California Welcomes Sarah Palin - With Protest

large waste of effort (0.00 / 0)

but that's just me.

Alternatively, you could call voters in swing states and try to match the 18,000 calls we made last weekend in just my little corner of Southern California alone.

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by: David Dayen @ Fri Oct 03, 2008 at 17:23:23 PM CDT

We'll see (8.00 / 1)

I've never been one to believe that any form of activism is a waste. Anything that gets people engaged in politics is a good thing, although standing with a sign isn't itself sufficient. It needs to a gateway drug to something more sustained.

Certainly I hope there will be folks at the protests in Carson and in OC signing up volunteers for phonebanking - or just bring call sheets to the event and have people call on their cell phones (we've done that on a few occasions here on the Central Coast).

The airplane banner is an effort to focus attention on Prop 4, using Palin's high profile to highlight the local angle of her extreme views. More Prop 4 stuff is in the works.

You can check out any time you like but you can never leave

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by: Robert Cruickshank @ Fri Oct 03, 2008 at 17:42:57 PM CDT

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KCRW Left, Right, and Center (0.00 / 0)

They had a debate "analysis" show, mostly regarding Palin.  I'm a fan of the show, so I thought I would embed some audio here:

I'm proud to work for Kamala Harris for AG.

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by: Brian Leubitz @ Fri Oct 03, 2008 at 17:35:29 PM CDT

Come to the rally to show how unpopular Sarah Palin's view of America is. (8.00 / 1)

I disagree with David.  National and California Media will focus on Palin's visit to Carson tomorrow afternoon.  The coverage of her rally will be talked about over the weekend.

We need to be there to remind voters that Sarah Palin has a completely different view of America- one where the middle class includes people who make more than $300,000 a year like herself.  Or an America that can't pay a few pennies more for sneakers from China in order to reduce the pollution at the ports of Long Beach, Los Angeles and Oakland (read her letter to Arnold asking him to veto SB974).

Somebody needs to be at the Home Depot to say to Palin that 159,000 people lost there job last month.  This is the 9th straight month where this country has lost jobs.  No smart quips and rehearsed lines can explain away the fact that America is hurting.

I'm not saying people should put down the phones all day Saturday.  We should share with voters our experience with Sarah Palin after she leaves Carson for Orange County and beyond, never to return.

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by: Eric Bradley @ Fri Oct 03, 2008 at 18:06:08 PM CDT

be sure to clear your throat (0.00 / 0)

so that when she doesn't acknowledge your presence at all because you're a quarter mile away, you can at least, I don't know, yell.

Living in the Southland, I'm sure you know that getting to Carson on the 405, participating in a protest of some sort and getting back home is probably a three-hour ordeal at the very least.  Southern California phone bank leaders (at least for the Obama campaign, I don't think the CDP is doing any yet, which is a whole other kettle of fish) are having trouble finding volunteers to staff their events this weekend and people like yourself are actually sending able bodies down to Carson?

In what world does that make sense other than making a few people feel good about themselves?

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by: David Dayen @ Sat Oct 04, 2008 at 01:08:31 AM CDT

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Cadem Link is bad... (0.00 / 0)

The cadem link needs to include the www part to work...just FYI.  :)

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by: dkirk @ Fri Oct 03, 2008 at 21:14:11 PM CDT

Works for me (0.00 / 0)

But I'll update the URL just to make absolutely certain.

You can check out any time you like but you can never leave

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by: Robert Cruickshank @ Fri Oct 03, 2008 at 23:30:55 PM CDT

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you do not speak for me and all of Calif (0.00 / 0)

you do not speak for all of California
on your "THANKS BUT NO THANKS"

You see I am one that can speak as I am a native Californian and now going on age 50
As for me, Palin speaks my language!!
Looking forward to seeing her tomorrow!!!

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by: mt @ Sat Oct 04, 2008 at 01:09:58 AM CDT

Go away, MAF, you chickensh*t paid sycophants of Bush (0.00 / 0)

... big whoop, part of my family tree emigrated here a lot farther back than yours, no doubt, and has been living here for a century. And I'm older than you.    But you know what? It doesn't matter what people are or where they come from, it matters that they wake up every day grateful to be here and appreciate all of what has been given to us and that they don't see the Earth as a dumpster and that they don't see other human beings as inferior.   Oh, and then there's the part about respecting and defending the Constitution of the United States, which does NOT include a Unitary Executive exempt from its framework of the 3 branches of government.

But please go see her. Before she goes down the memory hole of being just another pathetic fad.  Just don't ask her any questions she might have to answer truthfully.

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by: AmericanRiverCanyon @ Sat Oct 04, 2008 at 09:19:41 AM CDT

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