Will they be serving Kool-Aid?

How about that the event is in upper dublin but you can't get tickets there.

If it where at the township building it would appear as if the township were supporting a political event. That would not be appropriate.

The polls say that the President is 8-9% ahead of Mitt Romney in PA. I have noticed political ads on TV and this event seem to indicate that their polling shows a much closer race. It seems that PA is in play. Perhaps the Dems cannot get their 400,000 majority in Phila for several reasons, apathy and voter ID laws??

Probably there is no Organizing for America office in Upper Dublin.

You have to get the tickets at the Organizing For America office...talk about having to drink the kool-aid. I was near one today and decide to pick up a pair because I want to go and will wear the appropriate anti-Obama attire at the new high school that I'm paying for. So I walk into Communisim Central and ask for two tickets. I first had to write down my name, address, town, zip code, and if I needed ADA assistance. Ditto for my guest They then handed me a card asking me to fil out & sign. They asked for my name, address, phone number and email address. The card also said that I would vote Democrat in the upcoming election. I did not want to lie to them so I told them that I would not sign the card because I could not promise that I would vote for the democrat. They then said it was an "Obama Rally" and I had to sign. I said that the info I read said nothing of it being an Obama Rally and that it was being held in the high school building that my UD school taxes paid for. After a few minutes they gave me the two tickets. I guess now we'll see if they let me in...

@Bob: Did you need to show photo ID?? I'm sure that it's hard to get tickets because they'll be bussing in all the SCIU and AFSCME workers. @Patch, make sure when you report this event, you get pics of the busses, and interview those who are bussed to the event. Sorry for the cynicism.

The old Obama trick...bus people to an event.
He started that right?

who's paying for this charade? i have no interest in this woman, her blight of a husband or their shared socialist views. perhaps the corrosive libs on the school board, commissioners and registered dems should pick up the tab for this orchestrated farce. barry o has done extensive damage to this country since his coronation.and this woman has reaped all the perks she could during his tenure. now, in jeopardy of not being elected, she arrives in a community that is the antithesis of all the principles that this community used to stand for and spews her propaganda...all the time immune from comment or criticism. it will be a good day when the two of them are a bad memory...november ain't that far away.

In support of preserving our natural resources...I'll being the packets of KoolAid so they can snort the powder and conserve water at the same time. Maybe an IV line?!?

Just think all the time you spend spewing lies and sharing unsubstantiated rumor and you could be researching fact. Danny, the damage HE has done to this country?? Did you know we were in the worst economic since the recession and headed there again in the FALL of 2008, before he took office? Here is the deal people, if you don't like them, DON'T go...keep it moving. Why waste your time, if you have made up your mind? You teach your children to not say anything if you don't have anything nice to say, so lead by example! Simple as that!

@Mike: Let me try to explain my position. Raising taxes on those who already pay 40% of all taxes collected by the IRS is illogical for several reasons. If you have a problem with capital gains, then lets take a look at the whole tax code, including flattening the tax rates, reducing deductions, solving medicare's and social security's inevitable bankruptcy and collecting income taxes from 90% of the working population. This President has increased spending $1Trilllion dollars per year. Without significant spending reductions, firm and not imaginary, I resent sending anymore $$ to Washington so that they can spend it irrationally. This mantra about rich people paying their fair share is ridiculous. They are an easy target, but in fact they pay their fair share especiall when 47% pay no Federal income taxes. He has done end runs around Congress with Executive orders, and his EPA is in the process of destroying the energy business in this country. "If you want to build a caol plant, we will bankrupt you." Green energy is pie in the sky at this time. It is costly, unproductive, and hard to distribute. Eventually we will solve these issues, but until then, why raise our costs, lose jobs, and promote foreign production of thes energy sources for us and the world. Greed is not people who earn their $$ and wan to keep it, it's those who want other people's property for them w/o working for it. They didn't build it either!!!

I make it a rule never to engage in political discussions with people who are mean-spirited and ignorant of the facts, but I feel compelled to respond to the person above misrepresented the process of obtaining a ticket to the event tomorrow at the high school. First off, there was one ticket per person... period. You could not have gotten two tickets because you were not permitted fill out someone else's paperwork. This is usually a rule no matter where you are. They ask you to fill out ONE piece of paper, not two, and never are you asked to commit to voting for our President in November. Everyone working there at the Obama For America field office are smart volunteers working to better our country, the same country that allows you to voice your opinion on the internet about anything. I will be there tomorrow! I hope you will come tomorrow and keep an open mind and treat our First Lady with the respect that she deserves.

@Joe: Also it's in effort to strengthen the middle class and consumer spending. As we have learned throughout U.S. history, the "Trickle Down" theory, as what seems to be proposed by Romney, has never actually worked so Obama's plan is the better alternative. In fact, although Romney's plan seems desirable where he calls for tax cuts for everyone, the government will inevitably need to make up for the revenue lost from the upper class and that could likely end up being demanded from the middle class. I'm not saying Obama's perfect, but I don't like when people unnecessarily insult or bash him with no reasoning behind it. Not saying you did, but my original comment was in a response to someone who did.

Actually Mike, I believe that trickle down economics did work under Reagan, but Congress allowed spending to ballon. It has been the Republicans as much as Democrats who spend uncontrollably. I appreciate your points, but respectfully disagree. The reason venture capital funds get investors is precisely the favorable tax rates. When sucessful, they create companies with employees, a new tax base, and investors with wealth. Even Microsoft, Google, and FaceBook went to venture capitalists for $$ to expand. Gates, Brin, Zuckerberg are all paying at the 15%. Zuckerberg lost 50% of his net worth in the last two months. I disagree with Obama's policies, I think they are counterproductive, but to personally bash anyone does not help one's arguement, perhaps his (sic Obama) campaign should resort to challenging Romney's policies, not calling him a felon and murderer.

So I guess we'll agree to disagree haha, but I think in terms of the campaigns, Romney has had more of the personal bashing with virtually false ads. For example, the one where he took Obama's words out of context in that speech which led to a huge misinterpretation by many. Now, both sides will always do this unfortunately, and it's the part of politics that I strongly dislike because it really drags away from the issues at stake. However, I think Romney has clearly made the more attacking ads to help his campaign.

@Mike: I know that he has shied away from the gun issue in his first term, but I think it's clear that after the Colorado shooting he has a stance and wants to make it a bigger part of his platform than it was last election.

OMG how did we get in this mess in the first place it didn't just happen over the LAST FOUR YEARS!!!! I TELL YA THAT!!! Started long before we got a BLACK Predisent in office...NOW ALL OF A DARN SUDDEN EVERYONE HAS A PROBLEM...I AM SICK OF IT! GIVE THE MAN HIS CHANCE LIKE EVERYONE ELSE HAS HAD FOR EIGHT YEARS...AND HE WON'T STEAL OFFICE LIKE SOMEONE I KNOW

Having a prestigious speaker is a boon for our community whether you care to vote to re-elect her husband or not. I am taking my children to hear her speak and we are very excited about it. NO taxpayer dollars are being spent on this, as you surely are aware. The Obama campaign is paying a rental fee to the school district. It is sad and shocking that some of you are so disrespectful of the First Lady. I wasn't a fan of GW Bush, but if Laura Bush had ever given a free speech in the area I would have gladly taken my children to that, too, because it would be exciting and historical.

There seems to be a bit of confusion here. Let's start by getting the facts straight: For one thing, Obama's deficit in three years of his presidency exceeded Bush's 8 years and Bush was fighting two wars. Also, the lowering of taxes during the Reagan years ushered in a period of economic prosperity that extended through the Clinton years. And by the way, the balanced budget of the Clinton years was the result of a house and senate controlled by the Republicans and the fact that Bill Clinton was able to be a pragmatic middle of the road Democrat and not a liberal idealog like Obama. It's ironic, that the most successful economies around the world have learned that lower taxes and fiscal restraint stimulate growth while we are abandoning that formula.