Politics
“you’ll only know a world where this is possible,” I whispered to my niece. Less than a year old, she bounced and drooled on my lap as her mother screamed with joy in the background. Obama is president. For a moment my eyes stung with tears. But I smiled. Listening to him calmly and humbly […]
"I know one thing: this is no time for further gambling. John McCain rolled the dice on Sarah Palin. I’m grateful to Bob Rice of Tangent Capital for pointing out that the actuarial risk, based on mortality tables, of Palin becoming president if the Republican ticket wins the election is about 1 in 6 or […]
I lamented to R today that this election, with all of the hype on hope, was exhausting. He responded: well, it’s supposed to be tiring… hope takes work. if the election were a foregone conclusion, then instead of hope there’d just be expectation. that doesn’t require any effort at all. 🙂 I hadn’t thought about […]
it was a moment in history. the audience swelled far beyond the 75,000 crowded into a stadium. i think maybe the whole world watched…at the very least more than one would imagine under normal circumstances. and if he wasn’t the poet he usually his he was the stong figure people have questioned he can be. […]
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Dear Senator Obama, The thing is, you can’t be change if you do what’s always been done.  I understand that circumstances change. I understand that winning is pretty much the point of running for president – or anything else. What I am having trouble understanding is why it is so difficult for you to […]
i’ve been stewing. i didn’t start off this way. at first i was panicked. turning on my television last tuesday morning i caught the blue ticker tape running under a video of obama. “obama talks about race today”. i cringed and immediately my finger pressed the off button. it was instinct. i was mortified, certain […]
hey sarah palin
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