Obama Family Volunteering at Local Food Pantry

I am continuously inspired by the way the Obamas walk the walk and don’t just talk the talk. They obviously understand what “service” is all about. I love these people. I also love the fact that the school children assembled in the church auditorium to see Barack, and that he took the time to [...]

Netroots Nation Returns to Second Life

The Netroots Nation progressive bloggers convention, formerly Yearly KOS, has returned to Second Life again this year. Even though I live just forty miles away from Austin, Texas, where the convention is being held this year, I was not able to attend in person. However, once again this year, Netroots has provided some great options for participating via the internet. The more interactive and entertaining option is the Second Life venue which has been expanded and improved since last years SL conference. The other option is to watch the keynotes and sessions either live or taped on ustream.tv.

Pete Seeger On Obama

I saw the wonderful PBS debut of “American Masters: Peter Seeger: The Power of Song” last night. If you like American folk music, and true American patriots, I highly recommend this show. If it weren’t for Pete Seeger, Alan Lomax, Woodie Guthrie, and the others that worked with them, we would have lost much American [...]

No American Left Behind

Obama at Tulane

Obama gave a wonderful speech today in New Orleans. He said so many of the things that I wanted to hear. Click here to read the entire speech that Barack Obama delivered at Tulane University today.
Here are some excerpts:
The Times-Picayune
Thursday February 07, 2008, 10:03 AM
Sen. Barack Obama’s prepared remarks to be delivered to [...]

Polls and Pundits

(Cross posted on my BarackObama.com blog)
I have sat transfixed in front of the television since before the Iowa caucuses watching every bit of news related to the primary elections that I could suck up. Flitting nervously from news channel to news channel (avoiding Fox of course) trying to figure out what was really going on [...]