Obama is now the presumptive nominee. Its time to get to work on winning the GE. This Saturday the Obama campaign kicks off its 50-state Voter Registration drive. I urge all of you to spend just one day during this election season registering new voters. Clinton and Obama brought millions of new voters into the process and we want that momentum to continue.  Here's a snippet of the email I got from the campaign a few days ago:

The Barack Obama campaign
is launching its new 50-state voter registration and mobilization drive
on May 10th at locations across the nation. In Albuquerque, Obama
supporters will meet at the IBEW Union Hall at 4921 Alexander Blvd. NE (map) on Saturday, May 10, at 9:00 AM to kick off the Vote for Change effort in New Mexico.

Arrive a little before 9:00 AM
for free coffee, juice, donuts, etc., and there will be voter
registration training for those new to the process. Participants will
fan out to do voter registration throughout the county. Anyone
interested in participating may contact Ana Canales at alcanales@comcast.net or 515-9662, or click to RSVP for the event online.

Similar
events will continue through the November election in all 50 states,
including New Mexico. Recent voter registration drives organized by the
Obama campaign have helped in gaining more than 200,000 new Democratic
registrations in Pennsylvania, more than 165,000 new Democrats in North
Carolina, and more than 150,000 new Democrats in Indiana.

It will also be necessary for the Obama campaign to define McCain. If you have any doubts that McCain is a "reasonable" guy I suggest you read this:

John McCain sought to burnish his conservative credentials Tuesday with
a broadside against "the common and systematic abuse of our federal
courts by the people we entrust with judicial power" and a promise of
"better judges" in the mold of Supreme Court Justices John G. Roberts
and Samuel Alito. (my emphasis added)

Its time to train our fire on the Senator from Arizona. America can't afford a third Bush term. It really is that simple. One way we (TPM diarists) can effect this narrative is to write about McCain and search out stories that effectively paint McCain for what he is: BUSH III.

For those of you who have been out working for your candidate (Clinton, Obama, et. al.) I salute your service and I hope you will all continue to support our likely nominee. For those of you who have never been involved in a campaign please help us take back our country from this awful administration.  Write to your local paper, blog, donate cash, get involved in Obama's 50-state voter registration campaign. We have a lot of work to do and now is the time to set aside our differences and work for all Democratic candidates at all levels of government.

So troops: strap on your Birkenstocks, fasten your flag lapel pin firmly in place, take a last sip of that latte, hop in your Volvo/Saab/Prius and get to work. We've got some McCain ass to kick!