Tag: Obama
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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
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The last rally
I voted at 8:37 a.m. today in Ridgewood, N.J. I did not have any problem whatsoever. Meanwhile, the video above was Sen. Barack Obama addressing more than 60,000 supporters in the last rally before today’s voting. Update: A friend sent me e-mail saying “I got out early and voted. I was there almost and hour…
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On the weekend–images
(GARETH FULLER, ASSOCIATED PRESS) U.S. Politics Featured in bonfire Festival in England. An effigy of U.S. vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, accompanied by presidential candidate Barack Obama, is unveiled by designer Mark Oldroyd ahead of a bonfire night celebration in Battle, England, Saturday Nov. 1. (CHRIS O’MEARA, ASSOCIATED PRESS) U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus, U.S. Central…
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On the road to Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008
Editor’s note: I am so nervous about the presidential election on Tuesday that I’m almost paralyzed. Certainly here I have been content to let others post instead of writing myself. I hope to summon some of my own words before Tuesday’s voting actually begins (I know boat loads of people have already voted). My friend…
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McCain trolling
Sen. John McCain’s relentlessly desperate, dirty attacks against Sen. Barack Obama should not be forgotten no matter how this election comes out on Tuesday. His name should go down in infamy with that of Sen. Joe McCarthy for the worst kind of guilt-by-association attacks. The New Republic’s John Judis points out in this video the…
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Closing arguments
American Stories, American Solutions Update: Babe, a commenter at The New York Times blog post about the ad, said this What was most striking about Obama’s half-hour infomercial was that he never mentioned McCain’s name, in fact never spoke of him. We essentially heard a politician speak without throwing dirt, tossing around falsehoods about his…
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Republican war against voting
The GOP’s Blame-ACORN Game By Peter Dreier & John Atlas This article appeared in the November 10, 2008 edition of The Nation. An increasingly desperate Republican attack machine has recently identified the community organizing group ACORN as Public Enemy Number One. Among ACORN’s alleged crimes, perhaps the most serious is that it caused, nearly single-handedly,…
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The New York Times presidential endorsement
Editorial Barack Obama for President Hyperbole is the currency of presidential campaigns, but this year the nation’s future truly hangs in the balance. The United States is battered and drifting after eight years of President Bush’s failed leadership. He is saddling his successor with two wars, a scarred global image and a government systematically stripped…
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Strength of our faiths
Among the photographs taken by the photog Platon of hundreds of men and women who volunteered to serve in the military and were sent to Iraq or Afghanistan was this striking one of Elsheba Khan at the grave of her son, Specialist Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan. Gen. Colin Powell mentioned the photograph in denouncing the…
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Donnybrook
New Yorker Cover October 27, 2008 by Richard McGuire Love0 Share Tweet Share Pin