Obama showed incredible power in rallying his supporters and getting us to donate to change the world. Newsweek has had some pretty good behind the scenes articles the past two days, with some illustrating just how good Obama and his team was. So good his supporters crashed the Red Cross site after hurricane Gustav with all their donations. People are looking to see how they can keep the Obama fans rallied for good causes to change the world.
The power of the Obama operation could be measured: doubling the turnout at the Iowa caucuses, raising twice as much money as any other candidate in history, organizing volunteers by the millions. (In Florida alone: 65 offices, paid staff of 350, active e-mail list of 650,000, 25,000 volunteers on any weekend day.) The ultimate test would come Nov. 4. In the meantime, there were indications of a great storm brewing. At the end of August, as Hurricane Gustav threatened the coast of Texas, the Obama campaign called the Red Cross to say it would be routing donations to it via the Red Cross home page. Get your servers ready—our guys can be pretty nuts, Team Obama said. Sure, sure, whatever, the Red Cross responded. We've been through 9/11, Katrina, we can handle it. The surge of Obama dollars crashed the Red Cross Web site in less than 15 minutes.
Lets keep that momentum going with a couple thoughts. One from Obama's favorite philosopher who coined the phrase "God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things that should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other."
And what Obama, as told to David Brooks, interpreted from Niebuhr's works
"We should be humble and modest in our belief we can eliminate those things. But we shouldn’t use that as an excuse for cynicism and inaction. I take away ... the sense we have to make these efforts knowing they are hard, and not swinging from naïve idealism to bitter realism."
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So lets keep the discussion going on effects of our actions so we can continue to influence one another postitively and make sure our intentions are worthy and continue to help Obama change the world for the better and helping him establish a great presidency and us a better society.