Fellow Liberal Drinkers-

As most of you surely know, this coming Thursday is both the next scheduled meeting of DL: Mount Airy + the night when Barack Obama officially accepts the Presidential nomination of the Democratic Party. As such, DL is joining up with Sen. Obama's Philadelphia campaign offices to watch the convention at North by Northwest, 7165 Germantown Ave.

The event officially begins at 5:00 PM, is expected to start picking up at around 7:00 PM (which is, conveniently enough, the usual time when we start imbibing), and Sen. Obama is set to accept the nomination at ~ 10:00 PM. We're hoping for a good turnout, from Liberal Drinkers, Obama volunteers (I suspect that this list will overlap considerably, as it does in my case), and for newcomers as well.

The hard work's only beginning- remember, the GOP doesn't have to actually win the election to 'win' the election, as has been amply demonstrated in '00 + '04. So, we need to get people to go out and get people to vote on November 4th. PA went for Kerry in '04 largely because of the 4:1 ass-whooping that he put on Shrub in Philadelphia; we'll need to do even better this time to put PA out of range of the inevitable GOP attempts to steal a 3rd consecutive election.

So, come one, come all, to North by Northwest this Thursday, and let's cheer for Sen. Obama. And, as always...

Drink to Democracy (and to the Democrats, in this case),
-Z