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Don't Miss the Monona for Obama RallyMonona Winnequah Park Dream Park Shelter
Saturday, October 18 at 11 a.m.
A group of local residents has taken it upon themselves to organize this event. There will be Free food.
Mark Miller, Midge Miller, and Nick Holder, Obama field coordinator will speak. Free food.
Come join your neighbors and hear how YOU can make a difference in this election.
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By the way, one of the reasons the Obama campaign has been so successful is its innovative approach to volunteers. The paid staff provides some structure, but not a strait jacket. Perhaps the most important thing that the campaign provides are the names of other potential volunteers in the area. Most of these names have been gathered from the campaign web site (Welcome to Obama for America). The first set of volunteers uses these lists to create more volunteers to do the canvassing and phone banking. More volunteers are identified in the canvassing. Simple, but I've never seen it implemented so well or persistently.
This rally is an example of the campaign giving people the freedom to help in their own way.
Here is an interesting story on this campaign:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/zack-exley/the-new-organizers-part-1_b_132782.html
'Nader or none of the above' is my mantra.
ReplyDeleteObama will waste more lives and treasure in Afghanistan in a time when militarism and a police state is looming.
He says nothing about removing the military brigades being assigned to 'homeland security'.
He says nothing about removing the patriot act.
He says nothing about reigning in the CIA, rendition, and torture.
Guns and butter brought down Johnson...
Nader or none of the above.
'None of the above' is not one of the options.
ReplyDeleteThere is a ballot line for a write in...mickey mouse even gets some votes.
ReplyDeleteIf you don't like Nader and McKinney or Barr don't have a ballot line, then write their name in.
Hundreds of billions for imperial and financial speculations, but too little for health care, protection of social security, equal opportunity in schooling, social justice in general.
Vote your conscience, not what advertising and PR offers.
My point was that either McCain or Obama is going to win. Nader has proven to be a dead-end.
ReplyDelete"There will be Free food."
ReplyDeletePerhaps, you can take a gander at all of the goose poop. As the goose mitigation plan seems to have lost air.
Heck, I will take Sunny's hurt dog then that stupid Mess.
I am going to vote O, bu guifoil is correct.
I have to agree that staff has not followed the goose plan. I plan to make inquiries and ask for a report at the council.
ReplyDeleteI cannot give the next Supreme Court nomination to McCain, but appreciate Mr. Guilfoil's frustration. As I have mentioned to friends, my worst fear isn't a President McCain or even a President Palin, it is that Obama will be elected and nothing will really change. My brother still won't have health care, retirement will not be affordable, alternative energy will still be more expensive than carbon-emitting fuels and our foreign policy will still be a nightmare. Then what will we do?
ReplyDeleteThanks, and you should know that I have got two of those fancy dancy signs in my yard now-as my lovely bride did not like the way I tried to cut corners and NOT pay 8.00.
ReplyDeleteI sure hope O can make a difference.
thanks for all of your work.
Let's win the election first.
ReplyDeleteI think it is possible that the economic crunch will force Obama and the Dems to try things that seem beyond the pale much like events forced FDR.
The only problem with the campaign strategy is that it repeatedly targets the same people. For personal reasons, I am unable to donate time but have donated money. But I keep getting asked over and over by different people if I can help. It is all good, and I understand that this happening at the hands of people who ARE donating their time, so I haven't been grumpy with anyone, but I am getting tired of having to justify to people why I can't help right now!
ReplyDeletenobama
ReplyDelete'Nobama'? Gee, didja think that up all by your little lonesome, my friend?
ReplyDeleteSummarizes the McCain campaign's specialty very well: name-calling.
The deabate was none event for John McCain.
ReplyDeleteThanks our stars.
Henny Penny
Why I am not voting for Obama:
ReplyDelete"Joe the Plumber" incident, aka "Wealth Redistribution"
Rezko
Ayers
Chicago Machine Politician
One undecided that I know chose McCain after last night's debate.
How about: financial crisis? Iraq? Terrorism? Constitution? jobs? health insurance?
ReplyDeleteIt's chilling the way that Obama supporters and the press have gone after Joe the Plumber just because he asked a question which caused a moment of inconvenient honesty from Obama.
ReplyDeleteI would be scared to death to ask Obama any tough questions because I wouldn't want to subject my family to the "Joe the plumber" treatment.
As a small business owner in Monona, his supporters could make life very difficult.
McCain threw this guy into the arena without checking out his story - sound familiar? When McCain decided to make him the centerpiece of his debate presentation it was inevitable that the guy's life would be turned upside down and inside out.
ReplyDelete"Joe the Plumber "
ReplyDeletePlease, the guy set himself up for this by asking O a question at a rally trying to set-up Obama.
He is no wheres near making $250,000.
Each of the campaigns use people and events to manufacture sympathy, anger and etc.
However, I am sticking with my man Wood....ask your self the ole' Ron Reagan line are you better of then you were eight years ago around the following:
financial crisis?
Iraq?
Terrorism?
Constitution?
jobs?
health insurance?
Only near-minded fool who pulls the same lever every year would say YEP those are all better.
McCain might have had a chance if he had not picked his VP on the basis....well I am not sure what basis. We have better qualified candidates in Monona.
Say Doug,
ReplyDeleteI think the following link is interesting because it reminds me of the current debate between John and O.
Batman Vs. Joker: The Debate
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l63SRpGXBHE
McCain threw this guy into the arena without checking out his story
ReplyDeleteNo, not true. This guy was throwing a football in his front yard with his kid when Obama approached him. So now anyone who asks Obama an inconvenient question must be vetted? Man, I'm staying indoors if Obama walks past my house. Weak sauce, Doug, weak sauce.
He is no wheres near making $250,000. Er, he didn't say that he was making that amount of money. He said he WOULD LIKE TO BUY A BUSINESS in the future that would make that kind of money, A BUSINESS.
Each of the campaigns use people and events to manufacture sympathy, anger and etc. I hope you aren't insinuating that he was a plant. I don't think you are, just checking.
So let's say, for the sake of argument, that he's a plant, that he shouldn't be allowed to ask questions because of a tax lien, etc. What have you proven? How does that change Obama's answer to Joe's question?
Weak sauce? This man would not have had his full 15 minutes of fame if McCain had not decided that the Tactic of the Day was to make him the centerpiece of his debate. Mentioned him, what 21 times?
ReplyDeleteThen McCain goes on Letterman and apologizes to Joe for dragging him into the limelight before going out the next day and putting the guy's name front-and-center at his rallies.
Doug,
ReplyDeleteOkay, let's say everything you write about the guy is true and correct.
Again, the most important thing in this episode is what Obama said.
Isn't this concept more in line with socialism, fostering an interest in the equality of outcome rather than fostering equality of opportunity?
And before you bring up the Bush administration's recent financial moves wrt banks, it is totally wrong and I believe we have common ground on that subject.
Your new tax plan is going to tax me more, isn’t it? asks Joe the Plumber guy
It’s not that I want to punish your success. I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they’ve got a chance for success too. My attitude is that if the economy’s good for folks from the bottom up, it’s gonna be good for everybody. … I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.
Some people I know who aren't on the Obama bandwagon in this area are being subjected to some disturbing actions. A friend who has worked for a local government for over twenty five years was recently paid a home visit by some people claiming to be from his union. He's never been visited in any other presidential election.They were checking to make sure he was an Obama supporter. The interaction was not friendly. He was undecided but should have lied. I don't doubt that his name is on a list.
Mr. Guilfoil is a prolific writer and constant critic of the Bush administration. His letters are published quite frequently in area newspapers. I see by his comments that he will also be critical of an Obama administration. Though I don't agree with him on much, he is a man who adheres to his principals and I admire him for that.
First, Obama's tax plan would actually benefit the real world Joe because he actually makes around $40K. Setting that aside, Obama is simply talking about making the tax system a more progressive like, it was under Clinton and before Reagan. That is not socialism!
ReplyDeleteThe whole Joe scenario is a bit of a red herring. People making $250K in taxable income would pay a little more in taxes under Obama's plan, but it's the top 1% who earn over 17% of all income who would pay the most. Rightly so - they benefit financialy far more than the rest of us from our social-economic arrangements.
We have somehow been convinced that economic policies that benefit a very small part of the population are really for the good of all.
Taxes are the way that we pay for things as a community for the common good, whether that is health insurance coverage, roads, transit, retirement insurance, education, and so forth.
High marginal tax rates will also discourage the extreme CEO compensation that has left the average CEO of a large company making 300 times the income of the average worker. In the 1970's the average CEO made about 25 times the wages of the average worker. Executive pay has risen 600% since 1989 according to Forbes. The income inequality exceeds pre-Depression levels.
I don't doubt I will be critical of an Obama Administration on some things, too, but hope that I will not have the fundamental disagreements that I have had with Bush.
I don't know what happened with your friend. Intimidation is wrong. Lots of people are making more of an effort this year to persuade other voters. One person's persuasion can be another person's intimidation. Your friend is no doubt on a list of 'undecided' and will be contacted again. If your friend said McCain, then it is not likely that he or she will be bothered again. It's a waste of time from a campaign's standpoint.
If your friend doubts that these people were from his or her union, they should call the union office and find out.
Proving-I am on to something fairly big and that it still has legs:
ReplyDeleteFrom todays NYTIMES:
"“No, no, no,” Mr. Obama said, half-heartedly motioning for silence with his hands. “I’m superstitious. I don’t like counting those chickens before they’re hatched.
The whole “chickens-hatched” thing has become a theme on the trail.
Mr. Obama likes to ask how many people in the crowd have already cast their ballots. When hands shoot up, he will look up and nod for a few seconds, as if he is counting hands, or chickens.
Henny Penny