I am not Barack Obama.
Maybe that seems obvious, but since the election has happened, I’m already getting a vibe from friends and acquaintances that if Obama doesn’t do the things he campaigned about, somehow, I should feel ashamed for it.
Continually I’ve stated one-thing over and over: If Obama turns out to not live up to his promises, I will be right beside everyone else to vote him out of office. That is the only pledge I can make to anyone.
I can’t promise you or guarantee you Barack Obama will live up to the promise he showed during the campaign. For my money, his actions since the election have shown his dedication to getting things done and working on tackling the problems facing this country, and most importantly, tackling them the way he said he would.
But if he turns out to be something none of us thought - you’ve gotta’ remember, I’m in that leaky boat as well. And even worse, I’m the one who will take it far harder than you. Afterall, I spent a lot of time and effort on this guy, and want to see him try to accomplish the things he’s campaigned on.
I’m a vehement Obama supporter, but no matter what I’ve said, sent, or done, I didn’t walk into your voting booth with you. I didn’t turn that dial or check that box. You did that, and you made your own decision. If it was the wrong one, then we’ll all deal with it in 4 years.
But Barack Obama is not a messiah. He’s not a demi-god. He’s a man, who’s going to make mistakes, be fallible, and stumble along the way. Be ready for it. I certainly am.
I don’t really give two craps about associations…
I think that’s important to say. Because all of us have known or worked or dealt with people we don’t necessarily like. During my life, I’ve worked with DPs who were doped up on cocaine - does that mean I’m a cocaine addict? That I endorse cocaine addicts? No, it doesn’t. But situations happen, life happens, and we move on from there. And that’s not the least of my associations or acquaintances.
Let me dare to be presumptuous and say that you also have a lot of skeletons in your closet in the guise of people you’ve worked with, met, hung out with, on and on and on. People you didn’t know anything about or people who maybe you knew weren’t the most savory of characters, but realized that what made them less than role-model didn’t have a direct bearing on your life or your goals.
I’m not asking you to state who they are. I’m just asking you to realize the simple truth of this.
Personally, I think it’s who you are, who the person is, what they say, what they do, that matters more. Maybe your dad was an alcoholic or drug addict who cheated on your mom or beat your brother. Does that make you any of those things? Do the sins of the father or the friend immediately sully you?
In my mind - No.
OH Wait! Gimme More!
Barack Obama has to hit back against John McCain, because if he doesn’t, he appears weak, but the truth is, Obama’s always been right - it’s about the issues, and particularly the economy, stupid. Not just focusing on the negative.
Obama has released some great anti-Obama ads in the last few days, but I would suggest that the team not just focus on the negative ads, but to put out an even ratio. If you put out an ad about McCain being dishonorable, you also put out an ad that talks about Obama’s plans for the economy, how he will get things working again, how he has ideas to grow the middle class.
Both at the same time. This is the very thing the McCain campaign has been doing - they don’t rely on just one ad, they rely on two types, and this allows them to get a message across while also hitting their opponent where their opponent can be hit. Even if it’s with erroneous claims of sexism and disrespect.
This election is about REVOLUTION. About changing America - not on the small scale, but on the large scale. About helping the American people see that there is flow to the Government of the Republicans, and the way it works, and how it doesn’t change, it doesn’t differ, no matter which person sits in the Oval Office. It’s the world of big business, of tax breaks for the rich, of the belief-that-no-one-really-believes that if you give the rich a significant amount of money, why, their crumbs will fall into the gaping, open mouths of the middle and lower classes in America.
Obama, you’ve got to do both here. Your message of HOPE and CHANGE has resonated for over a year, and has made you a phenom, and the worst thing that McCain can do to you is have you abandon that message. He wants you to, they want you to become negative full-time, to be in reaction mode constantly. You can’t do that. You have to attack him and then attack the current situation in America with HOPE and CHANGE and yes, REVOLUTION.
Because that’s where we’re at, Obama. We’re at that point where America needs more than a little nugget of change, where we don’t simple steer our rudder to the left a little bit. We need to make a full-course change, head in the exact opposite direction we’ve been going, and rebuild America from the ground up.
You get this concept - the ground up to make America better - way of governing. You’ve got to hit this message loud, clear, and let people know it’s their REVOLUTION. The CHANGE is them, not you, and it’s never been about you. You’re our Ambassador of Change, our Duke of Revolution, but you’re not going to do it alone, and you never will be able to. You get this, but sometimes you have to remind the American populace that you get it.
So keep fighting back, please, but don’t lose your core message. Don’t let John McCain destroy what all of us have built. Keep being optimistic, keep being wide-eyed.
Now that the Leman Brothers et al. situation has happened, don’t let this make your brow furrow and your scowl come out. No, instead, let this be the moment that you seize on our desire to make it better, not wallow in the sorrow of a crashing economy. Remind us all that we can change this, that this isn’t how it has to be, we only need to move forward and trust in our leaders who do have our best interests at heart.
Keep it optimistic, Barack Obama. And you’ll win this thing.
John McCain and his campaign have decided to wrestle the mantle of Change from the Obama campaign.
So the question is - what do we do? What do we, those of us who pushed change for months, who made the concept of change strong, and powerful, and so very clearly inevitable, do to grab our fire back?
It’s simple. We differentiate. Because if what McCain is offering is “change”, do we really want to be associated with that? Do we want our movement to really be swirled in with the muck and gunk of the Republican party platform that’s lead us to be hated around the world? Despised by our allies and enemies alike. The party that’s destroyed our economy, who has stretched our military so thin, made our dollar and strength dissipate so far that we can no longer stand up to countries like Bolivia or Venezuela.
McCain augmented the concept of change with a word - a word that had some cache associated with it - and was a great marketing ploy: reform
But reform just means to change things slightly. To keep things the same, but make a few modifications. Is that what we want? Is that what we want our agent, our ambassador Barack Obama, to bring to Washington? That sort of mindset? No, we want more. And the words change and reform are too weak.
What we want, what we need, what we desire is something more powerful. Something that’s been coming a long time. Something that is necessary for America to turn the corner into the future, and turn back the tide of the massive the wealth transfer to China, Russia and the Middle East, leaving our own workers and our own country in the gutter.
We demand REVOLUTION.
Let that sink in for a second, let it grow on you. I’ll wait.
Done? Good. Because we don’t have a lot of time to waste. There’s more to this whole thing than just some election, some “silly” game as Barack Obama has called it. What’s going on here is the absolute fate of our great nation, and we’re facing a ruling class that doesn’t care about the people. No longer is America a country “For the People and By the People” as it was originally established. Instead it’s a country where the people work to make the corporations stronger, even as they take our jobs away, remove our manufacturing, squash ingenuity in the small business sector, and stifle the innovation that’s always made America that shining beacon just over the horizon.
We need REVOLUTION.
Not the kind where we raise up arms against our brothers. Our country is stable, strong, and though recent information may be hinting at fraudulent voter practices rearing their ugly heads once again, our peaceful nation can enact a revolution using nothing more than a chad pushed all the way through a piece of paper. Because if enough of us want it, if enough of us push and strive for it, if enough of us hit the pavement and demand it, no amount of voter fraud or slanderous ads full of lies and deceit will be able to stop the the coming maelstrom.
Our upcoming election is larger than one issue. Or two issues. Or even a dozen issues. It’s about every issue, every facet of our lives, every person in our country, and the roads we’re going down. We have an American spirit, a love for freedom that goes beyond anything the world can imagine. We rose against the British when it seemed impossible. We fought our own brothers over land and slavery when it was necessary for true change to take place.
Revolution is nothing new for America. Revolution is America. Barack Obama, I ask you to take on this mantle of Revolution. To send a message to the cheap seats, the high dollar seats, the valleys, the mountains, the suburbs, the urban areas, and the farms of America.
If you’re unhappy with your lot in life, you must embrace someone who will act on your behalf. Who will work to be your agent of change. Who will be your Ambassador of Revolution.
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Okay guys, now is the time. We’re on the precipice of a new America, of being able to look at the White House and say, “That guy in there? I put him there. And he’s a badass!”
We all know that this country is not where we want it to be. We all have dealt with the falling dollar, the lack of education, the stagnant economy - whether it’s just as the gas pump, whether its difficulty in finding a job or even having to deal with the payments on your home.
We have to ask ourselves: Does John McCain offer anything to make America better? Will a John McCain Administration turn this country around. Will it bring us peace? Will it bring us prosperity? Can it restore the goodwill our country used to have with the rest of the world?
I think we all have to answer, “NO!” to each of these questions.
So join me in helping Barack Obama and Joe Biden turn this country around. Help us to become a powerful, self-reliant nation who isn’t mired in debt, war, and a dwindling middle class.
There’s a phrase we all need to learn, and it’s SISEPUEDE! YES WE CAN! Join us, and let’s make America a place we can be proud of all the time, not some of the time.
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 SISEPUEDE Made a couple of Barack Obama background images for my own personal use. Thought I’d put them up. If you like them, yay. If you don’t, boo.
UGH.
This sums up my feelings so damn well. I feel like I walked in on my wife cheating on me with another man, and she just looked at me, shrugged her shoulders and went back to what she was doing. Like Little Bill in Boogie Nights, the person I have so much affection for is going somewhere else and leaving me and my ideals in the dust.
Barack Obama is flip-flopping. Not a little bit. Not on one issue, but one by one, he’s changing and softening his stance on the issues that got him where he’s at in the first place.
I understand the concept that “In the primaries you move to your base, and in the General Election you move to the center.” This makes sense, to a degree. But this is worse than that, because Obama is one of the lucky ones that has no reason to do this.
Last week, before the FISA flop was even expected, Obama was beating McCain by double-digits in battleground states! DOUBLE-DIGITS!
This is with all the “leftist” rhetoric, with all his crazy thoughts, with Rush Limbaugh and every right-wing blow-hard aiming all their vitriol at him and letting go with Bill Clinton-era abandon.
Why? Because his message resonated with the American public!
When gas prices are through the rough, when food costs are sky-rocketing, when the housing market is in turmoil, when corporations continue to make huge profits while the middle-class is burdened with high taxes, Obama’s populist message had done what it’s supposed to - reach the populace!
OH Wait! Gimme More!
Barack Obama is beginning to backtrack on his willingness to hold telecommunications companies accountable for participating in domestic spying on individuals.
We all know that the Bush administration has done everything in its power to give the Executive branch of the government unfettered access to phone and data lines so that they can ‘watch for terrorism.’
Obviously, this is a big, huge, freakin’ slam against our civil liberties. It’s ridiculous, and everyone who is responsible should be held accountable. Especially the telecommunications company’s that make it possible.
With the new FISA bill about to be passed, Obama has been grumbling that he will support the compromise that isn’t a compromise at all. The compromise that lets telecom companies retain their immunity, no matter how complacent they are.
DON’T LET HIM DO IT!
Obama’s entire campaign is built upon the foundation of those who believe in him, believe in his ability to do what’s right for this country. It’s the generation of internet users out there, those of us who have pushed, read, and passed along all information we could to help build support for the most unlikely of candidates during this long political battle.
MoveOn.org has started a campaign to hold Obama to his promise to filibuster and vote against telecom immunity. Call Obama’s presidential headquarters at (866) 675-2008. If you don’t get through, keep calling until you talk to a human being and tell them how strongly you feel about Obama keeping his word.
Now is the time to show our candidate that he is there for us, not for himself. That if he’s going to switch and flip-flop, he better had a damn good reason why, and if he doesn’t, then he’s just as bad as anyone else that’s ran for office, and he can stick his “Hope for Change” where the sun doesn’t shine.
Also, if you want to go a step further, which I implore you to do, visit DivestObama and let him know you won’t be donating any further monies to his campaign unless he remains true blue on this issue.
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