One more quick Obama decoration for your blog 

Another one for the next three days to help erase doubt. I'm not buying the underdog approach at this point. I think superdelegates and Junior Tuesday voters and everybody else need to be encouraged to think "Enough already, no last-minute dithering." Jump on the train because it's pulling out of the station.

Some voters might stay home because they think he'll win anyway, but more will come out to be a part of this. Or I could be full of it, but I know it made me feel pretty good to cast my vote on Super Tuesday even though I knew how Illinois would go. I voted partly to boost the delegate count but mostly for the endorphins.

Just adjust the dimensions to display it whatever size you want -- big like this (400x400):

Or teeny for a double sidebar (120x120):

Paste this into your page at the place where you want it to appear:

<iframe src="http://amyloo.com/obamaicons/ownsohio.htm" width="120" height="120" name="ownsohio" frameborder="0"></iframe>

A small thing 

How about making some Obama Twitter icons, like the Susan Reynolds peas? This came up during one of the earliest NewsGangs. I could make a couple, and maybe put up a quick place where others could upload some, for still others to use?

Yup, yup, yup -- down with that, but what can I do right now? 

Check out yesterday's NewsGang. Steve entreats Obama supporters to do something, like, today, to help stop the madness and sew this thing up this week.

I totally agree that twitterheads and web publishers of all kinds can do more to bring about an Obama win in Ohio by using our medium than we can by manning the phone banks.

Steve related a twitter story that makes you think about the power. On the Saturday night before the Wisconsin primary, some of the faithful watched Hillary and Obama speeches on C-SPAN and commented about them on Twitter.

Dave used his influence with Scoble to tell him he really should watch the Obama speech. So Scoble gets a link, and talks about it, thereby getting exposure for the speech among his 11,000 followers.

OK, it's not a TV-sized audience, but it's a recommendation from a trusted source, making it... what, at least 10 times more credible, maybe 100 times more, who knows -- maybe even a thousand times as effective in terms of persuasion than a commercial.

Whether you have a bully pulpit the size of Scoble's or Dave's, or just a wimpy pulpit like mine, it's still more effective than volunteering to knock on doors or call primary voters. That's what I figure anyway, and that's why I made my Obama inauguration countdown widget. The Facebook app version of it has about 250 users, a far cry from the most popular apps with hundreds of thousands, but it's seen by the friends of the app's users when they visit their profile pages. The Google gadget has about 200 users, but it's shown up on an AOL news site and a couple other fairly high-traffic blogs.

It's something I can do that has a little more reach than a one-on-one effort. What could you do? I'm sure there's something.

Steve challenged me though. I had been thinking about working on another Flash movie this weekend, maybe something where you would drag each candidate into a chair behind the desk in the Oval Office and see which one looks right and best there to you. I probably will play around with that idea, but it may not be something I could finish today. Good for Steve for invoking the fierce urgency of now. What less complicated thing can I do today and tomorrow? What could you do? Just watching -- or hoping! -- won't help.

Whoopee, we're all going to die 

Glenn Greenwald and others are pointing out that Rev. John Hagee, who endorsed John McCain this week, represents more than just a thorn in the side of Catholics. He's the champion of end times scenarios.

I got a little obsessed with the movement last fall, and even rented the Left Behind series to see what's getting folks so excited to die. So creepy. The indirect plan to bring about the rapture by getting into it with Iran sounds a little like Charlie Manson's convoluted helter skelter scheme.

Rapture Ready: The Unauthorized Christians United for Israel Tour from huffpost on Vimeo.

Here's the HuffPo post where Max Blumenthal (the interviewer in the video) tells about his coverage of the Christians United for Israel Tour in July 2007.

And here is what I think is the key bit from Sarah Posner's 2006 story about Hagee, called "Pastor Strangelove," in the American Prospect:

He speaks simultaneously to two audiences about Iran's nuclear capabilities: one that fears a terrorist attack by Iran and another that embraces a biblically mandated apocalypse. To impress the fearful, he mimics Bush's deceptions about Iraq's capacity to attack the United States with weapons of mass destruction, Condoleezza Rice's warnings of mushroom clouds, and Dick Cheney's dissembling about an alliance between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda. Comparing Ahmadinejad to Hitler, Hagee argues that Iran's development of nuclear weapons must be stopped to protect America and Israel from a nuclear attack. Preying on legitimate worries about terrorism, and invoking 9-11, he vividly describes a supposed Iranian-led plan to simultaneously explode nuclear suitcase bombs in seven American cities, or to use an electromagnetic pulse device to create "an American Hiroshima."

When addressing audiences receptive to Scriptural prophecy, however, Hagee welcomes the coming confrontation. He argues that a strike against Iran will cause Arab nations to unite under Russia's leadership, as outlined in chapters 38 and 39 of the Book of Ezekiel, leading to an "inferno [that] will explode across the Middle East, plunging the world toward Armageddon." During his appearance on Hinn's program at the end of last March, for example, the host enthused, "We are living in the last days. These are the most exciting days in church history," but then went on to add, "We are facing now [the] most dangerous moment for America." At one point, Hinn clapped his hands in delight and shouted, "Yes! Glory!" and then urged his viewers to donate money faster because he is running out of time to preach the gospel.