VIDEO: TCB

By GottaLaff

I absolutely lerve Aretha, but I'm no fan of Rev.Rick:

Aretha Franklin and Dr. Rick Warren, an author and leader of the Saddleback Church, are among the select group of people who will participate in Barack Obama’s inaugural swearing-in ceremony on Jan. 20.

Mr. Obama has also chosen Elizabeth Alexander, an African-American poet, and some of the world’s premier musicians, including Itzhak Perlman and Yo-Yo Ma, to share the podium with him.

In honoring the civil rights movement, Mr. Obama has asked the Rev. Dr. Joseph E. Lowery, dean of the civil rights movement and co-founder with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, to deliver the benediction. [...]

Justice John Paul Stevens will then administer the oath of office to Vice President-elect Joseph R. Biden, Jr., to be followed by a musical selection by John Williams, the composer and arranger whose music was heard at Mr. Obama’s victory party on election night in Grant Park. [...]

The oath of office will then be administered to President-elect Barack H. Obama by Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr.

For the first time in 8 years, we can have a little R-E-S-P-E-C-T for our president, and say the words "commander in chief" without laughing... or cringing.

VIDEO: Obama Hustle

By GottaLaff

LOVE!

PERFORMED AT THE GRENDADIER CLUB DETROIT,MICHIGAN (Erma Watts,instructor)choreographer,
Detroit finest (Crystal Smith)
narrator (DARLENE STEWARD)

VIDEO-- The Name Game: Who Is the Real Barack (Hussein) Obama?

By GottaLaff

This is superduper ultra fantastic!


H/t: Kerry

Operation Chaos a Success! Don Young Wins by a Nose!

By GottaLaff

Via our favorite Alasakan blogger:

Operation Chaos, it seems, may have been a diabolical success. You’ll all recall when Rush Limbaugh urged all his supporters to vote for Hillary Clinton in states with open primaries. The theory was that she’d be easier to defeat than Barack Obama. [...]

It was no secret in the polling, that Democratic candidate Ethan Berkowitz was much more likely to defeat long-term but desperately corrupt incumbent Don Young, than Republican newcomer (and some would say Palin-bot) rival Lt. Governor Sean Parnell.

So, devious Independants and Non-partisans (who make up well over 50% of the voters in Alaska), chose the Republican ballot and voted for Young in a desperate attempt to swing the general election in favor of a viable Democratic candidate. How do I know this? Because, just in general chit-chatty conversation, I personally came across FIVE people who did it. I didn’t ask. It was almost like people needed to make this guilty, yet gleeful confession. ....[T]he idea obviously sprang up independently in the minds of those hungry to get the old-guard corrupt politicians out of office.

Weeks after Alaska’s primary, the absentee ballots now counted, Don Young can claim victory by the razor-thin margin of 304 votes. I know five of the voters by name, and I’m guessing that Alaskans like them have put him over the top. Alaska politics makes strange bedfellows.

Parnell will probably call for a recount, so keep those champagne bottles corked for now. The recount could take another 10 days. But, things may be looking up in one branch of Alaska politics.

Go, Mudflats!

Obama liveblogged: A strong push back

By GottaLaff

Just now, live, Obama hits back hard:

What about my work int the legislature, as a lawyer, .... They just talked about the work I did out of college. Doing work in the community to bring people together, create jobs, set up job training programs in hard hit areas... are all relevant to who I'm fighting for, what I believe in. My question to them is, why is that kind of work ridiculous? Who are they fighting for? [My work is] not relevant to the presidency? [That speaks to who they are].

Sexist accusations?
If they want to work the refs, they are free to do so. The notion that any questions about her work in Alaska is not relevant to her potential to be v.p. doesn't make too much sense to me. I assume she wants to be treated the way guys want to be treated, with her records under scrutiny. I've been doing this for 19 months, she's been at it for what, 3 days so far?

I'm running against McCain. I don't get that Palin has ideas that are different from his. Her speech was on behalf of McCain.

Who has a better plan to move the country forward to change it from the policies of the past 8 years?

People want change, I represent it [paraphrased]. If McCain discusses those issues, it'll be a "juiceful" debate.

What did you expect? This is what they do. They have no agenda. They haven't offered a single concrete idea, in 2 nights... they spent the 2 nights attacking me or extolling McCain's biography.

You can't expect I'd be surprised at attacks from Republicans. I've been called worse on the basketball courts.

Ultimately it's about myself and McCain and what's right for the country [lists policies, etc.] I'm proud of Joe Biden and confident he'll help me govern in a very effective way should I be elected president.

There you go. Bingo.

The picture of "a powerful, eloquent, impassioned ticket"

By GottaLaff

Joe Biden made his debut Saturday as the Democratic vice presidential candidate.

"For months, I've searched for a leader to finish this journey alongside me and join me in making Washington work for the American people. I searched for a leader who understood the rising costs confronting working people and will always put their dreams first," Obama said.

"Today, I've come back to Springfield to tell you I've found that leader," he said.

They make a great team. Per Greg Craig, "a powerful, eloquent, impassioned ticket":

Biden, the senior U.S. senator from Delaware, invoked Abraham Lincoln in the 16th U.S. president's home state.

"President Lincoln once instructed us to be sure to put your feet in the right place and then stand firm," said Biden, a native of Scranton, Pennsylvania, whose working-class roots and foreign policy experience Democrats hope will help Obama. "Today in Springfield I know my feet are in the right place and I'm proud to stand firm with the next president of the United States of America, Barack Obama."

We are too.