What unites us

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Friday October 24, 2008 · 8:29 PM PDT

2008/10/24 · 20:29

After a week of inflammatory political verbiage, I tuned in to something different today. Some old songs I still enjoy, time with the kids and Bill Moyers. Moyers had a touching segment about an organisation called "Playing for change". The producer, Mark Johnson, spoke eloquently about the idea that what unites as humans is greater than what divides us.

When I listen to Palin and her ilk describe Obama as a terrorist and talk about the "pro-America" parts of the country, it does bring up negative feelings (to put it mildly) towards her and those in her camp. It is so easy to get caught up in the negative destructive spiral. This hateful language also reminds me of people in my own life who no matter what you do to make peace, or to try and understand, to placate, still go on being mean and hateful. First you try to understand why? then to appease and after many years you reach a point where you realise that you need to cut off from them just to live your own life in peace.

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music

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science

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food

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money

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sports

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faith

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love

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common cause

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nothing

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How Obama can reach mothers

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Wednesday September 10, 2008 · 8:14 AM PDT

2008/09/10 · 08:14

Obama desperately needs to work on getting the women's vote. It won't help to have surrogates out, he needs to find a strategy/narrative of his own. He (and Biden) actually have the perfect story. Obama was raised by a single mother and he needs to stress that background and clearly state that he really does understand how difficult it is for single mothers/parents. With a large percentage of single parents, he can say I will be your advocate (like Palin's special needs spiel). With Biden's background as a single parent and the moving speech by his son, he also needs to stress his commitment to parents.

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Thursday September 04, 2008 · 10:12 AM PDT

2008/09/04 · 10:12

Watching Palin's speech yesterday made me cringe and I had to switch of the tv. However, what made me really sad is that when I talk to my neighbors (southwest Ohio), many of them think she did a great job. They believe she spoke well, she's a mom like them, was on the PTA, she's doing it all and they like the idea of a woman - any woman - being in the white house. Since my neighbors are the typical suburban moms with limited exposure to the rest of the country, much less the rest of the world, Palin appeals to them. They do NOT see the lack of experience, the lies, the mockery, the vitriolic baseless atacks of Obama.

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meet your local politician

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