OK, I’m going to get straight to the point since I haven’t seen anyone else posting a Diary on this yet. If I’m stepping on anyone’s toes who has already written on this I didn’t notice? Sowwy! Somebody at the nice Helpdesk will advise me how to remove it.
Obama has been doing exactly what I expected him to do…farting around with his family doing whatever the Hell he wants to and good for him. However, he’s getting serious about returning to the public eye. I’ve been seeing smatterings to this ‘here and there’ and was waiting for someone with far more Diary experience than I have to come along and provide my ability to comment on it. When I saw MSNBC mention it this morning? I had to get on it here.
Former President Obama is announcing his return to public speaking and he’s starting damn soon too. He is not expected to be bashing Dumpf and won’t...directly at least. He believes in ‘One President at a time’ but along with his public speaking events, I’m betting his fundraising genius is going to make a YUUUUGE difference in any Dem. candidate he shows up to support. He’ll probably bring along folk like Springsteen, Bon Jovi, Beyonce… never mind! Everyone will be clamoring to perform for any Obama event in support of any Dem. candidate other than ‘that hideous Nugent Thing’ or ‘Kid Piss’, guests of Sarah Palin’s when the invitation was extended to her by Fucklump for a White House dinner with two guests. If none of you have read about their disgusting behavior at dinner and afterwards at the White House just this past Wednesday? You should. They’re honestly simply pigs! Jesus...must have been what a dinner in Orwell’s Animal Farm looked like.
I was part of the ‘Get Out the Vote’ process for six weeks in an awfully poor, mostly African American county in NC for the Democratic Party in 2008. I was astounded at the incredible organization and cooperation between us and other Dem. support. One day, I was taking handicapped elderly voters to the precinct to cast their votes. The mostly white people managing the voting process were none too quick to comply with election rules. I was told that “they weren’t ready to provide ‘curbside voting’ yet” which is against the law. I called our campaign mgr. who called headquarters in Raleigh and within three hours, I shit you not, three Dem. attorneys were crawling all over the precinct and peering over the shoulders of everyone involved handling the polls. They didn’t leave for three days either. We had to call them in a couple more times I know of but the shenanigans began to stop once the realization ‘we weren’t fucking around this time’ finally sank in. I’m awfully proud to say that by Election Day? We’d pulled in 91% of all the registered Democrat voters in early voting efforts, many who were brand new and Senior Citizens voting for the first time in their lives! Can you imagine feeling your opinion in America mattered so little they’d never seen any reason to bother voting before? I was busy driving people back and forth all Election Day too. That’s what we need to see for this midterm again. Imperative.
When the Obama busses arrived at our county headquarters spilling dozens of trained volunteers from NYC, snapping open laptop after laptop, to come help turn NC Blue for the fleeting moment we did? It was like a well-oiled machine had arrived to join up and drive Obama to victory about five days previous to the election itself. This exact same scenario was going on in ALL the surrounding counties I know of and in every Dem. county in every state that really needed a ‘Get Out the Vote’ sustained effort and and they were all staffed to the hilt. I will write a Diary about my experiences as a volunteer staff member one day. It’s easily one of the most profound I can point to in my life.
I have been bemoaning the absence of all that is Obama for months and begging for him and Michelle to return to help us get that ‘well-oiled Get Out The Vote machine’ cranking again for 2018. How many people are going to begin going to go to their Democratic Headquarters to see where they may fit in to help somehow? You’d be amazed to know how appreciative those Hqtrs are when others just send over food sometimes or open their homes for meetings etc! This Is going to require a far greater effort than we even put out to elect Obama in the first place, I fear. And that, dear readers, is entirely up to us.
He’s planning his big return in a paid speech somewhere on Donald Trump’s 99th day in office. Coincidence, anyone? I think not!
Here is one of several articles that are popping up but I, for one, find this a ‘springtime good harbinger’ for sure! Hey, maybe ‘YES, WE CAN!’ isn’t dead after all.
Here is one source:
www.nytimes.com/...