we did our best!!
A few more thoughts to put down about last night’s Democratic caucuses that didn’t make it into my last post. Perhaps best that they are split anyway… the last one was full of elation, this post will...
View ArticleHawaii Caucus Retrospective
As a precinct president, I helped staff my Democratic Caucus in Honolulu (District 25), and it was a phenomenal night! I brought a friend with a disability and arrived early, about 5:30 (voting was to...
View ArticleDelegate Counts
OK… counts are in, so people are connecting the dots and speculating as to what the official delegate counts may be. We know that Hawai‘i awards delegates proportionally rather than winner take all…...
View Articlein finding the democratic candidate….
let me start by first saying that i don’t currently support, nor subscribe to, either of the remaining democratic presidential campaigns. the candidate i supported was forced to drop out prior to...
View ArticleSen. Inouye goes to bat for Sen. Stevens
Kos has a diary up about Sen. Inouye: AK-Sen: “Dem” Inouye to campaign for indicted Stevens . They have both been in the Senate since the 1960s, with Inouye there first by 6 years. Kos concludes,...
View ArticleHawaii isn’t American enough for Cokie
Cokie is a fixture over at NPR. As a daughter of Hale Boggs, she’s been breathing Washington, DC, air for a long time, and according to the Wikipedia, earned her chops by her coverage of the...
View ArticleSilencing Dr. King
Today, as we celebrate the life of Martin Luther King, it is a proper time to reflect upon the meaning of the man’s life work and message–the challenge he made to each of us to rise to our...
View ArticleInauguration Aloha
One evening I woke in the middle of the night and told my wife, “I have to go to the Inauguration”   To this day, I don’t know what triggered that moment of determination. There are so many factors...
View ArticleObama Caves to Corporate Pressure, Dumps “Green Jobs” Advocate, Van Jones:...
Last week, Barack Obama caved in to pressure from corporate interests and an ongoing campaign by rightwing commentators, and fired Van Jones, the appointee in charge of overseeing the administration’s...
View ArticleProgressives Come Out Asking Obama To Do Better
This past Saturday, a number of progressive activists, including a number of PDHers come out to Kailua to urge President Obama to do more, to do better. A number of us have been disappointed by his...
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