HI Friendsand Neighbors,
It’s yourweekly phone bank reminder.
We will becalling swing states SATURDAY AND SUNDAY.
Come be an integral part of this historic election.
There areonly 11 days left until the election. The phone calls we are making this weekend are allintended to “get out the vote” in early voting states.
If you are shy, or worried aboutgettting angry people on the line, don’t be. We are calling to give people valuable information ofhow and where to vote this weekend and most of them appreciate it.
The food isgood, the energy is wonderful and it’s worth a couple hours of your time.
If callingisn’t your thing. Bring some food. Bring some theater tickets to raffle to callers, do on-lineresearch to answer the questions that are raised on the phones. There are a lotof way you can help.
Thisweekends opportunites to call are as follows
SECONDSTREET PHONE BANK
Saturday10-6pm, Sunday 11-6pm
1221 2ndStreet, fourth floor, Santa Monica, CA 90401
(parkingin the city structure next door to office)
http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/lastcallforchange/gshkjh
http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/gs5bkd
Don’tforget your cell phones and chargers.
There isalways food to eat and something to do.
Thiselection is too important to sit out.
Hope to seeyou ALL there.
Stephen
PLEASE JOIN US WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY 12PM-6PM TO CALL A SWING STATE
Dear Obama Supporter,
This week we are running two special WEEKDAY PHONE BANKS.
Wednesday October 22nd and Thursday October 23rd. Noon to 6pm.
At our Swank Downtown Santa Monica Phone bank:
1221 2nd Street Fourth Floor
Santa Monica, CA 90401a
Come for lunch or after work or for the whole day.
We’ll have some good food, in a great environment for an essential cause.
Make a difference in these last two weeks before election day.
Bring a friend, a cell phone and a phone charger. If you cant make calls, drop off some food or help us gather callers from around santa monica during the bank hours.
(Wednesday we’ll raffle off 2 fifth row tickets to that evenings Clippers preseason game)
for more information or to rsvp click here:
http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/gpr2q9
HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!
COME HELP US BUILD OUR TWO SANTA MONICA SUPER PHONE BANKS. BRING YOUR FRIENDS, MAKE CALLS TO KEY SWING STATES, GET SOME FREE FOOD, MEET PEOPLE.
THIS WEEKEND AND EVERY WEEKEND UNTIL NOVEMBER 4TH, BARACK OBAMA NEEDS YOU.
BE A PART OF THE BIGGEST ELECTION IN OUR HISTORY BEFORE ITS TOO LATE. ONLY 20 DAYS LEFT.
BRING YOUR CELL PHONES AND CHARGERS AND IF YOU CAN, CLICK ON THE LINKS AND RSVP.
IF YOU WANT TO HELP US GET THE WORD OUT WITH FLYERS AND TALKING TO YOUR FELLOW STUDENTS DURING THE WEEK PLEASE EMAIL DAMON AT damonlmoore@hotmail.com
PHONE BANKS:
SANTA MONICA SUPERBANK @ 2nd STREET
1221 Second Street, Santa Monica CA 90401
SATURDAY OCT 18th
http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/gshkwh
SUNDAY OCT 19th http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/phonebank/gshk9p
SWING STATE SUPERBANK @ LA FARM
3000 West Olympic Boulevard Santa Monica, CA 90401
http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/lastcallforchange/gs5bkf
SUNDAY OCT 19th
MARKYOUR CALENDARS NOW! October 25,10:00 AM, Long Beach Convention Center.
Boomers for Obama RALLY plus FREE admission to the Baby Boomers Expo.How to be Healthier, Wealthier, Wiser...and Live It Up!
BABYBOOMERS come together - Stand up for CHANGE - NOW!
Wedid it in the '60s & '70s, we need CHANGE, NOW more than ever!
Obama-BidenNOW!
Planto attend the Rally. We can get the media to broadcast the rally tothe swing states. We needthe people. Count yourself in.
SIGNUP NOW. Visit www.BarackObama.comsearch Events,put in zip code 90802 and info will be displayed, Sign up for the RALLY.
WENEED HELP. TO ORGANIZE ANDCOORDINATE. CALL 310-271-2118 TOVOLUNTEER. EMAIL turnerbradshaw@yahoo.com
BabyBoomers Rally in Long Beach, CA, 10:00 A.M.
October25, 2008, to Kick-off 9 Day Countdown to
PresidentialElection and Go to the Boomers Show
LongBeach, CA, October 25, 2008 - Baby boomer, men and women – ages 42-62-who remember their significance in the 60’s and 70’s, and “change” as definedby JFK, Martin Luther King, and John Lennon - come together in the 2008election year to how their support for Barak Obama.
TheBoomers for Obama rally takesplace on Saturday, October 25 at 10:00 A.M. in Long Beach, CA in front of theLong Beach Convention Center. Celebrities are invited to participate, and will be introduced to themedia on the Green Carpet. Thedate of the Rally is just 9 days prior to the Presidential election, and providesthe opportunity for baby boomers to have your voices heard – as they wereduring the decades of “change” during your high school and college years.
Babyboomers, you are the nation’s hot topic. You represent the largest, wealthiest demographic. You are concerned about finances,Social Security,taxes,careers, health, aging, parents and children.
TheBoomers Show, How to be Healthier, Wealthier, Wiser…and Live it Up!”, is being independently produced atthe Long Beach Convention Center, featuring exhibits and seminars relevant tothe needs of baby boomers. AllRally participants will receive complimentary admission to the Boomers Show.
Therally and the Boomers Show mark activities that will take place in Long
BeachOctober 25–26, kicking-off” Boomer Days” in Long Beach.
Foradditional information on the Rally visit www.BarackObama.com search
Events,put in zip code 90802 and info will be displayed For information on the BoomersShow visit www.boomersshow.com.
"Sarah Palin has many virtues. ...the constructive act of governance is another matter. She has not been engaged in national issues, does not have a repertoire of historic patterns and, like President Bush, she seems to compensate for her lack of experience with brashness and excessive decisiveness."
Finally in clear and concise words someone has expressed what has bothered me most about George Bush and his administration and why McCain/Palin should not be elected. And he is a conservative!
Thank you David Brooks
Hello All,
Please take time to read "The Limits of Power" by Andrew J. Bacevich.
I have just seen the Bill Moyer's interview (http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/08152008/profile.html)
and Mr. Bacevich raises important questions that must be addressed if we are going to move into the future with our most important core values intact as a nation, a people and as individuals.
He also brings to light that all of us as individuals must look to ourselves and our responsibilities as citizens.
I look forward to reading this book and being more conscious, aware, and hope to continue to come out of collective denial as to the huge failure of our government in regards to the most important issues that face us.
Thanks
Fellow Campaigners,
I have had the good fortune to hear from many people whose lives have been tremendously affected by the campaign. Dale Lockwood sent me the following piece that speaks with simple eloquence about how far we have fallen from where we were before Bush came into office. I pass it onto you in hopes that it will inspire you during this last week of Democratic National Platform meetings to do what you can to turn our country toward the direction you think it ought to go.
This Sunday, July 27th, from 10 to 4, I will be hosting a meeting for people able to come to Santa Monica to work on planks related to education, health care, the environment, and reforming our drug policies. People are welcome to bring ideas related to other planks they would like to be considered by those attending. I am at 1528 Yale Street #4. We will be meeting in the courtyard, the back garden, at the dining table, in the living room as we divide into smaller groups, work on particular planks, and come back together to review, reconsider, and revise what we have done. Please let me know whether you plan to come so that we can communicate prior to the meeting. When people are properly prepared, these meetings can be quite productive. I expect we will get much accomplished.
When you read Dale's story, you will see how writing can raise us above that fear which eats our souls. Phoning, tabling, registering, canvassing all advance a campaign, and they must be done. But, writing planks that will help develop a Democratic National Platform that has traction, that speaks to our particular concerns rather than gloss over them with platitudes--this is an opportunity for us to connect with our neighbors in a most meaningful exchange of ideas, ideas strong enough to put our country on the right track. If you wish to exercise the courage of your convictions, I hope you will sign up to help write this platform. I am sure you will be proud that you did.
Thank you for your support. And, if you are as impressed with Dale's piece as I am, I hope you will pass it onto others.
Best regards,
Gregg Heacock
My mother received a donation request from Barack Obama’s campaign last week. I sent $100 in her name because she had expressed approval of his candidacy early on. She liked what he said and how he said it. Her eyes were too feeble to read much of his books, but she was impressed by what she saw and heard of him on TV. Unfortunately, she died last November. She was 92 years old.
She was born in 1915, in Ohio, before women had the right to vote for President or hold public office. She could talk about crank telephones, Model T’s and the novelty of powered flight. She remembered horses and goats, victory gardens and Harry Truman. She would call a $100 donation today a “small fortune", since she remembered working for $5 a week when she was a young lady.
The summer before she died, one of my sisters and I tried to work out a way for her to fly to visit her latest great-grandchildren in Texas, whom she had never seen. She and my dad (who died in 2002 at 88) raised four kids starting in 1942. They survived the Depression and WWII, the threat of nuclear holocaust, race riots and political distress. They saw men walk on the Moon. They were lucky to travel extensively in retirement, seeing most of the U.S. and even visiting England once. But as they aged, their kids and grandkids scattered around the country to New York, California, Texas, Colorado, and Montana. Great-grandchildren were born in places that fragile old folks had a hard time getting to. Travel became difficult for her.
We soon found out just how difficult it had become.
In calling to arrange a flight, we were assured that, due to new travel restrictions, if my mother couldn’t show a proper State-issued ID, she probably wouldn’t be allowed to board an airplane. She hadn’t had a driver’s license for years. Her passport expired in ’88. This had not been a problem before.
When we looked into getting a photo ID in Colorado, where we live, newly established rules required sound, separate proof of citizenship. We didn’t have a birth certificate from 1915 because (according to family legend, at least) it was lost in a courthouse fire back in the day when such an event wasn’t uncommon. We had a baptismal certificate from 1924 (not acceptable); a census document from 1930 with her full name, age and parent’s names (no longer acceptable); high school graduation certificate, 1933 (no good); marriage certificate, 1938 (nope); her Social Security card from when the program was first created (nix). If we could get her to an Ohio probate court with these documents, we were told, and she signed a notarized affidavit, the Bureau of Vital Statistics could be persuaded to issue a replacement birth certificate.
Catch 22. Welcome to the post 9/11 world…
The irony of it! A 92-year-old member of the “Greatest Generation” couldn’t prove to the government’s satisfaction that she “had the right to be in the United States”!? (The actual words of one State office staffer, expressed with genuine sympathy.) Repeated trips to the DMV with these original documents would not move the rules.
The impression I came away with, rightly or wrongly, was that we weren’t just protecting America from terrorists. We were protecting ourselves from possible blame for failure. The rules would not bend for what I considered a clear case of injustice.
We contacted Congressmen, the Governor’s office, Ombudsmen, and they tried to be helpful. We started making progress. In fact, the rules were eased in August, not from our efforts alone, of course, but from other complaints, and we thought we had a chance. But it was too late. Her final decline began.As it happened, we had walked into an administrative donut hole. Our luck was such that an old woman who had lived through a momentous period of history in America was denied what amounted to her dying wish. We were defeated.
Welcome to America Afraid…
The lesson I take from this is that we are not living up to our claim to be “the land of the free, and the home of the brave”. We stand in fear of the nihilists who would just as soon see this old woman die in a fiery blast for the sake of some political grievance. We tremble at the thought of being blamed for failure to avert the next attack of a vile, unscrupulous enemy. After winning a long struggle against an ideology that promoted atheism as the cure for human misery, we now battle an ideology from the other extreme of theistic certainty, certain that the dominance of their theology would put humanity on the path of righteousness, at the expense of personal liberty.
We were struck dumb with fear when the towers collapsed.
But if we live in fear, we lose some of our dreams. We’re defeated in the pursuit of some of our wishes. In my mother’s case, a final wish.
What price do we pay for living in fear?
What cost for the semblance of security?
It’s time to add one word to the Pledge of Allegiance between “God” and “Indivisible”. As we inserted “Under God” as a slap to the Marxist theories of how men and women should live, we should slap the theocrats that want to dictate whether, and how, we worship.
The word is “Unafraid”.
If this “small fortune” donated to Obama’s campaign in her memory does anything to help him dispel the cloud of fear hanging over this country, I’m sure she would consider it well spent.
Check This Out!!
Here's a Floridian writing to Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish:"I am Floridian, and was told from the beginning that "my state would not count." For that reason, I stayed home ... to now "count" the Fl vote would disenfranchise me even more than if Fl were not to count at all. To the DNC & Howard Dean: I played by your rules, decided that you were telling me the truth when you said Fl votes would not count so I stayed home. Now, you're going to count it? Well, screw you"
Found on the net today. A very good point!!
Reply 5 - Posted by: Beagle, 3/25/2008 5:09:45 PM
In case you missed one comment after the article that does make this question 'our business,' Miss Princess Chelsea, here it is in part: '...Hillary said today that "you can't pick your family, but you can pick your pastor" (or something to that effect) in regard to Barack Obama's relationship with Jeremiah Wright. You can however pick your spouse. So in light of her own comments, should Hillary have disowned her husband after the Lewinsky scandal? Maybe, maybe not. But how do you attack a political opponent for standing by a close friend in spite of controversial actions or comments when you stood by your own husband after he acted disgracefully?' Sauce for the goose...
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Friends of the Campaign,
I am bothered when I hear people say that Obama and Hillary hold similar positions. This suggests that their proposals do not need to be carefully examined. I see huge differences, especially in their health plans.
Obama's Health Care Plan is based on competition and freedom of choice. At the center his plan are elements designed to protect patients and providers by lowering costs, increasing options, and maintaining his standards for care and delivery of services.
Obama’s National Health Insurance Exchange would create rules and standards for participating plans to make them more affordable and accessible. This Exchange would allow "any American . . . the opportunity to enroll in the new public plan or purchase an approved private plan" with "income-based . . . subsidies . . . for people and families who need it." People also have the option of keeping plans they already have. His plan also would protect doctors from overpriced malpractice insurance. Competition and standards built into this system will encourage a greater range of services at lower costs.
Obama’s plan includes an independent institute that would guide reviews and research of comparative effectiveness of various practices and approaches to health care. Again, this would promote options. As well, his plan would promote new models to improve patient safety and strengthen patient-doctor relationships.
Hillary's health care plan is mandated. While she claims that means everyone is covered, it actually locks down the program possibly limiting competition and freedom of choice. If the government program lacks an incentive for lowering costs, insurance companies and drug companies could keep their prices high. Like monopolies both public and private, the benefits of Hillary’s mandated program may be compromised by those delivering goods and services. Hillary’s plan lacks the flexibility and the checks and balances built into Obama’s program. As such, it lacks the accountability required to be successful.
Obama has the superior plan.
Respectfully,
Today was truly an historical event not just in my live but in the lives of so many americans that have lived before me. Americans that have struggled with the basic civil liberties that were prescribed in our constitution. People like the 93 year old asian women who spoke at the rally today in UCLA's Pauley Pavillion. She spoke of the times that she lived through where blacks and women weren't granted the common rights that so many of us can take for granted. She talked of a struggle and movement that were headed by so many strong individuals that never lived to see what her and I were so lucky to experience today in Westwood. Powerful women speaking out about the bright possiblities of America's future. Black women and white women standing together on the precipice of either a black man or a women securing the nomination for the democratic party. And all she wanted to say was how proud she was to be there to experience it, and be a part of something very special.
I watched women like Caroline Kennedy, daughter of great leader, Oprah Winfrey, a great leader in her own right, and Michelle Obama, the wife of one of the greatest men I have ever heard speak. They were there united to speak about the great positive possiblities that lie ahead when we unite behind a great man like Barack Obama. I listened intently and hung on every word. The buzz n that pavillion was electric and I was overwhelmed with the unity and hope that we all seemed to be experiencing. And if that wasn't enough, Michelle Obama had a suprise guest speaker that hadn't even realized she would be speaking when she woke up this morning. You could tell by the casual wardrobe she was wearing and the little to no makeup that she hadn't prepared any speech or planned on speaking at all, but I tell you that no one that day was admired by the thousands in Pauley Pavillion more than the first lady of California, Mrs. Maria Shriver. And when she stepped out onto that narrow black walkway I finally knew in my heart of hearts that California was going to go for Obama. The momentum is stronger than ever and the truth is ringing loud to more and more people everyday. That day all the women who spoke agreed that true change has always and will always start within ourselves. It starts inside of 93 year old asian women and 25 year old caucasian men. It all starts with all of us. Yes we can! Yes we can!
