Is the United States going to have its first black President in its history?
This question has been lingering in the minds not only of Americans but of everyone who has been paying close attention to the US Presidential elections that will culminate this coming November.
Ever since Illinois Sen. Barack Obama announced his intentions to run for President, he got everyone buzzing. He may have been a senator since 2005, but no one has really ever heard of him. He was a good-looking 47-year-old gentleman with eloquence going around for him. Once you hear him speak, you get this feeling that things will go for the better. He used this eloquence and a promise of change to sway Democratic voters to his side despite facing a more experienced opponent in the person of New York Sen. And former US First Lady Hillary Clinton.
Obama, who was born in Hawaii, is of Kenyan and American descent. He went to Harvard Law School in 1988, and finished his Juris Doctor as magna cum laude in 1991. He served as a teacher in the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. He was an admired man in the city of Chicago because of his intelligence and passion. It was no longer surprising that he won convincingly when he ran for senator in the state of Illinois in 2004. During his stint in the senate, Obama advocated children’s health insurance, environment and foreign relations, among many others.
When he was still vying for the Democratic nomination, Obama made the halting of the war in Iraq, universal health care, and energy independence as the focal points of his campaign. He drew support from numerous celebrities, most notable of whom is the queen of talk shows, Oprah Winfrey. His optimism for a newly-reformed America and American government was voiced out by his campaign slogan, “Yes We Can!” Other people, however, were not impressed. They only saw Obama as a mere motivational speaker with no experience under his belt. He did not need their opinions because in June 3, 2008, he won enough Democratic votes to be his party’s sole nominee to the Presidential race.
After he has gotten the nomination, Obama made clearer his platforms and positions in several issues. Just recently, he criticized outgoing President George W. Bush, saying that the Bush was the reason for US’s woeful economy, “When Bush came in, we had a surplus; now we have a deficit.”
In a move that surprised most Democrats, Obama picked last Aug. 23 a relatively unknown Delaware Sen. Joe Biden to be his Vice President. Almost everyone was clamoring that he picked his former Democratic rival Clinton to be his running mate.
Although quite unfamiliar to many US voters, Biden actually has a lot of experiences under his belt, being elected Senator at the age of 30 (he is now 65). Not surprisingly, he was picked by critics as the unanimous winner of the Vice Presidential debate last Oct. 2. During the debate, he showed his vulnerability—a side that was not really played in the media—without him compromising his stand on a number of issues.
There is no doubt that Hollywood packs a lot of power. Most of the movies it produces are blockbuster hits worldwide. Most of its TV shows are loved by people from all over the globe. Most of its superstars have large fan bases even from countries you may not even have heard of.
As the 2008 United States Presidential elections near, Hollywood once again displays its power. This time, it uses its influence not to sell movies or records, but for more important matters—to urge people to vote and to persuade the people to vote for who they think is the best person to run the country.
Oprah Winfrey, US television’s undisputed queen of talk, has been a rabid supporter of Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama ever since the Illinois Senator announced his bid to become America’s first black president. Winfrey was a staple figure in many of Obama’s caucuses when he was still facing New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic nomination.
You may call it the color connection, but aside from Winfrey, other celebrities of color such as Stevie Wonder, Wycleaf Jean, Halle Berry, Charles Barkley, John Legend and Usher have all been very vocal about their support of Obama. Most of them were also spotted wearing Obama t-shirts while they ran their errands. Samuel L. Jackson, even passed on the 2008 Oscars to extend his support to Obama. Will.i.Am from the group Black Eyed Peas even composed two jingles for Obama namely, Yes We Can, and We Are The Ones.
Robert de Niro and George Clooney are two actors that add a great deal of star power in Obama’s campaign. Both of them never hid their support for the Democratic presidential candidate. The politically-savvy Clooney refers to himself as an Obama guy and was even rumored to be in constant communication with the hopeful from Illinois. Scarlett Johansson was also rumored to be talking regularly with Obama, only to find out that it was one of Obama’s staff who was returning her emails. Despite this small misunderstanding, Johansson continues to show her affection for her favorite candidate. Husband and wife Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner have also extended their support for Obama by hosting a fund-raiser.
Although lagging behind when it comes to celebrity endorsements, John McCain is not to be outdone. He has in his fold the support of California governor and famous action star Arnold Schwarzenegger. Schwarzenegger has cited McCain’s experience and his policies on security, environment and economy as his reasons why he supported the senator from Arizona.
Another action hero in the person Sylvester Stallone has endorsed the Republican bet for the 2008 Presidential race. Stallone says that McCain has enough experience already to stir the country even during tough situations.
Young Hollywood is not to be left out in voicing their support for McCain. The Hills’ starlet Heidi Montag has proclaimed her support for McCain in about every media outfit out there. McCain, for his part, thanked Montag, and said that he never misses an episode of Montag’s MTV show.
In the last week I took a trip to San Jose, West Coast Green, a conference with a focus on building sustainability. A stand showed that the number of magnetic Air Automotive, Inc., San Jose, the company said that it the world’s first car less fuel (in contrast to the world, the energy, car).
The air-car sets on three magnetically on building positions in the air. The result is channeling the airflow, modulated, and converted by the readers, with the car.
According to the representative of the firm Paul Donovan, use of the car with a series of salt of silicon, which is 30% more energy than with a mass of lead-acid batteries for storage, and can be fully responsible at a time. 95 percent of recyclable batteries can also be used in a temperature range of -40 degrees Celsius to 50 degrees Celsius.
Although the magnetic air car has not yet been tested, Donovan hopes to be ready for production by 2010. The company plans to build its first prototype in the Sports Car Club of San Jose in the near future.
The vehicle comparisons based Tata Motors Air 106 mi / gal car, but Donovan said that the development of applications of Tata Motors Pistons, while the air from the design-technology magnet magnetic.
Unfortunately, there are more details about the electromagnetic waves in the car today. However, if the prototype is successful, I am sure that we hear much about this society.
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Android developers blog reports they have received an official invitation from the company T Mobile to cover a press conference in New York on Tuesday morning, when they first Android phone to be presented
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Our interview this morning with David Wong, president and CEO of Santa Barbara-based technologies D2 www com d2tech a company that has a very interesting history of the development of voice over IP technology Mor
Toni Braxton: This is a little nerve-racking the age of 40 years after the singer she had recently adopted a diagnosis of microvascular angina that occurs when not enough oxygen is in the center. Braxton, but the body of the woman and his rivals cha professionals natural had how and our fear in a single session. This could possibly Alec Mazo, the possibility this season, a glory.
The Unbreakable My Heart singer to scrap a number of Las Vegas in May and June (08) after a medical emergency, to check forced, in a hospital with severe breathing problems.
He has since received a diagnosis of chest pain micro vascular heart disease - a condition that the hunger parts of the body of oxygen-rich blood.
Braxton, 40, spent the rest of the summer to try to find a balance between the drugs and the monitoring of the state, and now, indicates that its goal is not to win dance competition television, but through procedures in order to Episode.
She tells the Americas of TV Guide magazine, “If I can have five weeks to process, without the feeling of oppression in the chest, that’s all I want.”
Braxton admits that one already on the road to recovery after the start of the summer in a terrible state. Mikrovaskuläre angina pectoris, Shenzhou mission of the 7th Reproduction in connection: the Nipah virus
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This is a hilarious parody of the Bas Rutten Self Defense video in the post before this one. So if you haven’t already done so you should maybe watch the other video first, its pretty funny as well, and if you don’t have time for both, either will make you laugh.
This is a video from Bas Rutten who is in the UFC and is a mixed martial arts fighter. It is supposed to be quite serious, but is actually hilarious. This guy def has some serious issues.
Hey everyone I just figured I would share this info with all of you. For those of you who don’t know what a google page rank is, it is a way that google ranks your website, the higher rank your site has the more “importance” that it has to google. Long story short, you want as high a pr as possible. A lot of people would spend a nice amount of money paying for a link on a site with a page rank 6. Its a pretty easy process and is free, all you have to to is trade links with the website. Anyway the link that you have to post looks like this:
USCIS:
The USCIS, or the United States Citizen and Immigration Service, is a department within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The USCIS was created by the Homeland Security Act of 2002. The USCIS consists of approximately 15,000 employees and 250 field offices around the world.
Then submit your site. Just go to this link: http://www.usimmigrationsupport.org/linkexchange.html?gclid=CLbGhOb-kpUCFQO2FQodFBzUHA. It will give you the html to insert into your website, and a place to submit your site to them. In fact they have 10 or so different looking links for you to chose from, for my purposes I chose the text link. After checking your link they will then add your link to their website with a google page rank of 6, which is quite high. This is an easy and free way to help increase your page rank, which in turn should increase your traffic.
