Vann on Barack Obama '08 and Jesse Jackson '84
After speaking at Barack Obama’s watch party in Manhattan, I sat down with City Councilman Al Vann of Brooklyn, who compared this campaign to the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s 1984 presidential campaign, which Vann said he spearheaded in New York.
“The primary engine driving that campaign really was the black church,” Vann said of the Jackson campaign. “
Vann goes on to say, “Both have charisma, both drew a crowd. Jesse’s crowd was not the magnitude that Barack would draw.”
Obama Vs. McCain Polling Data
- Poll
- Obama (D)
- McCain(R)
- Spread
- RCP Average
- 46.0
- 45.2
- Obama +0.8
Favorable Ratings
- Candidate
- Favorable
- Unfavorable
- Spread
- Obama
- 55.8
- 35.8
- +20.0
- McCain
- 54.8
- 36.6
- +18.2
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Fired up and ready to go
Fired up and ready to show
Barack Obama is fired up in 2008
Just incase you didn’t know
Fired up in speaking bold
Fired up in the 2008 polls
Barack Obama is fired up just
In case you haven’t been told
Fired up on the stage
Fired up in the streets
Barack Obama is fired up
With no image of a 2008
Presidential Campaign defeat
Fired up x-Republicans
Fired up new-Democrats
Barack Obama got this
2008 Presidential Campaign
That’s a fact
Fired up and ready to proceed
Fired up and ready to succeed
Barack Obama is fired up in 2008
And ready to lead
Fired up and ready to go
Fired up and ready to show
Barack Obama is fired up in 2008
Just incase you didn’t know
H. Michelle Cooper
*Presidential Candidate Recipe*
4 Cubes of change w/substance
4 Quartz of nationwide unity
4 Slices of fair legal judgment
4 Teaspoons of faith
4 Cups of true honesty
4 Chunks of sharp sincerity
4 Spoons of innovative character
4 Ounces of foreign relations
4 Cubic feet of public relations
4 Cans of delightfulness
4 Boxes of creditability
4 Dices of accountability
4 Caps of combating
4 Pinches of precise
4 Grams of nationwide dignity
4 Pitchers of truthfulness
4 Pictures of health
4 Bowls of shareable humor
4 Sifts of integrity
4 Cups of hope
4 Dozens of trustworthiness
4 Sticks of respectfulness
4 Stacks of human consideration
4 Skillets of strength
4 Boilers of peace
4 Cans of resolution
4 Pots of nationwide vitalization
4 Sprinkles of satisfaction
4 Pans of exuberant leadership
4 Dozens of ethical United States Constitution
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H. Michelle Cooper
Barack Obama
The
Next
President
Of The
United States
Of
Americans...
I Openly Thank You Obama Barack For Putting Your Hat And Heart In The 2008 United States Presidential Race At Such A Time As This. I Welcome And Usher You, Michelle And Your Family Into The White House. Simply Because Its Your Time Also Your Turn To Make A Change In America To Restore All Dignities That Has Been Lost.
We The People Of The United States, In Order To Form A More Perfect Union Must Establish Trust And Can No Longer Stay The Course.
We Can No Longer Allow Political Lies To Out Run The Visible Truth. I Believe Your Presidential Administration Will Take All Challenges By Force, To Accommodate All The People All The Time; For Liberty And True Balanced Justice For All.
2 Peter 1:10 Wherefore The Rather, Brethren Give Diligence To Make Your Calling And Election Sure: For If Ye Do These Things Ye Shall Never Fall.
God Bless America,
H. Michelle Cooper
BEING BLACK ENOUGH DON’T MATTER IF YOU DON’T KNOW WHERE YOU
OBTAINED YOUR STUFF THAT WHICH MADE YOU BLACK ENOUGH
BEING BLACK ENOUGH IS NOT THE BEEF OR THE BLUFF
BEING BLACK ENOUGH IS NOT THE BEEF OR THE STUFF
BEING THAT YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT ON EARTH
MADE YOU SO DELICATELY TOUGH
BEING THAT YOU DON’T KNOW WHO CREATED
AND SAVED YOU FROM YOUR ROUGH STUFF
BEING BLACK ENOUGH IS NOT THE BEEF OR THE BLUFF
BEING BLACK ENOUGH IS NOT THE BEEF OR THE STUFF
BEING THAT YOU DON’T KNOW WHO
CREATED YOUR UNIQUE STUFF
BEING THAT YOU DON’T KNOW WHEN
YOUR STUFF NEED AN ORIGINAL BUFF
BEING THAT YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT ON EARTH
MADE YOU SO DELICATELY TOUGH
BEING BLACK ENOUGH IS NOT THE BEEF OR THE BLUFF
BEING BLACK ENOUGH IS NOT THE BEEF OR THE STUFF
BEING BLACK ENOUGH DON’T MATTER IF YOU DON’T KNOW WHERE YOU
OBTAINED YOUR STUFF THAT WHICH MADE YOU BLACK ENOUGH
BEING BLACK ENOUGH IS TO KNOW IN GOD WE TRUST
BEING BLACK ENOUGH IS TO KNOW IN GOD WE MUST
H. Michelle Cooper
If every American remember our sons and daughters are lying in cold graves because of Hillary's vote to follow Bush down a trail of lies! Hillary's daughter Chelsea is on the campaign trail while our sons and daughter's are fighting for their lives in Iraq! Go figure! Everyone who votes for Hillary is turning the knife in the back of every mother who is greiving over the death of her child! Young people remember you were an after-thought on Hillary's mind until Obama pulled so many youth in Iowa. Then, and only then did Hillary include you! Obama was on your side from the beginning! Hillary Clinton means another 8 years of the same old Washington "Mess"! Then, they are preparing Chelsea for another 8 years! America don't let this happen! Send the Clinton's a clear message! BARACK OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT! Enough of the Clinton's and Bush's already!
This is a great moment to seize. Barack Obama is full of energy to mark history with a person with a mission to bring change in the world. As women did for Hilary in New hampshire, African Americans need to be in the right side of history. This can be complicated, but Obama's advisors need to tell him to play Hilary's acting tears to regain momentum.
Obama's campaign and many supporters here have made Edwards' vote for the Iraq War Resolution the main sticking point between the two, claiming that it demonstrated Obama's judgment and Edwards' lack thereof.
But within a year Edwards had already turned and acknowledged that his vote to authorize was wrong, and he voted against the $87 billion "emergency appropriation" bill in 2003. Obama, then a candidate for Senate, said he would vote against it, too.
"When I was asked, 'Would I have voted for the $87 billion,' I said 'no,' " Obama said in a speech before a Democratic community group in suburban Chicago in November 2003. "I said 'no' unequivocally because, at a certain point, we have to say no to George Bush. If we keep on getting steamrolled, we're not going to stand a chance."
So Senate Candidate Barack Obama says that we have to "say no to George Bush" or we would get "steamrolled" and wouldn't "stand a chance."
But after getting elected Senator Barack Obama voted for money to keep the war going. I know he voted against the current appropriation, but so did Clinton.
Very simply you cannot run as an anti-war candidate when you are repeatedly voting to fund the war you are anti.
This makes Obama just like Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi who keep saying they are going to stand up and end the war and then give Bush pretty much whatever he wants.
When Edwards was in the Senate he voted against the funding, and at a time when such a move was wildly unpopular and he was running for President. That shows courage, and the ability to stand up to the warmongers who want -- like the likely Republican nominee John McCain -- to stay in Iraq for 100 years or more.
Truthfully, I had assumed that Obama had voted against the funding. It never actually crossed my mind until earlier today when I saw an oblique reference to it in some "fact check" article against Hillary Clinton that he might have.
And, yes, I am an Edwards supporter so this will be taken as an "attack diary" but it's not.
Obama has angered me with the way he handled the whole anti-gay preacher thing as if he never wanted to offend anyone. Then he frustrated me using frames, however innocently, on issues often used by the right wing to help push the conversation their way.
If this is old news to everyone then I am sorry for bringing it up again, but I always assumed he was straight up on the Iraq War. I thought he was in the same place that I was, that funding the troops meant funding the war, and not funding the troops meant bringing them home.
But apparently not. Sigh.
Obama's campaign and many supporters here have made Edwards' vote for the Iraq War Resolution the main sticking point between the two, claiming that it demonstrated Obama's judgment and Edwards' lack thereof.
But within a year Edwards had already turned and acknowledged that his vote to authorize was wrong, and he voted against the $87 billion "emergency appropriation" bill in 2003. Obama, then a candidate for Senate, said he would vote against it, too.
"When I was asked, 'Would I have voted for the $87 billion,' I said 'no,' " Obama said in a speech before a Democratic community group in suburban Chicago in November 2003. "I said 'no' unequivocally because, at a certain point, we have to say no to George Bush. If we keep on getting steamrolled, we're not going to stand a chance."
So Senate Candidate Barack Obama says that we have to "say no to George Bush" or we would get "steamrolled" and wouldn't "stand a chance."
But after getting elected Senator Barack Obama voted for money to keep the war going. I know he voted against the current appropriation, but so did Clinton.
Very simply you cannot run as an anti-war candidate when you are repeatedly voting to fund the war you are anti.
This makes Obama just like Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi who keep saying they are going to stand up and end the war and then give Bush pretty much whatever he wants.
When Edwards was in the Senate he voted against the funding, and at a time when such a move was wildly unpopular and he was running for President. That shows courage, and the ability to stand up to the warmongers who want -- like the likely Republican nominee John McCain -- to stay in Iraq for 100 years or more.
Truthfully, I had assumed that Obama had voted against the funding. It never actually crossed my mind until earlier today when I saw an oblique reference to it in some "fact check" article against Hillary Clinton that he might have.
And, yes, I am an Edwards supporter so this will be taken as an "attack diary" but it's not.
Obama has angered me with the way he handled the whole anti-gay preacher thing as if he never wanted to offend anyone. Then he frustrated me using frames, however innocently, on issues often used by the right wing to help push the conversation their way.
If this is old news to everyone then I am sorry for bringing it up again, but I always assumed he was straight up on the Iraq War. I thought he was in the same place that I was, that funding the troops meant funding the war, and not funding the troops meant bringing them home.
But apparently not. Sigh.