Barack Obama: Paradigm shifter
Cross-posted at TalkLeft.A few accurate and a great many inaccurate things have been said about Barack Obama's advocacy of a "new kind of politics." Especially amongst the media, this has been treated...
View ArticleA confession of hypocrisy and a plea for healing
[M]aybe the trivialization of politics has reached a point of no return, so that most people see it as just one more diversion, a sport, with politicians our paunch-bellied gladiators and those who...
View ArticleThe Audacity of Barack Obama
"Maybe the critics are right. Maybe there's no escaping our great political divide, an endless clash of armies, and any attempts to alter the rules of engagement are futile. Or maybe trivialization of...
View ArticleThe Audacity of Barack Obama
"Maybe the critics are right. Maybe there's no escaping our great political divide, an endless clash of armies, and any attempts to alter the rules of engagement are futile. Or maybe trivialization of...
View ArticleObama-Reagan Context You Have Not Read...
...and hopefully among the last you read. Those who have picked apart and parsed Obama's recent comments have not only excluded the necessary context of the full statement but also the context of...
View ArticleReturn of the Clintonian Repressed
Polls always indicated that Americans were willing to cut Bill Clinton some slack on the question of honesty: people recognized his mendacity but approved of his policies. "No one died when Clinton...
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La audacia de la esperanza is only $11.53
Are you worried the Mountain Top looks high?Do you know a voter anywhere that you know may open their mind to Obama, given the opporunity?Do you have undecided family in Texas or Ohio? Pennsylvania?...
View ArticleBlasting Obama's Mighty Wind
Golly gosh, Gideon! The Financial Times' Gideon Rachman, one of the most acute and fact-based columnists writing in English, has charged that Obama the Orator is an emperor wearing no clothes: his...
View ArticleDionne on Daily Kos and Obama - is he right?
At a stroke (as it were), Obama did two things. He established himself as a unifier capable of, as he likes to say, "disagreeing without being disagreeable." And he demonstrated his respect for the...
View ArticleAudacity of Homage: Obama's Reagan Riffs
Christopher Caldwell's excellent analysis of What Obama Owes to Reagan sent me back to The Audacity of Hope, in which Caldwell sees "an interest in Reagan that borders on fascination." He's right....
View ArticleA plea for Fairness and Balance
In considering the strum and drang over Jeremiah Wright, two things came to mind Has anyone on any media outlet shown any evidence that Barack Obama has ever uttered or held any of the hateful thoughts...
View ArticleThe Audacity of Hope
In the media frenzy, the thing that is certainly lost is these hopeful and thoughtful words from Jeremiah Wright's sermon, The Aucacity of Hope.Here are links to the audio of that sermon that inspired...
View ArticleThe Audacity of Focus: HOPE
Audacity of Focus: HOPEEver since an accident I had that left me disabled, I’ve wanted to learn a new trade. One that would allow me to work either from my home or an office. I used to be a...
View ArticleAudacity of Obama: embracing Wright and Grandma
Obama's speech on race and Wright will go down in history, beside Martin Luther King's 'I have a dream' speech, as a defining moment in America's conception of itself. Its organizing trope is the...
View ArticleTranscript of "The Audacity of Hope"
Below is the transcript of Jeremiah Wright's sermon "The Audacity of Hope." Let's make this viral.----------------------------------- THE AUDACITY OF HOPESeveral years ago while I was in Richmond, the...
View ArticleSwiftboating Obama on Faith: WSJ "tastes" blood
A hit job on Obama by a Wall Street Journal opinion editor - who cares? Well, this one, by WSJ deputy Taste editor and Fox News panelist Naomi Schaefer Riley, tests some lines of religious attack we're...
View ArticleObama Predicts the Future
Barack Obama saw this coming years ago, and its finally happened. From Politico.com:Obama had greater role on liberal surveyDuring his first run for elected office, Barack Obama played a greater role...
View ArticleDon't discount Obama's past as a community organizer and state senator- it...
What I learned reading his 1994 memoir Dreams of My Father. Seen in detail, his "inexperience" as a community organizer and state senator stops looking like a liability, and actually the greatest...
View ArticleObama's Been Trying to Tell You
Undoubtedly, some of these views will get me in trouble. I am new enough on the national political scene that I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project...
View ArticleObama's Consistent Position on Faith
For those who find themselves turned off or "deceived" by Senator Obama's faith-based initiatives proposal today, I would direct you, once again, to his second book, "The Audacity of Hope," page 221 in...
View ArticlePlaying politics with family values
WITH ONE important exception, what we have learned about vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her family does not reflect badly on any of them. What the Palin family story does do is underscore...
View ArticleThe Audacity of Something.
There's been a lot of chicken litteling on the Kos recently - We're doomed, we cry, we're doomed.And that was answered by a call to Chill out - Obama knows what he's doing. And we don't. We should do...
View ArticleWhy the title of the book matters
The longer the election season goes, the more difficult it is to have have hope that things in America will change. Between the lies of McCain, the skewed polls, and the MSM's fervent efforts to...
View ArticleAyers: a sign of hope
I'd like to see the Obama campaign turn the Ayers story into one that fits the message of his campaign: The audacity of hope. They could do so with a statement such as this:William Ayers was a young...
View ArticleMonday preview- Obama at the White House Predictions
I'm rereading Barack's book, Audacity of Hope, Obama talks about an earlier encounter with Bush at the White House in 2004, which leads me to make a prediction about the outcome.The inside of the...
View ArticleThe Audacity Of Hate (With Poll)
Two years ago I succumbed to the message of a young, African-American politician who spoke movingly of the Audacity of Hope. I read his books. I attended his rallies. And I felt empowered by his...
View ArticleChristmas Carol for the Obama Family
Although the Obama campaign has been all about change, which I endorse, the goals of an Obama presidency are just as much about restoration. In this spirit, I offer a humble Christmas carol to all....
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One Year Ago Today
I have a tiny, 750 square-foot house. But I’ve somehow made room for one of those enormous Obama "Hope" posters. You know the one – you’ve seen it a million times. This one sits framed in my kitchen –...
View ArticleI support President Obama. I support the boycott.
I'm going to make some mistakes, but you'll set me right.- Barack Obama, January 26, 2009ed. note - I originally posted this diary on the one year anniversary of the 2008 election. This is an update.I...
View ArticleThank You, Jimmy Carter (again)
I expect this piece will slide off into oblivion, but I still think it's worth writing because I don't think we say "Thank you, Jimmy Carter" enough. Right now, it is especially embarrassing that no...
View ArticleYOU were supposed to have the Audacity of Hope
No great movement can overwhelm its opposition by gutting its own morale.We have the potential to be a great movement, even beyond what Obama led in 2008. In fact, we must become that movement, if we...
View ArticleWhy We Must Sail To Gaza
A year ago, peace and solidarity activists tried to break the blockade of Gaza with an international flotilla of ships. They failed, in the sense that the Israeli government attacked the flotilla, took...
View Article"We Are Unarmed and We Are Sailing": Gaza Ship Sails Today
URGENT, PRESS RELEASE POSTED AT REQUEST"WE ARE UNARMED AND WE ARE SAILING"On Anniversary of Mavi Marmara Killings, U.S. Boat to Gaza Announces Passenger Listhttp://ustogaza.org/New York, NY-May 31,...
View ArticleA message from Alice Walker sailing on the Audacity of Hope
In case you do not already know this, Alice Walker is participating in the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza. She is sailing along with other Americans of conscience on the "Audacity of Hope." The boat is...
View ArticleThe Audacity Has Arrived
I guess they couldn't find any dirt on the guy.New York Attorney General Kicked Off Government Group Leading Foreclosure Probe
View ArticleI have now lost all audacity of hope
That's my initial reaction to hearing that Congress has agreed to spare the FAA from the brunt of the sequester, to avoid, of all things, flight delays. By a veto-proof majority, no less.Why is this...
View ArticleObama Month: Jon Stewart and the Audacity of Not Trying
For those who don’t know (And maybe in the future someone is looking back at this,) Jon Stewart was the long time host of the Daily Show. His work on that show through the George W. Bush...
View ArticleWhy I Still LOVE Mr. President.
Way back, in—was it 2004? 2006?--when that brash, intelligent, and GORGEOUS—first-term Senator from Illinois was introduced to the World with his speech before the Democratic National Convention—and...
View ArticleEvery. Single. Thing.
On a daily basis, Gabe Ortiz produces heart-wrenching and infuriating news about racist immigration policies, the abuses of those who enforce them, and news about the struggles (and occasional...
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