Obama launching FL blitz

Get ready to see a Democratic presidential campaign the likes of which this state has never seen.* Starting next week, some 400 specially trained Barack Obama campaign "fellows" will fan out across Florida, including the Tampa Bay area, for an intensive six weeks of registering voters, mobilizing volunteers, as well as working to bring Hillary Rodham Clinton supporters into the fold.

The Obama campaign has 20 paid organizers in the state — compared to John McCain's two — and within days is expected to name its Florida campaign team. With more than 150,000 Florida supporters signed up for volunteer duty, the campaign is talking about an unprecedented voter mobilization effort. Much as the Bush-Cheney campaign roared to Florida victory in 2004 with neighbor-to-neighbor campaigning, the Obama campaign sees a volunteer army large enough not only to target key voting precincts, but even specific streets and blocks.

"Field programs have made a tremendous difference in races in Florida that were targeted, but this is going to be that on steroids. We've never seen a statewide effort like this before,'' said Kirk Wagar, Obama's Florida finance chairman. Story HERE.

*On the other hand question: Remember the breathless coverage some of us served up on Tom Gallagher's fearsome GOTV effort in '06? Or how the 527s in '04 stood to outgun Bush-Cheney's volunteers in FL?

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Yep, let the snake oil salesman begin!

June 10, 2008 -- WE'RE in for taxing times if Barack Obama wins the White House, says CNBC's Maria Bartiromo. "He's going to take the capital gains tax at 15 percent right now all the way up to 25 to 28 percent," the "Money Honey" tells Avenue. "Sell anything, like a home or stocks, and make a profit . . . [almost] 30 percent of the profit will go to the government instead of 15." The income tax is also in for a bump. Bartiromo says, "Right now [it] is 35 percent, Obama wants to take that to 39 percent . . . We're talking about people who make over $200,000. That's not rich. So it's actually going to impact more people than you may think."

http://www.nypost.com/seven/06102008/gossip/pagesix/baracks_bite_114798.htm

Welcome back, future Mr. President.

Talk about shows of contempt. Spent months saying our votes shouldn't count and then expect us to buy into his, I'm a new kind of politician" crap.

How dumb does he think we can be?

If you don’t vote Republicon, then you are anti-American, hate our troops, oh… and terrorists will attack us again.

What the hell, it worked in 2004!

Stay vigilant!

Love,

Karl Rove

8:34,

He doesn’t have to “think” you’re dumb… cause you are if you actually think that shill will work. By the way, minion… have you called you puppet masters in the Republican Party to complain about your ½ vote?

… dope

[xman]

Yo Mama - No Obama

[xman]

Yo moma - No Obama

so obama wants to raise taxes on senior citizens - by raising the capital gains tax, senior citizens drawing their only income from retirement investments will have less money to support their golden years - how sweet

So McSame wants to send more young American men and women to their death for corporate profit and daddy's revenge - by continuing Dubya's FAILED policies - how sweet

And don't waste your time asking Teleprompter Johnny about the economy... he thinks "economy" is just a rental car category.

Yep, that's Obama - he'll raise takes on the middle class to increase welfare! AND, while he flys around in private jets and big SUVs he want YOU to ride the bus.

[zman]

Yo lame - No McSame

Yep, that's McSame - he'll raise the death toll of the middle class to increase corporate profit! AND, while he tries to change the channel on the oven with the portable phone, want you to agree with it.

8:51, you're joking right? Sorry if I missed it because normally someone would mention that John McCain has been flying on his wife's private jet. Increase welfare is just funny, but hey, maybe it's 1994 all over again and you're Newt Gingrich.

Some of the statements sound as if you Republicans are slamming the panic button.

If you stand for:

Continued war in Iraq.
Continuation of No Child Left Behind (yeah, right)
No response to the mortgage crisis.
The current status of the economy.
47 million Americans without health insurance.
Record gas prices.
No new GI bill.
Record deficits.

Then McCain and the Republicans are your group. Good luck with that.

Dont even compare Obama to Gallagher ... He has ran a successful campaign so far, there is no doubt he can do the same in Florida.

"Some of the statements sound as if you Republicans are slamming the panic button."

100% True. They're desperate.

I would go even further. The Republicans are exposing their total reliance on lies and dirty politics to get elected.

Sing me up! I'm ready to be a part of the Democratic resurgence in 2008 and beyond!

Obama should have at least given the Florida Dems a 3/5 vote instead of 1/2.

At least Obama agreed to sit the entire Florida delegation. The Republicans have yet to do that.

[Missin' Hillary]

Obama = McGovern

Only difference is that there's a bigger WACKO driving Obama, his name is Dean.

Calling all Dems to march to Dean's drum. Anyone not licking his Gestapo boots will be excised from the Reich.

Hillary, PLEASE DECLARE YOURSELF AS AN INDEPENDENT, GIVE US A CHOICE!!!

[Crusader]

I love it.

It's a flashback to mid and late '90s when swaggering Florida Republicans fumed and huffed while the White House was occupied by a saavy Dem they couldn't outsmart.

Get over it.

Obama's worst day on the job won't be nearly as bad as W's best.

Donny, get back in the basement and take your meds.

Johnnie McAiNUS and CHARACTER:
(talking points memo, 6.9.08)

McCain likes to illustrate his moral fibre...the 71-year-old former US Navy pilot pays warm tribute to his beautiful blonde wife, Cindy, with whom he has four children.

But there is another Mrs McCain who casts a ghostly shadow over the Senator’s presidential campaign. She is seldom seen and rarely written about, despite being mother to McCain’s three eldest children....

[W]hen McCain returned to America in 1973...he discovered his wife had been disfigured in a terrible car crash three years earlier.

When Carol was discharged from hospital after six months of life-saving surgery, the prognosis was bleak. In order to save her legs, surgeons had been forced to cut away huge sections of shattered bone, taking with it her tall, willowy figure. She was confined to a wheelchair and was forced to use a catheter.

Through sheer hard work, Carol learned to walk again. But when John McCain came home from Vietnam, she had gained a lot of weight and bore little resemblance to her old self.

Today, she stands at just 5ft. 4in. and still walks awkwardly, with a pronounced limp. Her body is held together by screws and metal plates and, at 70, her face is worn by wrinkles that speak of decades of silent suffering....

McCain divorced her in 1980 and married Cindy, 18 years his junior and the heir to an Arizona brewing fortune, just one month later....

'My accident is well recorded. I had 23 operations, I am five inches shorter than I used to be and I was in hospital for six months. It was just awful, but it wasn’t the reason for my divorce.

‘My marriage ended because John McCain didn’t want to be 40, he wanted to be 25. You know that happens...it just does.’

Some of McCain’s acquaintances are less forgiving, however. They portray the politician as a self-centred womaniser who effectively abandoned his crippled wife to ‘play the field’. They accuse him of finally settling on Cindy, a former rodeo beauty queen, for financial reasons....

When McCain – his hair turned prematurely white and his body reduced to little more than a skeleton – was released in March 1973, he told reporters he was overjoyed to see Carol again.

In 1979 – while still married to Carol – he met Cindy at a cocktail party in Hawaii. Over the next six months he pursued her, flying around the country to see her. Then he began to push to end his marriage.

Carol and her children were devastated. ‘It was a complete surprise,’ says Nancy Reynolds, a former Reagan aide....

Ted Sampley, who fought with US Special Forces in Vietnam and is now a leading campaigner for veterans’ rights, said: ‘I have been following John McCain’s career for nearly 20 years. I know him personally. There is something wrong with this guy and let me tell you what it is – deceit.

‘When he came home and saw that Carol was not the beauty he left behind, he started running around on her almost right away. Everybody around him knew it.

‘Eventually he met Cindy and she was young and beautiful and very wealthy. At that point McCain just dumped Carol for something he thought was better.

‘This is a guy who makes such a big deal about his character. He has no character. He is a fake. If there was any character in that first marriage, it all belonged to Carol.’...

But Ross Perot, who paid her medical bills all those years ago, now believes that both Carol McCain and the American people have been taken in by a man who is unusually slick and cruel – even by the standards of modern politics.

‘McCain is the classic opportunist. He’s always reaching for attention and glory,’ he said.

‘After he came home, Carol walked with a limp. So he threw her over for a poster girl with big money from Arizona. And the rest is history.’

CHARACTER...CHARACTER...CHARACTER

seems this guy may be EVEN MORE slimy than the DRYDRUNK, doesnt it?

from talking points mempo, 6.9.08, on Johnnie McAiNUS:

McCain likes to illustrate his moral fibre by referring to his five years as a prisoner-of-war in Vietnam. And to demonstrate his commitment to family values, the 71-year-old former US Navy pilot pays warm tribute to his beautiful blonde wife, Cindy, with whom he has four children.

But there is another Mrs McCain who casts a ghostly shadow over the Senator’s presidential campaign. She is seldom seen and rarely written about, despite being mother to McCain’s three eldest children....

[W]hen McCain returned to America in 1973 to a fanfare of publicity and a handshake from Richard Nixon, he discovered his wife had been disfigured in a terrible car crash three years earlier. Her car had skidded on icy roads into a telegraph pole on Christmas Eve, 1969. Her pelvis and one arm were shattered by the impact and she suffered massive internal injuries.

When Carol was discharged from hospital after six months of life-saving surgery, the prognosis was bleak. In order to save her legs, surgeons had been forced to cut away huge sections of shattered bone, taking with it her tall, willowy figure. She was confined to a wheelchair and was forced to use a catheter.

Through sheer hard work, Carol learned to walk again. But when John McCain came home from Vietnam, she had gained a lot of weight and bore little resemblance to her old self.

Today, she stands at just 5ft4in and still walks awkwardly, with a pronounced limp. Her body is held together by screws and metal plates and, at 70, her face is worn by wrinkles that speak of decades of silent suffering....

McCain divorced her in 1980 and married Cindy, 18 years his junior and the heir to an Arizona brewing fortune, just one month later....

'My accident is well recorded. I had 23 operations, I am five inches shorter than I used to be and I was in hospital for six months. It was just awful, but it wasn’t the reason for my divorce.

‘My marriage ended because John McCain didn’t want to be 40, he wanted to be 25. You know that happens...it just does.’

Some of McCain’s acquaintances are less forgiving, however. They portray the politician as a self-centred womaniser who effectively abandoned his crippled wife to ‘play the field’. They accuse him of finally settling on Cindy, a former rodeo beauty queen, for financial reasons....

When McCain – his hair turned prematurely white and his body reduced to little more than a skeleton – was released in March 1973, he told reporters he was overjoyed to see Carol again.

But friends say privately he was ‘appalled’ by the change in her appearance. At first, though, he was kind, assuring her: ‘I don’t look so good myself. It’s fine.’...

In 1979 – while still married to Carol – he met Cindy at a cocktail party in Hawaii. Over the next six months he pursued her, flying around the country to see her. Then he began to push to end his marriage.

Carol and her children were devastated. ‘It was a complete surprise,’ says Nancy Reynolds, a former Reagan aide....

Ted Sampley, who fought with US Special Forces in Vietnam and is now a leading campaigner for veterans’ rights, said: ‘I have been following John McCain’s career for nearly 20 years. I know him personally. There is something wrong with this guy and let me tell you what it is – deceit.

‘When he came home and saw that Carol was not the beauty he left behind, he started running around on her almost right away. Everybody around him knew it.

‘Eventually he met Cindy and she was young and beautiful and very wealthy. At that point McCain just dumped Carol for something he thought was better.

‘This is a guy who makes such a big deal about his character. He has no character. He is a fake. If there was any character in that first marriage, it all belonged to Carol.’...

But Ross Perot, who paid her medical bills all those years ago, now believes that both Carol McCain and the American people have been taken in by a man who is unusually slick and cruel – even by the standards of modern politics.

‘McCain is the classic opportunist. He’s always reaching for attention and glory,’ he said.

‘After he came home, Carol walked with a limp. So he threw her over for a poster girl with big money from Arizona. And the rest is history.’

seems the LYINGb*stard is even more slimy than the DRY DRUNK, doesnt it?

Comments about Obama's ignorance and arrogance and from a black man (no racial prejudice here):

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/06/cocky_ignorance.html

[Leaving The Dems]

If you are sick and tired of the way the Democrats are trying to force feed us the "Obama Diet", join our new orgainzation:

http://blog.pumapac.org/

[Billionaire for McCain]

Endless war, a depreciated dollar, ongoing housing crisis, college unaffordable, lack of health care, crumbling infrastructure . . .

Yup, the last seven years have been great. That's why I'm voting for Bush's third term, John McCain.

"Cuz things can always suck even more.

Go McSame!

[FC]

I love the Republicans who post all over the web pretending to be disaffected Democrats.

Nice try, "Leaving the Dems". You can go back to the RNC now. No one's buying your tired, old tricks.

[Billionaire for McCain]

McCain. Because Cheney isn't angry and crazy enough.

McSame 08!

STAY VIGILANT!
...vote republican

BUY DUCT TAPE!
...vote republican

REPORT SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY!
...vote republican

ATTACK IS IMMINENT!
...vote republican or die

[Donald Lance]

10:44, If you are a Dem you have no business attacking McCain about infidelities of the past (see Bill Clinton). But since you decided to go back 20-30 years into somebody's personal history, I'd counter by saying maybe you should look at the voting record since that is what ultimately matters - right?
In addition to giving $20,000 of his own money to Jeremiah Wright, as a state senator Obama directed $225,000 of the Illinois taxpayers' money for programs run by Father Pfleger. In the U.S. Senate, Obama earmarked $100,000 in federal tax money for Father Pfleger's work. Giving someone more than 300 grand is not just some tenuous, coincidental association.

Are Barack Obama's views shown by what he says during an election year or by what he has been doing for decades before?

And you call him a 'Uniter"?

[LL]

To 6:57AM....if you're making over $200K, then you ARE rich, so far as the majority of citizens are concerned. Such arrogance!

DONALD...DONALD!!

YOU COME IN HERE RIGNT NOW, SWEETIE!

you know what those gamma rays do to yo when you are not wearing your "special" hat, darling!

here, DRINK THIS, TOO, PRECIOUS!!!!

it will make those "voices" be still!!!!

[Ignorant Democrat with a Kool-Aid Smile]

Thanks, Donald! As a lifelong Democrat, I want to tell you that I will be be voting for Johnny McSame. Your spin and hype have totally convinced me that Barack "Hussein" Obama is a racist and a terrorist. I don't know what we poor uneducated liberals would do without you wingnuts to set us straight. I mean, if we had a lick of sense, we wouldn't be falling for your lies by the millions, as your boss must know we are. So please rest assured that your efforts to open our eyes to the evil Senator Obama are not in vain, and you can collect your paycheck with a clear conscience.

ps I will also be voting to increase military spending, and I hope that Big Don's Tank Emporium and Ammo Dump will receive many no bid contracts as a result of my continuing support for the Exxon-Mobil War in Iraq.

[Love Abe]

President Abraham Lincoln was a wise man--for all times. Here are his quotes:

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away men's initiative and independence.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

Obama and his socialist backers are sure ignoring the good words and actions of a great President! Of course, what would you expect from a bunch of baby killers who want to make our country into a Soros type of second class servant to the rest of the world.

Love Abe (aka Obtuse Norqusta) are you flying your confederate flag while you're telling us about how you "love Abe?" POS

Rebublican Nomminee McSame is a wise man--for all times. Here are his quotes:

BombBombBomb,BombBomb Iran!

Who are we fighting in Iraq again?

Where are my fishsticks, dammit?

Opps, I p'd myself again... MOMMY!

Someone call 911, the refrigerator stole my pajamas again!

GET OFF MY LAWN YOU LITTLE BASTARDS!

I thought “economy” was a rental car category!

MOMMY, take my toaster for his morning walk!

How come I can’t change the channel on this damn oven, I want to watch Teletubbies!

^5's all around, 2.22!!!!

imagine W, when he is BACK on the sauce, and j. walnutzz having a "coherent" conversation!!!

Wait until BIG BROWN Obama falls and breaks his legs in the last leg of the race. The idiot who can only parrot the comments of others will commit suicide!

He fears McCain..that's why he keeps posting the negative comments. Trying to convince himself and his tranny mommy who actually works on 49th street in NYC that Big Brown is the Messiah!!!

We will never vote for Obama no matter what. He is a closet racist like Rev Wright.

McCain 08', Hillary 12'

Barack Obama is the political reincarnated Jimmy Carter

What a loser Obama is.

Poll shows McCain up near 10 points in Florida.

Obama: the first biracial, bisexual President.

Yeh and he's got a tranny wife to go along with the tranny mother of the "Obama Parrot" who leaves the idiotic comments!