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Sunday Open Thread: Smile To See It

by: Dean Barker

Sun Mar 14, 2010 at 08:53:55 AM EDT
Granny D, 14 May 1999:
Never be discouraged from being an activist because people tell you that you'll not succeed. You have already succeeded if you're out there representing truth or justice or compassion or fairness or love. You already have your victory because you have changed the world; you have changed the status quo by you; you have changed the chemistry of things and changes will spread from you, will be easier to happen again in others because of you, because, believe it or not, you are the center of the world.

...My dream of political reform will come true. I may live to see it from this side of life, or I will smile to see it from the other side. But it will happen. It will happen because people love this country so, and this democracy so, and because they have given their sons and daughters and the best years of their own lives to defend it. They will not let it be destroyed before their eyes by these obscene floods of special-interest money that come into our elections from big business. I know we will end that outrage and we will be able to run our communities and our nation to look after the interests of the common people, for that is what a democracy is all about.

This is a Weekend Open Thread.
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Thank you so much, Dean, for posting Granny D's words.  She gives me heart, and the reminder that stepping up is 90% of the work is a great one.  So much of what we do is simply showing up, I have found, and then letting things happen.  Giving a push, starting the ripple.  It has worked for me in my town, more people are involved, despite the pushback from those who would keep the process secret and the exclusive province of "town hall," simply because I put myself out there, scary as it may be, and pulled others to join me.  

I spoke more at town meeting than I have ever done this year, even though I still end up shaking at the mike, because I believe we are at a turning point in our small towns.  We have shrunk as much as we can, we have to move forward to make these places healthy and livable, sustainable and forward-thinking.  This is not the time for Democrats to crawl back into the holes they lived in for so long in NH.  

Like Granny D, I will go down fighting, but I don't believe that the fight will be lost.  

We believe in prosperity & opportunity, strong communities, healthy families, great schools, investing in our future and leading the world by example. We are Democrats; we are the change you're looking for.

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wife is starting a tea party group.

"I adore all the new citizen patriots who are rising up across this country," Thomas, who goes by Ginni, said on the panel at the Conservative Political Action Conference. "I have felt called to the front lines with you, with my fellow citizens, to preserve what made America great."

Virginia Thomas declined to comment in detail about her plans for LibertyCentral.org, which she said would fully launch in May. In a brief phone interview, she did not directly answer questions about whether she and her husband had discussed the effects her role might have on perceptions of his impartiality.

In 2000, while at the Heritage Foundation, she was recruiting staff for a possible George W. Bush administration as her husband was hearing the case that would decide the election. When journalists reported her work, Thomas said she saw no conflict of interest and that she rarely discussed court matters with her husband.

"We have our separate professional lives," she said at the time.

This non profit also benefits from the recent Supreme Court decision giving corporations "freedom of speech" through money. Clarence Thomas was with the five justices who made this decision.


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