Obama's Campaign Army on Road Again

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Volunteers Rally Support for Budget Plan
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/21/AR2009032102249.html?hpid=topnews

As she headed into the morning sunshine to talk up President Obama's $3.6 trillion budget proposal, Althea Thomas counted herself a citizen and a partisan picking up where she left off Nov. 4, backing the president she helped elect.

"It's the change we all voted on," said Thomas, one of about 40 volunteers who fanned out from the Democratic Party headquarters here with clipboards, pledge cards and a sense of mission that flowed from their support of Obama when he was a candidate.

The Obama administration and the Democratic National Committee opened a new chapter Saturday in their ambitious project to convert the energy from last year's campaign into a force for legislative reform on health care, climate change, education and taxes.

More than 1,200 groups from Maine to Hawaii spent the day gathering signatures in support of Obama's economic plan, the first step in building what the White House hopes will be a standing political army ready to do battle.

Seeking to create a grass-roots force on a scale never seen before, Obama called the volunteers into action in a video message reminiscent of the 2008 contest. In defense of his budget, under attack from many quarters, he asked his supporters to go "block by block and door by door."

[Left Coast2020]

1. This is good to hear. I heard story on this on NPR today. Just like campaign days.

But what is frying my cookies is people I know on this side are even starting to get fidgety as to when things are going to improve economically. Geeez, the guy has been in office nearly 2 months and people are already complaining. Good grief people... take a chill pill or something. As he said in the inaugural address and address to Congress "THIS IS NOT GOING TO BE FIXED OVERNIGHT." Give the man a chance and relax for a change. Please. We need to stand behind this guy and help him do his job if we want our democracy back...and our economy.

:kick:

[roseBudd]

2. go "block by block and door by door." we also need writers doing battle with the forces of evil....

PM me to find out the logistics of the group I have organized targeting the media market of SW Ohio.

I created my writers rapid response group in July 2008 and though the ground game was awesome, the county I operate in, went blue for the first time since '64.