My Dear Fellow Obama Supporters,
Thank you so much for what you have done!! Think about this clearly. You in Philadelphia gave Barack Obama a 30 point victory in our City. You gave Barack Obama such a tremendous boost in numbers. Remember, the media is going to try to push this all the way to the convention. PA was the last major State for Hillary Clinton to try to ignite a "catching up" in any possible way. Now she can ONLY win by negating the Democratic process, overthrowing the will of the people. That WILL NOT HAPPEN. It just won't. Don't let anyone convince you otherwise. Superdelegates are not going to overturn the will of the people. All this has been sealed by PHILADELPHIA. We negated Hillary Clinton a substantially greater victory.
We canvassed hard! We got the vote out! We put door hangers out! We rallied! We marched! We mobilized time after time, and delivered Philadelphia to Barack Obama, all over, and not just in the African American community. I am so proud of the Philadelphia grassroots Obama movement!
Now, lets talk frankly my friends, because in the end I am going to ask you to do something.
Can we agree that a substantial number of White Blue Collar Pennsylvanians showed great resistance in voting for Barack? I think I saw this in my canvassing in South Philly. Also, we can agree that negative campaigning does not help. <b>Some</b> folks motivated by an irrational negative bias are not swayed by negative campaigning. When an individual's conscience is compromised by a negative bias, they know it almost always. So they look for reasons to justify and validate themselves. Often, negative campaigning gives them that justification, not because they resolve their moral dilemma, but because they can accuse the object of their bias of being immoral, negative, a bully, etc. We all probably were jumped by out of State Hillary people on the street telling us how negative Barack was, and we just chuckled, right? People see what they want.
So, what is the solution? We have to return to promoting the Obama revolution of hope, positivity, unity, and higher destiny for our country. Hillary wants to go even more negative? Let her. We know she is negative, divisive, lying, and disingenuous. So does everyone else... more than 60% of Americans think of her as dishonest. That statistic was valid in PA too... and yet 55% voted for her. Why? Because many consciences were not swayed to a better place. They accepted a liar rather than vote for Obama. Why? Because he hasn't reached them enough to move them. I think he can. He has to bridge the racial divide. He has to reach out and touch the conscience and bring us to a better place.
He got an immediate boost after his speech on race. Why? Because he touched consciences. That is what we need. He must dig into the deep resources his soul abounds in. He must talk about the possibilities we have when we transcend racial barriers. He must talk about the possibilities we have when we transcend and overcome poverty, disease, global conflicts and perils. He must talk about how he is more qualified to offer sticks and carrots in our difficult foreign policy... While Clinton is talking about annihilating Iran, he needs to be talking about forming a positive coalition of Arab and non Arab nations around Iran exerting pressure on it to stop its provocations.
In essence, Barack needs to verbalize all those things which we sense he will be great at, and that Hillary could never do.
There is word that some in Barack's campaign want him to go even more negative in the next two weeks. I think he should announce a major speech and announce that he will abandon all negative campaigning with Hillary Clinton and give a series of policy speeches about race, gender, peace, national security, foreign policy, etc.
I know he has a tight two weeks ahead of him. I ask all of you to write in your blogs, and to your contacts in the campaign to exert our pressure to abandon the negative campaign.
Look, I was the first to say a month and a half ago that he needed to hit back hard. I believe now that I was wrong... and its not the first time. It doesn't work because Obama is not a negative person nor is this movement, and because the people he needs to convince most need to be touched in their conscience and heart, which requires a tremendous positive force, almost, in fact, an internally healing one. Plus, we need this to get the Clinton followers to abandon their Obama-hate. He needs to reach out NOW to the Hillary people, because he, in fact, will be the nominee, and we need them before November. We can't wait to be united in November. We need to be united in July.
Can you reach out with me by blogging a push for abandoning negative campaigning? I sense clearly that Barack is more intelligent and deeper than I am, and he senses this need to go positive, and I don't want him to feel pressured by his campaign too much, and I think he will feel our support if we voice it.
Thanks
Jack Livigni
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