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Julianna
Julianna Smoot
Deputy Campaign Manager
Obama for America
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Made in America … Obama
It’s no surprise that professional conspiracy theorists are still on the birth-certificate warpath — but now elected officials are getting their backs.
Yesterday, four Republicans in the New Hampshire State House allowed a hearing requested by a group of birthers who want President Obama officially removed from the state’s primary ballot.
It’s not clear whether all this is a smokescreen or whether these dead-enders actually believe this stuff. But they aren’t letting the facts get in their way — one group in Arizona has even demanded that the President “release the microfiche” of his birth certificate.
Sadly, I don’t have any microfiches on hand, but we have the next best thing: In honor of birthers everywhere, we’re re-releasing the campaign’s limited-edition “Made in the USA” mugs.
Donate $20 or more today and we’ll send you one — complete with a reprint of the President’s birth certificate on the side for everyone to see. BarackObama.com
Here’s what one of the state representatives backing the effort had to say about yesterday’s hearing: “I’m not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but even I could take [the long-form birth certificate] apart and see that it was fraudulent.”
Well, I won’t argue with one part of that statement.
There’s clearly nothing we can do to satisfy this crowd — or anyone else who insists on wasting time and energy on nonsense like this.
But when it starts to make your head hurt, I’ve found the best remedy is to have some tea in my “Made in the USA” mug.
Works like a charm. I recommend Earl Grey:
Thanks,
Julianna
Julianna Smoot
Deputy Campaign Manager
Obama for America
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the 2012 election: our grassroots fundraising program…Julianna Smoot, BarackObama.com
Today we’re launching something that could change the 2012 election: our grassroots fundraising program.
Because you’re one of this campaign’s earliest supporters, we’re counting on you to be a part of it.
Other campaigns rely on powerful special interests to grow, but we’ve rejected that top-down model from the very beginning.
Grassroots fundraising opens up the process of building this campaign to anyone who wants to take the reins, putting the power in the hands of supporters like you who have already chipped in to own a piece of it.
All you have to do to get started is to sign up for your own personal page. You can get creative and customize it however you’d like — from setting a goal for yourself to uploading a photo and telling the story of why you’re getting involved. Then you’re all set to start inspiring people in your networks to step up and support the President.
By the end of the day today, thousands of people will join the first class of 2012 grassroots fundraisers, and I think you should be one of them.
As a 2012 grassroots fundraiser, you can recruit five new supporters or 500. Either way, the people you bring into this campaign will continue to grow it themselves, and wouldn’t be taking that step without you.
If it sounds familiar to you, it’s because that’s the basis of all of our organizing — one supporter reaching out to the next, who reaches out to two more. Before you know it, you’re no longer just a handful of people doing their best to re-elect the President. You’ve helped build a movement.
The people on the other side of the aisle have shown they believe in a very different kind of politics. So much of their strategies involve taking advantage of new ways to get around campaign finance restrictions — even allowing special interests to pool unlimited sums of money from corporations to try to influence the election for Republicans.
We’re better than that. We’re empowering everyday supporters to build this campaign themselves.
In one month, we’ll close the books on this fundraising quarter — and we’ll show that our grassroots network can go toe to toe with anyone.
But that starts with you. Sign up today:
can’t wait to see what you can do.
Thanks,
Julianna
Julianna Smoot
Deputy Campaign Manager
Obama for America
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Deadline: 20,000 new donors … Julianna Smoot, BarackObama.com
This donor-matching drive ends tonight — thanks for taking that first step and owning a piece of this campaign.
But I need your help to get us where we need to be: With more than 15,000 people joining this matching drive so far this week, I’m setting a goal to reach 20,000 before our deadline at midnight.
My team calculated how many new donors this goal translates to in your area. Here’s where we stand:
GRASSROOTS MATCH
Deadline: Midnight tonight
National Goal: 20,000 new donors
Goal in Seattle: 15
One of these people — maybe even someone in your neighborhood — will make their first donation to the campaign because you’re ready to double their impact.
Ca
n you help us meet our goal by pledging to match a first-time gift of $25?
We know that we can compete without compromising our values — measuring our goals not just in dollars raised, but in people who’ve taken ownership of this campaign.
So tonight’s goal is an important one — and you’re a big reason we’re in a position to hit it. People like you are the most effective fundraisers we have right now. You made your first donation simply because someone said, “If you give, I’ll give, too.” Now, it’s your turn.
Donate $25 or more today and help bring in a new donor:
https://donate.barackobama.com/2011-Pledge-Deadline
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Julianna
Julianna Smoot
Deputy Campaign Manager
Obama for America
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2012 BarackObama.com
Let me introduce you to Jerome Corsi.
This week he released a new book that the publisher says will be a bestseller “of historic proportions.”
The title is “Where’s the Birth Certificate?” — yes, really.
Corsi’s work is a greatest-hits reel of delusions, ranging from 9/11 conspiracies to claiming that there is an infinite supply of oil in the Earth’s core. In 2008, he published a book about Barack Obama claiming, among other things, that he (a) is a secret Muslim; (b) is secretly anti-military; (c) secretly dealt drugs; and (d) secretly supported terrorist actions when he was eight years old. So many secrets!
FactCheck.org called Corsi’s work “a mishmash of unsupported conjecture, half-truths, logical fallacies and outright falsehoods.”
There’s really no way to make this stuff completely go away. The only thing we can do is laugh at it — and make sure as many other people as possible are in on the joke.
So let’s just do this — get your Obama birth certificate mug here:
http://my.barackobama.com/page/m/55c11797/6c0d017d/174975cba/11882961/3009974951/VEsF/
Last year, the President said, “I can’t spend all of my time with my birth certificate plastered on my forehead.”
This is about as close as we can get.
If the facts can’t make these ridiculous smears go away, we can at least have a little fun with it.
And then we’ll get back to the important work of supporting the President as he tackles real problems like high gas prices, the deficit, and unemployment.
Thanks,
Julianna
Deputy Campaign Manager
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