BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS

(photo by Iddybud ) Thank you, Mr. President. It's always good to see you, and I appreciate your hospitality to me and Governor Sarah Palin. Let me also congratulate you, Mr. President, on the great work of the Clinton Global Initiative. It says a lot about a man that after 12 years as a governor, and another eight years at the Resolute desk, he is still working hard in service to others. Bill Clinton is a man who has achieved enough in public service, by any measure except his own. This man's drive, and determination, and compassion for those in need are still a force for good in the world, and I am proud to call him a friend. Your kind invitation brought me here to discuss some of the great concerns of the Clinton Global Initiative, and especially climate change, extreme poverty, and epidemic diseases. But I know you will understand if I begin by addressing a crisis of our own right here in America -- a crisis that began not far from here in the financial district of this cit...

MY AMERICA & WHY I STAND UP FOR HER In the small town of Oxford, Mass. if you proceed East through town and take a left up a lonely road at a sign that points to the local golf course, there's a small little cemetary on the left. If you get out you will see a lot of grave stones that have my last name on it (those of you who know my last name). Families going back to the 1600s. Revolutionary War times. A ship's captain who sailed for the Colonial Navy, families with babies who died after just a few weeks of life. Farmers. Wives who waited years for their soldier husbands to come home. Mayflower descendants. And I am one of them. It's my genetic duty, in a way, to speak up for democracy. I believe in family, despite all the problems my family had. My mother's ancestors ran from the Pogroms in Poland, my father's ran from the oppression of the British against the Puritans. We have yet another election coming soon. My children will be the inheritors o...

A COMMENT ABOUT BETRAYAL by Keith Olbermann This is, in fact, a comment about… betrayal. Few men or women elected in our history—whether executive or legislative, state or national—have been sent into office with a mandate more obvious, nor instructions more clear: Get us out of Iraq. Yet after six months of preparation and execution—half a year gathering the strands of public support; translating into action, the collective will of the nearly 70 percent of Americans who reject this War of Lies, the Democrats have managed only this: * The Democratic leadership has surrendered to a president—if not the worst president, then easily the most selfish, in our history—who happily blackmails his own people, and uses his own military personnel as hostages to his asinine demand, that the Democrats “give the troops their money”; * The Democratic leadership has agreed to finance the deaths of Americans in a war that has only reduced the security of Americans; * The Democratic leadersh...