What Would Obama Do? Win!

Yes We Did!

With a clean and respectful campaign, Barack Obama and the Democratic Party have proven the old-school Rovian tactics of lies and smears no longer work. The American people are smarter, savvier, and more concerned about issues than the Republican Party had predicted.

By following the What Would Obama Do? philosophy, we as a massive group of supporters showed America what can be done using light instead of dark. Politics are forever changed.

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Are you taking a stand, or are you afraid?

Tim Ferris, author of the book "The Four Hour Work Week," just posted a blog that is very inspiring. It's not original, it's a speech by Dr. Martin Luther King. Oh, it so applies today during this election season, especially to Obama supporters, who are trying to change Washington and are fighting against the status quo.

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2008/09/04/stop-rationalizing-and-make-hard-decisions-learning-from-dr-king/

“I say to you, this morning, that if you have never found something so dear and precious to you that you will die for it, then you aren’t fit to live.

You may be 38 years old, as I happen to be, and one day, some great opportunity stands before you and calls upon you to stand for some great principle, some great issue, some great cause. And you refuse to do it because you are afraid.

You refuse to do it because you want to live longer. You’re afraid that you will lose your job, or you are afraid that you will be criticized or that you will lose your popularity, or you’re afraid that somebody will stab or shoot or bomb your house. So you refuse to take a stand.

Well, you may go on and live until you are ninety, but you are just as dead at 38 as you would be at ninety.

And the cessation of breathing in your life is but the belated announcement of an earlier death of the spirit.

You died when you refused to stand up for right.

You died when you refused to stand up for truth.

You died when you refused to stand up for justice.”

-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
From the sermon “But, If Not” delivered at Ebenezer Baptist Church on November 5, 1967.

How committed are you to your beliefs? Would you die for them? How about lose a job, or simply risk your reputation by displaying a yard sign or bumper sticker? I've had people tell me their car was keyed after putting an Obama sticker up. I've had many people tell me about their Obama yard signs being stolen or destroyed. I am constantly vilified for being a Republican for Obama. What are you risking? Are you alive?

Obama - What He'd Do With All This Palin Stuff

So the MYBO lists are still flurries of anti-Palin activity (I call it "Palinating"). We're completely engrossed by this ridiculous selection of Vice President. But in the name of this blog, I wonder, What Would Obama Do? Here is an excerpt from a speech from last night, while Hurricane Gustav has been slamming the Gulf Coast:

That spirit of looking out for one another, that core value that says I am my brothers’ keeper, I am my sister’s keeper, that spirit is most evident during times of great tragedy, it’s most evident during times of great hardship, it’s most evident when natural disasters strike because we understand that only God has control and so it takes it out of the realm of politics. We all understand that we have to come together.

But that spirit can’t just be restricted to moments of great catastrophe. Because as I stand here today and look out at the thousands of folks who have gathered here today, I know that there’s some folks that are going through their own quiet storms.

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There’re people out there who’ve seen their jobs shipped overseas. There’re people out there who don’t have healthcare, maybe they’ve been trying to pay it on a credit card but mostly they’ve just been putting off trying to see a doctor. There’re seniors out there that don’t know how they’re going to pay their home heating bill this winter. There are folks out there that don’t know how they’re going to fill up the gas tank. There are young people in this audience right now that have graduated from high school, have the grades and want to go to college, but don’t have the money. There are young people being born in the inner cities, right here in Milwaukee, that don’t see any prospects for the future that think the only path available to them is a casket or a jail cell.

All across America there are quiet storms taking place. There are lives of quiet desperation. People who need just a little bit of help. Now, Americans are a self-reliant people, we’re an independent people. We don’t like asking somebody else to do what we can do ourselves but you know what we understand is that every once in a while somebody’s going to get knocked down. Every once in a while somebody’s going to go through some hard times. When we least expect it tragedy may strike. And what has always made this country great is the understanding that we rise and fall as one nation, that values and family, community and neighborhood, they have to express themselves in our government. Those are national values. Those are values that we all subscribe to. And so that the spirit that we extend today and in the days to come as we monitor what happens on the Gulf that’s the spirit that we’ve got to carry with us each and every day. That’s the spirit that we need in our own homes and it’s the spirit that we need in the White House. And that’s why I’m running for president of the United States of America.

Because if there’s a poor child out there, that’s my child. If there’s a senior that’s having trouble, that’s my grandparent. If there’s a guy who’s lost his job, that’s my brother. If there’s a woman out there without healthcare, that’s my sister. Those are the values that built this country. Those are the values we are fighting for.

So, what would Obama do? He'd keep moving on, talking about the issues, talking about a new dawn in America. Palin is a non-issue, so let's follow Obama and shape the future together.