Points By Drew Pritt

http://www.TheArkansasProject.com

Readers we want to welcome to the local political blogosphere The Arkansas Project. Grant you they say about themselves : “The Arkansas Project blog launched in July 2008 as a source for incisive commentary and reporting on Arkansas politics, media, and more.” However, as you can see by their regular contributors, they are a conservative ideology and political perspective. Thats okay, as the National Review is a wonderful publication, and well written, though it’s very biased in a conservative stance. Still welcome to the block, gang, and we hope you stick around for a regular discourse with Blake, Matilda, Pat, Max, Steve, and I. Continue reading →

A critical point has come out about Governor Tim Kaine of Virginia. While aesthetically yesterday we talked about the positives of an Obama-Kaine ticket. However, critically, the Obama campaign has to ask itself, do they risk antagonizing the Pro-Choice wing of the Democratic Party? Kaine’s record, for all the positives, influenced by his faith and other reasons is decidedly anti-choice. After 8 yrs. of an anti-choice virulent administration….do the Democrats risk alienating that base further by placing an anti-choice running-mate a heartbeat away from the Presidency? Continue reading →

Its seeming more and more likely that Governor Tim Kaine (D-Va.) will be the running-mate with Senator Barack Obama (D-Il.) Seeing the two of them together brings back the memories from 1992 and the very successful Clinton-Gore ticket. Why mess with a formula if it works? Clinton-Gore inspired youth, energy, and the future just like an Obama-Kaine ticket would. It would sharply contrast with an older nominee who picks a younger face as a running-mate….aka Bush-Quayle or McCain-Jindal/Palin/Portman/Fiorina. But theres other key reasons why it makes sense for Obama to tap Kaine and how it can help the Democratic Party. Continue reading →

John McCain’s campaign has been playing about a Vice Presidential choice was ready to be announced. This happened mainly during the recent Barack Obama overseas tour. The attempt was to take the news media away from Obama. However, the result is McCain is beginning to look indecisive. But this isn’t the first time a Presidential candidate has tried to use the Vice Presidential selection to drive the media this way and ended up having it backfire. Continue reading →

This is the image John Edwards wants everyone to think of when they see him. The loving father of three children and devoted husband to a beautiful wife who is sadly dying slowly of cancer. Continue reading →

Sanitation workers face injury on the job and potentially death because of an unsafe enviroment. Low wages and even lower benefits but a high demand to take care of the garbage and refuse of a major metropolitan area in the deep South. Threats, intimidation, and all that goes with it. Continue reading →

I just returned from the annual Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner for the Arkansas Democratic Party at AllTel Arena in North Little Rock. The tables each went for $1,000 and it was $100 a plate. The dinner guests heard from former Governors and U.S. Senators David Pryor and Dale Bumpers, former Governor Jim Guy Tucker, Governor Mike Beebe, U.S. Senators Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor, and U.S. Congressmen Marion Berry, Vic Snyder, and Mike Ross. Bumpers and Snyder represent true liberals, Beebe and Tucker are progressive populists, Pryor, Sr. & Pryor, Jr. as well as Lincoln are true moderates, and Berry & Ross represent a more conservative Democrat.

The message was clear to all the Democrats present….YES WE CAN! Continue reading →

It is subject to change, however, according to the many reported “leaks” and by comments by some of these individuals themselves, this appears to be the shortlist for Barack Obama’s running mate list.

Governor Tim Kaine of Virginia, Governor Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas, U.S. Senator Chris Dodd of Connecticut, U.S. Congressman Chet Edwards of Texas, former U.S. Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia, U.S. Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana, and U.S. Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa.

* Kaine helps Obama because he comes from a key Southern state, is Roman Catholic, and was a Catholic missionary to Latin America. He speaks fluent Spanish and was an early and enthusiastic backer of Obama.

* Sebelius was an early endorser of Obama and is from Kansas, while her father, John Gilligan, is a former Governor of Ohio. She is a fiscal conservative and of course a woman.

* Dodd is Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusett’s best friend in the U.S. Senate. Kennedy’s endorsement of Obama is the turning point that allowed him enough “street cred” to defeat Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York. Also, Dodd’s god-daughter, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, is one of Obama’s prominent vetters. After Dodd withdrew from the Presidential race, he endorsed Obama in a surprise move. He also has a strong relationship with the Firefighters and other blue collar constituencies.

* Edwards of Texas represents George W. Bush’s home district of Crawford Texas. Edwards, a centrist Democrat, is a natural good ole’ boy, who is an expert on defense and foreign relations issues. He has a very homespun, down home story that serves him well.

* Nunn of Georgia served as a U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1972-1996. He’s very centrist to conservative but an expert on defense and foreign policy. Former President Jimmy Carter is promoting Nunn who oddly enough defeated one of Carter’s protege’s to get into the U.S. Senate.

* Bayh has been Governor of Indiana from 1988-1996 and a U.S. Senator from that state since 1998. His father served as a U.S. Senator in the same seat from 1962-1980 and made two bids for President himself in 1972 and 1976. The younger Bayh is a conservative populist who endorsed Clinton in the primaries. He’s not the best speaker but is telegenic.

* Harkin is the true prairie populist of the party. From 1974-1984, he was a U.S. Congressman and then since 1984 a U.S. Senator from Iowa. His organization in Iowa has delivered impressively for a number of Federal and statewide candidates. In 1992, Harkin made his own bid for President and made both Clinton and Gore’s shortlists for running mates. He is a strong favorite of the blue collar voters and union voters. He’s a decorated Vietnam veteran, Roman Catholic, and has a 100% voting record with Israeli issues in the U.S. Senate according to AIPAC.

Ίησους Χριστός is Greek for the “Annointed One who Rescues.”

We know him simply as, Jesus Christ.

But who is this Ίησους Χριστός or as we call him, Jesus Christ?

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