Good evening, everyone!

“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

Well, at the risk of angering dear old Eleanor (never a good idea) I want to back off of the high-flying intellectualism of my inaugural post and make some introductions. Below are the folks whose posts will be gracing this blog for the foreseeable future. They also happen to be (some of) the folks who make Obama Works run, so if they, say, don’t respond to your comments right away, cut them some slack! They’re probably out improving the lives of others, or something.

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Yesterday, (March 25th) a post about Obama Works describing the first Obama Philly Sweep was posted on the main Barack Obama Blog and was thus featured on the front page of Senator Obama’s website! The post included the MTVNews video about this Philly event, which can be viewed here, if you haven’t already seen it. We received a ton of supportive comments, some of which are below.

Enjoy!

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Good afternoon, folks.

You may have noticed that over the past day or so we’ve had some, well, issues with our website. That is to say: it has been going down.

We’re very sorry about this. It is a pain for us and for you.  It is a terrible feeling when the site into which we’ve poured a lot of time suddenly goes dark, and you don’t know why.

That said, I want to let everyone know that this is under control. Our host replaced the hard drives in our server last night and hopefully from here on out we will be fine. If there continues to be downtime, I should add, we will be packing our bags full of data and moving to a new host.

But rest assured: even if we switch hosts, we’re not going anywhere.  No pesky failing hard drives can stand in our way for long!

‘Till soon,

Paul.

Friends, supporters, (and critics! Do we have those?),

Welcome! We’ve had a website for a little while, now, but we have been feeling acutely our inability to interact with the world at large. Sure, we publish our email address (email us!) left and right, but that’s one-to-one dialogue. And since Obama Works is, fundamentally, about community, it seemed disingenuous–or, at least, silly!–to not have a community online. So, this post marks the beginning of our attempt to create one.

The past month has been a long series of beginnings for us. We began our first events, we got our first press, and we were on MTV for the first time. (Why couldn’t that have happened in middle school?!) We (more…)