Lots of us talk the talk about blogs as a political force, but Dave and Halley went walking the walk yesterday. That is, they car-pooled up I-93 to hear Senator Bob Graham address the Rotary Club of Manchester, NH (my old home town.)
Now, I don’t agree with everything Dave and Halley say*–but that’s not what matters! What matters is that I got an eyewitness report from fellow-bloggers on a real-life political face-to-face event. (Rich-kid favorites prefer attack ads on tv and push-poll telemarketing.) Dave even got pictures!
And you too can be part of this, as Dave points out:
The key point, the one not to miss, is that anyone can do this. Today’s Rotary session was open to the public. We paid $10 each so we could eat, but if we didn’t want to eat the cost would have been $0. The candidates want to talk to you.
And, bloggers, when the candidates talk to you, they talk to us all! Yee hah! Come all ye bloggers! Put your feet where your mouth is (I always do) — or your carpool where your mouth, or whatever–and blog this primary!
* Dave, I don’t think Graham is being dishonest in opposing Bush’s big deficits–tax cuts for the rich don’t pass on a richer nation to our grandkids like (say) government spending on schools and hospitals. Halley, I think that Dave is smiling in this picture! And, if I’d been there, I sure would have had to that Howard Dean is the best Presidential candidate in years!
4 responses so far ↓
1 Elayne Riggs // Aug 19, 2003 at 9:02 am
Isn’t this the same Dave who’s trying to bilk folks for $500 each to attend a blogger conference at Harvard in October? What’s he doing balking at possibly spending $10? :)
2 The Children's Liberation Front (actually, Yule) // Aug 19, 2003 at 11:23 pm
I’m with you, Betsy, re. the deficits; if a family goes into debt by taking up a mortgage to invest in a home, that’s a different case of taking on debt to build a legacy than if the government runs up the kind of deficits that the Bushies have.
But it’s pretty neat that they’re blogging the candidates — I’ll read that any day as opposed to watching the prefab news.
3 Betsy Devine // Aug 20, 2003 at 10:39 am
Thanks, Yule–blog news has got to be way better than the pre-digested pap on TV. Hey, Elayne, if Dave got a cut of that fabled $500 maybe he could buy 50 dinners, including one for me! I too am priced out of BloggerCon–and I live in Cambridge. But if I want to “shoot the messenger” who tells me about cool stuff I can’t afford, I plan to start at my friendly neighborhood real estate office.
4 Elayne Riggs // Aug 22, 2003 at 1:15 pm
I guess we’ll have to agree to disagree on whether BloggerCon is “cool stuff,” Betsy. The spammed e-mail Dave sent me made it sound like a con job rather than a convention, but as you’re obviously his friend I’m not going to pursue the matter further.