2008 election
September 12, 2009
- Over the past eighteen months I have watched with great interest the national cable networks interviews with Ms. Maude Hurd, the National President of ACORN ACORN is an anacronym for, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now and founded in 1970 by Wade Rathke and Gary Delgado. It is a community-based organization in the USA that advocates for low- and moderate-income families ...
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March 22, 2009
- How would I know? I just voted for the first time in a Presidential election yesterday! Supposedly, I was going to feel more patriotic after pressing the ominous "Cast Ballot" button, experiencing pure American and democratic joy cascading into my soul. At least, that's how my superiors tried to make me feel since birth. Apparently, there was no greater from of patriotism or service to ...
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March 22, 2009
- In the wake of the recent economic crisis in this country, each presidential hopeful has tried to convince voters that he will be the stronger leader, the more apt handler of a problem that nobody, not even a group of gurus on Wall Street, has an answer to. As a result, the American people are seeing excessive amounts of political rhetoric from both candidates. Not that your typical campaign ...
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March 22, 2009
- I admittedly was surprised when I heard John McCain's choice for his running mate at first. Sarah Palin? Who? I honestly had no clue who she was, and I kept expecting the CNN online story to change the name to Lieberman, Romney, or hell, even Pawlenty. But alas, the story did not change. Sarah Palin, the governor of Alaska and former mayor of Wasila...no Wasilla, was McCain's choice. I reserved ...
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March 22, 2009
- The race is officially on. Today is Tuesday, November 4, 2008, a historic day in America and around the world. The inevitability of the first non-white, male president or vice president optimistically awaits or ominously looms (depending on your perspective). By the end of the day (or at least hopefully by the end of the month) we will know who the next president elect is. However, we must not ...
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February 25, 2009
- A winner has been declared in the 2008 presidential election, thus averting another Constitutional crisis (1876, 2000). Remarkably few ballot boxes were found floating in rivers this time around. Chads clinging to paper ballots were nowhere in sight. Barack Hussein Obama is an exotic choice. Raised partly in Indonesia with an Asian stepfather and partly in the state of Hawaii by an American ...
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November 25, 2008
- I have to admit, I was disappointed. After all, to hear lots of folks tell it we are now living in "post-racial America," all because Barack Obama is to become the nation's 44th president in a couple of months. So, imagine my surprise when I contacted the labor department, in search of evidence to sustain the post-racial America thesis, only to discover that blacks, Latinos, and ...
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November 19, 2008
- Can one's love of a candidate create a second-hand amour for one us followers? You betcha! This post appeared on Huffington Post Living on November 4. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sharon-glassman/was-it-him-or-his-obama_b_140687.html Is there such a thing as second-hand O-love - a giddy, soaring feeling for another Obama fan that is a natural byproduct of one's love for the candidate ...
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November 7, 2008
- In January, the U.S. will cross a barrier that many felt would never be breached—in our lifetimes at least. We will inaugurate an African-American president. Yet, this morning I remembered a prediction made back in the sixties. The feminists of that day claimed the U.S. would elect a black male as president before a woman of any color. That prediction has come true. But just barely. In 2008, ...
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November 5, 2008
- My tears came as I watched President Elect Obama give his heartwarming acceptance speech in Grant Park. The crowd looked like a Norman Rockwell painting of America—all ages, all colors, famous people and ordinary people. One young white woman was so overcome with emotion that she was on her knees with her head in her hands sobbing. I understood.One of my favorite shots was of two young white ...
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