Thanks to Daily Kos readers for their support of this petition:
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/...
I posted a diary entry that we needed a few more signatures to reach the 150 signatures level for WhiteHouse.gov to run it on its page of open petitions. (I'm sure that threshold requirement prevents a lot of good petitions from becoming available to the general public.) And Daily Kos readers responded! We had the petition over 150 signatures on the same day!
I know it was Daily Kos readers because I'd been posting the petition link on various boards all over the internet, and we'd get a signature here, a signature there, but never such a big bump as when I posted it on Kos!
That threshold is so hard to reach. Both the author of the petition and I have huge e-mail lists, but only a few people from those lists actually took the few minutes to sign it. That's despite the lists being full of anti-war and anti-Bush activists. The author has run for Congress before as a Democrat, by the way.
Now the petition needs 100k signatures to get a response from the Obama administration, but few petitions make it that far, and I certainly don't have the marketing power for something that big. But it was great to have it on the petitions page for the general public to decide.
Thanks again, DAILY KOS READERS!!!