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The Obama campaign does some grassroots work

The Obama presidential campaign caught some grief in this space on Thursday for its reluctance to part with any statistical data to back up its contention that Georgia remains “very, very, very” much in play.

This evening and on Saturday, at numerous locations throughout the state, supporters will engage in “neighbor-to-neighbor” volunteer training in “the skills Barack Obama learned during his days as a community organizer in Chicago.

The question to Caroline Adelman, spokeswoman for the campaign, was simple. How many people do they expect to show up?

Three thousand, she replied, rather proudly. “Now, how often do you see a number like that in a presidential campaign?”

Locations are on the jump.

Atlanta Metro

Friday, August 15 at 6 pm

1080 Spring Street

Or

Tabernacle Church

47 Howard Ave

Saturday, August 16 at 9 am

Central United Methodist Church

560 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive

Athens region

Friday August 15at 6 pm

Hartwell Public Library 1050 Benson Street,

Hartwell, GA

Saturday 16th Clarke County Public Library at 9 am

2025 Baxter St

Athens, GA

Augusta Friday August 15 at 6 pm and Saturday, August 16 at 9 am

Unitarian Universalist Church of Augusta

3501 Walton Way Ext

Augusta, GA

Columbus

Friday, August 15th at 6 pm and Saturday, August 16 at 9 am

Liberty Theater and Cultural Center

813 8th Avenue

Columbus, GA

Albany region

Friday August 15 at 6 pm

Office 407 South Slappey Blvd

Albany, GA

Saturday August 16 at 9 am

Mother East Baptist Church

1400 West Central Avenue

Moultrie, GA 31768

Savannah

Friday August 15at 6 pm

3219 College St.

Savannah State University (Jordan Building)

Savannah, GA

Saturday August 16 at 9 am

3219 College St

Savannah State University (Whiting Building)

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By Tom

August 15, 2008 5:50 PM | Link to this

Thanks for the information and locations. Looks like I can make one of these.

By GaMinutemen

August 15, 2008 8:28 PM | Link to this

How dear that 43% middle easterner wear a USMC & US Army t-shirt while playing Bball with the troops.

By True American

August 15, 2008 9:21 PM | Link to this

Yeah cuz noone but white boys from bumF%$# egypt are allowe to wear Army gear while playing basketball.God, everytime one of you neanderthals post garbage like this our collective IQ DROPS.

By Jeff

August 15, 2008 9:34 PM | Link to this

Jim:

There are a LOT of buildings tha could have office 407 in them on South Slappey in Albany.

Though it IS in the black neighborhood… still haven’t seen very many whites interested in the guy. Pretty much just the ultra-racist blacks (Sandford Bishop chief among those) and their sympathizers.

By Sam1234

August 15, 2008 10:19 PM | Link to this

Obama is a sleeper Muslim. I hope his grassrooters know that one.

By Cheryl Rice

August 16, 2008 1:33 AM | Link to this

I’m a volunteer on the Obama campaign in Carroll county, and I am attending a volunteer training tomorrow in Austell. Just thought I’d point out that the campaign is targeting every county in the state, not just metro Atlanta.

By GOP against McCain

August 16, 2008 2:50 AM | Link to this

McCain will not win this when he only comes to high dollar exclusive events. I am a Republican and I am not voting for McCain.

Not voting for Obama either, but conservatives should weigh their options, screw the lesser or two evils. I am not voting for either evil.

By disgustedDem

August 16, 2008 10:49 AM | Link to this

Too bad the Obama campaign is only using volunteers and staff here to do voter registration. And only of African-Americans or hispanics, which in itself is borderline racist (they do not go into “white” areas because it’s illegal to ask someone how they lean politcally and then offer to register - are they following these laws properly?). Obama says he wants to create change, yet he’s not really campaigning, he’s trying to register new voters to win, and worse than that, he expects that because they are African American and being uneducated/never voted or tuned into politics before they will all vote for him just because he said so and had them sign the registration card. This campaign is running on one message, and like they did in the primary against Hillary, running a different game behind the scenes that none of us really know about or understand. That’s scary.

By Sam4321

August 16, 2008 12:13 PM | Link to this

I am a sleeper douchebag Christian who pick his nose in church and wipes it under the pew, beware the Christian with forked tongue and a clean nostril

By nosepicker anonymous

August 16, 2008 5:41 PM | Link to this

how dare you besmirch the name of closet nosepickers

By GaMinutemen

August 16, 2008 9:21 PM | Link to this

“Barry Soetoro” aka Barack Obama is verified as a Muslim Indonesian

A 2007 Associated Press photograph, suppressed until now, shows the school register of the child who is today known as Barack Hussein Obama but was officially listed then as Barry Soetoro, whose citizenship was listed as “Indonesian” and whose religion was listed as “Islam.” The visual evidence starkly contradicts the Obama campaign’s claim that he was not a Muslim and confirms that he is a national of at least one other country.

The AP caption reads: “This registration document, made available on Jan. 24, 2007, by the Fransiskus Assisi school in Jakarta, Indonesia, shows the registration of Barack Obama under the name Barry Soetoro into the Catholic school made by his step-father, Lolo Soetoro. The document lists Barry Soetoro as a Indonesian citizen, born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, and shows his Muslim step-father listed the boy’s religion as Islam.

“Obama’s mother, divorced from Obama’s father, married a man from Indonesia named Lolo Soetoro, and the family relocated to the country from 1967-71. At first, Obama attended the Catholic school, Fransiskus Assisis, where documents showed he enrolled as a Muslim, the religion of his stepfather.

http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Politics/13056.htm

By george washington

August 16, 2008 10:47 PM | Link to this

Gaminuteman is a verified dumbass who thinks you must be christian to run 4 office, Allah ask Gawd to smite all dumbass born-again morons, George Washington the founder of our country was a atheist thank gawd he wasn’t a stupid inbred southern fried christian bigot yeah c’mon

By Bitter EX democrackkk

August 17, 2008 7:51 AM | Link to this

AGAIN: What is the number one accomplishment of Obakarama that would remotely qualify him for Presidunce?

STRIVE to be SMARTER than a democrackkk!

By GaMinuteman

August 17, 2008 8:03 AM | Link to this

The Easter bunny and the tooth fairy are real.  These two evil creatures will destroy America if you let them.http://www.evilbunnyandfairyarereal.comVisit the website for shocking proof or read the Inquirer.

Email me @ ed.e.ott@dumb.net

By GaMinutemen

August 17, 2008 3:10 PM | Link to this

GW, name calling is usually the last resort by those afraid of facts.

As for the last post -it’s not mine apparently anyone is so small as to hide behind my handle obviously unafraid to speak for themselves- how bush!

As Winston Churchill once said “the best arguement against a democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter”

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