Y'all got President Obama elected, now let's keep that momentum going on a local level. Lee Leffingwell is running for mayor of Austin and wants to move that spirit of service forward here. He wants to hear your ideas for how we can be a more active citizenry at the local level.
What: Obama Activist Roundtable with Lee Leffingwell
When: Feb. 2, 2008, 6:30-8pm
Where: Lee for Mayor Campaign HQ, 700 N. Lamar
This will also be a chance to learn more about several of Lee's innovative proposals for the city including AustinCorps, the Mayor's Community Cabinet, Green Jobs Council, how we get our share of federal stimulus money and more.
Come on out, discuss the issues and check out our new campaign office. We hope to see you tonight!
The Texas Democratic Party doesn't stand for anything. To win, our candidates must offer a compelling vision of change.
It is not enough to have an excellent field staff, to have a good media campaign, to have a great yard sign campaign, to have attractive/experienced/qualified candidates. It is also necessary to make a strong case for change.
We have been living for nearly eight years now through the national nightmare of the Bush-Cheney presidency, a gang of silk-tied thugs who came into office through an illegitimate seizure of the presidency and have used its powers to trample the Constitution, spit on the Bill of Rights, wreak economic class war on behalf of a rich and powerful oligarchy against everybody else, turn our national treasury and resources over to the oligarchs' private uses, scorn the rule of law, subject the tools of government to the pursuit of permanent despotic one-party rule, destroy the dreams and lives of thousands of young Americans through foreign war based on blatant and deliberate lies to the nation, unleash agony and destruction upon hundreds of thousands of human beings for no crime other than being Iraqi, and tax our children and their children with endless piles of national debt in the illegal pursuit of foreign empire.
As I stood in the voting booth on the first day of early voting, I thought about...
Especially after the Palin disaster, I was surprised to hear that McCain would go on...but I was certain they would be more judicious about what type of scripts they participated in.
Total disaster for McCain.
Of course it is hard to swim with a 150 lb anchor around your neck.
Case in point: what the hell? Palin bought into a fake call from someone she thought was the president of France.
Then she remarked that she would make a good president in 8 years.
According to AP when she thought she was talking to Sarkozy:
Playing off the governor's much-mocked comment in an early television interview that she had insights into foreign policy because "you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska," the caller tells her: "You know we have a lot in common also, because ... from my house I can see Belgium."
She replies: "Well, see, we're right next door to different countries that we all need to be working with, yes."
For the record my old friend Bobby Gibbs had it well in hand:
Obama's campaign spokesman Robert Gibbs, commenting on the prank, said: "I'm glad we check out our calls before we hand the phone to Barack Obama."
The full transcript is totally beyond belief. She sure is pretty.
For the past few weekends, I have been working with the Travis County Democratic Party registering voters and doing visibility on South Congress Avenue. Part of the visibility work I was doing was doing was merchandising Obama Stuff for visibility. The wonderful owners of Uncommon Objects on South Congress had given us permission to set up a table in front of their shop. The owners and staff are great supporters and were extremely helpful. I wish I could say the same for Barbara.
(This is ridiculous. - promoted by Karl-Thomas Musselman)
In western Hays County, at around 8PM Sunday night 19 October, thugs trashed my car while I was having dinner with some friends.
My "Obama 08" bumper sticker was torn off the right rear bumper, a 20-lb rock was dropped through the back window, 2 stolen Obama yard signs were shoved through the gaping hole in the window, and a cryptic almost "OBAHA" (or something...) was scrawled in orange spray-paint on the drivers side front and back doors and windows.
I am considering driving it around Austin town just like this until election day as a political statement. What say you?
Was I the only one whose jaw hit the keyboard upon reading the Houston Chronicle's endorsement of Obama/Biden this morning?
After carefully observing the Democratic and Republican nominees in drawn-out primary struggles as well as in the general campaign, including three debates, the Chronicle strongly believes that the ticket of Sens. Barack Obama and Joe Biden offers the best choice to lead the United States on a new course into the second decade of the 21st century.
Debate Watch Party
Wednesday, October 15
7:30 - 9:30pm
Saengerrunde Hall
(next door to Scholz Garten)
1607 San Jacinto Blvd
Austin, TX 78701
RSVP on Facebook
We have rain contingency plans. We're renting out Saengerrunde Hall, next door to the Scholz Garten patio. So you can watch the debate inside the Scholz bar, or next door at Saengerrunde Hall.
