Hilton Head/Bluffton

Can you believe this is our last meeting before Election Day? It's been an eventful week, of course! Don't miss this chance to join your liberal friends to discuss the state of the campaign. Come share your stories and experiences from this election season with your DL friends. Here's mine: I have a staunch Republican friend who decided to vote for Obama based on Colin Powell's endorsement - and he lives in North Carolina, one of those crucial swing states!

Hope to see you on Tuesday, Sept 21st, at Blue Coyote in Bluffton at 5:30 or whenever you can join us. Tell your friends!

Other announcements are below.
Linda

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You're invited to a political (and more) art show--

A Literary-Visual Art Show with Issues at ARTworks, in Beaufort Town Center, Boundary Street, October 17- November 5th. Thirty artists and writers were invited to create work around their own issues (political or cultural, personal or socio-economic, serious or good humored, For or Against) and they have produced a conversation-provoking, multi-media bounty. Issues include violent and provocative media aimed at children, immigration, coastal ecology, lipstick, pigs, privacy, cruelty, and much more.

The show deliberately coincides with a pivotal and sparkling presidential election season, and is a continuation of a long but unacknowledged South Carolina tradition of progressive art: Dave Drake’s illegally poetry-inscribed pottery in the 1840s; Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson documenting spirituals in the 1860s; Lorenzo Dow Turner audio-recording the Gullah dialect in the 1930s; Sam Doyle’s outspokeness & ingenuity, starting in the 1960s; Arianna King Comer’s Remembrances of the Civil Rights Era show, in the 1990s; Julie Milazzo’s Ooo Ahh Oh show that toured with the Vagina Monologues in 2004.
Visit Iodine Literary Projects at http://www.eatgoodbread.com for details.

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Message from Carol Fowler, Chair of the SC Democratic Party:
Some really bad people are sending emails that say not to vote a straight Democratic ticket in SC. Some say that your vote won't count for Obama if you vote a straight Democratic ticket, or that pushing the Democratic button will cancel your vote. Some of them even pretend to come from the Democratic Party. THOSE EMAILS ARE NOT TRUE!!

They are a scam by the Republicans to keep us from voting for all the Democratic candidates, or to confuse us and slow down the voting. Don't believe them. Voting the straight Democratic ticket is the best way to have your vote counted for Obama and all the Democrats.
I intend to vote for Barack Obama and all the other Democratic candidates by pushing the Democratic button.

Check with the SC Election Commission at www.scvotes.org to see the truth. This election is too important for you or anyone else to fall for a trick.

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What: the movie 'W'
Where: Sea Turtle movie theatre, Buckwalter Pkwy, Bluffton
When: Saturday, Oct 18th
Time: 6:40 p.m. - Meet between CheeBurger CheeBurger and the Sea Turtle Theatre (Movie showtime is 6:55pm)
After the movie: We will get together over a drink and discuss the movie. Please RSVP so I have an idea how many are coming and if you want to come for some discussion and libations afterward. I'll make a reservation if it is a large group.
Reply to:
Cherylmccarthy@hotmail.com 843-505-0321

The Democratic Club of Beaufort County South of the Broad has extended a special invitation for our Drinking Liberally members to join them when they host a screening of the new documentary film UNCOUNTED: The New Math of American Elections at Coligny Theatre this Monday, October 13. A wine & cheese social hour begins at 6:00 PM with movie and discussion at 7:00 PM. The public is invited. Admission is free but a $5 donation is requested.

For more information about the event contact Democratic Headquarters at 682-3567.

The movie 'W' is coming to Sea Turtle next week. We are planning a Screening Liberally gathering for Saturday, Oct 18th. Times are unknown until next week, but we hope you will hold the date. Don't miss viewing this movie with your Liberal friends!

More information coming next week....in the meantime, here are some websites with a bit of info about Oliver Stone's new movie on George W. Bush!

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10009470-bush/
http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/w?q=w
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1175491/

Come join your Liberal friends at 5:30 p.m. this Tuesday. We will meet at Blue Coyote in Bluffton for discussion and drinks before going home to watch the debate. (We meet every first and third Tuesday.)

We had a great turnout at the first Laughing Liberally event held at The Comedy Club of Hilton Head on Saturday. We even had 3 members of the Savannah DL group join us! A good time was had by all!

Other than our Laughing Liberally night, we haven't met in three weeks, so there's a lot to talk about. McCain and Obama debated last month. Obama has inched ahead in the polls, even in some of the swing states. The Senate & House passed a bill to bail out the financial markets, and McCain took credit for it.

And I hope you didn't miss the Biden-Palin debate. Palin performed better than expected, they say, but Biden was the clear winner. Here's a couple web sites where you can check out the candidates' claims: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ or http://www.snopes.com/

But, even better, did you see the Saturday Night Live version? In some ways, it was better than the original! If you missed it, here's the link:
http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/vp-debate-open-palin-...

Linda

The Democratic Club is hosting a showing of the film UNCOUNTED at Coligny on Monday, October 13 at 7 PM. You are invited to attend.