Obama campaign opens Manchester headquarters
By Brian Lawson, PolitickerNH.com Reporter
Jim Demers talking to Obama supporters: Photo credit: PolitickerNH.com
U.S. Sen. Barack Obama's "Campaign for Change" opened its Manchester headquarters with both a crowd of supporters and protestors standing outside the building.
Speaking at the event were New Hampshire Democratic Party Chairman Ray Buckley, Obama senior advisor Jim Demers, New Hampshire Democratic Party Political Director Mike Brunelle, state Sens. Lou D'Allesandro (D-Manchester) and Sylvia Larsen (D-Concord) and U.S. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter (D-Rochester).
"Happy birthday to Barack Obama and happy re-birth to America, it's coming America," Shea-Porter told the crowd of 120 local Democrats, as the office opening also coincided with Obama's birthday.
"This is the year that we will change New Hampshire for a generation," Buckley said. "Even though we have lots of paid staffers we need real people talking to their neighbors."
Outside the event were protestors from NashuaPeace.org and Veterans for Peace. Also, standing outside the office 
Protestors outside of Obama's office opening: Photo credit: PolitickerNH.comwere supporters of U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), including McCain's Regional Press Secretary Jeff Grappone, who were passing out tire gauges. According to a press release, the RNC handed out gauges to members of the press "because, instead of actually increasing America's domestic oil supply, this is how Obama thinks Americans should try to alleviate burdensome pain at the pump."
The Campaign for Change also opened offices in Keene and Concord and held open houses in nine other offices.
Obama's office is located in former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's (R-Mass.) primary headquarters.
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The Lies
Here's the truth: checking your tire pressure and keeping your tires properly inflated actually can save you over 3% on gas mileage, immediately. Offshore drilling won't have any effect for at least ten years, and when it does, it will be much, much less than that. Real environmental damage, no real solutions. Classic Republican pander.
Liars Lie
The GOP/corruption party have been lying for so long that they can't help themselves.
The party of Lincoln died, this the Nixon-Bush party. Liars, cheats and scam artists.
Grappone
Jeff Grappone is a hunk.
Time Tables and Tire Gauges
July 31, 2008, of Rush Limbaugh taking Barack Obama apart for his ridiculous suggestion that we do not need to increase domestic oil production to bring down gas prices, but rather just properly inflate our tires! (No link provided. I don't want to spread the Rush Virus)
Well thank you NASCAR: Tire maintenance key to safety, fuel economy.
http://www.nascar.com/2006/auto/07/25/tires/
Good to see McCain promoting fuel conservation. He is on Obama heels again. Following right along.
Does the Mav listen to Rush?
Drill Here, Drill Now
Obama's suggestion to inflate your tires is the modern equivalent of Jimmy Carter's suggestion to put on a sweater. Considering the price of heating oil, I am surprised Obama doesn't make that suggestion as well. Anyone that thinks that new drilling efforts won't affect prices until the oil is actually out of the ground (or sea bed as the case may be) doesn't understand futures markets. Not that I am surprised that Democrats don't understand how markets work. The oil price is the futures price and the futures price is immediately affected by efforts to increase supply or forecasts of demand. When Bush announced the repeal of the executive order banning offshore drilling the price per barrel of crude was around $145. Today it's below $120. Not one ounce of new oil has been produced by that order. It's all about futures markets. And those eeeeevil speculators have gone from long to short positions on oil as a result. Markets work if you let them. They don't work if you mess with them. This is what the Democrats specialize in. I am not interested in that kind of "change".
Concerned about Insider Trading
When Bush moves lifting the ban, his boys that are exploiting the "Enron Loophole" hear the dog whistle and play along.
Your market is rigged, Bro. Smarten up!
Now we sell Alaskan Oil to foreign buyers. Why? Will more domestic drilling, dispersed into a global market effect US prices.
Who is kidding who?
Yet we provide the Troops to bleed for Middle East oil. Having gone to Iraq in '91, please spare me the inane blather over troops, please.
"Concerned Taxpayer"
What's the big resistance to putting on sweaters and improving your fuel economy? Don't tell me you don't think that if more people made an effort to use less energy, the price of oil would go down. Same problem, different solution.
Not that I am surprised that you don't understand that there can be more than one way to solve a problem. "My way or the highway" is what Republicans specialize in.
"My way or the highway"
"My way or the highway"
Hauk thats been the Dem mantra for the last twenty plus year on energy exploration.
Whats next, we become like the UK and make the children narc on their parents regarding energy use? Sounds like what Fidel did during his reign.
So it is safe to assume that you agree that citizens should be "forced" to conserve energy, while politicians like Gore continue to burn all the energy they want since he will then offset it with a bogus carbon credit paid to a related firm he owns. Hypocrisy at its finest.
I get it now
The tires were given plenty of air when they were put on the car. If they can't keep it, that's their problem, not the driver's. Checking up on the welfare of the tire is yet another collectivist intrusion by the nanny state.
(h/t Tim C.)
A lobbyist speaking an an Obama Event?
Why is a lobbyist speaking at an Obama event? I thought Obama didn't like lobbyists and they were to have no part in his campaign?
Jib
Riiiight, because suggesting that people find alternative ways to alleviate the burden of oil costs on them is the same as "forcing" people to conserve energy. You understood me perfectly.
Next time you try to mischaracterize someone's comments, try to be less ham-fisted about it. You might come off as less of a hack.
Responding to "Keeping Them Honest".
Concord lobbyists don't lobby US Senators from Illinois, nor Presidents, but one of them is a longtime activist and the Chair of the Obama campaign in New Hampshire.
Meanwhile, gotta love the phrase "keeping them honest", because SURELY the ratings-driven corporate media and anonymous commenters on the internet are far more trustworthy than our elected leaders.
Spiritual Uplift
Dear Senator Obama,
I just wanted to share with you a songs that has been a real comfort to me in these troubling times. I thought of you and Michelle and hope it will be a comfort to you as it has for me as you face the month's to come.
God bless you and your family forever.
The name of the songs:
"Be Blessed" by Yolanda Adams
"I Have A Dream" by BeBe Wynans
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