IM transcript intercepted by an anti-voting machine hacking routine I was running in a freelance attempt to protect the vote. I submit this here because I think you should know:
Kos:
He's bled us white, the bastard. He's taken everything we had every spare dime of contribution and every last ounce of effort--and not just from us, from our friends, and from our friends' friends.
BarbinMD:
And from our friends' freinds' friends.
Kos:
Yeah.
BarbinMD:
And from our friends' friends' friends' friends.
Kos:
Yeah. All right, Barb. Don't labour the point. And what has he ever given us in return?!
XERXES:
The victory?
Kos:
What?
KagroX:
The victory, you know, last night.
Kos:
Oh. Yeah, yeah. He did give us that. Uh, that's true. Yeah.
DHinMI:
And the coat tails.
BarbinMD:
Oh, yeah, the coat tails, Kos. Remember what the Senate used to be like?
REG:
Yeah. All right. I'll grant you the victory and the coat tails are two things that President-elect Obama has done.
Meteor Blades:
And the fund-raising.
Kos:
Well, yeah. Obviously the fund-raising. I mean, the fund-raising goes without saying, doesn't it? But apart from the coat-tails, the victory, and the fund-raising--
Hunter:
GOTV.
KagroX:
Voter registration.
Kossacks:
Huh? Heh? Huh...
Jed L:
The page hits.
Kossacks:
Ohh...
Kos:
Yeah, yeah. All right. Fair enough.
Hunter:
And the 50-state strategy.
Kossacks:
Oh, yes. Yeah...
DarkSyde:
Yeah. Yeah, that's something we'd really miss, Kos, if President-Elect Obama left.
Hunter:
The youth vote.
BarbinMD:
And it's safe for the Democrats to be themselves now, without internal fights over message or how close we should imitate the Republicans.
DarkSyde:
Yeah, he certainly knows how to keep order. Let's face it. He's about the only one who could in a party like this.
Kossacks:
Hehh, heh. Heh heh heh heh heh heh heh.
Kos:
All right, but apart from the GOTV, the voter registration, page hits, the 50-state strategy, party unity, last-night's victory, fund-raising, his coat-tails, and the youth vote, what has President-Elect Obama ever done for us?
KagroX:
Brought hope.
Kos:
Oh. Hope?
(smiles)
That's right. Hope.
Peace.
And thank you for this wonderful community, Kos.