Black Women for Obama for Change

Check This Out! Do Something!

noreply@blogger.com (BWFO4Change) — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:39:00 +0000

Networker, Paula Minor, writes a blog for Obama Campaign site.

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From the White House

noreply@blogger.com (BWFO4Change) — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 04:59:00 +0000

CNN Poll: Obama approval rating back to 50% mark

noreply@blogger.com (BWFO4Change) — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 04:05:00 +0000

Washington (CNN) - President Barack Obama's approval rating is back to 50% for the first time in more than eight months, and he currently holds an edge against all the remaining Republican presidential candidates in hypothetical head-to-head match-ups, according to a new national survey.

And a CNN/ORC International Poll released Wednesday also indicates that the GOP's advantage on enthusiasm has been erased, and that the number of Americans who think things are going well in the country is on the rise. Six out of ten say things are going poorly in the country, but four out of ten say things are going well, up 15 points since November.

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Obama for America: Fashion Campaign, Runway to Win!

noreply@blogger.com (BWFO4Change) — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:32:00 +0000

First Lady On the Tonight Show With Jay Leno

noreply@blogger.com (BWFO4Change) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:32:00 +0000

One Person's Response On Facebook After The State Of The Union Speech, Jan 24, 2012

noreply@blogger.com (BWFO4Change) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:21:00 +0000

Author: Unknown

“MY PRESIDENT:

1. Got Osama bin laden...check

2. Unemployment rate 8.5%...check.

3. 1.6 million jobs created with no GOP help...check

4. 22 months of job and economic growth with no help...check

5. Ended war in Iraq ...check

6. DADT repeal...check

7. Not one tax hike in 3 years....check

8. Brought out the racism in the GOP...check

9. Still carries 80% of the black vote...check

10.Same wife for >15 years with no extramarital affairs...check

11. Saved auto industry and 1.5 million jobs…check

12. Assisted in ousting Khaddafi...check

13. Only active President to receive Nobel Peace prize while in office…check

14. Mortgage modification to prevent home owners from losing their home…check

15. STILL fighting for middle class families…check

16. Reforming Affordable healthcare....check

Despite what the GOP would have you believe, our President has been doing these things and more by himself. Obama 2012

Google Plus Interview With The President

noreply@blogger.com (BWFO4Change) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:44:00 +0000

Meet Our First Club 10 Members!

noreply@blogger.com (BWFO4Change) — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:30:00 +0000

Dr. Eleanor Renee Rodriguez/BWFO4Change/Hampton Roads, shown outside of White House

Conchita Baylor/BWFO4Change/Maryland, shown June 2011 at White House Tour

Mary “Bernie Tolson” shown modeling the exclusive BWFO4Change T‐Shirt

*Club Ten are BWFO Networkers who have recruited 10+ Members. Please join us!

President Obama Speaks to Supporters

noreply@blogger.com (BWFO4Change) — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 23:24:00 +0000

From BWFO Networker in DC: President Obama spoke to supporters at a campaign fundraising event in Washington, DC. In his remarks he outlined the accomplishments of his administration and spoke about challenges ahead. He emphasized that it was going to be much more difficult for him in 2012 and that he needs his supporters now more than ever. He stated that he was going to need more time to accomplish what he set out to do and that he believed that he could win again with he help of his supporters.

GOP: Red, White and Racist?

noreply@blogger.com (BWFO4Change) — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 15:58:00 +0000

By Barbara A. Reynolds

Recently GOP presidential candidates and leaders have so consistently showed their colors of red, white and racist that I wonder if they took a secret pledge to denigrate African-Americans. Or is this simply a matter of inverted Social Darwinism: the survival of the mega-maladjusted?

I raise this question because I don’t understand how logical well-adjusted people can continue to insult, condemn and ridicule blacks non-stop to the point that sometimes it is hard not to feel like a rag doll that people keep pricking holes in. The latest outrage du jour was Republican Kansas House Speaker Mike O’Neal forwarding around an e-mail poking fun at First Lady Michelle Obama. According to the Lawrence Journal-World, it said “I’m sure you’ll join me in wishing Mrs. YoMama a wonderful, long Hawaii Christmas vacation—at our expense, of course. “YoMama?” Neal later apologized for the condescending remark, but the damage of this toxic hateful speech has been done. Could you see former first ladies Jackie Kennedy or Barbara Bush receiving this kind of disrespect without national outrage?

O’Neal is a little Kansas fish in a big pond and since he is not running for national office his remarks aren’t important, it could be said. Not so, because this anti-black ideology runs from the top down.

Tea Party darling Michelle Bachman kicked off the current trend of bigoted thinking last July when it was revealed that she had signed a pledge containing a statement inferring that African American children and black families were better off during slavery presumably because, according to her logic, they had both parents living with them. What ignorance to suggest people, children among them, being sold like cattle and separated from their families during slavery had virtue.

Flashbacks of racial insensitivity continue with Texas Congressman Ron Paul who finished third in the Iowa caucus. Who can forget his vote in Congress against awarding the iconic Rosa Parks, the mother of the civil rights movement, a Congressional Gold Medal? And then there are the anti-black statements that surfaced in a newsletter he published in 1980 which reportedly accused the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. of having sex with under-aged children and stated that 95 percent of black men in Washington, D.C., are either “semi-criminals or entirely criminals.” Paul denied having any knowledge of the statements, but his vote in 2006 against renewing the 1965 Civil Rights Act to remove voting barriers for minorities frames him as a foe of civil rights.

Even hot- to-trot former presidential contender Herman Cain tried to score points with his bigoted benefactors by bashing black Democrats as brain-washed and describing himself as a family member of the ultra-conservative billionaire Koch brothers: “I am a brother of another mother,” Cain professed.

It is intriguing to watch former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum duke it out to see who can become the Top Offender of Black America. The champion, perhaps, is Gingrich who said that he would appear before the NAACP conference to explain to the African American community why they should demand paychecks instead of food stamps.

The NAACP called Gingrich’s statement “divisive and problematic.” In actuality, however, it was a brutish attempt to target blacks as dependent losers based on erroneous information and history. First of all the majority of people on food stamps are not African Americans. So why is Gingrich singling them out? And why has he labeled President Obama “the food stamp president?” Gingrich is trying to create stereotypes of blacks as welfare queens as was done under the Ronald Reagan administration, while ignoring billion dollar bailouts and welfare handouts to corporations. Earlier Gingrich advanced the GOP’s repugnance for inner-city blacks with his suggestion that child labor laws be modified so that poor children can work as school janitors. “Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods,” he said “have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works … They have no habit of ‘I do this and you give me cash,’ unless it’s illegal.”

This script of casting blacks as villains, either surviving by illegal means or on the public dole has also been commandeered by ex-Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum. “I don’t want to make black peoples’ lives better by giving them somebody else’s money,” he said in Iowa. Has he somehow forgotten that blacks are taxpayers and like millions of other unemployed Americans would be working if the failed policies of the Bush administration had not created massive unemployment?

So that leaves Mitt Romney, who should also be judged by what he has not said. Romney served as a leader in the Mormon Church whose doctrine until 1978 stated that people with black skin were cursed by God, could not enter heaven, nor serve in the Mormon priesthood. It seems a fair-minded person would have condemned this policy but Romney apparently did not.

So far this election year has unleashed a constant stream of bigotry. Is this a requirement to run for high office as a Republican or does it just happen that way? To think that among this bunch could be our next president should surely keep most of us awake at night.

Barbara A. Reynolds, the author of six books, including “Jesse Jackson: America’s David.” An ordained minister, she is a former columnist and editorial board member of USA Today.

Source: Washington Post

From the White House

noreply@blogger.com (BWFO4Change) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:30:00 +0000

In a speech in Ohio last Wednesday, President Obama appointed Richard Cordray to be the first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Cordray, a career public servant who most recently served as the Attorney General of Ohio, followed through on the President’s message of “We Can’t Wait” by taking steps to increase oversight of “non-bank” financial services on his second day in office. Prior to his remarks, President Obama met with William and Endia Eason at their Cleveland home. The Easons were victims of predatory lending by a mortgage broker and almost lost their home.

President Barack Obama delivers remarks on the economy at Shaker Heights High School,Shaker Heights, Ohio, Jan. 4, 2012. Richard Cordray shares the stage with the President. (Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy)

The appointment gives Americans a powerful advocate in one of the places where they need it most and is a critical aspect of the President’s plans to reform Wall Street. This empowerment of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau came on the heels of another significant victory for the middle class: The extension of the payroll tax cut.

The President reiterated his “We Can’t Wait” message last Thursday during a presentation before business and community leaders at the Summer Jobs+ event held at the White House. In light of Congressional Republicans blocking the American Jobs Act, President Obama is doing everything he can to get results now. Through the 180,000 summer jobs already pledged by the public and private sectors (with an additional 70,000 jobs expected), and the handy summer job bank, the Administration will connect young people with employers that will provide meaningful work experience.

Summer Jobs+ is an extension of President Obama’s plan to win the future by cultivating America’s human capital and making every American the very best that they can be. Early on the job experience will teach the youngest generations the skills that they need to get good, secure jobs later in life.

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White House Champions of Change Program

Judit Camacho reflects on the December 9^th “Champions of Change” event that honored the work of her and eleven others who have made exceptional strides towards getting women involved in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). She herself is the executive director of SACNAS, an organization dedicated to promoting Hispanic/Chicano and Native American participation in STEM fields.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/01/05/champions-change-latina-stem

Get Involved

The application for the Summer 2012 White House Internship Program is now open, and the application deadline is January 22, 2012. The mission of the White House Internship Program is to make the "People’s House" accessible to future leaders from around the nation, and to cultivate and prepare those devoted to public service for future leadership opportunities. The programs and opportunities of the White House Internship Program make for days filled with unique learning experiences, thought-provoking conversation, and unforgettable events. Visit http://www.whitehouse.gov/internships to learn more about the White House Internship Program and to apply.

The White House Fellows program is the nation’s most prestigious program for leadership and public service. Founded by President Johnson in 1964 to engage emerging leaders in public service, the Fellows Program provides exceptional young men and women with first-hand experience working at the highest levels of the federal government. Fellows spend one year in Washington, DC working in the offices of Cabinet Secretaries, White House staff, and other high level Executive Branch officials. The Fellows Program is non-partisan, highly competitive and seeks people who have distinguished themselves through their work and dedication to public service. To learn more, we invite you to view the White House Fellows video chat in which the Program Director Cindy Moelis and former Fellows Anish Mahajan and Erica Jeffries recently answered questions about the application and the Fellowship experience. Applications for the White House Fellowship can currently be found online atwww.whitehouse.gov/fellows. The deadline for completed applications is January 13, 2012.

For more information about ways to get involved now, check out the Office of Public Engagement’s blog, which is updated daily with upcoming engagement opportunities. Follow Jon Carson, Director of the Office of Public Engagement, on Twitter @JonCarson44. Also, take time to browse our Engage webpage. Also check out Serve.gov for opportunities to personalize your long-term service.

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For more information, visit the White House Office of Public Engagement website and blog and sign up for additional opportunities.

We welcome your thoughts and feedback at public@who.eop.gov.

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Job Description: Organizing for America Deputy Field Director

noreply@blogger.com (BWFO4Change) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:21:00 +0000

Organizing for America – WI is beginning to expand and gear up for
2012. The President needs your help in Wisconsin – a key battleground
state in this important election. We are hiring for the positions
below. Please submit your application to: OFAWIJobs@gmail.com if
you're interested in joining the OFA-WI team.

Organizing For America
Field - Deputy Field Director
Field – Wisconsin – Full Time

Overview

Deputy Field Directors (DFDs) work to advance President Obama’s and
the Democrats’ agenda and grow the grassroots movement for electoral
success in 2012. DFDs work in select states across the country to
assist the Field Director with the management of Organizing for
America field staff and programs.

Responsibilities

A DFD manages, coaches, and supports the activities of Regional Field
Directors, ensuring that they have the tools and skills necessary to
execute their regional plans with their staff and volunteers and
achieve their goals. Specific responsibilities include managing and
training multiple staff, supporting them to develop and execute
regional plans that reflect the needs and opportunities of their turf,
input into state plans and initiatives, hiring and training new staff,
and facilitating the sharing of best practices and lessons learned.
DFDs report directly to the Field Director and work closely with state
and national leadership.

Requirements

• Experience managing multiple staff (preferably remotely)
• Skilled in coaching and empowering staff to improve their
performance
• Team player attitude who can create that culture
• Willingness and ability to take and carry out directives
• Familiarity with team-based organizing and campaign technology
platforms
• Comfortable with excel, data management, and field numerical
analysis to manage from metrics

Organizing for America is committed to diversity among its staff, and
recognizes that its continued success requires the highest commitment
to obtaining and retaining a diverse staff that provides the best
quality services to supporters and constituents. Organizing for
America is an equal opportunity employer and it is Organizing for
America’s policy to recruit, hire, train, promote and administer any
and all personnel actions without regard to sex, race, age, color,
creed, national origin, religion, economic status, sexual orientation,
gender identity or expression, ethnic identity or physical disability,
or any other legally protected basis. Organizing for America will not
tolerate any unlawful discrimination and any such conduct is strictly
prohibited.

Organizing for America
Field - Regional Field Director
Field – Wisconsin – Full Time

Overview

Regional Field Directors (RFDs) work to advance President Obama’s and
the Democrats’ agenda and grow the grassroots movement for electoral
success in 2012.

Responsibilities

The primary responsibility of an RFD is to manage Field Organizers
(FOs) who recruit, manage, and train volunteers. RFD responsibilities
include but are not limited to developing regional organizing plans
that reflect the needs and realities of their communities; hiring and
training FOs; coaching FOs to develop neighborhood teams; coordinating
field management and ensuring data integrity; facilitating and
evaluating region-wide events; orchestrating earned media
opportunities; grow their digital presence by meeting pre-determined
metrics; and building relationships with local political and community
leaders. In these states, RFDs report directly to a Deputy Field
Director.

In states without FOs, RFDs build and grow neighborhood teams of
volunteers who conduct the campaign’s voter contact in line with their
regional organizing plan. They identify and train team leadership and
support them to hold phone banks, canvasses, house parties and other
activities to increase support for President Obama. They hold
volunteers accountable to goals set in the field plan and are
responsible for ensuring data integrity. They facilitate and evaluate
region-wide events; orchestrate earned media opportunities; grow their
digital presence by meeting pre-determined metrics; and build
relationships with local political and community leaders in their
state. RFDs report directly to the Field Director and work with other
State Leadership.

Requirements

• Experience managing and coaching multiple staff
• Skilled in team-based, volunteer-led organizing
• Comfortable with managing from metrics and has an understanding of
field data
• Familiarity with campaign technology platforms
• Attention to detail and strategic viewpoints
• Ability to multi-task and meet deadlines

Organizing for America is committed to diversity among its staff, and
recognizes that its continued success requires the highest commitment
to obtaining and retaining a diverse staff that provides the best
quality services to supporters and constituents. Organizing for
America is an equal opportunity employer and it is Organizing for
America’s policy to recruit, hire, train, promote and administer any
and all personnel actions without regard to sex, race, age, color,
creed, national origin, religion, economic status, sexual orientation,
gender identity or expression, ethnic identity or physical disability,
or any other legally protected basis. Organizing for America will not
tolerate any unlawful discrimination and any such conduct is strictly
prohibited.

Merry Xmas!!!!

noreply@blogger.com (BWFO4Change) — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 03:39:00 +0000

First Lady Michelle Obama reacts while talking on the phone to children across the country as part of the annual NORAD Tracks Santa program. Mrs. Obama answered the phone calls from Kailua, Hawaii, Saturday, Dec. 24, 2011. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

White House Christmas Address

noreply@blogger.com (BWFO4Change) — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 00:42:00 +0000

White House Holiday Card

noreply@blogger.com (BWFO4Change) — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:03:00 +0000

When the Obamas wanted an artist to create their annual holiday greeting card, they turned to someone whose work they knew and trusted. Mark Matuszak is an artist, illustrator and concept designer based in Los Angeles who has worked for the first family before, creating illustrations for the White House interior design.

Matuszak said in a phone interview Thursday that he was contacted a few months ago by the White House social secretary, who asked him to create this year's holiday card.

First Lady Sets A New World Record!

noreply@blogger.com (BWFO4Change) — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Michelle Obama has earned her family another place in history. This time, Mrs. Obama will share the honor with more than 300,000 other participants on Sunday who set the record for most people doing jumping jacks in a 24-hour period.

On Sunday, Mrs. Obama led about 400 kids from elementary and middle schools in the Washington area on the South Lawn of the White House. Other jumping jack events were held around the world to reach the world-record mark.

President Obama's Economic Address

noreply@blogger.com (BWFO4Change) — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 01:00:00 +0000

President Obama in his remarks at Osawatomie High School in Osawatomie, Kansas said, this is not just another political debate. This is the defining issue of our time. This is a make-or-break moment for the middle class, and for all those who are fighting to get into the middle class. Because what's at stake is whether this will be a country where working people can earn enough to raise a family, build a modest savings, own a home, secure their retirement.

Snapshot! President Obama During the Carrier Classic

noreply@blogger.com (BWFO4Change) — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 06:31:00 +0000

President Barack Obama leaves the court to be interviewed by ESPN during the Carrier Classic NCAA basketball game between Michigan State and North Carolina on the USS Carl Vinson, Friday, Nov. 11, 2011, in Coronado, Calif. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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President Obama Honors Veterans at Arlington National Cemetery

noreply@blogger.com (BWFO4Change) — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 01:37:00 +0000

MLK Memorial Dedication

noreply@blogger.com (BWFO4Change) — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 03:02:00 +0000

President Obama Designates Fort Monroe A National Monument

noreply@blogger.com (BWFO4Change) — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:48:00 +0000

BWFO4Change Networkers Encouraged President Obama to Designate Fort Monroe, VA as National Monument

We are pleased to celebrate President Barack Obama's use of his authority under the 1906 Antiquities Act, to establish Fort Monroe as a National Monument, in the National Park Service. We are proud that our Networkers Virginia Senator Mamie Locke, Gaylene Kanoyton, Vice Chair of the Virginia Democratic Party and Virginia playwright Sheri Bailey were in the forefront of pushing this effort forward. Congratulations Gaylene, Sheri and Senator Locke--we are proud of you!

Having President Obama designate Fort Monroe as a National Monument is an historic act that we believe will be one of the most significant cultural, historic and job creation acts of the Obama Administration. Now, Fort Monroe---which many people know little about--will finally showcase the important history of Black people as they progressed off the plantations, out of slavery, into the Union Army and onto the march towards freedom. We believe that over time, Fort Monroe will become a National Monument similar to the Statue of Liberty, and other national monuments that celebrate freedom. And, history about the arrival of indentured Africans in 1619 who were not slaves, will finally be told. In the near future, jobs will be created and new opportunities for small businesses will result as well.

On behalf of BWFO4Change, we thank President Obama for his leadership and commitment to the historic contributions of Fort Monroe. We also thank our visionary Networkers. We look forward to the nation and the world learning about Fort Monroe's role in the history of America and the 3,000+ jobs we hope will be created in the future.

Yes We Can!

Stephanie E. Myers, National Co-Chair Daun S. Hester, National Co-Chair

Check This Out! President Obama Joins Tumblr!

noreply@blogger.com (BWFO4Change) — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:21:00 +0000

The President's Plan to Reduce Student Loan Debt

noreply@blogger.com (BWFO4Change) — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:16:00 +0000

Members Of BWFO Attend First Lady Michelle Obama’s Fundraiser

noreply@blogger.com (BWFO4Change) — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:51:00 +0000

Hosted by Gen44 DC, Tuesday, October 11, 2011, Marriot Wardman Hotel

Chifornia Cox/DC, Amelia Ross-Hammond/VA, Karen Mulhauser/DC, Stephanie Myers/DC Mary Bernadette Tolson/DC, Sondra Henderson/DC and Mary Clark/VA

First Lady Michelle Obama greets guests at Gen44 Fundraiser at Marriot Wardman Hotel

President Obama Delivers Remarks at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Dedication

noreply@blogger.com (BWFO4Change) — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:03:00 +0000