Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Truman Time: Congrats, David!
Yeah, the news will go out elsewhere... but let's post it here too: congrats to our own vice-president and webmaster/online meister David Dobson as our Burbank club's honoree among the Truman Award club winners for 2008, honored Nov. 23 by the Democratic Party of the San Fernando Valley (DP-SFV, or "dip-sivv" if you've never heard it pronounced.) DP-SFV, a state Democratic mainstay umbrella of now 28 regional clubs from Westside LA to Santa Clarita, just wrapped up a humongously successful campaign cycle based from this year's campaign HQ in Van Nuys.But DP-SFV is just the sponsor and host of the award banquet, which also honored state Controller John Chiang and retiring state party chair Art Torres. DAVID was our honoree, a big thanks for all his work—especially the E-vites, e-newsletters, e-blasts, Google docs, membership roster, and the website and blog setup and maintenance.
(For those keeping score at home, our first Truman Award winner in 2007 was founding "revived Burbank" president and AD 23 state convention delegate Lee Wochner...who, due to
our newness online, never got a blog entry--til now:
Labels: Burbank Democratic Club, DP-SFV, Truman Awards
Sunday, November 09, 2008
Strictly Political, not Racist....wha????
From Reuters Via TPM
"Someone regarded by the (American) Republican right as a crypto-communist has become the leader of the world's greatest power ... and al Qaeda are rubbing their hands with glee that the new president wants peace, not war," Artur Gorski of the opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party told parliament last week.
"The black messiah of the new left has crushed the Republican candidate John McCain, and America will soon pay a high price for this quirk of democracy," he added.
"Obama is an approaching catastrophe. This marks the end of white man's civilisation," he said in an address.
I'm just happy for the 'simple' things
At the risk of sounding off-putting ...
Make no mistake: I am as blown away by the election of Barak Obama as president, and what it says about our country's maturity—and as much if not more so the message it sends to the world, what damage the mere act has already repaired—as anyone who has celebrated this week. I can't claim to have it in the DNA like our black brethren, but I'm there, baby—I'm there.
Even so... is it OK if I almost feel wistful that such a landmark moment had to be "wasted" on this election? I only say that because the first thought that flooded my mind Tuesday night as first Pennsylvania and then Ohio were called for Obama ... and then the West Coast put him over ... was that we as a country COULD survive ... we COULD still elect thinking, feeling candidates. We CAN yet again have a president who can string three complete sentences together, who will not embarrass us before the whole world, who will welcome more than "yes men" to his side, who will not bully the rule of law and human rights out of cowardice and CYA, who will not throw open the gates of government like a pig trough to the feeding frenzy, who will not let 19th century dogma and 20th century greed overrun 21st century science and rationality ... and who sees our military as more than little toy soldiers to push around the world's game board.
Yes, we can....raise the bar again.
I treasure the fact that we have elected such an historic figure as Barack Obama — but first and foremost, I'm just glad to have a functional human being in the White House again... one who reassures the world and his fellow Americans that this really is still the country we grew up in and read about... and that time really does march forward.
Yes, that was Tuesday night. I let Wednesday be the day when those pictures of the 106-year-old former slave's daughter voting for Barack wet my eyes somethin' awful.
Make no mistake: I am as blown away by the election of Barak Obama as president, and what it says about our country's maturity—and as much if not more so the message it sends to the world, what damage the mere act has already repaired—as anyone who has celebrated this week. I can't claim to have it in the DNA like our black brethren, but I'm there, baby—I'm there.
Even so... is it OK if I almost feel wistful that such a landmark moment had to be "wasted" on this election? I only say that because the first thought that flooded my mind Tuesday night as first Pennsylvania and then Ohio were called for Obama ... and then the West Coast put him over ... was that we as a country COULD survive ... we COULD still elect thinking, feeling candidates. We CAN yet again have a president who can string three complete sentences together, who will not embarrass us before the whole world, who will welcome more than "yes men" to his side, who will not bully the rule of law and human rights out of cowardice and CYA, who will not throw open the gates of government like a pig trough to the feeding frenzy, who will not let 19th century dogma and 20th century greed overrun 21st century science and rationality ... and who sees our military as more than little toy soldiers to push around the world's game board.
Yes, we can....raise the bar again.
I treasure the fact that we have elected such an historic figure as Barack Obama — but first and foremost, I'm just glad to have a functional human being in the White House again... one who reassures the world and his fellow Americans that this really is still the country we grew up in and read about... and that time really does march forward.
Yes, that was Tuesday night. I let Wednesday be the day when those pictures of the 106-year-old former slave's daughter voting for Barack wet my eyes somethin' awful.
Labels: 2008 election, America, Obama
Saturday, November 01, 2008
Sign of the times (they are a-changin'?)
When business decides it's savvy to jump into your political imagery, you've arrived.
From a recent JiffyLub
e direct mail insert flier seen in Burbank for 16 SoCal stores ....
From a recent JiffyLub
e direct mail insert flier seen in Burbank for 16 SoCal stores ....