Vote for President Obama 2008

Lieberman has checked McCain's bearings. Ewwww. Now he wants to be Zell Miller for 2008. Next, I guess he will challenge Chris Matthews to a duel.

Check Your Bearings?

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Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), the Democratic Party’s 2000 vice presidential nominee, is leaving open the possibility of giving a keynote address on behalf of Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) at the Republican National Convention in September. Republicans cl...

I won't finish that quote, but I am still alive and often kicking. It was very nice that Aput wrote me to let me know that folks were a bit worried by my absence and may have lost me since I changed my blog name for the US election (I was formerly Matthew 25).

My work is seriously busy, I am getting out of the house more on weekends, and have joined a gym after a three-year absence. I do enjoy blogging and do plan on continuing this blog, probably under a new name after the election (or before, if Hillary is nominated). I am one of those very strong Obama supporters who realizes that even if Hillary wins the nomination, she'll be far better as President than four more years of this Republican nightmare.

Coming to 500 lucky California residents before long.

Honda FCX Clarity - Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle - Official Web Site

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This year won't be the end of the gas-powered vehicle. But Honda Motor Company's release of 500 hydrogen fuel-cell powered FCX Clarity's in California in 2008 could be the beginning of the end. What makes Honda's gambit significant is the corresponding release of its Home Energy Station Unit. Set the unit up in the yard, and it will use natural gas to produce enough Hydrogen to power your FCX Clarity and your home at around 50% of the normal cost and with a 30% reduction in emissions.
 
Its approach addresses the Catch-22 confronting every alternative-powered vehicle that's come down the pike: Without the fueling infrastructure, there's no incentive to buy a hydrogen-powered vehicle, and until hydrogen-powered vehicles become available there's no incentive to build the infrastructure.
 
By offering both, Honda could jump start demand for the Clarity, which is based on Honda's own V Flow fuel cell. The cell stack combines hydrogen with atmospheric gas to form chemical energy, which is then converted into electric power. The road to mass commercialization still stretches ahead, and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are not the only alternative vying for attention.
 
Even so, getting the technology rolling on California highways will build important momentum for the fuel cell industry. And California is a strategic proving ground. In addition to $4/gallon gas prices, the state is willing to subsidize fuel cell energy stations to keep pressure off its electrical grid. That may give the Clarity an edge over plug-in hybrids. [Business Week]

These events mark the beginning of the sixth year of the occupation of Iraq and almost 4000 American deaths, countless thousands of Iraqi deaths, many thousand more injured and maimed for life, and the displacement of millions. We have squandered our precious human and financial resources to only make Iraq a haven for terrorists.

Female Suicide Bomber Kills 43 in Iraq and Two US Soldiers Killed While McCain/Cheney Visit

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A female suicide bomber struck Shiite worshippers in the holy city of Karbala on Monday, an official and a witness said, killing at least 43 people and leaving pools of blood on the street leading to one of Iraq's most revered mosques. The blast was the deadliest in a series of attacks that left at least 72 Iraqis dead, including six youths killed when mortar rounds slammed into a soccer field in eastern Baghdad. Two U.S. soldiers also were killed Monday in a roadside bombing north of Baghdad, bringing the American death toll closer to 4,000 as the U.S.-led war enters its sixth year. At least 3,990 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The violence marred overlapping trips by Vice President Dick Cheney and Sen. John McCain to Baghdad. Their visits were aimed at touting recent security gains and stressing Washington's long-term commitment to fighting insurgents in Iraq.

Sen. Obama knows that clearing the air of these controversies is the right thing to do. I think many of us have had dealings with people, even friends, family, and clergy, with whom we strongly disagree. People who run for President justly get more scrutiny.

Obama Gets It Out in the Open - Chicago Sun-Times

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In an extraordinary day in his more than yearlong quest for the presidency, Sen. Barack Obama on Friday sought to put behind him two raging controversies jeopardizing his bid: his relationships with his minister, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and with his friend and political patron, Tony Rezko. Obama held two extensive, separate sessions with journalists from the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Tribune. An unassuming Obama entered a 10th-floor Sun-Times conference room for a conversation Friday, not as the hotshot at a rally. It was his moment — his time, as he himself might say — to try to bring this to an end. “I think it’s really important to make sure that you guys feel like you’ve got it all,” Obama said.

Hagee is one of the bizarro fundie types on the right-wing fringe. He is very anti-Catholic and wants to bring war in the Middle East to hasten what he believes will be the "end times" and Christ's second coming. Yet, McCain will not renouce this endorsement. I guess we know that deep down, McCain is just another politician of the type in the White House now.

McCain Refuses to Renounce Texas Far Right Fundie Endorsement

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John McCain is refusing to renounce the endorsement of a prominent Texas televangelist who Democrats say peddles anti-Catholic and other intolerant speech. Instead, the Republican presidential candidate issued a statement Friday afternoon saying he had unspecified disagreements with the San Antonio megachurch leader, John Hagee. Hagee endorsed him at a news conference Wednesday in San Antonio.