This is How I Feel
This sums up how I feel about this Senate race better than anything I could write:
"It was something more than just finding ideological soulmates. It was learning how to act: how letters got written, how doors got knocked on, how co-workers could be won over on the coffee break, how to print a bumper sticker and how to pry one off with a razor blade; how to put together a network whose force exceeded the sum of its parts by orders of magnitude; how to picket, how to talk to a reporter and how, if need be, to infiltrate... how to make the anger boiling inside of you ennobling, productive, powerful, instead of embittering. How to feel bigger than yourself. It was something beyond the week, the year, the campaign, even the decade; it was a cause." -Before the Storm, Rick Perlstein
"It was something more than just finding ideological soulmates. It was learning how to act: how letters got written, how doors got knocked on, how co-workers could be won over on the coffee break, how to print a bumper sticker and how to pry one off with a razor blade; how to put together a network whose force exceeded the sum of its parts by orders of magnitude; how to picket, how to talk to a reporter and how, if need be, to infiltrate... how to make the anger boiling inside of you ennobling, productive, powerful, instead of embittering. How to feel bigger than yourself. It was something beyond the week, the year, the campaign, even the decade; it was a cause." -Before the Storm, Rick Perlstein
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Comment by Trudi McDonald on January 17, 2010 at 9:51pm -
Kristin, this was probably the most eloquent piece that I have read in a long, long time. thank you for sharing. Trudi
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Comment by Kathleen Zubok on January 17, 2010 at 8:55pm -
Kristin....thank you for that. I am sending to my conservative underground coworkers who are finding their voice.
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