A few weeks back I interviewed Blue Star Mom Deborah Johns, who took it upon herself to spend two weeks traveling the nation because she believes Barack Obama isn’t fit to be President. Today is the day her bus tour begins in Sacramento, California and for the next 14 days she and others will make a 35-city whistle stop tour to spread the message. (As this post comes online, the bus should be gassed up and ready to roll!) While a few of the venues have changed, Deborah and friends will still end up in Washington, DC on October 29th.
One thing I questioned Deborah about was how she thought the national media would react. Mark Halperin of Time magazine answered that question in part yesterday by posting one of the group’s more strident commercial spots:
Yeah, that one’s a little over the top and a bit too shrill in my estimation – perhaps that’s the impression Halperin is trying to impart in his readers. I’d rather the focus of this tour be on both the anti-military aspect of Barack Obama that Deborah is most passionate about and the anti-business, high-tax economic policies likely to occur in an Obama administration; plus a dose of their strong support for fellow Blue Star Mom Sarah Palin tossed in for good measure. Happily, in part they do shift somewhat into that economic mode as part of this tour and use a humorous tactic to question Obama’s ability to lead:
As part of this tour we’ll be highlighting Barack Obama’s lack of executive experience, and we’re inviting you to participate. Here’s how:
Bring a copy of your resume to the rallies! That’s right, we’ll be collecting resumes from people at stops all across the nation, so if you have any executive experience — either as someone who ran or started your own small business, or a housemom who raised a family, or a senior-level executive who had high-level responsibilities, etc… be sure to bring your resume with you to the rally in your community.
We’ll display the giant stack of resumes for the national media at the end of our tour in Washington, D.C. And not only that, but we’ll also select 3 of the resumes and fly out those individuals, on our dime, to our Washington, D.C. news conference on Wednesday, October 29th as we highlight the fact that all those Americans who submitted resumes at our tour stops had more executive experience than Barack Obama, who now wants to be president and Commander in Chief of the United States! We’ll also make you available for media appearances/interviews if you’re up to it!
Don’t worry, you can always come out to our rallies even if you don’t bring a resume – but please be sure to bring your American flags either way!
Gee, if I’d have known that earlier I’d have sent a copy of my resume since the tour doesn’t quite make it here. I guess monoblogue IS a small – very small! – business because I do make a few pennies on ad revenue. They wouldn’t even have to fly me, just pay for my gas. (Then again, a private jet from here to DC might be a great way to get around that Beltway bottleneck.)
In any case, having now dealt with Deborah Johns and others in the OCDB group, I wish them nothing but the best on their tour and hope they take my advice – I suspect it’ll be worth at least a little more than what they paid for it. Anyway, I’ll keep an eye on their progress and see how well her prediction of “some” press coverage for the tour pans out.
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