When Barack Obama was elected to the Senate in 04, something about him struck me.  I'm not sure what it was, but I said to myself "This man will be the President someday".  I never expected that it would happen so soon, but here we are.

For those of you that are not yet familiar with Barack, I suggest you watch some of his speeches on YouTube.  Particularly his 04 DNC Keynote, and his candidacy announcement. What I love most about Barack is that he says what we're all thinking.  His honesty comes through in a way I've never seen in a politician.  But don't let me convince you, see for yourself.

His campaign is not accepting donations from lobbyists or political committees, it's relying on grass roots campaigns like this.  They have a realy nice website, complete with social networking to build small communities of real people to help the cause.

So my idea was to start a network of developers with blogs that will accept donations to the Obama for America campaign on their behalf.  It's simple, you put a link in the sidebar of your blog to a fundraiser page.  If someone enjoyed or got value from your post, then they can make a donation for you.  It can be $1, $10, anything will help.

The current goal is $1000, which I'm hoping we can reach very quickly.  

You can use the following HTML block, or create your own image and link.  

<a href="http://my.barackobama.com/page/outreach/view/main/codersforobama"><img src="http://garbageburrito.com/media/image/image/3647/main/codersforobama.png" border="0"><br>
Enjoyed my blog?  Make a donation in my name.</a>

So rise up friends.  Doesn't matter what camp you come from, we can all be in this as Coders.  Let me know if you're participating, and I'll create a page with links to all the blogs.