Did you get your phone call yet? Believe it or not, some Gaza youth support Obama's presidential bid and are making phone calls for him:
"Hello, I'm calling from Gaza. I want some of your time. We are supporting Barack Obama…" For
the past seven months, a group of 24 students and young professionals
have gathered in the Gaza Strip nightly to phone random telephone
numbers in the United States, urging the voices at the other end to
"vote for Barack Obama."
Here is another source, Palestinians man phone bank for Obama:
For the past seven months, a group of students and young
professionals has gathered nightly to phone U.S. voters and urge them
to support Barack Obama in the presidential elections.
This would not be at all unusual were it not for the fact that
the callers are Palestinians living in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.
...Ibrahim [the group's organizer] acknowledges that 19 out of every 20 calls are met with an
immediate hang-up. But in the past seven months the group has placed
120,000 calls, meaning that between 5,000 and 6,000 Americans have
listened to the entreaties.
Campaigns depend on volunteers to man the phone banks. This Palestinian group has to be the most unusual volunteer group ever!
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Links:
Brookfield7, Fairly Conservative, Betterbrookfield, Jay Weber, Mark Levin, Vicki Mckenna
