I spend about 74% of my waking hours working/thinking about the Obama Campaign, and the other 26% working/thinking about my children and husband. (While that proportion is surely out of whack, it puts me ahead of Presidential Candidate (oops, I mean vice presidential candidate) Palin, whose special needs newborn, pregnant teenager, and soldier-son apparently need less maternal attention than the children of any of the rest of us.) This morning, however, I've decided to take a moment to appreciate the member of Congress who represents me: Barbara Lee. Lee is a leader in the House on Darfur divestment, on stopping the spread of HIV/AIDS, and she was the only member of Congress to refuse, after September 11th, to give George Bush a blank check to wage his catastrophic war in Iraq. We threw a party for Ms. Lee early in the summer (hence the photograph of my family with the Congresswoman - notice my unfortunate dress). We raised a little money, but mostly we just thanked her for her courage, her principles, and her devotion to the least advantaged in our society.