As Twitchy told you earlier today, the Obama campaign is now hitting voters with spam direct messages on Twitter. The social media oversaturation continues with a new e-mail poem-esque missive from Maya Angelou.
Message from Obama supporters to Obama: Make. It. Stop.
https://twitter.com/senatorjohn/status/261172618122649600
Was thinking the same! RT @djstephfloss: How did Maya Angelou get my email address?
— Jim Ice (@Jim_ICE) October 24, 2012
https://twitter.com/ohmadelineee/status/261183448989974529
https://twitter.com/vaguelydirty/status/261182969660702720
Barack got Maya Angelou sending me spam emails. He gotta fuckin relax
— ?G? (@_WSBG) October 24, 2012
https://twitter.com/mcmoberly/status/261181239791329280
Here’s the e-mail:
I am not writing to you as a black voter, or a woman voter, or as a voter who is over 70 years old and six feet tall. I am writing to you as a representative of this great country — as an American.
It is your job to vote. It is your responsibility, your right, and your privilege. You may be pretty or plain, heavy or thin, gay or straight, poor or rich.
But remember this: In an election, every voice is equally powerful — don’t underestimate your vote. Voting is the great equalizer.
Voting has already begun in some states that President Obama needs to win. So please use this handy tool to make sure your friends in those key states know where to cast their ballot. You will be doing them a great favor.
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As a country, we can scarcely perceive the magnitude of our progress.
My grandmother and my uncle experienced circumstances that would break your heart. When they went to vote, they were asked impossible questions like, “How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?” When they couldn’t answer, they couldn’t vote.
I once debated with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. about whether an African American would ever be elected president. He believed it would happen within the next 40 years at the time — I believed it would never happen within my lifetime.
I have never been happier to have been proven wrong.
And since President Barack Obama’s historic election, we’ve moved forward in courageous and beautiful ways. More students can afford college, and more families have access to affordable health insurance. Women have greater opportunities to get equal pay for equal work.
Yet as Rev. King wrote, “All progress is precarious.”
So don’t sit on the sidelines. Don’t hesitate. Don’t have any regrets. Vote.
Go, rise up, and let your friends and family in early vote states know where they can vote today. We must make our voices heard:
http://my.barackobama.com/Help-Your-Friends-Vote-Early
Your vote is not only important. It’s imperative.
Thank you,
Dr. Maya Angelou
P.S. — Not on Facebook? Send your friends to vote.barackobama.com — don’t let technology get in the way of your incredible duty to our democracy.
https://twitter.com/JazzyJWow/status/261173616966770688
Now they got maya Angelou sending me emails?? Stop the madness
— Renata D (@blackbeauty322) October 24, 2012
Well, voters can help end the madness on Nov. 6.
HEH:
https://twitter.com/NathanWurtzel/status/261186189992804352
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