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Justice?
Press Sec Gibbs on the likely execution of KSM, "Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is going to meet justice and he's going to meet his maker," said President Obama's press secretary, Robert Gibbs. "He will be...
Posted on Pfarrer Streccius (Site / Info) on Sunday February 7, 2010
Who you gonna believe? Glenn Beck, or your lyin' eyes?
- by Dave It's been amusing watching Glenn Beck twist and squirm and try to explain what he meant last October when he proclaimed that President Obama was flying the American airplane right into th...
Posted on Orcinus (Site / Info) on Thursday February 4, 2010
Zapatero en el DAa Nacional de OraciAn: "Una naciAn, los Estados Unidos, alumbrada en la democracia,
Discurso del primer ministro de EspaAa, JosA Luis RodrAguez Zapatero, en el Dia Nacional de OraciAn, ante el presidente Estadounidense Barack Obama. Presidente, Congresistas, seAoras y seAores, gra...
Posted on GABRIEL JARABA (Site / Info) on Thursday February 4, 2010
Don't Ask Policy Fatally Wounded
OK, no pun intended, but I blew it. I can mealy-mouth it a bit and say my premise that President Obama was weak in his passing and faint call for Congress to end don't-ask-don't-tell may have been ...
Posted on Marry in Massachusetts (Site / Info) on Wednesday February 3, 2010
Grandchildren ask Obama to get rid of Don't ask, Don't tell
Susan Smith is a former Army Nurse and now lives in Silver Spring, Maryland. My five grand kids have written to Obama a couple of times expressing their desire for equal rights for folks like their...
Posted on Standing On The Side Of Love (Site / Info) on Tuesday February 2, 2010
Consider Michigan...
I've been thinking a lot about Detroit and Michigan lately. None of my thoughts have been particularly cheerful. I was in a discussion last night about my disappointments with the Obama administrat...
Posted on Rev. Cyn (Site / Info) on Friday January 29, 2010
Moral Deficit Disorder - The Presidents of the United States
It is interesting how President Obama has declared a budget freeze on Domestic Progams after spending trillions of dollars on two immoral wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and billions and billions of ...
Posted on UU A Way Of Life (Site / Info) on Friday January 29, 2010
State of the Union Address
I am disappointed in the results of this administration so far, but President Obama gives a good speech . He did get bipartisan applause and even standing ovations sometimes. I like to see that. He...
Posted on UU Mom (Site / Info) on Wednesday January 27, 2010
Don't Ask, Tell Obama
Joan Darrah, Retired Navy Captain and LGBT Activist As a retired Navy Captain and lesbian American, I know from firsthand experience that "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" is blatant employment discriminatio...
Posted on Standing On The Side Of Love (Site / Info) on Tuesday January 26, 2010
Game Over, Obama?
GOP and winger sorts in general seem mired in that fallacy that saying something, naming something makes it real. Following setbacks for progressives and moderates - think CA Prop. 8, Maine's plebi...
Posted on Marry in Massachusetts (Site / Info) on Monday January 25, 2010
Progressives Throw a oeObamaa Under the Bus
H/T The Real Barack Obama. Carl knows better than most the real Obama having known him from New Party Days in Chicago when Obama came to Carl for support.
Posted on Unitarian Universalist News (Site / Info) on Sunday January 3, 2010
Things & People That make Life Worth Living: Sasha Obama
All kids are not cute! I am a kid-lover, but some children are downright unappealing. That seems to have been the case with many of the first-family children over the decades of my life, possible e...
Posted on A Jersey Girl in Kentucky (Site / Info) on Friday January 1, 2010
Is the President a Unitarian?
Recently read this surprising tidbit in Time Magazine: The one church in Hawaii with which Obama does have a family connection is unlikely to be the place where the First Family would worship on Ch...
Posted on Unitarian Universalists (Site / Info) on Tuesday December 29, 2009
One question
Why is it that when President Obama apologizes for for American arrogance overseas he is a traitor who does not love his country and is not fit to hold public office, but when Minnesota Congresswom...
Posted on Strange Attractor (Site / Info) on Saturday December 19, 2009
Far From Being the Hardest Choice, Use of Force Is the Easiest Choice
United States Presidents from Truman (who ordered use of the atomic bomb and authorized force in Korea) to Barack Obama (who just escalated the War in Afghanistan) have often spoken of how hard to ...
Posted on Living the Prophetic Imperative (Site / Info) on Monday December 14, 2009
Obama Team Meets with Interfaith Leaders
Barney Zwartz, Religion Editor of the Melbourne daily newspaper, The Age , reported on December 10 that members of the Obama administration had met privately with about 100 religious leaders at the...
Posted on My No Hell Space (Site / Info) on Wednesday December 9, 2009
The Hate Grandma Bill?
President Obama's decision yesterday to sign a federal hate crimes law, named for Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr, was criticized by figures on the Christian right, who fear the statute will be u...
Posted on Revolutionary Spirits (Site / Info) on Thursday October 29, 2009
You Lie
In recent news we heard how Representative Joe Wilson from South Carolina shouted, "you lie" at President Obama during his speech on health reform to the joint congress. In the days to follow I hea...
Posted on Beyond Wrongdoing and Rightdoing (Site / Info) on Monday September 21, 2009
I'm back ...
From a new British book, "Obama's Blackberry" (Sphere GBP 9.99) Kasper Hauser Comedy Group LLC Text message to Michelle Obama BarackO: hey hon, we need 2 remind sasha not 2 leave toys in oval offic...
Posted on jubilata in the desert (Site / Info) on Friday August 28, 2009
Report from the Rose Garden
This just in. Professor Gates enjoyed a Samuel Adams Light, while President Obama opted for a Bud Light. Sergeant Crowley indulged in a Blue Moon Pale Ale, while Vice-President Biden contented hims...
Posted on The Eclectic Cleric (Site / Info) on Friday July 31, 2009
Slavery's Dark Shadow
When President Obama visited the slave fort Cape Coast Castle in Ghana where millions of Africans were penned for shipment to southern plantations, it was a measure of how far our nation has travel...
Posted on Revolutionary Spirits (Site / Info) on Sunday July 12, 2009
Mea Culpa
While it is refreshing to hear Barack Obama apologize for "screwing up," it was an unfortunate distraction from the work that he's trying to do. I was beginning to worry that he was going to give a...
Posted on All Carrot, No Stick (Site / Info) on Thursday February 5, 2009
a new era...
What an inspiring week it has been! As I watched and listened to President Obama, the words of so many people echoed in my mind..."I never thought it would happen in my lifetime. I never thought we...
Posted on help create peace now... (Site / Info) on Saturday January 24, 2009
Obama Poem, former Quad Cities Poet Laureate
In today's Quad Cities Times, a poem from former Quad Cities Poet Laureate and staunch Republican Dick Stahl. It is a beautiful, gracious, generous piece. Dear Barack Obama By Dick Stahl I have a h...
Posted on Progress Quad Cities (Site / Info) on Sunday January 18, 2009
Will you help us buy a NY Times full page ad on Gaza?
Will you help us buy a full page ad in the NY Times calling for a cease fire and for president-elect Obama to call for an international conference to once and for all provide a settlement to the Is...
Posted on Birthing Journey (Site / Info) on Tuesday January 6, 2009
How Does the Spirit Move?
By Rev. John Morehouse What a tremendous moment to be an American! Indeed to be alive. With Obama's election so much is possible; exuberance has come over the country, if not the world, about the p...
Posted on Johnmorehouse's Weblog (Site / Info) on Thursday November 20, 2008
Did I like the Obama interview just because he sounded like a Unitarian?
Joe Carter thinks so : Obama is not a orthodox Christian. He may call himself a "Christian" in the same way that some Unitarians use the term to refer to themselves. But his beliefs do not seem to ...
Posted on reason and reverence (Site / Info) on Wednesday November 19, 2008
Excerpts from a 2004 Obama interview on religion
Obama's 2006 speech on religion and politics was fantastic and I've blogged about it before. But I just came across a 2004 Obama interview with columnist Cathleen Falsani. Apparently, this is the f...
Posted on reason and reverence (Site / Info) on Saturday November 15, 2008
Life After Prop 8
What can I say? What a bummer it was to wake up to the glory of Barack Obama's election as President of the United States, and then to know that Proposition 8, banning same-sex marriage, won in Cal...
Posted on Rev Rose (Site / Info) on Monday November 10, 2008
I don't know who you voted for...
and I don't know what you think about President Obama. But let me tell you something. Last night, as Barack Obama was elected to the Presidency of this nation, my seventeen-year-old son wept. I don...
Posted on letting each other go (Site / Info) on Wednesday November 5, 2008
Obama in Cleveland
Clevelanders came out in mass last evening to support Barack Obama for President. I was fortunate to get a good spot in the crowd to catch the enthusiasm and hope that everyone was counting on to b...
Posted on Cee Jay's Cyber Space (Site / Info) on Monday November 3, 2008
Obama Pumpkin Carving
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Posted on Aaron Sawyer's DiscoverUU Blog (Site / Info) on Wednesday October 29, 2008
Voter Registration
The Obama campaign just launched a new one-stop voter registration website called Vote for Change: http://my.barackobama.com/vfc You can check your registration status, register to vote, look up ea...
Posted on Gnu UU (Site / Info) on Wednesday September 17, 2008
Two future presidents? Peter Morales gives invocation for Barack Obama in Golden, Colorado
Peter Morales gave the invocation at Barack Obama's campaign event in Golden, Colorado! I'd love to see them both in office in 2009!
Posted on jUUggernaut (Site / Info) on Tuesday September 16, 2008
Lipstick and Pigs
I don't fault Senator Obama for slamming McCain for trying to pass off Bush's failed policies as change. My only problem with it was his use of the cliche. I'm tired of all the cliches thrown aroun...
Posted on Cee Jay's Cyber Space (Site / Info) on Wednesday September 10, 2008
Obama and Taxes
I was out campaigning for Obama yesterday, and I was impressed with how well Senator McCain's campaign ads and attacks are working to convince voters that if Obama wins the election, they will have...
Posted on Cee Jay's Cyber Space (Site / Info) on Sunday September 7, 2008
Obama as a Muslim?
The Obama campaign is doing a wonderful job of fighting smears by launching FightTheSmears.com . MichelleObamaWatch.com is also a good tool to dispel the myths about her. All in all, I'm proud of t...
Posted on iChalice: Unitarian Universalism meets Web 2.0 (Site / Info) on Thursday June 12, 2008
Obama and Others
...OK, I'm less tired now. But anyone who says this primary season hasn't worn them a bit emotionally hasn't been paying attention. Congrats to Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Bill Richardson, and a...
Posted on Parsonage Life (Site / Info) on Thursday June 5, 2008
UUXTIAN Web Reveal
So... There are so many things I could post about right now. Obama, of course, springs to mind but, frankly, I'm sure that there is a great deal of that going on anyway and the whole election thing...
Posted on Parsonage Life (Site / Info) on Thursday June 5, 2008
Was Rev. Wright Wrong? ( Redux)
When Obama's minister, Jeremiah Wright, was initially quoted in the news media, I stated in one of my reflections that the bignews for me was that white people were so surprised at his comments. I'...
Posted on Reflections (Site / Info) on Thursday May 1, 2008
Was Rev. Wright Wrong?
Concerning his response to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's controversial statements from the pulpit, Barack Obama did a brilliant job of turning a potential media conflagration intoyet anotheropportunit...
Posted on Reflections (Site / Info) on Wednesday March 26, 2008
Why The Good Guys Go Elsewhere
Over at his blog, Rev. Scott Wells began a discussion contrasting the heavily politicized insular culture of UU youth to the movement of young people being energized by Obama. I've been avoiding bl...
Posted on Pirates of the Unitarians (Site / Info) on Sunday March 9, 2008
Poll Results: Edwards Endorsement?
The results are in!! Whom should John Edwards Endorse? The options were: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John McCain, Ron Paul, Make No Endorsement. A record six people expressed an opinion. Clinton...
Posted on Aroostook's Progressive Voice (Site / Info) on Friday February 1, 2008
Hear the Candidates Speak on Iraq
On April 10th MoveOn Political Action will hold the first of three virtual town hall meetings. Many of the top 2008 presidential candidates - including Obama, Clinton, Biden, and Edwards - will joi...
Posted on Imperfect Genius (Site / Info) on Friday April 6, 2007
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