As we stand on the edge of the fiscal cliff, waiting to see if the Republicans in Congress choose to walk back from the edge with Democrats or jump—pulling us all over into an economic abyss, I want to recall with you some of the highlights of 2012.
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Voices From Street Corners 2012 (Vol V): What a Year!! :-)
by Mike Pouraryan • • 4 Comments
Thanksgiving 2012 is behind us. All of us in our own way have had a lot to reflect on and be thankful for. We have had a election that has settled up a lot of questions for at least the…
Obama Campaign Releases New Ads in Battleground States
by Chris Prevatt • • 3 Comments
Obama for America released a new television ad in Nevada titled “Reverse” that highlights the steady, consistent recovery President Obama is leading for the middle class
Vice President Biden on the Importance of Getting Involved
by Chris Prevatt • • Comments Off
“Organizing our communities may be even more important this year than last election for a simple reason. As the guys for the other side have shown, and promised, they’re going to spend several hundred million dollars carpet-bombing the president with negative ads.”
Voices From Street Corners (Vol 19): Reflections
by Mike Pouraryan • • 1 Comment
As we are witness to the Presidential Beauty Pagaent and the complacent media before us, the World has continued to implode and change before our very eyes. What has happened in the Middle East is nothing short of remarkable. It has been a grass-roots effort that prompted many to rethink long-standing beliefs. It is startling to see someone like Hosni Mubarak who up to five months ago could do no wrong is now confined to a Cairo Military Hospital under virtual arrest for corruption. Beyond the World, though, there are the continued challenges at home.
Country not so center-right afterall
by Chris Prevatt • • 3 Comments
Media Matters has a good story on the myth being spread by right-wing pundits that Obama ran as a conservative and the the country is still a center-right nation politically. Postelection poll results contradict media claims that U.S. is a…
So Show Me Already
by Dan Chmielewski • • 1 Comment
Geez Louise, what’s up wiht the state of Missouri? The Show Me State still hasn’t shown us who won. If Obama wins, his electoral college numbers climb to a crushing 376; if not, they stay at 365. In 2004, when…
