It was almost exactly four years ago, some time in February of 2007, when I showed up to a meeting in a rented church hall with a lot of like minded individuals from my community for the first gathering of what became East Bay for Obama.
If you read my diaries over the last four years, you would know what happened next: Barack Obama ruined my life. Rewrote all my plans. Worked me harder than I ever imagined. And I couldn't be happier about it. Of course I thought I was done in November of 2008. Of course I was totally wrong about that.
Now here we are four years later, and the stakes are actually higher. We have to defend what we've managed to win -- at such great cost -- all over again. Which means we have to be the most organized and effective volunteer political force in history. Again.
Now we have an online space to meet, talk, share, plan and organize.
It's called 4more, and it's a new Daily Kos User Group.
If you want to get involved in the re-elect, or just learn more about it, that's where we'll be.
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