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My Election Day Nightmare and Motivation to Get out the Vote Today

By Tommy News - Nov 4th, 2008 at 10:27 am EST

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My Election Day Nightmare and Motivation to Get out the Vote Today

My Election Day Nightmare
This morning before 4 AM, I awoke from a terrible, frightening dream. In that dream, Sarah Palin had become President, and she was giving orders in the White House cabinet room in her flat Fargo accent to her shady looking cabinet. I saw Karl Rove and Dick Cheney in the room, and other scary looking people. This dream has frankly scared the hell out of me and I decided to write this post and send it out to you with an urgent request to help keep my nightmare from becoming a reality.
This is yet another close election. We must work to avoid a repeat of 2000 and 2004 by getting out as many voters as possible. Please do everything you can today to help get Barack Obama elected and prevent 4 more years of the same failed Bush policies that have put our nation into two wars and the economic mess it is in and the very real possibility of an incompetent and dangerous Sarah Palin presidency. Help keep McCain-Palin out of the White House with your vote for Obama-Biden.

Get out and vote, volunteer, make calls, bring others to the polls. Every vote matters! Be prepared to wait on line to cast your vote. Don't get off the line. After you have voted, Starbucks is offering free coffee to voters as an incentive. Just go to Starbucks after you vote, and tell them you have voted to claim your free tall coffee. Bring a group to the polls and then to Starbucks! Then round up another group and do it again!
I urge you to help keep my horrible nightmare from becoming a reality.
Please also go to op-ed news and help me get my message out. Buzz up my article, digg it, rate it, and add a comment, to help get it read. Then please to work on getting out the vote today. Get on the phone and make sure everyone you know is voting. Forward this message on to your email list. Volunteer. Call voters in swing states. Bring water and snacks to voters waiting on line and tell them to stay on line until they have voted. Tell them about the free coffee at Starbucks. Offer water, cookies and snacks. Do everything you can to get voters on those lines and keep them there. The lines are predicted to be shortest from about 1PM to about 4 PM. Find out more here or call your party headquarters to volunteer.www.mybarackobama.com
Please, our very future depends upon it. Lets get to work.
-Tommy
Here is the link to my article, please help me get the word out TODAY!Click Here:http://www.opednews.com/articles/TAKE-ACTION-Get-voters-ou-by-Tommy-News-081102-549.html
TAKE ACTION: Get Voters out to the Polls and Pass This On. ROCK THE VOTE! Election day is approaching fast. We have very little time left to make this important voter turnout drive succeed.This is one of the most important elections of our lifetimes. The economy is in big trouble, jobs are disappearing, people are losing their homes, two wars are raging, and the cost of living is soaring. Millions have no health care and global warming needs to be addressed. The way to get the change we need is to elect the right leaders. Every vote counts, and your vote and participation in this voter turnout drive can make all the difference. It is your civic duty and your Constitutional right to vote, and your help is needed to get out the vote. Rock The Vote has made voting easier with the information you need. But you must act now, Election Day is November 4th! Please join in and help get voters out, and then pass this important message on to everyone in your address book. Click Here to see how you can help Rock The Vote! http://rockthevote.org/Go Here:http://www.opednews.com/articles/TAKE-ACTION-Get-voters-ou-by-Tommy-News-081102-549.html

From Rob Kall at Op-Ed News:

Don't go to work today. Don't stay home. Work as a volunteer in the early AM, then vote between 10 and 3 when the polls are least busy, then work some more.When the polls close where you live, start making calls for other states, other candidates. Keep going until you drop. You will be a part of history either way. Make sure you know you've done all you can, not just for your presidential candidate, whoever he or she is, but also for congressional legislators all over the nation.

Share your experience of the day with other OEN folks. Use this Diary:

Voting Day Open Thread-- Post reports, observations, Thoughts Links

Let us know what you're feeling, seeing, doing.

Me, I was up at 3:30 AM, unable to sleep, thinking about vote theft. I found my other half had been up with the election on her mind since 2:30. I leave in five minutes to work the early shift at the polls.

I spoke to my "ex" last night. She's a born-again who votes strictly on abortion (she wasn't when we met and married) and even she said she and her church people are saying prayers for whoever wins. I guess, if McCain wins, the world needs the US to go down the tubes, because it surely will, strangled, blinded, gelded, starved and tortured by right wing extremist traitors to democracy.

But I am fearfully hopeful today. We'll see how it goes, right? It's all we can do, besides work our asses off today. And, BTW, there were plenty of people in their seventies and eighties out canvassing, knocking on doors and phone banking over the weekend, and people in wheel-chairs. What's your excuse for not doing MORE today?

Laying the guilt on heavy today,

rob kall
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Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
Have a great day,
Tommy

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