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I am laughing at your analysis cuz it is great, AND

My post surgery guts are taking a beating !  Your comments are great.

I've got a really warped sense of humor - I'd rather laugh at something that is depressing cuz crying sucks.

What I've been scratching my head about is:

how does having my neighbors sign up with the DNC help US organize for the local stop light, the local bus routes, the local transportation system, the local anything?

IF it isn't easier to get together for whatever the local problems and concerns are, how does htat foster community involvement for the BIG fights?

OH well. It is a start on rebuilding a functioning system out of a completely dysfunctional system that has had the support of decades of neglect from the National and State party pooh-bahs.

Realistically, at least Howard is doing way more for peon involvment than McIncompent ever did during his Reign of Failure, 2000 - 2004.

Finally - Dina's comments REALLY show how important and how useful it is to have diversity of perspective and experience.

I love spreadsheets and databases and don't care in the least about colors and fonts,

I hate reading paragraphs of technical info - make bullet points and if / then statements, or don't bother me.

=> I didn't pick up on any of her valid points cuz it isn't my skill set, it is off my radar, but that doesn't mean her points are unimportant --  her points are VALID.

thanks thanks thanks.

rmm.

http://www.liemail.com/BambooGrassroots.html

by rmdSeaBos on Sun Apr 30, 2006 at 09:45:50 AM PST

We didn't get any yesterday in the 47th LD. Like the 47th LD slim jims (which we got a few of, not enough), there weren't enough to go around.

The 47th LD ones looked good, easy to read, and so forth. Too bad some of the money we're supposed to spend so much time trying to raise (I confess, I don't do that) wasn't kicked to the 47th to increase their print run...

by m3047 on Sun Apr 30, 2006 at 10:14:57 AM PST

attacks.

Dina's message analysis is great.

buried in all those colors and fonts is, supposedly, message.

quick history lesson -

sucky message = losey election.

Her comments make me start to think -

WHO are the people that did this thing?

Seriously, what makes them tick? what do they think is important and dumb? what have they done before they made this thing?  

And, for all of you who need paragraphs of dense analysis and lots of "facts" - well, here are my facts.

This doorknob thing is at best the work of committee, and at worst the work of a few.

Regardless of it being the work of many or of a few, it reflects a almost complete lack of knowledge of Lakoff, and how RayGun and BushI and BushII won,

=> it reflects the work of people who are borderline or who are completely politically imcompetent.  

I know in the blog-o-sphere what I've just done gets classified by many as an ad hominem attack -

I see it as a brief statement of facts.  

Isn't diversity of opinion great ;)

rmm.

http://www.liemail.com/BambooGrassroots.html

by rmdSeaBos on Sun Apr 30, 2006 at 10:37:58 AM PST

Wrong! If anyone is tempted to challenge Dina with "let's see you do better," I am here to tell you that she can, and she will.

And when she does design that better doorhanger, Dina knows full well that I will put my money where my mouth is and help her produce them.

If perception is reality, then the world must be flat and the sun must revolve around it.

by ivan on Sun Apr 30, 2006 at 10:44:28 AM PST

You are inspiring PCOs. Truly.

And not only is Fred going to doorbell his precinct in the 36th, he's going to doorbell one in the 47th.

Why doesn't the State Party have a "PCO of the Year" award? Or maybe the King County Dems should do that? I think I'll mention it to Jason and Shanna S.

In any case, I can think of two nominees for this prospective award.

by DWE on Sun Apr 30, 2006 at 11:38:52 AM PST

Dinzina I am so in agreement -- that's one of our biggest problems now that people are acting as if it's business as usual --- and so there's this paralysis of action.

People are taking clues from all around them that things are ok.  The idea behind Social Proof is that people take their cues from those around them and, even in dire emergency, may not take action if others don't seem to get it that there's an emergency.

Pluralistic ignorance is when a number of people fail to speak their beliefs -- their shared beliefs -- because they think they are only ones who hold them.  

So atrocities to be committed right in front of a whole nation and there's very little outrage.  And the Dems add to it with a doorhanger that gives almost no clue that we are in a dire situation.  It's the wrong path they've taken, IMHO

by noemie maxwell on Sun Apr 30, 2006 at 09:11:19 PM PST

I blame the DLC for the ugly door-hangers.

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by Belltowner on Sun Apr 30, 2006 at 12:43:57 PM PST