Wagons Circled, Rations Low, Cavalry on the Way (from SC)

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The Cavalry is on the way, but we’re used to Indians. We’ve circled the wagons and we’ll wait as long as we have to.

Unlike my younger fellows in the struggle for a better world who unfortunately end up in a state which apparently has little interest in the future or the prospects of its children, I long ago perfected the ability to live off the sparest political sustenance.

While the starry eyed children of Obama chant “yes we can” and anticipate the triumph of the good, SC’s aging progressive veterans are committed to the fight regardless of how it comes out. Most of us were born here. We’re unwilling to concede the ground to a rising tide of slick, suburban Republicanism which carries a vile meal of racism and class hatred in its belly. Some of us can spot the synthetic spawn of a Klan rally in a teabag event. We know where this stuff comes from. After 20 to 50 years, we can sip the venom of the Right as one of our primary forms of political nutrition. Nothing confirms the fact that we’re not completely wasting our time as much as hearing the right wing scream.
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Professionally facilitated community organizing to support the Administration’s agenda, beginning with health care, will come to South Carolina this month when Organizing for America conducts a statewide “listening tour” and opens offices with paid staff in South Carolina. The plan is to bring Obama campaign style community organizing down to the street level to support the President. We already have some wonderful non profits and political organizations in SC, full of tough people who have held on for years, even decades. Now they’ll have friends across town to call. Those friends at Organizing for America will have friends in the White House to call. SC’s liberals will now have someone to listen to them besides our two Democratic Congressmen.
Watch a video about Organizing for America’s Plans for SC on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=96041598237
http://www.indigojournal.com/

Onward...........

[denbot]

1. What the fuck is wrong with Indians?

Meh, indeed.