I’ve been going through the endless stream of emails that have been piling up. A lot of them have been comments about Bush’s commuting of Libby’s sentence. I’ve read press releases from Sen. Edwards and from Patrick Fitzgerald. I’ve read standard form solicitations from Facebook groups and from the DSCC. Enough has been said already, and I’m not sure that I can add a lot to the discussion.

Instead, a different email, entitled “lisa simpson for president” caught my attention. I must admit, I do not focus a lot on popular culture, so when I received the email, I didn’t think of Bart’s brother, but instead wondered if she was the next Ava Lowery or some youth standing up for responsible healthcare.

Instead, Lisa 2008 is the project of a team of students at the New Organizing Institute in Washington DC. NOI runs a great program to help political activists learn how to use social media to get their message out. Some of the students may go on to write standard form email solicitations for the DSCC. Others may go on to something more creative.

Besides setting up her campaign site, they’ve also set up a Facebook group, Lisa Simpson for President!.

A friend of mine from a regional political blogging group sent me an email about the campaign. He also sent it to the blogging group. If I were instructing at NOI, like I have in the past, I’d probably give him a few of my thoughts on how they could improve the campaign, but this time, I’m just a targeted potential supporter.

So, signup to support Lisa Simpson for President. Lend your hand to the New Organizing Institute in training new social media savvy political activists, and for that matter, lets have a little bit of fun on this week in which we celebrate our countries independence. It sure beats rehashing yet another example of the Bush administrations distain for the rule of law in preference for tired cronyism.