To find out, go to

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amukRM9SS oo

Pass it on to any Democrat you know who is currently living, studying or working overseas.

Here is the latest from the Democrats Abroad effort to get U.S. citizens living and working overseas to register and vote: a message from DA International Chair Christine Marques. Please do click through and check out the video.

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Dear DA Member:

As this important election season continues we wanted to share with you a
video message taped by Congressman Rush Holt (D-NJ). Please share this
message about how you can vote with other Americans you know living
abroad.

Register for Change today - and tell a friend!
www.VoteFromAbroad.org

I'm a Democrat who lives in Japan, one of the forty-three countries around the world where Democrats Abroad, the branch of the Democratic Party that represents U.S citizens living and working outside the U.S., has active country committees. We could, if we get people registered,  add literally millions of votes to the Democratic Victory this November. (No kidding. If we were a state, we'd be the 11th largest in the Union.)

On August 4, we are launching a viral video campaign to publicize www.VotefromAbroad.org and we'd sure be grateful if you could help us get out the word. To learn more, please go to www.votefromabroad.blogspot.com  and SUBSCRIBE to  the feed.  We will post new information every day, and videos every couple of days.

Do join us in knocking on electronic doors the world over. With your help, yes, we can get out the vote.

We Talk, They Hurt

Angela Boskowitz, a Democrat Abroad in Frankfurt, Germany, is a frequent visitor to the military hospital in Landstuhl where casualties of our war in Iraq are treated. This appeal hit me very hard, thankful as I am that daughter Kate and son-in-law Pat are pilots and are both home safely. I've asked Kate to buy a couple of hundred bucks worth of American telephone cards and send them to Landstuhl on my behalf. I'd appreciate your pitching in, too.

How often do we get to elect someone to Congress who turns around and says exactly what we hoped he would. Jim Webb begins his Wall Street Journal Editorial "Class Struggle"  with these powerful words.

"The most important--and unfortunately the least debated--issue in politics today is our society's steady drift toward a class-based system, the likes of which we have not seen since the 19th century. America's top tier has grown infinitely richer and more removed over the past 25 years. It is not unfair to say that they are literally living in a different country. Few among them send their children to public schools; fewer still send their loved ones to fight our wars. They own most of our stocks, making the stock market an unreliable indicator of the economic health of working people. The top 1% now takes in an astounding 16% of national income, up from 8% in 1980. The tax codes protect them, just as they protect corporate America, through a vast system of loopholes."

Read the rest here.

John McCreery
Yokohama, Japan