Senator Russ Feingold (D-Wi) may be a longshot for president, but could he be the perfect VP pick?…
Leftist Democrats are already urging the public support the nomination of Russ Feingold in the 08 presidential election. He has a record of taking principled stands, even when everyone opposed him. For instance, he alone, of all the Senate Democrats, had the courage to vote NO on the Patriot act, THE FIRST TIME. Below, he basically calls for the impeachment of Bush.
Here he is talking more about his move to censure, in early 2006 on Fox:
If there is any doubt that politics has become nastier than it has ever been in recent history, this archived video from NBC reports (pre-1994 election) should expel them. Soon to be Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich is reteatadly portrayed as the culprit for the election “getting ugly”. Why? Because he said the Clinton administration was bad for America… If you are confused because you thought it was natural for the oposition party to think their opponents in power would be bad for the country, then don’t worry – everyone else is too. But in 1994, I guess it was a different story for different times…
An entire attack-documentary is coming out telling us why Giuliani is the devil, and with Governor Mitt Romney’s Mormon baggage, there are sure to be similar videos flowing about him. This video was created by GOP ad man Alex Castellanos for the Massachusetts Republican Party showed at its convention in Lowell this spring.
Romney’s Commonwealth PAC, then bought the rights to the video, and it is now featured on the PAC’s website.
“Over coming great obstacles, turning things around despite the odds, seeing the future that others can’t, leading people there – The Governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney”
Senator Obama interviewed by Meredith Viera on Thursday October 19th, 2006. The senator’s now out with his second book, “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream.” He was invited to discuss the book on “Today.†An excerpt from the book follows the video below:
It’s been almost ten years since I first ran for political office. I was thirty-five at the time, four years out of law school, recently married, and generally impatient with life. A seat in the Illinois legislature had opened up, and several friends suggested that I run, thinking that my work as a civil rights lawyer, and contacts from my days as a community organizer, would make me a viable candidate. After discussing it with my wife, I entered the race and proceeded to do what every first-time candidate does: I talked to anyone who would listen. I went to block club meetings and church socials, beauty shops and barbershops. If two guys were standing on a corner, I would cross the street to hand them campaign literature. And everywhere I went, I’d get some version of the same two questions.
“Where’d you get that funny name?â€
And then: “You seem like a nice enough guy. Why do you want to go into something dirty and nasty like politics?â€
I was familiar with the question, a variant on the questions asked of me years earlier, when I’d first arrived in Chicago to work in low-income neighborhoods. It signaled a cynicism not simply with politics but with the very notion of a public life, a cynicism that — at least in the South Side neighborhoods I sought to represent — had been nourished by a generation of broken promises. In response, I would usually smile and nod and say that I understood the skepticism, but that there was — and always had been — another tradition to politics, a tradition that stretched from the days of the country’s founding to the glory of the civil rights movement, a tradition based on the simple idea that we have a stake in one another, and that what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart, and that if enough people believe in the truth of that proposition and act on it, then we might not solve every problem, but we can get something meaningful done.
It was a pretty convincing speech, I thought. And although I’m not sure that the people who heard me deliver it were similarly impressed, enough of them appreciated my earnestness and youthful swagger that I made it to the Illinois legislature.
Six years later, when I decided to run for the United States Senate, I wasn’t so sure of myself.
By all appearances, my choice of careers seemed to have worked out. After spending my two terms during which I labored in the minority, Democrats had gained control of the state senate, and I had subsequently passed a slew of bills, from reforms of the Illinois death penalty system to an expansion of the state’s health program for kids. I had continued to teach at the University of Chicago Law School, a job I enjoyed, and was frequently invited to speak around town. I had preserved my independence, my good name, and my marriage, all of which, statistically speaking, had been placed at risk the moment I set foot in the state capital.
Barack Obama in Detroit for Michigan Governor Granholm’s successful reelection (video from October 2006). The clip is cut short for time purposes, so unfortunately the Senator is cut off before his speech is through, but you get the idea of where he’s going with it.
HIGHLIGHTS:
-Granholm thinks he could be president
-Obama is an “uh, Christian” who is “more important than the Pope” (?)
-After saying his wife told him its snowing in Chicago, Obama jokes that its just “not right” and a supporter in the crowd can be heard repeating “not right” in agreement. Meaningless point? Or example of how the Senator from Illinois can command a crowd’s agreement like a congregation?
-Obama talks about how the hardest thing about politics is being away from your children and not being able to tuck them in at night. An odd point to bring up at a support meeting for a state Governor, but true to form, Obama makes it appropriate.