There’s a terrific Esquire article this month that profiles David Plouffe, the mastermind behind Barack Obama’s Campaign for Change. In it he discusses the development of Organizing For Change and how it will change the face of politics forever. More to the point, it will reshape the Democratic party and take it to a new level, one never seen before […]

The President of the United States said this today: This is America. We don’t disparage wealth. We don’t begrudge anybody for achieving success. And we believe that success should be rewarded. But what gets people upset – and rightfully so – are executives being rewarded for failure. Especially when those rewards are subsidized by U.S. taxpayers. For top executives to […]

President Obama: “I’m here on television saying I screwed up, and that’s part of the era of responsibility. It’s not never making mistakes; it’s owning up to them and trying to make sure you never repeat them and that’s what we intend to do.” President Barack Obama on poor vetting of some of his Cabinet picks When was the last […]

I’ve read two interesting pieces in the past couple of days that give me a great deal of confidence that the Democratic Party’s days as the dominant political force in this country are just beginning. First, we have a Rasmussen Poll that says that over half of Republicans surveyed think that the party “should become more like Alaska Governor Sarah […]

…or do they have this backwards??? Wood Wants Women. I’m just askin’…

Oh, yeah… Thank you, PETA. I needed that. Oh, and how about a bonus cut? I’m just sayin’…

I just can’t seem to get enough of this song these days. Tryin’ ta figger out how to make it my iPhone ringtone… Nevermind. Thanks to Luke the MoominMan, I now have this as my ringtone using iRinger which is specially designed for iPhones. On Macs, you can use Garage Band. I’m just sayin’…

I was just telling a coworker yesterday how I thought that having Barack Obama win the election was absolutely the BEST thing to ever happen to Rush Limbaugh’s career. But, after reading THIS, I suspect that he’s finally gone completely off the deep end that he’s been perched upon for so long. To whit: “But I just want to say, […]

The image on the left is the photograph that was used by street-artist-turned-gazillionaire-artist, Shepard Fairey, to create the iconic HOPE and PROGRESS posters seen by nearly everyone during the campaign. He sold over 500,000 posters during the campaign and basically saw his career being made by it. What blows my mind is that the man who took the original photograph, […]

Several weeks ago, Mrs. E, with the help of our good friend Lynne Schwartz, transacted a poster deal with the organizers of the Michigan Ball in Washington, D.C. for 3,000 posters to be handed out as gifts to all of the attendees. Once that happened, it was pretty much a cinch that we would go to the inauguration and, of […]

During the election, I was a Volunteer Team Leader in the Ann Arbor, Michigan area. When I was recruited to do this, one of the things that intrigued me and got my attention most was the very deliberate focus on not only assembling a grassroots network to elect Barack Obama but to keep this network in place AFTER the election. […]