First when Bush and the house republicans had the stimulus package, they gave the money away with no strings attached. Obama part is spending it on this that will not stimulate the economy. Both sides have gotten wrong in my opinion.
I wouldn't give money to a drug addict and expect them to cure themselves. Why would I expect a companies leaders of a failing business know how to do any better with more money? Bad habits in each case will continue to happen.
What we need to do is invest on the working or new business models. IF we want more jobs and stimulate the economy, I suggest we give stimulus money to those companies that are succeding in these difficult times. Those companies that knew how to plan for the future. Instead of investing in companies that are failures by their own design, we should invest in those that are surviving on their own prudent practices.
We also need to set free those ideas that are locked up. Possibly come up where money is given to Universities and think tanks to make open source technology and patents on things such as Cars that are ran off of water. Better and cheaper solar and wind power.
Open source technology means technology that would have a patent that would be open for all to use. Many know this in the software world as basically freeware. But Benjamin Franklin opened up the patents on many of his inventions so the whole world could benefit, from his lighting rod to his stove.
For those that don't understand open source, think of it like this. If Apple allowed anyone to make and use the technology of the Ipod, what would happen? There would hundreds if not thousands of companies making Ipods. The ipods would be more variety, more technologically superior, cheaper and used in everything. This would stimulate jobs because of the all companies that would jump into this market. But apple won't do that, and an Ipod can't drive you to work.
But an Imagine a Car that can do 50 to 100 mpg. If the research was paid for, and the patents were open for anyone to use. Or it could be a car that ran on water, or solar panels system that powered your house during the day, and stored enough to power your house through the night.
If we spent the stimulus money an opening up technology, making it open source then we would be helping American businesses. We could offer grants to univiersities to help educate our children, if they contribute towards this open source collaboration.
But instead of investing in the whole of America, were buying new vehicles for thte government why I have to drive in my 11 year old car, and pay for the senators new ride. Not only that, but spend billions on Washington DC, while I watch my own house devalue before my eyes.
The only part of the stimulus package I like is rebuilding the infrastructure of the roads and bridges in America. Probably because that's the only part of the stimulus that benefits us all.
Congratulations to all of us. It was so wonderful to see the retruns come in last night. Now, the hard work of making the change that we want into a reality. It dawns on me that this is the beginning of the real work. The pace will be different. It will be more of a marathon than the half marathon that we just completed.
Thanks each person who shared this part of the journey.
The final hours are at our doorstep. I'm so ready to see the planning for the inauguration of Senator Obama. This is the moment we have all been anticipating. All of the calls, the letter writing, talking to friends, bumper stickers and yard signs are in place. Now, it's time to vote.
I keep thinking, who do I know in a swing state. On Friday, I called my 82 year old Godmother in Florida. She was more lively than I've heard her in years. She proudly told me that she went to vote early and took her neighbor who can't drive. They went twice because the lines were too long the first time. So many of us have stepped out of our comfort zones to support Barack. I had never given money to a presidential election before. It feels good to have done something.
I look forward to sharing a grand celebration here with this larger community on January 20, 2009!
MANCHESTER-- With less than 3 days until Election Day, Sen. John Kerry will be on the Seacoast of New Hampshire this Saturday, November 1st to rally voters in support of Sen. Barack Obama, Jeanne Shaheen, and Democrats up and down the ticket.
5:00 p.m. Unity Rally with Sen. John Kerry, Jeanne Shaheen, and Democratic candidates Portsmouth Public Library- Levenson Community Room 175 Parrott Avenue, Portsmouth
Change happens because the American people demand it. Because they rise up and insist on new leadership and new ideas, a new politics for a new time. - Sen. Barack Obama
Six days until the election - six days to join us in making history. This isn't the time to let up and rest on our laurels, it's the time to push forward to victory. This is what happens if we get complacent:
Don't trust the polls. We need to push through the finish line.
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Make calls with us, knock on doors with us, help out in your local office, bring food to volunteers and staff, house a volunteer, make calls from home, put Obama flyers around your town... whatever you can do our staff can help you with.
This is our time.
This blog was written by Colin at NH HQ
Today, Hillary Clinton returned to New Hampshire for the first time since her rally in Unity with Senator Obama back in June. She was welcomed with open arms by raucous crowds which greeted her in Manchester and Pelham. With the election only a week away, Hillary Clinton came to the Granite State to let everyone know why she is working so hard to elect Senator Obama to the White House.
Her first event was at Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester. She was introduced by former Gov. Jeanne Shaheen who is running for Senate against incumbent John Sununu. To get our country moving on the right track, Senator Obama will need Jeanne Shaheen in the Senate, so help elect her and Barack Obama by working as hard as you can this last week.
Hillary spoke passionately about the issues affecting our country - lack of access to health care, high energy prices, failing schools, and the sense of malaise sweeping the country due to the financial crisis. Hillary told the Granite State that a vote for McCain is a vote for more of the same and four more years of George W. Bush. She closed by urging all of her supporters from the primary to go out and work and vote for the Democratic ticket up and down the ballot.
MANCHESTER-- Former Vermont governor and current chairman of the Democratic National Committee Howard Dean will be in New Hampshire this Thursday, October 30th for a Rally for Change. With just over a week until New Hampshire voters head to the polls, Gov. Dean will stress the incredibly high stakes of the election for young voters and encourage them to vote. Dean will also discuss Sen. Obama's plan to create jobs and improve the state of our economy so that young Granite Staters can successfully enter the workforce upon graduation. Earlier today, the Obama campaign in New Hampshire released a list of 50 New Hampshire student leaders who are not only supporting Sen. Obama's Campaign for Change, but are working on campuses to elect former Gov. Jeanne Shaheen, Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter, and Congressman Paul Hodes. These student leaders have been and will continue to play an active role in the last days of the campaign energizing students to vote and have dedicated their time to engaging classmates in the electoral process. New Hampshire students can visit NH.BarackObama.com for more information on voting and how to get involved in these final days of the campaign. Thursday, October 30th 11:45 a.m. Rally for Change with Gov. Howard Dean UNH Durham- Granite State Room-- MUB 83 Main Street, Durham
MANCHESTER-- Former Vermont governor and current chairman of the Democratic National Committee Howard Dean will be in New Hampshire this Thursday, October 30th for a Rally for Change. With just over a week until New Hampshire voters head to the polls, Gov. Dean will stress the incredibly high stakes of the election for young voters and encourage them to vote. Dean will also discuss Sen. Obama's plan to create jobs and improve the state of our economy so that young Granite Staters can successfully enter the workforce upon graduation.
Earlier today, the Obama campaign in New Hampshire released a list of 50 New Hampshire student leaders who are not only supporting Sen. Obama's Campaign for Change, but are working on campuses to elect former Gov. Jeanne Shaheen, Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter, and Congressman Paul Hodes. These student leaders have been and will continue to play an active role in the last days of the campaign energizing students to vote and have dedicated their time to engaging classmates in the electoral process. New Hampshire students can visit NH.BarackObama.com for more information on voting and how to get involved in these final days of the campaign.
UNH Durham- Granite State Room-- MUB
83 Main Street, Durham
This blog was written by Jennifer, a volunteer from the Upper Valley for Obama Team Nestled in the beautiful landscape of Hanover, NH, the Kendal retirement community is renowned for its active, engaged senior residents. A dedicated group of Obama campaign volunteers from Kendal demonstrates why this reputation is well-deserved. For several weeks now, Kendal residents have been holding their own phone bank for Obama out of their residences, with Edie taking the lead in organizing their efforts. The dedicated group has proven to be quite a force in reaching out to New Hampshire voters throughout the state, smashing their own calling records and earning a special trophy from campaign staff (seen below). How do they do it? Each morning, Edie's pie basket (also seen below) appears with fresh calling packets for volunteers to pick up. By evening, packets are returned to the pie basket to be picked up by staffers for data entry. The next day, the process starts again, and hundreds of calls are made. Hats off to our great team of Kendal volunteers!
This blog was written by Jennifer, a volunteer from the Upper Valley for Obama Team
Nestled in the beautiful landscape of Hanover, NH, the Kendal retirement community is renowned for its active, engaged senior residents. A dedicated group of Obama campaign volunteers from Kendal demonstrates why this reputation is well-deserved.
For several weeks now, Kendal residents have been holding their own phone bank for Obama out of their residences, with Edie taking the lead in organizing their efforts. The dedicated group has proven to be quite a force in reaching out to New Hampshire voters throughout the state, smashing their own calling records and earning a special trophy from campaign staff (seen below).
How do they do it? Each morning, Edie's pie basket (also seen below) appears with fresh calling packets for volunteers to pick up. By evening, packets are returned to the pie basket to be picked up by staffers for data entry. The next day, the process starts again, and hundreds of calls are made.
Hats off to our great team of Kendal volunteers!
If you'd like to get active and help out the efforts of our great Kendal team on the phones, find your local field office and get involved. Get Out The Vote starts tomorrow, so we need your help now more than ever. If you can't make it in to your local office, or if you have limited time to volunteer, think about using Neighbor to Neighbor, our online call tool, to make calls whenever it is convenient for you.
Living in Idaho can sometimes be hard for a person with Democratic leanings. Most days, I don't much notice, but today was a reminder that we can be optimistic. I put on my T-shirt which is a tri-color sihouette of Obama on a black background. Under his face, it says "PROGRESS."
The funniest thing started happening. First, in REI one of the salesmen asked if he could help me then with a lowered voice, he shared that he'd voted this week and Obama got his vote. We talked for another minute or so and he continued to help someone else. Then in Target a woman with a two year old in her arms was looking at me and talking to her daughter. I probably got that, "what are you looking at?" attitude because the woman explained to me that her daughter sometimes chants, "Bama, Bama, Bama" when she sees a picture of Obama.
The next stop on the path was Coscto. This time, I pulled in to buy gas, went through the gauntlet of paying and was putting the hose to the car when the employee approached. I expected him to pass with the normal, "how's it going?" or "everything allright?" Once again, he came right up to me and started asking if Obama was still ahead in the polls and was the difference 6% or was it holding. He made a sarcastic comment about his vote not counting in Idaho and I shared my confidence that at least one Democrat looks like he will win national office from Idaho.
It gives me hope to have so many total strangers engage me with their shared support. I will wear this t-shirt again this week not only because it might encourage one more person to go vote for Obama, but also because I found the conversations with a number of very different people so refreshing. As a black woman in Boise, this is not always the pattern of my day.
Chris Hughes, Director of Online Organizing, just wrote this blog post about our brand new redesign of Neighbor to Neighbor, a tool that thousands of supporters are using right now to call and canvass Granite Staters.
Check out the exciting changes, and join us now.
For two months now, tens of thousands of people have been making phonecalls from the comfort of their own homes, and knocking on doors in their own communities.With 12 days to go, we’ve upgraded our calling and walking tool to make it easier to use. Some of the things that we’ve changed:• New look and feel that is consistent with the rest of MyBO and BarackObama.com• The call script window is wider and easier to read. The Save button is now at the top, making it easier to move from one voter to the next. Less scrolling means more time calling.• Easier to report contacts after having a conversationYou’ll notice that no functionality has been removed. We’ve tried as hard as possible to avoid making any dramatic changes with only a few days to go before the election. It’s simply been our goal to make the system more intuitive and easier to use.Let's get started calling!
For two months now, tens of thousands of people have been making phonecalls from the comfort of their own homes, and knocking on doors in their own communities.
With 12 days to go, we’ve upgraded our calling and walking tool to make it easier to use.
Some of the things that we’ve changed:• New look and feel that is consistent with the rest of MyBO and BarackObama.com• The call script window is wider and easier to read. The Save button is now at the top, making it easier to move from one voter to the next. Less scrolling means more time calling.• Easier to report contacts after having a conversation
You’ll notice that no functionality has been removed. We’ve tried as hard as possible to avoid making any dramatic changes with only a few days to go before the election. It’s simply been our goal to make the system more intuitive and easier to use.
Let's get started calling!
MANCHESTER, NH - In the midst of hunting season, Sportsmen and women across New Hampshire have joined together to announce their support for Senator Barack Obama for president. This announcement comes as hunters throughout the Granite State carry on the tradition of hunting from generation to generation during Youth Hunt Weekend for Deer, which is October 25-26 across the state.
"Growing up in New Hampshire, most of us spent our time outdoors hunting, fishing or hiking. These traditions were passed down from mothers and fathers to their children. As a hunter, I take pride in the outdoors and want a president who will honor that tradition while conserving our land and waterways," said Richard Moquin, statewide Chair for Sportsmen and Sportswomen for Obama. "Senator Obama will not only protect our Second Amendment rights, but preserve our wildlife so future generations can continue this tradition. I know he'll be a true friend of the sportsmen."
"I believe that hunting, fishing and spending time in the outdoors is a valuable experience for all generations - young and old," said Clinton King of Berlin. "An Obama administration will protect those rights, allowing national lands to stay open and continuing to allow gun owners to use our firearms, especially for hunting. As president, Obama will stand up for conservation, preserving national forest lands and ensuring that our wildlife is protected."
The New Hampshire Sportsmen and women for Obama is made up of one Statewide Chair and co-Chairs in each county of the state. They know that Senator Obama will stand up for their individual Second Amendment right to pursue their hunting traditions and ensure the future of hunting and fishing by expanding access to private hunting and fishing areas. The steering committee includes former New Hampshire Fish and Game Department officials, hunters, fishers and conservationists, as well members of the National Rifle Association.
As President, Barack Obama will continue to stand up for sportsmen and sportswomen by: Protecting the rights of hunters and other law-abiding Americans to purchase, own and use guns. Improving access by providing financial incentives to private land owners who voluntarily open their land to hunting and fishing. Advocating funding of the Land and Water Conservation Fund, which provides needed resources to state agencies to conserve important wildlife habitat. Recognizing that global warming is real, is happening now, and poses a real threat to America's fish, wildlife, and the future of hunting and fishing, and providing real leadership to combat climate change. Supporting proposals endorsed by dozens of national hunting and fishing organizations to devote billions of dollars annually to state game and fish agencies and federal land management agencies to help them ensure that fish and wildlife survive the coming impacts of climate change.Ensuring that Farm Bill conservation programs are funded to provide maximum benefit to fish and wildlife.Supporting state efforts to educate youth in order to maintain hunting and fishing traditions.
Over two hundred people registered this morning at the Manchester City Hall, as a diverse crowd of gathered to chat, dance, listen to music, and hear Actor Jeffrey Wright ("W", Syriana, Casino Royale) speak about coming together to create one nation seeking change.
I look around me, wherever I go at Obama events, and I see the complexity of America represented in the faces of the people around me at these events. You know, a lot of what's happened in the last few months has been to narrow the vision of America down to Hockey Moms and Joe Six Packs and Joe the Plumbers. But America's more complicated than that. There's Jose the Barber. There's basketball big brothers. We're all here together and its we who make this country great.
[Powell] talked about how the strength of this country is in our diversity, the strength of this country is in its complexity. Colin Powell himself was born from immigrant parents from Jamaica. That's the story of our country. And when we start to exclude, at such critical times as these in terms of America's place on the global stage, when we seek to exclude whole sections of the population as we try to face these challenges we undermine our capacity to really overcome them.
"Getting people to register the day of is a great opportunity," Wright said. "You've got to find these pockets, these pools of people to register."
Can you join us to Get Out The Vote this week? We only have ten days to remind people they can register on the day of, and participate in this election. Let's go out and win New Hampshire and change this country.
Jeffrey Wright, an actor in films such as "W", Casino Royale, Syriana, Cadillac Records and The Manchurian Candidate, will be in Nashua and Manchester this Saturday, meeting Granite Staters to hear about the issues on their mind this election and speak about his support of Sen. Obama.
Wright is no stranger to politics. A native of our nation's capitol, Washington, D.C., Wright studied Political Science as well as acting while attending Amherst College.
Wright will encourage all eligible voters to participate in this historic election and bring about the change we need by voting for Barack Obama and Democrats up and down the ticket.
This is a great opportunity to get your friends who are undecided or unregistered involved in the political process. If you have time between knocking on doors and calling your neighbors this weekend, join us for a block party in Manchester or a meet and greet in Nashua this Saturday.
Every election, we are reminded just how important New Hampshire is to the national landscape. In 2000, Al Gore lost our state by just 7,000 votes. Four years later, John Kerry won by just 9,000. It's going to be incredibly close this year, too. Barack needs your help today. Hundreds of thousands have volunteered, and millions have registered to vote for the first time. Now we need to make sure that this incredible enthusiasm translates into votes. With just two weeks until Election Day, we need you to look at your calendar and block off time to volunteer for the campaign. There are tens of thousands of voters who have not heard directly from this campaign and we must reach them before polls close on Tuesday, November 4th. We need supporters like you out there doing the kind of work that wins elections -- knocking on doors and reaching out to undecided voters in person. Sign up now to volunteer to make a difference in the final push, and bring a friend with you to double your impact. These last few days before Election Day, November 4th, are the most crucial of the election. Barack is counting on supporters like you to make our get out the vote efforts as effective as possible. Whatever you can do and however much time you can give, there's a job for everyone. We need people to canvass, make phone calls, help with visibility, and drive voters to the polls. And given the rising negativity and attacks coming from the McCain campaign, it's more important than ever that voters learn more about Barack -- who he is and how he'll bring about the change we need. Sign up now to volunteer and help Barack win New Hampshire: nh.barackobama.com/gotvnh Together we can help elect Barack and bring about the change we need. Thanks for all that you do, Katina Katina Tsongas Field Director New Hampshire Campaign for Change
Every election, we are reminded just how important New Hampshire is to the national landscape. In 2000, Al Gore lost our state by just 7,000 votes. Four years later, John Kerry won by just 9,000.
It's going to be incredibly close this year, too. Barack needs your help today.
Hundreds of thousands have volunteered, and millions have registered to vote for the first time. Now we need to make sure that this incredible enthusiasm translates into votes.
With just two weeks until Election Day, we need you to look at your calendar and block off time to volunteer for the campaign. There are tens of thousands of voters who have not heard directly from this campaign and we must reach them before polls close on Tuesday, November 4th.
We need supporters like you out there doing the kind of work that wins elections -- knocking on doors and reaching out to undecided voters in person.
Sign up now to volunteer to make a difference in the final push, and bring a friend with you to double your impact.
These last few days before Election Day, November 4th, are the most crucial of the election. Barack is counting on supporters like you to make our get out the vote efforts as effective as possible.
Whatever you can do and however much time you can give, there's a job for everyone. We need people to canvass, make phone calls, help with visibility, and drive voters to the polls.
And given the rising negativity and attacks coming from the McCain campaign, it's more important than ever that voters learn more about Barack -- who he is and how he'll bring about the change we need.
Sign up now to volunteer and help Barack win New Hampshire:
nh.barackobama.com/gotvnh
Together we can help elect Barack and bring about the change we need.
Thanks for all that you do,
Katina
Katina Tsongas
Field Director
New Hampshire Campaign for Change
When the leaves start to change colors up here in Dover, New Hampshire, the residents begin to expect two things: tourists for "leaf peeping" season and an election to be just around the corner.
The Granite Staters are fired up and ready to go as they came out for a great training Monday night to learn how to get out the vote for Barack Obama. About 130 longtime veteran activists and volunteers working for a campaign the first time brought their calendars and fit as many volunteer shifts in as possible to help Barack become the 44th President of the United States. The training discussed the multiple tasks designed to get out the vote, from canvassing and phone calls, to poll watchers and rides to the polls.
You can join the Dover residents committed to change by signing up here to volunteer during GOTV. We're looking for more volunteers to join our ground game, knocking on doors and making phone calls to voters. You could also help us out by signing up to host a GOTV Volunteer in your house, bring a meal to your local office, or make calls from your own home on Neighbor to Neighbor.
Are you feeling the fierce urgency of now?
The Red Arrow Diner, a Manchester establishment since its founding in 1922, has had its fair share of politicians walk through their doors. A place for coffee and conversation, the Red Arrow Diner has drawn just about every candidate during the primaries.
Only one of those candidates has won over Manager Elaine Boule though, and that's Barack Obama and his steady response to the issues that impact New Hampshire voters, especially the economic crisis.
Listen to Elaine's views in this video:
"John McCain is a little too wishy-washy. I understand that he was in the service and he's a war hero, and he's very good about what's going to go on with the war. I appreciate his service. I don't think he'll make the next best president.
Read the whole article in today's Washington Post "The Trail" on their website.
Check out Barack in the Red Arrow last May on the campaign trail.
This blog was written by Field Organizer Calla Brown
Vivian is one of New Hampshire’s most enduring supporters of Barack Obama. Having met Barack at an event just a few months after he announced his candidacy, Vivian decided on the first-term senator from Illinois over the deep field of Democratic candidates. There was something in the way he talked to her—cool, intelligent, and thoughtful—that led Vivian to believe that he would change the way things had been going in recent years.
Perhaps one of the most persuasive people to set foot in the Nashua office, she has been known to turn an undecided voter into a full-fledged supporter while managing to schedule them to do repair work at her house the next weekend. She knocks on car windows while holding signs at intersections and poses tough questions about jobs and health care to McCain-stickered cars. She volunteers at every event in the area, whether it is a rally for Barack Obama himself or the last-minute organizational meeting before a big week of campaigning.
Just recently, in the wake of the collapse of finance giant Lehman Brothers, Vivian’s employer downsized its operation. The most recent hire, Vivian found herself at the bottom of the seniority ladder, and management had to let her go.
Tears still in her eyes, the first stop Vivian made after losing her job was our field office. With her usual big smile and eagerness to help out, she announced that she was going to have a few more hours to offer the campaign on top of her already substantial volunteering schedule. She proceeded to her usual position at the head of our phone bank, laughing in her usual way, but this time, with just a bit more determined than usual. Vivian McGuire is a constant reminder to all of us here in the Nashua office why we need change and why we need Barack Obama.
Join Vivian in our Nashua office to work tirelessly for the change we need:
Below are clips from the editorials. Full remarks can be found on the Nashuatelegraph.com and the ConcordMonitor.com.
Today, we endorse Barack Obama in his historic bid to become the 44th president of the United States of America. At this critical point in the nation's 232-year history, the young senator from Illinois is the right person at the right time to lead this country back to its former greatness and standing in the world community. At first, like many Americans, our initial attraction to Obama as a presidential candidate was influenced by his extraordinary speaking skills, which he has used to inspire millions all across the country. But we were equally impressed when we met with him a little more than a year ago in the TV studios of Nashua High School South. (The video is available for viewing at www.nhprimary.com). From the moment we opened the session by asking him to detail his strategy for removing U.S. troops from Iraq, Obama answered our questions with a thoughtfulness that transcended the talking-point responses we heard from other candidates. But, given everything that is at stake, we have confidence that he would rise to the challenge, much as he has done at other key stages of his life, and use his considerable leadership skills to build consensus toward the public good.Read the full article...
Today, we endorse Barack Obama in his historic bid to become the 44th president of the United States of America. At this critical point in the nation's 232-year history, the young senator from Illinois is the right person at the right time to lead this country back to its former greatness and standing in the world community.
At first, like many Americans, our initial attraction to Obama as a presidential candidate was influenced by his extraordinary speaking skills, which he has used to inspire millions all across the country.
But we were equally impressed when we met with him a little more than a year ago in the TV studios of Nashua High School South. (The video is available for viewing at www.nhprimary.com).
From the moment we opened the session by asking him to detail his strategy for removing U.S. troops from Iraq, Obama answered our questions with a thoughtfulness that transcended the talking-point responses we heard from other candidates.
But, given everything that is at stake, we have confidence that he would rise to the challenge, much as he has done at other key stages of his life, and use his considerable leadership skills to build consensus toward the public good.
Read the full article...
The choice could not be clearer. Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois should be this nation's next president. As the first African American to hold the highest office in the land, Obama would make history and instantly remake America's image abroad. But that is not why he deserves to win. Obama has the temperament, judgment, ideas and vision to be president. Despite his decades of experience and heroic history, John McCain is not the right candidate for this moment. No decision highlights this difference more starkly than McCain's choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate. Unlike Obama's choice for vice president, Sen. Joe Biden, Palin is unqualified, profoundly so, to hold either of the nation's top two offices. Obama's considerable skills are augmented by his intelligence and his ability to inspire. All of that will be necessary to tackle problems that have grown to seem insurmountable over the past eight years. Serious people are talking about the end of America's supremacy as the world's leading economic power. The nation's young assume that they will not be as well-off as their parents. Unless the nation changes course quickly, their parents fear they could be right.Read the full article...
The choice could not be clearer. Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois should be this nation's next president. As the first African American to hold the highest office in the land, Obama would make history and instantly remake America's image abroad. But that is not why he deserves to win. Obama has the temperament, judgment, ideas and vision to be president. Despite his decades of experience and heroic history, John McCain is not the right candidate for this moment.
No decision highlights this difference more starkly than McCain's choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate. Unlike Obama's choice for vice president, Sen. Joe Biden, Palin is unqualified, profoundly so, to hold either of the nation's top two offices.
Obama's considerable skills are augmented by his intelligence and his ability to inspire. All of that will be necessary to tackle problems that have grown to seem insurmountable over the past eight years. Serious people are talking about the end of America's supremacy as the world's leading economic power. The nation's young assume that they will not be as well-off as their parents. Unless the nation changes course quickly, their parents fear they could be right.
With only 17 days left until November 4th, John Kerry returned to New Hampshire to talk about turning NH blue, McCain's negative attack robo-calls, looking out for our troops and veterans and what's at stake in this critical moment of our history.
97 days from today George Bush leaves Washington. What's important is not just that he leaves but that we replace him with someone who has the right vision for this country.
As the McCain camp continues to hit NH homes with false and dishonorable robo-calls, John Kerry called on John Sununu to break his silence and speak out, as Sen. Collins (R-Maine) has against these smears.
I also call on John McCain to grab back that decency he exhibited four years ago, eight years ago, and to take those negative messages out of here. They do not belong in the United States' political system.
Speaking to a packed office of volunteers who had just returned from canvassing, Kerry took the time to thank New Hampshire, and the flood of residents of his own Massachusetts, for their relentless hard work, laying the groundwork four years ago, and for refusing to stop since.
I am confident because you've never quit, you've never stopped, you're out here knocking on doors and calling voters, that we're going to win the greatest victory we've ever won in 17 days... This is as important as it gets. On Thursday before the Tuesday Election, I was going to win. The next day Osama bin Ladin appeared in a tape on television and we froze in the polls. This takes hard work right to the very end.
There are 17 days left before election day, and we must make this battleground state our battleground. We must make calls, we must knock on doors and we must get involved. Don't let up.
It's 10:30 am in Manchester, and hundreds of canvassers have already hit the doors. Coffee, coats, and stickers in hand, volunteers have been streaming in the office since 9 am, arriving in cars and by the bus load with friends, family and neighbors.
Over 550 canvassers are expected in our Manchester office alone today, coming in from Manchester, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and Vermont.
"Lots of people, lots of energy," Ed, a full-time volunteer, said. We've even had dachshunds for Obama."
The dachshund, Stan, with owner Jennifer from Boston, has canvassed twice before. Stan came decked out in a "Bark Obama" t-shirt, tail swinging.
"The only problem is that he wants to go to every door," Jennifer said.
After arriving, the canvassers received a short training and tips for canvassing, and met with local field organizers to plan their morning of reaching out to Granite Staters.
Can you join us to canvass this weekend or next weekend? Sign up here to help us if you are from out of state, or sign up using this link to help out if you are a New Hampshire resident. You can also find your local office here.
We only have 17 days left to make the change we so desperately need in this country happen, so get involved now.
