I just finished sending off an email to everyone I know who lives in a Super Tuesday state. Like most of you, I believe that each and every person can make a difference, so I'm reaching out to all of them. Please steal whatever you like about this for your own STE (Super Tuesday Email). Between all of us and all the people we know, we can probably reach half the country.
The text is below:
Hi all,
I'm writing to everyone I know, or have ever known, who lives in a Super Tuesday state. If you've moved, or have never even lived in one of those states, I apologize in advance and you can stop reading, unless you're curious :)
I'm asking you to vote for Barack Obama. We have an important choice to make in this primary, and it's not about Obama vs. Clinton, or about a woman vs. an African-American (who is actually only half African American, as was my daughter). It's about the past vs. the future.
Yesterday I watched a rally in L.A. on C-Span, with Michelle Obama, Oprah, and Caroline Kennedy. After Michelle got through speaking, a surprise guest came up to the stage: Maria Shriver, the wife of Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Everyone was teary-eyed as she spoke of her endorsing Obama as scary, but as following her own voice and speaking her own truth. She suggested that we all have a conversation--not with others, but with our own hearts, and think about the kind of future we want for ourselves and our children. I'm asking you to do just that. And if you already have, and have decided to support Obama, please email everyone you know and tell them why. (You can use my email if you like it.) You can make more of a difference than you know.
This primary is, as I said, not a choice between Clinton and Obama. It's a choice between the past and the future; between a problem-solver and a visionary; between someone who believes in trying to change things by using the same old political tactics, and someone who believes in change as a paradigm shift; between the establishment oligarchy in Washington and the empowerment of "We the People;" between someone who tells us what she will do for us, and someone who tells us what we can do together; between someone whose actions are based on expediency, and someone whose actions are based on core American values; between squeaking out a 51% win and uniting the country with a mandate for a new way of getting things done for all of us; between division and inclusion; and, most importantly of all, between fear and hope.
If you haven't seen Obama's website, please take a look: http://www.barackobama.com. It's beautiful, content-rich, inspiring, and filled with useful tools.
Put aside your fear and reach for what's possible.