brother)

In addition, my neighbors support Obama (married couple in their 50's) as well as numerous colleagues at the office (all well into their 30's and 40's).

We're a diverse group to be sure, but we're all seeking the same ultimate goal --- to heal this country and get back the America that we all grew up being so proud to be a part of.

So you really, really, have no idea what you are talking about

A reminder to all, first class postage goes up 1 cent on May 12!

I just found out myself, and am adding a 1-cent stamp to my ballot before I mail it. Just to be on the safe side.

Crisis averted...I found out county officials are picking up the difference for ballots that arrive lacking the extra 1-cent. Nice!

OK I admit it. I was getting nauseous with CNN anti-Hillary crap. Seriously, to get a much more realistic view of Barack Obama go to Noquarterusa.net and read the blog on Patrick and Obama. You'll see why Massachusetts rejected Obama and gave Hillary a 13% win there. Didn't you all ever wonder why that happened in one of the most liberal states? Also, see Obamatruth.org. This fellow has tremendous baggage that the right wing media will collectively exploit brilliantly. We can't let it happen with an Obama candidacy. Hillary and Bill have been through 2 general elections, one with an incumbent Republican administration. They know how to win, and a Democrat must win in November. Obama is just too big a risk. Make the clear-headed decision and support Hillary!

I don't rely on avwrobel for facts.

I voted for Obama.

Kay,

Don't look to me for facts. I just want to win in November. That little McCain will tack to the center, push Obama out to the far left, claim Hillary would have been the more worthy candidate and grab her supporters, or at lest enough of them to win. Kerry only won Pa. by 3%. An Obama candidacy is a disaster that must be avoided. Nothing personal, just politics.

Disagree.

Let's just look ahead at helping Obama, the Dems and the country win in November. It will be an historic victory and then the real work will begin: global climate change, a health care system that harms more than it helps, and an economy that has abandoned the bottom 1/3 and keeps on elevating the top 1%. We need all of the skills and passion that we can bring to the table. Let's ensure an Obama victory so that we can get working.

avwrobel sez: Hillary and Bill have been through 2 general elections, one with an incumbent Republican administration. They know how to win, and a Democrat must win in November. Obama is just too big a risk. Make the clear-headed decision and support Hillary!

Ah yes, that old "Hillary and Bill" rigamarole again. That old twofer routine again. Guess what, avwrobel? Not everyone thinks Bill Clinton was the greatest thing since sliced bread. Not everyone looks forward with anticipation to the third term of the Clinton co-presidency.

I've had it with the Hillary and Bill argument. Do you hear Barack Obama campaigning on the basis of his spouse's record?

By the way, avwrobel, what exactly do you mean by "Hillary and Bill" (actually, it was Bill and Al, as in AL GORE) going through a general election "with an incumbent Republican administration"? In my experience, "administration" refers to the executive branch. Or was that some sort of Freudian slip insinuating that the Clinton/Gore administration was actually a GOP administration?

Obama is less a risk than either Reagon and/or Bush 2... Get real goobers; the deaf. dumb. blind kid sure plays a mean pinball!

PS Tommy can you hear me?

avwrobel says: "An Obama candidacy is a disaster that must be avoided. Nothing personal, just politics."

You can't bullsht a bullshtter, avwrobel. This is clearly personal for you.

Also: the "tremendous baggage" dredged up by your friends at Obamatruth.org is exactly the kind of garbage we're all so tired of. Step out of the 90's and look to the future, my friend. The Bush/Clinton/Bush era is over, and Obama is poised to bury the "politics of personal destruction" and swiftboating that so defined that era.

Now, if you'll excuse me, my Facebook page needs updating...

avwrobel I took your advise and went to the rightwing nuts anti Obama and anti American slander sites.What a bunch of crap.If this is what you call baggage,I suggest that you lay off the rush limbaugh information diet that you are obviously on.That stuff is exactly what we want to stop.Its mostly if not all outright lies,innuendos,guilt by association.I am sorry but The American people are sick and tired of people like you and your gutter politics.May God bless America,Hillery,Barak and all fair minded,honest people!!

Great. With an Obama candidacy we'll get a November loss, no universal health care, a further concentration of wealth, Roe v. Wade overturned, permanent war in the Middle East, and continued rotten government. I don't want to have to say I told you so, but to avoid it completely.

Boo hoo, I sure am scared now. Apparently Obama's closet is chock full of skeletons, while John McCain has none. Instead of working to get the changes we need, I think I will go spend a lot of time poking around on some Rush Limbaugh-type web site.

As Kari says, "Don't feed the trolls!"

The media has finally caught up with reality: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdzCxvbe5Hg

One of these days soon HRC will also. Diane Feinstein, one of her closest supporters, yesterday gave her the memo.

does anyone know where i can report campaigns that violate oregon's anti-robocalling law?

i'm sick & fricking tired of hillary clinton thinking she doesn't have to play by the same rules as everyone else.

I beat you on your age Mel. I am 53 and my husband is 54 and we are out on the doorsteps knocking on doors asking folks if they voted yet and handing them Obama info. Right with you! I also don't own an ipod or even a blackberry for that matter. If that's what they are against when it comes to voting for him well there is not HOPE for them.

Clinton is bringing her train wreck of a divisive campaign to Oregon. It's over for her but she's apparently going to try to foul the nest before she leaves. Here's what she had to say in WV yesterday. Her legacy from this campaign when she is finally abandoned by her own supporters. The George Wallace of 2008.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-05-07-clintoninterview_N.htm "I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on," she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article "that found how Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me."

"There's a pattern emerging here," she said.

Clinton is bringing her train wreck of a divisive campaign to Oregon.

For more on this story, check out the article on nytimes.com (and the CNN exchange between Donna Brazile and Hillary backer Paul Begala, embedded in the article)...

The New York Times, May 8, 2008, 10:08 am Clinton Touts White Support By Kate Phillips

As if the divisions between race and gender in the Democratic Party hadn’t been further exposed through Tuesday night’s exit polls — and by a very heated exchange on CNN between Donna Brazile and Paul Begala, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s interview with USA Today on Wednesday is further mining those tense depths.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/08/clinton-touts-white-support/index.html?hp

http://www.obamatruth.org/

http://www.suntimes.com/news/watchdogs/757340,CST-NWS-watchdog24.article

http://www.obamatruth.org/

http://www.obamatruth.org/video/Santiago_Vasquez2_Medium.wmv

http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/425305,CST-NWS-obama13.article

i just got tickets to see obama in albany tomorrow. any info on any other events he has planned?

Hillary smarter than Obama. Hillary will be our next president.

Latinos for Hillary.

Alberto Borges

Oregonian should vote for Hillary because she is the best candidate for our state and our nation.

I will help Hillary to win in Oregon.

ALberto Borges

¡Viva Obama!

El Plan para Terminar la Guerra en Irak Aún antes de que la guerra en Irak empezara, el Senador Obama indicó que el asunto estaba mal desde su concepción. En el 2002, el entonces Senador Obama del estado de Illinois, afirmó que Saddam Hussein no representaba una amenaza inminente para los Estados Unidos; pero sí una invasión que nos llevaría a ocupar Irak por un tiempo indefinido, a un costo indeterminado, y con consecuencias lamentables. Desde ese momento, el Senador Obama ha elaborado un plan para sacar a Irak adelante, el cual ha sido ratificado por el Grupo de Estudio Bipartidista de Irak, encabezado por James Baker y Lee Hamilton.

<b>Ayudando a los Obreros a Ascender en el Mercado Laboral</b>
Los empleos de transición son la forma prometedora para que los desempleados crónicos entren a los lugares de trabajo.
Esta vía de entrada coloca a los participantes en empleos con sueldos subsidiados y empleos temporales. También ofrece ayuda por medio de mentores y servicios sociales diseñados a resolver problemas a nivel personal y familiar que afectan al desempleado con bloqueo emocional. Usualmente, cuando un empleado de salario mínimo entra a un empleo de nivel principiante, no le es posible cambiar a un empleo de clase media. Los Programas de Puente pueden ayudar a asociar al gobierno federal con los empleadores y con las organizaciones comunitarias a identificar las oportunidades de empleo, desarrollar programas específicos de entrenamiento, y colocar trabajadores de salario mínimo en empleos mejores. El Senador Obama presentó una legislación que devotará $50 millones de dólares para programas de Transición y de Puente, para los grupos de empleados difíciles de contratar.www.barackobama.com

www.amigosdeobama.com