Home caregiver Pauline Beck gave the best speech last night at the Democratic National Convention.
She spoke of the struggles in her job that carries a federal cap on how high her hourly pay can be. It's the same way with nursing home workers because Medicare and Medicaid have cost-saving provisions. So these jobs keep the working poor in poverty while they are caring for the most vulnerable among us.
Her testimony of how much time and effort Sen. Barack Obama gave in helping her do her job one day said a lot about Obama's character. That can make up a for a lot of inexperience. And hopefully he will do something about these federal caps hurting the working poor.
Sen. Hillary Clinton's speech last night was quite formidable. Its best parts, however, were when she talked of the people like Beck she has met on the campaign trail -- from Iraq war veterans needing help to people struggling to find affordable health care to the people cut off from the American Dream.
Tuesday night at the convention should teach Democrats how they can win in November. Seeking out and sharing the stories of people on the front lines of this economic recession and punitive immigration policy will unleash the number of needed new voters to make Obama the next president of the United States.
And what he learns from his involvement with these people can make up for the inexperience he would bring to the world's most powerful office.
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Sorry Tim but Obama and the Democrats have fallen in the ratings. This has happened because after winning the nomination from Hillary he went far to the right so that there is no difference between him and John McCain.
In the last presidential election the moneybags (Jews and Liberals out of the northeast who are totally out of touch with the rank and file across the nation and who couldn't care less about what we want) in the party gave Al Gore and Howard Dean the boot and forced John Kerry off on us so that whether a Liberal or a Neocon got into our White House our Middle East policies would be the same.
We have nothing vested in supporting Obama and the radical, militant self serving black zealots in his inner circle.
We should support Ralph Nader (Lebanese American with emphasis on American) because he is the one who represents the traditional Democratic party values from back when the party was the party of the Big Tent and represented the interests of the people.
Of course having to serve the interests of the Jews and the blacks and the Hispanics and then interests of all the other ethnic groups destroyed the Democratic party. OUR INTERESTS SHOULD BE THE SAME BUT THEY ARE NOT THE SAME BECAUSE ETHNIC GROUPS PURSUE THEIR OWN INTERESTS AT THE EXPENSE OF THE GENERAL WELFARE WHICH IS WHY DIVERSITY IS NOT A GOOD THING
So those of us who care about America and the American people rather than podunk Israel, big business and podunk Mexico should support Nader.
The same people donate to both parties and control our government and our media. They don't own Ralph Nader or Ron Paul tho.
Rahm Emanuel is the Jew/Democrat who chooses party nominees and has power he shouldn't have. He was born in Israel and served in its military and his Father was an Israeli terrorist who worked in the Irgun.
Now old Rahm is a King maker in the United States government. So nice for him and his fellow Jews. If only a Mexican could get a job like that - isn't that right Tim. Tell us about how great diversity is.
While you and others like Rahm Emanuel do everything you can do to help those in your own ethnic group at our expense and then call us racists - tell us how good diversity is.
Obama is slipping away slowly but surely. The more people see and hear his jibber-jabber, the less impressed they become. At first, being the new kid on the block, everyone listened to his hype about hope and change, but gradually everyone realized he had no real plans to create change and hope was not enough.
Not a big fan of Ralph, the spoiler, Nader who doesn't have a snowball chance in hell of being elected. Let's stick with McCain and try to force Colin Powell to accept VP.
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