A friend emailed me last week looking for volunteers to canvass for Senator Obama in Pennsylvania. I jumped onboard because I was feeling useless as I live in New York and Obama has a lock on our electoral votes (barring fraud of course). I have relatives in PA who may be voting for the wrong ticket which is part of the reason I wanted to go there - offset the misguided votes of cousins to whom I can relate on personal terms but not politically. But the main reason is that I have never been so impressed by a political candidate that I thought it was worth spending my precious free time.
But this time it is not about whether the candidate is someone I support on all or many levels. It is about doing something to stop the damage of the last thirty years of regressive policies. This country cannot afford four more years of upward wealth re-distribution, environmental neglect, financial havoc and outright governmental criminality.
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