McCain Says Wiretapping Is OK by Him

John McCain endorses wiretapping without warrants.From the International Herald Tribune:A top adviser to Senator John McCain says McCain believes that President George W. Bush's program of...

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It's official...Obama wins Texas!

Thanks to all our volunteers who worked so hard over the last year.  Your efforts have paid off!

Obama wins Texas - finally
Statesman

Unless Democratic officials say otherwise later Saturday, it looks like Sen. Barack Obama will take 99 Texas delegates to the August Democratic National Convention in Denver with Sen. Hillary Clinton landing 94 delegates based on voting on primary day and at battles starting with the boisterous primary-night caucuses. It took this long to say (that's three months since the March 4 primary) so for sure because the total depended on which Democratic delegates showed up for this weekend's state convention.

So ink in the headline for sure: Obama Wins Texas.

Yes we did!


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"We are one": Your Messages to Hillary

Throughout the day, thousands of supporters just like you have been sharing their thanks and thoughts with Senator Hillary Clinton. Here are just a few of the comments and stories you have shared with Hillary in the past few hours...

Trish from MO…

With Hillary's endorsement and Barack's response, the healing has well and truly begun.

Now it falls to all of us to continue this unity. We all need to put aside any hurts we might feel over things that went on in what, after all, was a political campaign, and move forward.

Can we win the General?

YES WE CAN… but only if we work together!

K. Bell from MI…

Hillary,
I just watched your speech today and I want to say from my heart that you make me proud to call myself a woman. Once again, as women always do, you have put the American people before yourself to make sure that our lives and our children’s lives are better. I am so proud of you and of America and I will support you and your legacy for the rest of my life.

Your story will be told to my daughter with pride for years to come. So I say now with the fullness of my spirit, Thank you Senator Clinton and I am sure that you and Senator Obama working together will win the White House and ensure that Universal Health care IS a reality for every American!

Maria from RI…

I used to support Hillary and from now on I will support Obama. I know I said a few harsh things about you guys and Obama on her blog but I really didn't mean them. It was a race you know. Anyways, I will join you guys from now on. Just wanted to let you know I will have my full support to Obama even if he doesn't pick her as VP. Let’s unite together and win this election!!!

Riv from OH…

For all that you've done to break down the barriers women are up against. Thank you for your dedication to our country and thank you for being real today.
I have always admired you and the example you set for women everywhere.

I look forward to seeing you and Sen. Obama take the country in the right direction. We need you now more than ever.

Sabrina in CT…

Even though we didn’t agree much, I admire your strength, grit, and tenacity. It’s been a rocky road between the both of us, but because of you, I will NEVER let anyone tell me I can't do something. Thank you for your courage, and giving women a voice!!!

Jim B from NC…

Bravo Senator Clinton, thank you!

Welcome to democrats from all corners of the candidate map. The ideals and issues of every candidate in this nomination race will now be carried forward by our one voice.

We are one.

This message of unity is spreading throughout the nation. Please continue to share your story, and thank Hillary Clinton. We must continue to grow this movement for change, and push ahead to November. You can enhance our efforts by making a matching contribution today. Every donation you put forth will be matched by another supporter, and allow you to trade your thanks with them as well. John McCain has a three month head start on the general election, and it's our job to make sure we don't fall behind. As Hillary herself said earlier today, "every moment wasted looking back keeps us from moving forward." Help us move this country forward.

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Coming Together

As the day goes on, Barack and Hillary supporters continue to unite to bring the Democratic Party together. Both sides are expressing their support and thanks for Hillary's campaign and her endorsement of Barack this morning. 

Elizabeth from IN:

Thank-you, Senator Clinton, for your beautiful speech.  A neighbor of mine is a staunch supporter of yours, and we've had a few awkward conversations about the primary.  I am going to go out right now to tell her how much I loved your speech, and that I take to heart your gracious reminder that we are family. 

Beth from MN:

Thank you Hillary, I was supporting you until the very end, and now I'm backing Barack with all my hopes and dreams for a better future for our country.

 Ian from AR:

As an Obama supporter, I would like to thank you for your speech today and your heartfelt support for Barack Obama. You have done much for this country as a US Senator, and I have no doubt you will continue to fight for the issues that matter to all Americans: Democrat, Republican, Independent, Black, White, and Brown. You are an inspiration to the Democratic Party, and I look forward to the great things we can accomplish together with Senator Obama.

Meredith from MA:

Thank you Senator Clinton for supporting Senator Obama! I stood behind you and I'll stand behind Senator Obama.

Vivek from NC:

Sen. Clinton, though I supported Sen. Obama, I was always deeply impressed with your poise, resilience and strength. You are a truly inspirational figure for our Democratic party and I have the greatest respect for your candidacy and what it represented for millions of Americans. Thank you for making our party, and our country, stronger.

Linda from TX:

Dear Hillary -

Thank you so much for your speech today.  I will ensure that I will do all that I can to support Barack and the Democrats to take back the White House.  

YES WE CAN!!!

John from SC:

Thank you Senator Clinton I am proud to be a Democrat. As an early Obama supporter I proudly hand off our slogan - Yes we Can!  Your speech was truly inspirational and I am glad to roll up my sleeves and work side by side with the 18 million remarkable people in your campaign.  It is now our campaign. We are Democrats, as you have said this afternoon.  We must not look back. We must move our party to victory in November.  Thanks again Senator Clinton. I am proud to stand with you!

Tomi from MO:

Dear Senator Clinton,

I am a 58 year old woman supporter of Barack Obama, and I would like to say thank you for the beautiful speech you just made.  I would also like to thank you for all of the years you have spent working for women's rights and equal rights for all.  I will look forward to working with you and your supporters to elect Barack Obama as our president.

Jeremy from IA:

Although I have been a supporter of Barack Obama for some time, I could not have been more inspired and uplifted by your speech today.  Your strength and courageous words today were remarkable, and I am so grateful for you, Hillary.

Matthew from MI:

Mrs. Clinton,

Thank you for your commitment and preseverance throughout this primary process.  Not only have you brought new voters, young and old, into the Democratic party, you have made Barack Obama a stronger candidate for President of the United States.  I look forward in standing side by side with you in helping Barack Obama become the new voice that is needed in America.  Congratulations on all you have accomplished!

 Lionel from CA:

Dear Senator Clinton, I thank you with all my heart!! I feel you delivered a gracious, heartfelt, and unifying speech. I'm proud to have you in our corner. I have always admired, respected, and supported you and your family. Thank you for giving us hope again by supporting Senator Barack Obama for Prez. Yes we can!

Leni from SC:

Senator Clinton, Thanks for putting yourself out there and taking the time to run for the highest office in America. I will now replace my Hillary sticker with an Obama one, because our party HAS to win in November. I will always be supportive of you.

William from WI:

Senator Clinton, Thank you.  Today you reminded us all that regardless of the differences we've had in this campaign we truly are united in our hopes, our passions, and our ideals.

Send your thanks and thoughts to Hillary for her support. 

Let's continue to come together to take on John McCain in the general election. If you give right now, a previous donor has agreed to match your gift, doubling its impact. Help us reach our goal of 20,000 new donors by making a matching donation today.

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John McCain's Record on Women's Issues

Websites like Hillaryis44.org are threatening to vote for John McCain rather than Barack Obama. I understand the anger and disappointment, but do they even know John McCain's voting record on the...

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Lone Star State Democrats Unite

Something remarkable happened today at the Texas Democratic Party State Convention in Austin. In the midst of Senator Clinton’s speech this morning, which was streaming to the convention, the video feed cut out. While the organizers worked to restore the stream, the crowd began to lift their voice. According to a local blog, Press Progress…

A chant went up 'O-ba-ma, O-ba-ma' that soon became 'United We Stand'. Some Clinton supporters … joined in the chant, enthusiastically poking Obama signs into the air.

Daniel from Texas, who is at the convention as we speak, added a little more detail to their account.

We joined hands, all of us. 12,000 Obama and Clinton supporters held hands together and shouted: ‘YES WE CAN, YES WE WILL!’

This marks a powerful display of unity on a remarkable day in our nation’s history. Please continue to reach out to your fellow Democrats, and help bring this party together in order to take the fight to John McCain.

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Thank you Sen. Clinton!

Click on the link and write to Sen. Clinton and tell her what an exceptional candidate she has been! We are proud of her accomplishments and the historic nature of the campaign that she ran! 

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http://blogs.fayobserver.com/obama/2008/06/07/thank-you-sen-clinton/

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DLC Consultant Class - Wrong on the 1960s

Hillary's
Winning
Speech

By Tom Hayden

Hillary Clinton?s moving and brilliant speech today cemented an independent place for herself and feminists in general in the unfolding historical drama of the 2008 presidential election.

The speech, which situated her more firmly than ever in women?s history, provided a powerful endorsement for Barack Obama while at the same time reinforcing her position as virtually his equal in the Democratic primary race.

Clinton essentially empowered her audience by implying they, more than anyone, could make the historic difference by electing an African-American president on the rising, tide of the women?s vote. She assured them that the two candidacies had shattered all gender and racial barriers to democracy?s highest office.



Hers was not the surrender pose traditionally expected of ?losers? but a redefinition of what winning ultimately means. It suggested that she will be treated as a full partner in the process, and it was a victory speech for the power of social movements.

She bravely rejected the bitter destructiveness that gnaws within all campaigns that lose closely, and held the high ground.

Characterizing her decision as a ?suspension?, however, still left open the prospect of hard bargaining with Obama over a range of issues, but apparently in a greater atmosphere of unity.

One wonders if she would be the nominee if she had pursued the tone of today?s speech more and the advice of her [male] advisors less. It took a year, and a string of campaign disasters, before she threw out Mark Penn, though still leaving in place a cast of male operatives like Lanny Davis who only blighted her image as an experienced, pragmatic representative of the Sixties student, antiwar and women?s movements.

Her 2002 vote to authorize the Iraq War, which opened the door for Obama?s candidacy, was advised as the way to prove that a woman could be commander-in-chief. So were her later comments about obliterating Iran. Her male advisers incessantly pressured the media to play up Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers, race-baiting and red-baiting positions she never would have adopted in the late Sixties.

This wasn?t a problem unique to Clinton alone, of course. If Bill Clinton had not promoted NAFTA and the WTO, there would have been no space for Ralph Nader to run in 2000. Had John Kerry followed his 1970 anti-war, anti-establishment instincts in 2004, he probably would have been president today. The Democratic Party consultant class has been counseling retreat from the Sixties ever since?the Sixties. It has been a risk for Obama?s centrist campaign as well, although his 2002 antiwar stance and the unified enthusiasm of the black community position him firmly within a progressive history.

This basic identity confusion at the center of the Clinton strategy was the crucial reason, next to Obama?s superlative campaign, for her narrow defeat. The irony is that her resurrection can now begin.
http://progressivesforobama.blogspot.com

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http://progressivesforobama.blogspot.com/2008/06/dlc-consultant-class-wrong-on-19
60s.html

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Senator Clinton Endorses Barack Obama

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Earlier today at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC, Senator Clinton officially announced her support for Barack Obama, ending a historic primary that lasted over 16 months and spanned all 50 states. Shortly after her speech concluded, Barack sent out the following email:

Hillary Clinton announced her support for our campaign today.

Senator Clinton made history over the past 16 months -- not just because she has broken barriers, but because she has inspired millions of Americans with her strength, her courage, and her commitment to causes like universal health care that make a difference in the lives of hardworking Americans.

Our party and our country are stronger because of the work she has done throughout her life, and I'm a better candidate for having had the privilege of competing with her.

Senator Clinton will be invaluable to our efforts to win in November, and I look forward to campaigning alongside her to bring this country the change it so desperately needs.

Hillary and her supporters are joining us at an urgent moment.

It's going to require a new level of commitment from every single one of us to build a national campaign in the general election.

And we're going win this election the right way -- by growing our grassroots network of ordinary people giving only what they can afford.

Will you help by making your first donation today?

If you give right now, a previous donor has agreed to match your gift, doubling its impact. Help us reach our goal of 20,000 new donors by making a matching donation today.

It's time for all of us to come together to take on John McCain in the general election. John McCain offers another four years of George Bush's policies, which our country simply cannot afford.

To win, we must continue building an unprecedented organization in all 50 states. And that will only happen if we all work together, side-by-side.

Thank you for joining this movement and supporting a new kind of politics.

Together we can do more than just win an election. Together we can change this country, and we can change the world.

And we are honored to have Hillary Clinton at our side as we do it.

Barack

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Obama, White Voters, and the Democratic Party

Night before last, on either CNN or MSNBC, I saw the result of a study of white voters and the Democratic party.  When not breaking down the white vote into income or education levels, the overall

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