Posted on 03/19/2009 5:02:43 PM PDT by sarah p
Obama Enlists Campaign Army In Budget Fight
President Obama will kick off an all-out grass-roots effort today urging Congress to pass his $3.55 trillion budget, activating the extensive campaign apparatus he built during his successful 2008 candidacy for the first time since taking office.
The campaign, which will be run under the aegis of the Democratic National Committee, will rely heavily on the 13 million-strong e-mail list put together during the campaign and now under the control of Organizing for America (OFA), a group overseen by the DNC. Aides familiar with the plan said it is an unprecedented attempt to transfer the grass-roots energy built during the presidential campaign into an effort to sway Congress.
David Plouffe, who was Obama's campaign manager and is now an adviser to OFA, called this effort the "first major engagement" of the group in the legislative process and said in a statement that it will call on supporters "to help the President win the debate between those who marched in lockstep with the failed Bush economic policies and now have no new ideas versus the Obama agenda which will help us manage the short term economic crisis and puts us on the path to long term prosperity."
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That push begins today with an e-mail asking volunteers to go door to door Saturday to urge their neighbors to sign a pledge in support of Obama's budget plan.
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Absolutely, sarah.
We can enjoy ourselves, and if we don’t change any minds, we can at least tie up their time for a while.
Why am I reminded of scenes from “Secondhand Lions?” You know the ones -— the traveling salesman scenes.
I need an Obama sign to lure them in, so I can play Whac-a-Mole when they get to my porch.
Can’t do it.
I don’t invite bums in my home.
The pitbull hates them too.
Feed them to the hogs!
Larry doesn’t like that photo published!
Knock...knock....Who’s there? Secret Service sir....Please open the door...
Oh I dare them to try it. My dog is not a huge fan of strangers...one utterance of 0’s name and I’ll set him loose.
Probably. So be nice until you get thier name and where they are from before you explain how the world goes around to them....
Here is a link to see if anyone is organizing in your area.
http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/pledgeprojectcanvass/
And here is one for all of their forms and training materials. They even have scripts!
http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/pledgeprojectcanvassguide/
Talk about RATS stealing other people's property, see what happened today at the Iowa Capitol. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2210285/posts
This guy is a friend of Biden's.
Hey, that’s a handy link! In my area, I see a person’s home, a library, a park, a church. They are making it easy to go to them and ask your own questions.
I wish they’d come by my house...I’ve been looking for a real scrap with some libs.
It is handy. I also just noticed that you can see who is organizing and how many people have signed up. Just click on “details” when you find an event and you will see the number of people at the bottom of that page.
I’ll put the family silver , some other valuables at the door in a pillow case hand it to em at the door tell em welcome to Texas and can you outrun a few bullets and my rott’s after robbing my home ?
Bring it on. I’ll clear my calendar and follow them through my neighborhood, making their lives miserable.
When my dogs confront them-I bet they get back in their car a hell of a lot faster than they got out of it.
Bring it, Ozombies!!
Thanks! They have names, address where they are meeting, phone numbers. I guess anyone could sign up or show up to “help” them in their cause. Most of the ones in my area either had less than 5 showing up, several had 0, and one had 25 people. There were only 6 groups total within 45 miles.
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