Congratulations!

You're now part of a Pancake City focus group.

I'm trying to get start a mass email to encourage people to get involved in the campaign these next two weeks. I know it's a long shot, but if it works, it could make a difference.

Please let me what you think.

A Call To Arms

My friends,

What are you waiting for, Bush the III?

I mean, come on. Are you waiting for him to go ballistic and declare a War Against Spelling? Do you need him to invade Kyrgyzstan with the help of 10 troops from Sri Lanka and a pair of coconuts?

Is it not enough that he's pissed on the Constitution? Are you not going to help elect Kerry until Smirky runs out of TP and changes the Bill of Rights to the Bill of Wipes?

Jesus fucking Christ. Do you know how screwed up this country is? This email just got automatically forwarded to John Ashcroft because I wrote Jesus fucking Christ. That's f---ed up.

What the hell are you waiting for?

Don't want to spend half a weekend once every four years to make some phone calls or knock on a few doors?

Don't want to spend $10 and two hours putting up a few yard signs and passing out bumper stickers to cars parked at traffic?

Don't want to spend an hour driving elderly people to the voting booths on election day?

Don’t want to spend half an hour emailing three disinterested friends in swing states and convincing them to vote for Kerry?

Don't want to spend five minutes signing up on the Kerry volunteer site?

We're so close to winning. All of the swing states are separated by a point or two. Virginia, which hasn't voted Democratic in 40 years, is down to a 3-point gap for Kerry.

We need everyone to spend a few hours--just a few hours--working to get Kerry elected.

You don't have to sacrifice your entire weekend. Just half a day, one day. Or an hour here, half an hour there.

I know what you're thinking. "Somebody else will do it." Really? Did somebody else do it in 2000? Do you think that if 100 more people in Florida helped get 1,000 more votes that we would be in this mess?

We can win this. We just need people like you to do a few hours of work. Come on, say it with me: "I'm going to do something. I'm going to do something right now. And I'm going to do something because working for four hours is a lot better than four more years of this."

What can you do? There are dozens of things, some small, some big, all of them important. Here are a few of them:

1) Sign up with the Kerry campaign at http://volunteer.johnkerry.com/ Let them know the reserves are here.

2) Sign up with a grassroots site, like http://actforvictory.org/

3) Visit www.TheNovemberSurprise.com/ideas.html. It has a list of dozens of ways to make a difference.

You're going to be amazed at how good it will feel to volunteer just for a few hours. We all have a lot of energy, but most of it has been going towards being angry and feeling frustrated. It's a whole another world when you put that energy towards doing something good.

Just four hours. It's all it takes. And you can put in your first minute now by forwarding this email to your friends.

Nov 2. is going to be a great day.