I didn’t have a blog when I discovered this site three years ago:
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squid baby hat
November 25, 2008 at 9:40 pm (Uncategorized)
and on a more positive note
November 4, 2008 at 11:35 pm (Uncategorized)
Thank the Lord! I can’t believe this time has finally come. I was emotionally overcome when I voted for Obama today: it’s the fourth time I voted for him! I haven’t been so happy about an election in a long, long time and I am so depressed that I couldn’t contribute with help, etc. I have my hands tied by the Hatch Act and by the Pennsylvania Home Rule Charter: I am forbidden by the City of Philadelphia to campaign or participate in election stuff for any person.
I voted in my building and went down in my pajamas at 6:30 AM. Still had to stand in line outside, though!
Godspeed to Obama and may he have the strength, determination, and help he needs from advisers and other government branches to sort through this disaster left by the Republicans.
yup, I think so
November 4, 2008 at 11:23 pm (politics)
George Packer wrote in the Oct. 13 issue of The New Yorker, “The Hardest Vote,” about Republicans in the Democratic mind.
“Thomas Frank’s 2004 book “What’s the Matter with Kansas?” directed its indignation at the baffling phenomenon of millions of Americans voting year after year against their economic self-interest. He concluded that the Republican Party had tricked working people with a relentless propaganda campaign based on religion and morality, while Democrats had abandoned these voters to their economic masters by moving to the soft center of the political spectrum. Frank’s book remains the leading polemic about the white reaction—the title alone has, for many liberals, become shorthand for the conventional wisdom—but it is hobbled by the condescending argument that tens of millions of Americans have become victims of a “carefully cultivated derangement,” or are simply stupid.”
I have to say, I plead guilty to being such a person. I think people who voted for McCain tonight are just, well, stupid. Thank God they didn’t prevail.
Here is the column in its entirety.
