I've been making regular donations to the Obama campaign for the last couple of months. I've always left the "story" field blank. But tonight I was feeling a little more impassioned. I was thinking about my own history and the history of the people I've met over the years. I was thinking about all of the reasons, the really personal reasons, that this election really matters.

So, I began telling my story, but it quickly turned into someone else's story -- a story about a lady who really touched my heart and made me want to fight so much harder for change. I decided that I would share this story with you all tonight because if she inspired me, then maybe she'll inspire you too. It is these personal stories that inspire me, that make me want to do more. This is the story that I wrote tonight into that "story" field:

Bloggers like to write, so this should be a project you can all sink your teeth into -- and it's a quick, easy way to provide the Obama campaign with some real, on the ground assistance in Pennsylvania!

Women for Obama are organizing a postcard campaign to help deliver Pennsylvania for Obama. They are asking us to spread the message and ask Obama supporters to participate in this important project.

We want women in Pennsylvania to know that they do not have to buy into the hype that women should vote for Hilary simply because she is a women. We want women in Pennsylvania to know that despite political pundits' yammerings, there a thousands of women across this nation who support Obama.

This Post Card Campaign is being strategically organized in conjunction with the local Obama GOTV campaign.

Just a note: Although focus will be sending postcards from women who support Obama to undecided women in Pennsylvania, guys can still participate -- they'll send your postcards to undecided voters too!

Obama's speech today was beautiful. Inspiring. But we can't allow ourselves to sit and bask in the glory of today. The Pennsylvania primary and the other primaries are fast approaching. The last day to register voters in Pennsylvania is almost upon us. There is so much work to do...

Hopefully Obama's speech has inspired all of us stop obsessing on Reverend Wright and get back to productive work for the Obama movement again. If you still want to enjoy the night, I understand. Maybe you could pick one small thing to do that will help the Obama movement. I'll commit to doing three things on this list tonight. How many will you do?

Way back in 2004, I was working for a union. Part of my job was to create and manage a handful of websites. One of the websites was an online election center where we graded the policy positions of candidates running for state and national offices. We sent out probably 5,000 emails to candidates, and when they responded, I copy/pasted them into the database and gave them a grade. Usually some staffer sent us some boilerplate text that they didn't even bother to customize to our questions or our audience.

Once in a while, though, someone would call. Usually it was some crackpot who had no resources, no staff, no money, and no chance of winning whichever office he was running for (I say he only because I don't remember any of the crackpots being women).

One day, a guy in Illinois running for U.S. Senate called. Based on the fact that he picked up the phone to call me, I assumed he didn't have enough resources to hire any staff that could call me or send me an email. I assumed (like the fool I am) that he was a nobody on a fast train going nowhere. I was basing this assumption, of course, on the fact that everyone else who called was definitely on a fast train to nowhere.

The Hillary campaign has now resorted to rounding up high dollar donors and cajoling them to participate in a truly shameless strategy. HRC donors are demanding that the DNC seat the Florida delegates, or else they want the DNC to return all of their donations. Some will accept a re-vote, others are demanding that the delegates be seated as-is.

This is not a small thing (well, the behavior is small, but the donations are not). We're talking about high dollar donors. And we're talking about donations to the DNC. Think about this for a second. The DNC is supposed to be an organization that represents all of the democrats, and these donations are supposed to support all Democrats -- not just HRC. Yet, they are demanding that the DNC break its own rules in favor of HRC, "or else" they want a refund.

What Geraldine Ferrero is doing is most certainly a calculated attempt to draw attention to Barack Obama's race and to marginalize him as "the black candidate" in Pennsylvania, a state where even the governor says race still matters. Obama supporters (and even some Clinton supporters) have seen Geraldine's tactic for what it is, and have spoken -- loudly -- and rightfully so.

But as an Obama supporter, I think we have a problem. There are a significant number of Americans who now have the perception that it is the Obama campaign who is injecting race into the election. For proof of this, just take a gander at any blog or website sympathetic to Clinton. Just as Olberman pointed out tonight that "true or not" many people now perceive the Hillary campaign has resorted to racism, I must point out that "true or not" there are some people who believe it the Obama campaign who is to blame.

There are many people who sincerely believe that affirmative action style policies have given minorities an advantage over them in education and the job market. True or not, the perception exists. What surprises most liberal democrats is that some of these people are moderate or conservative democrats.