This post is utter nonsense. There are waves of people presenting themselves daily for service to the Obama campaign on the streets (per my experience in, first, South Carolina and now Ohio). A significant number of these folks have never priorly participated in political action work. The campaign provides a one page 'talking points' summary to each newbie --- but then asks each volunteer - when reaching the doorstep of a potential voter -- to simply tell the vote prospect why they are here - to state from their heart what has induced them to act at this time for this man. The campaign on the streets is basically the people speaking to the people - it must be extremely unsettling for the fearmongers who have held a grip on the American nation - with little interruption -for the past few decades. This past Saturday was particularly poignant for me, as I was asked to carry an African-American couple and an erstwhile Nader voter (2000) out to a canvassing location. It turns out that one of the couple had been part of the 'first-in' team setting up a logistics airbase in Pakistan in 2001. His wife had been trained by the Air Force in mortuary work and she had, in fact, dressed the dead being sent home from Iraq. It took litle time for my 'team' to find their voice. This scenario is being replicated around the country a thousand thousand times. The fervor in the people's hearts is what drives the Obama campaign.
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