Sen. Obama ('s campaign),

First let me thank you all for all the hard work you have done and will do in the coming months (and years) for our nation.  I recently took a group of grad-students up to NH and campaigned for the weekend, and am looking to come back up with more people on board next month.  Your campaign is so nice and the people of NH were great to talk with.  As you know, well, you stood up early at an anti-war protest to call this war for what it was - stupid.  Then you came to the U.S. Senate and gave the war a chance deciding this year that all hope was lost.

I wanted to suggest to the campaign that you do more than simply vote against the spending bill this fall - even Hillary does that.  But you do, what you did in 2002, and stand up at an anti-war rally against this war.  It is my belief that the first candidate to stand in front of several hundred thousand people in DC and protest this war will be the nominee.  This is a time for guts not speeches on the Senate floor or votes.  This is a time for you to stand with the anti-war movement.  You has been brave calling on people to challenge their Senators to vote against funding - and now you has the chance to capture a national audience and lead a protest to end this war (before your Presidency).  I also believe You should further consider a filibuster of the war-spending bill (President Bush's new 50 million) - your young guy and can take it.  We have the 40 votes to carry one, and I believe you are the man for the job.

My Brother just finished another tour with the army in Iraq. And, while I'll save the stories he shared, I will tell you that he and the hundred and forty thousand other men and women over there are heroes.  But they now need a hero, somebody they can place their hope behind - this is why your campaign raised more from active duty members than any other candidate.  Their blood is on our national hands and every time one of them is blown up, shot, or captured the responsibility not only falls on those who authorized and constructed this war but the ones who remained silent during it. They have, and I share, and expectation for you to be something different, a figure of change, a figure of hope, a figure of courage, their, and our, hero in these all so troubled time.

I hope that you will stand up in the coming days for what is right.

God Bless,
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