Leave It On The Field

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In my email, thanks Katherine.

When I was in high school, we had a softball team that, I'll be
honest, wasn't all that talented. But our coach had the
motto, "Leave it all on the field", which meant, every game, play
your heart out, play your guts out, challenge yourself to do your
absolute best. We won a surprising number of games, because when we
played, we didn't play half as hard as we could, or three-quarters as
hard as we could, we pulled out all the stops and poured it on, every
game. And that taught me that, if you really want to win, you have
to play all out.

Politics is often compared to sports, and I think it's for this
reason. What matters, as much as the candidate and staff, is whether
the thousands of volunteers pull out all the stops and do whatever it
takes to win.

Yesterday and today, it has been my great honor to work with a group
of volunteers who have gone all out, when John Kerry appeared here to
end this leg of his Believe in America tour. We started yesterday
afternoon and evening, setting up the venue, lugging police baricades
and tables, and many of us worked through the night putting the stage
together, stringing banners, and setting up barriers. Early this
morning, we were all back, signing up volunteers in the lines,
helping with crowd control., literally running with more barricades,
to help set up another entrance when we realized the crowd was the
largest any of us had ever seen.

We all worked through Kerry's speech, lugging dozens of cases of
water up a hill in the noonday sun to pass them out to the
spectators. And when the rally was finished, and everyone else had
sensibly fled the 90 degree heat to find some air conditioning and a
cold drink, we were still there, picking up garbage, and the hundreds
of water bottles we had passed out so we could recycle them.

It's this kind of commitment, and energy, that will win this
election. We're going to win, not only because we have the best
candidate, not only because we're right on the issues, but because
we're willing to do what it takes to win. We're willing to go
without as much sleep as we'd like, stand out in weather hotter than
we're used to, and challenge ourselves to do things we never thought
we were capable of doing. We're willing to leave it all on the
field. That's what it takes to win.

Katherine
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/101Ways