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Sep. 17th, 2008 10:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grammarwomanI've tried really hard to avoid talking much about politics here. I'll be voting for Obama, and as much as I'm scared of The Other Guys winning, I don't know what I can do to convince other people to vote for my guy, or at least not vote for The Other Guys.
But this? This is one of those things that gets lost in all the crap about pigs and lipstick. This is what I want to hear people talking about: actual content, not spin.
Post the following in your LJ, and see if you can help to spread the message:
"...the McCain health plan would treat employer-paid health benefits as income that employees would have to pay taxes on. " New York Times op-ed piece, 9/15/2008
Paste that into a word processor, blow it up to 60-point font, print off ten copies, and leave them around. Tape them to light posts, slip them between magazines at the grocery store, post them on public bulletin boards at the grocery store or coffee shop, leave them behind on the table when you leave a restaurant.
Don't make a scene, and don't violate anyone's personal property. Just leave them where people have to read them, even if it's as they throw them away.
Don't put any extra commentary on the sheets, or if you do, keep it to something like "copy this and pass it on." This is not a pro-Obama campaign, it's pro-dissemination of information. The media isn't doing it, so we will.
When you're done giggling at the word dissemination, e-mail this to your friends in red or swing states and see if they can do the same.
We need to reach people who aren't on the Internet, and don't follow blogs, so hard copy is the way to go. Ten copies. Reach ten people. Spread the word.
But this? This is one of those things that gets lost in all the crap about pigs and lipstick. This is what I want to hear people talking about: actual content, not spin.
Post the following in your LJ, and see if you can help to spread the message:
"...the McCain health plan would treat employer-paid health benefits as income that employees would have to pay taxes on. " New York Times op-ed piece, 9/15/2008
Paste that into a word processor, blow it up to 60-point font, print off ten copies, and leave them around. Tape them to light posts, slip them between magazines at the grocery store, post them on public bulletin boards at the grocery store or coffee shop, leave them behind on the table when you leave a restaurant.
Don't make a scene, and don't violate anyone's personal property. Just leave them where people have to read them, even if it's as they throw them away.
Don't put any extra commentary on the sheets, or if you do, keep it to something like "copy this and pass it on." This is not a pro-Obama campaign, it's pro-dissemination of information. The media isn't doing it, so we will.
When you're done giggling at the word dissemination, e-mail this to your friends in red or swing states and see if they can do the same.
We need to reach people who aren't on the Internet, and don't follow blogs, so hard copy is the way to go. Ten copies. Reach ten people. Spread the word.
