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Friday, April 11, 2008 Not too much to report... it's been a very busy week though. Was on a SAFO national call on Wednesday trying to get lists from PA to phonebank. Kind of a useless call... there's so many people working hard. After Obama campaign staff axed the list of people running to be Obama delegate by almost 75%, there was such an uproar that they appropriately reinstated everyone rather than piss off some very important activists. The bad news for me was that I was on the list of people who were cut, so rather than having a basically 1 in 25 chance of being selected, that would have made it a 1-4 chance. But it was the right thing to do. Not really campaigning at all for the delegate position... there have been so many people that have been campaigning for this for so long, that I just think it's too late for me to possibly win this. Went to a KSW APAture (the 2 week long emerging arts festival that KSW puts on each year) planning meeting. It reminded me of why I do KSW... there's no politics, just passionate people trying to put together something for the benefit of their fellow folks. These people barely even get credit for all the work they put in, but yet they still throw themselves into the task. It's so refreshing and rejuvenating to be around that. I went from acting like I was part of the living dead before I went to the meeting, to the point where I almost ditched it, to being fired up! Good stuff. Wednesday, April 09, 2008 Won one of my pools on Monday with the Kansas win. I have a ridiculously good track record with my picks so far... karma dictates that I will never be in the top 5 of a pool for the rest of my life. Yesterday was on a conference call to start a South Asian voter registration drive here in the Bay Area. Should be interesting to see how it goes. We think there's a big need for this, but we won't really know until we get out there! First stop will be the big Sikh gurudwara in Fremont. Not much otherwise... work's been really busy and I'm just trying to maintain with all of my other clubs and organizations. I need to really sit down and start thinking about some long term plans (both within my own life and for these clubs and organizations so that I can start ). Sunday, April 06, 2008 The weekend flew. Sameer was here Thursday and Friday, so we hung out. He came to my happy hour on Friday at the Vault which was a lot of fun, as usual. Had about 10 people there. Spent all day at Obama headquarters on Saturday training about 75 people to be community organizers. Went to Kanni and Kavya's after that for gnocchi. Some really good pesto and some really interesting appetizers including leeks on fried tofu, garlic bread with spinach dip, etc. The gnocchi was a joint effort....and took forever. We got there at 7:30 and didn't actually start eating until about 10.... and they had already started cooking well before we got there. So I was starving and tired from having spent the whole day teaching, and ended up helping to cook, so I more or less inhaled my food. Not much today... went to Dolores Park for Sarah's fundraiser for the San Francisco Women Against Rape. Mimosas in the park on a nice day would have been great, but today the weather was a little ugly, so Golis and I just ended up going to Sarah's house. Wednesday, April 02, 2008 Yep, the previous blog was an April Fools e-mail prank that I sent to people in the Bay Area, people I met on the Obama campaign, and a few people I discuss politics with regularly. Not my best e-mail prank ever, but still gave me some good stories to share here. Most of the responses were incredulous. "Are you serious? What made you change your mind?" was the most common response. A number of people saw through it right away and asserted their inability to be caught by April Fool's Jokes. Those led to some good responses: Marc: nice try buddy. Can't April Fools me. Chris: Using a Holy day like April Fools as an outlet for your inner doubts is NOT kosher Justin: Not even close. Moving back to india to farm was much more believable... youre a true obamaite. Kavya: Vid - I know its April 1:) YOu're not fooling me with this email. hehehe The folks from the South Asians for Obama (SAFO) had some good responses. I had a number of people going for a while, but they caught on at various points. The vast majority of those informed me that I had them until either the line about dodging bullets on the tarmac or the latte liberals. Amusingly not one person realized that I had sprinkled a capitalized 1st, April, Day, and Fools into the e-mail that I sent out. And then there were the folks that were completely fooled. Anhoni: I Hate You. I seriously panicked before I figured this out. a~ Raj actually e-mailed the other leaders of SAFO both regionally and nationally letting them know about my defection. Their responses were pretty funny. Raj: Hrishi/Dave, not sure if you got this.... (Vid was one of our active SAFO folks) Hrishi in response: I'm so disappointed. I've already dispatched Sinbad to Vid's place to show him the light. Anil, after Raj realized he had been fooled: Raj, don't feel bad. Anhoni called me in a panic, the likes i've never seen before. Anhoni: true story. Other people I met through the Obama campaign had good responses: Khyati: I mean vote for who you want to vote. Nick: I'll have you know, before my socially enlightened girl put me on to the day, I was planning your murder for treason. Adam: bravo. i was genuinely horrified for a moment. But one of the best responses came from the high up folks in Chicago that I had gotten to know through the campaign, Buffy and Pat D.: from Jeff C also in Chicago, on the phone and in between his laughter and the laughter of everyone around him: Pat D. came bursting out of Buffy's office in a lather, talking about how he couldn't believe Vid was such an idiot, how he had to just shut down all of Vid's access, and how he hoped that Vid hadn't stolen any of the playbook and given it to Hillary's campaign. I let him know to read the e-mail a bit closer. He came back out looking sheepish. I then informed the rest of the office and here I am calling you. ::pauses and waves phone around to let me hear the laughter in the room:: Well done. Pat D. by e-mail after reinstating my access to the Obama databases: Got to watch out with these – given how many e-mails buffy gets she just glanced at the first few lines and called me and said ‘kill him’. I’d say we were totally gotten. Buffy by e-mail later: I seriously thought you had lost your marbles! But my favorite response was from one of my college roommates Britt: Britt (replying to my initial e-mail and including two of my other roommates Patch and Marc): vid, did the clinton campaign mistake you for a superdelegate and send over high priced hookers and then take photos and you are emailing us this under threat of exposure? in all seriousness, what changed? I am not very engaged by this campaign one way or the other, but I am just a terrible political cynic, so I am not a good judge. -b my reply: I've found that people seem to really get where I'm coming from when they look closely at the P.S. Marc's reply: Time/date stamp is a clue... Britt's reply: no, I know you are serious. I was just engaging in levity. sorry if that was misplaced. I was asking a serious question in the guise of a silly one. I am curious what has actually changed for you. like, he didn't get caught with a hooker, so there is no obvious external driver. so I was curious about your internal shifts. what did you see? because I am watching and I haven't seen anything new or revelatory to make me have a big change of heart one way or the other. -b my reply to just Patch and Marc: when do you think he'll get it? I love Britt. Marc's reply to just Patch and me: Fantastic! I have been confused for minutes because I overlooked the possibility that he hadn't caught on. Now it all makes sense, and makes me so happy! about ten minutes later, reply from Britt to all of us: oh, fuck me. AND SCENE! Tuesday, April 01, 2008 I know this may make me seem like a Judas, but...As most of you probably know, I was one of the 1st to start working on the Obama campaign.Put simply, I thought he was the real deal and I was wrong. Recent events and scandals have made me change my choice this April, and I hope that you will make the right choice too. I find myself agreeing that experience and a proven track record are
what matters; integrity and judgment do not really exist among
politicians. Lofty rhetoric does not lead to real results, it just Fools the masses.
For more than a year now, Obama's inexperience and naivety has been eating away at me. Okay,
he was against the war in Iraq back in the Day, but has he ever been in
a situation where he had to dodge bullets on a tarmac? Or has he so pissed off conservatives fighting the good fight that his very name is a rallying point for the GOP? Latte liberals like me have been duped by the belief that Obama might bring real change, but we need experience in the trenches. So, it's high time that we all do the safe thing and vote with our minds and not our hearts. !Vote Hillary! 
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