Senator Barack Obama is a happily married family man who is honest, capable, charismatic & eloquent.  It's been less than a week since we opened our Oregon Campaign for Change state headquarters in Portland, and staff and volunteers all over the state are already working hard to grow our movement.
Democrats in Oregon are energized, united, and ready to work for change up and down the ticket.  This weekend we're organizing a big voter registration push across the state, and we need your help to reach new voters and bring new voices into the political process.
Join us for a voter registration canvass this weekend:
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Together, we've built this movement across the country one person at a time. Supporters in all 50 states have reached out to their friends, neighbors, and coworkers to share their story and work for the change we need.
Face-to-face contact is the most effective way to bring new supporters into our movement. Join us this weekend and reach out to your fellow Oregonians.
No prior experience is necessary to get involved. Our staff will give you everything you need.
Join us this weekend for a voter registration canvass:
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He is an intelligent, spiritually-centered man and a thoughtful and inspiring speaker.  This graduate
of Harvard and Columbia universities has experience as an attorney and a US Senator.  He intends to
greatly increase spending on Healthcare and Education and will pay for these programs by lowering taxes
on the middle class while requiring fortune 500 corporations & the rich to finally pay their fair share.

John Sidney McCain III is an adulterer who dumped his hospitalized wife of twenty years to marry his girlfriend.  He has a hair-trigger temper and foul mouth.  He attended the US War College and was at the bottom of his his class at the US Naval academy.  He has been a beer distributor, senator, and representative.  He will decrease spending on the Arts and Space Exploration and does not plan to increase spending on Healthcare.  In spite of deficits, he would reduce corporate tax rates hoping their ever-increasing riches would somehow trickle back down to the working people who created them.
 Some working people feel they have already been tricked and "trickled on" for quite long enough.
www.writingresource.info/mccainupdate.html   www.projectvotesmart.org

Obama on Oil prices: 
Sen. Barack Obama has promised to begin an immediate, gradual withdrawal of US combat troops from Iraq if he is elected president. According to Ismael Hussein-Zadeh, a professor of economics at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, this very act would help stop the crippling increases in energy and food prices.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008 
 The professor blames the US war on Iraq and Afghanistan for driving the prices of crude oil in his article titled, “Worried About the Price of Gas? End US Wars.”

"The current oil price hikes started with the beginning of the Bush administration’s wars against Iraq and Afghanistan.” Hussein Zadeh said.

“Oil prices have gone from the mid $20 range in the fall of 2002 to $127 yesterday (it’s now at $135 plus per barrel)—a rise of $100/barrel in just over five years,” he said.

Hussein-Zadeh attributes those increases mainly to the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and to the threats of war against Iran. “Soon after the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq the price of oil began to escalate in tandem with the escalation of war and political turbulence in the Middle East . . . Anytime there is a renewed US military threat against Iran, fuel prices move up several notches.”

Hussein Zadeh also blames the US military campaign in Iraq and Afghanistan for the fall of the dollar since, he notes, the war has been costing the US government $200 billion a year, all in borrowed funds.

There is no other choice as far as Hussein-Zadeh is concerned. “The political-implications of this discussion are clear: to bring down the prices of fuel and food requires bringing home the troops. By lowering the energy costs of production and transportation this will help save our own and many other economies from the plagues of inflation and stagnation. It will bring relief to hundreds of millions worldwide who are burdened by crippling energy bills and the crushing costs of feeding their families.”

Obama wants to invest $150 billion over the next 10 years to establish a green energy sector; create a national low-carbon fuel standard to ensure that the fuel is more efficient, and invest in clean energies like solar, wind and biodiesel.

This will create up to 5 million new green energy jobs.

Obama's plan for relief includes putting a windfall profits tax on oil companies, using the proceeds to help Pennsylvania families pay their heating and cooling bills. He also wants to increase transparency in the way prices are set, "so we can make sure that energy companies aren't bending the rules," according to his campaign.

"Immediate steps we need to take to provide working Americans with relief. A broad-based, middle class tax cut, to help offset the rising cost of gas and food. A foreclosure prevention fund, to help stabilize the housing market. A health care plan that lowers costs and gives those without health insurance the same kind of coverage members of Congress have. A commitment to retirement security that stabilizes Social Security, and provides workers a means to increase savings. And a plan to crack down on unfair and sometimes deceptive lending in the credit card and housing markets, to help families climb out of crippling debt, and stay out of debt in the first place."

Obama has a plan, and McCain is not able to come up with one...
His only plan is to let transnational economic cartels do whatever they choose
and to let the American middle class shrink while he provides tax breaks for the rich.
His plan is to continue the Bush legacy...  war, deficits, death, destruction, and dishonor.