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Guys,

Apparently the Obama camp don't fully feel comfortable with their internals and we need to call.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/11/4/153043/224/133/652783

May be just turnout to be a last minute effort to energize the GOTV operation.Whatever it is, we cannot take chances.Help if you can.

This is what I've been doing for last four days, just few more hours

Juyst finished making calls from home after dropping off our brownies at the comfort station at Ortiz Middle School in Santa Fe. It is "slow time" now at my polling place. My neighborhood is working/lower middle class subdivisions, mixed hispanic, anglo, black, and other. It will get busy again after 3 pm, when all the State employees get to leave to vote......

and the SETUP!!! Playpens for kids, someone doing free massage, coffee, water, brownies, donuts, AND a mariachi band. I love New Mexico.

I've been deleting voicemail messages for the past few days; haven't received a single one concerning a republican.

There's an interesting thing about this story of Greenwood. I started following the primaries about a year ago, and I checked out Obama's youtube page, looking at every speech more than three minutes long. During my speech I found the following:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJDNzYp0Ecw

I'm not gonna bet money on this, but I will guess that it's the first time that he mentioned the Greenwood anecdote. It was also the first speech I saw of his that made me consider taking him seriously as a possible viable candidate for presidency.

This speech did two things for me. First, I was impressed by his ability to be... hell, holistic in his vision for the United States. His beliefs flowed like a river, encompassing everything from education to foreign policy to hope for the future. Second, I was seriously impressed by his chameleon-like ability to relate to different audiences. He can be the editor of the Harvard Law Review in his debates; he can be the wise statesman when he was answering questions during the Google Q and A; he can be the brother laying down some truth to his people in Manning, South Carolina, adding humor to his Greenwood anecdote by mentioning how, in addition to his tiredness and low spirits, the Black women in the crowd were nice and pissed off about how the rain was affecting their fresh perms. "Some of the sisters, their hair was kind of... you know how y'all all about your hair, too... they're lookin' at me like it's my fault."

It's really funny to me, to see that he's still using this instance, but that, depending on his audience, he relates it in an entirely fresh way each time. Now, how will this relate to his ability to lead this country into the next era? I've honestly got to shrug and say I don't know. But I do have a certain amount of confidence and comfort, thinking that our next leader is the kind of person who can relate to anyone and anything that comes his way. That kind of person is what we're going to need to get us out of our current messes and into something where as many people as possible can lead productive and happy lives.

I voted Nader today. Because he is the only one for true universal healthcare, which is single-payer healthcare. Obama is for national health insurance, thus keeping the big insurance corporations ruining our health.

Obama will not bring our soldiers home, he stated he would take them out of Iraq, and he will move them to Afganistan and other places to fight terror. Only Nader will bring the men and women home from both Iraq and Afganistan and end this war.

Vote Nader/Gonzalez 2008

Danke. ;-)

Robert