F6 - Osas Ighodaro, Diane Lucas .. .....................
""Our generation, young professionals, especially young professionals of color who were a huge part of the force that mobilized the vote and were really active in getting Obama elected in '08, now are pretty much apathetic this election and that doesn't make any sense," said Lucas, 30, now a lawyer in New York City. "It's counter-intuitive for the same people who supported Obama with such zealousness, in 2012 to be like, 'Uh, yeah, I could have had a V8.'"
"That is very frustrating and scary," Lucas said. .....................
are getting stuck into a VERY meaningful cause .. Brian Benjamin (YP4C) .....................
"I try to make it so that its fun," said Brian Benjamin, 35, founder of Young Professionals United For Change [ http://www.yp4c.org/ ], a group that organizes young professionals of color around political and civic issues. "It's meaningful, but they know that I'm going to have events at a venue that's hot," he said. "I just don't see why things that are meaningful have to be boring or in a community rec center basement or something." .....................
and .. Calcie Cooper .....................
"We have to put our weight behind Obama to balance out whatever stereotypes that people have about who we are as a people," said Calcie Cooper, who co-founded the Joint Interest Group [ http://www.thejigroup.com/ ], another networking group that has worked to politicize young professionals. "That representation was lacking, and it still is. There are a million and one Barack Obamas that I know. When he came on the scene it was like see, we exist." .....................
with, Michael Blake, who was .. ..................... Late last year, he was tapped to join the 2012 campaign team as a deputy director of Operation Vote, the outreach for blacks, Latinos, LGBTQ, Jews, the young and the elderly.
Blake's gaze during the speech seemed as much on the president as on the crowd. After the speech, as the crowd lingered on, he stepped outside into the cool January air.
"This is the epitome of what you're fighting for, to show the world and show society that as young, aspiring, thriving African-Americans, I can be successful, I can contribute, I can break the stereotypes of what people may believe about me and those around me," Blake said. "And if you want to think about how it changes the paradigm and opens up doors and opens up opportunity and has people think about you in ways they never thought about before, you have got to get excited about this.
"These are once-in-a-generation moments that we are going through right now," Blake said. "And the fact that we have an African-American man that is president and an African-American wonderful first lady and two little black girls, it is the epitome of what you are striving for. You need to fight for this and you have to realize that on the other side, you have leaders who want to take everything away. And we can't allow that to happen, if you believe that we as African-American people still have more amazing things to do." .....................
AND all the other young people involved as those above, are exactly what the USA needs in this generational moment.
Every nook, cranny and alleyway where any potential Obama voter who may not, will be covered i'm sure.
I'M SURE, are well aware of, and pushing the IMPORTANCE of giving Obama's LONG TERM STRATEGY ..
Andrew Sullivan: How Obama's Long Game Will Outsmart His Critics .. excerpt ..
They miss, it seems to me, two vital things. The first is the simple scale of what has been accomplished on issues liberals say they care about. A depression was averted. The bail-out of the auto industry was—amazingly—successful. Even the bank bailouts have been repaid to a great extent by a recovering banking sector. The Iraq War—the issue that made Obama the nominee—has been ended on time and, vitally, with no troops left behind. Defense is being cut steadily, even as Obama has moved his own party away from a Pelosi-style reflexive defense of all federal entitlements. Under Obama, support for marriage equality and marijuana legalization has crested to record levels. Under Obama, a crucial state, New York, made marriage equality for gays an irreversible fact of American life. Gays now openly serve in the military, and the Defense of Marriage Act is dying in the courts, undefended by the Obama Justice Department. Vast government money has been poured into noncarbon energy investments, via the stimulus. Fuel-emission standards have been drastically increased. Torture was ended. Two moderately liberal women replaced men on the Supreme Court. Oh, yes, and the liberal holy grail that eluded Johnson and Carter and Clinton, nearly universal health care, has been set into law. Politifact recently noted that of 508 specific promises, a third had been fulfilled and only two have not had some action taken on them. To have done all this while simultaneously battling an economic hurricane makes Obama about as honest a follow-through artist as anyone can expect from a politician.
What liberals have never understood about Obama is that he practices a show-don’t-tell, long-game form of domestic politics. What matters to him is what he can get done, not what he can immediately take credit for.
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