Obama for America Fundraiser @ Pap and Petey's
Saturday, June 28, 7:00PM
421 H Street NE
$10 Suggested Donation, $5 Drink Specials
Live Music
Evite link [not necessary to attend]
Saturday, June 28, 7:00PM
421 H Street NE
$10 Suggested Donation, $5 Drink Specials
Live Music
Evite link [not necessary to attend]
Pap & Petey's is hosting the event but not does not endorse any candidate
Thanks and hoping to see you there,
Jeffrey King
32 comments:
Thanks for the infO.
Speaking of the 400 block, Sidamo's new sign is up and it looks *great*.
I won't be able to make it, but I will stop by before hand to donate.
remember: 01.20.09
Also on the 400 block, has anyone heard any more about 400 Live?
I noticed a seemingly permanent fixture that is a truck painted with "400 Live" on the side. Each time I've driven by it is parked on the curb outside the club.
I urge everyone to contact Tommy Wells' office to ask that he investigate the status of 400 Live.
Do they have a liquor license? Are they operatining legally?
Why was no community input solicited prior to their opening?
To contact Mr. Wells - twells@dccouncil.us or phone: 202-724-8072
Add yourself to the eVite: http://www.evite.com/app/publicUrl/NLXCJFMTGOVKHMYKCOYV/obamaforamerica
Anon 10:51, on a previous thread...the ANC commissioner posted that the owners would be attending several different ANC meetings in July. Check out the schedule and perhaps it will be posted here closer to the date.
Has anyone seen the men on H Street screaming "Black Power" selling Obama shirts that say "Black Man Running But Not From The Cops" I wonder if Obama sanctioned those tee shirts?
Wow...that's a good strategy to get him elected.
That is so funny. I saw a young guy on the bus yesterday with an "Obama said Knock You Out" T-shirt.
That's the interesting thing...he inspires all this creativity with these t-shirts and campaign songs.
I am just glad they are having Obama fund raisers in DC. I think this is a real battle ground.... I know, I know they money is all going to West Virginia.
"Black Man Running But Not From The Cops"
Well the slogan certainly pretains to our hood. I am imagine the hood people loving it!
Wonder who I could buy them from and resell to make some extra loot.
Great...with Obama/Reid/Pelosi running things, we can look forward to paying more taxes, more entitlement spending, and more trade protectionism. Only the economically illiterate would think this would be a good thing.
In a way, I almost hope he wins anyway - can you imagine what kind of rhetoric all the kool-aid drinkers will be spewing if the guy actually loses?!
Well I would only expect if Obama loses the election that "the kool-aid drinkers" you speak of will do exactly what they did in 1968
Copy and post the link below
http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/people/7080.html
the comments section of this blog has fast become the white man's frustration outlet over the past several months. good times.....
Although I can't speak for Anonymous 2:06 with certainty, I can say that the Anonymous comment that followed it (3:40) seems to have misunderstood the phrase "Kool-Aid drinkers" and taken in it a decidedly racist way.
"Drinking the Kool-Aid" is a shorthand way of referring to people who have bought into an idea so completely that they are blind to its obvious flaws.
It is first attributed to our very own Cathy Hughes, in response to being stood up for a radio interview by Marion Barry back in 1987, and it is a reference to the mass suicide of Jim Jones' People's Temple cult members back in 1978.
Her quote: "You don't follow anyone blindly, my brothers and sisters . . . . We love Marion Barry. He is the mayor . . . . But if Marion Barry disrespects us, we will cry out . . . . We will not blindly drink the Kool-Aid any longer . . . ."
—Cathy Hughes, transcript from a radio call-in show as reported in "Being Stood Up by Mayor Leaves Radio Host Fuming," The Washington Post, July 17, 1987
I'm really embarassed by the fact that someone read that phrase and their first reaction was to assume that it was some sort of insult to black people...and that in their mind it's perfectly acceptable for something like that to be written in an open forum like this.
Anon 2:06, I'm fairly economically literate.
Instead of the tired personal attacks (calling people names if they vote for Obama) why not engage in some constructive discussion? For example you could start by explaining a few things. You presumably want the Republicans to be in power. Why is this when:
1. A Rep. president and congress brought us the most massive increase in entitlement spending in a long time: the Medicare Drug benefit.
2. Seven years of Republican policies have brought us to the point where the dollar is no longer respected as the world currency (and has devalued by a huge amount)
3. Republicans have given far more money away in corporate welfare and farm subsidies (to name a few) than has been spent on Welfare over the last seven years
4. At a time when the country faces mind-bogglingly large unfunded liabilities from Social Security and Medicare, the Reps. (the so called party of personal responsibility) did the most irresponsible thing one could possibly do and increased spending while decreasing taxes...leading to immense deficits that have to be paid back by our children.
5. Reps. continue to offer the sad, failed policy idea that lowering taxes will fix everything. Hmmm, we should be experiencing another Clinton boom right now if that were the case. But in fact, tax cuts never produce enough of an increase in revenue to pay for themselves.
So, yeah, God save us from the Democrats. Just imagine...as sorry of a state that our country is in right now, it'll be soooo much worse under Obama.
Please. When you provide some explanations of how that can be so instead of personal attacks I'll start believing it.
I would love to debate you but it is impossible to debate against a candidate who has no policy agenda.
I work with a Health Care lobbing firm, we have met with Mcain's, Clinton's and Obama's policy teams.
This campaign has NO idea where they stand on any issues. We could not get on solid policy or idea out of them
That is my issue with the Obama team, not black, not white, rep or dem. How can you be this far in the race and not have any policy ideals?
With that said the post stating "Obama/Reid/Pelosi" I agree, you can only expect he will be as far left as they are
here you go, 12:16.
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/healthcare/
you may want to do a little research before recycling old clinton/mccain talking points.
enjoy yourself..
Thanks for the link but I would guess you have never sat down with a campaign to go over policy from a lobbyist's perspective if you actually thought that that webpage for the masses actually answers our questions.
I too am a lobbyist and am not sure what specifics you think are missing. Are you looking for actual legislation? Is there are specific question that wen tunanswered. Sort of frustrating when you criticize Obama using generalizations but fail to provide any details of your own...
I've got to say I don't get it when it comes to Obama - the guy is just a conventional liberal who happens to be a good public speaker. Oh yeah, and he's got less executive experience than I do, and I'm over a decade younger.
For all the talk about him bringing a new brand of politics to DC, what exactly will be his motivation to reach across the isle or govern as a moderate when he'll have strong majorities in the House and Senate? After all, he's presumably interested in enacting liberal shibboleths like universal health care, taxing the rich, and shoring up organized labor, and those are not really a middle of the road ideas.
Obama fans kind of remind me of the Bushies in 2000 that parroted that "uniter not a divider" and "reformer with results" BS.
that's fine, 6:34. go vote for mccain and spare the rest of us your anti-obama rants. i don't come on this blog to hear rookie political "analysis"
I wish you republicans would just sit back and see how it’s done. DC is run by us liberals and it is a well oiled machine. No waste here. If only we could take our school system, our health care system, and our streamlined budgets and roll them out on a national level all this countries problems would be solved…..
"DC is run by us liberals and it is a well oiled machine. No waste here. "
You make a very humorous point.
But government as it is practiced in DC isn't liberalism.
It's kleptocracy, cronyism, racism and classism, and opportunism.
c'mon people! c'mon out and show us your 'O' faces!
How's about all the pro-McCain folks set up their own event on H Street and quit complaining about Obama on this blog?
It's easy to complain when you're not out there actually getting something done.
It would be a waste of money. DC historically goes 80-20 in the Democrats favor.
Though, I was thinking of running up and down H Street screaming "white power" vote for McCain and selling tee shirts saying "White Man Running From Racism"
I am playing this and every Saturday at Pap and Petey's. Come support live jazz on H St! www.amykbormet.com
Hope to see you there
6:34 here - to the guy/girl who posted after me: do you matching "Obama '08" kneepads to go with your yard sign?
I appreciate the rookie comment - it illustrates the deep-seated belief of so many Obama backers that they (and by extension, the government) know how people should think and run their lives because you all know better. That's not elitist, is it?
Signed,
Someone that clings to guns and individual liberty.
Off topic: the Post's Food & Dining page leads off with H is for Happening
If you don't like Obama or my event, don't come. But don't sit here and banter about politics on a blog that inked clearly attempts to keep apolitical.
Great...with Obama/Reid/Pelosi running things, we can look forward to paying more taxes, more entitlement spending, and more trade protectionism. Only the economically illiterate would think this would be a good thing.
What I find really entertaining is right-wing apparatchiks who throw the term Economics around as though they have any standing to use the phrase whatsoever. Most *actual* economists [you know the respected ones who win prizes and publish papers in peer-reviewed journals and such, as opposed to hiding behind the sheltered walls of some wingnut-welfare office like Cato, etc...] find conservative "economic theory" laughably naive and just plain wrong.
You can see this whenever some chuckle-headed yahoo like our current president uses a phrase like "It's Economics 101, folks!" as though there were no economics 201, 301, or "Economics Graduate Seminar 4430".
So yeah, count me among the "economically illiterate".
People. It's just an event.
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