If YOU Don't Like The Campaign Ads, CALL The Obama Campaign!

[slinkerwink]

Please feel free to call the Obama campaign at [phone], and press 6 to speak to a live volunteer. They need our feedback on this! We've canvassed, donated, and phonebanked, and we deserve better advertising than what we're getting now.

[SoonerPride]

1. I think they are baiting McSame.

Off issue ads to get him extra grumpy and befuddled.

[slinkerwink]

2. Uh, the "Computer Illiterate" Ad sucks

It's not hard-hitting, and it makes fun of elderly voters by association.

[SoonerPride]

4. We can agree to disagree.

I think it is fine.

[treestar]

12. Aren't they overwhelmingly for MsSame anyway?

The white ones, anyway. The others will tolerate the ad.

I know several elderly people who are on the computer and online a lot. Retired and they have time for it. I have deleted all the forwards I get from them, or I'd have the forwards of silly religious crap and dumb jokes to prove it.

[trueblue2007]

18. WARNING!!!! NO ONE IS ANSWERING THE PHONE!!!

They should at least answer the telephone.

[slinkerwink]

20. Call again. I called and got a volunteer.

[ChiciB1]

28. Hit Re-Dial... Eventually THEY Answer, I Had The Same Problem But They

must have lots of lines going. I talked to a girl named Kim and heard noise in the back-ground!

[slinkerwink]

33. good!

[ChiciB1]

26. NO!!! McLoonery IS Baiting Obama... Knocking Him Off Message... REMEMBER

ENOUGH, ENOUGH, ENOUGH!!

God, am I over the top today!!!

[sharp_stick]

3. And take up the volunteer's time with whining?

they have better things to do IMO. Perhaps you could go back and anwser a phone or two

[slinkerwink]

5. I'm deaf, but thanks for the suggestion.

The volunteer IS THERE to take our calls and feedback. They send in our input to the campaign strategy team.

[sharp_stick]

7. I'm sure they do n/t

[writes3000]

6. FINALLY!!!! Some rational action, rather than the usual lazy bitching on this board.

Good grief! It seems like the "concerned" are mostly people who are doing very little other than being "concerned".

Don't agree with somehing? CALL, EMAIL but don't complain all day here and call that action.

[rucky]

10. Even less lazy and bitchy...

If you disagree with the ad message, or think you have a better strategy, go canvas and get the message out the way you think it should be presented.

[writes3000]

11. Even BETTER! It's unbelievable that people are debating this here.

The election is OUT THERE!

It's like fans of a sports team. HELLO, PEOPLE, YOU ARE ON THE TEAM. DO SOMETHING!

[slinkerwink]

22. I'm already on the team, I need on-ground support

[slinkerwink]

23. I'm already on the team, I need on-ground support

[ChiciB1]

31. Going To RALLY TODAY!! Rec This Post!! PLEASE!!

It's NOT just about the AD, it's about the WHOLE DAMN ELECTION!

[Ioo]

17. YES STOP BITCHING HERE WHERE IT IS HARMLESS AND GO WASTE THE OBAMA FOLKS TIME

Good call!

[writes3000]

19. 1) It's not harmless here. 2) I suggest volunteering, donating and other positive moves first

In a grass roots campaign, it is ESSENTIAL to keep the grass roots invested and motivated.

So efforts by some to only worry, only fret, only post bad news, is destructive.

Once again: If you're worried, get up off your ass and do something CONSTRUCTIVE.

I'd rather they call the Obama campaign after they spent an hour making calls or getting people registered. Better that than discouraging others who are working hard here.

[azmouse]

8. Call them when you DO like the ads too.

Why should they only hear the bad stuff?

[tabatha]

9. THANK YOU

I just called with a positive idea for an ad.
If they use it, I'll say so.

[oviedodem]

13. Someone in the town hall just asked when will he start to attack back Obama's response;:

(paraphrase) "Look, some of my ads have been pretty tough, but I have a different philosophy and will respond with the truth not falsehoods"

[slinkerwink]

14. well, then use some of the hard-hitting truths in your ads, Obama

[Dawgs]

38. That's very depressing. He sounds like Kerry did in 2004.

This does not make me happy at all.

[slinkerwink]

41. same here too

[Ioo]

15. YES PLEASE WASTE THE TIME OF THOSE WORKING TO GET HIM ELECTED

Because they want to hear you bitch about nothing.

[JBoris]

16. ditto. nt

[slinkerwink]

21. Uh, this is the feedback line.

[Yavin4]

24. I DID

NO ONE ANSWERED THE FUCKING PHONE.

[slinkerwink]

27. call again until you get someone

[ChiciB1]

25. Been TRYING & TRYING To Get Through! My Daughter DID Get through

and spoke her piece! She's 38 and MAD AS HELL! Both of us are about to EXPLODE because of what we're seeing! LET BIDEN LOOSE, let him take care of PALIN and OBAMA NEEDS to focus on McLOONERY!

This shit about "nicey-nice" just AIN'T gonna CUT IT! Slam me all you want, I had said I wasn't going to vote this time out because I didn't see any reason to, Repukes have OWNED EVERYTHING for so long and my years and years of activism has been met with a BLOGGING!! Writing, calling all the USUAL stuff and HERE WE SIT!!

We need to let PEOPLE KNOW that we aren't going to sit back and let them play "diversification" again with LIPSTICK, PIGS & BRIDGES!! I live in one of the WORST Red counties in Florida, but TODAY I'm going to stand on a corner, once again with CODE PINK and PROTEST! But this time, my daughter, her daughter and her son will be with me!! Usually I go alone, but she called me and had to beg me to come along! That's how cynical I've become! So, despite my statements about not working on the election this time, I have to say that once Biden got on the ticket my interest perked, but NOW SARAH PALIN has me LIVID!!! And BY DAMN, I'm sick of them getting away with this crap again! We can't wait ONE MORE MINUTE, hit the streets and FIGHT BACK!!!

I did just get through and the girl told me they are getting "loads" of calls saying the same thing I just mentioned above. The girl said that the higher ups are being fed the information and they see how mad so many people are. So even if many of you here think Obama should stay above the fray, keep plodding along with his message that he doesn't think people are THAT STUPID, I say "YEAH, PEOPLE ARE THAT STUPID!" And it's PALIN whose getting the BEST OF US!!!

ENOUGH... YES, HE SAID ENOUGH & IT NEEDS TO BE shouted LOUD and SHOUTED from this day forward!!!

If Democrats lose this election I can't even IMAGINE what the rest of the world is going to think about us!

[slinkerwink]

34. I don't even want to imagine a McCain-Palin WH

[ChiciB1]

29. Rec THIS POST, NOW!!!! n/t

[ChiciB1]

30. Kicking... Get This Message OUT!!!! n/t

[Kixel]

32. Seriously?

The volunteers should be spending time talking to Obama voters rather than undecideds?

If you don't think they are effective, go door knock.

[slinkerwink]

35. I already am door-knocking

[chicagoexpat]

36. This has got to be a GOP trick to waste campaign time answering phone from the tin foil hat brigade

[chicagoexpat]

37. If you really want to help, call your local McCain/Republican office & talk to them for 20 minutes

[brentspeak]

39. They're not answering the phone

All I've got is an automated message saying "Wrong attendant number. Goodbye." Click.

[slinkerwink]

40. The lines are overloaded now.

Try redialing one more time, go through the voice menu, and then press 6.

[progressivebydesign]

42. Don't like that idea at all. Why waste the volunteers time?

Send a note if you don't like it.. and frankly, unless you have a degree in marketing or politics, what makes anyone here more qualified to design the ads??

[slinkerwink]

43. I do have a degree in politics and work in politics as well

The ads are terrible from a marketing standpoint. Now, as for the volunteer, the phone line is SPECIFICALLY for feedback.