A fellow who calls himself Logarhythmik has assembled a spiffy mashup of The Cool Kids' Bake Sale CD to help raise money for Barack Obama's presidential campaign. The Cool Kids - A Party (Logarhythmix) You can donate monies or you can just download the mixtape, it's tres fun. But whatever you do, be sure to get yourself to the polls on Election day. Download The Bank Sale Mixtape Barack

Republican former Secretary of State has endorsed Obama. He says that Obama would be a 'transformational figure' which is what the US needs now. He is particularly eloquent about his concerns at the shift further to the right that the Republican party has made recently and he points out that Sarah Palin is taking it even further. It's easy to caricature Republicans as dumb and greedy, but this man sounds intellectual and reasonable. Of course making a move like this will do him no harm in terms of his own rehabilitation with the public too, but let's not [...]
Fmr. Sec. of State, General Colin Powell, a member of President Bush's administration and a well-respected Republican, went on NBC's Meet The Press Sunday to publicly endorse Sen. Obama for president. In the second part of Gen. Powell's endorsement here, he speaks very eloquently regarding one of the common misconceptions regarding Sen. Obama : the myth that he is a Muslim. First and foremost, he's a Christian, and secondly (and perhaps more importantly), why should it matter if he is a Muslim, or a Jew, or whatever, in this day and in this era?? You [...]