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Entries Tagged ‘community’

Organizing for Obama: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Resolve

Jun.18, 2008 in Barack Obama, Election 2008

Four years ago I was sure there wasn’t another Democrat living in this city. It wasn’t an unreasonable thing to believe, given that our representative is a 5-term Republican who voted for the war, thinks we should wiretap whoever we want, and consistently votes for Bush policies with full confidence that he’ll be sent [...]

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Leadership in Action

Jun.15, 2008 in Barack Obama, Domestic Policy, Election 2008

“there is no problem we cannot solve…”

What first attracted me to Barack Obama’s candidacy was the possibilities that I saw in his grass-roots bottom-up system of community organization. Here you see it in action, with the candidate digging in, too. (Yes, the button-down tailored shirt* and nice slacks are a bit dissonant, but [...]

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