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My ooVoo Day Political Edition

Welcome to My ooVoo Day Political Edition! Join the MOMocrats and share your thoughts with us!

My ooVoo Day Political is an eight day online video chat event joining leading political bloggers covering the entire spectrum of belief and persuasion with their communities, fans and friends - enabled by ooVoo, the leader in face-to-face multi-person video communications.

Search the list of participating bloggers. Review the calendar and participate in a live, six-way web-based video chat. Pick a blogger whose political views match your own, or enter into a lively conversation with someone from “the other side of the aisle!”

THE MOMocrats are hosting two sessions! Please join us!:

• August 3 at 3:00 PM PST/6:00 PM EST join Glennia Cambell, Donna Schwartz Mills, and Erin Kotecki Vest/Queen of Spain for MOMocrats chat.
• August 4 at 6:00PM PST/9:00 PM EST join Glennia Campbell, Stefania Pomponi Butler (CityMama) and Joanne Bamberger (Pundit Mom) for a MOMocrat Ho Down.

Politics in Your Face!

Looking for some time to chat with the MOMocrats but can't wait until our next BlogTalk radio podcast?

No problem!

Several MOMocrats are participating in ooVoo's Political Week, as are a variety of other political bloggers you'll probably like!  There's even a cool video of PunditMom AND Queen of Spain together!

Given all the political news there is to talk about this week, don't miss out on this opportunity to chat with MOMocrats Joanne (PunditMom), Glennia (The Silent I) and Stefania (CityMama), as well as Erin (Queen of Spain)

Chek out ooVoo's site for dates and times -- the MOMocrats online video session is Monday, August 4 ay 9 p.m. Eastern/6 p.m. Pacific!

Go ahead -- you KNOW you want to!!

BlogTalk Radio & MOMocrats on Saturday Afternoon!

Looking for some political chat this weekend?  Then come by the MOMocrats show on BlogTalk Radio on Saturday, July 26 at 3 p.m. Eastern/12 Noon Pacific for our show!

We'll be talking about the BlogHer conference, our upcoming trip to the Democratic National Convention AND our book club chat about Arianna Huffington's book, The Right is Wrong.

MOMocrat Joanne, a.k.a. PunditMom, will be your host, but loads of MOMocrats will be on hand for this lively discussion!

Happy Father's Day!

The MOMocrats wish all of you dads out there a Happy Father's Day!  In addition to our own fathers, husbands and partners, we wish to honor:

All the dads who sacrifice time with their families to work hard and bring home the bacon and the organic eggplant;

All the dads who sacrificed their careers to stay home and take care of their kids so mom can pursue her dreams;

All the dads who change diapers, walk the floor at night with a colicky baby, push jogging strollers, and other things their own dads never dreamed of doing;

All the dads who coach soccer, little league, Mathletes, or ballet;

All the dads who show their sons that being a "feminist" doesn't necessarily mean being female;

All the dads who show their little girls that gentleness is the the greatest strength that a man can have;

All the dads who run for office, vote, donate money and time, blog, and report the truth this election season so our kids have a brighter future;

All the dads who serve in the armed services, police forces, and fire stations, putting themselves in harm's way so that we can all feel safer;

All the dads who work for social justice, who defend the constitution and the ideals this country was founded on;

All the dads who were there for us when it counted, and let us go when it was our time to spread our wings;

All the dads who passed on before we were finished loving them and learning from them;

To all of you, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

Love,

The MOMocrats & The Kidocrats

MOMocrats Live Chat Tonight!!

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Pour yourself a frosty Cindy McCain (sans Ambien, we need you awake) or a smooth Kathleen Sibelius and join us for one of our legendary live chats!  Our last chat was a raucous marathon of political fun—over six hours long and not a lull in the entire conversation!

Tonight we're discussing the Montana and South Dakota primaries, the DNC, Hillary Clinton's endgame, and anything else (Scott McClellan, John McCain's lame attempts to seem women friendly), that's on your mind.  See you at 6:00PM PST right here.

Go read it: Guess I'm not the only one crushin' on Rachel Maddow

Bossy is, too.

Now is the time to profess your Rachel Maddow love, people. You know you've just been keeping it all bottled up inside.

Smart. Able to hold her own. Engaging. Confident. What's not to love?

Let it out. We're here, and trust us, we understand.

MOMocrats co-founder Stefania Pomponi Butler wouldn't mind being in the middle of a Rachel Maddow-Chuck Todd sandwich. And, yeah, is fully aware that she is being silly.

Oregon & Kentucky Primary Live Chat TONIGHT!

Join the MOMocrats tonight at 7:30pm Eastern/4:30 pm Pacific for a liveblog/chat discussion of the primary results in Oregon and Kentucky. We'll give you our views on the results, the coverage, and anything else that comes up this evening.

Pour yourself a glass of Oregon pinot gris or a shot of Kentucky bourbon and join us for a lively discussion right here at MOMocrats.com!  Sign up below for a reminder to be sent to you prior to the chat so you don't miss a thing.

 

A Mother's Day Card from MOMocrats & Moms Rising

Wishing all of you a happy, healthy and joyous Mother's Day 2008.

Dreams for My Daughter

This Mother's Day, I'm not thinking so much about me, as about what life will look like when PunditGirl becomes a mother.  I know she's only in second grade, but given the political landscapes today (those with a small 'p' and a capital 'P'), I wonder if things will be different.

As a geeky high school senior, I attended a mock political convention at the local college.  I was already into following politics  -- my social studies project that year was keeping a notebook full of Mo Udall newspaper clips! -- but participating in the mock convention, and knowing that I would vote in my first Presidential election that fall, sealed the deal.

I dreamed about what the world would look like in the decades after that -- fantasizing about women in elective office, women running law firms, women truly taking half the world.