So the reason I am in New Jersey at the moment, instead of, say, on Monday, is that I was trying to go to a Camp Obama training session, which I was told would put me on track for a campaign job. The training was Friday and Saturday, and I signed up too late – but wasn’t sure that I was too late until after I had booked my ticket. Now I am here, untrained.
Tonight, just when I was about to go to bed, I received an email from the Obama campaign inviting me to Camp Obama… in California. They are now holding fifteen or so of these trainings, on the West Coast. Argh. If you go to a training, they then send you to a swing state. So I applied, anyway – I guess nowadays flying across the country is no big deal – but I feel very silly. Every step I take seems to be in the wrong direction these days.
In other encouraging news, a friend of a friend sent me a long email about where I should apply for campaign jobs, including possibly Florida (their offices opened late because of the primary issues). I submitted a resume to the national campaign also, just in case they are randomly hiring (which apparently does happen). Fingers crossed something works out.
EDIT: I almost forgot – Biden looks like the VP (still no text message though! boo Obama campaign!) I am OK with this choice though not super excited. I think Biden balances out Obama’s inexperience with foreign policy/McCain’s experience. I also think that Biden is good at attacking Republicans (remember how he dismantled Giuliani with the “noun, verb, and 9/11″ thing?) Both of those are good things. But he is a little conservative in other ways for my tastes, and he has a tendency to say really stupid things. So I am OK but not ecstatic. That’s fine – I was ecstatic when Barack won the nomination, and one super exciting person on the ticket is enough.
