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September 25, 2008

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought. Warren Buffett

If you have some free time on your hands, you might want to spend it signing your name to any one of these petitions that has come through my inbox in the past week.

Have the Debate! Petitions:

http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/economic_debate/?r_by=-1856252-WSvNpLx&rc=paste

http://pol.moveon.org/demanddebate/?r_by=14040-10308157-MOiDILx&rc=comment_paste

Yes, she's still on the ticket. Anti-Sarah Palin Petitions:

http://pol.moveon.org/demanddebate/?r_by=14040-10308157-MOiDILx&rc=comment_paste

http://womenagainstsarahpalin.blogspot.com/

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/anti-palin1/index.html

A Weekly Poll on PBS about who you will be voting for based on the issues. Scroll to the lower right of the page. Looks like Obama is kicking some butt over the economy!

http://www.pbs.org/now/index.html

Denounce Ahmadinejad. He was scary before, but his speech to the UN this week was downright horrifying. Do something about it right here!

http://www.wiesenthal.com/siteapps/advocacy/ActionItem.aspx?c=fwLYKnN8LzH&b=4547233&msource=Ban08&auid=4051864

Remember chads? Want to visit Florida? Get involved in the Great Schlep.

Or if none of these motivate you to action, how about this brilliant, yet fiendish idea:

Support Planned Parenthood in Sarah Palin’s name! Find out how here.

Now don’t you feel better having done all of that? I sure do.

Kathy B.

LADIES, LADIES, LADIES…

September 22, 2008

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. ~Dr. Seuss

I had planned to write about God and Lipstick tonight, but I just read an article on Politico.com that says that McCain is closing a huge gap with women and I feel I must write about it. It appears that John McCain’s choosing of Sarah Palin as his running mate has women thinking that he has “a better understanding of women and what is important to them” than Barack Obama. Yes, you read that correctly.

But take a minute to go back and read it again.

Take your time, I know it is a little hard to swallow.

The mind definitely reels.

How can this be true? Have the women of America been learning about Sarah Palin? Are they reading the newspaper reports or watching the television broadcasts about the type of campaign the Republicans are running? Do they understand that "Country First: Reform*Prosperity*Peace" actually translates into "White House at All Costs: Regression*Depression*Conflict"?

Apparently the women of America are not keeping up with this blog site, because according to a poll conducted for Lifetime TV September 11-15, McCain and Obama are virtually tied 44-42%. You can read it all for yourself here at Politico.com

There is some good news in the poll. Women do seem to understand that, “It is the economy” and that Obama/Biden will “help middle class families the most.” That’s refreshing, but we are not gaining back the lost ground fast enough. We must get to work and get to work quickly.

Look, this is no more difficult than organizing the Girl Scout Cookie Sales for the troop, no more complicated than arranging the school bake sale and not nearly as complex as those Halloween costumes you sewed a few years ago. This is definitely not brain surgery and I should know because I have had brain surgery!

All that is required of you is that you visit the Barack Obama website and sign up to volunteer. Here is the link: Volunteer. You will be contacted. Or you can call your local Barack Obama office (which will be listed on the website) and find out what you can do to help. Just fill in that form or make that call. It really isn’t difficult. I promise you’ll feel great having done it.

Let me know how it works out. I'll be sure to write about my experiences.

Kathy B.