for 10 years. but what the folks have done is they have made they have taken a bad situation and they have made themselves heroes for me. they are doing things in their community to keep the word out. they are consistently connecting with local law enforcement. iyana paterson and her family started a forget me day. forget me not day. and that was in her town, so that each year, little alexis paterson is thought of, but it is also a larger event because it helps people who are going through the same thing that iyana paterson is dealing with. and there are so many more than we have any clear awareness of. one thing i would like to add is through all of this, five months, two weeks and three days, when we came home with her from the precinct, i spent the five months, two weeks and three days in front of the same computer, making phone calls, seconding e-mails, phone calls,
but there s another kind of power we have been seeing a lot lately. not the power to tell people what to think but the power to tell people what to think about. let s take the recent news cycle. is it just me or have you noticed how much time we have all spent thinking and talking about a certain conservative talk radio show host. for nearly two weeks we have had all a little less room in our heads and daily news shows for much of anything but listening or responding to his latest rantings. he doesn t have the power to make us agree with him, but he s been effective in using his power to get us to talk about him. and that hour, the power to set the agenda and define the terms of the debate, is very important in politics. want to know what the media thinks is important? check out the questions think ask first in the60 seconds of the stump speech. want to know what s on sarah palin s agenda? check out the facebook updat vo what s important to them, it looks like the first quest