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It’s been a busy year, news wise, for Savannah, Georgia. From Presidential Elections to the Economy to Missing Persons and Death Penalty Cases. Here are some of the stories that impacted most the people of the Coastal Georgia Empire:

-The Economy…The economy has been on everyone’s minds recently. The recession is causing a lot of problems with rising unemployment. Great Dane Trailers in Savannah will be closing and JCB cut over 100 jobs. Also, Car dealerships aren’t faring too well either, prompting OC Welch to buy five radio spots, which proved to be quite controversial.

-The Election…The election this year was filled with excitement. With the the idea of change in mind, Senator Barack Obama and Joe Biden were elected as the next President and Vice President of the United States. The election also brought some prominent political characters to Georgia. The U.S. Senate seat in Georgia went into a run-off, and Chambliss came out on top, partly due to the star power of Sarah Palin.

-The Calverts…John and Elizabeth Calvert disappeared from Hilton Head Island on March 3, 2008, and no one has seen them sense. This case has been anything but ordinary, with the key suspect committing suicide and little details released since May 2008.

-The Troy Davis Case… Troy Anthony Davis has been sitting on Death Row for a number of years now. His case has gotten a lot of international exposure because seven of the nine witnesses in the initial trial have recanted (taken back) their statements. Many appeals and stays of execution later, Troy’s future is still uncertain. The US Supreme Court is still looking over the case.

-The Severe Weather… From the Tornado Outbreak on Mother’s Day (May 11) to the tornado that went right through midtown Savannah, Georgia, weather has been wild in 2008. Tropical Storm Fay also caused some trouble to our neighbors to the south, dumping record numbers of rain in South Georgia and Northern Florida.

-The Imperial Sugar Refinery Explosion… It is likely that the February 7th explosion at the refinery has touched everyone in our area in some way or another. The blast claimed the lives of 14 people and injured dozens more. Though the blast was something never hoped for, it did one good thing for us. It brought the communities in our area together. We helped one another. We gave to one another. We tried our very best to comfort one another in the time of need.

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Barack Obama, June 3, 2008 5:00

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Television news bulletins across the world have been reporting the story of Barack Obama’s US presidential victory.

People in the Japanese city of Obama reacted with joy to his election, as did Indonesian children at the school he attended and Barack Obama’s grandmother in Kenya was clearly delighted.

Many were not short of words of advice for the new US President - from Afghanistan and Israel to Gaza and Iran.

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September 11, 2008, 7:28
Ron Paul urges Americans to vote for third-party candidates
The U.S. Presidential campaign has taken a new turn with the former candidate Ron Paul launching a crusade against both John McCain and Barack Obama. At a news conference, Paul joined three third-party candidates in presenting a united front to shift attention away from the front runners.
By coming together, we represent a majority of the American people. We deserve to be heard. We deserve to be in the debates, The former Republican presidential hopeful said:

The Texas Congressman has generated a devoted following that many have called a revolutionary movement. Dr. Paul even organised his own Convention in Minnesota, attracting 18,000 people.

While he has officially dropped out of the race for the White House, his message is one for change but definitely not the type offered by Obama or McCain.

Obama is not for change. He beats McCain into sending more money to Afghanistan. And they both want to send troops and more money into Georgia, he said.

Ron Paul said he has rejected a plea from the McCain campaign to endorse him, though he did call the republican nominee ‘the lesser of two evils.’

Instead hes rallied behind third-party candidates like Libertarian Ralph Nader, who took the opportunity to criticise media coverage of the election.

It’s demeaning to the media, to the American people and to our status around the world to engage in trivia about political gaffs, he said.

The third-party presidential candidates plan to hold their own debates parallel to those organised for McCain and Obama, in response to the media blackout on their campaigns.

The mainstream media has dubbed Nader a Perennial presidential candidate and a spoiler for taking votes away from the main candidates.

Green Party Candidate Cynthia McKinney also took the floor to declare her independence from the current political order.

The politics of today is politics of conformity and of control. And basically the two-party system represents just that, she said.

A was message echoed by Charles Baldwin whos running on the Constitution Party ticket.

It’s a broken system. The two major parties have not only a monopoly but stranglehold a on the political process system that choking the lifeblood out of our country, he stated.

The four candidates share the same views when it comes to foreign policy. They condemn U.S. intervention in Georgia and the decision to send a billion-dollar aid package.

Have you ever thought when you send a billion dollar aid that maybe there’s someone hungry in the United States or who needs medical care? Ron Paul wondered.

McKinney said it was totally inappropriate for the U.S. to send so-called humanitarian aid on a naval ship.She also called NATO’s eastward expansion a dangerous move that could stir another Cold War.

The third-party presidential candidates have no illusions about sitting down in the Oval Office next January. Their goal is to change the two-party system in Washington. They call it the ‘beginning of the realignment of American politics.

Ivan Canas says:
The US has betrayed itself, Russia & the World.

When the Soviet Union Collapsed there were several agreements that the United States and the European Union should have followed. But that was not the case, they have chosen to execute that wise spanish proverb which states: “Out of the fallen tree everybody makes logs or takes cuttings”

So, the EU started to expand too fast. However, Russia never minded that part too much, but they did mind NATO. The expansion of NATO is a very dangerous decision, because it awakes suspicion and lack of trust.

NATO expansion was executed and still despite the agreements reached in the past. James Baker former US Secretary of State pledged that NATO was not to be expanded to the East if the Soviet Union agreed to unify Germany and accepted the ‘new Germany’ within the alliance. That was a promise that the United States did to the WORLD.

Saakashvili’s action was supported by the US and some members of the European Union.

Russia has been responsible of its acts and it has stopped a masacre provoked by Georgia, but as I said before in others of my youtube ‘more info comments’, Russia will not accept that its national interest are ignored.

Bill Clinton and George Bush are to blame for this state of affairs in the world.

Russia has complied and even experience a very bad economic period during the nineties when the International Monetary Fund was applying its policies there.

Hear from candidates Alan Grayson (D) and Ric Keller (R). The expert panel asking them questions are Steve Brown from 90.7 WMFE, Scott Harris from Central Florida News 13 and Rosemary DuRocher from the League of Women Voters.

Barack Hussein Obama II (pronounced /bəˈrɑːk hʊˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə/; born August 4, 1961) is the President-elect of the United States of America and the junior United States Senator from Illinois. His inauguration into office as the forty-fourth President of the United States is scheduled for January 20, 2009. Obama is the first African American to be elected President of the United States,and was the first to be nominated for President by a major political party.Obama is also the first candidate born in Hawaii to have been nominated and subsequently elected president.

A graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, he became the first African American to serve as president of the Harvard Law Review.Obama worked as a community organizer and practiced as a civil rights attorney before serving three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. He taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. Following an unsuccessful bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000, he announced his campaign for the U.S. Senate in January 2003. After a primary victory in March 2004, Obama delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004. He was elected to the Senate in November 2004 with 70 percent of the vote.

As a member of the Democratic minority in the 109th Congress, he helped create legislation to control conventional weapons and to promote greater public accountability in the use of federal funds. He also made official trips to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. During the 110th Congress, he helped create legislation regarding lobbying and electoral fraud, climate change, nuclear terrorism, and care for returned U.S. military personnel.

Obama announced his presidential campaign in February 2007, and was formally nominated at the 2008 Democratic National Convention with Delaware senator Joe Biden as his running mate. In the 2008 United States Presidential election he won 53% of the popular vote, and 364 electoral votes to rival John McCain’s 46% of the popular vote and 173 electoral votes.

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