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The Teabagger Socialist-Free Purity Pledge
I will complain about the destruction of 1st Amendment Rights in this country, while I am duly being allowed to exercise my 1st Amendment Rights.
via dailykos.com
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Ian Welsh: America's Essential Political Insanity
You believe that you are hale and hearty; but in fact you're ghastly, obese and ill. You think you're rich, but in fact you're poor. You think you have the best doctor around, but in fact your doctor is worse than almost every other doctor and charges 50% more than them. You think you're tough, and you certainly haven't let the fact that two ninety pound weaklings seem to be able to stand up to you get in the way of that.
You think that you have the most advanced technological toys, that what you have is the best, and once you did, but these days everyone else seems to have more advanced stuff.
The illness goes deeper though, a deep decay in your brain. The parts of your brain that make most of the decisions for your body think everything is wonderful. They seem only able to take in sensations from the taste buds these days, and for the last thirty years you've been on a rich diet. So they think everything's great. Your once lean body, packed with muscles, has been replaced by a flaccid one, paunchy and fat, but somehow the key parts of your brain don't know that. They don't feel your sore back, they don't hear the broken down breathing and they don't see the gut hanging over your belt.
The you I'm referring to, as I'm sure many have figured out by now, is the US.
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Tea Party Tots: America's Youngest Politicos Protest Taxes
The tax-paying public weren't the only ones protesting on Wednesday. Those who still keep their savings in a piggy bank were out in force. Children appeared as eager to voice their grievances as their older counterparts--photo by Aggie Yeakel
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Obama Biden
Madelyn Dunham 
Obama with Family 
Ann Dunham with her father and Obama.
Obama's Speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention.
"There's not a liberal America and a conservative America — there's
the United States of America. There's not a black America and white
America and Latino America and Asian America; there's the United
States of America….We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to
the Stars and Stripes, all of us defending the United States of
America."
Barack Obama's pseudo-announcement on Monday Night Football on
December 11, 2006.
Barack Obama's announcement at the Old State Capitol in Springfield,
Ill on February 10, 2007.
Barack Obama's Iowa Caucus Victory Speech on January 3, 2008.
Barack Obama's New Hampshire Primary Concession Speech on Jan 8, 2008.
"Yes, We Can"
by will.i.am
lyrics taken from the New Hampshire concession speech.
Barack Obama's "A More Perfect Union" speech in Philadelphia, PA
across the street from Independence Hall on March 18, 2008.
"I can no more disown him [Rev. Jeremiah Wright] than I can disown the
black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white
grandmother — a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed
again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves
anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of
black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one
occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.
These people are a part of me. And they are a part of America, this
country that I love."
Hillary Clinton's concession speech and endorsement of Barack Obama at
the National Building Museum on June 07, 2008.
Barack Obama makes the 3-pointer.
Barack Obama announces picks Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware as his Vice President.
Michelle Obama's Keynote Address at the 2008 Democratic National
Convention. At the Pepsi Center.
Joe Biden at the Democratic National Convention.
Barack Obama nominated by acclamation at the 2008 Democratic National
Convention.
Barack Obama's Acceptance Speech at the 2008 Democratic National
Convention. At INVESCO Field.
John McCain gets BarackRolled. (J/K)
"American Stories, American Solutions"
The 30 minute Commerical
Barack Obama votes in Hyde Park.
President Barack Obama's Victory Speech in Grant Park.
Barack Obama's first YouTube address.
"Pride (In the Name of Love)" and "City of Blinding Lights" by U2 at
"We Are One" at the Lincoln Memorial.
Barack Obama at "We Are One"
President Barack Obama's swearing in and Inaugural address.
"This is the journey we continue today. We remain the most prosperous,
powerful nation on Earth. Our workers are no less productive than when
this crisis began. Our minds are no less inventive, our goods and
services no less needed than they were last week or last month or last
year. Our capacity remains undiminished. But our time of standing pat,
of protecting narrow interests and putting off unpleasant decisions -
that time has surely passed. Starting today, we must pick ourselves
up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America."
Joe Biden sworn in as Vice President.
"Air and Simple Gifts"
arr. by John Williams
featuring Itzhak Perlman, Yo Yo Ma, Gabriela Montero and Anthony McGill
(Note: Bush's term of office ended at noon, which happened during this
performance.)
Satellite Photo of the Inauguration.
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