Howard Dean interrupted my family's dinner tonight (UPDATED2)

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Wednesday June 28, 2006 · 10:34 PM PDT

2006/06/28 · 22:34

O.K. I confess that Howard Dean personally did not interrupt my family's dinner this evening; however, two of his local minions did indeed knock at our door. Just as I was strapping my 8-month-old son into his highchair, the doorbell rang. Our front entrance is downstairs and we weren't expecting any visitors, so I opened our front window and called downstairs. Two fresh-faced young men appeared after stepping back from the front door. Both young men were carrying clipboards and both were wearing buttons bearing the Democratic National Committee "DNC" logo. Follow me below the fold for what I think is a discussion that MUST BE HAD about what happened next and its implications for the 50 state strategy. Read More

Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes!

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Thursday December 30, 2004 · 9:48 PM PST

2004/12/30 · 21:48

"Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes!"
Maggie Kuhn

Saw this on a bumper sticker over the holiday, and it got me thinking. A long-time friend of my family and close friend to my mother sent a Christmas letter praising Bush's re-election. Frankly, it pissed me off. The woman has always been kind to my family, but the way she phrased the letter--her joy at his re-election and her desire that we all pray for the safe return of our troops--sent me into a rage. I asked for help here at dailykos for what I might say if I ran into her over the holiday and got many a great suggestion. I did not meet her. I did, however, receive a gift from her for my 1.5 year old son. I normally send a thank you card whenever I receive a gift from her, and I plan to do so this time. But after seeing the aforementioned sticker (and calming down a bit), I was thinking I should still say SOMETHING... But what? Read More

What's the Matter with Kansas--Feeling unarmed at 30000 feet

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Monday November 29, 2004 · 7:39 PM PST

2004/11/29 · 19:39

I was reading Frank's "What's the Matter with Kansas" on my flight home from Seattle to San Francisco. The flight attendant stopped at my seat as she collected trash and leaned in to look at my book. I told her, "...interesting read, but rather scary..." She proudly announced to me that it probably wouldn't scare her because she was a conservative. She then asked how I knew any of what was in the book was true. I pointed out the extensive footnotes, some of which I've checked on my own and found to be correct.
After that, my memory of the conversation is a bit blurry, as I was pretty nervous. I tried to explain that the book was about people voting for legislators based on social wedge issues who in turn end up acting against the best interests of those who put them in office and how the author was using Kansas as an example of this phenomenon.

It went downhill from there... Read More

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