Why I love this country

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Monday October 27, 2008 · 6:10 AM PDT

2008/10/27 · 06:10

When my 15 year old daughter and I set out for non-communist, real America, coastal Virginia last week to work for Barack Obama, we were wary of what we would find--but that's why we went. My 80 year old mother, a New York transplant and life-long democrat lives there, and though she was planning on voting for BHO, she was still stuck somewhat in Hillaryland, so we invited her to come along, too.
We live in Vermont, one of the most racially homogeneous states in the union. We had canvassed before in NH, which has a similar demographic. What we found in coastal Virginia, which does not, was an object lesson why Obama's message of hope and change are not rhetorical flourishes, and why, despite the mess we find ourselves in, including the widening gap between rich and poor, we've got a fighting chance not simply to solve our problems, but to, in fact, create a more perfect union.
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Tuesday September 05, 2006 · 10:58 AM PDT

2006/09/05 · 10:58

I went for a walk yesterday--with a lot of other people

More than 1000 of us walked into Burlington, Vermont yesterday on the final eight-mile leg of the nearly 50 mile walk for global warming action that began Thursday. Bernie Sanders called it the largest political demonstration in Vermont in recent memory (www.freynland.com); the line, led by author Bill McKibben, stretched more than half a mile through the state's biggest city.

And if you're wondering what impact such old-skool tactics might have, here's what happened at the rally at the march's close: All of Vermont's Congressional and Senatorial candidates signed on to a tough global warming pledge, essentially endorsing the Waxman bill that would begin to catch the U.S. up to European countries in tackling climate change. That is--forty mile per gallon cars, 85% carbon reduction by 2050, and 20% renewables by 2020. Read More

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Why I love this country

Largest Global Warming Demonstration in the US...so far