#barack obama

Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds Hosting Free Concert at Virginia Commonwealth University

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Straight from the Ware­house (DMB fan club):

We are pleased to announce that Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds will be per­form­ing in Rich­mond, VA on Sun­day, Octo­ber 26, 2008 at the ALLTEL Pavil­ion at the VCU Stu­art C. Siegel Cen­ter to urge Vir­gini­ans to vote for the change our coun­try needs—affordable, acces­si­ble health care for every Amer­i­can, tax relief for mid­dle class fam­i­lies strug­gling in this econ­omy and a respon­si­ble end to the Iraq war.

The “Last Chance for Change” per­for­mance will be free and open to all Vir­ginia res­i­dents and stu­dents, how­ever tick­ets ARE required. Two (2) free tick­ets are avail­able per per­son on a first-come, first served basis.

You may get your tick­ets from the 2 fol­low­ing locations:

  • Rich­mond Cam­paign for Change Office
    1710 E Franklin St.
    Rich­mond, VA 23220
  • Char­lottesville Cam­paign for Change Office
    104 Wert­land St.
    Char­lottesville, VA

Key items that you should know if inter­ested and plan­ning on going:

  • Tick­ets are avail­able start­ing at 10:00 a.m. ET on Sat­ur­day, Octo­ber 18.
  • Cam­paign for Change offices are open from 9:00am to 9:00pm ET daily.
  • For secu­rity rea­sons, please do not bring bags and please limit per­sonal items.
  • No signs or ban­ners are permitted.

Again, here’s the day-of-concert infor­ma­tion that you should now:
ALLTEL Pavil­ion at the Stu­art C. Siegel Cen­ter
Vir­ginia Com­mon­wealth Uni­ver­sity
Rich­mond, VA

Sun­day, Octo­ber 26, 2008
Media access: 5:30 p.m.
Doors open: 6:00 p.m.
Show starts: 7:00 p.m.

More info avail­able via barackobama.com/dave. Good luck, go vote, and enjoy!

Obama iPhone and iPod Touch App

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Woah. As if hav­ing the cre­ative likes of Obey Giant (Shep­ard Fairey), ISO50 (Scott Hansen), and Sarah Sil­ver­man weren’t enough, a cou­ple of iPhoneDe­v­Camp alumni vol­un­teered to cre­ate an iPhone and iPod Touch appli­ca­tion for Barack Obama.

You’ll have instant access to Barack’s posi­tions on impor­tant issues, as well as local and national cam­paign news as it hap­pens. Pho­tos and videos from the cam­paign trail are all here, too.

  • Call Friends: A great vol­un­teer­ing tool that lets you make a dif­fer­ence any time you want by talk­ing to peo­ple you already know. Your con­tacts are pri­or­i­tized by key bat­tle­ground states, and you can make calls and orga­nize results all in one place.
  • Call Stats: See nation­wide Obama ’08 Call Friends totals and find out how your call totals com­pare to lead­ing callers.
  • Get Involved: Do more. Find and con­tact your local Obama for Amer­ica HQ.
  • Receive Updates: Receive the lat­est news and announce­ments via text mes­sages or email.
  • News: Browse com­plete cov­er­age of national and local cam­paign news.
  • Local Events: Find local events, share by email and get maps and directions.
  • Media: Browse videos and pho­tos from the campaign
  • Issues: Get clear facts about Barack Obama and Joe Biden’s plan for essen­tial issues fac­ing Americans.

I won­der how the McCain camp will fol­low up on this. For some rea­son, every time I asso­ciate John McCain and the web, I seem to refer to Mike David­son pun­ish­ing McCain’s web team for hot link­ing images on John McCain’s MySpace page. Clas­sic.

Any­ways, enough of the rem­i­nisc­ing. I com­mend the iPhoneDe­v­Camp alumni amongst the other 4 who vol­un­teered their time to the project. It truly gives some boost and good press to the iPhone devel­op­ment plat­form and its every­day appli­ca­tion; whether it be check­ing your health, to learn­ing why to vote for a pres­i­den­tial candidate.

The app is avail­able at http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/iphone

Sarah Silverman and The Great Schlep

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Sarah Sil­ver­man wants Jews to get their butts down to Florida for The Great Schlep.

She’s hilar­i­ous. The video is pretty much pro-Obama, but worth the watch whether you are for him or McCain. The cam­paign was paid for by the Jew­ish Coun­cil for Edu­ca­tion and Research, www.jcer.info. Awe­some right? =)

The whole bit was dang funny, but here are some that stood out for me:

  • “Sarah … (awk­ward pause) … Silverman”
  • “All their friends are dying” (oh snap lol)
  • “He’s circum-super-sized” (haha)

You’ll know what I mean after watch­ing it.

schlep
intran­si­tive verb. to pro­ceed or move espe­cially slowly, tediously, awk­wardly, or carelessly
noun.

  1. An ardu­ous journey.
  2. A clumsy or stu­pid person.
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