Presidential election 2008
November 9, 2008
- As Christina Ballard and Cornelius Voss were on their way home after celebrating Barack Obama's victory, on election day, three youngsters in the back of their car rolled down the window cheering, and calling out Obama's name. Three unmarked police cars reportedly pulled up alongside them, and are said to have pepper sprayed the youngsters. The officers are accused of ...
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October 29, 2008
- "But I am totally convinced that 99 and forty-four-one-hundredths percent of Americans are going to make the decision based on who is best to lead this country."John McCainLet's hope so! Go Obama!
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October 27, 2008
- "Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation."Robert F. Kennedy
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October 15, 2008
- Every four years, presidential candidates try to convince us that the next election is the most critical in U.S. history. “Our nation is at a crossroads” the politicians are fond of intoning. This year, however, that tattered cliché is actually true.A win by John McCain would elect our first female vice president. Few feminist who fought for the rights of women during the 1960s ever dreamed ...
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October 8, 2008
- 8 p.m. La Guardia --- The people left here tonight either have somewhere they have to go that's life and death or have lost all hope. All the bathroom floors are wet; the coffee machines are empty and I'm sitting next to a woman who either is Amy Weinstein or channeling her. v. bad.8:30 p.m. -- Someone turns on the second debate between Senators McCain and Obama. Much comment on Obama's purple ...
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June 10, 2008
- June 30, 2008: As I say, I must get My Blog in gear. The weather on the West Coast, particularly in Northern California, has been unseasonably warm and drizzle-free this Summer. That factor is dictated, as the Country knows now, by nearly 1,500 fires burning up and down the State. Most sad are the big fires which threaten the absolutely exquisite Big Sur Pacific Coast. I think ...
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June 4, 2008
- “If you live with hope you’re dancing to a terrible tune.” My sister of time and family, if not shared parentage, is reading me a line of graffiti she sees scrawled on the wall as she rides Marti down Atlanta streets into the hood where hope all too often, when found at all, is encased in a neon glow looking almost tawdry in open sunlight, a certain house, an abandoned pawn shop, a ...
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May 13, 2008
- It's kind of a stressful time in my personal soap opera. Every once in a while I pause to give myself a boost, repeating two words that have a remarkable ability to lift my spirits: President Obama!When friends are in the vicinity, I tend to add a few more words of rational exuberance, such as, "Imagine! He's going to be President!" I don't think Obama has magical powers, nor do I ...
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April 20, 2008
- I love the image of Barack Obama riding from town to town on a locomotive, giving whistle-stop speeches off the caboose like a taller, darker, prettier Harry Truman. Mostly I’d rather not associate him with Truman, who I think was generally an asshole who pissed off more people than he had to and wounded the Roosevelt coalition. But Obama has this in common with him: Harry ran his own style of ...
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April 19, 2008
- Although I'm not sure that it is, the handwriting seems clear upon the wall: Sen. Barack Obama will be the Democrats' nominee for president.In a silly and embarrassing debate not long ago, news anchor Charles Gibson, with sort-of newsman George Stephanopoulos looking earnestly on, asked the two Democratic candidates to "pledge" that they would form a joint ticket. Neither did. Neither ...
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