Canvassing in Iowa

Sunshine on my navy colored Obama shirt creates just the right temperature.  November or not, forgotten gloves are no big deal.  My newspaper journalist buddy Chris and I set out with maps in hand, for a South End neighborhood of an Iowa city.
Our targets are walled to the east by a huge grain processing plant.  A tidy grade [...]

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Have you met Michelle?

Our little caravan to Peoria yesterday was an active search for hope in a divisive world.  Our driver John is newly retired.  I tried to imagine being his fellow soldier in the helicopter he piloted above Viet Nam.  His girlfriend, Bonnie, specializes in educating those incorrigibles demoted to alternative schooling.  I shared the back seat with [...]

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Ethics: The New Core Competency

My either/or mind exerts a preference for contrast while it’s in decision-making mode.  I’m frustrated with not being able to find much ethics information at the White House website.  Let’s review a refreshing memo from Day #1 of the current Administration.
 
Seems like YESTERDAY -

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Liveblogging from the NOI Bootcamp

Hey, this is Erin, guest blogging from the New Organizing Institute Boot Camp in DC. We have 60 young progressive organizers from across the country and an amazing view of the Washington Monument from our classroom at GWU. Since Sunday evening, we’ve put in over 30 hours for trainings, activities, and simulations. The level of [...]

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The Obama Campaign’s Youth Identity-Crisis: The Quest to Integrate Barack Obama’s Unprecedented Youthroots Movement

Cross-posted at Future Majority.
Yes, Barack Obama went through his own troubling youth identity-crisis. He has openly admitted he inhaled; he’s been wasted and hung-over more than once in his youth; and he often found himself feeling lost and uncertain about his identity and his ultimate place within the world. But that’s not the [...]

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Obama and the Women

“Obama launches campaign initiative aimed at women”
With fierce competition for the women’s vote with ’strong woman’ Hillary Clinton as an opponent, Obama recently unveiled a new campaign initiative intended to garner more support from female voters.  Women for Obama recently held an event in Chicago to raise money for the campaign.  Obama catered to [...]

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Obama’s comments on Letterman

I think his comments on a Hilary-Obama ticket are worth discussing:
“You don’t run for second. I don’t believe in that,” the Illinois senator said on the talk show “Late Night with David Letterman.” … “That would be a powerful ticket,” Letterman prodded. … Asked by Letterman whether there were private discussions of the situation going [...]

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Obama on the Role of Young People in his Campaign

Check out this latest video of Obama on BarackTV, a priceless two minutes where he directly addresses the role of young people in his campaign.
He starts by saying, “If you think about change in this country, it has often started with young people, because young people aren’t set in their ways, young people can imagine [...]

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