If you miss the days (yes the days of earlier in the week…) of knocking on doors, making calls, getting out the vote, Working For Change…and were wondering what to do with all the energy and excitement generated by the campaign…www.change.gov
Here’s the first blog entry from the site. Yes, of *course* there’s a blog.
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Change has come to America
Last night, President-Elect Barack Obama delivered the final speech of a presidential campaign that promised change in Washington:
Now the work begins to deliver on this promise by planning the agenda and priorities for the Obama Administration. As the President-Elect reminded the country:
What began 21 months ago in the depths of winter cannot end on this autumn night. This victory alone is not the change we seek. It is only the chance for us to make that change. And that cannot happen if we go back to the way things were. It can’t happen without you, without a new spirit of service, a new spirit of sacrifice. So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves but each other.
Change.gov provides resources to better understand the transition process and the decisions being made as part of it. It also offers an opportunity to be heardabout the challenges our country faces and your ideas for tackling them. The Obama Administration will reflect an essential lesson from the success of the Obama campaign: that people united around a common purpose can achieve great things. President-Elect Obama reminded the country of our limitless potential when he claimed this victory:
If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.
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I cannot tell you how excited I am to see that our Community Organizer in Chief is committed to creating the same transparency and participation in government as he did in his campaign. How extraordinary. I am moved to tears and near hysterical hopefulness yet again. Do I get to feel this way every day now?
Our President Elect wants to know about our ideas. He wants to engage us in service. He wants us to know what his policy agenda is and wants to know what we think about it and if we have ideas that could help. He wants us to know moment by moment what the process is as he selects his cabinet, as the transition from What has Been to What Will Be unfolds.
And now it’s a New New Day in America. I’m going to bed now so I can rest up for tomorrow’s excitement. I might just have to get used to saying “God Bless America” on a regular basis.
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