MoveOn Announces "Bush in 30 Years"

MoveOn has this to say (although the links are mine):

"The Republicans are running a $100 million public relations blitz to convince Americans to privatize Social Security. Paying for private accounts would require benefit cuts for future retirees—with younger workers hit the hardest—while gutting a sound program and burdening the next generation with trillions in debt. All this to line the pockets of the Republicans' friends on Wall Street, who stand to make millions off the deal.

"Well, we don’t need $100 million dollars because we have the creativity, intelligence, and talent of the American people, who know how to spot a scam and, better yet, know how to expose one in Flash! Hence our latest contest: Bush in 30 Years—A Flash Contest to Stop the Republican Social Security Scam. If you think you might enter the contest, we highly recommend you sign up for email updates.

"Macromedia Flash is a perfect medium to cut to the heart of this struggle between the Republicans and the retirement working Americans deserve. And it's a great way to reach the young workers and students who have the most to lose from Bush's plan. Make a Flash animation, game, benefits calculator -- anything you can think of to inspire the American public to stand up to the Republican scam! Make something aimed at the young, the old, and everyone in between.

"Here’s the deal: Submit your Flash entry between Monday, March 7 and Friday, March 25. MoveOn staff and volunteers will select 50 semi-finalists who will be featured on this website. Then, we’ll send an email to our 3 million members asking them (and the public at large) to come vote for their favorites between Monday, April 4 and Saturday, April 9. We'll send 10 finalists to our esteemed panel of judges to determine the winner. The winner will be announced on Wednesday, April 13. The following week, we'll run the winning Flash on major news and youth websites. If you win, you'll have your Flash seen by the world and we'll give you a brand new Apple PowerBook G4."

I suppose reposting e-mail solicitations is kind of a cheesy way to blog, but one of the purposes of this blog is to forestall my forwarding so much of this stuff to people on my e-mail list.