ELECTION NIGHT 2008

By Miriam Ching Yoon Louie
November 12, 2008
First appeared online HERE

Weep history/ honk hallelujah!
Sea swell rapt faces runny mascara joy
Chain breaks ancestor bone sighs
At last! Oprah & Jesse blubber
On shoulders of strangers
Now kin in victory
Sweeter than Raiders
Snagging hundred Super Bowls
Blessed as Martin’s Dream as
General Tubman’s night vision courage
Rippling out from Grant Park
To Everett & Jones BBQ
Oakland Convention Center
And everywhere hunger
Dared vote hope.

Tonight Brother President’s eloquence
Invites redemption after eight
Old Testament l-o-n-g years
We wandered Dubya-ill-derness
Dubya-gonna smoke em out
Dubya-either with us or agin us
Dubya-bunkerman Cheney in charge.

Tonight Brother President challenges us
To serve/ sacrifice/ remake our nation
“Block by block/ brick by brick
Calloused hand by calloused hand”
For if Joe the Plumber is code
For angry white men then b by b
Is mortar/ trowel/ Bronx cheer
To Rudy Red Meat/ Sarah Six Pack’s
“Community organizer? [Snigger] What?!”
Sneer slur on Barak’s past.

Where’s snigger in 700 plus field offices
Stunning ground operation that harvests
Millions of new voters / doors knocked
Leaders electrified/ volunteers parachuted
Pizzas sliced/ cell minutes eaten
Citizenry connected/ country conversating
So all those red states/ counties/ towns
Could try on blue dance shoes
And give ole Virginia seat of Confederacy
Chance to upstage past with surprise future
Naughty Richmond, you racooned my mascara.

Where’s slur in note from Barak?
Tagged Wed 11/5/2008 12:43 AM
Thanking me--& gazillion cohorts
—all power to Internet!—with words like
“We just made history
Every single day you knocked on doors
Made donation/ talked to family/friends/ neighbors
We have a lot of work to do
To get our country back on track
Be in touch soon about what comes next
But I want to be very clear about one thing
All of this happened because of you.”

Brother President
Your late night note is vintage
organizer
Barak
smooth
I raise my styrofoam coffee cup to you
And worker bee millions you inspire
May we keep humming cause
Sí se puede is American is farm is hand
Is mama tongue for yes we can and will.

I know roadside bomb
Crater despair lies up ahead
As campaign season high hits Katrina low of
Digging out from under Dubya-triggered wars
Shock-n-awe economics that burn homes
Jobs/ college/ retirement down to salt ash tears.

But can I just hold on to joy a lil longer
And grin like mutt fool when Sister First Lady
Closes her slender cinnamon fingers
Around White House front door keys?

And let this old girl pray, Dear Lord
Please watch over Secret Service
Make them strong smart see around corners
You know what I’m talking about—Amen.

COPYRIGHT 2008, Miriam Ching Yoon Louie ALL RIGHTS RESERVED



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THE BROKEN PEACE

Defeated and defeating
Gone the last hill
Of our final drive
Gone too the patch of green
Clinging to the trampled soil
And we were wasted here contemplating
The blood filling up our boots
And touched with histories
Fading light
As if all civilizations talked
Turn to quiet murmurs from the gallery
Speaking we do not know what
Yet droning like the chorus
Placed desperately on this state
To prove a point
Inspire and inspiring
Placed upon the quilt of squares
Staring unsighted at each others space
Wondering why they wandered here
Defeated and defeating
The echoes thunder in the distance
Measuring their trajectory
Their voice calling out
The final minutes
When hell rains down
And no one speaks
Poem Copyright
©2008, Frederick Douglasss Perry, All Rights Reserved

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FACING RACE

FROM THE APPLIED RESEARCH CENTER

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YES WE DID!

TWO CENTENARIANS FOR BARACK OBAMA

THE CHOICE IS YOURS

WATCH THIS THEN VOTE!
This one from MMB -- great video!

LET ME SAY THIS ABOUT THAT

If you have voted continue to call and help get the vote out around the country. I just want to hear... "and polls are confirming that BARACK OBAMA will be the the next president of the United States of America!"

STILL TIME TO PHONEBANK!

Still time to pitch in and work a phone bank. These last few hours are critical!

TO KENYA FROM CALIFORNIA

From my friend djovida over at djovida.com

On video expedition to an Obama phone banking office, Djovida encounters Harun Mito, a Kenyan who knows Barack's grandmother. Mr Mito born in Kenya now a US citizen has already cast his absentee ballot in the 2008 presidential election. He first explains in English and then subsequently in Luo why Obama is important to the world and holds a special place in the hearts of Kenyans in particular. Harun sends word to Africa from America.

DJ has amassed quite a bit of documentary footage on his YouTube Site From a series he calls "Senior Moments" to sound bites, speeches and mementos of the Obama Campaign.