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The Tea Party is coming to town. Yesterday, Sarah Palin--Kelly Ayotte's biggest supporter--kicked off the Tea Party Express' national tour.
The Tea Party's final stop on their tour will be on the steps of our state house in Concord the night before the election.
Sarah Palin, Karl Rove, Glenn Beck and their friends on the Tea Party Express are working hard on Kelly Ayotte's behalf. Ayotte proudly accepted Palin's endorsement and groups like Karl Rove's American Crossroads and the Glenn Beck-backed Chamber of Commerce have spent millions of dollars to boost her campaign
(Great diary Kelly. Thanks for sharing your experience at one of of the 1000s of Obama House Parties that happened yesterday. - promoted by Mike Hoefer)
I had originally signed up to go to a "Unite for Change" house party in New Boston for today. Unfortunately due to illness of the host it was cancelled and our field organizer was trying to shuffle those of us who had signed up to other local events. I was invited to attend a party in Manchester because it looked like it was closer than any of the other ones around me. I had agreed to go there, but then thought twice. I wanted to at least meet people who if they didn't share my NH House Districts, they might share my NH Senate District, or at least share my US Congressional District.... And, if I wanted to "meet-up" (shout out to you Deaniacs) with these like-minded people, I would need to go elsewhere than ManchVegas (sorry Doug and Kathy).
It's been 40 years since Dr. King was assassinated. Today, on the anniversary of his death, we'll get the usual teary reflections on the "I have a dream speech." It's a remarkable speech, but it's a small part of Dr. King's legacy - a legacy that has been sanitized for our protection.
Today we will not hear his speech Beyond Viet Nam, a speech that was denounced by Time magazine as "demagogic slander that sounded like a script for Radio Hanoi."
As Jeff Cohen and Normon Solomon pointed out last year we will not hear about the truly radical project he was working on when he was killed - the Poor People's Campaign.
King's economic bill of rights called for massive government jobs programs to rebuild America's cities. He saw a crying need to confront a Congress that had demonstrated its "hostility to the poor" - appropriating "military funds with alacrity and generosity," but providing "poverty funds with miserliness."
Dr. King was in his 20's when he became a leader in the Montgomery bus boycott - a boycott that showed the power of community organizing. It's impossible to know what kind of changes would have occurred if he hadn't been killed at age 39.
It's tempting to be depressed that so little has changed. Today, let's celebrate ALL of the words and ALL of the work of Dr. King.
Don't let the media choose your memories.
