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Maldives Election 2008: Anni Talks to VOM

Lewis Black offers some pragmatic New Year's resolutions to the losing Democratic party.

Barack Obama Born: August 4, 1961 (age 47) Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A. presidential nominee of the Democratic Party 2008 general election. Obama is the first African American to be nominated by a major political party for president. A graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he served as president of the Harvard Law Review, Obama worked as a community organizer and practiced as a civil rights attorney before serving in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. He taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. Following an unsuccessful bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000, he announced his campaign for the U.S. Senate in January 2003. After a primary victory in March 2004, Obama delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004. He was elected to the Senate in November 2004 with 70% of the vote. As a member of the Democratic minority in the 109th Congress, he helped create legislation to control conventional weapons and to promote greater public accountability in the use of federal funds. He also made official trips to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. During the 110th Congress, he helped create legislation regarding lobbying and electoral fraud, climate change, nuclear terrorism, and care for returned U.S. military personnel. After announcing his presidential campaign in February 2007, Obama emphasized withdrawing American troops from Iraq, energy independence, decreasing the influence of lobbyists, and promoting universal health care as top national priorities. Music:Donny Hathaway - Singing This Song For You

It takes a professional team to win a political game.

When Governor Howard Dean appeared on the 700 Club with Pat O'Reilly, he misstated the Democratic Party's stance on gay marriage. Since this appearance, Dean has been in hot water with the LGBT community. In this episode of 'Birch & Co.,' Elizabeth Birch sits down with the chairman of the Democratic National Committee and demands an explanation for the mischaracterization. As well, she seeks answers to the biggest questions facing Dean from gays and lesbians including why the Democratic Party isn't moving quickly enough in its crusade for change with regard to the LGBT community. This insightful conversation was taped during the National Stonewall Democrats Convention in Pittsburgh earlier this year.

Its Our (Democratic) Party, and we'll invite who we want to. The Democrats in Congress held bipartisan hearings to address the financial crisis and bailout package, but forgot to invite a few people to attend.

GOP presumptive nominee launches ad that includes Hillary Clinton giving kudos to Democratic Party's opposition

Is the Democratic party of today still the same as the Democratic party of JFK, or would JFK really be a Democrat today? He valued freedom over peace. "Not peace at the expense of freedom, but both peace and freedom." "Look beyond the danger of today to the freedom of tomorrow. To the advance of freedom everywhere." "When When one man in enslaved, all are not free." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH6nQhss4Yc&NR=1 I wonder if he would be very unhappy with his brother Ted. Cuban missile crisis.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7YkJxQT_0Y&feature=related "Our Goal is not the victory of mite, but the vindication of right. Not peace at the expense of freedom, but both peace and freedom." "God Willing, That goal will be achieved." "Terror is not a new weapon" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rpG2ZM1vi0&feature=related Freedom... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB6hLg3PRbY&feature=related "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." "lead the land we love. Gods work must truly be our own." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT0im08GRRQ&feature=related Who is the President that brought the USA the closest to a Nuclear War. JFK in the Cuban missile crisis. Who increased the Vietnam war by sending advisers. "it would be a mistake to pull out of Vietnam." JFK. Evil thrives when good men do nothing. (Edmund Burke)

Is Barack Obama ignoring a brewing 'race war' in the Democratic Party?