And the winners are...
Barack Obama's campaign announced today the 10 winners of its contest for a backstage pass to the Democratic National Convention and -- shocking! -- most of them come from battleground states and hit the key demographics.
The winners include a nominally Republican college student from Ohio, a retired YMCA director from Pennsylvania who is also a Sunday school teacher, a retired schoolteacher who lives in a GOP-friendly retirement community in Florida, a disabled veteran from Virginia, an Iraq war veteran from Colorado, and even a veteran from North Carolina who served in Vietnam with Republican John McCain, but now backs Obama because of McCain's support for the Iraq war.
The 10 supporters, plus one guest each, will get free airfare and hotel and will attend two days of the convention, including a private session with Obama just before he accepts the nomination at Invesco Field in Denver on Aug. 28.
“Senator Obama is focused on opening up the convention, his acceptance speech and the democratic process to more people than ever before. Supporters are responsible for building this movement and for bringing this campaign so far -- and Barack looks forward to sharing this moment with them,” campaign manager David Plouffe said in a statement.
Haha -- yes, quite "shocking". Nothing this campaign does is anything less than a conviction-deprived ploy to get their snake oil salesman of a candidate elected.
KMS71, wow, you're a real humdinger! What a sweet wonderful human being you are!!! NOT!!! Crawl back under your rock.......you are not a snake oil salesman, you are the acutual snake!!!
Hey, let's not be so hard on KMS71; he is just getting paid by the Lowroad Republicans to write those nasty smears. He has actually never read a newspaper, or cracked open a book, or even finished the third grade, so he can't be held responsible for his idiotic remarks. He just writes what he's told to write by the McBush folks.
KMS71 (Known McCain Slanders: 71)
Snake oil salesmen sell fake ideas:
McCain's Offshore drilling
McCain's gas tax holiday
McCain's ads saying Obama will raise taxes
Bush's Wmds
What has Obama said that isn't true?
(Everything I have mentioned was already proven true)
NOBAMA
Hey, let's not be so hard on KMS71; he is just getting paid by the Lowroad Republicans to write those nasty smears. He has actually never read a newspaper, or cracked open a book, or even finished the third grade, so he can't be held responsible for his idiotic remarks. He just writes what he's told to write by the McBush folks.
It is extremely painful for me, a lifelong Dem and feminist, to watch the snarky Maninstream media, the McSlime clones AND possibly Hillary and Bill work on destroying the best chances the party has to turn the page and recruit an entire new generation of voters for the party. If Obama were to lose to McSame, these negative forces must be held wholly responsible. The US cannot support a candidate wsho promises endless war, an ideological right-wing Supreme Court, and further imperiling planet. We Americans must stop eating our young, work with our better angels and elect Obama 08.
I agree that we must elect Obama but this contest was not exactly on the up-and-up. They got a lot of people to contribute and hand-selected the most media-pleasing ones. I suppose it was niave of me to assume an actual contest was being held.
To Paul ,
can you spell or say anything else other than those letters ? Or are you
just another smart person like Bush who beleives that the war was the right thign to do ?
keep blogging
Obama 08
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