Broadcasting from Washington DC: Rock the Vote radio will serve as a weekly antennae and platform for young activist and voters to be heard. As well as keep young Americans involved in our lawmaking process in between the Presidential elections. Produced by Dropzone Multimedia, the 1st installment of Rock the Vote radio tackled the issues of the Card Check Bill (HR 800) as well as a...
I believe that you should be able to be able to keep using a BlackBerry while President and I am hoping you will leverage the business and technical points here in my first DipDive Blog entry. Just in case these specific ideas are not yet at your disposal, I want to give you, or your relevant staff members more distinctions about wireless, and desktop technology that you might use as the...
Photo by BertPass As you may have heard, Barack Obama is the first black president. And he’s the first president born in Hawaii. He’s also the first president with the middle name Hussein. There’s one more first that’s just as significant. As Ruth E. Van Reken pointed out , he's also the first "modern" president to have spent some of his formative years outside the...
Photo by BohPhoto The vice president-elect is missing! After three months as President-elect Barack Obama’s high-profile running mate / foreign policy expert / unintentional comic relief , people are starting to notice that Joe Biden is nowhere to be found . Other than appearing at one Obama press conference, the new administration’s second-in-command has been a...
Photo by Radiospike Photography A few days before he was elected president, Barack Obama ranked his priorities: first an economic recovery package, then energy, then health care, followed by tax restructuring, and finally education. He seemed to be signaling a reluctance to follow the FDR “ First 100 Days ” model. But recently there have been hints that the...
Photo by Steve Wampler House and Senate Democrats are moving forward with a plan to bail out Detroit’s failing automakers. In a letter to General Motors’ Rick Wagoner, Ford's Alan Mulally and Chrysler's Robert Nardelli, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), have called on the companies to provide a restructuring plan and give...
Photo by Barack Obama We all knew Hillary would be back -- maybe as Senate Majority Leader, or Lion of the Senate, or even governor of New York. But the possibility of Hillary Clinton becoming secretary of state, a job she was apparently offered and has reportedly accepted, was a move that no one saw coming. As unexpected as this was, it has received very little criticism. In...
Photo by Ava Lowery Everyone already knows that Michelle Obama is the coolest lady around. She’s smart, chic , and powerful. The media is practically tripping over itself to compare her to the legendary Jackie O. In fact, Michelle Obama is transforming into a post-feminist fashion icon before our eyes. Yet as distasteful as I find it to dissect Michelle’s wardrobe and...
I have some news. The Barack Obama you knew and loved during the campaign, the one who ran on his liberal voting record in the Senate and defied convention by continuing to tack left after the convention, may well disappear soon. He will be replaced with a Barack Obama you won't be so familiar with -- one who is more pragmatic than ideological, one who will speak to the left but govern...
The Democratic Party primary system hasn’t undergone a major reform since 1972. These reforms came out of the McGovern-Fraser commission , which had been set up in response to the debacle that was the 1968 Democratic Convention (when Hubert Humphrey won the nomination even though he hadn’t entered a single primary). The 1972 reforms made the Democratic primaries binding: nominees...
