I think it is time for mass demonstrations in every city and town to let the media know that the people will not accept anything less than real heath care reform.
DEMAND THE PUBLIC OPTION
SHOW THE LOBBYISTS WE CAN MAKE IT STICK
Why do I still feel as if I am alone?
Because I have not been in a good demonstration recently!
We can stand together for our shared interest in bringing sanity to our healthcare system!
We can stand together with President Obama to take back healthcare for the people.
Let US help Congress find it's backbone!
Chuck Britt
Not Exploding
(For Becky 11-04-08)
My sister is in
Grant Park
Listening to dreams come true
I watch from the west
Remembering Goldwater in ‘64
Me still trying to be loyal to my father
But wondering what my big sister
Was doing on campus
With all those liberals
I secretly wanted to win
You led our family
Away from hate and fear
Toe to toe with the old man
Paying a fearful toll
With your life and your love
You did it
You did it for me
Perhaps unaware of my need
But nonetheless
I learned
Your head did not explode
You did not die
So toe to toe
We all went
Not exploding
On Thursday I did about three hours of calling registered democrats and undecided voters letting them know about Gov. Gregior coming to the Croation Center in Anacortes. I will also be doing phone calls and anything else the campaign needs me to do starting at 12pm tomarrow. We are in the last 24 of the campaign! Its almost here!
Even if you were just thinking about doing it, Do it! Its really not as bad as it sounds!
It is a profoundly frightened nation where thirty to fifty % of us are considering voting for McCain and Palin. Most of all, in this time of chaos, we must have steady competence in our leaders. Each of us can reach out to the frightened folks in the middle who are hoodwinked by fear, to believe that impulsive behavior equals courage. Let us all go out and invite the "frightened hoodwinked middle" into the the idea that competence can be fun and that the fact of competence can save our individual and collective asses.
I was thinkin’
I might just leave
Go on up to Canada
Or down to Australia
Any place without their scorn
I’m sick to death of their scorn
But hell no!
I’ll not fall for their dark pap
I’ll no longer give it the strength
Of my eyes
I’ll not leave
This Land Of The Free
I herby remind them all
I’m stayin’
They can’t’ shame me
They can’t make my heart small
They can’t get me to emigrate
I’ll stay and Organize
I’ll stand in the Commons
I’ll claim the Commons for my brothers and sisters
I’ll claim the Commons for their children.
I’ll shrug off dismissals and blacklists and brickbats
I’ll speak common truth
In the Commons
I’ll address scorn with
The steady voice of the Constitution
The revelations of the Bible
Then the angel of God
Will strike the earth
With her sickle
The blood of men and women
Will pump together
And work together
And produce goodness together
The children will
Smile up their cheeks
Nothing to do but play
After the harvest
You can count me in
I’m for stayin’
I’m for eatin' up
All those Grapes of Wrath
In common meal
With my brothers and sisters
Sittin’ right on the earth
Right beside any road
Eatin’ bunch after bunch
Tellin’ all our stories of Victory
To kin
To neighbors
To anybody else who shows up
This is from another Blog here and is well worth reading!
A PALIN CONVERT
I am hoping that some of you can clarify for me just what 'ticket' John McCain and Sarah Palin are using in thier effort to arrive at the two highest offices in the United States of America. Senator McCain is presenting himself as a war hero. a patriot and a 'maverick' who is not really a Republican. As far as I can find in my research both candidates are registered, bona fide Republicans. So, if he is not really a real Republican how is he able to use the Republican ticket and why would a staunch Repulican governor agree to join him?
According to my English language dictionary a MAVERICK is;
A pioneer who didn't brand his calves.
An unbranded range animal.
An idependent person who refuses to conform with his group.
What do you see??
(I also wonder do some Republicans feel that thier party has been highjacked? Do some feel that thier candidate has made a rash and risky choice when he lasooed Ms. Palin? Do they hope to wake up and find this is all just a bad dream?)
Anne Kilkenny, a housewife and a Wasilla resident, who has personally known Sarah Palin for many years wrote this letter as a way to answer questions that friends (unfamiliar with either Wasilla or Sarah Palin) had begun to ask:
THE SARAH PALIN I KNOW
(Link should open in a new window..)
What concerns me about Governor Sarah Palin are not her personal beliefs alone, but the fact
that since she first ran for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska (which was then smaller than it is
today) she injected and made issues out of these in her campaign. In other words, she used
them as vehicles to ride into the sought after office. I see and hear her doing the very
same thing as part of accepting Senator McCain's offer to become his running mate. Issues
are no substitute for honest, real, solid qualification or preparation for stepping into
either the mayor's office or into the second highest office in the United States of America.
While Governor Palin's family should be "off limits" - meaning they should not be attacked
or insulted - her family life and situation is at the same time niether a disqualifying or
qualifying factor in seeking any position or office. At the same time her family situation
does not qualify as preparation or credentials for any position or office - nor does this or
the fact of her teenage daughter's pregnancy or the fact that she has a Down's Syndrome
infant make her a better candidate. These are interesting and telling, yet, should not be
made or accepted as part of her resume.
What matters are her record and her real achievments in the political arena and the means
she is willing to use, and has or is using, to achieve any position or office.
If Senator John McCain is elected as our President in November she will become our Vice
President..and at any given moment may well need to be sworn in as our President - which is
a far cry from being an attractive, fresh, interesting, attention getting presidential
running mate.
Senator McCain, who appears to be an honorable man, has - by his choice of a divisive, ill
prepared running mate - lost not only votes of many who have been sitting back and taking a
good look at both Presidential Candidates - but has lost a good deal of the respect I felt
for the man. His choice, if he is elected, stands to do harm to the citizens of this
country. Senator McCain's age is, unfortunatley, a double-edged sword. With age comes more
life experience and, hopefully, more wisdom. Choosing Governor Palin is a risk he has chosen
to take seeing how this could re-fuel his campaign. He has the right to make his own choice
of a running mate, however, he has no right to at the same time risk the stability of this
nation and to in effect place its citizens in what could well be a precarious place if his
vehicle were to become our president.
For the past several weeks I have sat quietly in the background simply watching and listening to all of the campaign goings on over the radio (NPR and BBC) and news articles on Yahoo. I listened to the radio broadcasts of much of both the Democrat and Repblican Conventions. Now, I am not a "politcial junkie"..just an interested voter looking to make the best decsion that I can come election day.
I was well impressed with Senator Obama's choice of Joe Biden as his running mate..and this is the choice I had been quietly hoping he would make! They present a mature, intelligent and well balanced team.
Senator McCain's VP choice, on the other hand, is most distressing and I don't for a minute see through what is going on with that -- he has chosen some one who can be used as a shoe horn to possibly "shoehorn" himself into the Oval Office.
Why is there no activity on Skagit County Blogs?
The last post I saw was for Stanwood in Snohomish County not Skagit.
Skagit County Democrats had 60 people at their Obama acceptance speech party on Thursday 8/28/2008
Skagit County Democrats, 300A S. 1st St., Mount Vernon, Wa,
360-336-1555
open M T Th F 11-5 & Sat 11-3
http://www.skagitdemocrats.org/
see website calendar for more information
WE had Obama/Biden Yard signs and bumper Stickers available for sale on Thursday.
Obama hats and t-shirts also available.
Many other buttons, Stickers, local candidate yard signs and other products for sale.
Next event 1st Friday movie
Trashed
Friday 9/5/2008 @ 7 PM at the Skagit Dem office.
Here is a link to my battleground states webpage.
I update this page frequently as new polls come in.. All battleground states are states that have a 10 or less spread and are based on polls and not on opinion.
Go Obama!
Jason
