My Kids Will Hear the President's Speech!

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Sunday September 06, 2009 · 10:09 AM PDT

2009/09/06 · 10:09

We have a 30% dropout rate in this country...no doubt many are Latino and African-American. These kids need to be encouraged to do well in school and have goals for their lives. We need to spread the word and make sure these kids see or hear the speech... online if they have to, or printed. (I am hoping there will be a Spanish version also.)

If others don't want their kids to hear a Black Democratic President encourage kids to do well in school....fine. Let them keep their kids out of school that day or bully weak-kneed school officials.

Let's make sure the kids who NEED to hear the speech do so!

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Monday May 25, 2009 · 4:02 PM PDT

2009/05/25 · 16:02

By YOU, I mean ANYONE reading these words! Last year...on-a-lark...I applied for a scholarship to attend Netroots Nation that was offered by Democracy for America(DFA) and I won. I had joined the DFA network after being sent a link by a local activist. A few days later I saw the scholarship information and decided to give it a shot. To my surprise I was one of 30 who won, and I headed to Austin for one of the greatest experiences of my life! (other than marriage, kids, the convention in Denver, and the inauguration in DC...please don't ask me to rate or order these...).

If I can win a Scholarship you probably can too...give it a try!

Once I was picked, my biggest question was: WILL I FIT IN? I'm including some of my blogs from the convention (July 2008) to answer this question...this is just my experience, but I encourage ALL to attend and TRY for a scholarship.

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Thursday September 04, 2008 · 11:07 AM PDT

2008/09/04 · 11:07

So they did it....they took the best (or maybe the worst) of Jerry Springer and came up with a candidate and a message.

Pitbull Palin is a PRODUCT of Rovian strategists. (The same people who brought us Curious George)

Her assignment is clear....She will play the gender card as a victim....the race card as an attacker. She will play the innocent victim against 'the cultural elite.' She will divide America between 'hard-working white, evangelicals' and 'those people.' She will be the 'innocent victim' against a media that asks her hard questions (if they don't let themselves get bullied.) She is a movie script where the spunky girl rises to power against 'those mean people' who make fun of her.

A party who could only bring 36 African-Americans to their convention, is ready to launch a civil war on us to keep the White House.

This bodacious, belligerent, b---- is a PRODUCT of what the right-wing perceives as a winning formula! They will blame all of the country's ills on people who do not look like them or think like them.

Not this time!!

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