DFA Raised $8.2 million for change in 2012 and can be a model for the new Obama organization

[JDPriestly]

1. DFA and Obama's idea are just going to be great for America.

They will inspire and enable activists to join the Obama administration and future Democratic candidates' to work toward good government and progressive ideas. Progressive ideas will not become reality overnight, but they will become real.

I remember when homosexuals were not acknowledged. I remember Jim Crow. I remember visiting a very backward shoe store (in the South, perhaps an anomaly?) that did not allow African-Americans to try on shoes. (I was young. Did I just imagine it? I don't think so.)

And then women's issues. We girls went to college "just in case" we didn't find husbands or our husbands abandoned us or, heaven forbid and hope that he had insurance, our husbands died. Now, look at what young women are accomplishing.

We girls had to choose: nursing, education or secretarial. Those were pretty much the professions open to lower middle class and poor women. Now ---- compared to that time and in spite of the bad economy, wonderful, diverse opportunities exist for women in the workplace. Women in law school -- at least 40% of the classes. That is an amazing change from the numbers in the 1960s.

We have further to go.

And I think the new idea that Obama has and the ideas that Dean had about how to organize for change should give us great hope. We all need to contribute our ideas, our dreams and our efforts. We won't get everything we might suggest or dream of, but if we work together, we can make the world better.