Obama volunteers hunt budget support in Birmingham, Alabama grassroots campaign
The Birmingham News
Volunteers fanned out across the Birmingham area and Alabama Saturday to pump up enthusiasm for President Barack Obama’s budget proposal in much the same way they did to win over voters during the presidential campaign.
About 30 volunteers in Birmingham canvassed shopping areas and other high-traffic locations to talk about the need for health care reform, an education overhaul and environmentally friendly energy development.
“If we don’t change these three things in the next 10 to 15 years, America is over as we know it,” Chris DeHaven, told the group of volunteers before they went their separate ways.
Obama’s plan faces criticism from Republicans and others who say it’s too expensive. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released a report Friday saying Obama’s agenda would cause huge budget deficits, forcing the country to borrow $9.3 trillion in the next decade.
Those who gathered at Kelly Ingram Park in downtown Birmingham were urged to enlist others who share Obama’s vision and to stay away from trying to convert naysayers.
“We’re looking for supporters,” said DeHaven of Hoover, one of the event’s organizers. “We’re not looking for a fight. That will come later, when we have an army.”
The volunteers are part of Organizing for America, the same grassroots, national network credited in large part with Obama’s quick rise from obscurity to president. Birmingham and 11 other sites statewide were part of a national push this weekend by Organizing for America to trumpet Obama’s spending proposal.
Across the metro area, volunteers gave their opinions about why Obama’s plan is good for the country’s future. Then they asked those willing to sign a pledge of support for the budget. Supporters’ e-mail addresses and other contact information were collected, to keep people engaged and to recruit more volunteers.
Leanne Townsend of Hoover also helped organize Saturday’s event. She has been a member of the Obama grassroots network since March 2007.
“Our group in Birmingham has been very involved,” Townsend said. “We’re still very energetic. We all worked so hard during the campaign. We can’t just stop.”
Wild Thing’s comment………
“We’re looking for supporters,” said DeHaven of Hoover, one of the event’s organizers. “We’re not looking for a fight. That will come later, when we have an army.”
What?! This Chris DeHaven is a lunatic. The country has survived for over two hundred years without Obama. These people are fanatics. Wrong, Chris! America is over if we do not stop you. These people are sick and some maybe even dangerous. Willfully ignorant, begulied cult followers are usually dangerous people.
I have to wonder which this is more about, gathering support or gathering a list of dissenters.
I think the Army this he is referring to is the Army this jerk is referring to: The “National Civilian Community Corps” (NCCC). It becomes a reality via the “National GIVE Act” or the “Serve America Act”(As it’s called in the Senate”.
The House version passed last week includes money for a committee to study the “Feasibility” of making the NCCC a MANDATORY service for all young people… The purpose of this “permanent cadre” is to be at the beck and call of the Federal Government to respond to Natural and “OTHER” emergencies (riots or to enforce Martial Law, or just harass the AIG execs, etc… etc…).
These people will also be USED to supply the labor to build infrastructure projects for the Government. They will live in CAMPS, and will have UNIFORMS.
A spending cap on this project is non-existant (in the House version – not sure on the Senate version), which goes along with what Obama spoke of during the election — that his National Civilian Security Force.
directive from the DoD should just about seal their intentions.
DoD Civilian Expeditionary Workforce
PDF file dates 23 January 2009
Everyone should read this PDF file above if you can. . It sounds like the plan of a totalitarian government.
“Expeditionary Forces” will be deployed amongst us. To what nefarious purposes?
(1) To support workforce stability and deployment predictability, the timeframes during which the DoD Civilian Expeditionary Workforce is susceptible to expeditionary assignments will be designated in 6-month rotational periods. Tours will be determined through collaboration of the combatant commanders, career field managers, functional community managers, and civilian employees, as applicable. The portion of the DoD Civilian Expeditionary Workforce that is within the 6-month window of deployment susceptibility shall maintain full preparedness as trained, cleared, and ready.
Do you know of anyone who might produce a “I pledge allegiance to the flag…” yard sign? Seems these might be a great way to highlight where our pledge has been placed.
http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/documents/agenda21/index.htm
Last week the big distraction was the AIG bonuses. The bonuses were written into the agreement between AIG and the Government. This of course was a smoke screen for the other devious deed going on at the Government. They were busy Monetizing the Debt, i.e., they were turning the debt into cash. They do this by printing more money. What this does is inflate the money already in existance. I heard/read they printed about 1 TRILLION dollars.
As it stands, before, Obama’s budget, outstanding is 2.3 Trillion dollars.
Fortunately for us China has been buying our debt, thats the good news, the bad news is they own as much of America as we do.
Now to the volunteers, the mind-numbed nitwits, who are supposed to be pushing for support for obama’s budget. Health care, Energy, and Education. Except for education there is little probem with the others. Except they want Green Energy and Free Health Care for everybody in the country. As it stands now, every family of three, owes on top of their personal debt, $116,000 dollars, or every man, woman and child in the United States owes 38,880 dollars to the government debt.
My wife seems to think this whole thing is orchestrated by the obama administration, so that when the country goes belly up, the UN can come in and fix our country. Meaning no more United States as it is now. This is what these Volunteers are missing or NOT being told, they wouldn’t understand it any way.
IF the budget goes through and it looks like Pelosi has the votes for it then all bets are off. We are in serious trouble. The more spending the worse it is going to get.
The cultists are going to be organized into an enforcement corps. I am sure their oath of allegiance will be to the president and not to The Constitution. Maybe that is why Obama wants the civilian corps to be larger and stronger than the military which takes an oath to The Constitution. The military will be reduced and when convienent it can be mostly deployed overseas and out of the way.
Another potential enforcement group will be the unions that will grow now that Obama has killed the secret work ballot. Union hierarchy can become part of the government and use their thugs for intimidation of more independent workers.
Buy ammo!
Mark Levin was correct when he said our army is bigger than theirs. And BTW, our silent majority is well armed and will fight the o’vomit brownshirts until they have all been dispatched to mecca.
Okay dude, if America as you know it is over if we don’t create the soviet union, then you can just take your happy ass on over to russia or china get the hell outta my Country. Oh, and take your goddamn messiah with you. I’ll keep The Constitution, Old Glory, My Guns, My Heritage, and The Finest Military in History the U.S. Armed Forces. And no I wasn’t committing blasphemy because God is probably damning him, the idiot sheeple who voted for him and us (as a people) for being a bunch of apathetic complacent little children.
P.S. Did y’all see tax cheat timmy answering questions and couldn’t even cite The Constitution? That ought to be a red flag people! How about NO BILL OF ATTAINER OR EX POST FACTO LAWS!!!
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I guess he thought that Brave New World, Farenheit 451 and 1984 were training manuals, hmmm? I’ll bet he laughed through Mein Kampf and anything by Karl Marx, thinking he was one of the Marx brothers! I put up the video for the Old Ragged Flag by Johnny Cash (a true American!) and I will stand by my old ragged flag and do what Americans do best.
But does anyone see the resemblance to the Borg from Star Trek? You will be Assimilated. You’re uniqueness will be added to our collective. Very socialistic. Why can’t I be myself?
Greg, what a great idea. I have no idea where to find one, but I love your idea.
Jack wow thank you for the link.
Mark, that is very interesting and your wife has a good point. I pray that does not happen but it sure looks like what she said might very well be what their plan is.
Tom,oh yess your right, the unions, I keep forgetting about them. They are good at intimidating too just like Obama’s peoople will get really good at I am sure.
cuchieddie (VN66/68), yes it sure is, I just hope and pray it never comes to that. But I won’t be one of the ones that does not fight back if I have to that’s for sure.
JohnE PFC U.S. Army, I wish he would have run for president in Russia and not here. His agenda fits in there so much better and we don’t want it or him. Thanks JohnE.
Lynn, good one! I will stand along side you Lynn.