Yesterday, in response to the depraved and awful I diaried an appeal for people to volunteer for the Obama as I have decided to. I quoted Bob Dylan, got a bit choked up writing it. I hoped to influence people to quit writing useless "Obama should attack harder/this way/say this" diaries. But it failed.
So let me put this bluntly: Make your own damn change. Obama isn't going to change the world for you, and has told you so. Listen up! You are the change. So do something, and quit whining.
Regarding Obama's strategy, it's never been about playing the same trench warfare game of negative ads and thuggery that we've been re-enacting the past 30 years. It's about getting the people, the American People, motivated to understand that that is not what politics should be about and to make an educated choice to reject the politics of personal destruction.
He's calling out the media on their part in reinforcing McCain's lies. He's talking directly to the American People about the game being played on them. He's had enough, and he's going to tell the truth about it.
So what are you going to do? You are going to do something about it. You're going to quit whining, quit "keyboard campaign managing" and actually go win us some votes. Go to a leaner state and make contacts, phone bank or fundraise. Hell, all the professional fundraisers I know are really just people who throw good parties!
So quit wasting your energy asking Barack Obama to go negative. To do so would undermine the whole premise of his campaign, his writings, and I believe even his life. Get out and actually impact this election yourselves. Then you show you "Get it."
Yours,
SPX