Sunday, October 05, 2008

Obama News for Sunday evening


Obama-Biden Launches New Integrated Campaign in Battlegrounds Highlighting John McCain's Plan To Tax and Deregulate Health Care Instead Of Fix It

Today the Obama-Biden campaign announced an integrated effort to highlight the dangers of John McCain's healthcare proposals across the country. In addition to Senator Obama’s speech in North Carolina, the campaign released a fourth 30-second TV ad, "Coin", and is holding a conference call with Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius (former Kansas Insurance Commissioner), Ohio and Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioners.
Finally, the campaign is holding nearly two dozen events in conjunction with the DNC and Democratic state parties across nine battelground states to highlight John McCain’s plan to tax and deregulate health care instead of fix it.
You can read the memo detailing
the five pitfalls of the McCain Health Plan.
In the News: Jay-Z played for Obama
The Obama army was charging ahead Saturday with its latest get-out-the-vote effort, giving free concert tickets to see Grammy Award-winning MC and music mogul Jay-Z at Cobo Center on Saturday night to those who registered to vote.
Since Wednesday, the campaign has given out about 12,000 tickets. The final 500 tickets were given out Saturday at registration rallies in Detroit and Pontiac.
Obama volunteers were so busy Saturday at his Michigan campaign headquarters in Detroit's New Center that there wasn't even time to change the campaign's countdown to the election sign, which still read "34" days to go. There were 31 days to go as of Saturday.
"Every person we bring in to the process increases our chances," said Brent Colburn, Obama's Michigan campaign spokesman....Campaign staff said volunteers will continue to knock on doors and reach out to voters in high-traffic areas until the Monday deadline.
Until then, Jay-Z will be the Michigan campaign's biggest booster.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The link to the health care is really getting a lot of traffic right now so I can't get to it.

But I am sure it will benefit the insurance companies greatly at the expense of the insured.