Grassroots and Jobs don’t go together
This is probably the biggest irony I saw the whole week. I'm sorry, summer campaign jobs for "grassroots campaign"? What an oxymoron!
If it were truly grassroots, it would be entirely staffed by volunteers, who pay out of their own pocket for expenses. If you get paid, it's not grassroots. It's a job. They are mutually exclusive.
But then, who ever said that Obama's campaign was actually grassroots campaign? In fact, the opposite is very much true. You will probably be safe if you apply the adage that one cannot become a candidate for a major party without the backing of monied special interests, and Obama is not an exception.
If you are voting for Obama because you want to see influence of money out of politics, you are voting for the wrong guy. You might as well vote for Nader or any other third party candidate—one of those guys getting elected will have far more chance of getting a real change done than voting for Obama (yes, even after factoring in the likelihood of those guys getting elected).
On the other hand, if you are voting for Obama because you'd like to see a black man be a president of United States for once, be my guest. I guess affirmative action now permeates all levels of society.