Slog - Comments on The Moment When it All Began http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_moment_when_it_all_began Last night, working on a column about presidential campaign rallies for this week's Stranger, I went back and read parts of this. I was trying to help myself remember the details of what was no doubt the best, and most significant rally of the season: Barack Obama's victory rally in Des Moines on the cold night in January when he won the Iowa caucuses. It was a moment when Obama at once silenced his doubters, terrified the Clinton campaign, and laid out the themes that everyone is now so familiar with—themes he delivered that night in a tone that felt... Copyright 2008 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:07:03 -0800 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:21:06 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by PC Nice but this reminiscing smacks of thinking it's all over when we win next week yet that's just when it starts and we all have to put shoulders to the grindstone and keep working for change.

I am looking forward to the big half hour speech on tv this week I hope Obama starts using his gifts of oratory to really, really mobilize America and all congresspeople to get behind a legislative program and get it all passed in the first hundred days.

There's LOTS more fighting and working to do, please do not over reminisce as if we're "almost done" or something.

]]> PC http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_moment_when_it_all_began#c1184616 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_moment_when_it_all_began#c1184616 2008 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:51:33 -0800 Comment by Just Sayin' Why would anybody be checking Drudge?

]]> Just Sayin' http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_moment_when_it_all_began#c1184651 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_moment_when_it_all_began#c1184651 2008 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:21:06 -0800