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Published Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008 | 3:53 p.m.
Updated Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008 | 10:15 a.m.
Obama, on Clinton's motion, nominated by acclamation
(The Sun has gone on the road to listen to voters and talk to political leaders around the West. Reporters have been examining the economic, cultural and demographic forces re-shaping the region as they drove to Denver for the first of the two major party conventions the Sun will cover. This week they are at the Democratic National Convention.)
The Democrats nominated Barack Obama in a landslide during the roll call vote today:
3:44 p.m.--Illinois yields to New York. Quite a dramatic moment here. And now Clinton's in the hall! That's it. There's your first black nominee for president in United States history. Quite a moment, no matter your persuasion.
3:38 p.m. --New Hampshire goes all 30 for Obama and the crowd roars.
3:37 p.m. -- Shelley Berkley is calling in the vote. Battle Born State and the battleground state, she says. 8 for Clinton. 25 for Barack Obama "because he has a vision for the West investing in renewable energy, caring for our veterans and keeping nuclear waste out of Nevada."
3:34 p.m. -- In the hall now. Roll call is a landslide, with many Clinton voters having switched over. We're at Nebraska now.
A sad day for Democrats, gonna be four more years til we get it right. :(
Spare us the PUMA cat-call, boftx, today's a great day!
And November 4th will be even better, when a freshly united Democratic party elects Obama as the next POTUS.
Let's see what you say in Feb '09 after he compromises more things away (can you say Yucca?). Obama's vote for FISA should have been an eye-opener. With "clarifying" his stance on NAFTA early on, and changing his views on off-shore drilling, combined with the FISA vote, I really wonder who is pulling his strings.
Freshly united? You gotta be kidding.
Sorry, boftx, but that's sort of odd coming from a supporter of the woman who voted to give W. the authorization to go to war. There's little doubt Obama will compromise, there's NO doubt that Clinton already had.
My point of view is coming from someone who donated to Hillary's campaign, and is now staunchly behind the Democratic nominee.
Is the Obama group going to publicly apologize to the 1st Black President for saying that he made racist remarks?
The exorbitant price of fuel has driven up the price of everything from the increased production and shipping costs. I have yet to hear more than a sugar coated one liner from either candidates as to their plans to bring Americans relief. Does either candidate even have a plan other than to support new off shore drilling. It is easy to say we need to decrease our dependence of foreign oil and seek out alternative fuel sources, but where's the beef...where's the plan?
sites to share if you should be interested...
www.themanhattanprojectof2009.com
The lemmings are on their way to the oceans.