I really like the message that Peace can also be patriotic...let's hope that there are some positive changes that will occur in the upcoming year. Let's bring our boys (& girls!) home...Happy 4th everyone!
Current Affairs
July 04, 2008
May 18, 2008
Largest Crowd Yet for Obama ~ 75,000+
Barack Obama could not have gotten a nicer day in Portland, especially for May. Today Obama spoke to a crowd of 75,000+ in and around Waterfront Park; the largest crowd turnout to date in his campaign. The sky was pure blue, the sun was shining and supporters listened to his hopeful words; some from their boats bobbing in the Willamette River. We were planning to go down but decided this morning that we would just watch online as it there would be a live stream on KATU. I have to say I do love that technology has made it so we can sit in our office and watch this type of event live.
Barack began with "Wow....wow...wow..." when he scanned the sea of faces before him. He truly seemed to be taking in the whole scene under the hot sunshine with a sense of awe. It is you and me and every other ordinary person living in this country that has the power to insist that a change come to the way this country's government is run. It's not surprising that the green-minded, Eco-friendly, cycle-loving inhabitants of the Portland Metro area would be the group to come out in the strongest of droves...what a great day for the Obama campaign. Here's to a victory on Tuesday!
There are already a few posts up about today's rally on Obama's Blog. I'm sure the video footage of the speech will be coming shortly and you can all see for yourselves what a blissful day is was here in Oregon.
April 22, 2008
April 17, 2008
A "Sick" US Health Care System
I stumbled across a Frontline program a few nights ago on PBS (yes, I'm a nerd who loves documentaries!). I began watching and was instantly intrigued by the title and topic, "Sick Around the World" where T.R. Reid takes a look at some different health care systems in other more wealthy nations. He asks the question, "What can the US learn from these other examples?" and "How can we take various traits of the models that work and create our own unique system?". In this heated election year this topic is obviously at the forefront of most voter's minds. I know it is one of the top issues in my mind that I'm concerned about (the others being Iraq, Education and the Environment) as a voter. I found this program very informative and exciting in the sense that there are endless possibilities and ideas we can use in overhauling the currently "sick" US health care system. I hope to see our country make some big changes with the next administration. It needs to happen. It must happen for the people of our country to be able to thrive and drive our country forward in the global community. We need to take care of the health of our nation.
You can check it all out (you can watch in chapters which is nice) for yourself over at:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/
I also enjoyed this review in the NY Times about this program:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/15/arts/television/15sick.html?_r=1&ref=television&oref=slogin
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