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Cheers for blue team color war3/16/2023 Obama dedicates hundreds of pages to the fights and characters that colored his tenure, from his work to pass Obamacare in 2010 to the complexities of dealing with a slate of world leaders and finally his decision to approve the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. That earthquake you felt this morning was the tremor caused by Part I of Barack Obama's memoir landing in e-readers and on bookstore shelves around the globe:Ī Promised Land …chronicles the future president's childhood and political rise, before diving deeply into his historic 2008 campaign and first four years in office. Puppy Pic of the Day: Reverend Warnock speak, you listen…ĬHEERS to personal POTUS pronouncements put to parchment. Height and weight of this year's Happy Holidays tree at 30 Rockefeller Center: 75 feet, 11 tonsĬost to buy the 40 th anniversary edition of Nintendo's Game & Watch console: $49.99Ĭurrent ocean temperature off the coast of Portland, Maine: 51F Percent of President-elect Joe Biden's transition staff who are people of color and women, respectively: 46%, 52% Number of Black women Missouri has sent to the House besides Black Lives Matter activist Cori Bush, who was elected this year: 0 Number of the record-breaking 117 women elected to the 117th session of the House who are women of color: 48 First one to smell sounds and taste colors wins Kos’s Tesla. Note: It’s Random Drug Test Tuesday! Pick a random drug from the bowl and give it a shot. Many thanks and fresh peaches to you all.Ĭheers and Jeers for Tuesday, November 17, 2020 And we’d be guilty of political malpractice if we didn’t also lend our support to Stacey Abrams’ group Fair Fight, which was so important in taking Joe Biden across the finish line November 3rd and sealing Trump’s doom- click here for that link. As always, keep an eye on Daily Kos, especially the Elections Team, for updates and calls for action. Daily Kos has an Act Blue page for Ossoff and Warnock here. And I would reproduce the eloquence of Webster at Bunker Hill-, Let the earliest light of the morning gild it and parting long linger and play on its summit.Īnd the very windows shook in their easements.Democratic organizers in Georgia say they’re pumped and primed to bring Jon and the good Reverend to the Senate, and financial support from the rest of us will help ‘em get it done. No one has stood so alone, so unhelped as Susan Anthony and Soldiers I would have the first monument that is ever raised to any woman in this country raised to her, and that monument will be raised and your daughters, boys will help proudly, gratefully help to set its granite blocks for everlasting age, set it where all may see. Anthony, Cady Stanton and their followers. Who opened the war for us to go, and made it possible, who but that detested set of women who for years had claimed that women had rights and should have the privilege to exercise them, the right to her own property, her own children, her own home, to her freedom of action, to her personal liberty, and upon this other women have claimed the right and took the courage if only to go to a camp and drag a wounded man out of a swamp and try to save him for his family and country.Īnd soldiers, for every woman’s hand that ever cooled your fevered brow, staunched your bleeding wounds or called life back to your famished body you should bless God for Susan B. You glorify the women who made their way to the front to seek you out in your misery and nurse you back to life. That paragraph, my comrades, does worse than misrepresent me as a woman, it maligns my friend and it allures the brightest and bravest work ever done in the land for either me or you. I wish to read this paragraph which you have used to help fill your hall,-‘ I read it very slowly and distinctly. ‘Soldiers, you have called me here to speak to you on the war we lived together. I could feel the indignation hiss between my teeth as the words rolled almost unbidden, but I held firmly to my subject till it was ended, and when they had shouted and cheered to a tiger I resumed- in the following text– And I treated them to their feast of ‘Patriotic eloquence’ a vim I had no power to control. My blood boiled as I read and faced an audience of which the most exacting speaker might be proud, not even standing room in the aisles.
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