Hugs,
Anne
Good Morning –
I hope everyone enjoyed their wintery weekend. It was an exciting weekend for the campaign – the Senator is in the midst of a 22 city bus tour that ends Tuesday evening.
Over the weekend, he held 5-6 “meet the candidate” or rallies a day throughout our new favorite state, countless press conferences while simultaneously earning the endorsement of the Boston Globe, the endorsement of Congressman Bob Loebsack from Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District, another quasi Frank Rich endorsement, a Maureen Dowd column that will go down in history and a New York Times front page article discussing the new crispness and confidence he has while campaigning. As brief background, Iowa has 3 Congressional Districts – the Congressional endorsements from the first and third district went to different candidates.
The Senator is in Iowa till Tuesday; he heads to New Hampshire on Wednesday and then back to Iowa on Thursday until Christmas Eve when he will return to Chicago to be with his family. He and the rest of the Obama family will be back in Iowa on the 26th.
Here in Illinois, this is what we have planned:
1) We will have a call-a-thon on Thursday evening beginning at 6pm with the Senator’s sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng,, and a call from Senator Obama at 8:15 PM CDT. You have to be in our office to partake in the call.
2) Operation Send Cookies – On Thursday, December 27th from 3-6 PM, we are going to send homemade cookies (made by you) to various offices throughout Iowa to our volunteers and staff as encouragement for their hard work prior to the caucus. From 3-6 PM, we will wrap, package and send the cookies off. We are going to send to the smaller offices where they probably don’t receive as much food – similar to our Chicago office where no one drops off food! Please let me know if you would like to partake in this and I will send you all the necessary details.
Here are the clips for this morning – have a great week – only 17 more days!
Jordan
The Boston Editorial
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2007/12/16/for_democrats_barack_obama/
Obama/Loebsack Endorsement: AP (Staff Written) “Iowa Rep. Loebsack will announce endorsement of Obama”: U.S. Rep. David Loebsack will announce today that he's endorsing Barack Obama's bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. Loebsack, in his first term representing Iowa's 2nd District, says he'll do "everything I can" to aid Obama in the approaching Iowa caucuses. He says that Democrats are fortunate to have a good field of candidates this year, but that the one candidate who stands out is Obama. LINK
Obama/Family: Chicago Tribune (John McCormick) “For the Obama campaign, the closer is in the family”: In the fickle world of Iowa presidential politics, where many party activists prefer to remain neutral so they can continue to be courted, Judy Beisch had a confession to make. "I was totally between John Edwards and Barack Obama, and you sold me," the wife of the Wapello County Democratic chairman whispered to Michelle Obama a few minutes after hearing her speak to about 100 people here. "That's my job," Michelle Obama responded. As much attention as Oprah Winfrey received for campaigning with Sen. Barack Obama a week ago, there is another woman in his life who is likely more central to securing votes, especially among women. LINK
Obama/Friend Volunteers: AP (Chris Wills) “Obama Friend Sells Candidate”: Mike Jordan sells Barack Obama door to door. For the insurance agent from Richton Park, Ill., the role is a natural _ he knows sales and he knows Obama. And, as any salesman will say, the most effective pitches are made by those who truly believe in their product. Jordan says he believes deeply that if everyone in Iowa knew Obama as he knows him, they'd realize what a great president he would make. Unable to arrange that, Jordan has settled for trying to convert a single Iowa city. LINK
Obama/IA Outlook: St. Louis Post Dispatch (Kevin McDermott) “Obama camp brings Chicago to Iowa”: Barack Obama's opening greeting to a middle-school gymnasium full of locals in the rural northern Iowa town of Charles City Saturday night was a thank you for braving the snow to come out, and a little reminder about their shared Midwestern geography. "I'm from Chicago," Obama said, pacing the rows of folding chairs, microphone in hand. "We get our share of cold, wintry evenings." It isn't just weather that Iowa and Illinois share these days. Some say Obama,Illinois' freshman senator and its first serious presidential contender in a generation, has aimed a Chicago-style political machine at the rural town halls and living rooms of neighboring Iowa in his do-or-die effort to win the Jan. 3 Democratic caucuses here. LINK
Obama/IA Outlook: Chicago Sun Times (Laura Washington) “Obama's 'Ship of Hope' catches wind in Iowa”: In Iowa, where African Americans are as scarce as skyscrapers, a black man with a Muslim moniker is running away with the good stuff. Barack Obama has pulled ahead of the Lady of Destiny and is poised to vindicate Michelle Obama's wise prognostication that "if Barack doesn't win Iowa, it is just a dream." Obama is catching the wind, while the Clinton sails are going slack. Obama just may plow his Ship of Hope right through the Iowa caucuses, the New Hampshire primary and beyond. The Clintonites are running scared. They haven't been able to bring down the hammer on an opposition campaign that is showing agility and mettle. LINK
Obama/Church: Mason City Globe Gazette (Mary Pieper) “Obama at church: Ordinary people can do extraordinary things”: Sunday was a big day at the First Congregational United Church of Christ in Mason City. During the 10 a.m. service the Sunday School and confirmation students presented their annual Christmas program and the congregation participated in the 40-year-old tradition of putting mittens on the Mitten Tree. And Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama was in the house. Obama, a member of a UCC Church in Chicago, sat in a pew near the front of the church during the service and got up to speak briefly to the congregation. LINK
Obama/Butter Cow Lady: L.A. Times – Top of the Ticket (Andrew Malcolm) “Obama gets at least one sweet Iowa endorsement”: Now, some people may think that Barack Obama's big celebrity endorsement came from that billionairess talk-show diva, who traveled with him to Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina last weekend. You may have heard a mention or two about the two. Obama did not receive the endorsement of the Des Moines Register today. That went to Hillary Clinton, but may actually be an unwelcome blessing: No Democrat endorsed for the caucus by the Register has gone on to win the party's nomination in more than 20 years. LINK
NYT Op-Ed (Maureen Dowd) “Reefer Madness in Iowa”: With the Iowa campaign in wild flux — and in the case of Hillary, acid reflux — The Des Moines Register decides to hold a tie-breaking debate with the two Democratic front-runners. Carolyn Washburn, the phlegmatic editor of the paper, once more moderates. WASHBURN: Senator Clinton, I’d like you to start us off by explaining why your campaign has been getting down and dirty with someone so clean and articulate? LINK
NYT Op-Ed (Frank Rich) “Latter-Day Republicans vs. the Church of Oprah”: THIS campaign season has been in desperate need of its own reincarnation of Howard Beale from “Network”: a TV talking head who would get mad as hell and not take it anymore. Last weekend that prayer was answered when Lawrence O’Donnell, an excitable Democratic analyst, seized a YouTube moment while appearing on one of the Beltway’s more repellent Sunday bloviathons, “The McLaughlin Group.” Pushed over the edge by his peers’ polite chatter about Mitt Romney’s sermon on “Faith in America,” Mr. O’Donnell branded the speech “the worst” of his lifetime. Then he went on a rampage about Mr. Romney’s Mormon religion, shouting (among other things) that until 1978 it was “an officially racist faith.” LINK
NYT (Jeff Zeleny) “Obama Showing New Confidence With Iowa Sprint”: Senator Barack Obama is seeking to capitalize on a moment of opportunity in the weeks before the Iowa caucuses to challenge Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s long dominance of the Democratic field, and in doing so, he now faces intensified questions about his vulnerabilities in a general election. These days, Mr. Obama spends less time acknowledging Mrs. Clinton as he speaks to Iowans. But he finds himself at the center of a fusillade of criticism from his rivals, including an assertion by former President Bill Clinton that to elect Mr. Obama would be to “roll the dice” for America — a comment that validates the political threat Mr. Obama poses. LINK
Jordan Kaplan
Obama for America
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1 comment:
Bill Clinton says Sen. Barack Obama is a callow, highly ambitious political prodigy who is asking voters to "roll the dice" and elect him president. He should know — that's a fair description of Clinton when he sought the presidency in 1992.
Bill Clinton says Sen. Barack Obama is a callow, highly ambitious political prodigy who is asking voters to "roll the dice" and elect him president. He should know — that's a fair description of Clinton when he sought the presidency in 1992. Hillary says Obama hasn't done the 'hard work' she has.
HRC sounds more and more like GWB everyday.
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