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Texas volunteers learn ropes at Camp Obama in Dallas
Dallas Morning News ^ | 10/05/2008 | Gromer Jeffers

Posted on 10/05/2008 8:40:45 PM PDT by 1066AD

Texas volunteers learn ropes at Camp Obama in Dallas

09:53 PM CDT on Sunday, October 5, 2008 By GROMER JEFFERS JR. / The Dallas Morning News gjeffers@dallasnews.com

Unemployed and angry but with a strong sense of purpose, Shannon Curtis joined Barack Obama's volunteer army.

Her first assignment: boot camp in Dallas, where the 27-year-old learned how to walk blocks, operate phone banks and become a precinct captain.

She's being shipped with other Texans to one of the presidential battle's western fronts – the crucial swing state of Colorado.

Ms. Curtis, who recently lost her job with a private equity firm, was among 80 people who attended a recent "Camp Obama" training retreat at the campaign's Dallas headquarters at South Side on Lamar.

(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2008; acorn; campobama; communityorganizer; election; obama
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I've seen references to Obama "Boot Camps", anyone got any links to reports ?

Presumably "In Your Face" training too ?

1 posted on 10/05/2008 8:40:45 PM PDT by 1066AD
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To: 1066AD

Obergruppenführer Obama’s own Sturmabteilung (S.A.) Wunderbar! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiIx8FQU_qo


2 posted on 10/05/2008 8:44:18 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Barack Obama: In Error and arrogant -- he's errogant!)
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They gotta ship them out of Texas because we don’t put up with no commie B.S.!


3 posted on 10/05/2008 8:45:40 PM PDT by gop4lyf (Obama wants to raise taxes and kill babies. Palin wants to raise babies and kill taxes.)
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To: 1066AD

Adams Unaji, a Nigerian native who has lived in Fort Worth for five years, said working with the Obama campaign gives him insight on the American political system.

The 36-year-old used to work for a major bank and will help Mr. Obama in Colorado.

“I’m going to run for political office and be active in politics,” he said. “What I learn here I’m going to take back to Nigeria.”


lol


4 posted on 10/05/2008 8:47:31 PM PDT by bahblahbah (http://explorations.chasrmartin.com/2008/09/06/palin-rumors/)
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To: bahblahbah

So THAT’S where the Nigerian bank stories came from!!! LMAO!!!


5 posted on 10/05/2008 8:52:54 PM PDT by Old Sarge (Illic Est Haud Deus)
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To: bahblahbah

What a bunch of losers. Go ahead, send a Nigerian to Colorado to knock on doors...yeah, that’ll turn the vote your way. If he knocked on the doors in my neighborhood, it would probably only serve to reinforce the darkest fears of my middle class neighbors.


6 posted on 10/05/2008 8:53:44 PM PDT by johnnycap
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To: 1066AD
Volunteers describe the training sessions as grueling but inspiring.

Not funny at all, especially when you relate to the stories of caucus strong arm tactics etc ignored by the media.

7 posted on 10/05/2008 8:56:33 PM PDT by 1066AD
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To: bahblahbah

Outsourcing campaign work to Nigerians?


8 posted on 10/05/2008 8:56:45 PM PDT by keepitreal ("I'm Barack Obama and I approve this message. . . until I don't.")
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To: 1066AD

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=S8QcpdUtxNQ

Strong arm tactics times 100.


9 posted on 10/05/2008 8:57:44 PM PDT by word_warrior_bob (You can now see my amazing doggie and new puppy on my homepage!! Come say hello to Jake & Sonny)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So, what will Shannon Curtis’s response be when he’s still angry and unemployed well after is false God Obama is elected?

Or, will he come to the realization that worshipping a false prophet will only turn on into a useful idiot, as he portrays himself in this video, thereby guaranteeing himself a life of defection for his failures?


10 posted on 10/05/2008 8:59:18 PM PDT by motoman
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To: 1066AD

Good grief! That woman needs to get a job, not suck off her parents at her age! Can you say loser? Good excuse not to have to actually have to work for a living!


11 posted on 10/05/2008 9:02:06 PM PDT by ladyvet (WOLVERINES!!!!!)
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To: gop4lyf

God bless Texas!


12 posted on 10/05/2008 9:03:29 PM PDT by ladyvet (WOLVERINES!!!!!)
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To: 1066AD

Isn’t this how the Nazis recruited the Brownshirts?


13 posted on 10/05/2008 9:06:47 PM PDT by dfwgator
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Grueling boot camps? Jeeze, how hard is it to dial a phone number from a list and read off a card? How hard is it to learn to walk up to a house and drop off literature or read off a card? No wonder these people are unemployed!
14 posted on 10/05/2008 9:07:56 PM PDT by ladyvet (WOLVERINES!!!!!)
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I was being serious, just what are these people taught ?

Remember there’s countless thousands who have done this training, training that’s attracted comments on the blogs, I’d like to get some links !!

I bet it ties right in with some of his campaign’s dodgy tactics, especially in the caucus states that provided his launching pad.

We need to learn about it.


15 posted on 10/05/2008 9:25:24 PM PDT by 1066AD
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To: 1066AD
Sorry, I was just replying from what I read in the article. Link me to the blogs, when you get them. IF they are actually teaching what you think they are, I'm sure something can be done.
16 posted on 10/05/2008 9:30:43 PM PDT by ladyvet (WOLVERINES!!!!!)
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To: johnnycap
What a bunch of losers. Go ahead, send a Nigerian to Colorado to knock on doors...

Knock, knock, knock!
"Yes?"
"Dear Sir. I am Mr.David Mark. an Auditor of a BANK OF THE NORTH INTERNATIONAL,ABUJA (FCT). I have the courage to crave indulgence for this important business believing that you will never let me down either now or in the future. "
Slam!

17 posted on 10/05/2008 9:41:18 PM PDT by 6SJ7 (Welcome PUMAs!)
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To: gop4lyf

“Karen Brooks, an African-American consumer interaction consultant from Plano...”

Gee, I wonder what a “consumer interaction consultant” does or is this a dreamed up major to grant a degree to folks who can’t make it through anything real?


18 posted on 10/05/2008 9:53:11 PM PDT by threeoeight
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To: bahblahbah

“What I learn here I’m going to take back to Nigeria”

Obama is so corrupt he can even teach Nigerians scams they didn’t know.


19 posted on 10/05/2008 10:12:12 PM PDT by bitterdfwrepub
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To: ladyvet
No apology necessary. I'm on the wrong PC to give links but I found several on one of the "Puma" sites.
20 posted on 10/05/2008 10:31:08 PM PDT by 1066AD
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