Where is Barack on this Palestinian Holocaust ? ? /
His Silence is killing more and more people everyday!!!
Is he really continuing Bush's strategy? No action is also and action.
What you do speaks so loud I can not hear what you say Barack.
Instead of spending millions of dollars on Inauguration parties AND 3 BILLION dollars to finance the Gaza invasion how about if we help the palestinian women and children.
Election Day is finally here. Everyone I know is very hopeful, but still holding their breath. Our hopes have been crused before. My husband and I and most of our friends agree that we've never watched so much TV cable news shows in our lives. I can manage to have a life during the day but at night I HAVE to watch, or check online to my new favorite political web sites and blogs to track this election, state by state, vote by vote.
I thought I knew what grassroots organizing was but none of us has ever seen anything on the scale of Obama's ground effort. I am so proud to have been part of it. Like many of you, I was out at 6am today with my teenage daughter, putting GOTV signs for Obama on doors before people headed off to work. I am working the phone later today. When I wasn't volunteering, I was taking food to volunteer offices or feeling like I should go man the phones somewhere. No one has inspired me to do anything like that before.
But then, it has never felt as important, urgent really, to make sure nothing gets in the way of electing Obama. He is the right man for this time in history. And I believe him when he says that the election isn't about him, it's about us. Barack's words have inspired us and allowed us to really believe that we could be a great nation again. But the definition of "great" has changed. We don't want to just be the richest or the toughest or have the most consumer goods. What Obama has done is asked us to accept nothing less than excellence in ourselves and our leaders, our families and our communities. We can't allow ourselves to say, "it doesn't matter" about anything because it all matters. Doing what is right, being the best people, living with integrity---it all matters.
My hope for all of us who participated in this campaign and even those who didn't, is that we hold on to the unity and the passion that Obama inspired in us and not allow ourselves to fall back into complacency. We live in a new age, a global economy and we are facing many challenges. We no longer have the luxury of the mantra "the US is the greatest nation in the world" unless we make choices that really make it so. We have to rebuild the eroded foundation under those words and we have to earn the right to say them.
I hope this campaign lives on in our hearts and in the American psyche long after November 4, 2008 has passed. We all stepped up for Obama. Now let's step up for ourselves.
May this night be filled with celebration, hope and new beginnings.
Marilyn F.
Last night I made calls to undecided voters from the Forest Avenue office. I am still surprised that some people haven't made up their minds. You want to ask what has to happen that will tilt them in one direction or the other!
Despite calling around dinner time, people were generally nice enough. Lots of people who won't share their choice with the caller, if they've made one. Out of over 100 calls, I only had one for McCain and that was a 25 year old guy. Everyone else was for Obama, leaning Obama, undecided or won't tell.
The room was full of volunteers of all types and it was great to be there. If you haven't done this yet, it matters and makes you feel part of the movement towards the White House.
Hope to meet you there.
Gosh, I really haven't had time to blog or read the blogs lately but I want to share with you what Andrea and I are doing to kick off GOTV in Fayetteville, NC. We are hosting a "Barack-O-Ween" Dinner at our Campaign for Change Headquarters on Friday, Halloween for the Obama Field Organizers, Democratic Party Candidates Organizers and Volunteers. Our Trick or Treat Bags include the following. Feel free to duplicate this or make your own Treat Bags! :
“NOW, LET’S GO OUT AND CHANGE THE WORLD!
There is such an energy in this country right now. It almost takes my breath away. After too many years of people feeling like they had to vote for the person who was the lesser of two evils, we have a leader in Obama that we can believe in. Someone who represents all that America is supposed to be about.
I have grown so tired of slogans and sound bites and empty rhetoric, not to mention all the fear-mongering coming from the McCain camp. Mediocrity has been the norm for too long in America. Obama inspires excellence and integrity and, as a nation, we should accept nothing less.
People from all over America are standing up for Obama and for the real American ideals, which are about honesty, compassion, human rights, intellegence and tolerance. And when this campaign is over, I hope that we remember that the real work is just beginning. No single person can make all the changes in this country that must be done. We all have to keep working to get this country back from the chaos and disaster of the past 8 years.
I hope we have a landslide but none of us should rest easy until the election is over. It has been an honor working on this campaign. Let's keep up this momentum.
If I can do one thing for all of the people I care about in these days before the most important election I've ever lived through, it is to tell them to vote. I hope that the vote they cast is for Barack Obama.
I know that so many of the following things are totally in the realm of Election Clichés, but they are all true and they are all very important, especially now.
EVERY VOTE COUNTS. Seriously. You have to vote. Vote early if you can. I'm going to vote tomorrow at 8:30 in downtown Portland. You can find your voting location here: www.voteforchange.com
You don't have to vote early but VOTE. This is a close race and there's already a lot of talk about ballot shenanigans. Don't let another unfit President make us cringe about being American for 4 years OVER A TECHNICALITY! I want to say proudly to the rest of the world that I'm an American. Seriously. I haven't been able to do that for too long.
VOLUNTEERING IS IMPORTANT (AND EASY). If you're on this site, you probably already know that. But do some more. Why not? There's still plenty of undecided voters that need to be called and canvassed. I plan on doing a few hours of calling this Sunday at the Forest Ave office.
MONEY IS GOOD (GIVE IT TO PEOPLE YOU BELIEVE IN). If you're reading this tonight, the Obama campaign is at an important crossroads. The next battles will have to be chosen carefully and fought well, and your donation can help. And making that contribution by midnight is a huge bonus.
IT'S NOT OVER TILL IT'S OVER. You can volunteer right up to November 4th. Every bit helps. Check out the Obama Action Center here to see how you can help.
What can you do for the most important election America has faced in a long time?
I'm working on organizing an election night watch party, so stay tuned. Come out and watch with other supporters and celebrate VICTORY.
-sean
As the final push comes for this Presidential Campaign, I can't help but feel the optimism inside of me about to explode. We are so close to being able to once again have a leader we can trust and get behind as we all work together to repair the abuse inflicted on us by the last, terrible administration. I love Obama's message of hope and the substance which supports it. I love his integrity. I know that Joe Biden could take the helm in an instant if called upon to do so. My daughter, a high school sophomore, is helping in this campaign as well. Young people understand that this election holds the key to their futures too.
This is such a historic election. May the Obama-Biden ticket be a landslide for real change!!
1%, or 1 vote out of 100There have been 12 Presidential elections that were decided by less than a 1% margin; meaning if less than 1% of the voters in certain states had changed their mind to the other candidate the outcome of the entire election would have been different. More than half were decided by less than a 2% margin.
In 2004, 57,787 votes would have given us President Kerry.In 2000, 269 votes would have given us President GoreIn 1996, 575,515 votes would have given us President Dole.
From ABC News:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/scienceandsociety/2008/09/squeakers.html
=========="Squeakers"Ned PotterABC NewsSeptember 29, 2008How close have Presidential elections been? Closer, perhaps, than we ever guessed. Mike Sheppard, a grad student in statistics at Michigan State, has done a mathematical exercise that shows it.He ran a computer program to answer this question: "What is the smallest number of total votes that need to be switched from one candidate to another, and from which states, to affect the outcome of the election?"The answer: in some years, very, very few. Take a look at his analysis HERE. It shows the powerful interaction between the popular vote and the electoral college.[...]==========
Full article here:http://blogs.abcnews.com/scienceandsociety/2008/09/squeakers.html
Detailed analysis here, including colored maps:https://www.msu.edu/~sheppa28/elections.html-Mike Sheppard
This isn't much more than a test post as I get this blog up and running, but there's more to come.
Lots of events coming up. Keep an eye on the group schedules.
And I had a very helpful email from west end captain Michael Labriola that I'll paste in here. Good reminders to keep in mind as we get closer to the deadline:
Maine for Obama,
I worked on the campaign in the primaries and I know there are hundreds of volunteers who want to work for Barack Obama this fall in the swing states, but a lot of these volunteers, students and recent college graduates like myself (Stanford 2008), don't have the resources to get where they are needed.
If you have 25,000 miles on any airline, you likely have enough miles to sponsor a verified volunteer's trip to work in a swing state! Registering new voters and talking to undecided voters face to face is the best way to fight all the smear campaigns and attack ads we are facing.
In the primaries one woman with a phone line raised two million miles for Obama! For the general election we can raise even more!
To get involved as a sponsor or volunteer please email alisa@travelforchange.org or just visit TravelforChange.org and please pass this on!
Our Island Precinct Captain O.B. O'Brien is a Maine delegate off to Denver and writing a daily blog. He welcomes you to share the experience:
www.OB4Obama.blogspot.com
Monday Night Prime Time Speaker: The Future First Lady Michelle Obama
Tuesday Night Prime Time Speaker: Senator Hillary Clinton
Wednesday Night Prime Time Speaker: The Future Vice President Joseph Biden
Thursday Night Prime Time Speaker: The Future President Barack Obama
I am very proud to support him!!!
Make sure you send it the link to as many people as you can, since most people will not watch it in its entirety and they will only listen to the pundits like racist-Buchanan!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWe7wTVbLUU
Pass the link to your friends.
Let's keep hope ALIVE-
-Vote
-Canvas
-Phonebank
-Donate
Fired UP
READY to GO!!!
Yesterday as I watched the Kennedys endorse Obama, tears came to my eyes. It's been a while since I felt that way. We are on the verge of something great today, and Teddy and Caroline get it!
My first presidential vote was a write-in absentee ballot for Eugene McCarthy. Since then I've vacillated in my political activities, but in 2004 I'd "had enough." and got active in the campaign to support Kerry. My original caucus vote was for Wes Clark, but I forged on working for Kerry in what I expected to be a victory. I was stunned, but mostly saddened and embarrassed, when Bush snagged 4 more years and I swore I'd never participate again. But that was BB (before Barack)!
Not really before Barack, I'd heard his speech at the Dem. convention and was rivited. However, that was before the glumness and futility that held me in its grip after the 2004 election.
So much of my life has served as a tutor for my attitude today. Let me just say that I have worked with women who have ridden on the coattails of their husband's success. It wasn't pretty. Women who get ahead on their own merits are much better to work with.
This candidate...Barack Obama...has touched my belief system in a way that I resisted for a while, but I've found that hope can sometimes overcome cynicism, and belief becomes impossible to ignore.
"So let us begin anew - remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof. Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. " JFK
Yes we can.
