if we could start planting some yard signs -
"FRIENDS DON'T LET FRIENDS VOTE REPUBLICANS"
in the yards already sporting obama signs on busy, heavily trafficked streets...
i've been talking to americans on the ground in NH and SC and NC and VA and OH -
and i see a crying need for us to reach out to a lot of our fellow americans, esp the salvageable repubs...
if we can demonstrate a warm affection, a sense of humor... that'd go a long way to defusing the eruption and blowback/payback i see coming on november 5th... and that i have experienced a little with my obama bumperstickers and buttons...
google Friends Don't Let Friends Vote Republican" - there's a yard sign for $20, bumperstickers...
i joke with repubs that we're gonna have to tie them up to a chair on election day and let the air out of their tires -we gotta do what we gotta do - and it'll be fine, they'll see... it usually brings a sweet smile [NEVER A VOTE!] and that's a start...
if we could be gracious winners... and start the hard work of truth and reconciliation now...
barack and michelle have done their part - they coulda torn their opponents and critics a new asshole 1000 times and instead they have kept their peace...
we need to try hard to bring our repub americans around... we want to be inclusive and part of the One Nation under God that barack has called us to?
$20... if you go up to the door of anyone who has planted a yardsign - and ask them if they'd be willing to add this,another one... if they can spot the $20 cost or not...
like johnny appleseed - planting a warm communalism???
fired UP!
for Roman Catholics and evangelicals and everyone who is dealing with fellow members of our churches who are trying to overlay belief and personal principles onto a secular government...
how about if we had bumperstickers made
CATHOLICS for OBAMA and for
the separation of church and state
or next to a CATHOLICS FOR OBAMA 08 bumpersticker,
put one CATHOLICS for the separation of church and state -
this can be done - google custom bumperstickers... there are a few companies - they have templates and ship right away, even just 1 or a small quantity... the quality is excellent - you can have car magnets made too if you don't want to paste something on your car...
i think we want to ask our fellow citizens to think! not to assume we are as reflexive as they are...even Jesus didn't try to legislate sex lives... and how WOULD abortion laws be enforced... are we going to add a whole 'nother layer of law enforcement - do females have to report a pregnancy within X days like registering for the draft? are we going to make people PROVE their miscarriages Were REALLY miscarriages? dear God - what are people thinking...
and what WOULD Jesus do? what He did... He persuaded and he showed love and he tried to illuminate... NOT legislate, not arrest, not cast out of a secular society...
barack winning is only the beginning of a LOT OF outreach we need to do to our fellow citizens who are racist or intolerant or selfish or bullying or whatever we see... we need to do what we can...
this thing is won - but there is a lot to do to fulfill the promise of all of us increasingly coming together as Americans... all of us, Americans...
david brooks nailed it that she has the same "brashness and excessive decisiveness" -
but i have bristled at how The Left went after her as not being a feminist - she is exactly what the woman's movement wanted - a woman who has fulfilled herself in a marriage and family and career and community according to HER dreams for herSELF... conservative Jewish and Catholic women, women who stay-at-home OR forego marriage and family... these are all the right choices for individual women - and it has nothing to do with ideology...
it was awful to see Obama people going after her like Rush or Hannity go after our prominent people... i hope that stops...and we let palin be palin
