Organizing for America | Joyce in Rockville: How Do We Participate??

How Do We Participate??

By Joyce - Dec 11th, 2008 at 11:47 am EST

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It's been a great month - enjoying the win of President elect Barack Obama!! I haven't felt a need to write a post since the election!

An issue has come to my attention however, which I believe we all need to think about. How will we communicate with the Obama Administration? What kind of response can we expect from the Obama administration?

Questions about this have been offered on this web site and on change.gov. How the organization will develop I'm not quite certain, but I do believe there will be a place where we can participate as we have here in the past. It has been clear to me that the blogs here have been followed by campaign personnel. Remember a few days after November 4, when President elect Obama referred to the main topic on the Obama blogs as being the new dog?? Anyone who was participating knew that that was absolutely true!

What prompts me to write here is the second question I offered. What kind of responses can we expect from the Obama Administration? Yes we have all worked harder for this election than most of us have ever worked in the past, but should we expect "personal" responses to our future ideas??
Earlier I wrote about the anger of a supporter who did not get an answer from the Obama National Campaign when he asked whether a booth should be put up at his State Fair. More recently I heard a loyal and active supporter say something about expecting his "letters" not to be answered by a form letter. My immediate answer was, "But there are millions of us! How can they all be answered with a specific answer to our comments?"

The important part of this issue I believe is for us to feel that our opinions and questions are being considered. In the past many of us have felt that communication via the blogs would eventually reach those who needed to know. I have gone on change.gov (unless I change it, I'll be known there as Joyce001 since my name here was already taken). The idea there of asking for our opinions and experiences relative to specific topics seems excellent to me. The day I first looked at change.gov the topic was - how we were being personally effected by the economic downturn? If my interpretation is correct, I believe this can be a good way for us to communicate. We can't forget that there are indeed millions of us, even though it often feels like a family.

I hope the Obama blog (member? community? whichever one it is called that shows our responses to others) continues so that we can communicate with each other about whatever comes to mind. This in addition to the change.gov questions seems like a good plan to me. I do believe however that we must understand what is reasonable, realistic and the most efficient for our participation.

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