Louisville for Obama Members -
My company is a corporate sponsor of this year's Light The Night Walk to battle cancer and support The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS). This year's walk is taking place on October 3, 2009 and the Walk in Louisville is going to be held at Waterfront Park.
I'm asking all of you in Louisville for Obama to join our walk team and raise money for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society or if you are unable to walk in this year's fundraiser tell others about the event or if possible make a donation to our team.
To join our team go to My Team's Light The Night Walk Home Page and then go to the "Walk With Us" link at the top of the page. To make a donation follow the same link and the process is self-explanatory.
I encourage you to go to the website and read about the great work that The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society is doing to battle cancer and support families in their battle with the disease.
I hope to see you at the Light The Night Walk on October 3rd down at Waterfront Park. If you are unable to make the walk a donation of any amount is greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Craig
On 2/24 at 9pm EST, watch the CNN.com live State of the Nation Address and join in the online forum here to discuss issues with fellow voters. All political affiliations are invited to join in the discussion.
RULES OF PLAY:1. Pretend your 8 year old grand daughter is reading everything you type2. Treat those who disagree with respect3. Click 'report' on troll comments and ignore them. If you reply all attached conversations will be deleted by the system along with the offending comment.
Click on "COMMENT" at the top of the post to say something.
Clickon "REPLY" next to the person's post to say something about something someone said.
Sound good? Enjoy, and thank you for participating in this creative volunteer project.
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On 2/24 at 9pm EST, watch the CNN.com live State of the Nation Address and join in the online forum here to discuss issues with fellow Kentucky Voters. All political affiliations are invited to join in the discussion.
Sounds good? Enjoy, and thank you for participating in this creative volunteer project.
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You wrote25 minutes agoHere are my street creds: - Volunteer from April 2007 through 2008 Primary - 2007 Camp Obama graduate - Staffer during Primary - Admin for a large local mybo groupJust so we get those out of the way.To answer the question: The structure, style, leadership, groups, all of it is volunteer created and volunteer led. I emailed OFA and received a response that CAN is a volunteer created grassroots organization. Here is what I like about the CAN groups: - National network of volunteers that are active now, or at least will read their email and join an online group because a stranger asked them to - State network of the same - Updates of facts, action items, once a day under the "daily digest" option.Here is what I dont like about the CAN groups: - Aggressive against those elected officials who disagree. We received instructions during the Campaign by Obama himself to treat the other side (hillary at the time) with respect. See my MyBO blog for excerpts of his speech (under mybo username J. Lowe). - Admins are not clearly labeled a "Volunteer" - plus one of Lisa's titles are just like the DNC's official voteforchange.com campaign used during the general election - Establishes a top-down hieararchy, and the campaign was a flat organizational style.More on the last point - I was told by Matthew Barzun that the organization is flat, and received a diagram from him too. It is a circle of volunteers surrounding the staff at the center. There is no hierarchy - we are all equals. Also, Camp Obama taught that there are only two types of volunteers: those who make phone calls and knock on doors, and those who teach and encourage others to make phone calls and knock on doors. The organizer is not higher than the volunteer, it is just a role to complete the group assignment: to talk and listen to voters, and to bring that information back to HQ.What is the action to take on the CAN group? I can only tell you what I am doing: listening. I am not sold on this group right now, and am watching the communication style to learn how to be a better organizer for our local groups. My meditation on this group is to remember our call to Respect, Empower, and Include.As far as my volunteer action from here? Do what I have always done: Whatever the OFA website tells me to do, just like Forrest Gump in boot camp. And in the meantime mayb make something up that sounds like something they would like me to do.If I were to bet $20 on what the next OFA action is, it would be this: SEEK FIRST TO UNDERSTANDThis was done during the first 6 months of the campaign and is what won Iowa. There was a link on the mybo website to submit ideas about important issues, and the field staff were trained in effective listening and knocked doors for months. All of the info was sent to HQ. Groups of intelligent minds were linked online who received our info, and researched and discussed it, and used it to create the Blueprint for Change and craft the course we are following right now. So it is most logical that there will be another round of what worked. So, good money is on house meetings led by you and me and everybody's cousin, using the question sheets they give us.Back to action (most important). I was thinking to host a health care meeting - I missed the opportunity during the holidays - and now since Daschle is out, staff would have time to incorporate our information into the health care design. Probably they may do another call under new leadership, i dunno. Or possibly i might host another USAservice.org volunteer project - doing something good for others. Then I'll feel like daisies and sunshine and the world will feel like the fabric softener commercial featuring a teddy bear.Either way, life is good.
http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/race/2009/02/elwin-wilsons-story-is-one-of-transformationthats-why-it-resonates-so-much-its-a-story-of-changing-ones-self-an.html
Cable news and right wing blogs are swarming with the revisionist history on the New Deal. Arm yourself against lies, spin and propaganda by reading info from a number of sources.
Here down a article about this topic. [Media Matters is a progressive media watchdog and fact checking organization which has received accolades from numerous sources (except the right wing media which often gets debunked by Media Matters).]
The link to digg it and for article: Conservatives Cherry-Pick 1930s Unemployment Figures
Summary: Columnists Mona Charen and George Will continued a trend among conservative media of responding to comparisons between the current economic situation and that of the 1930s and between Barack Obama and FDR by attacking the New Deal. In separate columns, both Charen and Will cherry-picked unemployment figures to assert that the New Deal did not reduce unemployment. But historians and progressive economists have noted that unemployment fell every year of the New Deal except during the 1937-38 recession; further, Nobel-laureate Paul Krugman has said it was a reversal of New Deal policies, not a continuance of them, that contributed to rising unemployment in 1937 and 1938.
Yes we can! Best wishes, Steffen
http://changeforbetterworld.blogspot.com/2009/01/my-way-to-say-goodbye-to-neocons-bush.html
Formal Petition to Attorney General-Designate Eric Holder to appoint a Special Prosecutor to investigate and prosecute any and all government officials who have participated in War Crimes.
You can Digg it: My_way to say GOODBYE to neocons, Bush and Cheney!
A picture from me to say goodbye from most bad president of US and all neocons.We can only hope many people will long enough remember. Bush had a lot bad gifts for the change! Let's take care the poor and normal people will not have to pay now too much after the rich made profit in good time!And what's with impeachment now?! What's with hidden knowledge of Sept. 11 2001?[ Maybe an explanation of picture: it's made like an "egg laying wool milk sow" a metaphorical-idiomatic term in Germany]
Yeah, and here you can see something new about neocons were bringing to us - for me to say: don't forgive Bush and neocons and there is still a lot to work of. We will and can do this too - Yes we can!I got now message too like "If anybody can clean up the mess bush left, it's President Obama." - Yes and Obama likes people helping still to do the work - help him! We were a big and strong movement and so people got knowledge back how strong people can be together! Whistleblower: Bush's NSA spied on EVERYONE (already 4255 Diggs) The NSA had access to ALL YOUR COMMUNICATIONS, regardless of who you were or whether or not you were communicating internationally.
This is the entire interview from 2004, when Cathleen Falsani was writing her book, "The God Factor, Inside the Spiritual Lives of Public People" Click here to see book: http://www.amazon.com/God-Factor-Inside-Spiritual-Public/dp/0374530920/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1226436116&sr=1-2
Click here to see entire interview between then Senator Obama & Cathleen Falsani: http://blog.beliefnet.com/stevenwaldman/2008/11/obamas-interview-with-cathleen.html
Here are a few nice quotes from the article:
So, my mother, who I think had as much influence on my values as anybody, was not someone who wore her religion on her sleeve. We'd go to church for Easter. She wasn't a church lady.
As I said, we moved to Indonesia. She remarried an Indonesian who wasn't particularly, he wasn't a practicing Muslim. I went to a Catholic school in a Muslim country. So I was studying the Bible and catechisms by day, and at night you'd hear the prayer call.
So I don't think as a child we were, or I had a structured religious education. But my mother was deeply spiritual person, and would spend a lot of time talking about values and give me books about the world's religions, and talk to me about them. And I think always, her view always was that underlying these religions were a common set of beliefs about how you treat other people and how you aspire to act, not just for yourself but also for the greater good.
Well here we are at a place I never really thought would arrive!! One day to go before the election, and my own energy level could not be higher! The personal contacts I've made can't be calculated and between my granddaughter and myself, we were able to collect about 200 new voter registrations. Nearly all my thoughts are directed at this one huge goal, and we're almost to the finish line. I consider it to have been a privilege to have been able to participate in this most exciting event of my lifetime. The promise of hope that has been projected in this campaign has been felt by us all and may never again be matched by any other such event. As I suspected in the beginning, the law of attraction has been at work here and has become a movement, the gravity of which will not be known until tomorrow night when the returns roll in.
Seeing our candidate turn gray before our eyes shows us all how seriously he takes this endeavor and how much of himself he has invested. He has run an honorable campaign that I will always be proud to have been a part of. The amount of energy that we have collectively sent to the universe on his behalf can not be quantified, but I feel certain that like myself, millions of others have pled for this man to become our leader. I think of Michelle and their daughters and the enormous changes their lives have taken and the effort being made to keep them safe and well adjusted. Let us continue to plead on their behalf in the days to come, sending nothing but the best possible energy to them.
God bless America.
The Kentucky race for United States Senate has taken a very nasty turn. The 24 year veteran Mitch McConnell , Minorty Leader of the Senate has use the appeacence of the Department of Veterans Affairs, US Chamber of Commerce and the Order of the Purple Heart in his attack ads.
Why does he turn to the United States Federal offices to try and win his race?
Hello all,
If you believe in having quality, affordable health care, then you may want to sit down. Here's a quote from Sen. John McCain's article, entitled "Better Health Care at Lower Cost for Every American":
"Opening up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking, would provide more choices of innovative products less burdened by the worst excesses of state-based regulation." (Emphasis added.)
The American health care system is already in crisis, and McCain wants it to follow in the footsteps of the banking sector? If you've been following the roller coaster news of the $700 billion dollar bailout of that industry, then you know how ridiculous that sounds. It's time to demand quality, affordable health care for all. »
Apparently, it's not enough that American families pay $217 million for health care per hour, while insurance industry profits have risen 1,000% in the past five years. Something needs to change, and it has to happen soon.
Thank you for your time,
Kelly Hussung
In 2004, John Kerry lost by 118,601 votes - an average of 9 votes per precinct.
By taking Ohio, George W Bush won enough electoral votes to secure a second term.
Please, drop everything and come to Ohio!
http://my.barackobama.com/page/-/Video_states/OH/ComeToOhio.mov
Here is a list of the battleground state-to-state polls as I mentioned in the previous blog. In our electoral college system, these polls are very important.
Florida: Obama 47 McCain 48
Pennsylvania: Obama 49 McCain 42
Ohio: Obama 46 McCain 47
Michigan: Obama 48 McCain 45
Noth Carolina: Obama 49 McCain 47
Missouri: Obama 46 McCain 48
Minnesota: Obama 48 McCain 47
Colorado: Obama 49 McCain 48
Virginia: Obama 50 McCain 45
These are most of the close battleground states. Some are new and some are the same battleground states seen in 2000 and 2004. Keep in mind, these polls will shift some in the coming weeks based on the economy and any other possible events that are influential to the voter. I got these polls from various websites including CNN and USA elections. There may be slight variations in other polls but these are the rough averages.
Good news for Obama however, there is still work to be done. Here is a rundown of current polling data:
Real Clear Politics: Obama: 47 McCain 43
Pollster: Obama 48 McCain 43
Washington Post: Obama 52 McCain 43
Rasmussen: Obama 50 McCain 44
Gallup: Obama 50 McCain 42
These are just a few of the major polling groups' data as of 9/28. It is important to remember when considering polling data, that polls consisting of less than 1,000 respondents are much less accurate. Most of the above polls are of 1,000 respondents, so it is a safe assumption that Obama leads McCain by around 7 points nationally. This puts Barack in a good position with just a little over a month left until election day. Aside from the national polls, there also the state polls in key battleground states such as Ohio, Virginia, Colorado, and Pennsylvania. These polls are still very close (within the margin of error) which still indicates the possibility of a very close election.
The Conservative News Feed, the Drudge Report has links to criticism of the New York Times by the McCain campaign. The real problem, though, is not whether Rick Davis got money or not, but whether John McCain lied to the Public and the voter on Sunday in an attempted cover up. In the same manner that Richard Nixon got in more trouble with the Watergate cover up than the actual break in, on a somewhat smaller scale, this situation is entirely analogous and warrants important consideration from everyone. Do we really want someone in the Oval Office that will stoop to saying anything and everything to avoid public scrutinty, particularly in this day and age of corruption and malfeasance. I certainly do not and I believe that if everyone points this out to voters as a reason to support Barack Obama, it should carry some weight.
As a further aside, it is interesting that the John McCain campaign has also made the serious debate blunder of attempting to attack the other side over the same troublesome issue before coming clean on their own side of the street. Apparently, from the sound of it, the McCain campaign is attempting to make an issue over monies that Mr. Obama might have earned from these mortgage companies. But, as pointed out earlier, that is really not the issue. The real issue is the lack of intergrity and truthfulness from Mr. McCain.
