Do You Want Obama to Win?
October 11th, 2008 at 06:46pm Mark Noonan
Ok, now that you’ve recovered from the stomach cramps caused by the mere thought of that, its time to get out there and fight the good fight:
he McCain-Palin campaign is now recruiting volunteers for the final weeks of the campaign and your help is needed.
Volunteers on the ground are crucial to our efforts to get-out-the-vote in the all-important battleground states. Senator Obama’s campaign has spent millions hiring paid staff to work in their offices making phone calls and knocking on doors across these states. We need your help to combat their efforts and elect the McCain-Palin ticket on Election Day.
Whatever your schedule is, there are volunteer opportunities for those of you who can dedicate a few weeks, a few days and even a few hours. As a volunteer for our campaign, you will be helping our get-out-the-vote strategy by going door-to-door and making phone calls to voters. Volunteer training will be provided, so no prior experience is needed.
Please follow this link to sign up as a volunteer for McCain-Palin 2008.
I cannot stress how crucial it is for you to volunteer your time for John McCain and Sarah Palin. All of our efforts to elect them as our next President and Vice President are coming down to the final weeks of this campaign. With your help, we will elect the ticket who is ready to lead in Washington and will always put the needs of our country before their own. Please sign up to volunteer today. Thank you!
Sincerely,
Bill Bloomfield
Director of VolunteersP.S. If you have friends, neighbors, family or co-workers interested in volunteering, please forward this email on and encourage them to sign up as a volunteer. Thank you!
Victory doesn’t just happen and McCain and Palin can’t do this on their own. We will either win by our efforts, or fail for lack of effort.
The choice is yours.
Entry Filed under: Campaign 2008
16 Comments
1. Canuckguy | October 11th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
Deleted - off topic.
2. JD | October 11th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
The liberal mainstream media has all but proclaimed the winner of the Presidential Elections to be Barack Obama…of course they proclaimed a Democrat and a “lame duck” President Bush about 30 seconds after John Kerry’s 2004 concession speech.
http://www.offeringcommonsense.blogspot.com
3. CanadianObserver | October 11th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
Just by looking at the unbridled enthusiasm shown for Sarah Palin coming from all those loyal Republicans, shouldn’t they be banging down the door to volunteer. I would have thought you be turning them away instead of needing to recruit them?
4. Now What? | October 11th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
I plan to volunteer at least 12 hours a week until the election to make sure that you belly continues to hurt.
5. JD | October 11th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
CanadianObserver,
Republicans don’t “volunteer” in droves like our liberal counterparts here in the United States. We typically have jobs, so we relegate ourselves to offering logical opinions and showing up to vote on election day. That’s why you have to be very careful about calling an election for Obama so early.
http://www.offeringcommonsense.blogspot.com
6. CanadianObserver | October 11th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
We typically have jobs, so we relegate ourselves to offering logical opinions and showing up to vote on election day.
5. JD | October 11th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
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Surely, not all Democratic volunteers are unemployed, JD.
I would suspect a good number of them hold down jobs and volunteer on their time off, just as Bill Bloomfield is asking McCain supporters to do.
7. Magnum Serpentine | October 12th, 2008 at 12:24 am
The Topic is do I want Obama to Win. the Answer is No. I want Hillary Clinton to win and I am still going to write her name in.
If you want McSame to win, why not just let george run for a third term. There is no difference.
8. Max Power | October 12th, 2008 at 10:34 am
Yes.
9. kmg | October 12th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Yes, I do want Obama to win. That’s why I’ve already cast my vote for him.
10. 1-1-8 | October 12th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Yes.
And it appears 52% of the voters polled by Newsweek seem to feel that way as well.
11. cam | October 12th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Yes I do want Obama to win. Even so no poll can perfectly predict what will happen on Election Day. Keep in mind the Bradley Effect. In an election in California for govenor, Tom Bradley, an African American mayor was leading by a significant margin in the polls and ended up losing. Ultimately, it seems, when people got into the booth they had a change of heart. While many people may realize that Obama is the right choice only about 5% of the total voters have to have a last minute change of heart and the polls are invalidated.
Even so, whoever wins this election may ultimately regret it. The financial crisis we are currently experiencing may be just starting. By the time of the inaguration in January we will likely know better which way this thing is going. If it has worsened it could make the current situation look benign in comparison. Whoever is President will have to act quickly to overcome such a monumental crisis. And the population will have little patience. Anything less than a near miracle will satisfy the masses. If the country slips into a depression, whoever is in power will be blamed regardless of how bad a hand they have been dealt.
12. smokey | October 12th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
Obamas Tax Lie
Joe Biden claimed that 95% of all small businesses earn less than $250,000 and won’t be impacted by the Obama tax increase.
While it is true that 95% of small business owners may earn less than $250,000 that is not how they are taxed. As they personally own their own business their businesses revenue is what is taxed at their personal income rate. Therefore an ice cream truck owner earning 50,000 a year on 260,000 of sales will be effected by the tax increase as will any business owner who’s total sales exceed 250,000.
Most new job creation comes from small businesses. 52% of all workers in the US are employed by small businesses. The Obama tax increase will pull 800 billion dollars more in taxes from all business firms and will of course hit small businesses dramatically. If you put that level of cost on business, you can be sure they won’t want to pass the cost on so they will cut salaries, reduce raises and that impacts both you and I.
13. Cranky | October 12th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
The Feel Good Voter
I of course plead for you to vote in the upcoming elections this fall. However, I beg you to not vote for a candidate because they are merely the same sex, race or religion as you or that it will assuage your perceived guilt. You owe it to the rest of us not to place a “feel good vote.”
We are running out of natural resources, face potential global warming, terrorism, a social security meltdown, deficits that will reduce that value of our dollar for decades to come and a world that is ever more hostile toward our interests and Democracy in general. Your vote has never counted more than it does this year so vote for America and not because you think it’s the just thing to do.
14. Deliciousness | October 12th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
The Audacity Of Getting It Right
24 months ago Iraq was in trouble and two men saw different options. Obama had his pull out plan designed to push ahead with a speedy withdrawal of US troops which would have meant an even speedier withdrawal of allied troops. John McCain on the other hand championed a surge approach to boost troop levels and get the Al Qaeda backed insurgents and terrorists under control to help give the Iraqi Army more time to get ready to tackle them. Over a year since the surge and while we are still in Iraq, the government there is still in control and the Iraqi Army is gelling into an effective fighting force.
If we had left the Iraqi Army would be in chaos, the government would have collapsed, outright civil war would have erupted, oil might be at 300 a barrel and Iran would effectively control the Middle East. Obama was wrong on Iraq and his inexperience would have cost us, the region and the world economy. Its about getting it right and not just about hope. Lets thank John McCain and others like him for talking to the Military and working toward a solution instead of running away from the problem.
15. Pally Boy | October 12th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
Ayres, Raines, Rezko, Wright?
Who are these men and what is their association with Barack Obama. I encourage you to do the research yourself after reading the brief summaries below.
Bill Ayres is a former member of the Weather Underground. During a planned bombing of a police monument a bomb went off in his house killing three of his friends. His group bombed the Pentagon. Bill Clinton pardoned him for some unfathomable reason. He has served on several boards with Barack Obama and appointed Obama to at least one of those. Obamas first political fundraiser was held at Ayres home. Since his pardon he has written and spoken of his past and is unrepentant on the bombings, which did kill several innocents, and recently suggested we need a communist revolution in this country.
Franklin Raines, former CEO of Fannie Mae was forced out in 2004 by the mortgage finance company’s board of directors Fannie’s financial statements. During his tenure he received a 25,000,000 bonus and also testified before congress that the assets were solid. On July 16, 2008, The Washington Post reported that Franklin Raines had “taken calls from Barack Obama’s presidential campaign seeking his advice on mortgage and housing policy matters.” Also, in an editorial in August 27, 2008 titled “Tough Decision Coming”, the Washington Post editorial staff wrote that “Two members of Mr. Obama’s political circle, James A. Johnson and Franklin D. Raines, are former chief executives of Fannie Mae.”
Tony Rezko is a past fundraiser for Sen. Barack Obama, was convicted of scheming to use his clout with the politicians in Illinois to squeeze kickbacks out of companies wanting to do business with the State government. This is the same Mr. Rezko that Mr. Obama purchased some land and a home from.
Reverend Jeremiah Wright was Barack Obama’s, friend, mentor and father figure. He suggested the title for his book, The Audacity of Hope. Reverend Wright is on record as blaming the government for causing AIDS in the black community, blamed America for bringing 9/11 on itself, numerous racist statements against Caucasians as well as being anti semetic and a former Muslim who is a fan of Louis Farrakhan.
16. pom pom girl | October 12th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
Who Inserted Race Into The Election?
Can you guess who said the following?
1) Nobody really thinks that Bush or McCain have a real answer for the challenges we face. So what they are going to try to do is make you scared of me. You know he–oh, he’s not patriotic enough. He’s got a funny name. You know, he doesn’t look like all of those other presidents on those dollar bills.
2) “I don’t lose sleep over it because the realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.”
3) “Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run!…We [in the U.S.] believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God.” (sermon)
4) “So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
The answer is Barack Obama on the concern that the Republicans will inject racism into the race, followed by Michelle Obama on fears for her husband getting killed, Reverend Wright (Baracks former? Mentor) and his feelings bout race and finally Barack on small town/rural “white” americans.
So who injected Race into this campaign?