Thank You, Blue Hampshire

Congrats to you all at Blue Hampshire. (4.00 / 3)

Wish I could've been there for the big celebration. It makes me proud that New Hampshire went for Obama, Shaheen, Hodes, and Shea-Porter all in the same night. I don't think I can recall a time when the Granite State was this Democratic. Now we just need to depose Judd Gregg. That would be amazing.

Glad to meet some of you during the campaign season: Jack Mitchell and fellow DS alum Doug Lidner in Unity; Laura Clawson at the Big Tent; Jon Bresler; Mike Caufield in Keene; "even" Kathy Sullivan whom I met at Invesco Field per Ray Buckley's advice, LOL! You're all cool cats.

Congrats to you all for making it possible. Don't think the blogosphere isn't making a difference. You all are.

NH Ex-pat

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by: NH Ex-pat @ Wed Nov 05, 2008 at 11:53:20 AM CST

Thank you (2.67 / 3)

I'll write more when I decompress but for now let me just say thank you from the bottom of my heart.  

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by: Judy Reardon @ Wed Nov 05, 2008 at 14:02:19 PM CST

No Sununus (0.00 / 0)

No Sununus

That's the great news !

Thank youse.

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by: JonnyBBad @ Wed Nov 05, 2008 at 17:00:56 PM CST

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No Sununus is Good Sununus. n/t (4.00 / 2)

Republicans believe government is bad - then they get into office and prove it.

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by: GreyMike @ Wed Nov 05, 2008 at 17:04:20 PM CST

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you were about an inch off the floor (0.00 / 0)

Kathy I swear I saw you floating around the room.

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by: JonnyBBad @ Wed Nov 05, 2008 at 17:04:00 PM CST

Possibly (4.00 / 3)

We worked on levitation in the War Room.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.


Benjamin Franklin


 

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by: Kathy Sullivan @ Wed Nov 05, 2008 at 17:18:54 PM CST

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And what have Sununu and Gregg done for our transportation needs lately? (0.00 / 0)

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Hope 2012

@DougLindner

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by: Douglas E. Lindner @ Wed Nov 05, 2008 at 21:17:58 PM CST

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Levitate the Pentagon (4.00 / 3)

We were led by, among others, our baby doctor, Benjamin Spock. The week after the protests, Mo Udall, who would later run for the Democratic nomination for President, reversed his position and came out against the War.

"A weekend of both dead seriousness and utter sillinesss left an entire nation surprised, disturbed, and debating."

680 jailed, 50 hospitalized, including some soldiers and MP's, and DC cops...

http://www.americanheritage.co...

The Day The Pentagon Was Supposed to Lift Off Into Space

On Saturday, October 21, 1967, Washington, D.C., was rocked by a mass gathering. At least 100,000 people streamed into the nation's capital that autumn weekend, most of them college-age men and women, many of them students eligible for the military draft, all there to protest the Vietnam War. At the time, about 500 soldiers were dying in Vietnam every month, and more and more Americans were coming to dispute President Johnson's resolve to prosecute the war to a successful conclusion. That weekend crowds of antiwar activists and GIs met face-to-face, and history was made.

The activities of October 21 and the surrounding days were planned and organized by the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, a loose coalition of groups ranging from religious organizations to the leftist Students for a Democratic Society. Saturday's march on the Pentagon, however, was largely the creation of one man, David Dellinger, who edited a radical journal called Liberation. With the help of the Berkeley activist Jerry Rubin, Dellinger planned to hold a huge rally on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial before leading the assembled demonstrators across the Potomac to take up a position outside the Pentagon. Why the Pentagon, and not the White House or the Capitol? Because Rubin insisted that the Defense Department held the real reins of power.

As the date approached, President Johnson consulted extensively with Attorney General Ramsey Clark about the possibility of civil unrest. Concerned about violent subversives and Communist agitators, Johnson ordered an increased military presence in the capital and even considered surrounding the White House with soldiers. He ultimately had 3,000 troops, mostly military police, and 1,800 National Guardsmen secure the Pentagon. On the antiwar side, Dr. Benjamin Spock, Rev. William Sloane Coffin, of Yale University, and the novelist Norman Mailer prepared to be among the demonstrators. Mailer would later win a Pulitzer prize for his account of the protest, The Armies of the Night.

On the day of the demonstration 100,000 people gathered before the Lincoln Memorial. After hours of speeches, including one by Spock declaring "the enemy is Lyndon Johnson," roughly half of them headed across the Potomac toward the Pentagon. Walking across Arlington Memorial Bridge, they came to a halt before the headquarters of the U.S. military. Soldiers of the 82nd Airborne Division stood before them. Initially, and for much of the afternoon, the demonstration at the Pentagon was nonviolent. The activists staged sit-ins, sang songs, chanted antiwar slogans, and waved flags. The day's most famous image is that of a Berkeley radical who called himself "Super Joel" approaching an armed soldier and slipping a flower into the barrel of his gun. Many of his fellow protesters followed suit.

But the day was not destined to end peacefully, and by nightfall the Pentagon steps were stained with blood. As the afternoon wore on, some activists became increasingly combative, hurling insults at the soldiers and pitching rocks through the building's windows. The protest assumed an intentionally absurd character early on, with Abbie Hoffman, co-founder of the Yippies, promising to levitate the Pentagon into the air, and Allen Ginsberg, the beat poet, leading Tibetan chants in the hope of accomplishing exactly that feat. Ed Sanders led his band the Fugs in an "exorcism" of the building, calling on "the demons of the Pentagon to rid themselves of the cancerous tumors of the war generals." But the demonstration intensified beyond those eye-catching theatrics. At several points in the afternoon, large groups of demonstrators, including one crowd numbering around 3,000, tried to break through police lines. One small group actually succeeded in entering the Pentagon. They were quickly roughed up by Pentagon security and arrested, but their entry was surely worrisome to Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara, who watched the day's events unfold from his office window.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...
The Armies of the Night (1968) is a Pulitzer Prize[1] and National Book Award-winning nonfiction novel written by Norman Mailer and sub-titled History as a Novel/The Novel as History. Mailer essentially creates his own genre for the narrative, split into historicized and novelized accounts of the October 1967 March on the Pentagon. Mailer's unique rendition of the non-fiction novel was one of only a few at the time, and received the most critical attention. In Cold Blood (1965) by Truman Capote and Hell's Angels (1966) by Hunter S. Thompson had already been published, and three months later Tom Wolfe would contribute The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968).

"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again."

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by: JonnyBBad @ Thu Nov 06, 2008 at 05:33:26 AM CST

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A simple note (4.00 / 5)

After the results came in, a Vietnam vet I had been coordinating with sent this note:

In 1968 I was a private in the Illinois National Guard.  No one will forget that chant from the protesters in Grant Park, "The whole world's watching".  Last night the whole world was watching once again, and a whole lot of things got made right.

Whack-a-mole, anyone?

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by: Jack Mitchell @ Thu Nov 06, 2008 at 08:02:41 AM CST

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Thanks Kathy. (4.00 / 2)

It was a real treat to learn of Shaheen's victory in the same room as you.

What you have contributed to the level of discussion here is impossible to estimate, but what you have contributed to this year's political cycle is very much quantifiable. Here's one formula:

NH - Sununu = a new direction.

birch, finch, beech

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by: Dean Barker @ Wed Nov 05, 2008 at 20:24:36 PM CST

thank you, Kathy (4.00 / 1)

and right back at you. You and your crew really rocked the state!

I'm grateful, and honored to be part of this community at BH. Now, it's time to go catch up on sleep!

sanctimonious purist/professional lefty

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by: susanthe @ Wed Nov 05, 2008 at 21:33:18 PM CST

note from India (4.00 / 2)

snipped email from Chuckster

What a great election result and it's so good to have a sober, inspiring, eloquent and intelligent visionary to lead us through the clean-up of the mess left behind.  My daughter called from India the day before the election and when I asked if the Indians like Obama, she replied, "Dad, the whole world loves Obama!"

ps Spellcheck suggestions for Obama

Obadiah
Obadias
Bamako
Alabama

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by: JonnyBBad @ Thu Nov 06, 2008 at 09:29:40 AM CST

Alternate subject line (4.00 / 4)

"Obama to replace cowboy - Indians celebrate."

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by: cmnh @ Thu Nov 06, 2008 at 12:05:22 PM CST

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There you Goa gain n/t (0.00 / 0)

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by: JonnyBBad @ Thu Nov 06, 2008 at 14:45:06 PM CST

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