Obamamania comes to Austin
AUSTIN -- Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama received a rock star's reception Friday at his first public appearance in Texas since declaring his candidacy as about 20,000 people crowded into an Austin park to hear him rail against the war in Iraq and take two subtle digs at his chief rival for his party's nomination next year. Speaking from an open-air stage in a drizzling rain, the junior U.S. senator from Illinois urged the largely adoring crowd to reject the politics of cynicism and to embrace a message of optimism that the United States could provide universal healthcare to its citizens and achieve independence from foreign sources of energy. "It is time for us to bring this war to an end," Obama said, drawing the largest cheer of his 40-minute speech, which he delivered without notes.
Brave New World War
Dear Reader. Gilads analysis of this initiative to embody the notion of Holocaust denial into the U.N. is worthy of study. This resolution will likely stand (should a free historical perspective survive into the future) as one of the greatest attempts by Big Brother to introduce into the common mind of people globally a concept devoid of reason and logic. Please pass this article on if you feel it warrants further consideration. For Peace and Open Expression of Thought and Historical Debate, Arthur Topham Radical Press http://www.radicalpress.com ------------------------------------- Brave New World War by Gilad Atzmon The United States hopes that the United Nations General Assembly will vote by the end of this week on a resolution that condemns "any denial of the Holocaust". (CNSNews.com) "We respectfully urge your country to co-sponsor and support the Resolution on Holocaust Denial that is to be voted on in the General Assembly this Friday." (from a letter to UN ambassadors, Glen S.
Obama Got Start in Civil Rights Practice
CHICAGO (AP) - Attorney Judson Miner called Harvard to offer a job to a graduating student named Barack Obama and didn't expect to be showered with gratitude. Still, he wasn't expecting the reception he got."You can leave your name and take a number," the woman who answered the phone at the Harvard Law Review said breezily. "You're No. 647."That was 1991 and even then Obama - the Illinois senator now seeking the Democratic presidential nomination - was a hot commodity.As the first black president of the Harvard Law Review, Obama had his pick of top law firms. He chose Miner's Chicago civil rights firm, where he represented community organizers, discrimination victims and black voters trying to force a redrawing of city ward boundaries.Like many lawyers, Obama never took part in a trial. He spent most of his nine-year career working as part of a team, drawing up contracts, briefs and other legal papers.The firm of Miner Barnhill & Galland, many of whose members have Harvard and Yale law degrees, has a reputation that fits nicely into the resume of a future presidential candidate."It's a real do-good firm," says Fay Clayton, lead counsel for the National Organization for Women in a landmark lawsuit aimed at stopping abortion clinic violence.
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