Thousands of people donate their talents to this campaign every day. Some make phone calls. Others organize house parties. If you’re artistic, you can donate your skills (skillz, even) by volunteering your creativity to get the word out about President Obama’s jobs plan.
It’s like knocking on doors, but with Photoshop. Learn more about our poster contest and submit a design by next Friday.
Obama for America: Hi, Tumblr.
It’s nice to meet you.
There are lots of reasons we’re excited to be launching the Obama 2012 campaign’s new Tumblr today. But mostly it’s because we’re looking at this as an opportunity to create something that’s not just ours, but yours, too.
We’d like this Tumblr to be a huge…
Public disapproves of Obama on economy, but supports his actual fiscal policies
From The Washington Post:
Here’s a striking disconnect that speaks volumes about Obama’s political problem right now: In the new NBC/WSJ poll, Americans express strong disapproval of Obama’s performance on the economy, and express low confidence that Obama has the right set of ideas to improve it.
And then, later in the very same poll, Americans are asked whether they support a range of Obama’s actual fiscal and economic policies. In every case, a majority or plurality supports them.
What Obama Can Learn From Harry Truman
From The Atlantic:
[Republicans] judged that they could win even though their bottom-line position was indefensible on its face. After eight years of squandering a surplus and racking up record deficits, they now suddenly determined that deficits were destroying the country. But despite this, and despite the fact that income disparity is now greater than it has been at any time since the late 1920s, greater than that of any other advanced industrialized nation, and despite the fact that middle class income has been effectively stagnant for the past 30 years while the richest 1 percent have grown ever richer, and despite the fact that the Bush tax cuts took $2 trillion out of the public coffers, and despite the fact that, as Drew Westen recounted in his New York Times piece, 400 people now control more of the country’s wealth than 150 million others, despite all that, the Republican caucus categorically refused to consider one penny of tax increases for even the wealthiest Americans. This position can no longer be considered economics, and it can’t even be considered politics. It’s more like religious dogma. And it isn’t only absurd, it’s obscene.
P072211PS-0702:President Barack Obama signs the certification stating the statutory requirements for repeal of DADT (Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell) have been met, in the Oval Office, July 22, 2011. Pictured, from left, are: Brian Bond, Deputy Director of the Office of Public Engagement; Kathleen Hartnett, Associate Counsel to the President; Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta; Kathryn Ruemmler, Counsel to the President; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen; and Vice President Joe Biden. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
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Wait, so…Kenny from 30 Rock is going to head up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau?
PHOTO OF THE DAY: President Obama announces his nomination of former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray as head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in the Rose Garden at the White House on Monday. The new bureau was created under a reform bill last year and intends to make basic financial practices such as taking out a mortgage or loan more clear and transparent to consumers while weeding out unfair lending practices. (PHOTO: MARK WILSON/GETTY IMAGES)
Hmm. It would appear that only South Dakota, Kansas, and Arkansas have yet to report any grassroots planning sessions to Obama for America.
UPDATE: I’ve been assured that organizers have held grassroots planning sessions here in Arkansas. You can find OFA Arkansas on Facebook at facebook.com/ofa.ar.
