Now THIS is an e-mail to send around or bookmark: lots of good stuff

[babylonsister]

Subject: Echo chamber & Death of 'straight talk?


I’ve been wondering if our emails affect any voters or are we in an
echo-chamber? McCain is loving it that Eliza Doolittle Palin drama has become a MAJOR
distraction from focus on his record of supporting Bush 95% & on the real issues at stake.
So, I’ve compiled info that I hope will confront the derailment of straight talk.
Here goes. . .
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"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it
expects what never was and never will be.
. . .whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own
government; that, whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their
notice, they may be relied on to set them right." - Thomas Jefferson

Is our democracy threatened by confusing and distracting misinformation in
the election coverage from the campaigns, the press, & the internet?

There are non-partisan sites to check out the claims for yourself.

At factcheck.org,
http://wire.factcheck.org/2008/09/10/pigs-and-pit-bulls/
http://www.factcheck.org/just-the-facts/.html

At www.Snopes.com,

http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp-q=mccain&getit=Go&sp-a=00062d45-sp00000000&sp-advanced=1&sp-p=all&sp-w-control=1&sp-w=alike&sp-date-range=-1&sp-x=any&sp-c=100&sp-m=1&sp-s=0

http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp-q=obama&getit=Go&sp-a=00062d45-sp00000000&sp-advanced=1&sp-p=all&sp-w-control=1&sp-w=alike&sp-date-range=-1&sp-x=any&sp-c=100&sp-m=1&sp-s=0


Alaska Maverick Credentials
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/maverick_misleads.html
http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/is_it_true_that_even_though_john.html

Funding Troop Support
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/the_truth_on_troop_support.html

Tax plans
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/more_tax_deceptions.html
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/taxes.asp
http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/would_obama_tax_my_profits_if_i.html
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/mccains_small-business_bunk.html

Obama, Wealth Re-Distribution?
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/distribute.asp

Ethics: Fannie & Freddie bailout & John McCain’s Keating 5 scandal
http://www.politicalbase.com/news/mccain-i-learned-from-keating-five-case/59096/
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/21/us/politics/21mccain.html?emc=eta1

Cindy McCain’s drug addiction & theft uncovered by DEA
http://www.snopes.com/politics/mccain/cindy.asp

McCain Infidelities
http://www.snopes.com/politics/mccain/carol.asp
http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/did_john_mccain_cheat_on_his_first.html

Alaskans email about Sarah Palin
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/sarahpalin.asp

“Obama 50 Lies” email
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/50lies.asp

Obama’s experience
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2007-Present -CEO of Presidential Campaign
Building and running a disciplined campaign organization of nearly 1000 ee’s
and a budget exceeding $200 million. He has built "an amazingly strong
machine," says Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, president of the Chief Executive
Leadership Institute at the Yale School of Management. His organization
defeated the most powerful, famous political machine in Democratic
politics since the days of FDR. Rolling Stone calls it a model 2.0
Enterprise organization. See also:
http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2008/obama/obamaorg.html

2005-Present -US Senate
Senator Obama serves on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee,
which oversees health care, schools, employment, and retirement programs. He
is a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, which influences American
policy around the world, including our policy in Iraq. He also serves on the
Veterans’ Affairs Committee, which focuses on veteran care and services. In
2005 and 2006, he served on the Environment and Public Works Committee,
which safeguards the environment and provides highway funding.

As a member of the Democratic minority in the 109th Congress, he helped
create bi-partisan legislation to control conventional weapons and to
promote greater public accountability in the use of federal funds. He also
made official trips to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

During the 110th Congress, he helped create bi-partisan legislation
regarding lobbying and electoral fraud, climate change, nuclear terrorism,
and care for returned U.S. military personnel. After announcing his
presidential campaign in February 2007, Obama emphasized withdrawing
American troops from Iraq, energy independence, decreasing the influence of
lobbyists, and promoting universal health care as top national priorities.

1997-2004 –IL Senate
Obama gained bipartisan support for legislation reforming ethics and health
care laws. He sponsored a law increasing tax credits for low-income workers,
negotiated welfare reform, and promoted increased subsidies for childcare.
In 2001, as co-chairman of the bipartisan Joint Committee on Administrative
Rules, he supported Republican Governor Ryan's payday loan regulations
and predatory mortgage lending regulations aimed at averting home
foreclosures, and in 2003, he sponsored and led unanimous, bipartisan
passage of legislation to monitor racial profiling by requiring police to
record the race of drivers they detained and legislation making Illinois the
first state to mandate videotaping of homicide interrogations. Obama was
reelected to the Illinois Senate in 1998, and again in 2002.

1992–2004 – Constitutional Law Professor, University of CHI Law School
Constitutional law professor—lecturer, 1992–1996; Senior Lecturer,
1996–2004.

1993-1996- Attorney, Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, Chicago, IL
Specialized in civil rights litigation and neighborhood economic
development. And served on several Chicago-based boards of directors.

1992 - Director, Project Hope, Chicago, IL
Directed a voter registration drive with a paid staff of 10 and 700
volunteers that achieved its goal of registering 150,000 of 400,000
unregistered African Americans in the state, leading Crain's Chicago
Business to name Obama to its 1993 list of "40 under Forty" powers to be.

1991 – Author, Chicago, IL & Bali, Indonesia
In an effort to recruit him to their faculty, the University of Chicago Law
School provided Obama with a fellowship and an office to work on his book,
Dreams from My Father, (published in mid-1995) He won an Emmy for the audio
version.

1988-1991 - Editor, Harvard Law Review, Cambridge, MA
At the end of his first year was selected as an editor of the Harvard Law
Review based on his grades and a writing competition. In his second year he
was elected President of the Law Review, a full-time volunteer position
functioning as Editor-in-Chief and supervising the law review's staff of 80
editors. Obama's election in February 1990 as the first black president of
the Harvard Law Review was widely reported and followed by several long,
detailed profiles. He graduated magna cum laude.

1985-1988 – Director, Developing Communities Project, Chicago, IL
DCP originally comprised eight Catholic parishes on Chicago's far South
Side. During his three years as the DCP's director, its staff grew from 1 to
13 and its annual budget grew from $70,000 to $400,000, with accomplishments
including helping set up a job training program, a college preparatory
tutoring program, and a tenants' rights organization.

1985 – Organizer, NY PIRG, NY, NY
Obama’s job required winning over and organizing minority City College
students on the political left, right and those who were not active
at all, for community projects.

1983-1984 – Jr. Editor, Business International Corp, NY, NY
Obama was a researcher and writer for a reference service called Financing
Foreign Operations. He also wrote for a newsletter, Business International
Money Report.

1981-1983 – BA in Political Science & International Relations, Columbia
University, NY, NY
Faculty included Zbigniew Brzezinski, the former national security adviser,
and Zalmay Khalilzad, now the American ambassador to the United Nations.
Half of the eight students in the seminar were outstanding, and Mr. Obama
was among them, per his thesis advisor, Michael Baron. Obama’s Sr. thesis
was on Soviet nuclear disarmament.

1980-1981 – Student, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA

1979 – Graduate, Punahou, a private, non-sectarian college prep K-12 school,
Honolulu, HI

[babylonsister]

1. No one gets this? OK. nt

[Emit]

2. Oh, God, thank you, babylonsister

I have about five people in my neighborhood that I have canvassed today and last weekend that I need to get this kind of info out to.

Thanks so much!! Such luck for me :hi:

[babylonsister]

3. Emit, my dear, thank you for recognizing how important this is.

I've read these questions so many times, I thought more people would appreciate them. :hug:

[babylonsister]

4. I know, long and boring, but may answer a lot of questions. Bookmarkable. nt