obama

I realize I’ve been posting quite a few videos lately, but this one is really important. Barack Obama gave a speech today that wasn’t just political. It was historic. Rather than just viewing snippets from whatever your news program deems important, here’s the whole thing

yes votes for condi

By now everyone knows that the Senate confirmed condoleez rice by a vote of 85-13 and many of us are happy that the Democrats are beginning to show evidence of some backbone. The 13 senators may have seen some of the positive results that senator Barbara Boxer received in her Ohio challenge. However, there were a number of Democrat senators who voted with the regressives to confirm rice. Some are well known. People like Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer (from my state) and Barak Obama from Illinois. So while we should praise those who voted no, I think we need to remind those who voted yes that we are following what they are doing. Hence, the following list (by state) of those Senators who voted “Yes” to confirm her nomination. At the end of this list, there’s a link to how all the senators voted

Arkansas
Lincoln; Pryor
California
Feinstein
Colorado
Salazar

Connecticut
Dodd; Lieberman
Delaware
Biden; Carper
Florida
Nelson
Hawaii
Inouye
Illinois
Obama
Louisiana
Landrieu
Maryland
Mikulski; Sarbanes
Michigan
Stabenow
Montana
Baucus
Nebraska
Nelson
Nevada
Reid
New Jersey
Corzine
New Mexico
Bingaman
New York
Clinton; Schumer
North Dakota
Conrad; Dorgan
Oregon
Wyden
South Dakota
Johnson
Vermont
Leahy
Washington
Cantwell; Murray
West Virginia
Rockefeller
Wisconsin
Feingold; Kohl

For the complete list go here.