Hello Connecticut DUer's!
On the eve of your primary I thought I'd share an item I picked up tonight.
The Message in the Coming Lieberman Defeat: It’s More than the War
This piece is time-sensitive. And as it might have an impact, I’d call it time-urgent.
This piece, I am hoping, could help to pre-empt the media from defining the message of the election in those terms that continue to protect and serve the Bushites. Conceivably it might also help to inspire the Connecticut insurgency to come out Tuesday in greater numbers.
If, when you read it, you also believe this piece could serve some useful purpose, I hope you will help to disseminate it ahead of Tuesday’s primary. Especially if you know people who might be able to spread the word in Connecticut itself, that could be valuable.-- Andrew Bard Schmookler, an author, speaker, and radio talk-show host.
The Democratic voters of Connecticut –apparently about to reject Senator Joe Lieberman in Tuesday’s primary—are poised to send the national Democratic Party a message. And the media are poised to help the Democrats, and the nation as a whole, to misinterpret it.
It’s all about the war in Iraq, the media will tell us.
But this over-simplification obscures the heart of the matter: that citizens are not only opposing the war but are struggling for a way to deal with America’s present deeper crisis.
~snip~
So it’s not ultimately about the war, and we must not allow ourselves or the public to be otherwise persuaded. It’s about this particular president and all the damage his regime is inflicting on America. It’s Lieberman’s being a help and a support for the Bush presidency that’s given rise to this grassroots rage against him.
(much, much more at link...)
fyi, I'm in CLE OH and post at the OH DU board quite often. Occupied Ohio is ground-zero for the GOP Culture of Corruption. Bob Ney just "took one for the 'team' " and hand-picked another party-faithful stooge to run in his place. We are now coalescing around
Sherrod Brown for US Senate and working hard to unseat one of the WORST bu$h rubber-stampers in Mike DeWine.
I hope you find inspiration in Dr. Schmookler's essay. I wish all of you Good Luck in your GOTV efforts tomorrow!
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