Tell Your Representatives to Support Obama's Plan

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Sunday September 21, 2008 · 2:03 PM PDT

2008/09/21 · 14:03

This is a short diary. I'm seeing diaries posted discussing how catastrophic and corrupt the proposed Paulson is, and how Senator Obama has come out against it.

But I think it's really important to focus on pressing Congress to follow Obama, and NOT be frightened and threatened by the Bush administration (yet again) into capitulating to something most of them probably realize is wrong.

For those of us in safe states with limited opportunities to canvas, especially, let us put our energy, at least for the next few days, into advocating for an appropriate and effective, as well as fast, response.

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Wednesday July 09, 2008 · 4:51 PM PDT

2008/07/09 · 16:51

I'm not happy about Senator Obama's position on the FISA bill that just passed. I elected not to send money in late June because I just couldn't push the button at that point.

But for Senator Clinton to send her "spokesblogger" out to pander to unhappy progressives in this way -- when she didn't have ANY courage in her voting patterns when she thought she was the nominee -- is disgusting. If she wanted to fight hard to filibuster the bill, or get amendments passed, great. But to vote no and then reach out to the progressive wing of the party in this manner is divisive and disheartening.

Is this how she's going to help get a Democratic elected President in November? Because that is what she has pledged to do -- not herself in 2012, but Barack Obama in 2008.

bloudr

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Sunday June 01, 2008 · 3:20 PM PDT

2008/06/01 · 15:20

Yesterday was a difficult day for me. For those of you who remember my diary about my mother watching the Wisconsin returns while she lay dying, her ashes were interred yesterday. I couldn't travel back across the country for it, so I had the weird experience of muting the RBC meeting telecast when my Dad called to talk about the experience, just before Harold Ickes made his speech about the Michigan compromise.

I was upset all day -- tense about the committee hearings, missing my mom; at one point, my husband and I were talking about the space shuttle launch, and I said, "I can't remember if my parents ever watched Huntley-Brinkley. I'll have to ask my mom." And then I remembered, and burst into tears.

But something hit me, as I was watching Norah O'Donnell anchoring the shuttled launch.

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Tuesday May 20, 2008 · 8:10 PM PDT

2008/05/20 · 20:10

I've been thinking about this a lot in the last few days, with all the talk about older women, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

My mother died in February, after being chronically ill for years. She was 82. She was notified in the afternoon that there was nothing left they could do. I frantically flew through a blizzard from California to try to reach her before the end. After she said her good-byes in my dad, brother, niece and nephews, she spent the rest of her conscious time watching the returns coming in from Wisconsin. She was an Obama supporter, and it gave her real comfort to see people coming together in such a positive way as she left the world.

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Sunday May 18, 2008 · 12:33 PM PDT

2008/05/18 · 12:33

To be clear, I am a woman, and a feminist, and caught between the official ages of female Obama supporters and female Clinton supporters (late 40s.)

I have never been a fan of either of the Clintons, and have loathed Hillary Clinton since her carpetbagger win of the NY Senate seat, based on her twin strengths of her husband's connections and her claims to victimhood -- despite all the evidence that she had known and accepted her husband's philandering for decades, and aggressively demonized the usually disempowered (by virtue of age, income, education or sometimes all three) women he preyed upon. These are not the actions or values of a feminist.

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