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Obama nomination victory thread: 155 days to do something about the last 8 years
Obama has clinched the nomination according to the Associated Press. (not that we didn't already know it was over - but it's nice to make it official)
Here's what I'd like you to do with this thread:
1. Tell me what you're going to do between now and November 4th to make sure that Barack Obama is the next President of the United States.
2. Click here to show John McCain and the the GOP how difficult it's going to be to campaign against Barack Obama.
3. Tell me which TPM blogger avatar will be picked as Obama's VP nominee.
Yes We Can!
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Comments (34)
1. I'm going to volunteer and actively campaign for a candidate for the first time in my life!
2. Another $25 for the Obama campaign
3. How about Billy Glad for VP?
Yes We Can!
June 3, 2008 3:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
I vote for Troll Critic 3000 for VP!
June 3, 2008 4:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
Most certainly: Troll Critic 3000!!!
June 3, 2008 7:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
I vote for baby allsburg. People love babies.
June 3, 2008 5:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks for the vote, but I won't be old enough to hold the office for another 34.5 years.
June 4, 2008 11:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
1) Work to ensure Hillary Clinton isn't on the ticket
2) I feel good about the money going to the GE rather than a needless fight against Hillary
3) Idiotic
June 3, 2008 5:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
I just want to let everybody know, for historical reference, that June 3 was the day the week-long Zoot Suit Riots began, when a mob of 60 from the Los Angeles Naval Reserve Armory beat up everyone perceived to be Hispanic.
I just automatically think of June 3 as Zoot Suit Riot Day, in case that ever pops up in conversation and it seems inexplicable or inappropriate to you.
That's just how I remember it's June 3.
So don't freak out or make a big deal out of it if I bring it up.
June 3, 2008 6:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
clearthinker,
I believe anythign you give at this point will be used for the GE. Obama isn't prohibited from spending primary money on the GE, just from spending GE money on the primary.
So give now and let's get organizers and ads up all across the country!
June 3, 2008 10:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yoda, I was having fun making a point a few hours early. Yes, I know the GE clock now is running!
Forget Denver -- onto the White House!
June 3, 2008 10:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
1. I'm going to make phone calls, register voters, put up signs, etc. to make Colorado blue this year.
2. I'll make another donation when I get my stimulus check later this week. George Bush insisted on this stupid stimulus check, so I'm going to stimulate where it hurts him!
3) I have to go with Yoda. Covers the age and experience issue.
June 3, 2008 6:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Fly for VP! Sorry, too spastic to think about 1 and 2 tonight. Saving that for tomorrow.
June 3, 2008 7:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
My whole family canvassed for Obama a couple weeks ago, and the Obama film crew followed us for a morning in Lawrence, KS, and rigged me up with a remote microphone.
I was in the Vote for Change video, at the very end of the mini-flick, just after Kathleen Sebelius talks about the future for us all, you can see the video here,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Asnz8-wHME0
...if you want to know what I will be doing, just watch the WHOLE video to the very end, you will see what I intend to be doing between now and November...
I hope many of you will do the same, or better.
June 3, 2008 9:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Nice!
June 3, 2008 10:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm also going to regsiter voters in North Carolina and help turn out a historic number of new voters in November.
June 3, 2008 10:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
1) I'm going to call Utah for Obama and see if they're doing anything useful (which would be a big change from the usual Utah Democratic practice). If not, I'm going to have to do my thing online.
2) Sure, youbetcha; I just need to balance my checkbook first.
3) Billy Gladd has worked tirelessly on behalf of Americans everywhere, but Yoda has the universal appeal and foreign policy experience that will remove any doubts.
And he's green, which is good for the Earth.
June 3, 2008 10:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
He's an alien and the Consitution disqualifies him.
Sorry, Yoda!
June 3, 2008 10:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
True, but I'm not conceding that I won't be the VP nominee tonight.
June 3, 2008 11:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm giving time and money to Warner. I want him in the Senate. Along the way, I will contribute money to Obama. As much money as I can.
As for nominating a VP candidate from TPM, sorry. No can do. Smacks of an uber-regula popularity contest.
June 3, 2008 10:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
I vote for Cricket4! She's so anti-uber-popula!
June 4, 2008 12:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Baby Blue, I would have to drop my sword in order to kiss you. But if I did that I'd be tempted to investigate what I've long suspected – that underneath that swath of blue blanket and hat, you're really a gremlin.
June 4, 2008 2:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
ARGH!
NO NEED TO MENTION ME!
THE VEEP WILL BE WENCH HILLARY!
ACQUIRE! MERGE! MARAUD! DILUTE! DILUTE!
ARGH!
June 3, 2008 11:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Aren't you supposed to marauding Genghis at his gathering where they are drinking electorally, you know, that place in NYC?
June 3, 2008 11:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
yeah, peet, where were you? i was expecting to be marauded.
June 4, 2008 2:16 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'm going to keep giving money to Obama's campaign, and I'm going to start canvassing my neighborhood. It's about time I get my ass out of the house for more than just a beer and cigarette run.
June 3, 2008 11:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
1. Spending a week campaigning in OH, where I graduated HS and my parents still live. My parents are in their 80s and will be working their fingers to the bone for Sen. Obama! They are an inspiration.
2. Contributed when his speech ended.
3. I'm avatar challenged at the moment, so I feel unqualified.
As a personal note, Yoda, I want to thank you for your insights and humor in during this amazing primary season. I look forward to more!
June 4, 2008 1:14 AM | Reply | Permalink
Donate $$. I have no fraking time to do anything else.
VP --
1)idiotic!!!!!!!!!!
1000050)gotalife.
June 4, 2008 1:55 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'm an Obama delegate to the DNC!
June 4, 2008 2:38 AM | Reply | Permalink
Congrats - perhaps you can be the official TPM delegate at the Convention! Your vote represents all of us.
Seriously though, you should write some regular blog posts about what it's like to e a delegate and hen if you can from the convention.
June 4, 2008 7:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
That's awesome! I was a regional delegate, but stopped there.
Get ready for the phone calls from Hillary asking you to switch!
June 4, 2008 12:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
So who's the real zebra now...
June 4, 2008 7:31 AM | Reply | Permalink
I AM!!!!! Finally, a quasi-brotha gets a leg up in this world! Leaving poor Shrillary kicked to the corner where she remains growling and sickly like a rabid dog on its last hour. Please, some one put Ol' Yeller out of her misery...
MIXED PEOPLE OF THE WORLD SAY IT LOUD, SAY IT PROUD!
OBAMA/EDWARDS 2008!!!
June 4, 2008 9:39 AM | Reply | Permalink
I signed up as a volunteer Yesterday. I have never, ever, even dreamed of working for a campaign before,(hated politics in the past) and givin that I am unemployed other than spending time a my daughters school with the kids 1 or 2 days a week, I should be able to contribute. Collecting unemployment and severence now, so money is tight. Live in Denver, so if anyone else does and has ideas, please lend them to me. Im motivated to do something, but dont just yet know what to do.
June 4, 2008 11:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'll be donating today, then registering voters for the G.E. Yes We Can!
June 4, 2008 12:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
google bomb McCain's new slogan! not because it has any real campaigning impact, but just because it will be wicked fun to see BarackObama.com as the top hit for a leader we can believe in
hehe. just this one day, I think it's okay for us to be a little bit evol.
June 4, 2008 2:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
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