It's been a fun ride. I had a diary recced up once, I've achieved trusted user status, I've encountered other Utahns who feel as I do (not as hard as you might think), I've found a great community, but time is short and there is work to be done. Failure is NOT an option. It's time to phone bank and stop diddling around on my favorite website!
As we watched the debacle of the Palin speech last night, we all, including me, made comments out the wazoo. And then, it hit me. What if instead of making comments (there must have been over 5 thousand during the live blog of the speech) we had all called just 2 people for Barack instead. That would have been 10 thousand phone calls.
Duh. And i'm a brain scientist!
My husband, the campaign finance chair for the Karen Morgan for Utah Senate campaign, said 'ug, enough, i'm going back to work' after about five minutes of the speech. Good for him, he figured it out. He's always been smarter than me.
By the way, here is a link to his diary from yesterday
Utah State Senate Races And YOU!
http://www.dailykos.com/...
And a link to his actblue page
http://www.actblue.com/...
And I read a comment last night from a student who couldn't contribute but goes to school full time, works full time, and STILL does 3-4 hours of data entry for the Campaign. And what was i doing? moaning and groaning about a nasty speech i could barely stomach.
And I see that there is a similar sentiment from wmtriallawyer right now up on the rec list.
Well, I too say, ENOUGH!
Enough dailykos, Enough huffington post, Enough talking points memo. I love you all, but i have to phone bank. Barack gave me my 50 names last night and i'm gonna call them all after work tonight.
Won't you join me?
I'll be back in November and hopefully will regain trusted user status quickly then!