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Historic record*
I had complained in a post earlier about the front page of The New York Times that carried the news of President-elect Barack Obama’s victory in the 2008 presidential election. I felt that it was, at least, inappropriate and did not rise to standard of previous his Times front pages. I don’t know if this…
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A noble name
Until I read Jim Sleeper‘s TPM Cafe column, Swear Him in as ‘Barack Hussein Obama,’ it never occurred to me that the president-elect would be sworn in by anything other than his full name. The protests during the primaries and the general elections have been when bigots have wielded the name as an invective or…
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Leadership
President-Elect Barack Obama Holds First Press Conference Transcript of the news conference: Obama: Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you very much. This morning, we woke up to more sobering news about the state of our economy. The 240,000 jobs lost in October marks the 10th consecutive month that our economy has shed jobs. In…
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Colson Whitehead, funny guy
With all due respect to the people whose business it is to find hillarity in our politics–the Stewarts, Colberts, Griers and Feys–I read the funniest bit yesterday on the Op-ed page of The New York Times. It was written by novelist Colson Whitehead. Whitehead, a fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, is…
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I knew it!
Warning explicit language: South Park Lampoons O Man! Like liketty split, South Park was`out of the gate with a side-splitting lampoon of President-Elect Barack Obama. A snippet that’ll take you to a link to see the full episode. The episode, which ran on Wednesday, had all the characters who bedeviled us during the campaign: Sarah…
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Editorials: President Barack Obama
The New York Times: This is one of those moments in history when it is worth pausing and reflecting on the basic facts: An American with the name Barack Hussein Obama, the son of a white woman and a black man he barely knew, raised by his grandparents far outside the stream of American power…
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Obama wins!
OBAMA ELECTED 44TH PRESIDENT OBAMA DELIVERS VICTORY SPEECH: ‘WE WILL GET THERE’ MCCAIN CONCEDES: ENDS ‘LONG JOURNEY’ IN PHOENIX OBAMA WINS First African American in highest U.S. office Phil Velasquez / Chicago Tribune By Maeve Reston and Michael Muskal | 8:05 p.m. The first-term Democratic senator from Illinois defeats Republican John McCain. Reporting from Phoenix…
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Helen says
Rosa sat so Martin could walk, Martin walked so Obama could run, Obama is running so our children can fly. Love0 Share Tweet Share Pin