My kids are on Spring Break and we are off to Alabama to visit my husband’s family. Since we’ll be out of town and unable to participate in the Honk for Obama Visibility event on the 24th, I thought we could show our solidarity and publicize Obama by decorating our car for the trip! We’ll be driving through Southern Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama. My husband’s parents live in the country and we’ll have to travel some back roads of Alabama to get to the house. What a great way to show our support for Barack Obama and get his name out there!
I’ll be blogging and sharing photos of what happens along the way.
Click on the link to see photos of the car.
Community organizing is about connecting with others. In this case, connecting with others to help get Barack Obama elected as president.
When I read Obama’s books or hear him speak, I feel inspired to create change, I feel hopeful about the future, and I feel excited about the possibilities for a better America. It is these feelings I hope to convey in my interactions with others. No matter what activity I may be involved.
Ultimately, what people will remember most is how you made them FEEL during the connection. And it is this feeling they will carry with them to the polls.
There needed to be an Obama group in our state capital.
Please join us for the first Columbus for Obama meeting on Tuesday, April 3, 2007 at 7:00 p.m. at the Whetstone Branch Library, 3909 North High Street, Columbus, 43214.
At the meeting we will discuss our group purpose and goals we would like to focus on. Please read the Obama Campaign Online Organizing Guide below as this document will help us as we plan.
Contact me at jaisahm@yahoo.com if you have any questions or comments.
Hope to see you there!
Michigan may move up its date even earlier to join South Carolina, which will follow the first three states out of the gate: Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada.
With the frontloading of the primaries, only candidates with $100+ million will be able to compete in January and February of 2008.
Read: The State of the Race: The Democrats By Richard Baehr
The Democratic primary is already frontloaded and every day a new state seems to move up their primary. Florida has moved their primary up to Jan 29th and California moved theirs up to Feb 5th. We have 10 months to raise $100 million, organize in all 50 states to gain press in the news media across the country that Barack Obama can beat the Republican nominee in Nov'08. Are you up for it?
Go Here for the Primary Schedule:
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People, let’s show our united grassroots support en masse for Barack Obama with a national Barack-A-Thon!
On one day, Obama groups across America will hold activities across their state that publicize, mobilize, and raise money for Obama for America!
We don’t need an opinion poll to tell us how Barack is doing. We are the opinion!
People, let us talk. Email me at jaisahm@yahoo.com, write comments to this blog, spread the word, become my friend.
We can do this!
It has taken me awhile to articulate why I support Barack Obama for President. I share his views on energy independence, education, ethics reform, the war in Iraq and so much more. I think Obama can bring Americans together at this important time in our history. But to me these things don’t get at what I value most of all. And that is being one’s authentic self.
I missed Obama’s speech during the 2004 Democratic National Convention. When I did hear about it, I wasn’t really impressed. At that time I felt Barack Obama was the flavor of the month and would soon pass out of our national consciousness. Then my mother died unexpectedly. She had Obama’s book “Dreams from My Father” with her at the hospital and my father had given it to me in passing. Missing my mother and wanting to feel close to her, I read the book.
There’s a passage where Obama and his sister are visiting a friend during his trip to Kenya. This woman shared with them that she was not so concerned with her daughter being authentically Kenyan as she was with her daughter being authentically herself. This notion of being truly who you are despite the confines of race and class, was a conversation my mother and I had had my entire life. At age 35 and after her death, my mother’s message had finally hit home.
Barack Obama is very handsome, well educated, wealthy, intelligent, friendly, a skilled orator and writer, an experienced politician--all of those things that make one popular. But what interests me most is his willingness to learn from his mistakes, his vision for the future of America, his refusal to engage in petty politics, his self-examination and desire to change the world for the better--all of those things that make one great.
I’m not talking about greatness that comes from conscientious effort, but greatness that comes from being one’s authentic self.
This is why I support Barack Obama for President.
Watch Barack's Selma Speech on C-Span scheduled (subject to change) at 12:30 EST
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."
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!
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.
I admit it. Last night I watched American Idol along with 30 million other people. I even found myself after the show dialing in my vote for my favorite contestants. Not once, but several times. If the lines were busy, I would keep trying until I finally got through and cast my vote.
Can you imagine the impact of 30 million people calling their elected officials to express their opinion on a particular issue or the impact of 30 million people descending on Washington to pay a personal visit to their representative or senator?
Think about the difference these actions would make on the Iraq War, healthcare, Medicaid, unemployment, and our dependence on foreign oil, poverty, global warming, and education.
People, we have the power to make a difference. As Barack Obama has told us, this campaign is about us!
Pick up the phone and dial in your vote.
Barack Obama Has BreakfastWith Sold-Out House In Cincinnati
Obama Makes Multiple Ohio Campaign Stop
Obama finds friends in Ohio stops
Look, I would like to make it very clear that I am not attacking Hillary Clinton. I am illustrating what is wrong with our politics today and hopefully inspire us and our political candidates to a higher standard of behavior. I disagree with the actions of her campaign. I am bothered that this is what our politics have come too. I believe Barack Obama is the right candidate at this time in our history and he can rise us above petty politics. I believe as Democrats that we need to have a vigorus debate about poltics and not be afraid of voicing our opinions no matter how unpopular they may be. I do think it is important to show a united front around our candidates. While I don't believe in attacking people, I do believe in constructive criticism. I blindly follow no one.
I am prgamatic and realize that Obama may not win the Priamy. Hillary just might. I may find myself working on her campaign. But again, I think I would probably say the same thing, just directly to her campain people.
In the future, I will be more mindful about my comments. I am finding my voice, and a strong one it is. That is the inspiration of Barack Obama's campaign.
Heartofohio and James Lang, I hear you.
Hillary Clinton’s advisors have made it clear that fellow Democrats and her rivals dare not mention Bill Clinton’s impeachment in 1998 and his behavior which lead to the impeachment, or else. A response chosen as a result of comments made earlier this week by David Geffen, a former supporter of the Clintons and now supporter of Barack Obama. (read the article below for more details)
This action on the part of Hillary Clinton’s campaign demonstrates a fear based approach to politics. Instead of being open and honest about Bill’s Impeachment, her campaign has chosen to use veiled threats and intimidation in order to keep people quiet. What a wrong move to make. I believe it puts you in a position of weakness rather than strength and casts Hillary Clinton as a victim, to her fears.
I have viewed many Oprah shows where women have endured horrendous acts of violence, infidelity from husbands, and so much more. But the prevailing theme on these shows has always been overcoming one’s shame at having endured this abuse and sharing the traumatic events with others. To me this demonstrates a position of power.
Hillary Clinton wants to become President of the United States, but my impression is she will not or can not face this shameful period of her personal life and U.S. History.
Be a person of strength and deal with it.
“Clinton Fights to Keep Impeachment Taboo”
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