Why I’m going to Iowa.

[Admiral Loinpresser]

I don’t know where I’ll be sleeping tomorrow night. I don’t know who I’ll be with. Hell, I’m not sure what town I’ll be in, but I know I’m going to Iowa. A guy I’ve never met is stopping in my town tomorrow morning and picking up me and a woman and we’re going to Iowa to canvass for Bernie, or whatever else they tell us to do.

To engage in such a cockamamie scheme, I must be the sort who believes in unicorns. At least that is what I’m told by more than one supporter of another candidate. You may have heard of her. She used to be inevitable.

Anyway, unicorns are real. Because right now unicorns are defined as health care for everybody, a living wage and free tuition to public colleges. I know the public college and living wage unicorns are real because I am old enough to remember them right here in the USA. When I went to college, Pell grants would cover your tuition and books. And it used to be that one person working for minimum wage could support a family. That was back when Eisenhower and Kennedy used to tax the rich and herd unicorns.

But what about universal health care? That is a unicorn that currently exists everywhere in the industrialized world except the USA. That is why I’m going to Iowa, to persuade that unicorn that it can live in the USA, just like it lives everywhere else in the world.

I’m also going in order to give the finger to billionaires like Trump and the Kochs and that professional liar and amateur scum sucker David Brock. But mainly it’s about love for my kids, my wife, me, my friends, humanity and this continent called Turtle Island where my family has dwelt for seven generations. So it’s mainly about love and, of course, the unicorns. So my dodgy knee, my herniated belly (no health care!) and my backpack are all making the trip.

I think the message for this weekend is that if we turn away from the corporate controlled media, the racism, Wall Street greed and ignorance and turn toward love and knowledge and we stand together, we can do anything. Even persuade unicorns to come back to America. That’s why I’m going to Iowa.

[EdwardBernays]

1. Good stuff

Totally jealous.

[Trajan]

2. You care about people ...

I salute you ... There is no way I could go (in Oregon), but I will be hitting a phone bank this weekend ...

It's go time ...Good luck and stay safe ...

[VulgarPoet]

3. Wish I had the leave to go with you.

An AWOL would make me quite literally unable to be hired after my discharge if I did it, though.

[azmom]

4. K&R

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. Bravo for you, my dear Admiral Loinpresser!

I'm really glad you're going to Iowa, and for all the reasons you've stated.

I wish you (and Bernie and all of us!) much success there.

[Ron Green]

6. God speed you, and thanks for your work. I hope your story

is multiplied by thousands.

[LongTomH]

7. Me too, Admiral! I'm leaving from Kansas City, MO tomorrow morning!

[JudyM]

8. It'll be a memorable adventure you'll be glad you took.

Went from DC to Cleveland to GOTV a few days before the Kerry-Bush election. Putting it all out there is what you do when you can spare the time and you care.

Good luck, and let us know how it goes!

[RobertEarl]

9. Thank you

With you in spirit.

[jillan]

10. Wishing you best of luck! I really wish I had the freedom to go.... I would love it.

Go find some unicorns for the rest of us that can't get away.

[CharlotteVale]

11. K&R

[AtomicKitten]

12. Wonderful! You are answering the call to ante up.

[Half-Century Man]

13. What is wrong with unicorn?

Unicorns are nice

[snagglepuss]

14. Very powerful. You'll be part of history.

'Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number -
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you -
Ye are many - they are few.'


- Percy Bysche Shelley

[scottie55]

15. Ride Like The Wind

The health care unicorn is an inevitability.

Too may folks are getting sick of burying loved ones because they couldn't pay, and pay, and keep paying to stay alive.

[Uncle Joe]

16. Kicked and recommended.

Peace and safe travels to you, Admiral Loinpresser.

[xloadiex]

17. Thank you for doing this

I wish I could go. Have you checked in with BernieBnB? They will find you a place to stay. There are many Bernie supporters in Iowa willing to host. Best of luck to you and to all of us!

[Indepatriot]

18. THANK YOU!

I salute you, Admiral

[Admiral Loinpresser]

19. Correction!

We now have TWO women from my town riding in our Bernmobile. Thanks to everybody spreading the message word-of-mouth, working the phones, canvassing, working in cyberspace and contributing $. It is so good to be part of something great with millions of others.

[senz]

20. Yes, you're going to be part of something truly great, Admiral.

Bon Voyage, safe travel, decent lodgings, and do good work!

[Dont call me Shirley]

21. You rock, Admiral! Unicorns are real...

[GeoWilliam750]

22. Here's to hearing a report next week

That Iowa has been over-run by a herd of unicorns.

[PWPippin]

23. Love it!

And you for doing what many wish they could. We'll look forward to hearing wonderful unicorn filled tales.

[ancianita]

24. You'll see canvassers from Chicago there. Wishing you all the unicorns your spirits can conjure!

[pangaia]

25. YES, Unicorns ARE real.

You will be one..


http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511085474

[zentrum]

26. You'll be walking for us!

[Iwillnevergiveup]

27. Admiral, I salute you

Don't know about unicorns, but bet you're going to meet a lot of super great people. And you are part of history - have a wonderful trip and please, do check in with those of us who lead more ordinary lives.

[John Poet]

28. Everybody should do it at least once!

THANK YOU for doing it this time for Bernie! You're working for ALL of us!

I made the trip in 1988 and spent the weekend before the caucuses canvassing in Davenport.
It was a good time, but it would have been much better to have been with a winner...

[SoapBox]

29. I admire what you are doing...

This is what the Revolution is about...the People.

I wish I had the time to join the troops.

[klook]

30. Great post!

You are helping to make history. Have an exhilarating weekend, and when you get time tell us all about it.

[abelenkpe]

31. Thank you! K&R

[BuelahWitch]

32. Good luck with your canvassing!

[JDPriestly]

33. K&R. Beautiful.

[in_cog_ni_to]

34. Unicorns and EMPATHY!

That what the inevitable crowd is lacking.

Safe travels and check in when you get a chance! I would live to get your feedback from your Unicorn hooves on the ground!

PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE

[MuseRider]

35. Have a great time!

I wish I was going with you!

The KC group has been calling me over and over to get up there. I just cannot leave the farm that long.

Have a great time. Let us know when you can how it is going up there.

[ScreamingMeemie]

36. Please make sure to take care of you. Herniated tummies are no joke.

Be well and safe travels.

[eridani]

37. We'll have to give you a urine test when you get back

Just to see whether you start pissing rainbows

[Enthusiast]

38. Kicked and recommended!

[Le Taz Hot]

39. I'm here in California and the recruiting calls

to go canvass in Iowa started about 3 weeks ago. Due to work demands I wasn't able to go. Now, I'm following what all of the out-of-staters are doing in Iowa and it's TORTURE! Canvassing is my absolute favorite type of campaigning. So, AL, please, don't forget to post on DU about what you've experienced because those of us who are in agony because we couldn't be there need to live vicariously through all the volunteers who are there.

[Live and Learn]

44. Maybe you could do one of the shorter trips to Nevada.

I know many people that are traveling there on the weekends to help out.

[Le Taz Hot]

47. Don't think I'm not thinking about it.

The only way I could do it would be to camp but there's campgrounds in Nevada. Like I said, don't think I haven't thought about it.

[Live and Learn]

49. They have Bernie supporters in Nevada putting people up for free. nt

[Rosa Luxemburg]

40. We are going to make history!

[restorefreedom]

41. find those unicorns, admiral!

be safe, have fun...you are helping to make history!

[mhatrw]

42. Come back, unicorns!

[Live and Learn]

43. The number and dedication of Bernie's volunteers is unprecedented.

Never before have I seen so many people willing to give up weekends and vacation days to join people they don't know and travel to other states an spend the night in a unknown place in order to make sure everyone knows who Bernie is and where he stands on the issues. The number, enthusiasm and dedication of these volunteers is amazing.

Thank you for being one of them!

[Duckfan]

45. Bernie Supporters from all over are going to Iowa

Give a status report on stuff if you can. Some of us are anxious to hear some indications that we are going to win this.

Happy travels and kick some ass for Bernie!!!!!

And don't forget your thermal undies. It may be a bit cold.

[mountain grammy]

46. You're going for me too!

Bravo!

[farleftlib]

48. From this day...

From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day

Thanks, Admiral and fellow BernieBro!

[Paka]

50. K&R

What a wonderful message. I love unicorns and even had one once that lived in the garden behind my apartment in San Francisco some fifty years ago. I don't remember whether it was an affordable collage or living wage unicorn. Getting old I guess.

GO BERNIE!

[Jarqui]

51. Wonderful inspiring post.

Thank you.

[Iggy Knorr]

52. K&R

[Docreed2003]

53. Fair winds and following seas!!