Camp Obama: A Conclave of Political Crusaders

For those who may see the Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's campaign as a hype and light-weighted, there are more groundswell organizational experiences and a corridor-full of strong and dedicated political geniuses to his candidacy than any other presidential candidates from both parties.

The campaign, in the past couple of weeks, has embarked upon building a massive ground crusaders throughout key states such as California, Georgia, New York, Chicago, Iowa, South Carolina and New Hampshire to offset the fear mongering tactic of inevitability by his top rival.

"The campaign is now hosting three-day training sessions in four different locations around the country. Supporters will learn more about the campaign's vision for America and how best to get organized. After each training [session] you will be asked to support campaign efforts in an early primary or caucus state in your region as well as build up your local grassroots efforts," wrote the director of Camp Obama.

Since the beginning of the campaign, thousands of students and young graduates across the country are not just contributing $25 to the campaign; they are also committing themselves by interning at "Camp Obama" to learn the various political prowesses needed to enter an unfamiliar environment-an environment pockmarked by political land mines.

One student who is interning at "Camp Obama" pointed out that the affinity for Obama by young people across the country is something that no other candidate may have any strategy to counter it at this point. He summed it in two words: generational change.

He remarks, "It is time for my generation to be civically minded in standing for something than passively complaining about the failure of our government." Furthering that "In the 60s, my parents who belongs to the baby boomers' generation, stood for something and they actively created the kind of country they wish for themselves."

If this is the sentiment among young people across the landscape of America, this may explain their commitment to Obama's message of turning the page.

It maybe a hard message to sell by any of both parties' frontrunners such as Hillary Clinton, Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, Fred Thompson and possibly Mitt Romney who are all boxed by young and middle age voters as part of the baby boomer's generation milking their future to an uncertain destination-fear mongering which is taking the marrow out of them.

The Obama campaign is stamping on this rudiment of change to create a force of new crop of voters and donors-and at the moment, it is working. An evident is the surprising army of donors-over 258,000-an unprecedented political achievement by an unknown figure at this stage of the campaign.

According to one political strategist currently working for Hillary Clinton's campaign, the inevitability and establishment factor conveniently employed by the Clinton's campaign may work for them now in the poll, but will backfire in a disastrous way in few months to come.

He pointed out that this is a change election and an establishment candidate can't claim to be the change agent.

In several polls conducted in the past months, it suggested that voters are not enthused by the political maneuverings in Washington D.C, for the past decade and that they are looking for a change-not a retroactive president.

Among Democratic candidates, Hillary Clinton is the only candidate running on the recreation and redemption of the 1990s-a proclamation that may not sit well with most voters.

According to one union worker, Labor union and middle class workers are not happy with the creation of NAFTA that have resulted to the massive outsourcing of American jobs to India and China.

In the meantime, "Camp Obama" is maintaining a low key and strategically building a sea full of discipline and committed supporters who are not just donating $15 a month to the campaign, but are recruiting new supporters in an innovating ways never seen before.

One of the notable ways they are reengineering the political conclave is to volunteer and visit elderly homes in states such as California, New Hampshire, Iowa and Nevada. The idea behind the community service is to acquaint the elderly about what Mr. Obama has inspired them (the youth) to do. These witnesses are not coordinated or paid by the Obama campaign.

We do not know what the result may bring, but only time will tell.