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by Anonymous |

Jan 14, 2008(8 months ago) |

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Mike Whack
Charleston, SC
(H) 843-225-1567; (C) 843-259-8226
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THE "BAM"... The OBAMA Handshake!
PASS IT ON AT THE NEXT OBAMA RALLY!

Having caught "Obama fever" like so many others rallying in support of Barack, I experienced something at a Barack Obama Rally on Thursday, January 10 at the College of Charleston here in Charleston, South Carolina, which I felt was both inspirational and spontaneous!

As Barack worked the line following the close of his speech, there was a surge of people moving forward hoping to get close enough to shake Barack's hand. Since I was standing about 20 feet back from center stage in the crowd, I felt the crowd down front tighten as many of us stood on our toes, stretched our bodies forward while reaching out to Barack. I noticed that a six foot tall guy who was standing in front of me had stretched far enough above the crowd and shook hands with Barack. As the guy drew back his hand I asked him, "You shook his hand didn't you?" Happily the guy said "Yes." I then said, "give me some of that" and the guy shook my hand with the same hand he had just clasped with Barack's. A woman friend of mine who was standing next to me saw me shake hands with the guy. I turned to her and said "He [the guy] just shook hands with Barack," to which she responded..."Hey, give it up." We then shook hands. She then turned to the person next to her and shook hands. This chain of hand shakes went on for about five or six more persons.

I did not know the tall guy in front of me; he is white, I am black. But at the moment we shook hands, I felt some solidarity with this stranger, consummated by a handshake and signifying some unspoken agreement presumably about Barack Obama and his core message of UNITY!

I call this hand-shake scenario the "BAM" because, descriptively, it takes a bit of Obama's name and it's the sound of a collision, of People Coming Together!

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by americausa |

Jun 13, 2008(3 months ago) |

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I have been out of work since November 2007. My unemployment benefits have run out. My money has run out. I unable to obtain employment and need more time to continue my search for employment. I am at risk of losing my car. Gas prices continue to rise daily. I am highly skilled in my field. My State Rhode Island is one of the hardest hit with unemployment. I am 53 old and have worked hard all my life. I've paid taxes all my life, and this is how my country is treating me. Unbelievable. The Senate, House and President continue to play games as peoples life's are put in jeopardy. Totally disgusting. So all the extra time that I am not spending on looking for employment, I will dedicate to making sure any politician that votes nay on not extending unemployment insurance will be out of a job their next term by informing the public of their decision in every forum available. I will encourage others to do so as well. It is time in this country for the people to take control of their government again and take it out of the hands of the uninformed, out of touch, uncompassionate, ignorant, greedy, self absorbed fools that are the true terrorists ruining this country. Pass a fxxkxxg bill extending unemployment benefits or you will be out of a fxxkxxg job!!!!!!!!!

by americausa |

Sep 30, 2008(6 days ago) |

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BUSH wants to bail out Wall street but the unemployed can just wait and starve!
The House, the Senate and BUSH are criminal, despicable, naive,and in very dangerous water. To ignore the unemployed and not take care of them is so shortsighted its beyond belief. More Extended benefits need to be passed now! The seven weeks is really a joke as unemployment WILL continue to rise and rise. It needs to be a total of 52 or more as it was in the past. Wake up politician's (PUBLIC SERVANT) as your day is coming, and you be joining the unemployed and learn first hand what it can feel like to be jobless. More jobs will be lost, more Banks will fail and you can only blame yourselves for letting Bush and Cheney get away with robbing the working American public who are as dumb and naive as Sarah Palin!

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Term Start	Term End	Role	State	Party
2007	2012	Senator	MD	Democrat
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Committee Membership

Most Recent Sponsored Bills

Bill	Status	Last Action
S.Res.700 A resolution congratulating Michael Phelps and the members and coaches of the United States Olympic Swimming Team for their record-breaking performance at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, China.	Voted on by Senate	Sep 30, 2008
S.3532 GIVE Act of 2008	Introduced	Sep 22, 2008
S.3525 Star-Spangled Banner Bicentennial Commemorative Coin Act	Introduced	Sep 18, 2008

Recent Voting History

The votes below were taken by roll call, a voting procedure that records a vote from every Senator or Representative on the bill under consideration. This Member of Congress may have voted on other bills by the process known as "voice vote", but these votes are not recorded.

Bill	Voted
H.R.1424 Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 On Passage of the Bill (H. R. 1424 As Amended )	Aye October 01, 2008
H.R.1424 Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 On the Amendment (Dodd Amdt. No. 5685 )	Aye October 01, 2008
H.R.7081 United States-India Nuclear Cooperation Approval and Nonproliferation Enhancement Act On Passage of the Bill (H.R. 7081 )	Aye October 01, 2008

Voting Trends Analysis

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Most often votes with: Sen. Barbara Mikulski [D, MD]
Least often votes with: Sen. Jim DeMint [R, SC]
Republican most often votes with: Sen. Olympia Snowe [R, ME]
Democrat least often votes with: Sen. Ben Nelson [D, NE]

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Benjamin Cardin in the News

September 30, 2008 Sen. Cardin Responds To The House' Vote

...senator Benjamin Cardin immediately responded to the House Of Representatives' vote on the bailout package. He said, "I am angry that we have been faced with this economic crisis, but now is not the time to lay blame. We need to work together in a bip