Earlier in June, our Lefties for Obama site was hacked by an unscrupulous man who called himself Hacker.tr (we assume the tr stands for “Total Righty”).
With the help of some technically-inclined lefties, I was able to reclaim the site.
It is easy, fellow lefties, to blame the right-handed movement for the actions of a single bad apple. We should not discount that there are righties who are willing to do or say whatever it takes to win—even if it means hacking and disabling our fair site.
But we also must recognize that the vast majority of Americans—both righties and lefties—are looking to us to rise above this year. They seen in Obama, with his left hand across the aisle, a leader who will help us get past divisions and get the country on the right path.
We are all in this together. To paraphrase George Orwell, this is “my country, right-handed or left-handed.”
There are now more than 100 lefties for Obama. Our cause has been mentioned in Seattle’s Stranger and the Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Spread the good word. Invite your friends! We are the ones we have been waiting for.
I forgot to mention that the Pittsburgh Post Gazette mentioned “Lefties for Obama” in late February.
The article is about both John McCain and Barack Obama being left-handed. For us Lefties for Obama, this is shocking news. John McCain is left-handed too!?
Do not fear, fellow lefty. These two candidates may both be left-handed. But let us remember that if we hold them up and contrast them and their positions, the decision is easy: there is only one candidate Left.
Tomorrow, March 4, the two campaigns to be the Democratic Nominee will battle in Ohio, Texas, Vermont, and Rhode Island. The contestants: righty Hillary Clinton and lefty Barack Obama.
Fellow Lefties, this is not about waiting for a Left-Handed Democratic President, but fighting for our left-handed brothers and sisters. We must fight, even if we have one (left) hand tied behind our backs! Remember, we are the lefties we have been waiting for!
But we must not fall to the temptation of intolerance against right-handed Americans. We must be the ones to hold out our (left) hand and reach across the aisle to our righty brethren. There are no righty states, there are no lefty states, we live in the United States, where left and right must join together to solve the problems we face as a nation.
To all the lefties who may vote tomorrow, cast your ballot! Take that pen firmly up in your left hand and stand together for change. Good luck.
CNN’s exit polls from the Virginia primary showed Obama winning just about every sub-group—men, women, black, white, college-graduates, non-graduates …
But what about handedness? How much of the Left-Handed vote did he get? 90%? 99%? And how many inroads can he make with the Right Handed Community?
Perhaps CNN will consider updating their exit poll questions in future primaries.
What started as a one-joke website I created in a day last April has since started to get regular notice from blogs and newspapers.
Last summer we got picked up by a blogger on the DailyKos. Commenters on Matthew Yglesias’ blog picked it up as well. Here we’re mentioned on The Observer.
Type in Obama Left Handed into Google and you’ll see us right at the top.
So if we’re starting to get some media attention, I figure it was time to do Obama proud and spruce up the site. I dropped the old-fashioned html site and upgraded it to a sleek and simple textpattern page. I think it looks a lot better.
Keep spreading the love and sending our site around to your lefty friends!
We’ve had seven left-handed Presidents so far …
James Garfield, 1881
Herbert Hoover, 1929 – 1933
Harry Truman, 1945 – 1953
Gerald Ford, 1974 – 1977
Ronald Reagan, 1981 – 1989
George Bush, 1989 – 1993
Bill Clinton, 1993 – 2001
Barack Obama, 2009 – 2017?
Link to Wikipedia entry on Left-handedness
Barack Obama is a lefty. Our logo adapts his campaign logo and frames it around a left hand giving an OK sign. It’s time to get a lefty back into the White House.
