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Office of the President-Elect; Not Just a Fabrication

Monday, November 10th, 2008

So, it turns out that the idea of the Office of the President-Elect isn’t completely a fabrication by the Obama-Biden -Elect administration.  It’s a term that’s been used for many years, but never as publicly as Obama and Biden are using it.  It’s root comes from the Presidential Transition act of 1963.  In that act [...]

America Serves?

Friday, November 7th, 2008

If you visit the website for the Office of the President-Elect, one of the pages that you will notice is one titled “America Serves“. Expecting to see a call to volunteer? Yeah, me too. But instead we get Obama’s plan to create a “corps” like the peace corps and americorps for lots [...]

Office of the President-Elect?

Friday, November 7th, 2008

I’ve been giving this some thought.  There’s a new office in our Government.  It’s the Office of the President-Elect.  Completely new fabrication by President-Elect Obama.  But to what purpose?
The site (cleverly named change.gov) explains it as:
Throughout the Presidential Transition Project, this website will be your source for the latest news, events, and announcements so that [...]

Party Merge?

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

In his acceptance speech, Obama mentioned twice President Lincoln.  And mentioned also, the Republican party.  It brought the following question to mind:
Based on the current party situation wherein the Republican party is becoming more liberal, is the mention of Lincoln and the Republican party the beginning of an eminent merging of the Democrat and Republican [...]

Obama For The Win

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

Obama will be the next President of the United States of America.  Congratulations to him.  And to Joe Biden, Vice President Elect.
I can’t say that the results are particularly pleasing to me, but an election was won tonight.  And as such, we must support the will of our fellow Americans.  All that’s left for me [...]

Obama Speechwriter Dumps the Dems

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

It’s not everyday that you get a defection that is this close to the candidates.   This story comes to us from Robert108 through Gladnick at NewsBusters through the writer herself at The Daily Beast.  Apparently, Wendy Button has become less than enthused with the democrat party and with the way they are running the campaign.
The [...]