34 hours later...To members of 100,000 Strong Against Evan Bayh for VPFrom Max Bernstein
Today at 10:45am

Hello everyone -

[Note: Fret not about the frequency of messages to this group, for we will hopefully soon be obsolete when Barack Obama announces someone other than Evan Bayh as his running mate.]

What a 34 hours it's been! We are now 2350 strong (yeah, we have a long way to go) but we are sending a clear message to the campaign and to the country that Evan Bayh is not the guy for us. We've been in the New York Times, The Rachel Maddow Show, Pacifica Radio, The Nation, and more. One of the first to join this group, James Boyce, will be on Mario Solis Marich's nationally syndicated radio show at 3:30 EST (streaming live at www.gotomario.com) to talk about it.

The complete lack of any opposition to this group proves the point further that voters want an inspiring and gutsy leader in the #2 spot, not a career pol whose crowning achievement has been reelection to the Senate. Indeed, the constituency that wants to balance the ticket with someone who was instrumental in helping sell the worst foreign policy error in recent history is just a figment of some consultant's imagination.

It's worth clarifying that Bayh's Iraq problem goes much further than casting the wrong vote, as many of his colleagues in the Senate did.

Ari Melber in the Washington Independent:

"Bayh not only voted for the war and embraced its neo-conservative rationale by chairing the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, as a New York Times profile noted this week. He went further, taking the single most aggressive, pro-war position possible. The few Democratic co-sponsors of the White House Iraq resolution provide context for the kind of senators who shared Bayh's position at the time -- they include Joseph I. Lieberman (Conn), Zell Miller (Ga.) and John Breaux (La.).

This legislative approach was not only on the far end of the pro-war spectrum, it undercut the efforts of even pro-war senators to advance alternatives pressing disarmament over invasion."

There's more, plus video of Bayh's 2002 Iraq speech at http://www.washingtonindependent.com/view/evan-bayh-co, but since you're already a member of this group, you probably don't need much convincing.

Your friends on the other hand might be a different story, and may not fully realize what it is about Evan Bayh which has caused a couple thousand of us to raise our voices together to keep the Obama campaign from making a terrible mistake, and we don't have much time to let them know.

Please take a moment to invite your friends to this group. Show them Bayh's 2002 Iraq speech. Send them a note about why you personally want someone worthy of this historic campaign to be Vice President.

Thanks for all your hard work,

Max