Barack Obama.

Yep. The Obama campiagn is purchasing a 5 million dollar Olympic package.

http://adage.com/article?article_id=1298 53

In an interview with the Philadelphia Gay News Hillary Clinton said she would work to help gay and lesbian men and women gain rights (http://www.onenewsnow.com/Business/Defau lt.aspx?id=74685). She said, "I anticipate that there will be a very concerted amount of effort in the next couple of years that will move this important issue forward and different states will take different approaches as they did with marriage over many years and you will see an evolution over time."

Hillary Clinton and her husband have many homosexual friends: "I've got friends, literally, around the country that I'm close to. It's part of my life." http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/3959/ flowers12zn5.jpg

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OK.  All day, canadian gal had a diary up about a letter that Don Fowler and Alice Germond sent to intransigent Hillary supporters admonishing them to get behind Obama.  It was candian gal's contention that the letter was ineffective.  A long debate on the subject ensued.

Here's canadian gal's diary:

http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/7/23/1493 4/0576

And here's the letter:

Wanted to bring back to your notice an Afghan Women Organization who had been doing yeomen service for the oppressed women in Afghanistan and former Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan. It is called RAWA or Revolutionary Association of Women of Afghanistan. RAWA was founded in Kabul in 1977 as an independent organization to fight for political, social and human rights of Afghan women. Unfortunately their leader Meena was assassinated in 1987 by Afghan KGB agents acting with help from Afghan Islamic fundamentalist warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. Be it under the Soviet occupation, the era of mujaheddin/warlord continuous bombardment or under the repressive rule of medieval Taliban, RAWA had steadfastly worked to uphold the ideals that it was built upon by its founders.

RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, was established in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1977 as an independent political/social organization of Afghan women fighting for human rights and for social justice in Afghanistan. The founders were a number of Afghan woman intellectuals under the sagacious leadership of Meena who in 1987 was assassinated in Quetta, Pakistan, by Afghan agents of the then KGB in connivance with fundamentalist band of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar . RAWA's objective was to involve an increasing number of Afghan women in social and political activities aimed at acquiring women's human rights and contributing to the struggle for the establishment of a government based on democratic and secular values in Afghanistan. Despite the suffocating political atmosphere, RAWA very soon became involved in widespread activities in different socio-political arenas including education, health and income generation as well as political agitation.

Before the Moscow-directed coup d'état of April 1978 in Afghanistan, RAWA's activities were confined to agitation for women's rights and democracy, but after the coup and particularly after the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in December 1979, RAWA became directly involved in the war of resistance. In contradistinction to the absolute majority of the vaunted Islamic fundamentalist "freedom fighters" of the anti-Soviet war of resistance, RAWA from the outset advocated democracy and secularism. Despite the horrors and the political oppression, RAWA's appeal and influence grew in the years of the Soviet occupation and a growing number of RAWA activists were sent to work among refugee women in Pakistan. For the purpose of addressing the immediate needs of refugee women and children, RAWA established schools with hostels for boys and girls, a hospital for refugee Afghan women and children in Quetta, Pakistan with mobile teams. In addition, it conducted nursing courses, literacy courses and vocational training courses for women.

Find more at http://www.rawa.org/rawa.html

One can see the brutalities of religious fundamentalism and oppression of women and children and suffering of Afghans in general. Please browse through the photo gallery and the mediaclips on the RAWA website.

http://www.rawa.org/gallery.html

http://www.rawa.org/women.php

RAWA is still working for establishment of a free democratic and secular Afghanistan. It is a rather uphill task.

Whenever fundamentalists exist as a military and political force in our injured land, the problem of Afghanistan will not be solved. Today RAWA's mission for women's rights is far from over and we have to work hard for establishment of an independent, free, democratic and secular Afghanistan. We need the solidarity and support of all people around the world.

Let us spare a moment of thought for a progressive organization working in a rather difficult part of the World. For more about RAWA

http://www.rawa.org

It is quite clear that the in spite of the Screaming and yelling of the McCain campaign, it was been made quite clear by Cbs's attempt to cover up McCain's latest gaffe on Iraq. That the media is not pro-Obama but pro-McCain Yes they are giving obama more coverage, coverage of people slandering Obama or any little mistake Obama makes. But they seems to quite willing to ignore anything bad that comes out about McCain or any gaffe McCain makes, and  only seem to cover the good things he says or does. That is why someone needs to make a website called McCain watch to keep the media honest

This diary is meant mainly for the low information voters. Others can ignore.

Many low info voters think that majority of Obama's campaign money comes from small donors. This is a clever piece of work by this campaign.
Majority of his donors are small donors, but majority of his money doesn't come from small donors. His campaign says 90% of his donors are small donors. This is true. But 90% of his money doesn't come from small donors. Something like 50% does.

What this means - lets see with an example.
Say he has 10 donations totalling to 3600$.
This may be something like
200$,200$,200$,200$,200$,200$,200$,200$, 200$,1800$

So 90% of his donors donated 200$ or below.
But only 50% of the money is from these small donors

Over the last few days the McCain camp has started to get desperate with all the good news for Obama. So what does a campaign run by the architect of negative campaigning do?

Do some good 'ole negative campaigning of course. Here's a recap.

In late March of this year, I posted a diary entitled: "Concern Re: McCain's Brain," and caught all sorts of flack for referencing a February 22nd, 2008 diary post from Firedoglake by Kirk James Murphy, M.D., entitled: "McCain's Brain--How's It Doin'?"

At the time, I was lectured by many of my fellow bloggers and admonished about how politically incorrect it was to point out that a real, live doctor actually had the temerity to suggest that maybe--just maybe--at 72 years of age (which McCain will be around the time Obama's inauguration rolls around), and after many years of existence in inhumane conditions while a P.O.W. in North Vietnam, that the guy might just have worn out a few of the cards within the original set of 52 he was supposedly given at birth.