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  • WE HAVE HOPE, BUT REAL CHANGE IN AMERICA REPRESENTS AN IMMENSE EFFORT
    6 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    November 6, 2008
    WE HAVE HOPE, BUT REAL CHANGE IN AMERICA REPRESENTS AN IMMENSE TASK
    John Chuckman
    Already in the press there have been stories of plans to dampen the public’s expectations of Obama. The expectations are undoubtedly beyond being satisfied by any human being.
    Obama’s bright face, a keen intelligence at work in every expression, represents the greatest hope for change in America since Franklin Roosevelt. Even Kennedy, with all his gifts, did not come close. After all, (…)

  • Obama victory speech: ’This is your victory’
    5 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    President elect Barack Obama has addressed supporters in Chicago after beating John McCain to become the next US president. Below is the speech.
    Obama:
    Hello, Chicago.
    If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.
    It’s the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in (…)

  • Which Candidate Supports Petraeus, the Bailout, the Death Penalty, Nuclear Power, the Occupation, the Cuban Embargo.
    4 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By JOE MOWREY
    Which Candidate Supports Petraeus, the Bailout, the Death Penalty, Nuclear Power, the Occupation, the Cuban Embargo...
    Name That Candidate
    This week came exciting news. Colin Powell has endorsed Barack Obama for President. Yippie! The blogosphere is all atwitter. Our guy has worked hard, taken solid positions on all the most important progressive issues and managed to convince the exalted Mr. Powell to throw his support our way. Celebrations are in order. We’re one step (…)

  • HORNY OLD MEN AND FEMININE WILES
    3 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    HORNY OLD MEN AND FEMININE WILES
    By Peter Fredson November 3, 2008
    It is November and the rutting season for bull moose has begun. They will bellow, wave antlers, paw the ground, and run amuck at the first glimpse of a rival. It is their nature. Or, more aptly, it is nature’s way of reproducing their species. They can’t resist.
    Although civilization has tamed human desires, it has not obliterated them. Males will still be entranced by female beauty and feminine wiles. Winks, nods, (…)

  • Why Don’t Barack Obama and John McCain Talk About the Working Class?
    2 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Democracy NOw !
    October 27, 2008
    With the economy the number one issue on the campaign trail, major party candidates John McCain and Barack Obama discuss their tax plans, jobs and the financial bailout on the stump. But are they really addressing the needs of the working class? A new study from the Center for the Study of Working Class Life suggests that neither McCain nor Obama have adequately spoken to the needs of one-fifth of the population—the 60 million Americans who are barely (…)

  • A Single Lifetime
    1 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By David Glenn Cox
    Surviving to over age 50 is no major accomplishment, in and of itself. It’s only a chance to see things and experience things, and sadly, most of it for the worse. As a child, playing in the sun was not seen as a danger; the polar ice caps weren’t melting, or at least we didn’t know about it yet. Gasoline was .29 cents a gallon and seat belts were a novelty only required in the front seat.
    But I started life on a wholly segregated, post-World War II street, in a (…)

  • It’s The Money, Stupid!: Over $1 Billion Raised for Prez Race!
    31 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    “Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.” - Will Rogers
    Back in the late 50s, I was an aide-de-camp to the Hon. Michael J. “Iron Mike” McHale, 6th District City Councilman in Baltimore City. Around that time, there was a hotly contested citywide municipal election going on. McHale, now deceased, went to a meeting with the then leader of his South Baltimore organization, Julian “Fats” Carrick. They met in a downtown office, with Philip H. (…)

  • The Bush-Obama-McCain Administration
    31 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Bush-Obama-McCain Administration
    The period we’re living in now is the Bush-Obama-McCain Administration.
    Bush obligingly initiated Obama’s bombing campaign on Pakistan. The three of them colluded on the recent wealth transfer (about $840 billion) from the American people to Wall St.
    The 24 hr/7 days/wk media Wurlitzer distracts us from looking at these white elephants too closely. The circus is so loud and visually entraining that it hides the deeper structure of society. The U.S. (…)

  • Obama, the first-rate Republican by Alexander Cockburn
    31 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    TheIndependent.UK Sunday, 26 October 2008
    Is there anything the front-runner will not say to become President? No progressive cause would have a chance with him in charge
    As a left-winger I might be expected to be supporting Barack Obama. And indeed, in these last days I’ve been scraping around, trying to muster a single positive reason to encourage a vote for Obama. Please note my accent on the positive, since the candidate himself has couched his appeal in this idiom. Why vote for (…)

  • Obama no different to McCain, says Chavez
    30 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Care2 (Greens)
    Chavez on Obama....
    September 29, 2008 11:29 AM
    Chavez et Obama - Sources : .confidentiel.net/mecanopolis.wordpress
    Relations between Venezuela and the US will not improve even if Barack Obama becomes president, Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan leader, predicted today.
    A persistent thorn in the side of the US, Chavez told his supporters not to get their hopes up over Obama, the Democratic candidate, as there was little difference between him and his Republican rival, John (…)