Posts Tagged ‘election 2008’
Vote and Hope
I’ve been in transit today and have yet to see any footage of the Stewart/Colbert rallies, but I did see a figure of 200,000 on The Mall. Regardless of what happens Tuesday, this gives me hope. In transit, I’ve started listening to Ted Kennedy’s memoir [Read More]
Make It Stop
My concern has been the atrocities there in Darfur and the relevance to me with that issue as we spoke about Africa and some of the countries there that were kind of the people succumbing to the dictators and the corruption of some collapsed governments on the continent, [Read More]
Memo To One-Issue Pro-Life McCain/Palin Voters
You wanted to give the nuclear codes to someone who thought that Africa was a country and could not name the three countries that compose North America. Just an FYI. [Read More]
23 Hours Later: No Obama Love From Fox News
Just scanned the front pages of some major news organizations: CNN shows how African-Americans are inspired by Obama’s win. MSNBC pictures a President-elect in command, but asks the tough question of how he’ll confront America’s tough challenges. BBC News [Read More]
In America, Anything Is Possible… < Asterisk >
* As long as you’re not gay. I have not yet read much reaction on the passage of California’s Proposition 8 or of the bans of same-sex marriage in other states or of the Arkansas ban of unmarried couples adopting. I first wanted to get my initial reactions out [Read More]
4 Years Later
Are we better off now than we were four years ago? Of course not, and I realize few people are, and that’s not a question I ask with regard to the 2008 election or to my life. I mention the question because I figured I probably had more intelligent things to say four [Read More]
A Closing Argument
It’s from way back on July 1, but I just heard it for the first time. I’m not sure if I know anyone who needs this argument made to them, but maybe someone reading this does. AFL-CIO Secretary Treasurer Richard Trumka: [Read More]
All Indicators Point To Obama 20-Point Blowout*
* Based on 7-Eleven coffee cup poll Now, 7-Eleven claims that their coffee cup poll gave Bush just a one-point lead over Gore in 2000 and two-point lead over Kerry in 2004, so there’s no reason to give them any less credence than, say, Gallup or Zogby (other than [Read More]
