He garnered some attention with his comments about Hillary Clinton during the Democratic primary. Tonight, Cornell alum Bill Maher brought that comedy to The Hill in Ithaca. Chastising Republicans (and Sarah Palin), religion, values voters (and Sarah Palin), movie sex (not sex in general), and Sarah Palin was common throughout the night. Asking McCain supporters to identify [...]
Now that my life on the Obama campaign has been exhausted I guess it’s back to talking about Cornell, which is what I’m supposed to do anyway. For the first three years my home at Cornell has been in a dorm. Looking back it’s been a good decision, fewer responsibilities in terms of trash/recycling, food, rent, distance [...]
July 26 Tomorrow I travel home after meeting up with a friend to see the NFL Hall of Fame. This fellowship has been a great experience, enjoyable, educational, and rewarding. It has also taught me community organizing is not my thing. Walking up to strangers on the street and seeing if they’re registered to vote [...]
July 23 For the last week I’ve been assigned to create a slide show on Obama’s rural policies, the critiques of them, and how they contrast with John McCain’s rural policies. I enjoy this kind of policy analysis (seeing that it’s also my major) so I find it very relaxing that this is my assignment [...]
July 19 This morning we canvassed in Nelsonville, OH for Senator Obama as well as Zack Space who is the Congressional representative of the 18th district, which encompasses almost the entire eastern Ohio border. Canvassing involves walking door to door (like a salesman) asking who people are thinking of voting for and if there were [...]
July 17 There are nine days left of this fellowship. We’re starting to realize that. Spending six weeks 24/7 with each other really creates a tight bond so we’ve been cherishing every minute we have when we’re not working. They’re very rare though. For example, tonight at midnight is the premiere of The Dark Knight. [...]
July 14 This morning I was invited to take a walk with three senior citizens. Every morning at 7:45 on Monday-Friday Robert, Gifford, and Li casually pace around their neighborhood talking about everything that goes on in the world. They stop for coffee at Robert’s house and then continue walking and talking. I was asked [...]
July 9 Call time in general is very difficult as I’ve mentioned many times. Persuasion calls are probably my favorite part of call time though ‘favorite’ is probably a poor word to use seeing that I need to prepare myself a half hour in advance to get through the 4 or 5 hours of call [...]
July 6 I was officially offered a job on the campaign when my 6 weeks as a fellow is up. I told them my mind wasn’t completely made up but that I would almost certainly go back to college to finish my senior year and graduate. A feeling of success filled inside me when I [...]
July 5 We’ve attempted to register voters for a combined 30 hours over the past 3 days. Sometimes we see the fruits of our labor and other times there’s absolutely no reward for the time we’ve invested. So when we were told that we’d be taking a break and visiting journalist and former marine and [...]