Obama's Call to Action: Now Is Our Time

Reporting from South Dakota, ground zero. What a day. A flood of emotions. Elation, gratitude, joy, companionship. And I know we're all feeling fired up. Even some Clinton supporters were probably won over from that amazing, respectful, conciliatory speech that Obama just delivered in perfect juxtaposition to McCain's dreadful, sleep-inducing prose.

Before you do anything though, follow the link: It's a county map of South Dakota results. Now go to the far northwestern edge of the state, and look at the Harding and Perkins county results. One vote and two vote margins, respectively. That was one more phone call, one more door knocked, five more dollars donated.

We all remember 2004. We thought we worked hard then. We thought we had organized better than we had before. And we still lost. We got out-raised and out-organized. We absolutely can not let that happen this year. Not this time.

So go donate to the $10,000,000 election night money bomb. Go read kid oakland's diary. Sign up on my.barackobama.com. Find a local group. Go register voters. Go throw a house party. Talk to neighbors you haven't talked to before. Let's show the country what the combined forces of Obama's supporters and Hillary's supporters can achieve.

Yes, we can develop an unprecedented and unrivaled political organization the likes of which this country has never seen. But it depends on you. Yes, you reading this diary right now. What did you do in the last week, the last month, the last year of this primary process? Do you really think you laid it all out there?

I've been volunteering in South Dakota for almost two weeks, living and breathing this campaign, and I know I could have done a little bit more in Harding and Perkins county. Five more phone calls, and I might have gotten those votes. I remember when I turned one voter. What if I could have turned two more. What if 5,000 people in South Dakota could have turned two more? It's that kind of attitude that will win us this election in 2008.

So donate
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We pride ourselves on being an activist community. Now is our time to really live up to that moniker. There's a smorgasboard of activity there for anyone with 5 hours to 50 hours/week to help out. Do you like talking to people? There's something to do. Do you not like talking to people? There's still something for you to do. Please, become a part of this historic, map-changing, patriotic movement for change.

Fired Up. Ready to Go.