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phone calls
I got a phone call from a really friendly, well-meaning Obama volunteer yesterday, trying to drum up campaign funds.
"Hello, is Alex Rudnick there?"
"Hrm, who is this? ..."
"I'm calling on behalf of a political cause that you support? ..."
Weelllll....
For the next eight minutes, I explained my disappointments and my outrage. I talked about Occupy, about the ACTA copyright treaty, about SOPA, about Guantánamo, about Bradley Manning, about the "targeted killings" and drone strikes. She was really sympathetic, actually, and hadn't heard about Bradley Manning, but said she'd go read about him.
"So, you're disgusted!", she said, once or twice. Pretty sure she understood my position.
"Hello, is Alex Rudnick there?"
"Hrm, who is this? ..."
"I'm calling on behalf of a political cause that you support? ..."
Weelllll....
For the next eight minutes, I explained my disappointments and my outrage. I talked about Occupy, about the ACTA copyright treaty, about SOPA, about Guantánamo, about Bradley Manning, about the "targeted killings" and drone strikes. She was really sympathetic, actually, and hadn't heard about Bradley Manning, but said she'd go read about him.
"So, you're disgusted!", she said, once or twice. Pretty sure she understood my position.
Re: Yeah...
It'd be sort of funny to be an anti-donater, causing campaign volunteers to quit.
It would have been nice to have a liberal primary challenge to Obama.
OTOH the GOP is fully of Romney and crazy people. If it came down to Romney I could almost think about voting Green on the grounds of there not being a huge difference. Though Supreme Court.
Re: Yeah...
His twitter is fantastic: http://mobile.twitter.com/BuddyRoemer