Senator Barack Obama fills sandbags in Quincy, Illinois to help prevent further flooding. The Mississippi River is expected to crest there on Tuesday or early Wednesday.
He’s also mobilizing his grassroots supporters to volunteer and to make donations to help with the relief efforts.
The Obama Campaign has added a Fight the Smears component to its web site. Karen Tumulty of Time.com explains why.
…Obama told his top aides it was time for a more aggressive solution to the rumors that have been popping up on the Internet about him and his family for months. And so the Obama campaign has built what might best be described as a Web-based rumor clearinghouse, located at fightthesmears.com, in which it hopes all the shady stories about Obama’s faith, his family and his rumored connections with controversial figures can go to die.
This is a great day for those of us who have been fighting for Senator Obama! I’m a good example of why he’ll win in November. I’m the least typical Obama supporter. And there are many more like me.
I cut my political teeth in the seventies through the early eighties as an organizer in the antiabortion religious right. I’m a fifty-five year old white man who has been a conservative most of my life. I’ve been a Republican activist who campaigned for McCain in 2000. I’m a big fan of the military. My son served in the Marines. If Obama can reach me he can reach anyone.
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