How utterly disturbing. The sounds of doom and gloom, the masses marching, the warnings of terror to come. Give it a rest. Me getting married is not going to hurt you in any capacity. Educated voters don’t buy that. Does that mean you won’t win? Not necessarily. There are lots of uneducated, ignorant voters out there that fall for this type of fearmongering.
What do you think of this lovely show of Christian love and compassion?
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Well, I’ve finally found a few minutes to post my photo highlights from the final night of the DNC! As most of you surely saw for yourself, his speech was amazing and the night was electric.
Enjoy!
Tonight I will be attending the final night of the Democratic National Convention here in Denver at Invesco Field. I am so thrilled that I can barely contain myself. The thrill-o-meter just went through the roof when I found out that Al Gore will be speaking tonight as well. I have always wanted to see Al Gore speak and the duo of Gore and Obama in the same night is absolutely amazing!
Wherever you are, if you are in the United States please go out and volunteer. We can’t afford four more years of continued failed policies. I can’t afford four more years of this and I’m sure you can’t either. I need guaranteed health care, we all need guaranteed health care and it’s sad that it’s even a question. Please, get educated, get involved, and contribute your time. An hour or two a week helps, so please step up!
This video has been floating around for a long time, but has far fewer views than I would expect, so here you go.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT0XxtNPVdQ
If only. If only he were this inspirational in real life.
And finally, a romance that will go down in history.
Why doesn’t anyone ever talk about the Keating Five? It really happened, it was really unethical and extremely corrupt, and John McCain was right in the middle of it. Educate yourselves, then educate your friends, family, and neighbors!
Image Source: http://www.236.com/news/2008/07/29/mccain_attacking_obamas_charac_1_8005.php
This woman is vile. Colorado’s Congressional 4th District has an incredible opportunity this November to relieve Congress of this vile, bigoted woman. To think of the civilian death count in Iraq now documented as between 90,000 to 150,000, the soldiers we’ve lost at over 4,000, and over 30,000 of our young men and women wounded, and this woman focuses on gay marriage? This woman makes me sick.
If you aren’t familiar with Mrs. Marilyn Musgrave she is best known as the main sponsor of the Federal Marriage Amendment that thankfully failed miserably in 2006 and again in 2007. As if those two failures weren’t enough she’s at it again co-sponsoring the same legislation this time around. She’s known in the square state as "Mad Cow" Marilyn and desperately needs to be put out to pasture.
She has a fantastic opponent this year, Betsy Markey, and I’m keeping my fingers crossed and my wallet open in hopes that her bigotry and hatred are finally removed from our Capitol.
Iraq War Sources: http://icasualties.org/oif,
http://www.iraqbodycount.org/,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War#Iraq_Health_Minister_estimate_in_November_2006
This video is funded by Focus Action, the political arm of Focus on the Family. Asking Christians to pray for rain during Barack Obama’s acceptance speech is not only childish, but it’s pretty disturbing. Why shut out free speech and the political process? Seems very unchristian. It has now disappeared from Focus’ site, but Keith Olbermann picked up on it and featured it on his show Countdown:
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Now that my boss knows about it I guess it’s safe to publish on here. I have decided to quit my job and return to school full time. My first class is today at 1:00 PM. I am attending Metropolitan State College of Denver where I will be majoring in Sociology with a minor in Political Science. Eventually ending up with my Masters in Social Work and a career in Youth Suicide Prevention. I’ll get more into my political aspirations in a future post.
The major leap of faith here is that I am looking at a significant cut in my income and standard of living. I will be leaving my full time job as a retail Store Manager and going to school while working a part time job somewhere. All the years I’ve spent out of school, I’ve continued to climb the ladder at my jobs and have now achieved a level of income that is not typical of a college student. Along with that is an expensive car note, expensive rent, and various other expenses that I must now begin trimming away.
The other possible leap of faith is that I may not work a part time job at all until November 5th. I am so extremely dedicated to the Barack Obama campaign here in Colorado and especially the work we are all doing in Arapahoe County that I have seriously considered going to school and spending the rest of my time working on the campaign.
Doing this would require me to live off of student loans for a few months, and so I have requested a slightly larger than normal private student loan to help cover me for the next couple of months. The large majority of this loan will just be subsidizing my part time income as I go back to school.
My plan was pretty much set until I mentioned to a vendor that I work with indirectly that I was leaving my job. She immediately implored me to apply for a part time position at her company for 25 hours week and essentially the same money I make now working 52 hours a week. I have submitted my resume and seem to have a very good shot.
I’m very torn over my options now. I had completely fallen in love with the idea of working full force for the campaign, and even scheduled my classes in such a way that I will only be in class Monday afternoon, Tuesday afternoon and Thursday evening. The rest of my time would go to the Obama campaign. This new job possibility would have me working Thursday evening, Friday evening and all day on Saturday and Sunday when I am most needed by the campaign.
The option of working a job with those kind of hours is outstanding and too good to pass up and so I’ve thrown my hat into the ring and will see how it all turns out. If I get the job, I must take it and accept a reduced role in the campaign.
Currently I am one of my neighborhood leaders and a strong support to my local Field Organizer. Losing me on weekends will be a very large blow to the organization that we are just now pulling together, but I really don’t see an alternative. I mentioned this to her tonight and she was very sad to hear the news, but happy for my opportunities. She’s passionate and intelligent and it’s a thrill working with her on something we both so strongly believe in
I’m very conflicted, but ultimately I have decided what I will do in either scenario. If I am offered the job I will take it. If I am not offered the job I will not pursue a job until November 5th, the day after we secure victory for Barack Obama and the values so many of us hold so dear.
This past Thursday evening I attended the Grand Opening of Barack Obama‘s Campaign for Change Campaign Office here in Arapahoe County. There were well over 200 people in attendance, around 250 I would guess. The crowd was as diverse a crowd as I’ve ever seen, and there was electricity in the air. I met most of the staff, officially changed my registration to Democrat, and signed up to volunteer my time.
Saturday I attended a Volunteer Leaders conference which also had several hundred people in attendance. We spent a little over 5 hours together training and organizing neighborhood teams with our campaign staff Field Organizers. We will be meeting regularly to conduct voter registration drives, as well as phone banking. I will probably end up as the Canvassing Coordinator or the Phone Banking Coordinator. I have experience with both, so we’ll see.
These pictures are from the campaign office opening. It was a fantastic evening! Fired Up, Ready To Go!