I committed to go phone bank today in the Obamawood War room, got up this morning, fresh, excited and arrived on site only to be met by a packed house. Telemarketing companies can't hire the amount of people who came to make calls for free today. Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...
This is what Change looks likeOBAMAWOOD!!
When I walked in the OBAMAWOOD war room this afternoon, I was floooored. The amount of people who were there, to make phone calls, motivated to see this thing to fruition was absolutely mind blowing.
I ended up leaving only after 20 minutes, because there were so many people there the system that we link our cell phones to was OVERLOADED!!! And besides, I can make calls from home. It was truly a beautiful thing. But in the meantime me and some of the folks at my table got to exchange some really cool obama stories. Like the girl sitting across from me who shared, that with the exception of she and her mom, her extended family happen to be staunch republicans, yet they're all excited to be voting for Obama.
My mom went to vote yesterday in Crowne Pointe, IN, and the line to the polling place went from the building, down the walkway, across the street and down some more. My mother who remembers how life in this country was 40 years ago said she's never scene anything like it. People in line were prepared to wait, enjoyed good conversation, the excitement and the energy of everyone around them. She said there were old people who had to be a 100 years old (exxageration lol) but that they waited patiently in a ridiculous line to vote.
To all my Kozacks, fellow phonebankers, organizers and advisors, savor this moment. Stop what ever you're doing for one minute to reflect on this historic occations when the nation became energized as a whole. I know I am. I am one who is guilty of romanticizing times past like the 60's and the summer of love in , Harlem renaissance, the jazz and art movement of those times, the way people pulled together against the Vietnam war wishing I could have been there.
But the truth of the matter is. . .I wasn't there, but even some people I know who were there, acknowledge, that what's happened then, ain't got shit on what's happening now.
I am honored, truly truly honored to be One with Many.
peace and blessings yall...
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