http://www.nursesforobama.org/

Thanks!

Obama backs the concept of a National Nurse.  He can and will support any legislature which will back and ultimately make into law nurse to patient ratios. 

Individual nurses can support the NNOC by going to http://www.nationalnurse.org staying informed and not giving up.

I will never vote for the Democrats, the party of the ambulance chasing blood sucking lawyers who sue hospitals, doctors, and nurses.  And the ANA endorses Obama.  Can you say 'oxymoron'?

funny, all the lawyers I've ever known are DEMOCRATS.  and this was to "inform" about Obama?  Who are you trying to kid here?  I'm not buying your explanation!!!!

So what are you saying here if you think it is anything other than to inform??????

and to dmazement: I'm sick of your pious, think you know it all attitude.  so from this point on, I will not respond to anything you write anywhere.  another major waste of time anyway!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just can not wait until this election is over and folks can speak to each ohter in acivil manner on this stie.

BethLPN47 says ...

Ladies: Look at all of your comments under this post and tell me it's not pro-Obama.  I've just about reached the point where I'm going to leave NursingLink because I'm sick of the liberal left.

Don't worry -- I PROMISE not to post ANYTHING about Obama AGAIN because he and you are not worth my time to type it out.

Guess freedom of speech only applies to the Conservative Right?  

cdnurse says ...

Excuse me beth but you are way out of line here. FYI this is a topic for the nurses supporting Obama as the title states. There is no display from dmazment at all of being a know it all. SO you want to leave because you think the site is too far left? Show me where the site has any leaning left or right.

Thanks CD for your support, caringkind too.

anotherangie says ...

Living in the south..............there has been only a small effort to start nursing unions here.  A couple of monthes ago, we were all briefed that union organizers were going to be passing out info and we need to 'remember we work in a fabulous place'.  Well, I do love where I work, but after the fact I was thinking was that a veiled threat?  I have no idea and and no next to nothing about unions since they are not available to us.  How could he possibly enforce these things he promises?  I have no idea.  I'm disgusted with my Governor's thoughts on it.  When Sonny Perdue was asked by a member of the GNA <Georgia Nursing Association> about overtime............about not releasing staff when their shift ends if there is a nursing need and stuff like that..........all the things we all gripe about.  His response was 'its up to the facility and nurse with the administration getting on board to talk about it".  I am now doing my eyeroll.  Our Governor is Sonny Perdue <not the chicken guy> and he's a Republican as am I but that whole interview stunk to high heaven.  So once again..........and I'm open to suggestion, how could Obama fix this in this part of the country?

  Yes I live in the South also Florida in fact  I went thru Hell for 2 yeaars trying to start a union here they did everything but beat me up in the parking lot we took them to the NLRB 26 times the Labor board always said we had a good case and was surprised when we lost or the company would get a warning instead of a fine This is one of the many reasons we need Obama so we can have The employee Free choice act passed We have lost way to many right under the Bush regiem

cdnurse says ...

Look at CA, NY, and TX. Nurses run these states.

Then why are the salaries in TX near the lowest in the country for nurses?

dmazment says ...

martygrn says ...

cdnurse says ...

Look at CA, NY, and TX. Nurses run these states.

Then why are the salaries in TX near the lowest in the country for nurses?

Depends on where you are in Tx and also the union has just begun

 

I am simply speaking from the point of view of a traveler and the fact that, for traveler's, TX has some of the lowest wages in the country.  I have been to Houston, Temple and now going to Dallas next week.

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I miss August. August was neat. The Dow was over 10,000 and nobody had ever heard of Sarah Palin.

Remember how we used to joke about John McCain looking like an old guy yelling at kids to get off his lawn? It’s only in retrospect that we can see that the keep-off-the-grass period was the McCain campaign’s golden era. Now, he’s beginning to act like one of those movie characters who steals the wrong ring and turns into a troll.

During that last debate, while he was wandering around the stage, you almost expected to hear him start muttering: “We wants it. We needs it. Must have the precious.”

Remember when McCain’s campaign ads were all about his being a prisoner of war? I really miss them.

Now they’re all about the Evil That Is Obama. The newest one, “Ambition,” has a woman, speaking in one of those sinister semiwhispers, saying: “When convenient, he worked with terrorist Bill Ayers. When discovered, he lied.” Then suddenly, with no warning whatsoever, she starts ranting about Congressional liberals and risky subprime loans. Then John McCain pops up to say he approved it. All in 30 seconds! And, of course, McCain would think it’s great. For the first time, the Republicans appear to have captured his thought process on tape.

The Republican campaign strategy now involves sending their candidates to areas where everybody is a die-hard McCain supporter already. Then they yell about Obama until the crowd is so frenzied people start making threats. The rest of the country is supposed to watch and conclude that this would be an enjoyable way to spend the next four years.

Maybe the Republicans should have picked somebody else. I miss Mitt Romney. Sure, he was sort of smarmy. But when Mitt was around, the banks had money and Iceland was solvent. And, of course, when we got bored, we could always talk about how he drove to Canada with his Irish setter strapped to the car roof.

I miss the old George W. Bush. When he came out of the White House and made an announcement, you would usually think that whatever he wanted to do was a terrible idea. But at least you thought he could actually make the terrible idea happen.

I miss the old American public that was too busy shopping to worry about the state of the world. Now everybody is getting scared and weird. They’ve been racing off in great numbers to see “Beverly Hills Chihuahua.” And nagging Target to take the Little Mommy Cuddle ‘n Coo dolls off the shelves because people think that when it gurgles you can hear the baby say “Islam is the light.”

I miss the old Cindy McCain. The one who used to go to rallies and sit huddled in the corner looking as if she thought the audience had a communicable disease. Now, she’s right up there on stage, standing behind her husband and making disgusted faces when he rails on about the opposition. And she’s started railing herself. (The family that rants together ...) Obama is waging “the dirtiest campaign in American history.” His votes on Iraq were votes “not to fund my son when he was serving.”

Remember when the McCains wouldn’t talk about the fact that their son was in Iraq? Oh well.

Maybe Cindy is trying to hold her own against Sarah, who is with John almost as much as she is. I miss the old guy-guy McCain who had so many male pals around he looked like a walking fraternity reunion. Now, he’s starting to resemble an ambulatory patient accompanied by female attendants on an outing.

Palin has been pressing the line that people don’t really know “the real Barack Obama,” and who could make the argument better than a woman who we’ve already known for almost six weeks? Really, she’s like one of the family.

We’ve gotten so close we’ve already learned that she didn’t actually sell the plane on eBay, didn’t actually visit the troops in Iraq and didn’t really have a talk with the British ambassador. As soon as we get the Trooper thing and Alaska Independence Party thing and the tax thing figured out, she’ll be an open book.

And she’s got a point about Obama. True, he’s been campaigning for 19 months and has been interviewed by everybody from “Meet the Press” to “Men’s Health.” Which would be O.K. if we were talking about somebody from a small town rather than, as a McCain campaign co-chairman noted delicately, a “guy of the street.”

Back in August, women politicians were afraid of going negative because it might have made them look too strident. Amazing, the things you wind up being nostalgic for.

This is very funny

prettykitty64 says ...

dmazment says ...

funny thing, most ambulance chasers I know of are republicans  Besides, this was a topic to inform about Obama not denigrate a candidate

Really,  where are the facts on most ambulance chasers being republicans?  What are the sources for your statement?  Aren't what most lay people call "ambulance chasers"  called Trial Lawyers?  Which one of the candidates in the 2008 primary and on the ticket with Kerry was one of the biggest trial lawyers in the South?  What did Obama do in addition to being a community organizer?  He was the lawyer who represented ACORN in the "motor voter" case in 1995.

Don't get me wrong, I think most lawyers are slugs.  (Sorry LawyerRN I don't think your a slug because there are a few good ones!)

you continually misquote me, I said most ambulance chasers I KNOW  are republicans