cheers to Mr. Berube!
and, in what I hope is a positive and prescient precursor of upcoming progressive phenomena, YearlyKos '07 shared our hotel with...The African American Shriners (and Lollapalooza, too)
and, for those who are interested, some decent coverage of voters at various DemsAbroadGlobalPrimary voting centers.
In Tokyo, Obama was the overwhelming favorite, btw. Nagoya and Kyoto have their in-person voting this weekend, so the saga continues...
great reading notes from all of you - we DemsAbroad had our Global Primary start on Tuesday (2.5-2.12), and I voted, quite happily, for Obama.
No, he's not Howard Dean, but then, nobody is:-)
But he is building on the foundation that Dean and we and a long line of movement people helped create, and he has a hopeful pragmatism that I think can help change America in spite of its worst self, to our best self.
Being an AfricanAmerican woman, the choice was nonetheless a no-brainer, because I wasn't focused on race or gender (so much media nonsense), but on character and emotion and trust first, positions after, then the rest of it. In that, I think I'm much more like a regular person than a political wonk. In the meantime, I'll work hard for whoever gets the nom: we're already starting to plan a trek to GOTV where needed. It makes a difference (I think), when you knock on people's doors and ask for their vote, saying you came from across the sea to help:-)
the much-missed Steve Gilliard expressed the same view, in his own blunt eloquence:
David Corn was seized by a case of the stupids and went after Jim Wolcott. Head shaking sadly, wondering why, oh, why would he pick a fight with a man who he should NEVER want to offend. I like Jim, he likes me, and I will do damn near anything to keep it that way. Why? Because, while a nice, gracious man, he's also a mean SOB who can cut you down with words like few others. Goldberg and Sullivan can attack me without so much as disturbing my tea making schedule.They mean nothing to me. Their words, as harmless as kryptonite to Batman.
But Wolcott? I would be vomiting and begging for mercy within minutes. God, I would not want that wit which could be the text book definition of rapier, and that anger, which rivals Jimmy Breslin's, turned on me. UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE. You shall see why below.
I will pray for your soul, David Corn, and hope you come to your senses......before it is too late.
I remember, I think: being in the basement, watching JFK's funeral on TV and my Momma crying. And, I vaguely think I remember sitting on Eleanor Roosevelt's lap, sometime when I was even younger (I'm a '58 baby). this is a great post...lots of food for thought as we try to usher in a far, far better year...
Congratulations, Patrick! I live in Tokyo (hence the name:-), and I should be out in Yokohama for this, because I really wanted to meet you and Corey Doctorow, but work intruded...anyway, congrats, local version, follows:
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horribly amazing how devastated the NewsBlog family is, although most of us have never met Steve, some folks were keeping things up and running against his return...thank you for posting this...
Puddle, good heavens! you brought me a smile:-), in later efforts, we're trying to get overseas podcasters to put a promo in for votefromabroad.org...and last night we mailed out postcards to DemsAbroadJapan folks who hadn't registered online yet.
so much to do, so little time.
see you all on Nov. 8 (fingers, toes and ganglia crossed)...
http://www.votefromabroad.org if you're an American living abroad. 8 minutes, a printer and a stamp, and you're good to go.
never voted in my life (now 48) before 2004. africanamerican/cherokee, distrust of the gov't is ingrained, but a combination of the venality of this administration and Howard Dean got me wound up like an enraged energizer bunny and I haven't stopped since...
btw, I'm going to a 3-day writer's retreat in a couple weeks on the outskirts of Tokyo...Making Light is part of the reason I decided to do it, and I thank you!
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