Events, So Many Events, Many More At MyBO

MyBO

Time: Tuesday, January 29 at 5:00 PM
Duration: 4 hours
Host: Evan Shapiro
Contact Phone: 646-712-4666
Location:
14th Street and 8th Avenue (New York, NY)

MyBO

Time: Tuesday, January 30 at 6:00 PM Jan 30,
Duration: 3 hours
Host: Jonta Williams
Location:
Burger King 179th St. & Hillside Ave. (Jamaica, NY)
179th St. & Hillside Ave.
Jamaica, NY 11432
F train to the 179th St. stop.

MyBO

Time: Wednesday, January 30 at 6:15 PM
Duration: 2 hours
Host: Maywa Montenegro
Contact Phone: 423-794-0797
Location:
Barnes&Noble Union Square (New York, NY)
33 East 17th Street
New York, NY 10003

MyBO

Time: Wednesday, January 30 at 12:00 PM
Duration:
Host: Micah Bergdale
Contact Phone: 212-796-0657
Location:
Grand Concourse/South Bronx (Bronx, NY)
1100 Grand Concourse #1L
Bronx, NY 10456
4/D train to 167th

MyBO

What: Generation Obama Debate Cocktail Hour
Where:The Grand, 41 east 58th street, nyc
When: Thursday, January 31, 2008
Party starts at 6pm
Debate at 8pm

MyBO

Time: Thursday, January 31 at 6:00 PM
Duration: 3 hours
Host: Generation Obama
Location:
The Grand (New York, NY)
41 East 58th Street
New York, NY 10018

MyBO

Time: Thursday, January 31 at 5:00 PM
Duration: 3 hours
Host: Arthur Leopold
Contact Phone: 917-359-3920
Location:
59th Street and Lex (New York, NY)
59th Street and Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10022
Directions: 4/5/6 or N//R/W/F Trains to 59th st.

MyBO

Time: Thursday, January 31 at 7:00 PM
Duration: 4 hours
Host: Joseph Baker
Location:
Our Apartment (Brooklyn, NY)
106 Clifton Place #3D
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Directions: We're around the corner from the Classon G stop or short walk from the Clinton-Washington C stop.

MyBO

Time: Thursday, January 31 at 10:00 PM
Duration: 1 hour
Host: Katy Eustis
Location:
Pianos (New York, NY)
158 Ludlow st
New York, NY 10002
F or V to 2nd Ave/Houston St. Exit at Allen St end of the station and walk two blocks east on Houston to Ludlow,
then one block south to Stanton.

MyBO

Time: Friday, February 1 at 6:30 PM
Duration: 3 hours
Host: Adi Flesher
Contact Phone: 212-920-7851
Location:
McSorley's Old Ale House (New York, NY)
15 E. 7th st
New York, NY 10009

MyBO

Time: Friday, February 1 at 7:00 PM
Duration: 2 hours
Host: John Maher
Contact Phone: 516-767-7537
Location:
Macedonia AME Church (Flushing, NY)
37-22 Union Street
Flushing, NY 11354
Downtown flushing, just 2 blocks from Q12,13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 20A/B, 25, 34, 44, 48, 65,66, N20, N21; IRT#7, LIRR.

MyBO

Time: Friday, February 1 at 2:00 PM
Duration: 2 hours
Host: Tara Kirton
Location:
Brooklyn College (Brooklyn, NY)
Q Local to the Avenue H station, at Avenue H & East 16th Street.
Walk 4 blocks east (you’ll see the famous LaGuardia bell tower; walk towards that) to the Ocean Avenue entrance.

I'd like the walk to Begin in front of Brooklyn College in Flatbush,
End at the Brooklyn Public Library (Flatbush & Eastern Parkway).
Sat. Feb 2, 2008, Walk Begins (2pm) at the Brooklyn Public Library and Ends the Atlantic Mall (Flatbush & Atlantic Ave.)

MyBO

Time: Saturday, February 2 at 12:00 PM
Duration: 2 hours
Host: NY Women for Obama
Location:
Merchants' Gate at Columbus Circle (New York, NY)
59th & Broadway
New York, NY 10019

MyBO

Time: Saturday, February 2 at 12:00 PM
Duration: 1 hour
Host: Gregory H. Smith
We'll start from the B'klyn side of the bridge--walk to the Manhattan side.

MyBO

Sun. Feb 3,2008, Walk Begins (2pm) at the Atlantic Mall (Flatbush & Atlantic Ave.)and
Ends on Court st. and Montague (downtown Bklyn).

MyBO

Time: Saturday, February 2 at 10:00 AM
Duration:
Host: Alima Berkoun
Contact Phone: 917 349 0717
Location:
in front of Victoria theater (New York, NY)
237 west 125 street
New York, NY 10027
next to the Apollo theater ABCD TRAIN TO 125 STREET

MyBO

Time: Sunday, February 3 at 11:00 AM
Duration: 2 hours
Host: Elizabeth Lynch
Contact Phone: 718-490-3836
Location:
Meet Outside Starbucks on Main St. (Flushing, NY)
41-02 Main Street
(Corner of 41 Ave and Main Street)
Flushing, NY 11354
From Manhattan: Remember, there is no 7 Train Service on Weekends;
Instead, take a FREE LIRR from Penn Station to Flushing (this is the "Port Washington" Line).

MyBO

See Schedule online: http://www.mta.info/

Time: Tuesday, February 5 at 7:00 PM
Duration: 4 hours
Host: katherine bernhardt
Location:
cafe enduro (Brooklyn, NY)
51 lincoln road
Brooklyn, NY 11226
Directions: take the Q train to Prospect Park station, exit Lincoln road. cafe is just to the left.

MyBO

Thursday, February 7
6:00 pm
Planned Parenthood and DL21C's Women's Issues Committee present
A Night Out with Women in Politics
6:00-9:00pm
The Zipper Factory, 336 W. 37th St. between 8th & 9th

MyBO





In The News

Analysis: Bush overshadowed by presidential race CNN Before the speech, White House officials set low expectations -- and Bush met them. ...... (Did you notice how all the TV networks justifiably spent so much time on those delicious cutaway shots in the chamber of Sen. Barack Obama huddling with new best-friend-forever Sen. Edward Kennedy, while Sen. Hillary Clinton sat nearby, no doubt fuming?) ........ The White House spent the past few years talking up a strong economy, but got very little credit because of struggles in Iraq. Now things are getting better in Iraq, but Bush is getting very little credit for that because .... the economy is getting worse.
Nepal king attends Bollywood wedding NDTV.com
Obama's `Defining Moment' Rhetoric Evokes JFK, King (Update3) Bloomberg the most memorable orator since Ronald Reagan .... focuses on his sense of mission and touches only glancingly on policy. ..... so someday we can tell our children that this was the time when we healed our nation ...... have earned him comparisons to John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King ....... ``I was almost moved to tears by the power and the breadth of Obama's message,'' said Ted Sorensen, 79, the former speechwriter for Kennedy and an Obama supporter. ``His speaking style and what he stood for reminded me of JFK, of national interests uncluttered by the interests of race, religion or even political party.'' ....... is ``ready to be president on day one.'' ..... with a message and language that are inclusive, memorable turns of phrase, rolling cadences, repetition and a rich voice. ...... Since Franklin D. Roosevelt, only Kennedy and Reagan habitually strove for that loftier tone. Former President Bill Clinton, for example, largely kept to a conversational tone, and left behind few memorable speeches. ....... On a spectrum from plain speaking to grand oratory, Obama probably exemplifies a ``middle-style'' most similar to Reagan's, mixing colloquial language with lofty, values-laden themes ...... ``that I am not going to promise you things, I am going to demand things of you.'' ..... he leads a movement, not a party; that he is a vehicle, his supporters the driving force. ..... he also routinely pairs a white historical figure with a black one: Abraham Lincoln and Willie Mays, Kennedy and King.
Obama Snubs Hillary ABC News Obama's Clinton snub was the news
Obama Raises More Than $4 million Online Over the Weekend Wired News John Kerry raised $5.7 million in a day after he won the Democrats' nomination ..... Plouffe predicted in his memo that it wouldn't be, and that the campaign is staffing up in post February 5 states. ..... a million dollars a day for the first eight days of the year
Clinton's Fund-raising Takes Off Online Post New Hampshire
In Harlem, Backing Up Bill Clinton New York Times “He’s pushing the race card as much as he can. He wants his wife to win ....... Harlem (or at least that portion of it represented by the traffic passing in and out of his building) presented itself on Monday as a postracial neighborhood, one that saw the elections more in terms of the economy and war in Iraq and less in terms of black and white. ...... If Obama gets the nomination, folks will ask, ‘So who are you?’ So far, he’s a nice white middle-class guy
Kennedys for Clinton Los Angeles Times The loftiest poetry will not solve these issues. We need a president willing to engage in a fistfight to safeguard and restore our national virtues. ...... her formidable work ethic, courage in the face of adversity and her dignity and clear head in crisis. ....... Her measured rhetoric, political savvy and pragmatism shield the heart of our nation's most determined and most democratic warrior. ..... Hillary is a problem-solver, listening to people and then achieving solutions by changing attitudes. ..... a detailed understanding of the history and cultural backdrops of the nations we engage. ...... a catastrophic foreign policy that has cost us our international leadership and aggravated the threat of terror; a misbegotten war that is squandering precious American lives and treasure
Malaysia flirts with Google over world's biggest data center Register
Mobile Advertisement to unleash "huge revolution", says Google CEO TelecomTiger revenues of under $1 billion for mobile advertisements by 2012. ..... Google's 2009 mobile ad revenue alone will reach $21.31 billion. ...... the worldwide mobile advertising market will grow from $895 million in 2007 to $14.6 billion in 2011

Don't Abandon California

Hillary abandoned South Carolina and paid for it heavily. Barack should not abandon California. That is too big a prize to let go.

Women in California are giving Hillary her lead. I think many of them will change their minds after South Carolina and the Kennedy endorsements sink in. But my primary weapon against Hillary would be Hillary herself. Spread rumors that you are looking to make Edwards your Attorney General. As in, you are not thinking of him as running mate. The women of California can have Hillary on the ticket. If they want some symbolism, they can sure have it. I mean, I like Hillary.

A Vote For Barack Is Not A Vote Against Hillary

I can so totally see why for the women of California Hillary is attractive. If you are a working woman, intelligent, well educated, you face gender as an issue on a daily basis. So if you are driven by self-interest, you will let gender be your deciding factor.

But if you think about the country and the fresh leadership it sorely needs, or that race is a bigger hurdle than gender in America, or if you think about the world and especially Africa and what a President Obama could mean to that continent, you are going to have to go for Barack, even if you might be a California woman.

15 Point Lead

Hillary's 15 point lead in California is from before the political earthquake in South Carolina, from before the high voltage endorsements by the JFK daughter Caroline and the JFK youngest brother Ted Kennedy.

The Kennedy Endorsements

This is how it worked. Caroline's children had a friend who worked for the Obama campaign, and he lighted the fire. The children got Caroline's ear. And when Caroline endorsed, Ted Kennedy was compelled to.

Never underestimate the power of an Obama campaign worker.

Obama-Edwards

If it boils down to that, it might as well be an Obama-Edwards change ticket, if all the Edwards delegates throw their lot behind Obama to give him the nomination he will otherwise not have. Edwards has also not taken lobbyist money. He has exhibited strong labor support. He will help greatly in the South especially when there might be no Southerner on the Republican ticket.

McCain-Romney

Is that what we are looking at?

In The News

McCain, Clinton have big leads in California Los Angeles Times the battles remain hugely volatile ...... Clinton held onto a 49% to 32% lead ...... Democratic women continued to power her effort, siding with Clinton by nearly a 2-1 margin. ..... The poll was conducted largely before Obama's victory Saturday in South Carolina and today's high-profile endorsements of him by U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts and his niece, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg...... 3 in 10 likely voters said they could change their minds .... increasing her margin of support among Democratic women from 15% to 26%.
Why the Kennedys Went for Obama TIME For a moment, Obama looked overwhelmed when he saw all of the Kennedys waiting for him. Then he gathered Caroline in a big hug. "Thank you so much," he whispered. "I'm so excited." ..... Caroline and I are very close, and she started this process ...... She took her children to listen to all of the candidates ...... we had a long lunch in the middle of the summer. They were talking about it at that time; they were talking about Barack Obama. ....... This is about who you're for, not who you're against. ..... It was actually my kids talking about it last Christmas vacation. A friend of theirs, who is here today, is working for Senator Obama. ........ I don't think there's anybody who understands the possibilities of government more than Ted Kennedy. ..... his voice has all the power of 30, 40 years ago. He is at the heart and soul of the Democratic Party — the belief in civil rights, the belief in opportunity for all people, in upward mobility, in caring for the least of these, a vision that extends beyond our shores. And he speaks to a vision in which we are a beacon for those who are still trapped in poverty or oppression.
Obama's Win Reshapes the Race
Obama on his way to win nomination Daily Times
Ted Kennedy's roof-raising endorsement of Barack Obama. Slate and bet the whole darn Kennedy Compound that this man is The One ...... he performed a double vivisection on the Clintons ..... Obama fights for what he believes in, "without demonizing those who hold a different view." And unlike some he could name, what Obama is selling is "not just about himself, but about all of us," Kennedy thundered. ........ the choice as he described it was between fear and hope, the past and the future, meanness and possibility. ...... urged voters not to listen to former President Clinton's naysaying, likening it to Harry Truman's suggestion that JFK was too green to be president back in the day ...... Diann Heine, a longtime aide to Hubert Humphrey, left American University's Bender Arena building crying. "I never thought I'd feel this way again," she said. "It's a miracle."
Clinton, McCain Lead in NY Poll The Associated Press Hillary Rodham Clinton, 56 percent Barack Obama, 28 percent ...... On the Democratic side, 70 percent said they had made up their minds compared to 25 percent who could still change their minds. Forty-five percent of Clinton supporters were certain to vote for her compared to 20 percent for Obama.
Dirt Is Found on the Clinton Campaign Trail in Iowa FOXNews

Caroline Kennedy: A President Like My Father

January 27, 2008
Op-Ed Contributor
A President Like My Father
By CAROLINE KENNEDY

OVER the years, I’ve been deeply moved by the people who’ve told me they wished they could feel inspired and hopeful about America the way people did when my father was president. This sense is even more profound today. That is why I am supporting a presidential candidate in the Democratic primaries, Barack Obama.

My reasons are patriotic, political and personal, and the three are intertwined. All my life, people have told me that my father changed their lives, that they got involved in public service or politics because he asked them to. And the generation he inspired has passed that spirit on to its children. I meet young people who were born long after John F. Kennedy was president, yet who ask me how to live out his ideals.

Sometimes it takes a while to recognize that someone has a special ability to get us to believe in ourselves, to tie that belief to our highest ideals and imagine that together we can do great things. In those rare moments, when such a person comes along, we need to put aside our plans and reach for what we know is possible.

We have that kind of opportunity with Senator Obama. It isn’t that the other candidates are not experienced or knowledgeable. But this year, that may not be enough. We need a change in the leadership of this country — just as we did in 1960.

Most of us would prefer to base our voting decision on policy differences. However, the candidates’ goals are similar. They have all laid out detailed plans on everything from strengthening our middle class to investing in early childhood education. So qualities of leadership, character and judgment play a larger role than usual.

Senator Obama has demonstrated these qualities throughout his more than two decades of public service, not just in the United States Senate but in Illinois, where he helped turn around struggling communities, taught constitutional law and was an elected state official for eight years. And Senator Obama is showing the same qualities today. He has built a movement that is changing the face of politics in this country, and he has demonstrated a special gift for inspiring young people — known for a willingness to volunteer, but an aversion to politics — to become engaged in the political process.

I have spent the past five years working in the New York City public schools and have three teenage children of my own. There is a generation coming of age that is hopeful, hard-working, innovative and imaginative. But too many of them are also hopeless, defeated and disengaged. As parents, we have a responsibility to help our children to believe in themselves and in their power to shape their future. Senator Obama is inspiring my children, my parents’ grandchildren, with that sense of possibility.

Senator Obama is running a dignified and honest campaign. He has spoken eloquently about the role of faith in his life, and opened a window into his character in two compelling books. And when it comes to judgment, Barack Obama made the right call on the most important issue of our time by opposing the war in Iraq from the beginning.

I want a president who understands that his responsibility is to articulate a vision and encourage others to achieve it; who holds himself, and those around him, to the highest ethical standards; who appeals to the hopes of those who still believe in the American Dream, and those around the world who still believe in the American ideal; and who can lift our spirits, and make us believe again that our country needs every one of us to get involved.

I have never had a president who inspired me the way people tell me that my father inspired them. But for the first time, I believe I have found the man who could be that president — not just for me, but for a new generation of Americans.

Caroline Kennedy is the author of “A Patriot’s Handbook: Songs, Poems, Stories and Speeches Celebrating the Land We Love.”