if any of you want to help, there is a huge amount of smearing going on on Yahoo Answers. It seems the average user on there believes every email they've been forwarded, or what they've seen others say about those emails.. etc. I constantly see "Obama is a Muslim" all kinds of fake or out of context quotes attributed to Obama, there's new BS on there everyday. All the people who pick up this stuff from emails or blogs and spread it around seem to be on Y! answers! Come on there and help me out :)

Add me as a contact so you can see the questions I'm answering/asking, I'll do the same with you. Together we can help fight the smearing campaign. There is power in numbers. Yahoo Answers is only a small community of people, but it seems to be one that needs a lot of educating about the facts! HELP!

 http://answers.yahoo.com/my/profile;_ylt=AsN6DWldJ4HdqKUgQ9D3rGvS7BR.;_ylv=3?show=tG0bLSjJaa

Hi everyone,

My name is Sumi, and I am a volunteer supporter of Barack Obama for President.  I am helping to spread the word about Senator Obama's policies to help working families in these difficult economic times.

This is the first post featuring Senator Obama’s policies.  These issues are incredibly important as Pennsylvania gets ready for its big primary on April 22, and there will be many posts to come.

But I need your help!  Simply, we can't reach every Democrat in Pennsylvania without your help.  This is a grass-roots campaign that relies on person-to-person contact for its success, so your involvement is critically important.

Please send the attached Raising Wages document to EVERYONE you know in Pennsylvania.  Share them with friends, family, co-workers, union brothers and sisters, and anyone else you may know in the state.

Then, ask your contacts to pass them along to their contacts in Pennsylvania.  Ask them to send them to their email distribution lists, post them on the bulletin board at the union hall, school, place of worship, and workplace, and otherwise distribute them as widely as they can.  We want these documents spread as widely across Pennsylvania as possible.

We hope you will read this information and put it in the hands of as many people as you can.  You can make the difference — you can help Barack Obama win the Democratic nomination for President!

Thank you, and please email me with any questions.

-Sumi

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BARACK OBAMA’S PLAN TO RAISE WORKERS’ INCOMES
 
Background: America’s Workers and Pennsylvania’s Workers Deserve a Raise
 
Most Americans haven’t gotten a meaningful pay increase since President George W. Bush entered the White House.   
 
Since 2000, men’s real wages have increased only about 1 percent. Women’s wages have increased barely 5 percent over the past eight years, but their wages declined slightly during the last four years.  In fact, the last four years have been grim for the large majority of workers who live from paycheck to paycheck.  Real wages have gone down for middle and low-wage workers, while only the very highest paid workers — the top 5 percent — have seen significant pay raises.  As a result, working families’ incomes are falling.1  Working families in Pennsylvania also need a raise.  Since 2001, Pennsylvania’s workers at every wage level — except the very highest paid — have seen their real wages go down.2
 
Workers are doing their share, but they aren’t getting a fair share in return.  Workers’ productivity has increased almost 20 percent since 2000 and 5 percent over the last four years.  Meanwhile, the economy has been growing until recently, and employers have reported record profits.  American workers are getting paid less even though they are producing more.    
 
Without a raise, working families have been forced to go deeper into debt by borrowing against their homes and their credit cards.  But credit is getting tighter and personal bankruptcies and foreclosures have skyrocketed.  It’s not just a personal tragedy for the families that are falling out of the middle class. Consumer spending is two-thirds of the American economy. Without money coming in, working families can’t spend and keep our economy growing.  America’s wage stagnation is a serious threat to family economics, but it is an equally serious threat to our nation’s economic well-being.
 
That’s why we need to elect Barack Obama.  We need a president who is committed to restoring the American Dream by expanding and securing the middle class.  We need Barack Obama’s leadership to enact a plan to raise workers’ incomes.

BARACK OBAMA’S PLAN TO RAISE WORKERS’ INCOME
 
Invest in Creating High-Paying Manufacturing Jobs: Obama will invest in America’s highly-skilled manufacturing workforce and manufacturing centers to ensure that American workers have the skills and tools they need to pioneer the first wave of green technologies that will be in high demand throughout the world. Obama will also provide tax assistance and loan guarantees to the domestic auto industry to ensure that new fuel-efficient cars and trucks are build in the U.S. with American workers.
 
Create More High-Paying Construction and Green Energy Jobs: Obama will invest $150 billion over 10 years to advance the next generation of biofuels and fuel infrastructure, accelerate the commercialization of plug-in hybrids, promote development of commercial scale renewable energy, invest in low emissions coal plants, and begin transition to a new digital electricity grid.  Obama will also invest in rebuilding our nation’s infrastructure by creating a National Infrastructure Reinvestment Bank with an infusion of $60 billion in federal funds over 10 years to expand and enhance, not supplant, existing federal transportation investments. Together, these investments will create millions of new jobs and stimulate economic growth.
 
Fight for Fair Trade: Obama’s trade policy will open up foreign markets to support good American jobs and negotiate trade agreements that benefit Americans workers and spread strong and enforceable labor and environmental standards around the world.  In particular, Obama will work with the leaders of Mexico and Canada to amend NAFTA.  Obama will take trade enforcement seriously by making enforcement the top priority of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Office and increasing resources for USTR to carry out its responsibility to protect American interests.  He will also pressure the World Trade Organization to enforce trade agreements and stop countries from continuing unfair government subsidies to foreign exporters and nontariff barriers on U.S. exports. Obama will fight for stronger protections for U.S. intellectual property, and – in the case of China in particular – an end to an artificially devalued currency that puts U.S. companies at a perpetual disadvantage.
 
Change the Tax Code to Create High-Paying American Jobs: Obama will close tax loopholes that give companies billions of dollars in tax deductions for moving their operations overseas.  Obama introduced the Patriot Employer Act of 2007 with Senators Richard Durbin (D-IL) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) to reward companies that create good jobs with good benefits for American workers. The legislation would provide a tax credit to companies that maintain or increase the number of full-time workers in America relative to those outside the US; maintain their corporate headquarters in America; pay decent wages; prepare workers for retirement; provide health insurance; and support employees who serve in the military.
 
Support Worker Organizing: Unionized workers earn more and are more likely to have pensions and health insurance than non-union workers.  Obama supports and, as president will sign, the Employee Free Choice Act, a bipartisan effort to assure that workers can exercise their right to organize and secure initial agreements with their employers.  He will also fight to restore collective bargaining rights to nurses and other workers excluded as “supervisors,” and to ban employers’ practice of permanently replacing striking workers.  Obama also supports, and as president will sign, the Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act to assure public safety workers who put their lives on the line every day their right to bargain collectively.
 
Raise the Minimum Wage: Obama will fight to further increase the minimum wage to $9.50 an hour by 2011 and index it to inflation.
 
Provide Universal Health Care: Obama is committed to signing universal health legislation by the end of his first term in office that ensures all Americans have high-quality, affordable health care.  His plan will save a typical American family up to $2,500 a year on medical expenditures.
 
Expand and Increase the Earned Income Tax Credit: Obama will reward work by increasing the number of working parents eligible for Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) benefits, increasing the benefit available to parents who support their children through child support payments, increasing the benefit for families with three or more children and reducing the EITC marriage penalty.
 
Provide a Tax Cut for Working Families: Barack Obama will restore fairness to the tax code and provide 150 million workers the tax relief they deserve. Obama will create a new “Making Work Pay” tax credit of up to $500 per person, or $1,000 per working family.  The “Making Work Pay” tax credit will completely eliminate income taxes for 10 million Americans.
 
Expand the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit: Obama will reform the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit by making it refundable and allowing low-income families to receive up to a 50 percent credit for their child care expenses.
 
Increase Investments in Job Training: Obama will increase funding for federal workforce training programs and direct these programs to incorporate green technologies training, such as advanced manufacturing and weatherization training, to prepare Americans for the stable, high-paying green energy jobs of the future.  Obama will also expand and fund apprenticeship programs to help workers get credentials and skills in crafts with middle-class incomes and benefits.
 
Make College Affordable for All Americans: Obama’s American Opportunity Tax Credit, a fully refundable credit, will ensure that the first $4,000 of a college education is completely free for most Americans and will cover two-thirds of the cost of tuition at the average public college or university.  Students claiming this credit will be required to conduct 100 hours of public service a year, either during the school year or over the summer months.
 
Help Dislocated Workers to Stay in the Middle Class: Obama will modernize and expand trade adjustment assistance to include all affected workers — including those in the service sector and those losing jobs going to countries with which we do not have trade agreements such as China and India.  Obama also supports unemployment insurance reform that assured benefits for more unemployed workers and provides extended benefits for those who need them.  Obama will create flexible education accounts that workers can use to retrain, provide retraining assistance for workers in sectors of the economy vulnerable to dislocation before they lose their jobs, and provide additional assistance for workers to afford health care.  As president, he will sign an updated WARN Act that requires large employers to notify employees of a layoff 90 days before a plant closing – an increase of 30 days from today's standard.
                                                          
1
 Jared Bernstein & Lawrence Mishel, Economy’s Gains Fail to Reach Most Workers’ Paychecks, EPI Briefing Paper #195 (Sept. 3, 2007).

2
 Keystone Research Center, The State of Working Pennsylvania 2007, www.stateofworkingpa.com.

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I was born and raised in Schuylkill county and proud of it and even I can see that Obama speaks the truth.  Ok, maybe "bitter" wasn't the best choice of words, yet most people outside of the coal region bubble know what was meant.   This is a difficult area to understand at times, but the people are proud and hard working but stubborn and stuck in their ways.   

I'm resigned to the fact that Obama won't take this county, but I believe that there are enough intelligent, not necessarily educated, people here that can make a difference.   The ones that are upset over this comment are just looking for a better reason to not vote for him.  Perhaps to asuage a guilty conscience for bigotry.  There are alot more supporters here than one might think, they're just less vocal.

Condescending?  Elitist?  Out of touch?  Who is she speaking about when she makes these comments?  Her campaign?  Her husband?  

It is definitely NOT BARACK OBAMA!!! 

Who has made $100,000,000.00 since leaving office?  Isn't that elitist?

We still have enough time before the Pennsylvania primary. This nonsense is going to back fire on McBillary and its already starting considering those small town Pennsylvania endorsements and the letters from the small town governments of PA. McBillary is scared because they know that they are the ones that he was talking about in defense of small-town America.

Now Obama,

You have to push this Columbian free trade deal this week, you just have to. It prooves your point period.

 CONTACT YOUR LOCAL TEAM LEADERS/Office for details on how YOU CAN HELP THESE last two weekends of the campaign. MILFORD, Pike Co, SCRANTON, STROUDSBURG, HAZLELTON, WILLIAMSPORT, WILKES BARRE & Many others! on how YOU can help!

5000+ calls in Luzerne County yesterday, plus many home phone bank calls, a dozen dozen feets in the streets Saturday. Luzerne county is going ALL IN our effort to promote Barack here. We're not holding back, are you? There are rumors of impending visits by various people incl our man. Phone bank events EVERY night NEXT WEEK!  In the 41 S Main St Wilkes Barre office, join us for fun n phone calling. TWO locations in wonderful DOWNTOWN Wilkes Barre. Please also come in if you're intrested in data entry needed too. NOTE housing for out-of-state VOLS still needed for NEXT WEEKEND GOTV effort call 825-6794 to house a warrior for Barack! CANVASS shifts working ALL WEEKEND. *****CALL OUT SICK/TAKE OFF election day & Get Out The Vote GOTV massive canvass ELECTION DAY! HELP US ELECT BARACK PRESIDENT OK? ALSO WATER DONATIONS NEEDED FOR canvass walkers please drop off cases of water bottles @ the office please! THANK YOU SO MUCH to ALL involved SO FAR. ALL LEVELS of time, effort, materials, experience, urgently need for FINAL PUSH TO ELECTION DAY!!!! CONTACT YOUR LOCAL OFFICE FOR DETAILS IN YOUR AREA! EZHG

Only 12 more days to go!!!   If each and every one of us spends just 2 hours a day making phone calls or canvassing our neighborhood, we can accomplish an amazing feat right here in Berks County.  If not now, WHEN?  Please contact your regional coordinator today, to find out how to help with our ID/Persuasion calls and door knocking.  If you are not sure who your coordinator is, just call the campaign office at 352 Penn St., Reading at 610-373-3600

 This is our time to put our own page in the history books.  Make yourself proud, and change the world for your children and grandchildren.  Think how terrible you will feel if we miss this opportunity and you have to look at yourself in the mirror and ask if you gave it everything you had.

 Just 12 more weeks, Berks County!!!   YES WE CAN !

Yesterday was a great day, wasn't it? First to all that didn't get in, sorry the fire marshall capped the attendance. Barack as usual worked the OUTSIDE fence line before speaking INSIDE. I hope if any of you are reading this it was OK? Next, to all the vols who worked the event it was an honor to have worked with you, thank you each and every one of you so very much! I had loads of fun working, its great to have met many of the happy folks there! Now the excitement has died down (a little) comes the work part, calling all the undecideds & supporters who IDed themselves on those little cards we collected! I think our guy closed the sale with them, don't you? Office staff & vols can only do so much! We now need YOU to help the rest of the way. Phone bank from home, canvass & phone bank from your local HQs. Thousands of contacts need to be made in three short weeks, we must do this footwork to get BARACK a chance for VICTORY in Penna! As always EZHG

 The Diamond City Get's the ***STAR*** TREATMENT

Wilkes Barre, PA. 4/1/08 no joke just Barack @ Wilkes Unv doors open 9:45 AM open to the public but tickets required. Be there or fuggetaboutit. Call 570-825-6794 for tickets starting @ 9AM. You've been warned! Meet our own Obama Girl Lisa " the bunny", me Eric Hussein Graff & Barack & all the rest all for one money! The bus tour of HOPE continues to Dunmore later Tuesday evening.  So NEPA here comes the national media & OUR GUY BARACK! Come out & See & Support..........EZHG