Tag Archive | "Barack Obama"
Looking Over the Mountaintop
“I just want to do God’s will. And He’s allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I’ve looked over. And I’ve seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land!” - 1968, Martin [...]
Continue reading...Fall ‘08 Reading List
Monday, November 3, 2008
I’ve compiled quite a list for the rest of this year. I’ve actually finished a few of these but I wanted to write them down so that I can keep the list up to date. Not that anyone really cares what I’m reading, but I go back to these lists to find conscious and unconscious [...]
Continue reading...American Stories, American Solutions
Thursday, October 30, 2008
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Continue reading...Underdog Psychology
Friday, October 17, 2008
David Brooks as psychologist? He wrote a great opinion piece for the New York Times today ((Source: Thinking About Obama)) on the psychology of Barack Obama. Brooks is certainly conservative but he is always level-headed and critical - that’s why I like his editorials. I suppose in his logical, dispassionate analytics he finds Obama a [...]
Continue reading...Why I am a Liberal
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” - by Emma Lazarus (on the plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty) Today is Blog Action Day ‘08 [...]
Continue reading...If the World Could Vote
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
November 4th 2008 the American people will choose a new president. The president of the United States of America is the most powerful person in the world. We would like to know who would be the next president of the United States of America - if the world could vote! In the presidential election in [...]
Continue reading...Obama Accepts Nomination
Friday, August 29, 2008
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Continue reading...Obama Wins Nomination
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
In what he called a “defining moment for our nation,” Sen. Barack Obama on Tuesday became the first African-American to head the ticket of a major political party. Obama’s steady stream of superdelegate endorsements, combined with the delegates he received from Tuesday’s primaries, put him past the 2,118 threshold, CNN projects. “Tonight we mark the [...]
Continue reading...Hoodwinked and Bamboozled
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
I’ve always enjoyed talking politics with friends. I’ve even stayed in touch with History and Political Science professors from my undergraduate days. A few days ago, while talking with a former History professor, I realized that not everyone sees America the way I do. I told him that for the first time in my life [...]
Continue reading...Yes We Can
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
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Thursday, November 6, 2008
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