Farmers for Obama

President-Elect Barack Obama (I can’t write that enough; it makes me giddy) has hit the ground running and has already flexed some political muscle on Guatanamo Bay prisoners and a potential bailout for the auto industry. Not surprisingly, the economy is the top priority and we expect a slow trickle of good news coming out of the President-Elect’s office (hee!) over the next 75 days until inauguration day (you can get a countdown keychain here).

We’re hearing assurances from the President-Elect’s office (hee!) that Obama’s agenda will be the same one that he campaigned on. We’re all relieved to hear it, thank you.

So what are all of us ‘Yes, We Can’-ers supposed to do? How does “Change We Can Believe In” turn into Change We Can Implement? The campaign itself was so wildly successful because of grassroots activity like we have tried to exhibit here at Farmers for Obama. With that in mind, I have a few suggestions:

1. Get involved in the process. It’s your process, and don’t let anyone tell you different. Start a website like this one, read other websites like this one, go to local political meetings and voice your opinion.
2. Go to the President-Elect’s (hee!) website change.gov, read about what’s going, and share your thoughts and ideas. People from the transition team are paying attention.
3. Hold our leaders accountable from Obama on down. That promise you made on the campaign trail? Yeah, I have a follow-up question: how’s that working out? Is there a plan? Can we see the plan? And so on.

“Yes We Can” is done, folks. Now it’s “Yes We Will.” Don’t forget it.