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Friday September 05, 2008 · 4:51 AM PDT

2008/09/05 · 04:51

I worked for a small to medium size AV company for three years. We specialized in custom systems for only the richest of rich elite people, working in gated communities on mountaintops. Today is the first day I can say that in past tense.

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Saturday June 21, 2008 · 11:14 PM PDT

2008/06/21 · 23:14

The breaking is a little tongue in cheek, and I'm not sure if he's come out before tonight, but tonight was REM's last stop on their US tour, in Atlanta, and Michael Stipe gave a great nod to Obama during the encore. The opening band was "The National" and apparently they have a song called "Mr. November" which is about Barack. The merch stand was selling t-shirts with Obama's likeness that said Mr. November as a caption.

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Friday June 06, 2008 · 9:04 AM PDT

2008/06/06 · 09:04

The contrast between McCain's green screen anti-inspirational speech and Obama's impassioned victory celebration has reached an amazing consensus, even to the point where Fox News noticed. I've been thinking a lot about the moment where Obama and McCain stand side by side and present their case, and how that moment will portray as stark a contrast as possible. And now the republicans have realized that moment is their only chance (*snicker*). The story on the front page of The Politico presents us with the question on Republican's minds "The topic: Is there a way John McCain can win the presidency without giving another speech?"

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Friday May 23, 2008 · 7:18 AM PDT

2008/05/23 · 07:18

This diary was partially inspired by the recommended diary by cskendrick which I very much enjoyed.

Last night my wife and I went to Thirsty Thursday at the local minor league baseball park. If you don't know the ritual, they sell dollar beers on thursdays so the park fills up with all kinds of local color making an appearance. Asheville, my town for the last 8 years, is a stalwart progressive city, but the progressives that have come here from boulder, austin, the northeast, and everywhere in between, and of course the local progressives, are overlaid upon a very vigorous, very proud, very defiant Appalachian culture. These are the people who brought 10,000 people together for a "we still pray" rally when prayer was taken from the most sacred of cathedrals: the football stadium.

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Sunday April 27, 2008 · 6:22 AM PDT

2008/04/27 · 06:22

We were sitting around enjoying some single malt whisky I had purchased my buddy for his birthday, and the conversation strayed into politics. This other couple, good friends, are both Obama supporters, though she is more convinced than he is. We got to talking about the latest in the presidential race, with our primary right around the corner

Poll

141 votes Show Results

What will the main issue be this fall?

141 votes Vote Now!

What will the main issue be this fall?

Flag pins and fake patriotism

41 votes

Economy

56 votes

War

14 votes

Basketball vs. bowling

7 votes

Race

23 votes

Barack the Vote in Asheville!!

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Friday April 18, 2008 · 5:45 AM PDT

2008/04/18 · 05:45

Last night we had the good fortune to attend a local Obama rally/concert. Kudos to the local grassroots group, because apparently they made this whole thing fly, and it was a rousing success! The venue holds about 900 people, and it was packed all night long. Tickets sold out a week ago. They were asking people to turn in their wristbands when they left so they could keep the room at capacity..there were people outside looking for tickets and waiting around to get in.

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Friday March 28, 2008 · 8:26 PM PDT

2008/03/28 · 20:26

So, my hometown is a very progressive town in a conservative county in a red state. Kucinich won my town in '04, and we have pushed our city council to a democratic majority, with a couple of progressive representatives. In '06, we finally ousted our long standing conservative representative in favor of a moderate Democrat. Apparently the Clintons decided we were ripe for the picking, and sent Bill to town tonight. I am out of town this week on vacation and found out about this rally while I was gone.

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Friday June 09, 2006 · 9:44 AM PDT

2006/06/09 · 09:44

Yesterday my work day started with an extra level of drama. The general level of chaos was a little enhanced, and after a long hard week I really almost lost it a couple of times.

At the peak of the chaos and confusion, the right-wing president and CEO of our small business (where most everyone else is pretty progressive) comes in with a triumphant smile on his face, touting the news of Zarqawi's death. He ranted about how much he was going to make on the stock market as a result (ignoring the room full of people struggling to make rent on the amount he underpays, taking advantage of a poor job market in the area), and how gas prices would tumble, and everything was generally hunky dory in the world. We'd have Bin Laden by 2008 (because it's an election year, of course), and how the war on terror was going swimmingly.

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