moving on

Anyone involved in the Obama campaign knows just how efficiently it was run. Not a day went by without an email explaining a certain point, highlighting a negative attack by those bastard Republicans, and, oh by the way, asking for donations in the nicest way possible. Some PACs joined in, most noticeably MoveOn.org. I still remember when MoveOn did an online survey to figure out which Democratic candidate to support. When Obama won the contest, I knew things were looking good.

Anyhoo, with the election over, there is a feeling that we should do *something*, anything to make things better - keep the momentum alive and all that. So, the other day I went to a MoveOn meeting in my town. About a dozen folks gathered from all walks of life: a couple of retirees, some people my age, and a young guy who apparently lived in every red state and had enough of it. MoveOn is doing a campaign that seems lame on the surface but fits perfectly well under the mantra of "doing something" - they're collecting thousands of photographs of ordinary people holding up signs like "I stand with Obama on Clean Energy", and sending them to the Senate, to encourage lawmakers to fall in line with Obama's progressive agenda. Oh yeah, the same pictures will be posted all over DC on the Inauguration Day, which makes me want to visit even more.