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We will need all of our energy, dedication and numbers to face the coming onslaught of negativity and anti-American spin.

So be inspired. Be optimistic. Be angry. Indignant. Idealistic. Be whatever you need to in order to gather the energy you will need in order to keep up a full six months of phone calls, letter writing, e-mails, arguments in your school, workplace, home etc. We are going to have to pour on the pressure on mainstream media to cover McCain's hypocrisies and lobbyist ties. We are going to have to bombard them when they address ridiculous rumors (like the madrassa thing) as if they are legitimate. We will see web sites, tv ads and news stories that will make our blood boil. And we are going to see these things 24/7 for months. The right-wingers and corporate apologists are disheartened and disjointed yet they will still put up one hell of a fight, one filled with repugnant talking points. This may be our only opportunity to get them to give voice to our message and our concerns, but they won't do it on their own. We need to force them to cover law-breaking, corporat e handouts and the general disregard for everything American.

Being happy about what's happened so far isn't enough. You're gonna need to do something. We all are. So if you're inspired by Obama's surviving the Wright controversy, or if you're inspired by the sheer number of people who turned out in a primary to support one of two liberal candidates, then be inspired.

Just as long as you use it to fight back.

by Weapon X on 05/10/2008 12:54:31 AM EST

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Wright was the warm up. But make no mistake Barack has built a massive movement. The new silent majority. We don't have representatives on tv, we don't have them among the party elite and the DLC, but there's a rumbling sound all across the internet. We will be heard on election day. Wait til you see Bill Kristol's smug elitist face on nov 5th AM. Wait til you see the petite vanilla scone crumble into Sean Hannity's martini glass as his face turns red with incomprehension. He may not even show up to work.

But to make that happen we're going to have to work for it. 

by hazmat on 05/10/2008 10:23:50 PM EST

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