Department of Grassroots IDEAS and New Vision – free of the old paradigms
When people don’t believe there is a place for their ideas, ideas don’t surface.
Just hearing from Obama that “I WILL LISTEN TO YOU,” has already started to revolutionize the flow of creative ideas and the one-heart connection.
TWO images I’d like to share (see especially (B.)). They are visual:
(A.)
1. Creative solutions have been suppressed for a long time (e.g., alternative-fuel cars, suppressed because they would compete with oil and/or auto companies).
2. Creative solutions have been pouring out en masse the last few years, but HITTING A GLASS CEILING. 3. Obama administration in Washington remoes that cork; creativity and solutions flowing naturally. A RENAISSANCE.
(B.)
1. Picture what a NEXT STEP could be for us: Picture the videos you’ve seen of nerve cells firing in the brain. Picture those flashes of illumination as creative IDEAS FROM THE GLOBAL GRASSROOTS. Provide a place to send their ideas (the Obama administration, believed to be LISTENING).
2. A flash of light as one individual has and communicates a creative idea/solution. The inspiration is immediately sent
a. BY EMAIL CENTRALLY to a carefully-selected DEPARTMENT in the Obama administration which has been CHARGED WITH EVALUATING AND SORTING OUT THE MYRIAD IDEAS supplied by the world population.
b. BY CAUSAL WORD-OF-MOUTH outward (analogous to “Play it Forward”), passing on if potentially viable - creating other flashes of light and SPAWNING MYRIAD OTHER IDEAS that the original idea stimulates.
I'm going to bed. I just read some upbeat stuff here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/02/latest-presidential-polls_n_140177.html
Feels like I've done all I can. I even think I've worried all I can, at least for today.
I am so sorry Obama's grandmother didn't make it a couple more days. Sort of like Moses not making it into the Promised Land, I guess. Mythologically speaking. Or however you view those things.
This evening, I received an email from Barack (we all did) asking me to vote and help others do the same. I couldn't help myself--I replied to that email (it hasn't bounced) asking him to please, please, please win this election. I told him:
Yes you can! Yes you can! Yes you can!
You want one word to sum up the mood among Obamacans today? Don't look for it in Webster's--look in Weinreich, the Yiddish dictionary: You've got shpilkes, everybody -- plain and simple.
Shpilkes (pronounced: SHPILL-kuhz) is a case of nerves + excitement + anticipation that knows no bounds. No English word even comes close. 'Pins and needles' and 'sitting on tenterhooks' are poor second cousins to real shpilkes (the kind we have now).
Okay, you admit you've got shpilkes--the first step in any self-help campaign. What do you do about 'em?
The more energy you spend for the Obama-Biden Campaign, the less energy you'll have for those shpilkes.
So, get out there and volunteer -- one last time!
John McCain may claim fame as a campaign finance reformer, but he sure knows how to get around his own reforms. In recent disclosure statements, the McCain campaign revealed that McCain-Palin coffers were boosted by hefty contributions from a married couple named Hassan Alaghband and Farah Asemi. The couple allegedly resides in Colorado (though no evidence of that was turned up in an Internet search) and each contributed $70,100 to the GOP presidential campaign.
Why is are these people contributing over $140,000 to the coffers of campaign finance maverick John McCain and his running mate Sarah “we’re-both-mavericks” Palin? This, in spite of the $2,500-per-person limit of McCain-Feingold?
It is not easy to gather information on the politically philanthropic couple; but Hassan’s father Vahid Alaghband is the well-known Iranian-born businessman and Chair of the Balli Group; and Hassan is a director of the largely-family-run company. According to the company’s web site, Balli is among the world’s largest privately-owned, independent commodity traders. Headquartered in the United Kingdom but running operations out of a global network of offices including some in the US, the Group specializes in the trading of primary industrial and consumer commodities, including steel and other metals, chemicals, and agricultural products. Balli Group enjoys sales exceeding $1billion (US), not including sales from its subsidiaries.
According to Internet sources at www.prnewsnow.com, one subsidiary, Balli Real Estate group operates in the UK and UAE (yes, that’s United Arab Emirates). This company’s $3.5 billion portfolio (http://www.balli-re.com/property-portfolio.htm ) includes major real estate projects in Dubai.
As much as I do not want to participate in the xenophobia follies stirred up by the GOP’s low-road campaign tactics, I would LOVE to attend a Palin town hall meeting just to throw a couple of burning questions at that over-zealous, manipulative-but-charismatic hypocrite, like “When you talk to your base about the “true Americans” you want to “fight” for, are you talking about your campaign’s sugar daddies, Hassan Alaghband and Farah Asemi?
When mega-donors like the Alaghbands are busily protecting their billions in off-shore investments by funnelling large amounts of cash into the campaign chest of John “Country First” McCain, I can't help but conclude that McCain and Palin are a pitiful pair of frauds.
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Concern in G.O.P. After Rough Week for McCain
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/us/politics/12strategy.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin
Palin booed at Flyers Game (VIDEO)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/11/hockey-mom-palin-greeted_n_133911.html
Body Politics: Sarah Palin's Body Language And Why It Should Worry You
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathlyn-and-gay-hendricks/body-politics-sarah-palin_b_132785.html
JMac, Palin and Mud
Are you bracing for the mother of mudslinging campaigns?If you're part of the 85 percent of the electorate who has made up their minds in this presidential election, keep your TV remote handy.The Republicans have dug themselves into such a deep hole, if JMac had five Sarah Palin clones created from her embryonic stem cells he still would be clawing his way out.I'm listening to CNN now and hearing that JMac is "turning the page" on the economy in favor of Swift-Boat-type attacks on Obama.I was lurking around the GOP website this morning and its pretty clear they're gearing up for the mother of mudslinging campaigns. Sarah Pit Bull is out spraying her turf with old news stories about his gambling buddies and trying to bash Obama's character and I'm willing to bet the big bucks will soon be pouring into the battleground states like here in Colorado trying to convince the 15 percent of the electorate who still haven't made up their minds.I don't get this - if you're a fence sitter i want to know what you've been doing over the past 8 years and why you're still conflicted.I have to tell you don't buy the "lack of experience" or "both tickets are equally bad" arguments as to why voters are frozen in in the middle of the highway like deer caught in the headlights of an on-coming Mack truck.I want to know the real reasons. You can do it, you can fess up about what it is in your heart that you are masking with these "safe" reasons. Here are a couple honest comments I have heard from JMac's faithful:"I'd rather lose my job than have a baby killer as president." I was in Wyoming over the weekend and a guy I met at dinner on Friday was going to Vegas. I asked him to place a bet on the election. His response was, "On what - how long it would be until Obama gets shot?"WTF?Luckily, I mostly watch movie channels which are commercial-free but the remote is close at hand.If JMac and his Pit Bull are planning to sling more mud than FEMA dredged out of New Orleans, I'm assuming JMac's handlers will know that his relationship to convicted criminal lobbyist Jack Abramoff, his ancient but notorious history with Charles Keating during the Savings and Loan "Keating Five" scandal, his affair with adulteress and now his wife Cindy are festering boils ready to be popped by Obama.It will be interesting over the next month.Will a mudslinging campaign set you straight? Will your vote be decided by who is the least horrible candidate?
Do you feel for Governor Palin?
Do you feel for Governor Palin?The expectations for Sarah Palin in the debate tonight were so low, her performance made her look like a genius. I could hear a sigh of relief from her conservative base that she improved over her Katie Couric debacle. Too bad she didn't have a few more canned answers. I got tired hearing about energy in Alaska.By the way, does anyone remember the Exxon Valdez?I'm getting tired of the "maverick" reference. Maybe it's the Wyomingite in me, but when I hear "maverick" i think of a lost cow in the middle of nowhere.I thought Biden showed a lot of class by not jumping the Governor but rather climbing all over JMac and linking him to McBush.The other night Letterman asked, "Who was the last vice president you wanted to see naked? Spiro Agnew?" A guy wrote back on one of my other blogs, "I've seen Spiro Agnew naked, and Sarah Palin is no Spiro Agnew."Biden - "Nuclear" Palin - "Nukuler: Not only do MacPal offer up the same old policies, but also the same old vocabularies!She had a tough job defending her ticket. I could sense that she was cringing herself at some of the things she had to say defending the Red Party line.
Whoa, there, all of you well-meaning friends and family who, in the past two weeks, have been sending me some of the most hilarious belly-laughing Palin-based humor--from the Couric interviews, to debate Bingo cards filled with maverick, you-betcha, and by golly. You're getting us nowhere fast, and the McCain ticket is diminishing the slim DEM lead in a number of the Obama Campaign's must-win battleground states.
Instead of wasting your time (and mine) with these forwards, I urge you to walk on down to your nearest Obama headquarters and volunteer you time. Phone banks are operating practically 24/7. If you don't want to leave home, no problem. You can volunteer from your computer desk by clicking the barackobama.com site, signing up to help, and calling voters in the battleground states. Get unregistered voters to register (the last day for voter registration states in many states is October 6th) and encourage undecided voters to vote for the Democratic candidates so we can take back our country. The Campaign has masterfully assembled lists of the voters we need to speak to.
If you want to get outdoors as you volunteer, simply click the links on barackobama.com and volunteer to Walk your Neighborhood; and if you insist on sticking to UTube, Digg the Obama ads that your friends forward you.
Let's face it -- we haven't got a moment to spare. Our shared goal is to have Obama remain at the top of the polls and to keep the momentum going. We can't rest while he is still within the margin of error in any battleground state.
The Obama campaign has made it easy for you to get involved. Thanks for your help if you've been volunteering--and get in there and help if you haven't.
