Comments on: Obama Email Intelligence: Email, Intelligence

By: Jae

Jae — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:21:26 +0000

I’ve been getting emails from both camps the past few weeks, but need to take more time to actually read them. I think part of why I put off reading these emails from Obama and McCain are largely due to the fact that these emails are basically boring to look at.

The emails I received are primarily text based messages. I know the message is important, and the deliverability is optimized with a text-majority campaign, but it is still boring to look at.

And, I’m sick of being called “Dear Friend” in these messages. My name is “Jae”, LOL.

By: neal blackford michaud

neal blackford michaud — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:39:07 +0000

TRUE NATIONAL CHANGE THAT PROMOTES RACIAL HARMONY can be made by integrating the MASONIC ORDER with the enactment of Executive Order/s that forbids membersip in any secret segregated society/organization while being employed in the EXECUTIVE BRANCH of the United States Government.

By: Anna

Anna — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:34:00 +0000

I’ve been receiving a bunch of emails from the Obama camp and I’ve been impressed. I agree with Dylan -if he wins -it would be interesting to see if he continues to email us.

I liked the informal nature of Michele Obama’s email/video.

One email noted I was a graphic designer, and asked me to join others designing an Obama t-shirt…

I got one from Joe Biden…subject line “Right after the speech”…asking for a donation…bit short though.

By: ryan

ryan — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 05:37:14 +0000

Ah Dylan – the fiery Irish wonder. Great points above. I don’t have all of the answers as to Obama’s broad messages of Hope and Change, but he’s backing them up w/ specifics finally.

As for your point on learning from past failures and doing better next time, you are making my point for me. Maybe the Obama campaign read your blog post in the past 12 hours and implemented positive change from the poor performance of their Senator Joe Biden email? Who knows – maybe they are THAT GOOD.

By: Dylan

Dylan — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 05:20:10 +0000

So do you want me to dig through the 208 emails i have now from the campaign, as I have saved all of them and address this? I opted into ALL the candidates emails over a year ago and have been watching them all. Obama has been doing the best job out of all of them, but this weekend I was disappointed. Not jaded, but challenging them to do better. Obama called for a national CTO on his site and challenges us to all be better, to Hope, to Change, etc.

So in light of this, when this is all over and if he wins, will he continue to email the national and be a forward facing president? Or is all of this just to win the office? My hopes are that he continues the dialogue, uses the systems he has set up and becomes a president that listens, makes changes, accepts failure and drives change.

As you know me, I always talk about failure as without failure we cannot learn how to be better. So if someone fails, I expect them to learn from failure and strive to not repeat it. We have lived for a while with someone that does not recognize failure and when it is called out, they dodge, evade and keep repeating. It is the typical “Shampoo Effect” of the world and we all deserve to be better, grow stronger and drive our great country forward to where we all, collectively, want it to be.

Is this not how you feel? Or is this a war of politics that is not a real war, but one of ideas and stumping? I want change. I want better. And most importantly I want learning from past mistakes and failures.