“OBAMA SUPPORTERS” DAILY NEWS Thursday June 05, 2008

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WELCOME TO “OBAMA SUPPORTERS” DAILY NEWS

Thursday June 05, 2008

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[WA98296]

1. Just wanted to drop by and Thank You for keeping these threads for us during this.

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

6. you're welcome. and thanks for posting update

to the thread!

:yourock:

[WA98296]

2. Clinton to CONCEDE on FRIDAY according to her call w/supporters

This hopefully will go well.

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3. Star Wars creator George Lucas calls Obama "a hero in the making"....

The Empire Strikes Barack

The Empire Strikes Barack

Yahoo News reports today that George Lucas, speaking from Japan on a promotional tour for Crystal Skull, called Democratic nominee Barack Obama “a hero in the making” following his delegate wins in the presidential primaries yesterday:

“We have a hero in the making back in the United States today because we have a new candidate for president of the United States, Barack Obama,” Lucas said when asked who his childhood heroes were.

Obama, “for all of us that have dreams and hope, is a hero,” Lucas said.

Check out the full story here

The video is HERE

[Cha]

7. I really like that George Lucas made

this statement. It's been quite the trip over the last year..getting our Dem Nom.

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

4. "Big Man": "we, the darker brothers, do not forget even when we forgive.."

My Memory is Like an Elephant's Nose

Posted by Big Man at Raving Black Lunatic Tuesday, June 3, 2008

I see you Miss Ann.

Pandering and insinuating, using innuendo to make your wounds so nobody can find the blood from a direct cut. Your platitudes and smiles are the wool used to hide sharpened canines; you are the wolf and you are hunting. I smell you.

Oh, you long ago realized that this hunt has been squandered, all that is left for you now is the carrion forgotten by the victor and the hope that the next hunt will be time for you to make your kill. I see the calculations in your every gesture, the forced smile that stretches your skin into a ghoulish mask.

Your focus is surely on the next hunt. It's why your every every thank you is followed by a plea for sustenance. You claim it is for this fight, and that may be true. But, it is not to continue the battle, but so you can erase the debt you have gathered.

You claim to be the choice of "hard-working people," yet, you cannot convince those folks to support you with what they've earned through their "hard-working" ways. I see you.

You await the young lion's failure; you are confident that the wounds you have inflicted on him will render him unable to take over the pride. When he fails, you plan to supplant him; your goals are so obvious they are almost childish.

Your plan hinges on the short memories of the pride, particularly it's darker-hued members. Ahh, but that is where you err because we, the darker brothers, do not forget even when we forgive. Our memories stretch back for generations, and once we have marked you it is forever.

....more at the link

[TheDoorbellRang]

5. These have been my must-go-to threads ever since you started them

I so appreciate that you've done these every day.

If you plan on continuing them thru November, maybe you could change the title to simply "Obama Daily News Thread" as ideally we will all be supporters within a week or so.

K&R!

[Cha]

10. That's right ..we will all be Obama

supporters after next week..just like in 2004 on DU we were all Kerry Supporters when he was declared the nom.

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

11. glad to know it has been useful and...

when the moment is right we'll change the name.

The news started out as the Obama Daily News, but we had disruptors doing drive bys
on the thread, so we changed the title to "Obama Supporters". This helped
some. Of course we got "carpet bombed" on June 4th's thread.

Perhaps when Skinner enforces the "rules" in about a week we can change the
title, hopefully.

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8. The GOP’s Nightmare Begins Now

The GOP’s Nightmare Begins Now

Gedblog June 4. 2008

I knew the right feared facing Obama in the general election. My suspicions were confirmed when Rush Limbaugh effectively told his ditto-head listeners to vote for Clinton in deep red states like Texas, a place where no God-fearing republican would admit to even liking Hillary, let alone pull a lever for her. Operation Chaos, as it was called, may have been sold under the guise of prolonging the battle between Hillary and Barack, but I suspect it had more to do with the desire of the right to give Clinton the boost she needed to take the nomination.

The best laid plans.

Ever since it was understood that Barack Obama would be the Democratic nominee, we’ve hear rumblings from the right that Obama was the wrong choice. Hillary is the more competitive candidate. Obama doesn’t have the “electoral math” to win against McCain in the fall. The simple truth is they’re scared shitless. Obama’s nomination puts them just where they didn’t want to be. This is now a race between a young, energetic and intelligent man who stands for real change and an older opponent who effectively represents “the status quo”. Obama has raised over 280 million dollars from over 1.5 million donors averaging about $100 each. McCain has to re-schedule his fundraising appearances because he doesn’t want to be seen with Bush.

I’m not going to kid myself and say this election is going to be easy. It won’t be. The right wing, from the Bush insiders like Karl Rove, hate radio jocks like Hannity and Ingram and internet right wingers like Drudge and Malkin are about to throw everything they have at the Senator from Illinois. They will do anything to try and slow down the speeding locomotive that is the Obama campaign. They and others fear the loss of power that Obama as President would represent and the shift in policies that would limit corporate control and restore the rule of law. They can feel the country slipping from their grasp like the snake oil they sold this country for the past 7 years. McCain stammers to a room of a few hundred and Obama draws crowds of tens of thousands. McCain and his supporters offer the rest of us unending war, promote the climate of fear started by Bush after 9/11, and attempt to drive a wedge between Americans. To these folks and others like them who live in ignorance of what true change is and what Barack Obama represents, I have only one thing to say…

Bring ‘em on

...more at the link

[Tatiana]

9. Obama’s E Pluribus Challenge

Obama’s E Pluribus Challenge
6/4/08, 10:25 pm EST

Now that Obama has locked up the nomination, its fitting to reflect on the abiding irony of his candidacy: That the unity candidate now stands as the front-man of a party bitterly divided.

At the moment of his national political birth on that stage in Boston in 2004, Barack Obama painted a Rockwellian portrait of a country capable of transcendent togetherness (”We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America”).

But Obama nonetheless secured the nomination only after gutting out the Democrats’ most polarizing nominating process in a generation. This presents not only an inconvenient contradiction — but a dramatic test of Obama’s leadership.

Obama can’t afford to let this cognitive dissonance linger. The premise upon which his platform of change is built is that American politics is beset by false division — “there’s not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there’s the United States of America.” And yet these divisions seemed all too real in the race to the Democratic nomination during which demography became destiny — with blacks, college educated whites, and the young congregating in Camp Obama and boomer women, seniors, Latinos and the hill-people of Appalachia coalescing in Hillaryland.

(http://www.rollingstone.com/nationalaffairs/index.php/2008/06/04/obamas-e-pluribus-challenge/">more...)

[Tatiana]

12. Obama Victory Buoys Black America

Obama Victory Buoys Black America
Candidate's Presumptive Nomination Resonates Deeply With African Americans
By STEVE OSUNSAMI
June 4, 2008

Across the country on black radio, they were calling it the happiest day in America.

At his studios in Dallas, Tom Joyner, a nationally syndicated black radio host, was jubilant over Sen. Barack Obama's ride to clinching the Democratic nomination for president. Taking a call, he said, "Isn't this a great morning?"

"It's a historic morning," the caller said, jokingly correcting him.

Joyner's enthusiasm was endless and echoed in black households across the country.

"If you have a bad day at the office," he said, "no matter -- it's a Barack Obama day. If you go to the gas pump and you have to pump $80 worth of gas, so what -- it's Barack Obama day."

Obama defied a long-held belief among African Americans -- that America would never be ready for the moment when an African American would be able to truly announce, "I will be the Democratic nominee for president of the United States."

Obama's nomination is a watershed moment, said Earl Ofari Hutchinson, author of "How the GOP Can Keep the White House, How the Democrats Can Take it Back."

"None of the stereotypical negatives apply in this case," he said. "That's why you see so many African Americans rushing to him. That's why you see so many African Americans cheering -- because, for the first time in a long time, we see a guy who's come along that represents the best and the brightest in terms of achievement attainment."

Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., a veteran of the civil rights struggle, said that Obama's victory speech Tuesday night in Minneapolis brought tears to his eyes. He said Obama's achievement makes the beatings he suffered and the deaths of so many civil rights leaders seem worthwhile.

"Just a few short years ago, in a state like the state of Alabama, in the city of Montgomery, blacks and whites couldn't ride in a taxi cab together, couldn't stay in the same hotel, couldn't eat in the same restaurant, people could not register to vote," Lewis said.

"And now, these same people, their offspring, their children," Lewis added, "are registered , and they voted for Barack Obama in the primary and will vote for him again in November."

(http://www.abcnews.go.com/WN/story?id=5001096&page=1">more...)

[Heather MC]

13. O-ba-ma! O-ba-ma! O-ba-ma!

[Tatiana]

14. Barack Obama has captivated the world

Barack Obama has captivated the world

Newspaper front pages and TV newscasts feature photos and footage of 'the political giant slayer,' who is intensely popular across the globe. But not everyone is pleased with all his positions.

By Borzou Daragahi, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
June 5, 2008

BEIRUT -- No one's tossing confetti or releasing balloons, but U.S. Sen. Barack Obama's ascent to likely Democratic Party presidential nominee has captivated many of those watching the American political contest abroad.

Newspaper front pages and television newscasts throughout the world Wednesday featured photographs and footage of the smiling Illinois lawmaker, who a day earlier clinched the Democratic nomination by winning enough delegates to edge out Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The conservative French daily, Le Figaro, described him as "the man in a hurry who dethroned Hillary." The left-leaning London-based Guardian called him "a political giant slayer" who defeated his own party's entrenched interest.

And in Mexico, an editorial cartoon in the daily Reforma depicted him as a Christ-like figure atop the Democratic donkey on Palm Sunday.

"Obama's America on the doorstep of history," said a headline on the front page of As Safir, here in Lebanon.

Obama remains intensely popular throughout the world. According to a poll released this week by the pan-Arab Qatar-based Al Jazeera news channel, more than half of those interviewed in 22 countries preferred Obama over Clinton or Republican John McCain, who was the least recognized and least preferred presidential candidate.

Even in stridently anti-American Iran, state-controlled television showed footage of Obama making a speech behind a podium bearing a placard reading, "Change."

"It's a matter of the heart. It's a matter of affiliation," said Radwan Abdullah, a professor of international relations at the University of Jordan in Amman. "He's a minority African American from the Third World. He was the underdog. People identify with his type."

(http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-fg-worldreax5-2008jun05,0,1170616.story">more...)

[Tatiana]

15. From Greek mythology, Obama learned a lesson

From Greek mythology, Obama learned a lesson
By NEDRA PICKLER

WASHINGTON (AP) — To understand how Barack Obama won the presidential primary, you have to look at what he learned when he lost.

Obama defeated Hillary Rodham Clinton solidly in the Iowa caucuses in January, but five days later she beat him, painfully and unexpectedly, in New Hampshire. That loss showed him that toppling the royal family of Democratic politics would not come easily.

"I think this was meant to be," Obama said privately the next day, recalls adviser David Axelrod. "I think we were flying too close to the sun, like Icarus. When you're fighting for change, it's not supposed to be easy."

In Greek mythology, Icarus' father gives him wax wings that empower him to fly, but warns of the danger in soaring too high. Obama got similar warnings. When he arrived in Washington, Senate dean Robert Byrd cautioned him not to be in too much of a rush to leave for the White House.

But like Icarus, Obama wouldn't heed his elder's advice. Icarus would crash into the sea. Obama would learn from his own crash in New Hampshire and make history.

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<snip>

Obama took heat for an ad-lib answer in an earlier debate. Asked whether he would meet with leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea to improve relations, he said: "I would."

His advisers winced. His rivals pounced, trying to turn the moment into a verdict on Obama's inexperience. Clinton called it "irresponsible and frankly naive."

Obama held a conference call with staff and ended any thoughts about softening his statement. "I'm right about this," Obama said. "And I'm ready to argue with anybody about it."

Obama used the position to weaken Clinton, saying her unwillingness to talk with foreign leaders showed she was just like President Bush.

(http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gcMKx3A4f9WLjuW1hoWTW6NFU47wD913BVVG0">more...)

[Tatiana]

16. New York Democrats to endorse Obama

New York Democrats to endorse Obama

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Top Democrats from New York — home of Sen. Hillary Clinton — plan to endorse Sen. Barack Obama on Thursday and Friday, congressional staffers and Obama campaign insiders told CNN.

The state’s Democratic Congressional delegation plans to embrace Obama’s candidacy for the White House on the steps of the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, the source said.

On Friday, Democratic leaders in New York, including Gov. David A. Patterson, state legislators and city council members, plan to endorse Obama at a 1 p.m. news conference at New York’s City Hall, the sources said.

Clinton, meanwhile, plans to suspend her campaign Saturday and “express her support for Senator Obama and party unity” at an event for supporters in Washington, her campaign said.

http://cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/2008/06/05/new-york-democrats-to-endorse-obama/">link

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

17. Obama expanding campaign structure, will use six consulting teams

The Obama campaign's team discipline continues to hold together

Obama Campaign Will Use Six Consulting 'Teams'

Chris Cillizza WaPo June 4 2008

Less than 24 hours after securing the Democratic presidential nomination, Barack Obama is putting in place six teams of campaign consultants that will handle advertising, polling and direct-mail efforts for the general election campaign.

Much of the expanded structure is built on an existing core of consultants Obama has relied on throughout his primary bid, although the expansion is significant and includes many (although not all) of the up-and-coming firms on the Democratic side.

"It's a big country," said Jim Margolis, a partner at the Democratic media firm of GMMB and one of Obama's lead consultants. "These are some of the most talented people in the party. We want to get the benefit of their expertise."

...Obama, to date, has run an extremely tight ship on the staffing front -- no public infighting and, much to The Fix's chagrin, no serious leaking of inside information.

The fact that none of this list of consultants leaked until after Obama was formally the nominee (the interviews have been ongoing over the last few weeks) is a sign of the level of discipline the campaign demands.

...more at the link

[Tatiana]

18. This is an extraordinarily disciplined and tight-knit team.

We truly have a great staff going into the general election battle.

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

19. EJ Dionne: Hillary Clinton talked her way out of the vice presidency on Tuesday night.

Clinton, Conceding Little

By E. J. Dionne Jr.
Thursday, June 5, 2008; Page A19

Hillary Clinton talked her way out of the vice presidency on Tuesday night.

Barack Obama may never have intended to make her the offer. But Clinton's largely self-focused non-concession speech suggested that what some call a dream ticket could turn into a nightmare.

...But politics is also about signals and gestures, doing the right thing at the right moment, dealing with outcomes not to your liking.

Clinton's choice was to present Obama with an implicit critique that might be seen as a set of demands. Clinton told her supporters: "We won, together, the swing states necessary to get to 270 electoral votes." Message to Obama: You failed to do that, and you need me to get it done.

She also offered an argument she made during the campaign that John McCain is certain to use, over and over, against Obama. "Who will be the strongest candidate and the strongest president? Who will be ready to take back the White House and take charge as commander in chief and lead our country to better tomorrows?" Whose purpose did she serve by repeating this?

...But gaining the vice presidency by invoking leverage just can't work. It makes the presidential candidate look weak. It breaks in advance the trust that running mates need. It can only presage conflicts and power struggles in a new administration.

....more at the link

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20. Hillary: The latest from the world's cartoonists!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=6271198&mesg_id=6271198

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21. Rumproast: Live from Sen. Veruca Rodham Salt’s “I Want I Want I Want” Non-Concession Rally in NYC

This is hilarious. They were selling beer at the Hillary event. Probably had too. I wish I could post it all, but you will have to visit the link for that.

Live from Sen. Veruca Rodham Salt’s “I Want I Want I Want” Non-Concession Rally in NYC

Kevin K. Wednesday, June 04, 2008

Last night I attended Hillary Rodham Clinton’s rally-to-nowhere at Baruch College in New York City with the charming ts of Instaputz. This is a photo essay of one of the strangest (and funniest) nights of my life. Enjoy.



While we were waiting in line speaking in hushed tones so that Hillary’s fans around us wouldn’t beat us to death with their big pink boxing gloves and poke out our eyes with their over-sized “REAL MEN vote Hillary” buttons, who should walk along but the slap-happy star of those cloying “Hillary in the House” videos. He was handing out invites for the “NYC premiere” of “Hillary in the White House,” which I think is the same video linked previously, but it could just be a new video of Hillary pounding on the front door of the White House yelling, “Let me in!” The invite had his name on it, Paul Edward Blaise McClure, which is really funny because his name is as long, overwrought, fey and annoying as the video is.



After getting in, we proceeded down to the bunker and were happy to see that they were selling beer and wine because we needed to wash the pain away of being forced to wear big Hillary stickers by a semi-large, overly-enthusiastic young man WHO LOVED HILLARY THIIIIIIIISSSSS MUCH (he really, really, really, really does). We nabbed a few seats in the bleachers behind the podium and watched as a woman walked around the stage endlessly by herself not doing much of anything. At first we thought she might have been secret service, but later we learned she was there to do sign language. I guess all that time she was trying to perfect getting “petulant” down, because that’s really hard to convey with signing. Also take notice in the photo of the great job Harriet Christian did duct-taping the back of the stage front. It’s amazing the level of craftsmanship you can get from a second-class citizen in exchange for a bottle of cooking sherry and a bag of throat lozenges.



This is ts drinking beer. I cloaked his identity because he’s not very careful about “sheathing the seed,” if ya know what I mean. I think the crowd was chanting “Denver! Denver! Denver!” at this point, but there were so many of them emoting that our “Chappaqua! Chappaqua! Chappaqua!” chant went virtually unnoticed. I think the woman in front of us who kept telling her daughter to smile all night may have heard us, though. I’d like to apologize to her if that ruined her evening and for the fact that her daughter very obviously couldn’t have given a shit about Hillary’s grit or her determination. That must’ve really sucked for mom. Children are complicated, especially when their mothers are wiccans.

...more at the link

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22. I'll second that: "Why is Joe Scarborough back on my tee vees?"

Why is Joe Scarborough back on my tee vees?

Kevin K on June 4, 2008

He was gone for so long and now he’s back talking about black people again. Make the gumby head go away.

p.s. Yes, I was there last night with ts from Instaputz. It was as surreal, depressing and funny as you’d imagine. Plus we got to pose for a picture with Andrea Mitchell. She smelled like elderberries. I’ll post about it before noon.

p.s.s. Doesn’t “Mika & Maddow” have a nice ring to it?

p.s.s.s. My wife now loathes Hillary about a million times more than I do ... and she has a vagina and everything.

...more at the link

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

23. Lieberman's continued douchebaggery

Lieberman's continued douchebaggery

Betty Cracker at 6/04/2008

GOP wolf in Independent clothing Joe Lieberman is demogoguing the Iran-Israel issue in an effort to polish his BFF McCain's withered old knob at the expense of Obama. But unlike spineless nancy-pants Harry Reid, Obama is pushing back on the vile, smarmy turncoat:

...During a Senate vote Wednesday, Obama dragged Lieberman by the hand to a far corner of the Senate chamber and engaged in what appeared to reporters in the gallery as an intense, three-minute conversation.

While it was unclear what the two were discussing, the body language suggested that Obama was trying to convince Lieberman of something and his stance appeared slightly intimidating.

Using forceful, but not angry, hand gestures, Obama literally backed up Lieberman against the wall, leaned in very close at times, and appeared to be trying to dominate the conversation, as the two talked over each other in a few instances.

Still, Obama and Lieberman seemed to be trying to keep the back-and-forth congenial as they both patted each other on the back during and after the exchange.

Afterwards, Obama smiled and pointed up at reporters peering over the edge of the press gallery for a better glimpse of their interaction.

Obama loyalists were quick to express their frustration with Lieberman's decision and warned that if he continues to take a lead role in attacking Obama it could complicate his professional relationship with the Caucus.

"Complicate his professional relationship"? What the fuck?!? Lieberman's ill intentions toward the Democratic nominee and his former colleagues in the Senate couldn't be more clear if he planted his wingtip in the crotch of each and every one of them.

...more at the link

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24. Florida...breaking party rules was merely an act of civil disobedience. Alcee Hastings gets bitter.

madfloridian
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=6284268&mesg_id=6284268

[WA98296]

25. Kicking and heading for bed!

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26. GOP fears Obama's money machine

GOP fears Obama's money machine
By JEANNE CUMMINGS | 6/5/08 Politico

... review of campaign finance data offers not one ounce of good news and barely any hope for the McCain campaign’s ability to compete with Obama’s fundraising prowess.

To make matters worse, Obama’s campaign, which raised $272 million through April for the primary, now is reaching out to Clinton’s fundraisers, who raised another $200 million through April, in an effort to unite forces and bury the historically deep-pocketed Republicans.

Take a look at some of the numbers:

• If each of Obama’s donors gave him a modest $250, he’d have $375 million to spend during the two-month general election sprint. That’s $186 million a month, $47 million a week.

• During the same September to Nov. 4 period, McCain will have about $85 million to spend since he has decided to take taxpayer money to help finance his campaign activities.

...more at the link
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0608/10868.html

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

27. Michelle Obama to co-host "The View" Wed June 18

Well, lookie here
June 05, 2008 Anne Schroeder Mullins Politico

Co-host alert for “The View”: Michelle Obama will co-host “The View” on Wednesday, June 18.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/anneschroeder/0608/Well_lookie_here.html

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28. Obama aims to make openness an issue, brings standards to DNC

Obama aims to make openness an issue
By MIKE ALLEN | 6/5/08

Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is moving on two fronts to make transparency a linchpin of his campaign, opening his fundraisers to reporters and clamping down on the Democratic National Committee’s fundraising from Washington insiders.

The moves, announced on his second full day as the party’s de facto presidential nominee, are designed to drive a campaign message of change versus more of the same, aides said.

His likely opponent, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), closes his fundraisers to the press. Beginning last night, Obama will open all of his fundraisers to at least a pool reporter, who will share the information with the rest of the press corps.

Beginning Thursday, the DNC will no longer accept checks from federal lobbyists or political action committees, mirroring the strict standard Obama adopted for his presidential campaign.

...more at the link
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0608/10871.html

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

29. Black lawmakers emotional about Obama's success

Black lawmakers emotional about Obama's success
By JOSEPHINE HEARN | 6/4/08

Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) was about to enter his Capitol Hill office on Wednesday afternoon when a tourist from Miami rushed up to him.

“I was watching Barack last night, and I just kept thinking, ‘What would Dr. King think?’” the tourist, Larry Ellery, told Lewis expectantly.

...Many black lawmakers said they were elated at Obama’s victory.

Many said they never thought such a day would come.

Many cried.

“If someone had told me this would be happening now, I would have told them they were crazy, out of their mind, they didn’t know what they were talking about,” said Lewis, who was president of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee when he stood with King on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963. “I just wish the others were around to see this day. ... To the people who were beaten, put in jail, were asked questions they could never answer to register to vote, it’s amazing.”

...more at the link
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0608/10858.html

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30. Obama campaign first mass multi-racial collaboration in the US since Civil Rights movement

Obama campaign is the first mass multi-racial collaboration in the United States since the Southern Civil Rights movement.

No More Drama
Al Giordano June 5, 2008 at The Field

...There are two other breakthroughs that have just come to maturity in the United States that were not inevitable, that required a perfect storm of factors - and the right catalyst or leader at the right time - in confluence.

The first is that the Obama campaign is the first mass multi-racial collaboration in the United States since the Southern Civil Rights movement.

For many of the millions that volunteered, donated and attended campaign events, this was the first time they worked hand in hand with people that did not look like them.

...The second breakthrough is that a critical mass of progressive Americans are learning political discipline again: the disciplines that had been carried like rare seeds through a decades-long desert by the few and the proud that had continued the study and practice of community organizing.

...more at the link
http://ruralvotes.com/thefield/?p=1324