Nov. 3, 2004, 7:50PM EST

Ok we lost. (Sort of)

"What you see on this website is reflective of 14 years now of exhaustive coast-to-coast research. Coupled with this has been six years (Election 2000 and 2004) and 65,000 miles of just as exhaustive campaigning.

We have now been in more than 1,000 newspapers, some 150 regional network TV news shows, and a whole lot of radio. What's more, we've given hundreds of talks in such venues as town squares, in churches, in prayer groups, to civic organizations, on college campuses...

In each venue, we earnestly speak about programs we've researched to: heal families; save the environment; stop crime and war; get health care for everyone; provide safety nets for women in crisis pregnancy; help the poor... A Findlay Courier newspaper article last week noted that as a result of a talk I gave to a Sunday School class in Bowling Green, Ohio about the current genocide and famine in the Sudan, the youth were mounting a humanitarian effort (based on a program I'd outlined) to help their "brothers and sisters over there.

"Each time something like this happens, we get a 'policy' enacted long before we ever get to D.C.", I told a graduate class at Toledo University. "And who knows how far the idea ripples out from there?"

So that's why I said at the top of this: We lost. (Sort of.) Actually, the way we look at it: Each time we plant one of these seeds, we 'win!' And so do others.

To be on board with us, is to be part of the change that's needed in this country -- now!

Oh yeah, and we are actually trying to win the whole thing (presidency) as well. In fact, we believe our platform is tangibly helping shift the country in a direction it desperately needs to go in, again, right now. And, we've been quite energized of late by the increased interest being shown in our campaign.

So....

Today, Nov. 3, 2004, at 7:50PM EST, I declare my intention to run for U.S. President for Election 2008.

Well, why wait, huh. Plus, we've got a slow campaign vehicle and this is one big country.

Having declared, we need help. We need people: to donate; to set up talks; to distribute literature; to write letters-to-the-editor; to put up homemade front yard signs... Well, look at it this way: we will be the first ones in our neighborhoods to have 2008 political signs out front. (What a novelty that would be -- especially if it catches on.)

We can't do this alone. We need all kinds of help. And if we are to be more successful, we need the help starting now.

Simply because, well, alone we're just an "average family" from the Midwest..."

--This is Joe Schriner... and I approved of this message.

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