Let me say, I like how Barack's campaign takes their time to give a measured response, instead of stuff like the pathetically generic stuff the McCain campaign put out during the Democratic Convention. As shown in this campaign email, their responses are well worth waiting for.
David Plouffe is just as pissed as we are and I am sure this is just the beginning of a smackdown.
Check it out after the fold...(bold emphases are mine)...
I wasn't planning on sending you something tonight. But if you saw what I saw from the Republican convention, you know that it demands a response.
I saw John McCain's attack squad of negative, cynical politicians. They lied about Barack Obama and Joe Biden, and they attacked you for being a part of this campaign.
But worst of all -- and this deserves to be noted -- they insulted the very idea that ordinary people have a role to play in our political process.
You know that despite what John McCain and his attack squad say, everyday people have the power to build something extraordinary when we come together. Will you make a donation of $25 or more right now to remind them?
Both Rudy Giuliani and Sarah Palin specifically mocked Barack's experience as a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago more than two decades ago, where he worked with people who had lost jobs and been left behind when the local steel plants closed.
Let's clarify something for them right now.
Community organizing is how ordinary people respond to out-of-touch politicians and their failed policies.
And it's no surprise that, after eight years of George Bush, millions of people have found that by coming together in their local communities they can change the course of history. That promise is what our campaign has been about from the beginning.
Throughout our history, ordinary people have made good on America's promise by organizing for change from the bottom up. Community organizing is the foundation of the civil rights movement, the women's suffrage movement, labor rights, and the 40-hour workweek. And it's happening today in church basements and community centers and living rooms across America.
Meanwhile, we still haven't gotten a single idea during the entire Republican convention about the economy and how to lift a middle class so harmed by the Bush-McCain policies.
It's now clear that John McCain's campaign has decided that desperate lies and personal attacks -- on Barack Obama and on you -- are the only way they can earn a third term for the Bush policies that McCain has supported more than 90 percent of the time.
But you can send a crystal clear message.
Enough is enough. Make your voice heard loud and clear by making a $25 donation right now:
https://donate.barackobama.com/...
Thank you for joining more than 2 million ordinary Americans who refuse to be silenced.
David
David Plouffe
Campaign Manager
Obama for America
I feel it's worth posting the entire thing to encourage everyone who hasn't signed up to get involved. We can't have too many action diaries and there are tons of ways to start working to the defeat the sickos we saw on display tonight. Register voters, make calls, send postcards, talk to your neighbors, donate. Just go to the action center on Barackobama.com. If you are completely clueless on how to get involved, go ahead and text VOL (for Volunteer), your first name and city to 62262 and you will get a call from a volunteer to help you. If you are going out of town, check out campaign activities in the area, so you can help in a swing state. Sign up with Moveon.org as they have lots of local events and they are a great place to donate, especially if you are maxed out for Obama. Feel free to list your favorite way of helping the campaign on a regular basis, the more creative, the better.
Update, slightly off-topic depending on how you look at it: Biden's working hard, he'll be on CNN's American Morning today at 6AM EST, then will campaign in Virginia Beach later today (this is after at least 5 events in FL over the past two days). Just 7 years younger than McCain chronologically, but decades younger in his spirit and energy!
Same day, Barack will be in Lancaster, PA and Michelle will be in Alburquerque. (Could you even imagine Cindy McCain or Sarah Palin campaigning on their own, in a completely different state from McCain? I can't!). When the people at the top are so hard-working, it makes it that much easier to get motivated to make the change from the bottom up!
Also, my congrats and best wishes to the brave souls who admitted they haven't done anything specific for the campaign yet, but plan to! You will love it, it is so satisfying to be a part of something so wonderful. Everybody gets started sometime and I admit didn't pay much attention last time in '04, I thought voting was enough, but we have to do so much more...those creeps we saw tonight can't win... NOT THIS TIME!
Give it all you got and then give a little more! Blessings!