June 01, 2004

Spirit of America

Winds of Change blogger Armed Liberal finally came out of psuedoanonymity - his real name is Marc Danziger - because he’s the new C.O.O. of Sprit of America.

I’m teaming up with Marc, Jeff Jarvis, Roger L. Simon, and some others in a drive to give Spirit of America a boost.

Jim Hake, who started SofA, has already raised one and a half million dollars to help Iraqis out. Help give him (and them) another cool million and a half. Some people died to put Saddam Hussein in that cage and clear the way for projects like this one. I think you can spare 20 bucks.

For those of us who pushed for an invasion of Iraq to help transform the Middle East, it’s time to put our money where our mouths have been.

Posted by Michael J. Totten at June 1, 2004 01:22 PM
Comments

Good cause Michael,

I'll match whatever your readers give up to a total of $1,000. Any idea how we can verify contributions?

Posted by: spc67 at June 1, 2004 01:30 PM

Wow, that's generous.

I don't think there's a way to verify contributions, unfortunately.

Posted by: Michael J. Totten at June 1, 2004 01:39 PM

Perhaps there is Michael. They set up a system so that they could measure how much money was donated by each of the three groups of bloggers a while back, so I assume that you could do something similar. Just talk to them and see if it can be done.

Posted by: FH at June 1, 2004 01:43 PM

Michael, we'll work something out on this this week. Drop me a note and bug me if I haven't gotten back to you by Thursday.

Marc

Posted by: Marc Danziger at June 1, 2004 02:30 PM

Michael,

I'll settle for people posting contributions here if that's ok with you.

Posted by: spc67 at June 1, 2004 02:36 PM

Marc (Armed Liberal),

That's excellent. Yes, let's do it and be in touch later in the week. Thanks much!

Michael

Posted by: Michael J. Totten at June 1, 2004 02:48 PM

>>>"For those of us who pushed for an invasion of Iraq to help transform the Middle East, it’s time to put our money where our mouths have been."

Time for the neocons to pony up.

Posted by: David at June 1, 2004 02:57 PM
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