2008 Campaign
November 2, 2008
- Voting begins in less than 36 hours. So much has been written about this campaign that it’s pointless to try to rehash it all. In the last few months we have seen the rise of perhaps the greatest politician in a generation and the decline and eventual implosion of one of the only heroes t come out of Vietnam. All of the national polls show Barack Obama ahead, some by a wide ...
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October 25, 2008
- If Obama wins, I will cry. His candidacy has been an astonishment, as the possibility that a black man could win the presidency has grown to odds-on likelihood. While his victory would not mark the end of racism, it would at least confirm in the most dramatic of ways that bigotry can be overcome. Obama’s emergence is all the more stunning for occurring when so much else— the global ...
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October 19, 2008
- An old man stood at a podium. Before him stretched an empty high school auditorium that hours before had been full of people yelling his name. Fifty years ago he had walked across a stage like this to graduate. Now he was here at the end of the last great era of his life. There was no one to watch him leave the stage.It had been an arduous journey to end up back here. ...
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October 7, 2008
- I felt bad for John McCain tonight. Not so bad that I would ever consider voting for him but bad nonetheless. He looked far less like a life-long politician and statesman than a confused man who realizes he has thrown away his legacy to finish second. I can’t remember another bona fide American hero that has so tarnished his own legacy. What’s worse is that it almost appears to be ...
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September 29, 2008
- Ca suffit! I am back from London and furious. And it has nothing to do with the fire in the Eurostar tunnel forcing me to take a very expensive flight from London Heathrow to Dusseldorf, Germany, to catch a connecting flight to Paris. Bad weather conditions in Germany make the initial flight two hours late departing, causing myself and 20 other Paris-bound passengers to spend the night in ...
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March 5, 2008
- Americans want change. A spirit of optimism is awakening in the new generation. A new rule of equality and justice for all waits to be born in the politics of our nation. A secret is being whispered from ear to ear by the young and the visionary. The secret is our non-negotiable unity as human beings. The old generation doesn’t understand this point and their failure to understand it betrays a ...
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