Friends, Today is Election Day. The opportunity to set our country on a new path has never felt more real than it does right now. The polls are open in most places, and people are already making their voices heard for change. There's just one thing left to do -- vote and make sure everyone you know votes, too. You can find or verify your ballot drop location by looking up your most recent registration address at VoteForChange.com. Go vote today, and make sure you take your friends and family with you. This is the day when we have to commit to doing everything we can. We can't afford not to -- for our families, our communities, and our future. Once you vote, you can do more than just wait as the returns come in. You can help get every last vote for Barack by volunteering in your community or making calls from home. Help put us over the top today: http://my.barackobama.com/november It's not too late to knock on doors, make calls, and make sure that every one of our supporters gets to the polls today. Change is within our reach. We're counting on you to get us there today. Thank you for everything you're doing, Michelle P.S. -- If anyone you know hasn't yet made up their mind, please invite them to learn more about Barack's positions on important issues: http://www.barackobama.com/issues/
This was posted on huffingtonpost by one of the bloggers & I felt the need to post it here...
I think the Good Lord took Toot home because he wanted to personally congratulate her tomorrow when Obama wins. Think of that party in Heaven. To Toot!To Obama!To Biden!To all great Americans who have made this happen!
SUNDAY, GOV. HOWARD DEAN, CHAIRMAN OF THE DNC, TO GET-OUT-THE-VOTE FOR OBAMA, MERKLEY, AND OREGON DEMOCRATS Dean, Wyden, Merkley and Oregon Democrats Headline GOTV Events in Portland and Eugene PORTLAND, OR - This Sunday, Gov. Howard Dean, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, will join Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Jeff Merkley, Democratic Candidate for U.S. Senate, and other statewide Democratic candidates in Oregon to get out the vote for Barack Obama, Jeff Merkley, and Democrats across Oregon. With only two days left to vote in this crucial election, Gov. Dean, Sen. Wyden, Jeff Merkley, Kate Brown, Ben Westlund, John Kroger, and Brad Avakian will kick-off get-out-the-vote mobilization events in Portland and Eugene. Sunday, November 2nd 4:30 PM - PORTLAND Campaign for Change Headquarters 3016 SE Division St. Portland, OR 97202 7:30 PM - EUGENE Campaign for Change Eugene Office 150 W Broadway Eugene, OR 97401 Contact your local Campaign for Change Office for more information.
Ballots begin arriving in Oregon this Friday, October 17th. The best way to help Barack in this historic election is by mailing in your ballot as soon as you receive it -- and by encouraging others to do the same. It only takes a few minutes. And when you vote within 24 hours of receiving your ballot, you allow volunteers and organizers to better focus their resources and spend more time helping thousands of other Oregonians get their votes in for Barack and Democrats up and down the ballot.>br? Visit VoteForChange.com right now to find the nearest ballot drop location near you, or mail your ballot in to your county elections office. Vote early, remind everyone you know to do so as well, and help supporters and organizers do everything they can to get a big win for Barack Obama in Oregon. Thanks, Jesse Jesse Bontecou Field Director Oregon Campaign for Change P.S. -- Once you've voted, sign up for a Get Out The Vote shift in this final stretch to make sure all Oregonians get their ballots in and make their voices heard in this election: http://or.barackobama.com/ORgotv
Dear Friends, Tuesday, October 14th, is Oregon's voter registration deadline. And this weekend -- October 11th and 12th -- is our last big chance to make sure everyone in Oregon is registered to vote. Supporters like you have already brought thousands of new voices into the political process, but there are still folks in communities just like yours who support Barack but are not registered to vote. That's why supporters are coming together across the state to reach out to their unregistered neighbors as part of our final statewide voter registration drive. Will you help register voters this weekend and take part in our last voter registration drive before the deadline? With the economy in crisis, it's more important than ever to change the way politics works in our nation's capital. But we can only do it by working together, because real change comes from the bottom up, not the top down. That means empowering people who have been left out of the political process or are just now old enough to add their voices. And there are thousands of unregistered voters across Oregon. Take a few hours this weekend to help bring change to Oregon -- make sure your family, friends, and neighbors are registered, and help Barack Obama win this important battleground state. Find a voter registration event near you and sign up today: http://or.barackobama.com/OregonVoters No experience is necessary to make a difference. All you need is energy and a commitment to change -- campaign staff will be there to support you with everything else. Thanks for your help, Jesse Jesse Bontecou Field Director Oregon Campaign for Change P.S. -- There are only 26 days left until Election Day, and this campaign's success is depending on supporters like you turning your enthusiasm into action. Come to a Get Out The Vote Summit this Sunday, October 12th, and learn how you can make sure every voter in Oregon has a chance to Vote for Change by November 4th: http://or.barackobama.com/ORgotvsummit
Well, Joe, I agree that Palin/McCain would continue many more of the worst of Cheney/Bush's disastrous policies, but I have to tell you that I'm very disappointed with your running mate's support of the 100% graft that Henry Paulson requested. [If I remember correctly from last night's debate, this was the issue on which you and Obama voted differently, which Palin attempted to cast as a "gotcha." I understand the difficulty of opposing this "emergency action" to address what is portrayed as a "financial emergency" but I do not believe the government's traditional ability to coin money is at all insufficient for any "emergency needs," including tha Guvahnatah's sudden need for $7 Billion! I'm writing just to tell you why I think the current proposal cannot, by its structure, achieve what its proponents (Bernanke & Paulson & Wall Street CEOs but not professional academic economists, notably Alan Greenspan!) claim, not to criticize anybody who has been pressured to support it, or revise it to an "acceptable" form. Acceptable to me means direct assistance from the government to the people. No corporate handouts, ever, especially to companies which evade their bills for spilling the contents of the Exxon Valdez.] On my way home from a job interview just now, I heard a so-called "representative" whose name I didn't catch, whine in earnest that we ought to "get rid of the pork" in this bill! I know I don't need to explain the irony to you, but I really wish you were up against whoever Ron Paul would have chosen as running mate, because Dr. Paul would have explained at the time of the Bear Stearns bailout to all The American People that these subsidies to overextended corporate lenders are not analogous to putting out a "neighbor's" fire, they are analogous to finding a neighbor's house (or for some, one's own house) on fire, then dousing every house in the neighborhood with gasoline before dashing across town for a minimum-wage job as security guard in a neighborhood full of mansions -- which also happen to be inhabited by the arsonists who set fire to our own homes before we [to be accurate, our Congress and President, in our names and against our wishes] cooperated in transforming them from our shelter into the perfect fuel. The mortgage lending crisis began with Gramm-Leach-Biley, which caused credit beyond borrowers' credit-worthiness to be extended only in the housing market -- the one financial market in which average buyers are least able to refuse whatever "deal" they are offered. That, in turn, falsely inflated average home prices above the levels justified by real supply and real demand. Now, we are told by the perpetrators, we must help these same corporations with their "undervalued assets" which you and I and Barack and Ron Paul and Alan Greenspan and Phil Gramm all know is no longer an innocent euphemism. It is a blatant lie. I tend to share Barack's guess, that John McCain just "doesn't get it" and obviously Palin wouldn't know how to diagram a demand curve if her life depended on it, without a week or more in the desert, but I wish that you would say more, not about the injustice which Barack has already noted adequately, but about the basic, underlying factual error of the idea that houses are presently "undervalued," and the resulting practical impossibility of this so-called "bailout" which will achieve nothing of the kind. Taking painkillers for an injury maybe appropriate, but for chronic pains, only a fool masks the symptoms and makes no effort to understand and remedy the cause. That is exactly what Cheney's stooge Henry Paulson has put Congress in the position of granting. The time for you two to start leading is now, not next January.
