Obama '08?

@sozobe,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvXz2xaLNMQ

@Butrflynet,

Here's a direct link to the transitional government page. You can also access it from the other link I just posted.

http://directory.presidentialtransition.gov/

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@Victor Murphy,

Yet another disgusting reaction to the election results.

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A Florida couple became among the country's first to bestow it on their child, even before most news outlets had declared the Illinois senator the president-elect.

Sanjae Obama Fisher was born at 8 p.m. EST at Hollywood's Memorial Regional Hospital to Patrick and Sasha Hall Fisher.

A hospital spokeswoman says it was the father's idea. But mom still got to watch the election, after 14 hours at the hospital.

Sanjae has two siblings, 8-year-old sister Shaniah and 4-year-old brother Shane.

In Arkansas, Benjamin Barack Kimbrough was born at 2:35 p.m. CDT on Election Day to Walter and Adria Kimbrough. Walter Kimbrough is president of Philander Smith College, a historically black school in Little Rock.

In Maryland, a mother who went into labor Tuesday after voting for Obama named her newborn daughter for the Obamas' two girls, 7-year-old Sasha and Malia, 10.

Lakisha Brown of Joppa gave birth to Sasha Malia Ann Taylor at 12:36 a.m. Wednesday at Greater Baltimore Medical Center.

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@littlek,

It's happening in Kenya too.

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Out of 15 babies born in the New Nyanza Provincial Hospital in the western city of Kisumu on Wednesday, five boys were named Barack Obama and three girls were called Michelle.

Pamela Adhiambo, who gave birth to twins " a boy and a girl - on the night after the elections, named them Barack and Michelle Obama.

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@littlek,

Aw....!

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@littlek,

Parents are parents. What can anybody say?

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@Butrflynet,

Butrflynet wrote:

Just got an email announcing the official website of President-elect Obama.

http://www.change.gov/

The web folks did a great job!

So butrfly, you get your marching orders from headquarters. Now when Obama takes office, what happens next, they send out the marching orders, then all of the 1 million or so operatives out on the ground all over the world pressure the congress to do your bidding, is that how this is going to work?

The campaign is over, can't you disband now?

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@okie,

Obama had a large message of service too you know. Besides that, this is a great step in terms of transparency. We're used to being able to interact with Obama this way, and it's worked well so far. If it's not broke, don't fix it.

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@Diest TKO,

So are you one of his foot soldiers too? How many of you are here on A2K, that receive emails from Obama headquarters on a regular basis.

Perhaps it is dawning on me just how coordinated all of you people are, and what a voice crying in the wilderness I and other fellow citizens are?

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@okie,

okie wrote:

Butrflynet wrote:

Just got an email announcing the official website of President-elect Obama.

http://www.change.gov/

The web folks did a great job!

So butrfly, you get your marching orders from headquarters. Now when Obama takes office, what happens next, they send out the marching orders, then all of the 1 million or so operatives out on the ground all over the world pressure the congress to do your bidding, is that how this is going to work?

The campaign is over, can't you disband now?

After two years you still don't get it, okie. The email I received didn't come from headquarters. It came from a member of a grassroots group of local citizens.

And yes, I hope there are many more of us who choose to remain plugged in, and interested in the activities of our government. Why would anyone who loves our democracy want the citizens of our country to do less than that?

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@okie,

are you kidding?? You wingnuts have been going absolutely mental with all kinds of ridiculous nonsense...and still are, even now you've lost.

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@Butrflynet,

Butrflynet wrote:

After two years you still don't get it, okie. The email I received didn't come from headquarters. It came from a member of a grassroots group of local citizens.

You may be right, I may not get it, but it is beginning to dawn on me, not that I was not aware of it, but now I am beginning to realize the magnitude and efficiency of it. The email, from a local grassroots group, it has information or direction from the next step up, is that correct, ultimately from the Obama people? I visualize it like an organizational chart, with cells of people from the top down to the grassroots?

By the way, I think the website announced is "creepy."

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@okie,

okie wrote:

So are you one of his foot soldiers too? How many of you are here on A2K, that receive emails from Obama headquarters on a regular basis.

Perhaps it is dawning on me just how coordinated all of you people are, and what a voice crying in the wilderness I and other fellow citizens are?

I'll let you in on a little secret, okie. We do have a secret code so we can recognize each other. We wave and say "hello" to each other. Watch out for that. If you see any of your friends doing it, point to the people and start barking like Donald Sutherland did in the movie "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" to expose the ones who had not yet been duplicated.

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@Butrflynet,

Answer the question, btrfly. If you are proud of your organization and how it works, why be coy about it?

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@okie,

Does this website shed any light on it?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/zack-exley/the-new-organizers-part-1_b_132782.html

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@okie,

okie wrote:

Answer the question, btrfly. If you are proud of your organization and how it works, why be coy about it?

Which question?

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@Butrflynet,

The one I asked you:

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...The email, from a local grassroots group, it has information or direction from the next step up, is that correct, ultimately from the Obama people? I visualize it like an organizational chart, with cells of people from the top down to the grassroots?...

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@okie,

Do a Google search on "change.gov"

Here are a few articles to get you started:

http://venturebeat.com/2008/11/05/changegov-is-coming-and-has-obama-picked-his-cto/

http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/33001/blue_state_building_obama_transition_site_change_gov

http://www.demconwatchblog.com/2008/11/obama-biden-transition-project.html

As for the email it had two sentences. The subject line was www.change.gov.

The content said "The official website of President-Elect Barack Obama" and gave a link to the venturebeat.com article as verification. Don't believe me? Send me an email at the address in my profile and I'll forward it to you.

So, it didn't come via an organization chart. Someone in the grassroots group read it in the news and emailed the info and link to the rest of the group. We did that sort of thing for the last two years, reading news and columns and sending each other links to them to help spread the information.

By the way, we then spent the next few hours emailing back and forth about how the site wasn't working for some of us and maybe it was because of the high amount of traffic it was suddenly getting.

Now, if you do what I suggested and do a Google search on "change.gov" you'll find pages and pages of mention of it both in the Google News section and in the general web search engine section.

Technically you are probably right, someone from HQ or Blue State Digital probably sent out a press release to announce the creation of the website.

And you still have it wrong. Most communication with the campaign flows from the bottom up, not the top down. About the only email we got directly from the campaign were requests for donations. I can honestly tell you that I didn't read most of them, I just sent them to the spam folder.

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@Butrflynet,

I will look at your stuff, and get back to you later. To be perfectly honest, I haven't paid alot of attention to the Obama organization and how it worked, but I think it is just now sinking in why you people are so emotionally joined at the hip, and all of the rest. I will explain later. Look, I am not a groupee, so alot of this I am trying to understand you people. Give me time. I look at candidates as a free thinking person, I think independently, act independently, vote independently, just me, and I form my own opinions, just a person unconnected to fellow groups or admirers of whomever. I am not part of a campaign organization in any way, except I sent some money to McCain, which I wonder was spent on Sarah's shopping sprees, but oh well. Anyway, I will be back in regard to this.

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