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[digg-reddit-me] For more on today’s Barack Obama “money bomb”: The Grand Panjandrum has been a huge booster; and it was blueinks over at the Daily Kos who got this rolling.

The key aspect of today’s “money bomb”: donate $5.01 (or a multiple of $5.01) to Barack Obama’s campaign in honor of another legislator from Illinois who ran for the presidency whose birthday happens to be today. Abraham Lincoln appears on both the $5

To learn some more about Mr. Obama, check out “The Case for Barack Obama”, written by me, or Andrew Sullivan’s blog, The Nation’s pragmatic and inspiring endorsement, and for Mr. Obama’s positions on specific issues, check out his website.

[via reddit]

Let us stand by our duty, fearlessly and effectively. Let us be diverted by none of those sophistical contrivances wherewith we are so industriously plied and belabored – contrivances such as groping for some middle ground between the right and the wrong, vain as the search for a man who should be neither a living man nor a dead man – such as a policy of “don’t care” on a question about which all true men do care… Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it

Lincoln at Cooper Union in 1860.



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Check back for updates as to the state of fundraising today. I hope to be getting them periodically.

Update: Kate Stone is also promoting the $5.01 day.

Also, welcome redditors, and spread the word!

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