50 Days ‘Til Change or More of the McSame?
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Starting Monday, September 15 it was 50 days before this years election. This election is so important – will we end up with a president that will help create real change that will benefit us all – or will we end up with a president that will just be repeating the last 8 years of Bush’s failed policies?
I decided a few days ago that the last 50 days leading up to the election that I would wear an Obama shirt everyday and share a favorite Obama quote. I am also volunteering at local Obama offices – this past Saturday I helped with door-to-door canvassing here in Missouri and will volunteer more as I have the time.
Day 12
I have still been wearing an Obama shirt everyday (except one day when I didn’t have one clean) but haven’t had the time to post about it (or anything else) lately.
The free time I have had on weekends I have spend in part doing door to door canvassing for Obama.
At first I was working from this office in Arnold, MO:
I’ve since been volunteering out of a St. Louis county office, covering an area closer to where I live.
I’ve had an Obama sign stolen twice from my yard. The first time it was only in our yard 4 hours. It was stolen by an 8 year old who kids at school told that Obama would raise his taxes. His family doesn’t make $250,000 year though. We found out he threw my sign down a drainage hole near our house and my husband was able to get it back out.
I had a chance to take one picture of it – it was kind of dark at the time though and not easy to see.
Unfortunately, by the next morning it was gone again, along with some other people’s down the street.
In response, I made and put up this sign in my yard – it says, if you can’t read it: “Real Americans believe in free speech and don’t steal political signs from yards”
I gotten a few new ones since then – one I put in a window and I have another in the yard. If it gets stolen, I’ve got another couple to replace it with.
From one of the Obama offices I got the following information too and made a small sign repeating it and had it in the yard for a while – maybe that is why it hasn’t been stolen again:
It is a federal crime to tamper with a yard sign
(American Vote Act of 2002).Missouri law now makes the willful defacing, mutilating, destroying or stealing of a campaign yard sign a class four election offense, which is a misdemeanor crime punishable upon conviction of up to a year in jail and/or a $2500 fine.
When visiting my mom out of town for her birthday, we both went to the local Democrat office and helped stuff envelopes too.
In general, I’ve been pretty busy lately and have been using whatever time I’ve had to help Obama to win. This election is, in essence, a struggle between intelligence and stupidity and it is worth the effort.
Obama quote of the day:
“Like most of my values, I learned about empathy from my mother. She disdained any kind of cruelty or thoughtlessness or abuse of power, whether it expressed itself in the form of racial prejudice or bullying in the schoolyard or workers being underpaid. Whenever she saw even a hint of such behavior in me she would look me square in the eyes and ask, ‘How do you think that would make you feel?’.” (From chapter 2: Values of The Audacity of Hope)
Day 40
Obama quote of the day:
“We are the party of Roosevelt. We are the party of Kennedy. So don’t tell me that Democrats won’t defend this country. Don’t tell me that Democrats won’t keep us safe.” (From Obama’s speech at the Democratic National Convention)
Day 41
Obama quote of the day:
“America, now is not the time for small plans.
… because we cannot meet twenty-first century challenges with a twentieth century bureaucracy.
We need a President who can face the threats of the future, not keep grasping at the ideas of the past.” (From Obama’s speech at the Democratic National Convention)
Day 42
Obama quote of the day:
“And for the sake of our economy, our security, and the future of our planet, I will set a clear goal as President: in ten years, we will finally end our dependence on oil from the Middle East.
And I’ll invest 150 billion dollars over the next decade in affordable, renewable sources of energy – wind power and solar power and the next generation of biofuels;” (From Obama’s speech at the Democratic National Convention)
Day 43
Obama quote of the day:
“But the record’s clear: John McCain has voted with George Bush ninety percent of the time. Senator McCain likes to talk about judgment, but really, what does it say about your judgment when you think George Bush has been right more than ninety percent of the time? I don’t know about you, but I’m not ready to take a ten percent chance on change.” (From Obama’s speech at the Democratic National Convention)
Day 44
Obama quote of the day:
“Our system of self-governance is an intricate affair; it is through that system, and by respecting that system, that we give shape to our values and shared commitments.” (From chapter 3: Our Constitution of The Audacity of Hope)
Day 45
Obama quote of the day:
“Tonight, I say to the American people, to Democrats and Republicans and Independents across this great land – enough! This moment – this election – is our chance to keep, in the 21st century, the American promise alive.” (From Obama’s speech at the Democratic National Convention)
Day 46
Obama quote of the day:
“My friends, it is time to take back the country we love.
This is a fight for the future. And it’s a fight we must win.” (From Obama’s speech at the Democratic National Convention)
Day 47
Obama quote of the day:
“Now, I don’t believe that Senator McCain doesn’t care what’s going on in the lives of Americans. I just think he doesn’t know. Why else would he define middle-class as someone making under five million dollars a year?” (From Obama’s speech at the Democratic National Convention)
Day 48
Obama quote of the day:
“We say we value the legacy we leave the next generation and then saddle that generation with mountains of debt. We say we believe in equal opportunity but then stand idle while millions of American children languish in poverty. We insist that we value family, but then structure our economy and organize our lives so as to ensure that our families get less and less of our time.” (From The Audacity of Hope)
Day 49
Obama quote of the day:
“So let’s be clear. The rich in America have little to complain about. Between 1971 and 2001, while the median wage and salary income of the average worker showed literally no gain, the income of the top hundredth of a percent went up almost 500 percent. The distribution of wealth is even more skewed, and levels of inequality are now higher than at any time since the Gilded Age. “ (From chapter 5: Opportunity of The Audacity of Hope)
Day 50
Obama quote of the day:
“I believe in free speech, whether politically correct or politically incorrect, and I am suspicious of using government to impose anybody’s religious beliefs – including my own – on nonbelievers.” (prologue of The Audacity of Hope)
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on September 16th, 2008 at 9:28 am
Hey Trisha,
Good for you. I live in NYC so there is not so much urgency here, Obama has a lot of support. But the last election I volunteered with a group that buses people out to rural/suburban Penn to talk to undecided voters. Thinking about doing that again.
Thanks for your comment on my Sarah Palin post. By blog isn’t normally political, though I’m interested and involved, but little ol’s Sarah inspired me to the point that I could not resist.
Good luck to you,
Carol
Carol J. Clouses last blog post: An Open Letter to Sarah Palin From a Fellow American Chick from her/his blog at http://www.noclocks.wordpress.com
on October 23rd, 2008 at 4:25 pm
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