Calling all Obama Campaign Donors or Volunteers! ACTION diary

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Saturday January 30, 2010 · 11:14 AM PST

2010/01/30 · 11:14

Were you an Obama Campaign Donor or Volunteer in 2008? If so, your help is needed. Unless Congress passes the health care bill without delay, Democrats are toast in November. Health care reform is a core platform of the Democratic Party. We all worked hard in 2008 to get Democrats elected, and if they can’t deliver on their signature priority, with unprecedented majorities in the Senate and the House, we have to ask, when and what will they ever deliver on?

I am not going to argue the procedural tactics of how the House and Senate should get this done. The purpose of this diary is to encourage everyone who gave money or time to the Obama campaign in 2008 to reactivate your old campaign contacts, and get this new campaign (Pass.the.Damn.Bill) underway.

Join me over the fold for the plan.

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Are you going to reactivate your local Obama group and get this done?

24 votes Vote Now!

Are you going to reactivate your local Obama group and get this done?

Yes - I meant it when I said Yes we can

16 votes

No - I'd rather read and comment on blog posts

8 votes

Democrats - Getting it Done

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Tuesday January 26, 2010 · 10:28 AM PST

2010/01/26 · 10:28

The biggest problem the Democrats in Congress face this year is the perpetuation of the meme that they are weak and completely ineffectual. My suggestion for them is that they completely rebrand and slavishly repeat and enact the following mantra "Democrats: Getting it Done."

It is completely disingenuous for Obama and the Democrats to run on the slogan of "Change." They can no longer run against G.W. Bush - they are the ones in charge now, they are the status quo, so they can no longer push change. What they need to prove is that the Republicans are the party of no and that it is the Democrats who get things done. Obama also needs to prove that he is a man of action.

karend27

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Tuesday September 01, 2009 · 11:22 AM PDT

2009/09/01 · 11:22

This will be a short diary, but with an important action item. Dick Durbin, Chuck Schumer and Patrick Leahy are coming together today to urge citizens to stand together and support real health care reform with a strong public option.
Visit their site today and sign the petition:
http://ga3.org/...
And forward to as many of your friends as possible.
Also write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper.
http://debunk.citizensforapublicopti...

karend27

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Monday February 02, 2009 · 6:06 AM PST

2009/02/02 · 06:06

It's always disconcerting to me when I see the AP, Mark Halperin and Daily Kos featuring the same headlines. The current media meme is that Daschle's nomination is in doubt, and recent daily kos diaries have played their part in reinforcing this meme including this recc'd diary:
Daschle needs to go
But doesn't anyone remember this recc'd diary from political junquie from last November:
Why the GOP fears Tom Daschle
Remember now?

As (conservative) U.S. News and World Report blogger James Pethothoukis said yesterday in a piece entitled "How Tom Daschle Might Kill Conservatism,"it turns out that the fearsome harbinger of free-market doom is the mild-mannered ex-U.S. senator with the little, red glasses, Tom Daschle."

If we really want universal healthcare, we need to have Tom Daschle's back.

karend27

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Monday November 24, 2008 · 8:55 AM PST

2008/11/24 · 08:55

Some diarists and writers in the progressive blogosphere have expressed disappointment or at least confusion at the very likely appointment of Senator Hillary Clinton to the post of Secretary of State. While the decision seems to please many people, others, who have been involved in the Obama campaign from the beginning, ask "How is this change we can believe in?" Many of us were first drawn to support Obama because of the change he promised in how the United States interacts with the rest of the world. It was not a joke to us, when Obama asserted his years as a child in Indonesia, as one of his foreign policy qualifications. No-one could come away from reading his book, Dreams from my father and not see an individual who has thought carefully about issues of rights and poverty all over the world.

karend27

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Wednesday September 17, 2008 · 5:36 AM PDT

2008/09/17 · 05:36

In an important ~~editorial~~ opinion piece in the WSJ today entitled "Why Obama's Health Plan is better", the health plans of both candidates are examined, primarily from the aspect of which is better for business:

Sustained growth thus requires successful health-care reform. Barack Obama and John McCain propose to lead us in opposite directions -- and the Obama direction is far superior.

Obama's plan will reduce business sector costs and promote job growth. The McCain plan introduces a tax on benefits to employers providing health insurance, which studies have shown will force 20 million people off the rolls.

karend27

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Tuesday September 16, 2008 · 5:54 PM PDT

2008/09/16 · 17:54

This chart does an excellent job of showing how Obama will cut taxes for the vast majority of folks. I know some of us who are phonebanking or canvassing feel like we are running up against a brick wall in convincing folks that Obama will be cutting for a far greater share of the population than John McCain will. Viveka Weiley at Chartjunk does a fantastic job of weighting the chart so that we can very visually understand how Obama's plan targets the vast majority of Americans.

See below the fold for the graph:

karend27

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Monday September 15, 2008 · 8:48 AM PDT

2008/09/15 · 08:48

It's unbelievable what is happening on Wall Street today. I think eight years is a long enough time to prove that the deregulated, upside-down economics has not worked. We have a ballooning deficit, flatlined earnings, failing banking systems, a collapse of the housing market, and very possibly a collapse on Wall Street. As Kucinich would say: "Wake up America!" TODAY is the day for Obama and Biden to blanket the networks, doing every interview they can, where they succintly explain how the policies of the last 8 years have led to this disaster, and the fact that John McCain has NO solution because he knows nothing about the economy. Let them ask the question: Where is John McCain? Where is Sarah Palin? Why are they afraid to answer questions about the economy? Here's Nate Silver on McCain's performance today in Florida:

McCain, by contrast, is under more pressure to actually propose solutions, which is difficult because there aren't a lot of good ones here. He certainly needs to improve his messaging over where it was in his morning appearance in Jacksonville today, where he was borderline incoherent on the subject of the financial crisis.

karend27

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Friday September 12, 2008 · 6:07 PM PDT

2008/09/12 · 18:07

So Barack Obama said in his Town Hall in Dover, NH, this morning.

Spurred on by the obsession in the blogosphere by all things Palin, I'm writing this diary to urge a return to the issues, and to working for the Obama campaign. As pointed out in the top recommended diary today, Is dkos being played by Rove?, what happened to all the positive diaries about Barack Obama and this historic campaign? We complain that the Republicans want to make this all about personalities, rather than the issues, about distractions, rather than what is going on in real Americans' lives everyday, yet we are the biggest offenders when it comes to jumping on top of one controversy or another. So here is my contribution today: a brief synopsis of Senator Obama's tax pledge to the American people, that he offered today, in Dover, NH.

karend27

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Thursday September 11, 2008 · 2:02 PM PDT

2008/09/11 · 14:02

Ok - this is now getting beyond ridiculous!

In a press interview today (the first one he's given in a while I believe), McCain asserts that Sarah Palin knows more about energy than anyone else in America!

Wow, if this is what McCain believes - no wonder his energy platform consists solely of three ridiculous words - "Drill, Baby, Drill!"

Follow me beyond the fold for the video...

karend27

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Wednesday September 10, 2008 · 11:08 AM PDT

2008/09/10 · 11:08

In an insightful column today entitled McCain's integrity, Andrew Sullivan concisely outlines the case against John McCain:

Although he knew the war in Iraq was a fiasco, in 2004, he endorsed George Bush for the presidency against his fellow Vietnam veteran John Kerry
He did not join the vote in 2006 to condemn and end the torture regime of Bush and Cheney, instead he capitulated and enshrined torture as the policy of the United States
He has run a dishonest and dishonorable campaign against Barack Obama, filled with trivial and grotesque Rovian-style attacks on Obama's character
With no concern for national security, he hastily chose a candidate for VP after one meeting and gambled the security of the world on a total unknown because she polled well with the Christianist base.

Sullivan concludes:

McCain has demonstrated in the last two months that he does not have the character to be president of the United States. And that is why it is more important than ever to ensure that Barack Obama is the next president. The alternative is now unthinkable. And McCain - no one else - has proved it.

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When did you lose your respect for John McCain?

85 votes Vote Now!

When did you lose your respect for John McCain?

2000

13 votes

2004

24 votes

2006

5 votes

2008

18 votes

Still Respect Him

0 votes

Never Respected Him

25 votes

Press: Sen. McCain, can you explain Sen. Obama's tax plan to us? Whose taxes would he raise?

karend27

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Tuesday September 09, 2008 · 11:18 AM PDT

2008/09/09 · 11:18

I believe the most insidious lie that has percolated across the country is that Obama will raise your taxes. In almost every TV ad, John McCain, when referring to Obama, uses the phrases "He will raise your taxes." It was also repeated ad nauseam at the Convention last week. And we know that there is a viral email circulating that also pushes this idea. http://www.factcheck.org/...

It is time to push back with all of our might. We are 180,000 strong, Kossacks. We can push back to our family, friends. We can push back to the media. Ezra Klein, a few days ago, suggested the press ask McCain if he could explain Obama's healthcare plan. I would like to steal this idea and apply it to the tax question. My goal would be to have the press ask McCain one simple question:

"Senator McCain, you say that Obama will raise taxes. Whose taxes will he raise? Can you explain Senator Obama's tax plan to me?"

And if he can't answer, the plan should be explained to him, and then he should be asked again, what he thinks of it.

Follow me over the fold for more details and ideas for action.

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So what did you do today?

25 votes Vote Now!

So what did you do today?

Complained in the blogosphere about something or other

7 votes

Asked my friends or family how much of a tax cut they would get from Obama

1 vote

Added www.obamataxcut.com to my email signature line

0 votes

Wrote a Letter to the Editor or my local TV station

1 vote

Consistently pushed the message that Obama will lower taxes for 95% of Americans

5 votes

More than one of the above

11 votes

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