A great day in San Diego today, guys.
Earlier today (well, technically yesterday), was the deadline to register to vote for the February 5th primary, so the San Diego Registrar of Voters and several Obama volunteers went on the San Diego State University campus to register students...
It was the first day back from Winter break at SDSU and we were there from 1:00pm to 6:00pm registering students, with Me and another fellow supporter Mitch missing some of our classes to volunteer. And even though this was my first time registering voters like this, and I was DEFINITELY out of my comfort zone, we made EXCELLENT progress...
We ended up registering a little over 900 students to vote for the California primary. I'm not sure the exact number, but we were able to get hundreds (again, I'm not sure the exact number) to sign Obama pledge cards. Almost ALL of the voters I talked to were either Obama supporters or at least open to the idea of supporting him.
One older man I talked to, who was a conservative Republican stopped and talked to us about how although he was supporting John McCain, and he is pretty much a staunch conservative, he absolutely has respect for Sen. Obama. He told me about how disturbed and angered he was about the Clintons' lies and distortions of Obama's record, and he took particular offense to their parsing of Obama's acknowledgement of Reagan's tranformation (for better or worse) of this country.
He ended up signing an Obama pledge card even though he didn't change his registration to democrat or declined to state to vote for Obama (I didn't really want to push him to hard to change his registration).
There was one strong Hillary supporter, and the other few Hillary supporters were more undecided than anything.
And there were a few voters who didn't want to say who they were voting for, so they could've very well been Hillary supporters, but what was so encouraging was the excitement for Obama, and just how many of the students, Republican and Democrat were so open and supportive of Obama.
I was surprised to run into so Many Anti-Hillary people, but I must admit, they did entertain me...
All in all, a good day, and don't lose hope on California, people! Pray for us, and Pray for Senator Obama!
Dear Sen. Obama & the Campaign:
I'm a freshman at SDSU and I love Sen. Obama as a leader of this country and almost all of his ideas. His optimism is awe-inspiring and I've never been so excited by any politician.
One of his positions that I most agree with is his position on the Iraq War, and the fact that he opposed it from the start as opposed to most of the democratic candidates running for President is all the more reason for me to support him...by doing that, I feel like he isn't the typical politician and switches his position to whatever is politically convienent. This is why I've donated to the campaign and although I've only donated $10 (because I'm always broke), I hope to donate more....
HOWEVER
Lately I've been very bothered by his ambiguity on his positions. While his positions are positive, and upbeat, they are very very BROAD and almost open to interpretation. The fact that the Senator gives almost NO specifics to his policies while other candidates like John Edwards outline entire, detailed plans for moving the country forward.
Another point that bothers me is that although Sen. Obama opposed this war from the start, he has voted IDENTICAL to war-funding issues as Sen. Clinton. I almost get the feeling that he doesn't want to defund the war because it's not politcally safe to do so.
Now the Democratic Congress has passed a bill without ANY troop timetables, or required benchmarks regarding the Iraqi government, and the war can continue on being funded while our American troops are dying on the field in order to "fight them there so we won't have to fight them here."
You guys at the campaign constantly email, and mail me, asking me to donate more.
I WILL NOT donate to Sen. Obama until he either does well at the debates (his performance kind of SUCKED, to put in nicely); starts giving more policy detail; or makes a better effort to bring our troops home.
Sincerely, Marcus Anthony Bush
PS If Sen Obama votes for the war funding bill just passed yesterday 5/22, with no timetables or benchmarks I'll lose a LOT of faith and be very discouraged from him. Thanks.
