Just 23 years old!! Oh my gosh I was impressed with her activism and knowledge!! And she held a great conversation with Randi. Very impressed.

She joined the DNC and is canvassing, going door to door!! Incredible, and she knew her politics!! This is great stuff. A good call. (along with the guy who turned Republican too, that was good)

She was inspiring and extremely hopeful-making.

Young people are becoming the guide on turning the tide for November landslide.

Landslide, that's a four letter word to a no-good cheatin Republican.

From every indication I can see in my travels, young people get it, they don't like IT and they want to CHANGE IT.

Again I will say that there's a huge generational gap that is not being addressed in this country. You can compare someone below 30 to someone above 30 and there's often a huge gap. Old folks don't get that the younger generations don't overtly display their activism like their parents did in the 60s and 70s. It's the age of cellphones, text messaging and cyber social networking. If a young person wants to protest, be heard or create a media event, he or she is going to produce that event and post it to YouTube. They are not going to necessarily take to the streets. But, the fact is young people can mobilize and disseminate information fast because of their familiarity with new technologies. It's different, it's new and it confuses the hell out of pundits and even my peers, which I love.

My daughter is 22 and my niece is 27 or 28? They're both very aware. I would say my niece is more so? and we're working on the other.

I just learned a little something about the (other) daughter though which was disconcerting. I was talking about politics as usual the other evening and the subject of u tube came up.

Asked her what she looked at on there, and she said she only used u tube for watching video of people popping pimples . . . . that's all she uses u tube for.

I said, uh huh, well THAT figures, you always loved the sound of bubbles popping, when you were just a wee little one . .. . . . darling. ..............

Oh, and remember? me reading "Miss Piggy Floating in a Bubble" to you 25 times a week? --- I suppose THAT didn't help with the propensity for wanting to pop things . .. eithre. (some days I live in a total state of confusion about daughter and other days?)

My daughter is totally emo philllips I think, and she just hasn't broken the news to me yet. Deep.

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Wow - what wonderful compliments.

The DNC holds about 36 offices like ours across the country. We have already exceeded our expected amount of employees; we weren't even supposed to reach 30 until July!

One apology - I freakin' said GOVERNOR Smith instead of GORDON Smith! D'oh! My bad. Speaking of him, take a look at this:
Shameless Smith.
He's claimed to have worked with Obama on a bill that he did not - he's actually McSame's campaign chair here in Oregon.

Here's his competition, the Democrat Jeff Merkley looking to take his Senate seat:
FISA is UNACCEPTABLE!

It's going to be a hot day today, so I'll stay hydrated for you all! A passed out activist is a useless activist, I say.

Love you all, I look forward to today's podcast after work.

xoxo,
Sarah in Rose City

Hi Sarah,
You were awesome! And Damn, I hate Gordon Smith. His commercials make me gag, how he presents himself as a bi-partisan moderate who has been praised by Obama as an ally. And I see no Merkley ads.

Anyway, as Thom Hartmann says, "good on ya" Sarah!

Yay Sarah! What a way to introduce yourself...
Welcome, kick off yer shoes and stay awhile...

xoxox

She's here!! Sarah from, er um, Rose City. Welcome!

I liked it when you said people do not meet face to face anymore.

( I will read your links and comment soon)

Ugh, Gordon Smith.

Sarah welcome to the board, and yes awesome comments with RR, very good, better than I would do, well done!!!

Hello from the Emerald City to the Rose City! Hi Sarah & Welcome To The Board!! You sounded awesome on Randi's show!!! Hope you enjoy yourself while your here!!!!

You need to phrase that "under 45". Don't lump Gen X in with the Baby Boomers who sold out. We were activist back when you got no credit for being so.

I live near Corvallis and I also want to see Smith ousted but like you I have not seen near enough Merkley ads. Everytime you turn on the local news you see Gordon Smith lying through both sides of his face, Jeff had better get on the stick to beat Smith. BTW: Gordon Smith is known for saying he will vote a certain way then vote with Bush instead. He votes party line 75% of the time and when he doesn't it is usually just for his own good on bills that are not going anywhere anyway...He is slick
Welcome Sarah and keep up the great work!!!!

Hey Bill,Sarah & everybody on the West Coast, Oregon Country Fair in 2 weeks!!

Whoa!! There you go again with that same old tired worn out canard. Lumping a whole generation together "as one" and saying that "one group" ALL sold out - not so. Shame on ya, and you know better, mon ami. (smile)

Thank you all so much - such sweethearts! Oregon State Fair!!! I haven't been to that in...well...I can't remember. No offense, but I'd rather be at the PSU Park Blocks for the Farmer's Market, but I'm sure it's still pretty fun.

Sigh. On to my point: I am 23 - yes - and I do not have the experiences of the 60's & 70's - but this does NOT by any means make me unaware and uneducated. In fact, it makes me want to combat the cynicism that I feel with greater amounts of energy (even at the tail end of chemotherapy).

I've been through a lot for a 23 year-old. I would not begin to say that one person represents their entire demographic, no matter what it may be. That's part of the beauty of life, is it not? What is so horrible about trying to keep hope alive? I don't know where I would be if it weren't for hope. I'm not saying it's easy to maintain, and yes, I have my good days and my bad, but please do not assume that because I am young, I do not know what it is to feel despair.

That's why I work so damn hard! Optimism is almost foreign and laughable nowadays, and I'm guilty of thinking so too, but without it I'm not sure what we'll be able to achieve. We must believe in our own abilities to create change!

YES WE CAN.

-Sarah-
Rose City

Wow, a mind like that and looks to boot! Greetings from Gladstone! And good point about hope and optimism. People tend to shy away from it like it's some article of faith in a cult they're trying to escape. Too few people realize how important it is to have hope. It isn't some mystical force people believe in like fairies and stuff (unless you want it to be ). But at a minimum hope is a way of training the mind to expect and recognize what is in one's own best interest when that comes along. Those without hope see everything in shades of how bad these things must be for them, so getting the motivation together to pursue and opportunity let alone just seeing the opportunity are so much harder for them. Believing a better outcome exists is the first step in seeking out and enjoying that better outcome.

Now please enjoy the MoveOn.org comedy entry winner in their Obama commercial contest, It Could Happen To You . Other entries from the same people included On The Hope , Catching Hope , and The Power Of Hope

I agree with you. For some reason, I almost feel like I should be embarrassed for being hopeful, as if it's the last remaining shred of childishness I carry around with me, like a teddy bear (or a raccoon named Bandit that I TOTALLY don't have in my bed at this moment or anything).

A group of my friends who have their own production/graphic design business - Kamp Grizzly - entered in the Barack Obama commercial contest about a month or so ago and got into the top 10! They caught wind that Steve Buscemi was a big fan of their commercial, too. Unfortunately they weren't the winners, but they had a lot of fun doing it!

It is in the 90's here this weekend. Ugghhh. Is it November yet?

Heart,
Sarah
Rose City

Some tell me it's hot wherever I go. I have a radio tower painted Blue-n-White for everyone to see, . Now hope is a rare quality these days, a flower in the desert of my life. That makes you kindred to the Founding fathers and some of the better activists of American time. In fact I crown thee the first of a new generation of Activisionists.

Now, I may or may not be here tomorrow, One never knows. I have been unwilling to activate or dissent for along time now. Through genes, chemical imbalances self imposed or not, I have pushed the edge of my emotional, mental and physical limitations for a cause much much greater than myself.

Heed the advice of many that on the darkest of days there is still the promise of sunshine. And that all pain and suffering is only a temporary condition to include mourning which can be handled a day at a time. I found this article to be an incredible find searching the virtual age. I hope you take time to read it. Good luck:


http://ftrain.com/bad_thoughts_no_no_no.html

I've never been to the Oregon State Fair,Sarah! I'm talking about the arts & crafts country faire outside of Eugene Oregon! I thought everyone in Oregon knew about the Country Fair, but if not, Never Mind!!!

I never knew about it, but then I'm still kind of an Oregon newbie so that must be why.

Well I have hope, and I believe that we're going to win. I don't where that puts me in the scheme of things, but I'm very excited about the future and Obama. And I'm glad that you are working hard to help carry us forward.

Oh, and sometimes you'll get disheartened by politics, but just remember it's just politics - a kind of game that's played - like poker.