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Ohio Students For Barack Obama

Ohio has gone with the nation in a vast majority of Presidential elections. It's time for students to join together and let the world hear our voices. Together, we will deliver Ohio to Barack Obama

You Can't Support the Troops without Supporting the War, But You Can Support the Troops without Supporting Them Financially; Or, On President Bush Opposing a .5% Raise for the Military

By tkovach05 - Jul 7th, 2007 at 2:03 pm EDT

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I know this argument is waaay out of date, but I hadn't written anything for two months until yesterday, and this has been irking me greatly for that whole time span.

So, I was reading my hometown paper, The [Cleveland] Plain Dealer on Sunday, May 20th, when I came across an interesting little column. I can't remember the author - maybe The New York Times' David Brooks? - but the content was what really mattered. It discussed a piece of legislation that had just passed through the House - HR 1585 - which was an appropriations measure for the Department of Defense. (Read the story from The Army Times here). Read More »

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The Pot Just Called the Kettle Black, and a Pot; Or On President Bush's Attack on Congressional Democrats

By tkovach05 - Jul 7th, 2007 at 1:23 pm EDT

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So I was clicking around on the political pages and blogs when I ran across this piece on the CNN Political Ticker here:

"President Bush accused Democratic lawmakers on Saturday of being unable to live up to their duties, citing Congress' inability to pass legislation to fund the federal government. Read More »

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Barack's Bringin' in the Cash, or My Return from a Two-month Blogging Hiatus.

By tkovach05 - Jul 7th, 2007 at 12:15 pm EDT

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So, I know that I haven't written a new post for this blog in almost 2 months, but whatever. It's not like anyone actually reads this thing anyway. I already know what goes on inside my head. I don't need the Internet to remind me. But here we go again, regardless. Read More »

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Internship Opportunities in Iowa and Nevada

By Camp Obama - May 30th, 2007 at 1:57 pm EDT

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As you know, Nevada and Iowa are two of the most important early states this primary season, and they both are of critical importance to Senator Obama's campaign. The more people we have on the ground talking to voters and spreading Senator Obama's message, the better we will do.

Thats where you come in. We are currently looking to recruit interns to work full-time in either Iowa or Nevada. If you are interested, please e-mail your resume to campobama@barackobama.com with either "Iowa" or "Nevada" in the subject line.

We need as many people as possible to go to these two early states, and we can only accomplish this with your help. Thank you so much, and we hope to hear from you soon.

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Fox News Horrible Record Attacking Black People! Ban the Presidential Debates Deal! Please Sign Letter

By One Million MySpace Friends for Obama'08 in Ohio! - Apr 9th, 2007 at 1:20 pm EDT

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Dear Friends,

Fox News has a horrible record of attacking Black people, politicians,
and cultural institutions. But, at this very moment, the Congressional
Black Caucus has agreed to partner with Fox News to host presidential
debates prior to the 2008 elections.

For the CBC Institute to partner with an organization like Fox
News--given its hostility to Black political interests--is
shameful. I've signed on with ColorOfChange.org to help prevent them
from making this serious mistake. Will you join us in calling on the
Institute to drop its talks with Fox?

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The CBC Institute, an organization led by Black members of Congress,
claims to share ColorOfChange.org's goal of politically empowering
Black America. But after being presented with the case against Fox
and hearing vocal opposition from over 12,000 ColorOfChange.org
members, the CBC Institute elected to complete a deal with Fox.
We'd expect that they would recognize the obvious: that validating
Fox News as legitimate hurts Black America, and undermines the
CBC's credibility.

Fox's record is horrible. Their on-air personalities and regular
guests consistently marginalize Black politicians, culture, and
institutions. In fact, Sen. Obama has stopped giving interviews to Fox
reporters because of repeated attacks on his character and intimations
that he has connections to terrorism. Even the Democratic Party in
Nevada backed out of doing a debate with Fox because of remarks about
Obama, but the CBC Institute hasn't moved.

And it's not just Obama. Here's a sampling of the kind of offensive
messages put out on Fox News:

* Commenting on Hannity & Colmes about the speakers at Coretta Scott
King's funeral, featured guest Mary Matalin said, "I think these civil
rights leaders are nothing more than racists" who are keeping "their
African-American brothers enslaved."

* Jesse Lee Peterson, a regular guest who is Black said: "Kwanzaa is a
racist, pagan, Marxist holiday" and then claimed that the "so-called
seven principles of Kwanzaa are socialist, Marxist, separatist
ideas... if a white man started a white holiday, seven-day white
holiday, black folks would be burning down America."

* Erik Rush, another Black guest, labeled Sen. Obama's church as cultish
and separatist for espousing values of black unity and black
empowerment (Fox regularly selects Black guests it knows will
undermine Black causes). Rush said he replaced the word "black" with
"white" in the church's mission statement and "Suddenly, I was looking
at this really scary doctrine. You know, it was something that you'd
see in more like a cult or an Aryan Brethren church I would go beyond
saying they're Afrocentric. They're African centric. They refer to
themselves as an African people and that somewhat disturbs me from the
viewpoint of well, do they consider themselves Americans? Do they
consider themselves Christians?"

* On The Big Story, John Gibson, warned viewers that nearly half of all
children under the age of five in the United States are minorities.
"You know what that means? Twenty-five years and the majority of the
population is Hispanic." He then urged viewers to "do your duty. Make
more babies." He later repeated: "To put it bluntly, we need more
babies."

Given it's record, Fox News shouldn't enjoy the support of Black
political or cultural institutions connected to the Congressional
Black Caucus. We believe (or at least hope) the CBC Institute will
change course once it realizes that Black America, if not all of
America, is watching.

Please join us in making sure they hear us, loud and clear.

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Thanks.

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Hooray for Women of the 21st Century! Eric Keroack Resigns! Hooray!

By One Million MySpace Friends for Obama'08 in Ohio! - Apr 9th, 2007 at 1:16 pm EDT

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Family Planning Official Resigns

Friday, March 30, 2007; A07

The doctor in charge of the Bush administration's family planning programs resigned yesterday after revealing that state Medicaid officials had taken action against his private medical practice in Massachusetts.

Eric Keroack, an obstetrician-gynecologist, became deputy assistant secretary for population affairs in November, advising Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt on matters such as reproductive health and adolescent pregnancy. He oversaw $283 million in annual family planning grants designed to provide access to contraceptive supplies, especially for low-income people.

Family planning advocates panned the pick, noting that Keroack also had served as medical director of A Woman's Concern, a nonprofit Christian pregnancy counseling organization in Massachusetts that on its Web site opposed the distribution of contraceptives as "demeaning to women."

In an e-mail to colleagues yesterday, Keroack said he was resigning to focus on appealing the action by Massachusetts Medicaid officials. HHS officials declined to provide more details, and state Medicaid officials could not be reached.

"It's a good day for women's health," said Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. "Keroack was unqualified to run the nation's family planning program. . . . The nation's family planning program should be run by a champion for women's health and safety."

-- Christopher Lee

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By One Million MySpace Friends for Obama'08 in Ohio! - Apr 9th, 2007 at 10:43 am EDT

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Obama Endorses Senator Durbin's Fair Elections Now Act!

By One Million MySpace Friends for Obama'08 in Ohio! - Apr 7th, 2007 at 12:34 pm EDT

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Presidential Hopefuls on Public Financing and FENA
The three front-runners for the Democratic nomination for
President are on the record in support of public financing of
elections. John Edwards, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama have
all come out strongly in favor of a change to the system. You
can see Edwards' endorsement here
Link and Clinton's here
Link. See this clip
Link of Obama's recent endorsement
of Senator Richard Durbin's Fair Elections Now Act, and
exhortation for public pressure on the issue here. Republican
presidential hopeful, John McCain, meanwhile has been less
supportive of public financing while on the campaign trail this
year, but has supported it strongly in the past
Link at the state level as well as
for the Presidential race. He has joined Obama in promising to
run under public financing in the general election if his
opponent agrees to do the same. It's encouraging to see
discussion of and support for this policy from the presidential
field; nobody knows better than the candidates racing to raise
the millions they'll need to get to the White House that
campaign financing needs an overhaul.

Speaking of the Fair Elections Now Act, it's been popping up in
the news left and right drawing positive editorials and LOTS of
attention on the letters to editor page
Link thanks to efforts of Public
Campaign Action Fund members. You can write your own letter to
the editor using our tool here
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New Mexico Close to Judicial Public Financing
Great news! New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson plans to turn
his endorsement of public financing for judicial races into
action when he signs the bill recently passed out of the state
legislature in special session that would expand the state's
public financing program to include state Supreme and Appellate
court races: Link. He plans to
line-item veto the "poison pill" provision in the bill that
would require voters to amend the state constitution to
eliminate retention elections (making those judges run in
partisan races) before the public financing system could take
effect. New Mexico already has public financing available to
candidates for the state's Public Regulation Commission, and the
city of Albuquerque approved public financing for municipal
elections by ballot initiative in 2005. Many thanks to New
Mexico Common Cause and Public Campaign Board member Richard
Romero, for their efforts in passing this bill!

Maryland Campaign in Final Days
Thousands of emails, hundreds of calls, and a pair of lobby days
later we are in the last week of the Maryland legislative
session: the moment of truth for a Clean Elections win in the
state this year Link. In fact, the
Senate is schedule to vote today on the bill that would bring
full public financing for legislative elections in Maryland --
the state Assembly is already in support. Though Senate
President Mike Miller (D) is notoriously opposed to Clean
Elections, the gossip in Annapolis is that grassroots organizing
(all those emails, all those calls) and the tireless efforts of
Progressive Maryland, Maryland NAACP, Maryland Common Cause,
Maryland Sierra Club, and The Reform Institute, have really
boosted support among previously ambivalent legislators for
passing Clean Elections. It's going to be quite a showdown -- as
soon as we get the results of the vote we'll let you know!

April Showers?
Did Uncle Sam give you a refund on your federal tax return this
year? How about turning a little bit of that around with an
investment in winning Clean Elections through a gift to Public
Campaign Action Fund Link Your tax
dollars fund the policies of the country, what better way to
ensure they are spent responsibly than by establishing Clean
Elections systems that make elected officials accountable to
you?

VOICEing Support
Public Campaign staffers checked their inboxes a few weeks ago
and found an email from National Field Director Jeannette
Galanis: "I think we need to go to Iowa." Why? Because a
dedicated group of legislators and activists from Iowa Citizens
for Community Improvement and the Clean Elections Coalition had
advanced full public financing legislation, the Voter-Owned Iowa
Clean Elections (VOICE) Act, farther than they ever had in the
state: far enough to make a win this year a real possibility.

A pair of bills, HSB 105 championed by Representative Pam Jochum
(D-Dubuque) and SSB 1173 headed up by Senator Mike Connolly
(D-Dubuque) have passed out of their respective State Government
committees and are moving on to Appropriations, where they look
to face formidable opposition. We are gearing up for a full
court press grassroots field effort; getting calls in to
legislators in support of VOICE, getting the word out through
door-to-door canvassing and phone banking, and ramping up
lobbying efforts in Des Moines to win Clean Elections for Iowa!
You can find out more about the campaign here
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Blog/News Roundup
Have you been reading Paid For By?, Public Campaign Action
Fund?s blog? In case you missed this week, check out the stories
we've been following on?

- New Jersey Governor John Corzine signing the bill continuing
his state's Clean Elections Pilot project
Link />- Presidential candidates raising money any way they can --
ethics? What ethics? Link
- Energy for change: watch Senator Durbin's passionate speech
Link introducing the Fair Elections
Now Act on the floor of the Senate here.

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Another Chance to Vote Online for Barack

By Jim Robbins - Mar 5th, 2007 at 10:51 pm EST

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Another Chance to Vote Online for Barack

Time for Barack supporters to rock another online Democratic presidential poll:

Go to: Link

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Website Improvement Suggestion: "My Recruiting"

By Jim Robbins - Mar 5th, 2007 at 1:11 am EST

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Next to fundraising I believe that recruiting others to join the campaign and sign up here at BarackObama.com should be our highest priority. I believe one of the best ways to do this is to let others see Barack in action on video. And we are fortunate to have such a wealth of video clips available on the sites like YouTube. Links to these clips can be added to your emails like any other website link. No downloading or attachments are required.

Individual personal emails to your friends have order of magnitude greater impact than any communication from the campaign. And you can start with any of your friends regardless of their politics by showing them Barack's great sense of humor. The clips of Barack on the Daily Show, Monday Night Football and Jay Leno are hard to beat. Once you have sparked someone's interest you can give them clips of Barack's inspirational speeches. No need for you to have to convince them why you support Barack. None of us could do that as well as he can. And we have the perfect vehicle for putting out his message.

Why not set a recruiting goal for yourself just like your fundraising goal? How about setting a personal goal to send out at least one email per day. No problem if you miss a few days; we are all busy outside of the campaign. Just try to average 7 emails per week, 30 per month.

I believe we should have a new category called "My Recruiting" with the same type of thermometer graphic and "My Fundraising" to track our recruiting progress. The two go hand in hand because new recruits will contribute to the campaign. And creating this new category ought to be relatively easy because most features can be copied from "My Fundraising."

Thanks for listening and please let me know your thoughts on my idea for potentially improving our website.

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Watch Barack's Selma Speech on C-Span

By Jim Robbins - Mar 3rd, 2007 at 8:36 pm EST

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Watch Barack's Selma Speech on C-Span scheduled (subject to change) at 12:30 EST

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The Tiger Woods of Politics - Barack Obama

By Jim Robbins - Mar 3rd, 2007 at 7:39 pm EST

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Below is the text of Maureen Dowd's interview of Barack from today's NYTimes. I post this NOT to give any credance to this mindless gossip queen. But I'd love to see others the media start referring Barack as the "Tiger Woods of Politics."

Maureen Dowd: Where’s His Right Hook?

(I'm not posting this for the benefit of anyone who may want to read what Mo Do has to say. I'm posting this to show what a classy guy Barack Obama is and how his common sense comments to Mo Do show her up to be a superficial [even though he accused her of asking "deep" questions] little twit anxious to stir up a human cock fight between him and Hillary. As is all too often the case, Dowd is trying to stir up a tempest and inspire a rift that the Democratic party definitely doesn't need so soon after winning the majority in both houses in Congress. Obama wouldn't oblige and I'm surprised that he still allows her to sniff his butt on the campaign trail.)

WASHINGTON

As I sit across from Barack Obama in his Senate office, I feel like Ingrid Bergman in “The Bells of St. Mary’s,” when she plays a nun who teaches a schoolboy who’s being bullied how to box.

I’m just not certain, having watched the fresh-faced senator shy away from fighting with the feral Hillary over her Hollywood turf, that he understands that a campaign is inherently a conflict.

The Democrats lost the last two excruciatingly close elections because Al Gore and John Kerry did not fight fiercely and cleverly enough.

After David Geffen made critical comments about Hillary, she seized the chance to play Godzilla stomping on Obambi.

As a woman, she clearly feels she must be aggressive in showing she can “deck” opponents, as she put it — whether it’s Saddam with her war resolution vote or Senator Obama when he encroaches on areas that she and Bill had presumed were wrapped up, like Hollywood and now the black vote.

If Hillary is in touch with her masculine side, Barry is in touch with his feminine side.

He turned up his nose at his campaign’s sharp response to Hillary and her pinstriped thug, Howard Wolfson. He told The Times’s Jeff Zeleny that he had not been engaged in the vituperative exchange because he was traveling on a red-eye flight, getting a haircut and taking his daughters to school.

I ask why he couldn’t have managed the donnybrook while he traveled and did errands. Since he’s sitting across from me using his BlackBerry, I wonder: “Where was your BlackBerry? Did your aides not ask you how to respond or did you not want to ride herd on them — even just to tell them to ignore Hillary?”

“Look, I came up through politics in Chicago,” he says. “When I arrived in Chicago in 1985, I didn’t know a single person. Seventeen years later, I was the United States senator and in a position to run for president. So I must know a little something about politics.”

Channeling Ingrid, I press on and say: “I know you want to run a high-minded campaign, but do you worry that you might be putting yourself on a pedestal too much? Because people also want to see you mix it up a little. That’s how they judge how you’d be with Putin.”

“When I get into a tussle,” he replies, “I want it to be over something real, not something manufactured. If someone wants to get in an argument with me, let’s argue about how we’re going to fix the health care system or where we need to go on Iraq.”

If campaigns follow the arc of the hero myth. ...

“What’s the demon that I’ve slain?” he finishes. “You’re getting kind of deep on me here. I think that, for me, the story was overcoming a father’s absence and reconciling the different strands of my background and coming out whole.”

Has he ever been struck by the similiarity of Bill Clinton’s growing up without his father?

“You don’t want to go on with too much pop psychology,” he replies. “Somebody said that every man is either trying to live up to his father’s expectations or trying to make up for his father’s mistakes. And in some ways, when your father’s not there, you’re doing both. You try to live up to the expectations of somebody who’s not present to tell you that you’ve done a good job, but you’re also trying to make up for the mistakes that partially led to his absence.”

Does Al Gore have first dibs on the presidency?

“I love Al Gore,” he replies. “He’s a smart guy.” He said he liked Mr. Gore’s seriousness on issues he cares deeply about. “This sounds clichéd, but this week I had five mothers of folks headed to Iraq cry during rope lines where I was shaking hands and had me hug ’em. This stuff is just not a game. ... Now that doesn’t mean that there’s not the basic blocking and tackling of politics. I’ve got to raise money. I’ve got to manage my press. We’ve got to respond rapidly to attacks. But what I don’t want to do is get drawn into the sport of it.”

When the Tiger Woods of politics goes to a civil rights commemoration in Selma, Ala., this weekend — just as the story breaks that his white ancestors had slaves — he will compete for attention with Hillary and the man billed as the first black president. How does he feel about the Clintons double-teaming him?

Talking about the woman he described at the Beverly Hills fund-raiser as smarter, better-looking and meaner then he is, he grins: “My wife’s pretty tough.”

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The Way to Win

By Jim Robbins - Mar 3rd, 2007 at 7:28 pm EST

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Yesterday I started reading "The Way to Win, Taking the White House in 2008" by Mark Halperin and John F. Harris.

If you are serious about learning how to take on the Clintons in this campaign and want to help the campaign respond to "Swiftboating" and the right wing dominated Freak Show led by Drudge, Rush, and Fox News then you have to get this book and read it cover to cover.

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Submit Your Personal Video to ABCNews

By Jim Robbins - Mar 2nd, 2007 at 1:17 pm EST

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ABCNews is looking for personal video from supporters of the candidates.

Lets show them Barack has the most support!

Submit your video here: Link

Do you have the tools or knowhow to help other Barack supporters make their own video? Time to Get Busy!

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Barack on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart

By Jim Robbins - Feb 28th, 2007 at 7:13 pm EST

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Forward this one to everyone you know!

Barack on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart

Credit and kudos to Barbara Anastasia and Aaron C for this incredible find.

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IMPORTANT - PLEASE READ: OBAMA CLEVELAND RALLY TICKET INFO and PLANNING MEETING

By Buckeyes For Obama - Feb. 26th Cleveland Rally! - Feb 18th, 2007 at 12:50 pm EST

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Dear Friends,

Senator Barack Obama is bringing his message of unity and change to Cleveland on Monday, February 26th! Doors will open at 6:00 PM at the Tri-C (Cuyahoga Community College) Eastern campus gymnasium.

This event is free to the public but you will need a ticket to enter. To print your ticket in advance, click on the Cleveland Rally link on BarackObama.com or email BuckeyesForObama@gmail.com.

To help ensure a speedy entry into the Tri-C gymnasium, please be sure to print your ticket in advance, fill it out completely and bring it with you to the rally on the 26th.

Anyone interested in volunteering at the event should join members of Sen. Obama's campaign staff for a planning meeting this Tuesday, February 20th at 4:30 PM in the Old Lobby of the Cleveland Playhouse at 8500 Euclid Ave, Cleveland or email BuckeyesforObama@gmail.com.

Please do not hesitate to email with any questions. We look forward to working with you at this historical moment to create an inspiring event in Cleveland!

Sincerely,

Russell @ Buckeyes for Obama

BuckeyesForObama@gmail.com

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