Openly Presidential

This is why...

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I am going to vote for Barack Obama.
I am William "Papa" Meloney and I endorse this message.

Open Opie Endorsement: Americana speaks.

See more Ron Howard videos at Funny or Die

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I am going to vote for Barack Obama.
I am William "Papa" Meloney and I endorse this message.

Open Crisis: The sucking sound of Mortgage meltdown

The clearest explanation I have heard ...





[H/t to Nati Shalom ]

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I am going to vote for Barack Obama.
I am William "Papa" Meloney and I endorse this message.

Open Panda-monium

Some 1,600 papier mache pandas set up by members of WWF (World Wildlife Fund) in Paris to highlight that there are only 1,600 pandas left on earth

Picture: AFP/GETTY

[H/t to Jeremy Hunsinger's To Many Topics, Too Little Time ]

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I am going to vote for Barack Obama.
I am William "Papa" Meloney and I endorse this message.

Open Theater of Politics

Yes, I am a cynic.

I have to ask how convenient this entire exchange is. Level headed, lucid and erudite McCain supporters just happen to intervene in "critical" discussion of views and first amendment rights? All while the camera manages to capture the scene? To be finally punctuated by an extremist tucking his tail between his legs and slinking off?

Easily the best (contrived) television on television...

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I am going to vote for Barack Obama.
I am William "Papa" Meloney and I endorse this message.

Open eloquent voice: Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski

[H/t to my sister who doesn't blog, yet?]

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I am going to vote for Barack Obama.
I am William "Papa" Meloney and I endorse this message.

Open Pot Meets Kettle

Ontario police arrest man in voter fraud case

Mark Jacoby, who owns a firm hired by the California Republican Party, violated state laws with his own registration, authorities say.

By Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
October 20, 2008

SACRAMENTO -- The owner of a firm that the California Republican Party hired to register tens of thousands of voters this year was arrested in Ontario over the weekend on suspicion of voter registration fraud.

State and local investigators allege that Mark Jacoby fraudulently registered himself to vote at a childhood California address where he no longer lives so he would appear to meet the legal requirement that all signature gatherers be eligible to vote in California. His firm, Young Political Majors, or YPM, collects petition signatures and registers voters in California and other states.

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The firm was paid $7 to $12 for every Californian it registered as a member of the GOP.

EMPHASIS MINE!!! $7-12 per registration??? There is some serious trickling-down going on here.

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I am going to vote for Barack Obama.
I am William "Papa" Meloney and I endorse this message.

Open Voice.to.be.heard.

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I am going to vote for Barack Obama.
I am William "Papa" Meloney and I endorse this message.

Open Campaign

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
Mohandas Gandhi

P.S. They will also steal your signs. [Daily Kos]

(Recommended by my sister who doesn't blog, yet.)

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I am going to vote for Barack Obama.
I am William "Papa" Meloney and I endorse this message.