America’s First Couple have released a video, begging for volunteers, in an effort to combat the Political Tsunami scheduled to hit November 2nd:

The Obamas, after all, have made a career out of Community Organizing.  I wrote about Obama’s start in that field in The Great Disconnect, Part 2: Columbia, Community Organizing, and “Hahvahd”. 

His Community Organizing skills served him well as he transitioned into his political career. He worked for seven months in 1992 on a voter registration and education project that helped elect Bill Clinton as president and Carol Moseley Braun as the state’s first African-American female senator.  

You may have heard of it:  Project Vote.   In 2008,  Project Vote and ACORN were responsible for a voter registration drive targeting battleground states Obama needed to win the White House.

Though officially non-partisan, the ACORN/Project Vote voter drive focused on groups that they thought would vote Democratic in the presidential contest: African-American, young, Latino and low-income earners.  They referred to these groups as “historically underrepresented in elections” in a press release they issued, in an attempt to justify what they were doing.

ACORN/Project Vote operated voter registration drives in 21 states in 2008; including the battlegrounds Colorado, Florida, Michigan (since move to Obama) Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.  They were very instrumental in Obama’s victory.

The Democratic Party is banking on Obama’s skills in organizing and getting out the vote. Desperately trying to get Pookie off the couch (Obama’s words, not mine) to vote in the midterm elections in Chicago and other cities, Democrats are aiming a less-than-subtle message at African-American voters:

Our President Needs You.

A big African-American turnout is key to the end game strategy for Illinois Senate Democratic candidate Alexi Giannoulias, just as Republican rival Mark Kirk is going to the deep well of GOP votes in western DuPage County to mine his base vote, according to the Chicago Sun Times.

With the Senate race deadlocked for months, and with even a torrent of negative ads not budging the 15 percent or so of undecided voters, getting out the Black Democratic vote is now the number one priority.

President Obama turned out African-American voters in record numbers in 2008 for his historic election as the country’s first African-American president. The Giannoulias campaign is counting on Obama to be able to crank up turnout in his adopted hometown like no other place in the nation.

Obama has been to Chicago twice to fund-raise for Giannoulias, and Illinois Democrats want him to return during the final weekend before the election for a get-out-the-vote rally.

Points to ponder:

Chicago is one of 18 cities with a President Obama radio ad blitz targeting African-American voters. The Democratic National Committee is buying $3 million worth of radio spots on stations with African-American audiences, including WGCI-FM, WGRB-AM and WVAZ-FM in Chicago.

In the spot, Scooter says:

Two years ago, you voted in record numbers, and we won a victory few dreamed possible.

First lady Michelle Obama took on a niche but crucial demographic, hosting a conference call on Oct. 12 aimed at getting female African Americans in the faith-based community to vote. (Because, you know, the Obamas are in church all the time, too)  Just as Scooter has reached out to African-America media, Michelle, on Oct. 13, phoned into shows hosted by Tom Joyner and Michael Baisden , both of which host programs aimed at African-American audiences.

In an excellent article for humanevents.com, contributor Jerome Hudson explores the phenomenon of 91% of American’s Black population still supporting Obama. 

What I don’t understand, is why they don’t rally behind Lt. Colonel Allen West?  Col. West is running as the Republican nominee of House District 22 in Broward County, Florida.  What kind of man is he?  James Lewis answered that question in an article for americanthinker.com, published 3/16/2008:

Colonel West is a man who has proved himself, not just in the rigors of combat, not just in leadership, not just in the technical craft of military tactics and strategy, but in the most difficult life-and-death dilemma a human being can face. He made an agonizing moral decision to save his men from a likely ambush. To do so, he shot off a pistol next to the head of a suspect, forcing him to confess vital lifesaving intelligence. Col. West didn’t do that to punish the man, but to save lives. It worked.

When Col. West reported his own actions to superiors, he must have known that his decision would cost him his military career. He might have ended up in prison for years. He knew it would lead to months and months of personal agony. But he made the right decision in the face of a life-and-death moral dilemma. 

Col. West has been very active in the Tea Party Movement, speaking at rallies throughout the country.  He made news recently by challenging the president to a debate:

Personally. I would support  a real American Hero over a community organizing Alinsky-ite any day of the week.  How about you?

As I take my leave today, here’s a treat.  You knew, with the title of today’s post, that this ol’ Memphis boy wouldn’t leave without laying some Temps on you, didn’t you?  Enjoy and God Bless!