Time to Moveon

Moveon.org

Today I get another email from Moveon.org telling me about how the campaign to censure President Bush is going and that they have 200,000 signed petitions for the campaign. I am so sick of this group and all of their online petitions! I feel that signing these online petitions do nothing. It is just an excuse for people to feel like they are taking part in democracy, when in reality you are barely even lifting a finger. When it comes to emailing your senator they even write the email for you that is sent to your senator. I am sure the senators office loves getting 10,000 of the same email, just with different names on it. It is so easy, yet so impersonal that it actually gets nothing done, because unless you are calling your senator on the phone, they do not care. Please someone tell me if they have ever heard a senator on the floor of the senate say, "well I really was moved by the 10,000 impersonal emails, and the online petition that was delivered to my office." I do not think these things work and it is time to move to something else.