While we work on influencing the form of the health care legislation, there is a lot we can do right now to further the cause of health in our community. Come make a "deposit" in both the food bank and the blood bank. The San Antonio Food Bankand the South Texas Blood and Tissue Center will have vehicles parked by the SAAPAC headquarters.
If you would like to donate blood, please contact us at alamobama09@aol.comto get scheduled. We need at least 20 donors scheduled by June 16 to make the mobile unit visit possible, so please act now!
We also need volunteers to work the event. Contact us atalamobama09@aol.com if you would like to volunteer to help and/or sign up for this event here on my.barackobama.com
Items most needed by the San Antonio Food Bank:
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OFA San Antonio Listening TourTuesday, April 21, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. - location t.b.a. - A chance to meet Luke Hayes, the new state director ofOrganizing for America in Texas. This meeting is a chance to learn what OFA's mission is, how people can become involved, and feedback of what worked and what didn't work in Texas for Obama. Sign up on myBO:my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/meeting/gptw37
SAAPAC HQ, 7122 San Pedro, Ste #114. The grass roots organization alamObama will continue forming working groups on Rapid Response, Voter Registration, Education and Training, Legislative Watch, and Community Service. For more information, contact Brenda atalamObama09@aol.com Locator Map
my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/meeting/gptqsp
The second alamObama meeting of 2009 will take place Thursday, April 2, at 6:30 p.m., at SAAPAC HQ, 7122 San Pedro Avenue, Suite 114, San Antonio, TX 78216. Sign up at:
SAAPAC HQ is just south of North Star Mall, between Rampart and Sprucewood. The office is in the rear of the building, facing the Kaplan Career Institute.
We will continue our transformation into a grass roots support group for President Obama and his goals. Based on input from those attending the March 5 meeting, we will form several action teams to address our various goals, including public service, voter registration, and legislative advocacy. Please join us and bring a canned food item to donate to the San Antonio Food Bank! If you are not already receiving our Weekly Roundup, send an email to Brenda at alamobama09@aol.com to get on the mailing list. Our web site is still active at alamobama08.com and will be expanded within the next week with the focus on the future!
The grass roots campaign organization alamOBAMA will plan its future and how it will work with ORGANIZING FOR AMERICA at a meeting on Thursday, March 5, 6:30 - 8:00p.m. at the SAAPAC Meeting Space, 7122 San Pedro, Ste #114. For more information, contact Brenda Johnson at alamObama09@aol.com or Judy Hall at judy@alamobama08.com
Sign up here on myBO: http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/gptyzm
Check your precinct's Nov. 4 polling place and view a sample ballot customized for your precinct at:http://elections.bexar.org/cfdocs/Where2Vote.cfm
The enthusiasm of Obama supporters spreads out in so many interesting ways. Josh and Bethany Horton of Memphis, Jason Powers of New York City and Josh Jeter from Chicago who all met in Seattle created the site and movement called Yeswecarve.com which encourages creation of pumpkins carved on an Obama/Biden theme.
The site includes stencil patterns which can be downloaded and it welcomes uploads of new designs. But just like our campaign, the site features the positive. As they say no "Attack O'Lanterns" are allowed.
As of today a YouTube video which uses Barack O'Lantern photos with the sound track to the campaign video "Signs of Hope and Change" has been viewed 38,000 times.
General Colin Powell calls Barack a transformative figure. So why not carve a transformative pumpkin this Halloween?
The best kept secret in north central San Antonio early voting is VIA Headquarters on San Pedro just north of Cypress. My wife and I do our early voting there every election and the lines are always short. Today was no exception. At 5:15 there was only one person in line in front of me.
The VIA parking lot is always packed (Why don't VIA employees take the bus??) but I've always been able to find parking. It's probably ok to park across the street at the Bill Millers.
If you want only a short line I highly recommend you head to VIA at 1021 San Pedro. From the Deco District just head down Fredericksburg. Stay on it as it becomes Cypress. At the San Pedro turn left. The VIA headquarters is a block away in a building that used to be a Kroger's.
Our SD26 SDEC members Celina Peña and Josh Bailey invite all District 26 Democrats to a meeting on Tuesday, October 21, from 6:30-8:00 p.m. at the Firefighters Union Hall, on the northbound IH-10 access road between the Medical Dr exit and Wurzbach. This will be under the umbrella of "Friends of SD26," which, to the best of my understanding, is a new Democratic club or a PAC... I'm not sure, but let's all go and find out. Their web site is http://www.sd26.com/
alamObama Volunteers Out-of-State sending messages and photos about their campaign experienceshttp://www.alamobama08.com/out-of-state-volunteers.html
Video segment The AlamObamans from the Obama campaign documentaryhttp://www.alamobama08.com/the-alamobamans-video.html
and links to Photos and video of the October 9 alamObama meetinghttp://www.bubbleshare.com/album/473113.dbe391cacdd/overviewhttp://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2006846&l=4d10f&id=1382783158and the 7-minute pep talk by Congressman Charlie Gonzalezhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxG1nepjYpk
also: Early Voting dates and times, near final count of the voter registration drive, and the "wish list" (remember we are not a PAC and have no bank account). It's not too late to sign up to organize your precinct!http://www.alamobama08.com
This is one of the most persuasive Obama video's I have seen. Though its intended audience is Jewish Americans, I believe that it needs to be seen by anyone who is thinking about sitting this election out or who has become afraid of Barack's candidacy.
You may have missed this video of Barack's September 24, Florida news conference. It reminds me of all the reasons I want him to lead our country. In this conference he shows his wisdom, fairness and reasonableness. He shows he understands the issues and explain how to approach them better than anyone we've seen for a long time. Take a look at this conference and see a preview of the kind of leadership he will provide when he is our president. The video is 16 minutes long but well worth watching.
Click Here for Barack's outstanding September 24, 2008 news conference
Fold US Candidates.com has created free paper craft finger puppets of Barack, John McCain, Michelle and the John's wife. So far they don't have puppets for Joe and Sarah. You simply download the pdf's, print them out and fold and glue them. These are 360 degree representations of the candidates. For some reason the the Barack puppet seems poised, statesmanlike and knowledgeable while the McCain puppet looks arrogant, combative and ill informed.
I printed the Obama pdf in the photo below on a malfunctioning printer and took the picture without proper lighting. Yours will look much better.
Hosting an Obama event? Why not make a few copies of them on a color copier for your guests?
Matt Damon compared Sarah Palin's candidacy to a really bad Disney movie. Now the folks at College Humor.com have made a really good movie trailer for that really bad movie.
John McCain has taken Karl Rove's advice again and is shying away from taking questions from the press. Here is a link to the McCain/Palin news conference clock. As of this posting it's been 36 days since John has held a press conference. Governor Palin was selected 21 days ago as his running mate but has yet to hold a press conference. Even Fox News acknowledges that he is ducking questions.
The “I’m a Little Confused” viral email amusingly lays out the hypocrisy of the Republican Party and their press sycophants.
I received it today, September 19 2008. My reseach suggests it has been modified and improved as it has been posted and reposted. Here is are links to the earliest versions I've found so far, from September 3, 2008. Otherwise there are a number of postings from September 12 which have it in a more developed form.
Jang's September 3 2008 Comment- Hypocrisy of the Grande Old Party
Jammie's September 3 2008 Comment on Boston.com
Here is the version that appeared on the Daily Kos:
I'm a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight..... If you grow up in Hawaii, you're "exotic, different". If you grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers and shooting wolves from airplanes, you’re a quintessential American story. _____________________ If you grow up with a single-mom on foodstamps, you're an elitist. If you marry a millionairess and own nine homes, you're a "regular guy". _______________________ If your name is Barack, you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim. Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you're an all-American hockey mom and a maverick. ______________________ Graduate from Columbia, then Harvard Law, and you’re unstable. Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating 6 years later, you're well-grounded. ______________________ You spend 3 years as a community organizer, become the first black president of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a constitutional law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the State Senate's Health and Human Services Committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing 13 million people, and in the meantime you sponsor 131 bills and serve on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees, you don't have any real leadership experience. If your total resume consists of: Miss Wasilla, local sportscaster, the Wasilla PTA, 4 years on the town council and 6 years as the mayor of a suburb of 7,000 people, 20 months as the Governor of a state with a population the size of Providence, then you're qualified to become the country's second highest ranking executive. _____________________ If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 daughters in a Protestant church and dedicating your life to helping people, you're not a real Christian. If you came back from Vietnam to find that your (beauty queen) first wife had been disfigured by an accident, cheated on her with a rich (beauty queen) heiress, then left your wife and two kids to marry said beauty queen a month later, you're a man of deep and abiding Christian principles. ____________________ If you teach responsible, age-appropriate sex education to protect children from sexual predators, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society. If, while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence-only policies, with no other option in sex education in your state's school system while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you're a paragon of moral uprightness. ____________________ If your wife is a lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family's values don't represent America's. If your husband is nicknamed "First Dude", with at least one DUI conviction and no college education, who didn't register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is a model for all Americans to follow. ____________________ OK, much clearer now.
I'm a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight.....
If you grow up in Hawaii, you're "exotic, different".
If you grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers and shooting wolves from airplanes, you’re a quintessential American story.
_____________________
If you grow up with a single-mom on foodstamps, you're an elitist.
If you marry a millionairess and own nine homes, you're a "regular guy".
_______________________
If your name is Barack, you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you're an all-American hockey mom and a maverick.
______________________
Graduate from Columbia, then Harvard Law, and you’re unstable.
Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating 6 years later, you're well-grounded.
You spend 3 years as a community organizer, become the first black president of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a constitutional law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the State Senate's Health and Human Services Committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing 13 million people, and in the meantime you sponsor 131 bills and serve on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees, you don't have any real leadership experience.
If your total resume consists of: Miss Wasilla, local sportscaster, the Wasilla PTA, 4 years on the town council and 6 years as the mayor of a suburb of 7,000 people, 20 months as the Governor of a state with a population the size of Providence, then you're qualified to become the country's second highest ranking executive.
If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 daughters in a Protestant church and dedicating your life to helping people, you're not a real Christian.
If you came back from Vietnam to find that your (beauty queen) first wife had been disfigured by an accident, cheated on her with a rich (beauty queen) heiress, then left your wife and two kids to marry said beauty queen a month later, you're a man of deep and abiding Christian principles.
____________________
If you teach responsible, age-appropriate sex education to protect children from sexual predators, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.
If, while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence-only policies, with no other option in sex education in your state's school system while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you're a paragon of moral uprightness.
If your wife is a lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family's values don't represent America's.
If your husband is nicknamed "First Dude", with at least one DUI conviction and no college education, who didn't register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is a model for all Americans to follow.
OK, much clearer now.
Link to Daily Kos September 18 2008 by jedly
CQ TODAY MIDDAY UPDATE May 8, 2008 – 1:19 p.m.
Sen. Barack Obama , D-Ill., took his campaign for presidential superdelegate votes to the House floor Thursday, triggering complaints from some supporters of rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton , D-N.Y.
“I have a question in my mind whether it’s kosher, whether it’s ethical,” said Grace Napolitano, D-Calif., a staunch Clinton supporter.
“It’s unusual. He’s actively soliciting the votes of superdelegates on the floor,” said Allyson Y. Schwartz , D-Pa., another Clinton backer.
Obama’s explanation: “Oh, I wasn’t campaigning. I was saying hello.
“I just wanted to make sure that I gave an update not only to my supporters, but to those who are trying to figure out what direction to go in,” he said. “Obviously some have been anxious about some of the sense of division in the party, and I just wanted to assure them that whatever happens, we will be coming together.”
But other Democrats welcomed Obama’s visit.
“Where else can you meet superdelegates? I don’t have a problem with it,” said Majority Whip James E. Clyburn , D-S.C., who is uncommitted.
A number of Republicans said they were not aware of Obama’s presence as he made his rounds on the floor.
Obama started his meet-and-greet session in the famed “Murtha corner” of the chamber, where acolytes of Defense Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman John P. Murtha , D-Pa., hang out.
Murtha, who backed Clinton in the Pennsylvania primary she won decisively, said after this week’s split decisions in Indiana and North Carolina, “A lot of the superdelegates that might have been ready to get behind Hillary after Pennsylvania are now hesitant.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi , D-Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid , D-Nev., made clear Wednesday they do not intend to call for an early end to the contest.
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