Wake Up, America: Kucinich at DNC: Video (6min 4sec). Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) addresses the Democratic National Convention. "Wake Up America! In 2001, the oil companies, the war contractors, and the neocon-artists seized the economy and added Four Trillion Dollars in unproductive spending to the national debt. We now pay 4 times more for defense, 3 times more for gasoline and home heating oil, and twice what we paid for health care.
"Millions of Americans have lost their jobs, their homes, their health care, their pensions, trillions of dollars for an unnecessary war paid for with borrowed money. Tens of billions of dollars in cash and weapons disappeared into thin air at the cost of the lives of our troops and innocent Iraqis, while all the president's oil men are manuevering to grab Iraq's oil. Borrowed money to bomb bridges in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan - NO money to rebuild bridges in America. Money to start a Hot War with Iran - now we have another Cold War with Russia. And the American economy has become a game Russian Roulette. And if there were an Olympics of misleading, mismanaging, and misappropriating, this administration would take the gold. World records..., World records for violations of national and international law.
No Way, No How, No McCain: Hillary Video (27min 45sec). Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) addresses the 2008 Democratic National Convention. "My friends, it is time to take back the country we love."
"Whether you voted for me or you voted for Barack, the time is now to unite as a single party with a single purpose. We are on the same team. And none of us can afford to sit on the sidelines. This is a fight for the future and it's a fight we must win together.
"I haven't spent to past 35 years in the trenches advocating for children, campaigning for universal health care, helping parents balance work and family, and fighting for women's rights here at home and around the world to see another Republican in the White House squander our promise of a country that really fulfills the hopes of our people. And you haven't worked so hard over the last 18 months or endured the last 8 years to suffer through more failed leadership. No Way, No How, No McCain". "We don't need 4 more years of the last 8 years."
Video (4min 6sec): Barack Obama on McCain's Many Houses. Barack Obama speaks about John McCain's 'fundamental disconnect' with Americans. Barack Obama spoke out about the economic challenges America faces at a town hall in Chester, VA on August 21, 2008.
"John McCain is offering more of the same. He said a while back that he thought that we had made great progress economically during the years that George Bush has been in office. That raised some eyebrows. Great progress economically - Who's he talking to? And it turns out you get a sense of who he's talking to because..., some of you saw the Saddleback forum with Rick Warren..., he (McCain) was asked well who do you consider rich? He thought about it for a second - well I don't know. Maybe if you make 5 million dollars. 5 million dollars, then you're rich. Which means, I guess, if you're only making 3 million dollars a year then you're middle class... His top economic advisors said the other day that America has become a nation of whiners. That all these economic problem everyone talking about, it's just a mental recession, and if you would just change you mind, everything would be OK. Somebody's been laid off, their plants closed gone to Mexico or China, change your mind. It's all good... "
Video (3min 37sec): Barack Obama is NOT a Muslim. Barack Obama Is A Christian. That's right..., Barack Obama Is A Christian. About 1 out of 10 Americans don't know that. A new national study by the Pew Research Center shows that 12 percent of the country still believes Sen. Barack Obama is a Muslim. See how this myth has been perpetuated in the media.
Barack Obama: "I'm a Christian. And I pray to Jesus Christ, our savior."
"It's the big lie that simply won't die. How many times does this guy have to say 'I'm not a Muslim' for people to just let it go?" "CNN tracked down the school. The headmaster says it's not religious."
He has faced such questions for many months mostly on the Internet, it's a campaign to sew doubts about him. "...when he was sworn into office" reads a widely spread email, "he did not use the Holy Bible, but instead the Kuran..." Barack Obama is a Christian. Barack Obama is NOT a Muslim.
Video (3min 14sec): Examining the US Voter Psyche. In this era of wall-to-wall political coverage, the US media likes to think it has dissected just about every issue facing US voters. But recent research suggests that the average voter is not that well informed, and is not even paying that much attention. So, how will US voters make their choice on election day in November?
Michael Lewis-Beck, political scientist: "Most voters, most of the time, don't pay any attention to politics. They don't know a lot about politics. They don't follow politics. There may be, if you're lucky, 1 or 2 issues at most on their mind."
Lewis-Back and his colleges found Americans tune out most of that flood of information on the air and on line. Most vote either Democrat or Republican, because, well, that's how their parents voted. And most can't even come up with a definition of what it means to be conservative or liberal. The research shows basic 'bread and butter' issues are what the voters focus on..."
