These are a few images from the first official campaign rally for Barack Obama for the 2012 election. It took place in Columbus, Ohio at Ohio State on Saturday, May 5. At the bottom is an interactive panoramic image from the Rally and along with a panoramic still that can be zoomed in so close you can actually find yourself if you were there. Enjoy!
[LOTS of photos (and other treats) after the jump.]
The opening salvos in the involvement of Super PACs in the 2012 presidential race happened in the past week. There are two very obvious examples and they should give us all a taste of the bitterness we’re going to see over the next seven months.
First, American Crossroads, Karl Rove’s privately-funded group, announced…
Unlike the media.
I couldn’t possibly be more proud of the POTUS or the fact that I have worked so tirelessly to (a) get him elected and (b) help him get his agenda passed.
I’m just sayin’…
He was warned, oh yes he was. Having missed Bill Maher’s “New Rule“, the GOPosaurs warned the president that, by God, if he made any recess appointments, well, they would just quit being all bipartisany.
So he did anyway.
15 of ‘em. Average number of days these folks have been waiting to be confirmed: 214.
Now he’ll have to pay the price: no bipartisanship from Congress anymore.
Cry me a damn river.
As the New York Times reports, that was the final fucking straw for Republicans. They have tried and they have tried and they have tried to be bipartisan but the goddam president just wouldn’t let ‘em.…
It’s starting to look like the Republicans are finally seeing the handwriting on the wall with regard to health insurance reform.
The signs are everywhere.
First we have the Club for Growth’s “Repeal It!” campaign. In this campaign, they are urging their candidates to sign the following pledge:
When you quit fighting the reforms themselves and move to vowing to repeal the reforms months from now, that smacks of a tacit admission that they know the fight is all but over.…
A few days ago, I wrote a blog entry titled “Whither OFA?”. In it I talked a bit about OFA and where we’ve been over the past year.
Looking forward, I thought some folks might be interested in learning how Organizing for America (OFA) is evolving and suggest that you consider taking another look.
The executive summary is this: OFA has made significant strides in the past year, has learned from some of its mistakes, and is making changes that should make it a more effective network to enact the policies supported by the Obama administration and the Democratic Party.…
Yup. Twenty demands by Republicans at yesterday’s bipartisan Health Care Summit to scrap all existing legislative efforts and start anew. And there were only ten of them there.
Sheesh.
Pat Oliphant nailed it:
My name is Eclectablog and I am a politaholic. I actually took a vacation day yesterday to watch all seven hours of President Obama’s bipartisan Health Care Summit so that I could live-blog it.
In the course of the day, I made a drinking game out of it where everytime a GOPosaur demanded, in one fashion or another, that the President and Democrats start over and scrap all of the work that has been done in the past year to assemble a health insurance reform package to pass out of Congress for the president’s signature.…
This morning, the White House offered to put the GOP’s health insurance reform plan online alongside their own plan in preparation for Thursday’s bipartisan summit.
Problem is: there isn’t one.
Via Dan Pfeiffer at the White House blog:
While I don’t agree with him on everything, I appreciate Andrew Sullivan and his outsider’s (British) perspective on American politics. His essay in the Sunday Times this past weekend, titled “Listen up, the president is not for turning” is no exception. And it has some common sense observations that all of us, conservatives and liberals alike, would do well to digest.
Money quote (for me):
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Anyone who has read my blog in the past year knows I’m one of those who is out front with in support of the president and his administration. This blog entry doesn’t change that. But I am going to acknowledge this: when it comes to messaging, the president has left it to Congressional Democrats and they don’t know what the hell they are doing. And we are seriously paying the price for that on nearly every issue we’re fighting for.
Barack Obama knows messaging. That much was clear from his campaign and we got another tasty glimpse of it yesterday when he went into the lions’ den of the Republican party and then tweaked their short hairs on national television.…
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