PENSACOLA- The Obama for America campaign wants to send you some of the Obama Fellowship Applicants - but they need approx 12 beds for these awesome volunteers to bed down in. Can you, or someone you know help? These are volunteers who have committed 6 weeks to volunteer full time, 7 days a week and they will be there to help your county and surrounding area get caught up in what wasn't done during the nonPrimary season. Again, can you help with housing for a hard-working, specialty trained volunteer(s)? Know someone who can? The deadline is tomorrow morning .... or they will be redirecting these volunteers somewhere else in Florida. Contact these Obama staffers if you can help the Northwest portion of Florida turn a little bit more BLUE and ensure the area goes OBAMA 100% Jolene at jlester@barackobama.com and Adam at ahoyer@barackobama.com
please copy me on the emails so i can keep tabs on this!
donna.jones-smith@hotmail.com or donna.jones-smith@dla.mil or dej13@students.uwf.edu !
Time is of the essence - can you house an Obama Fellowship applicant (male or female)? Let Jolene and Adam know - # of beds, your name, address, phone number and any comments ie. smoker/nonsmoker, do you have pets, do you have children. Thanks for being part of the change we've been waiting for!!
I wonder if the Clintons have already left their church! It will be interesting to see if they are persecuted the way Senator Barak Obama was for his affiliation with Jeremiah Wright. Please read and forward ...
How About These Apples???? IF A PASTOR IS KNOWN BY THE COMPANY THEY KEEP! When the Rev. William Procanick put his hand on the Bible during his sex-abuse trial in Oneida County Court earlier this year, he swore to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth. But as the former Clinton Pastor was sentenced Friday, January 22, 2008 for three years in prison for first-degree sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a child [inappropriately touching a 7-year-old girl at his home March of 2007], Judge Michael L. Dwyer said Procanick sacrificed his honesty the day he testified.Okay, so now that Bill and Hillary Clinton's pastor has been convicted of child molestation, will we see the same furor directed a t Hillary that Obama has had to endure these last few weeks? I don't think so!!!! IF A CANDIDATE IS KNOWN BY THE PASTOR THEY KEEP......Then you need to email this article to everyone you know. Here the CLINTON'S former Pastor is convicted of unspeakable Child Molestation. So, if Obama bears the guilt for his former pastor's comments, then Hillary has to be equally tainted by this guy's crimes. For proof, please see: ://www.uticaod.com/homepage/x1637676857
How About These Apples????
IF A PASTOR IS KNOWN BY THE COMPANY THEY KEEP! When the Rev. William Procanick put his hand on the Bible during his sex-abuse trial in Oneida County Court earlier this year, he swore to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth. But as the former Clinton Pastor was sentenced Friday, January 22, 2008 for three years in prison for first-degree sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a child [inappropriately touching a 7-year-old girl at his home March of 2007], Judge Michael L. Dwyer said Procanick sacrificed his honesty the day he testified.
Okay, so now that Bill and Hillary Clinton's pastor has been convicted of child molestation, will we see the same furor directed a t Hillary that Obama has had to endure these last few weeks? I don't think so!!!!
IF A CANDIDATE IS KNOWN BY THE PASTOR THEY KEEP......Then you need to email this article to everyone you know. Here the CLINTON'S former Pastor is convicted of unspeakable Child Molestation. So, if Obama bears the guilt for his former pastor's comments, then Hillary has to be equally tainted by this guy's crimes.
For proof, please see: ://www.uticaod.com/homepage/x1637676857
Very interesting . . . . . .
We will never see this posted on Youtube.
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Who's the Real Unpatriotic Traitor?
In 1961, a young African-American man, after hearing President John F. Kennedy's challenge to, 'Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country,' gave up his student deferment, left college in Virginia and voluntarily joined the Marines.
In 1963, this man, having completed his two years of service in the Marines, volunteered again to become a Navy corpsman. (They provide medical assistance to the Marines as well as to Navy personnel.)
The man did so well in corpsman school that he was the valedictorian and became a cardiopulmonary technician. Not surprisingly, he was assigned to the Navy's premier medical facility, Bethesda Naval Hospital, as a member of the commander in chief's medical team, and helped care for President Lyndon B. Johnson after his 1966 surgery.
For his service on the team, which he left in 1967, the White House awarded him three letters of commendation.
What is even more remarkable is that this man entered the Marines and Navy not many years after the two branches began to become integrated.
While this young man was serving six years on active duty, Vice President Dick Cheney, who was born the same year as the Marine/ sailor, received five deferments, four for being an undergraduate and graduate student and one for being a prospective father.
Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, both five years younger than the African-American youth, used their student deferments to stay in college until 1968. Both then avoided going on active duty through family connections.
Who is the real patriot? The young man who interrupted his studies to serve his country for six years or our three political leaders who beat the system? Are the patriots the people who actually sacrifice something or those who merely talk about their love of the country?
After leaving the service of his country, the young African-American finished his final year of college, entered the seminary, was ordained as a minister, and eventually became pastor of a large church in one of America's biggest cities.
This man is Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama's)
retiring pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ.
Luau by the Sound
What: Luau by the Sound
When: Saturday, April 12th from 3-6pm
Where: South Shoreline Park, 801 Shoreline Dr., Gulf Breeze
Cost: $15 per ticket, FREE for children 8 yrs & under
For tickets and more information, call (850) 623-2345
Come meet local Democratic candidates and Senator Dave Aronberg! There will be Hawaiian food, entertainment, and raffle prizes! Don't forget to bring a lawn chair!
*This event is hosted by the Santa Rosa County Democratic Campaign Committee.
-- Northwest Florida Young Democrats
http://nwflyoungdemocrats.org
http://myspace.com/nwflyoungdemocrats
Dear Democrats,
Election Day is just 7 months away and we have a lot of work to do if we expect to get our candidates elected.
Next week, UWF is holding elections for Student Government (April 8th and 9th). During those 2 days, the Commons Building will be busy with students eager to vote for their student leaders. The UWF College Democrats will host information tables to showcase all our local and national candidates and register new voters.
Do you have some free time to help get some petitions signed and pass out campaign literature?
We will meet in the Commons Building (#22) from 11:00-1:00 (just outside the cafeteria). Even if you only have an hour to spare, our candidates need your help!!
We will invite Democrats running for local/county/state/national office to participate in our 2-day event.
Come on out and join us.
Dave
Dave Robau, President
UWF Chapter of College Democrats of America www.uwf.edu/collegedems
Hey guys... i just wanted to thank everyone who is making the voter registration drive work this weekend.
It's been a struggle... but we are really coming together!
I look forward to seeing everyone this weekend... and i KNOW this is going to be a success!!
Keep working to get the word out... and get those walking shoes ready....
YES WE CAN!!!
PHILADELPHIA - Democratic Sen. Barack Obama on Tuesday tried to stem damage from divisive comments delivered by his pastor, while bluntly addressing anger between blacks and whites in the most racially pointed speech yet of his presidential campaign.
Obama confronted America's legacy of racial division head on, tackling black grievance, white resentment and the uproar over his former pastor's incendiary statements. Drawing on his half-black, half-white roots as no other presidential hopeful could, Obama asserted: "This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected."
Obama expressed understanding of the passions on both sides in what he called "a racial stalemate we've been stuck in for years."
"But the anger is real; it is powerful; and to simply wish it away, to condemn it without understanding its roots, only serves to widen the chasm of misunderstanding that exists between the races," he said in a speech at the National Constitution Center, not far from where the Declaration of Independence was adopted.
Obama rarely talks so openly about his race in such a prominent way, but his speech covered divisions from slavery to the O.J. Simpson trial to the recovery efforts after Hurricane Katrina. He also recognized his race has been a major issue in the campaign that has taken a "particularly divisive turn" in the last few weeks as video of his longtime pastor spread on the Internet and on television.
Obama said the sermons delivered by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright "rightly offend white and black alike." Those sermons from years ago suggested the United States brought the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on itself and say blacks continue to be mistreated by whites.
Spiritual guideWhile Obama rejected what Wright said, he also embraced the man who inspired his Christian faith, officiated at his wedding, baptized his daughters and has been his spiritual guide for nearly 20 years.
"I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community," Obama said, speaking in front of eight American flags. "I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother — a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe."
Obama said he knew Wright to occasionally be a fierce critic of U.S. policy and that the pastor sometimes made controversial remarks in church that he disagreed with, but he said he never heard Wright talk about any ethnic group in derogatory terms. The comments that have become a source of debate recently "were not only wrong but divisive" and have raised questions among voters, he said.
"I confess that if all that I knew of Reverend Wright were the snippets of those sermons that have run in an endless loop on the television and YouTube, or if Trinity United Church of Christ conformed to the caricatures being peddled by some commentators, there is no doubt that I would react in much the same way," he said. "But the truth is, that isn't all that I know of the man."
He said he came to Wright's church because he was inspired by Wright's message of hope and his inspiration to rebuild the black community.
Obama said Wright's comments have sparked a discussion that reflect complexities of race in the United States that its people have never really resolved.
"We do not need to recite here the history of racial injustice in this country," Obama said. "But we do need to remind ourselves that so many of the disparities that exist in the African-American community today can be directly traced to inequalities passed on from an earlier generation that suffered under the brutal legacy of slavery and Jim Crow."
Obama said anger over those injustices often find voice in black churches on Sunday mornings. "The fact that so many people are surprised to hear that anger in some of Reverend Wright's sermons simply reminds us of the old truism that the most segregated hour in American life occurs on Sunday morning," he said.
Obama argued that the anger often distracts from solving real problems and bringing change. But he said it also exists in some segments of the white community that feels blacks are often given an unfair advantage through affirmative action.
"If we walk away now, if we simply retreat into our respective corners, we will never be able to come together and solve challenges like health care, or education, or the need to find good jobs for every American," Obama said, drawing a rare burst of applause in a somber address.
Obama said one of the tasks of his campaign to be the first black president is "to continue the long march of those who came before us, a march for a more just, more equal, more free, more caring and more prosperous America."
Some of you were wondering Sat how you could get more involved... this is a great group from what i hear... and they're memberships is only $10.
On behalf of the Northwest Florida Young Democrats (NWFLYD), I want to thank you for joining our email list. Our group focuses on voter registration and education to promote issues and candidates that best reflect the interest of younger voters. We are affiliated with a nationwide action network representing the next generation of emerging leaders. Our organization is designed to promote political awareness among voters throughout our communities. NWFLYD is committed to educating registered and potential voters as to the importance of voting and involvement in the political process. We believe that democracy is everyone's responsibility and with your help, we can work to promote events that encourage young people to become educated and energized before they exercise their right to vote. Our organization is open to everyone with a desire to move the political process forward. I encourage you to introduce your friends to NWFL YD. We encourage involvement from everyone age 16-39 regardless of political affiliation. At our regular meetings, we invite advocacy groups, elected officials, and candidates for elected office to lead discussions to highlight current issues that affect young voters. Feel free to check us out on the web (myspace.com/nwflyoungdemocrats) for more information.We hope that you consider becoming a member to help our organization grow and represent the interests of younger voters. I've included a membership form - just in case.
Upcoming Events March 19th-April 6th What: Protest to End the War When: Wednesday, March 19th @ 5pm Where: The intersection at Garden and Palafox in downtown Pensacola Other: Attendees are encouraged to express themselves with posters, banners or flags. Some themes to be emphasized by the rally are -- the commitment, sacrifice and heroism of American troops. The rally will last about an hour. What: March Meeting When: Wednesday, March 19th @ 6:30pm Where: IHOP, 2548 Gulf Breeze Pkwy, Gulf Breeze Other: We hope that you will be able to attend both our meeting and the protest to end the war. We will be starting the meeting between 6:30 and 7pm in order to give those who wish to attend both events the opportunity to make it to our meeting. What: Crawfish Boil hosted by Escambia County candidate for Sheriff Larry Scapecchi When: Saturday, March 22nd from 11am-4pm Where: Pensacola Beach Yacht Club, 715 Pensacola Beach Blvd Other: This event is free. What: Santa Rosa County Fair When: 2-9pm Tuesday, April 1st- Friday, April 4th and 12-9pm Saturday, April 5th, and 12-6pm Sunday, April 6th Where: Fairgrounds, Hwy 90 at Hwy 87 east in Santa Rosa County Other: We need volunteers to help out with the Santa Rosa county DEC's booth. If you can work any of these hours, please contact Margie Purkerson @ 206-5884.
I'd love to see a lot of Obama supporters out here... remember this is DEMS... so that means Hillary's folks will be there! ;)
Thank you to everyone who came out last Sat to Starbucks to put your heads together.
We had a very productive meeting, and ironed out a firm time and place.
We're going to give it a shot for our first drive next Sat. See how we do.
I think we should set our goal to 200 people for the first time... see what we can do.
So Sat. 3/29/2008 @ 9am will be the first NWFL Get out the Vote Voter Registration drive!!!! How exciting is that????
You guys are awesome!!
Hey guys...
we're having a meeting to finalize the plans and dates for our first drive. Please check you local events and sign up if you'd like to be a part of the meeting.
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO ATTEND THE MEETING IN ORDER TO TAKE PART IN THE EVENT. This is for brainstorming, information, stuff like that.
If you can't make it this Sat, but still wanna help... GREAT! Just email me with your contact info and lemme know when your available!
D.
So next time someone asks you "So who is this guy???" you'll have an answer!
Barack Obama was born in Hawaii on August 4th, 1961. His father, Barack Obama Sr., was born and raised in a small village in Kenya, where he grew up herding goats with his own father, who was a domestic servant to the British.
Barack's mother, Ann Dunham, grew up in small-town Kansas. Her father worked on oil rigs during the Depression, and then signed up for World War II after Pearl Harbor, where he marched across Europe in Patton's army. Her mother went to work on a bomber assembly line, and after the war, they studied on the G.I. Bill, bought a house through the Federal Housing Program, and moved west to Hawaii.
It was there, at the University of Hawaii, where Barack's parents met. His mother was a student there, and his father had won a scholarship that allowed him to leave Kenya and pursue his dreams in America.
Barack's father eventually returned to Kenya, and Barack grew up with his mother in Hawaii, and for a few years in Indonesia. Later, he moved to New York, where he graduated from Columbia University in 1983.
Remembering the values of empathy and service that his mother taught him, Barack put law school and corporate life on hold after college and moved to Chicago in 1985, where he became a community organizer with a church-based group seeking to improve living conditions in poor neighborhoods plagued with crime and high unemployment.
The group had some success, but Barack had come to realize that in order to truly improve the lives of people in that community and other communities, it would take not just a change at the local level, but a change in our laws and in our politics.
He went on to earn his law degree from Harvard in 1991, where he became the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. Soon after, he returned to Chicago to practice as a civil rights lawyer and teach constitutional law. Finally, his advocacy work led him to run for the Illinois State Senate, where he served for eight years. In 2004, he became the third African American since Reconstruction to be elected to the U.S. Senate.
It has been the rich and varied experiences of Barack Obama's life - growing up in different places with people who had differing ideas - that have animated his political journey. Amid the partisanship and bickering of today's public debate, he still believes in the ability to unite people around a politics of purpose - a politics that puts solving the challenges of everyday Americans ahead of partisan calculation and political gain.
In the Illinois State Senate, this meant working with both Democrats and Republicans to help working families get ahead by creating programs like the state Earned Income Tax Credit, which in three years provided over $100 million in tax cuts to families across the state. He also pushed through an expansion of early childhood education, and after a number of inmates on death row were found innocent, Senator Obama worked with law enforcement officials to require the videotaping of interrogations and confessions in all capital cases.
In the U.S. Senate, he has focused on tackling the challenges of a globalized, 21st century world with fresh thinking and a politics that no longer settles for the lowest common denominator. His first law was passed with Republican Tom Coburn, a measure to rebuild trust in government by allowing every American to go online and see how and where every dime of their tax dollars is spent. He has also been the lead voice in championing ethics reform that would root out Jack Abramoff-style corruption in Congress.
As a member of the Veterans' Affairs Committee, Senator Obama has fought to help Illinois veterans get the disability pay they were promised, while working to prepare the VA for the return of the thousands of veterans who will need care after Iraq and Afghanistan. Recognizing the terrorist threat posed by weapons of mass destruction, he traveled to Russia with Republican Dick Lugar to begin a new generation of non-proliferation efforts designed to find and secure deadly weapons around the world. And knowing the threat we face to our economy and our security from America's addiction to oil, he's working to bring auto companies, unions, farmers, businesses and politicians of both parties together to promote the greater use of alternative fuels and higher fuel standards in our cars.
Whether it's the poverty exposed by Katrina, the genocide in Darfur, or the role of faith in our politics, Barack Obama continues to speak out on the issues that will define America in the 21st century. But above all his accomplishments and experiences, he is most proud and grateful for his family. His wife, Michelle, and his two daughters, Malia, 9, and Sasha, 6, live on Chicago's South Side where they attend Trinity United Church of Christ.
-from mybarackobama.com: meet Barack Obama.
WE're making a lot of progress with planning this voter registration drive.
I'm very proud of everyone who is responding.
Keep those ideas coming and let's stay positive and focused!
Ok all...I've gotten on the phone with the supervisor of elections for Escambia county... here's the deal:We are more than welcome to do a voter registration drive!!!I can go an pick up the applications, or they will bring them to us. There are a few rules:1. All required blocks must be filled out! They must affirm and answer the citizen question!!!!2. They must use their proper names! Although we can't ask to see their id... we can encourage them to make sure it matches their ID's since this is what they will use at the polls. 3. We have 5 days from the date of our drive to turn in the applications. So it is VITALLY important that we start organized, that all forms get turned back into one person, and that person get the forms back on time. I did check, and if we can get some t-shirts, we CAN where them. So although we have to be clear that we are only registering them to vote, we are not registering them to vote for Obama...we can get his name out there. So guys... if your serious I'm game. I need a firm head count of HOW MANY PEOPLE will for sure do this, and we need to nail down a date. Once we do that... we can email the campaign and find out what sorta support is available to help us.
PLEASE RESPOND IF YOUR INTERESTED.... AS SOON AS I GET ENOUGH VOLUNTEERS, I WILL CREATE AN EVENT. :)
I received this email regarding an event that I was to attend to support Senator Obama....
Thank You a Million times Thank You Panama City Bay County, Florida and Surrounding Areas! Unfortunately We have no more space to accommodate any more Visitors and Guest to our Convention! Please know that our Members of the Progressive M. & E. Baptist State Convention of Florida will have priority before any guest or visitor to attend this event. Today we have been hit with more than 300 requests. We cannot honor all of these requests for seats. Please help us get the word out that we have No MORE SEATS! Again we thank you for your support of our Convention and Senator Barack Obama.Finally, Please know that we will honor on a first come, first serve basis those who signed up for this event. Again Thank You!Pastor K. Tyrone Turner
THis is fantastic news... as it means there are just SO MANY PEOPLE that wanna come out and show their support!
Keep it up every... get the word out!
