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App Store - NYTimes Election 2012
"The Election 2012 app from The New York Times is a one-stop destination for political news as it unfolds throughout the day. The app provides a continuously updated view of the latest developments, both from The Times – including The Caucus blog and FiveThirtyEight – and from sources around the Web."
ios  iphone  nytimes  news  elections  2012  applications  classideas  politics  from delicious
december 2011 by robertogreco
Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult | Truthout
"Those lines of dialogue from a classic film noir sum up the state of the two political parties in contemporary America. Both parties are rotten - how could they not be, given the complete infestation of the political system by corporate money on a scale that now requires a presidential candidate to raise upwards of a billion dollars to be competitive in the general election? Both parties are captives to corporate loot. The main reason the Democrats' health care bill will be a budget buster once it fully phases in is the Democrats' rank capitulation to corporate interests - no single-payer system, in order to mollify the insurers; and no negotiation of drug prices, a craven surrender to Big Pharma.<br />
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But both parties are not rotten in quite the same way. The Democrats have their share of machine politicians, careerists, corporate bagmen, egomaniacs and kooks. Nothing, however, quite matches the modern GOP."
politics  2011  religion  elections  corruption  republicans  gop  democracy  democrats  us  religiousright  karlrove  mikelofgren  economics  policy  power  control  history  future  from delicious
september 2011 by robertogreco
The Historic Election: Four Views by Ronald Dworkin, Mark Lilla, and David Bromwich | The New York Review of Books
"Capitalist utopianism and unqualified loathing for all that remains of the welfare state are the dispositions that now unite the Republican Party from the bottom up. George Orwell wrote in The Road to Wigan Pier that while it might be too much to hope for economic equality, he liked the idea of a world where the richest man was only ten times richer than the poorest. Bertrand Russell in Freedom versus Organization wrote that since money is a form of power, a high degree of economic inequality is not compatible with political democracy. Those statements did not seem radical seventy years ago. Today no national politician would dare assent to either."

[via: http://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2011/05/03/easter-reading.php ]
capitalism  2010  georgeorwell  bertrandrussell  inequality  incomegap  wealth  economics  us  policy  poverty  inequity  politics  freedom  democracy  incompatibility  welfarestate  republicans  washingtonstate  elections  ronalddworkin  marklilla  davidbromwich  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
Corporate political transparency ratings - Spreadsheets - Los Angeles Times
"Many of America’s most powerful companies do not report how much they spend to influence elections and legislation. These companies contribute millions of dollars to powerful trade associations and to other politically active groups that are not required to report the sources of their funding.<br />
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Those groups, in turn, spend the money on lobbying and other political activity. The Los Angeles Times reviewed how the 75 largest publicly traded companies in the energy, healthcare and financial services sectors disclose their political giving on their corporate websites."<br />
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[Related article: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-money-politics-survey-20110424,0,1545345,full.story ]
latimes  politics  corporations  corporatism  disclosure  policy  2011  ratings  energy  healthcare  finance  elections  corruption  transparency  government  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
The Last Hours of @MayorEmanuel « Snarkmarket
"…here is the stunning conclusion to the story of @MayorEmanuel. He won the election and as predicted by Mayor Daley, vanished into a time vortex in order to save the multiverse.<br />
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I’ve also been boning up on my @MayorEmanuel backstory, & man, it is totally batshit in the best possible way. There are layers and layers to this thing that I couldn’t even guess at, and a few I’m probably still missing. In short, the anonymous author(s) of the thread have been building towards this science-fiction/comic-book resolution of the story for a while now, first planting the seeds months ago, then grinding them up like fine celery salt. <br />
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You can read a quick-&-dirty PDF of all of @MayorEmanuel’s tweets …assembled by @najuu…I’m not Storifying the whole thing, because 1) Twitter’s archives have a hard time going back that far in the Storify interface & 2) even if they did, I’m not stupid. But I would like to do my small part to gather the limbs of Osiris just here at the end."
timcarmody  rahmemanuel  mayoremanuel  chicago  writing  fiction  multiverse  snarkmarket  humor  realitystretching  politics  storytelling  thenewstorytelling  storify  2011  elections  @mayoremanuel  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
The Two Mayors « Snarkmarket
"Since Emanuel announced he was running for office, he’s been joined by a delightfully funny and foul-mouthed shadow on Twitter calling himself @MayorEmanuel…combines a kind of exaggeration of the known qualities of the real Rahm Emanuel…with a fully-realized, totally internal world of characters and events that has little to do with the real world and everything to do with the comic parallel universe @MayorEmanuel inhabits.<br />
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…The idea is that if we strip back the secrecy and public image to something so impolitic, so unlikely, we might arrive at something approximating the truth…<br />
Yesterday, however, @MayorEmanuel outdid himself. He wrote an extended, meandering narrative of the day before the primary that took the whole parallel Rahm Emanuel thing to a different emotional, comic, cultural place entirely. It even features a great cameo by friend of the Snark Alexis Madrigal. The story is twisting, densely referential, far-ranging — and surprisingly, rather beautiful."
chicago  twitter  rahmemanuel  @mayoremanuel  mayoremanuel  timcarmody  storify  alternateuniverse  humor  snarkmarket  writing  fiction  realitystretching  elections  politics  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
George Washington: Strong Man, But No Strongman : NPR
"There were people who believed that only a strong, longtime authoritarian ruler could keep a country stable in a risky world governed by emperors, kings, and czars. They felt the United States deserved no less.<br />
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But Washington remembered that he had asked his men to fight for a republic. And when he stepped down, he put his young country's future into the hands of every man with a vote.<br />
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We've seen many countries rise up and hold free elections, only long enough for a charismatic, autocratic ruler to win them and hold on to power, like Hosni Mubarak did for so long, like a man afraid to let go of the throat of a snake.<br />
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We all know that democracy can be messy, corrupt, and disappointing. But every few years an event like the revolution in Egypt reminds us why people are willing to struggle and die for it.<br />
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George Washington could have been a king. He decided to be a citizen."
georgewashington  egypt  hosnimubarak  revolution  democracy  us  history  classideas  elections  messiness  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
Isarithmic History of the Two-Party Vote « David B. Sparks
"This animated interpretation accentuates certain phenomena: the breadth and duration of support for Roosevelt, the shift from a Democratic to a Republican South, the move from an ostensibly east-west division to the contemporary coasts-versus-heartland division, and the stability of the latter.<br />
More broadly, this video is a reminder that what constitutes “politics as usual” is always in flux, shifting sometimes abruptly. The landscape of American politics is constantly evolving, as members of the two great parties battle for electoral supremacy."
visualization  history  government  politics  geodata  elections  statistics  maps  us  mapping  classideas  republicans  democrats  two-partydominance  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
Borderland › Let There Be Gridlock
"I don’t know if it’s the “end of the age of Obama.” If this is a new age, I’ve never seen Obama carrying the banner for it. We need to get over the idea that “leaders” will save us from the evils of the world, and find ways to make changes closer to home on ourown. "
dougnoon  barackobama  2010  elections  local  politics  policy  leadership  grassroots  disappointment  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
Anarcho-Monarchism | First Things [via: http://ayjay.tumblr.com/post/1554349139/yet-our-system-obliges-us-to-elevate-to-office]
"Yet our system obliges us to elevate to office precisely those persons who have the ego-besotted effrontery to ask us to do so; it is rather like being compelled to cede the steering wheel to the drunkard in the back seat loudly proclaiming that he knows how to get us there in half the time. More to the point, since our perpetual electoral cycle is now largely a matter of product recognition, advertising, and marketing strategies, we must be content often to vote for persons willing to lie to us with some regularity or, if not that, at least to speak to us evasively and insincerely. In a better, purer world—the world that cannot be—ambition would be an absolute disqualification for political authority."
politics  democracy  us  anarchy  anarchism  monarchis_  anarcho-monarchism  government  classideas  authority  elections  2010  marketing  advertising  monarchis  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
n+1: The Bad Logic of the 2010 Midterm Elections
"§ American government is run by and for capital and capitalists.<br />
§ Most Americans hate government.<br />
§ Most Americans love capitalism and capitalists.<br />
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Therefore either a. Most Americans really love their government.<br />
or b. Most Americans really hate capitalism.<br />
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§ Contemporary American politics exists in the absurd space defined by the impossibility of openly acknowledging either a or b."<br />
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[via: http://scudmissile.tumblr.com/post/1454297104/american-government-is-run-by-and-for-capital]
2010  elections  logic  government  us  politics  capital  capitalism  humor  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
Teenager elected to South Robertson Neighborhood Council - Los Angeles Times
"Five feet tall, with dangly purple earrings and funky sneakers she decorated with a marker, Rachel Lester is one of the city's newest elected representatives.
facebook  leadership  losangeles  politics  youth  tcsnmy  classideas  civics  elections  via:cervus 
june 2010 by robertogreco
The Saturday Profile - Icelander’s Campaign Is a Joke, Until He’s Elected - Biography - NYTimes.com
"A polar bear display for the zoo. Free towels at public swimming pools. A “drug-free Parliament by 2020.” Iceland’s Best Party, founded in December by comedian, Jon Gnarr, to satirize his country’s political system, ran a campaign that was one big joke. Or was it?...
bailout  iceland  elections  reykjavik  2010  government  via:cervus  biography  banks  economics  politics  unschooling  anarchism  deschooling  bestparty  johngnarr  thewire  dropouts 
june 2010 by robertogreco
Eccentric Candidate Makes Waves In Colombia : NPR [Great story. Great name. More at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antanas_Mockus]
"In Colombia, an eccentric former Bogota mayor may win the presidency. Antanas Mockus, the son of Lithuanian immigrants, is trying to succeed Alvaro Uribe, a U.S.-backed hard-liner who was prevented from running for a third term. However, Mockus, whose trademark is an Amish-style beard, is better known for his antics than his politics."
2010  antanasmockus  greatnames  names  eccentricity  colombia  elections  sergiofajardo  naming 
may 2010 by robertogreco
Call a Convention
"Our Congress is broken. Even at a moment of extraordinary crisis, Members spend an endless amount of time simply raising campaign cash. We need Congress to focus; to address the problems that burden America; to do its job.
politics  activism  reform  government  2010  larrylessig  elections  campaignfinance  constitution  change  us  democracy 
february 2010 by robertogreco
The Obama Disconnect: What Happens When Myth Meets Reality | techPresident
"Obama was never nearly as free of dependence on big money donors as the reporting suggested, nor was his movement as bottom-up or people-centric as his marketing implied. And this is the big story of 2009, if you ask me, the meta-story of what did, and didn't happen, in the first year of Obama's administration. The people who voted for him weren't organized in any kind of new or powerful way, and the special interests--banks, energy companies, health interests, car-makers, the military-industrial complex--sat first at the table and wrote the menu. Myth met reality, and came up wanting. … Nor, it is clear, was Obama's campaign ever really about giving control to the grassroots. … Plouffe and the rest of Obama's leadership team, wasn't really interested in grassroots empowerment. Instead, they think they've invented a 21st century version of list-building … Obama's compromises to almost every powers-that-be are tremendously demotivating"
via:preoccupations  technology  internet  barackobama  elections  2009  critique  corporations  hypocrisy  grassroots  disappointment  strategy  corruption  finance  2008  activism  collaboration  banking  ethics  media  democracy  history  politics  us  commentary 
january 2010 by robertogreco
Repair California - Californians for a Constitutional Convention
"Day by day, evidence piles up demonstrating that California government is not only broken, it has become destructive to our future. The recent failure of the Legislature to negotiate a budget, in the direst of circumstances, is just another straw on the camel’s already-broken back.
constitution  california  elections  law  government  action  activism  politics  convention 
september 2009 by robertogreco
Conceptual Trends and Current Topics - Digital Socialism [full article here: http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/magazine/17-06/nep_newsocialism?currentPage=all]
"How close to a noncapitalistic, open source, peer-production society can this movement take us? Every time that question has been asked, the answer has been: closer than we thought. ... At nearly every turn, the power of sharing, cooperation, collaboration, openness, free pricing, and transparency has proven to be more practical than we capitalists thought possible. Each time we try it, we find that the power of the new socialism is bigger than we imagined. We underestimate the power of our tools to reshape our minds. Did we really believe we could collaboratively build and inhabit virtual worlds all day, every day, and not have it affect our perspective? The force of online socialism is growing. Its dynamic is spreading beyond electrons—perhaps into elections."
technology  tools  capitalism  socialism  kevinkelly  digital  open  opensource  peer-production  society  sociology  collaboration  openness  free  sharing  transparency  government  change  gamechanging  onlinesocialism  elections 
may 2009 by robertogreco
Charlotte Higgins says one of the most interesting aspects of Barack Obama's speeches is the enormous debt they owe to the oratory of the Romans | World news | The Guardian
"Here's the thing: to understand the next four years of American politics, you are going to need to understand something of the politics of ancient Greece and Rome.
via:regine  barackobama  rhetoric  speech  oratory  elections  2008  ancientgreece  ancientrome  communication  cicero 
november 2008 by robertogreco
The Vigorous North: The Black Belt: How Soil Types Determined the 2008 Election in the Deep South
"Allen Gathman, a biology professor in Missouri, had also seen the pattern and recognized it as a function of land use in the deep South. He posted the electoral map above alongside a map of cotton production in 1860: sure enough, the "blue" counties correlated with cotton production in the slavery era."
2008  elections  voting  us  population  agriculture  geography  cartography  maps  mapping  demographics  geopolitics  society  science  cotton  barackobama  johnmccain  republicans  democrats  politics  geology 
november 2008 by robertogreco
stevenberlinjohnson.com: The System Worked
"So I look out at that landscape, and I think: yes, the country is in a terrible state, and it's going to take an immense amount of work and sacrifice and intelligence to turn things around. But the system that lets us choose our leaders seems to me to be as healthy as it has been in a long time. We get the leaders we deserve. For once, that's a good thing."
stevenjohnson  democracy  us  politics  culture  society  government  2008  elections  georgewbush  barackobama 
november 2008 by robertogreco
Laurent Haug’s blog » Blog Archive » Politics is cool again
"Another question worth pondering: is this happening by chance? Or is Obama the symptom of a more profound change, where politics are undergoing the same changes than, say, “knowledge”, when a certain online encyclopedia established the power of the masses over the one of the elite?"
barackobama  politics  elections  2008  change  generations  generationx  genx  boomers  babyboomers  laurenthaug  wikipedia  reform 
november 2008 by robertogreco
Op-Ed Columnist - A Date With Scarcity - NYTimes.com [via: http://liftlab.com/think/laurent/2008/11/07/politics-is-cool-again/]
"In the next few years, the nation’s wealth will either stagnate or shrink. The fiscal squeeze will grow severe. There will be fiercer struggles over scarce resources, starker divisions along factional lines. The challenge for the next president will be to cushion the pain of the current recession while at the same time trying to build a solid fiscal foundation so the country can thrive at some point in the future. We’re probably entering a period, in other words, in which smart young liberals meet a stone-cold scarcity that they do not seem to recognize or have a plan for. In an age of transition, the children are left to grapple with the burdens of their elders."
babyboomers  boomers  change  generations  excess  scarcity  us  nytimes  society  culture  politics  2008  elections  barackobama  davidbrooks 
november 2008 by robertogreco
Salon.com Life | An open apology to boomers everywhere [via: http://liftlab.com/think/laurent/2008/11/07/politics-is-cool-again/]
"And look, we really did stand for something, underneath all the eye-rolling. We're feminists, we care about the environment, we want to improve race relations, we volunteer. We're just low-key about it. We never wanted to do it the way you did it: So unselfconscious, so optimistic, guilelessly throwing yourself behind Team Liberal. We didn't get that. We aren't joiners. We don't like carrying signs. We tend to disagree, if only on principle.
genx  generationx  generations  politics  barackobama  2008  elections  boomers  babyboomers  change  us  hope  optimism 
november 2008 by robertogreco
Suddenly, it may be cool to be an American again - Yahoo! News
"VIENNA, Austria – She was a stranger, and she kissed me. Just for being an American.
barackobama  us  europe  politics  elections  global  image  brand  world 
november 2008 by robertogreco
Douglas Rushkoff » President Obama
"new narrative is not story of how we are led by some new person. It’s story of how we lead ourselves. It’s about how we accept the cue to act. Everyone I know in my own circles is obsessed with creating next big Internet phenomenon or organization to marshall all this energy & help people do their own bottom-up activities. I’ve been invited to a few dozen meetings already for such projects & I’m happy to see everyone so enthused. But if everyone wants to do the “meta” job of creating a brand or utility through which activism happens, then there will be no one left to do the actual organizing. No, the opportunity is not to create the next great website for modeling bottom-up community activity, but to go and actually do the stuff. It is to participate the public school, work towards alternative energy possibilities, design and install bicycle lanes, argue at work for equal pay for women, assist local agriculture projects, develop complementary currencies and non-profit credit unions."
us  society  change  reform  doers  grassroots  barackobama  elections  2008  activism  democracy  politics  progressive  culture  douglasrushkoff  diggingin  gettingitdone  community 
november 2008 by robertogreco
Can Obama take the politics out of abortion? - By William Saletan - Slate Magazine
"This is an issue that—look, it divides us. And in some ways, it may be difficult to—to reconcile the two views. But there surely is some common ground when both those who believe in choice and those who are opposed to abortion can come together and say, "We should try to prevent unintended pregnancies by providing appropriate education to our youth, communicating that sexuality is sacred and that they should not be engaged in cavalier activity, and providing options for adoption, and helping single mothers if they want to choose to keep the baby." Those are all things that we put in the Democratic platform for the first time this year, and I think that's where we can find some common ground, because nobody's pro-abortion. I think it's always a tragic situation. We should try to reduce these circumstances."
barackobama  abortion  politics  society  via:preoccupations  debate  2008  elections  ideology  johnmccain  sarahpalin 
november 2008 by robertogreco
Newsweek's in-depth report on the 2008 election
"If you followed or were at all interested in the 2008 presidential election, this seven-part series by a group of Newsweek reporters is a must read. The reporters were granted exclusive access to the campaigns of Barack Obama, John McCain, and Hillary Clinton for a year on the condition that they wouldn't print anything until after the election was over. The series, of which the first three parts are currently up on the Newsweek site, is a fascinating look at how the political process works and contains all manner of salacious political gossip."
elections  2008  hillaryclinton  johnmccain  politics  barackobama  newsweek  kottke 
november 2008 by robertogreco
The next President of the United States - The Big Picture - Boston.com
"In a vote of historic proportions yesterday, Senator Barack Obama became President-Elect of the United States of America with a 52% majority in the popular vote, and more than 349 electoral votes. Over two years of campaigning was resolved with a record voter turnout, as the Republican candidate John McCain conceded graciously at 11:20 pm eastern last night. With such a high level of interest and attention, there have been millions of words written and photographs taken of the candidates over the past year. Here is a collection of some of the best photos of President-Elect Barack Obama over the past several months."
barackobama  photography  photojournalism  bigpicture  2008  us  history  elections  politics 
november 2008 by robertogreco
Farewell to anti-intellectualism?
"I think the Republican attitude that the economy needs to be restored to its former glories is fundamentally wrong. It doesn’t. The way forward is a new, sustainable, evenhanded economy with environmental conscience, and checks and balances protecting the public purse from the risks of the free market. Where the poor get richer, not just the rich.
via:preoccupations  politics  change  us  hope  gamechanging  progress  trends  innovation  elections  2008  barackobama  anti-intellectualism  economics  future  reform  sustainability 
november 2008 by robertogreco
Barack Obama's Victory Speech - Election Results 2008 - The New York Times
"Interactive video and transcript of Brack Obama's address to supporters in Chicago on election night."
barackobama  speech  interactive  video  history  politics  elections  2008  victory  us  gamechanging  government  progress  optimism 
november 2008 by robertogreco
My wife made me canvas for Obama; here's what I learned | csmonitor.com
"We did our job, but Obama may not have been the one who got the most out of the day's work. I learned in just those three hours that this election is not about what we think of as the "big things." It's not about taxes. I'm pretty sure mine are going to go up no matter who is elected. It's not about foreign policy. I think we'll figure out a way to get out of Iraq and Afghanistan no matter which party controls the White House, mostly because the people who live there don't want us there anymore. I don't see either of the candidates as having all the answers. I've learned that this election is about the heart of America. It's about the young people who are losing hope and the old people who have been forgotten. It's about those who have worked all their lives & never fully realized the promise of America, but see that promise for their grandchildren in Barack Obama. The poor see a chance, when they often have few. I saw hope in the eyes and faces in those doorways."
elections  2008  barackobama  commentary  politics  society  us 
november 2008 by robertogreco
The Meming of Life » Edumacation
"education leads to the left by exposing the mind to the wider world, to a variety of ideas and people, thereby reducing fear of the Other...This acceptance of difference is at the heart of the divide between liberal and conservative thinking. Conservatism embodies our evolved tendency to value what is familiar, shared, and traditional while distrusting the unfamiliar or foreign. Liberalism tends instead to distrust sameness and to see greater value in diversity and change.
us  elections  education  politics  2008  campaigning 
november 2008 by robertogreco
Declarations - WSJ.com - Obama and the Runaway Train: The race, the case, a hope for grace. "The case for Barack Obama, in broad strokes"
"has within him possibility to change direction & tone of American foreign policy...his rise will serve as practical rebuke to past 5 years...his victory would provide fresh start in nation in which fresh start would come as national relief. He climbed steep stairs, born off continent with no father to guide, a dreamy, abandoning mother, mixed race, no connections...rose with guts & gifts...is steady, calm...shows good judgment in terms of whom to hire & consult, what steps to take & moves to make. We witnessed from him this year something unique in American politics: He took down a political machine without raising his voice...When press was hitting hard on pregnancy of Palin's 17-year-old daughter, he did not respond with a politically shrewd "I have no comment," or "We shouldn't judge." Instead he said, "My mother had me when she was 18," which shamed the press and others into silence. He showed grace when he didn't have to."
via:preoccupations  elections  2008  barackobama  johnmccain  us 
november 2008 by robertogreco
Borderland » Blog Archive » Rage and Hope
"In his interview with Goodman, Michael Moore discussed his Election Guide 2008 and some presidential decrees he suggests for Barack Obama’s first 10 days in office, to include: * Bring back the draft, but only draft children of the rich; * Make it a crime to make a profit off of somebody being sick; * Ban high-fructose corn syrup; * Americans should pay no more taxes than the French (by relieving us of expenses for things like health insurance, daycare, and college tuition - which are “hidden” taxes - and instead return something of real value in return for the taxes that people do pay); * Make it an American mission to ensure that the entire world has clean drinking water; * Require the rich to pay their fair share of social security (since they currently don’t pay anything into the fund); After all, we’re voting for a socialist…"
elections  2008  dougnoon  barackobama  us  socialism  michaelmoore  politics  change 
november 2008 by robertogreco
Keith Richburg: America is showing Europe the way again | Comment is free | The Observer
"So it's difficult, if not impossible, to imagine a Barack Obama emerging in Europe soon.
race  europe  us  barackobama  politics  racism  elections  2008 
november 2008 by robertogreco
Sherman Alexie | Tuesday October 28 | ColbertNation.com
Alexie: "The thing is McCain is actually great for Indians, has been great for Indians in Arizona, but he's bad for the country. So, unlike all other groups of people..." Colbert: "So, you're taking back your support for McCain? You know what we call that?" Alexie: "What do we call that? Indian giving! You taught us how. We're only assimilating into your way of dealing with other people." Colbert: "Why give it to Obama? I don't understand." Alexie: "We're giving it to Obama because unlike other groups of people in this country, we Indians vote for the good of everybody and not just for the good of our little group." And it continues on until Colbert is speechless. Yes, speechless.
elections  2008  barackobama  us  johnmccain  stephencolbert  shermanalexie  culture  politics  humor  indians  nativeamericans 
november 2008 by robertogreco
Can antiabortion Catholics support Obama? Some do. | csmonitor.com
"Several conservative bishops counter that candidates’ stands on abortion should be the litmus test." See also NPR's Morning Edition: "Why Some Anti-Abortion Catholics Support Obama" - http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96281602
politics  religion  choice  catholicism  abortion  elections  2008  litmustest 
october 2008 by robertogreco
Why I Support Barack Obama - O'Reilly Radar
"Because this is a tech blog, not a political blog, though, I primarily want to address the subject of why members of the technical community should join me in supporting Barack Obama. (The New York Times has made a compelling case based on the broader issues, as has Colin Powell.) I outline four principal reasons: 1. Connected, Transparent Government 2. The Financial Crisis 3. Climate Change 4. Net Neutrality" ... But he also discusses 9/11, The War in Iraq, and the Growth of Authoritarian Government, Abortion, Character, and Competence in Leadership, some at length. Then his responses to comments are also valuable.
technology  internet  government  barackobama  endorsement  elections  2008  timoreilly  opinion  netneutrality  policy  economics  politics  environment 
october 2008 by robertogreco
The Food Issue - An Open Letter to the Next Farmer in Chief - Michael Pollan - NYTimes.com
"It may surprise you to learn that among the issues that will occupy much of your time in the coming years is one you barely mentioned during the campaign: food. Food policy is not something American presidents have had to give much thought to, at least since the Nixon administration...Since then, federal policies to promote maximum production of the commodity crops from which most of our supermarket foods are derived have succeeded impressively in keeping prices low and food more or less off the national political agenda. But with a suddenness that has taken us all by surprise, the era of cheap and abundant food appears to be drawing to a close. What this means is that you, like so many other leaders through history, will find yourself confronting the fact — so easy to overlook these past few years — that the health of a nation’s food system is a critical issue of national security. Food is about to demand your attention."
michaelpollan  sustainability  food  energy  policy  politics  2008  elections  future  local  slow  farming  environment 
october 2008 by robertogreco
Op-Extra Columnist - The Party of Yesterday - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com
"Ronald Reagan was lashed by liberals for running a “Morning in America” campaign, but he knew this country, at heart, was always tomorrow-looking — and he fared very well in educated cities as well as small towns. “Whatever else history may say about me when I’m gone,” said Reagan, “I hope it will record that I appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears.” Barack Obama, who brings that music to the stage, leads by 30 points on the “hope and optimism” question in polls.
gop  ronaldreagan  politics  johnmccain  optimism  hope  fear  negattivity  campaigning  sarahpalin  2008  elections  us 
october 2008 by robertogreco
Al Qaeda Endorses McCain
"The Post today reports that Al Qaeda has endorsed John McCain for president. With seemingly impeccable logic, the cave dwellers -- actually, more likely, Quetta-squatters -- say that by electing McCain, the United States will commit itself to an extension of President Bush's blunders and thus exhaust itself militarily and financially. Of course, Al Qaeda says that the way it can assist McCain is through a terrorist act that will rally Americans to his side."
elections  alqaeda  johnmccain  terrorism  endorsement  2008  us 
october 2008 by robertogreco
The "Steal This Election" Citizen Investigation Map
"Does Arizona practice Darwinist voting? What happens in Florida if your registration has a typo? Below, click orange areas on the map for analysis of voting hot spots and states with known shenanigans. Want to take part in MoJo's continuing citizen investigation into issues around voter suppression? Click on your state to see and record observations of the voting process in your hometown this election season. Plus: On (and before) Election Day, we'll post updates from other organizations following this issue, including more options for sending live reports from your polling station."
via:grahamje  maps  mapping  politics  elections  voting  2008  corruption  fraud  democracy  us 
october 2008 by robertogreco
CIPER Chile » Blog Archive » La desconocida cita entre John McCain y Pinochet
"Un cable desclasificado por el gobierno estadounidense revela la hasta ahora desconocida y “amistosa” cita entre el candidato republicano y Augusto Pinochet, en plena dictadura y cuando Washington intentaba extraditar a los culpables del asesinato de Orlando Letelier. El documento también cuenta detalles inéditos de lo que pasaba en 1985 en el seno de la Junta de gobierno: el almirante Merino le dijo a McCain haberle advertido a Pinochet que ni él ni los otros miembros de la Junta lo apoyarían para un “ridículo” plebiscito y que en cambio habría elecciones libres, en las que el dictador no participaría. Además, el ex canciller Hernán Cubillos le confesó al congresista que él quería ser el candidato presidencial de la derecha."
johnmccain  chile  pinochet  freedom  humanrights  politics  democracy  gop  elections  2008  hypocrisy  1985  history  dictatorship  us 
october 2008 by robertogreco
John Dinges: McCain's Private Visit With Chilean Dictator Pinochet Revealed For First Time
"John McCain, who has harshly criticized the idea of sitting down with dictators without pre-conditions, appears to have done just that. In 1985, McCain traveled to Chile for a friendly meeting with Chile's military ruler, General Augusto Pinochet, one of the world's most notorious violators of human rights credited with killing more than 3,000 civilians and jailing tens of thousands of others." via: http://tomasdinges.wordpress.com/2008/10/24/mccain-meets-pinochet-in-1985/
johnmccain  chile  pinochet  freedom  humanrights  politics  democracy  gop  elections  2008  hypocrisy  1985  history  dictatorship  us 
october 2008 by robertogreco
Under the Radar: Revealing the Hidden Attacks
"The McCain Campaign and its allies have begun an unprecedented nationwide negative campaign that uses robocalls, direct mail, and other techniques to quietly poison voters' information with lies and fear tactics. This map is an effort to track some of the most toxic attacks — all of which are approved by the McCain campaign or its Republican partners."
johnmccain  elections  barackobama  maps  mapping  politics  2008 
october 2008 by robertogreco
infochimps.org: Geography of Newspaper Endorsements for 2008 US Election
"Apart from the unsurprising evidence that (choose one: [[Obama is the overwhelming choice]] -OR- [[there is overwhelming liberal media bias]]), I'm struck by the mismatch between papers' endorsements and their "Red State" vs "Blue State" alignment." via: http://www.kottke.org/08/10/mapping-newspaper-political-endorsements
politics  visualization  mapping  maps  elections  2008  newspapers  endorsements  barackobama  johnmccain 
october 2008 by robertogreco
YouTube - Wassup 2008
"Its been eight long years since the boys said wassup to each other. Even with the effects of a down economy and imminent change in the White House, the boys are still able to come together and stay true to what really matters."
humor  elections  politics  barackobama  wazzup  georgewbush 
october 2008 by robertogreco
A Whole Lotta Nothing: How to get my nerd vote
"Broadband Everywhere, Universal Healthcare, No federal taxes on internet purchases, Renew a commitment to Education, Renew a commitment to Science, Real changes to transportation, Allow early voting by mail, Revamp Copyright/IP law, Fund the patent office so it can do a better job, Open government"
politics  us  change  reform  healthcare  broadband  internet  taxes  science  matthaughey  education  bikes  transportation  business  smallbusiness  entrepreneurship  voting  elections  copyright  ip  open  opengovernment  patents 
october 2008 by robertogreco
Oct. 19: Former Secretary of State Gen. Colin Powell (Ret.), Chuck Todd, political roundtable - Meet the Press, online at MSNBC - MSNBC.com
"I'm also troubled by, not what Senator McCain says, but what members of the party say. And it is permitted to be said such things as, "Well, you know that Mr. Obama is a Muslim." Well, the correct answer is, he is not a Muslim, he's a Christian. He's always been a Christian. But the really right answer is, what if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer's no, that's not America. Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim-American kid believing that he or she could be president? Yet, I have heard senior members of my own party drop the suggestion, "He's a Muslim and he might be associated terrorists." This is not the way we should be doing it in America."
2008  elections  johnmccain  barackobama  race  religion  colinpowell 
october 2008 by robertogreco
Vote Obama or McCain: Global Electoral College | The Economist
"The Economist has redrawn the electoral map to give all 195 of the world's countries (including the United States) a say in the election's outcome. As in America, each country has been allocated a minimum of three electoral-college votes with extra votes allocated in proportion to population size. With over 6.5 billion people enfranchised, the result is a much larger electoral college of 9,875 votes. But rally your countrymen—a nation must have at least ten individual votes in order to have its electoral-college votes counted."
2008  elections  barackobama  visualization  international  johnmccain  world  us  maps  politics  global 
october 2008 by robertogreco
The Field: Evolutionary Leaps and American Public Opinion [by Al Giordano] [pair with http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QIGJTHdH50]
"Their obsession ... masks a fear of the inverse: What if, suddenly, the story of this election becomes that moment in history when millions of American citizens evolved beyond fixed patterns and fears regarding race? ... What happens if the economic stresses suddenly push people, however reluctantly, into voting in their economic self-interest even if it means voting against their own racial prejudices?...Evolutionary leaps, if they exist, are not everyday occurrences. What I'm saying is that the patient - that racially fearful white American - is stressed and heavily so. And that's one of the objective conditions - according to at least one laboratory study - that leads to leaps in evolution and, maybe, just maybe, to mutations in the evolution of public opinion. In the lab it took some stressed conditions plus a catalyst - some amino acids - to cause a species to evolve. In human history, it takes stressed conditions... plus a movement."
barackobama  2008  elections  gamechanging  historicmoments  evolutionaryleaps  politics  economics  race  racism  us  society  johnmccain  via:migurski 
october 2008 by robertogreco
5 Ways To Visualize The U.S. Elections - ReadWriteWeb
"1. Visualize Political Contributions By Industry 2. Visualizing Earmarks 3. Visualizing Election Polls 4. Electoral College Prediction Tracker 5. The 2008 Presidential Election In The Blogosphere"
2008  elections  transparency  infographics  politics  charts  visualization  us 
october 2008 by robertogreco
Make-Believe Maverick : Rolling Stone
"Throughout the campaign this year, McCain has tried to make the contest about honor and character. His own writing gives us the standard by which he should be judged. "Always telling the truth in a political campaign," he writes in Worth the Fighting For, "is a great test of character." He adds: "Patriotism that only serves and never risks one's self-interest isn't patriotism at all. It's selfishness. That's a lesson worth relearning from time to time." It's a lesson, it would appear, that the candidate himself could stand to relearn."
johnmccain  politics  us  elections  2008  rollingstone  government  history  corruption  republicans  biography  ethics 
october 2008 by robertogreco
BLDGBLOG: Minor Landscapes and the Geography of American Political Campaigns
"what are the real everyday landscapes of American life, if those landscapes no longer include old-fashioned soda shops & small-town hockey arenas – or do such everyday landscapes simply no longer exist? if there are no everyday landscapes, then surely every landscape we encounter is, by definition, extraordinary – so we should perhaps all be paying more attention to the spatial & architectural circumstances of our daily lives? ... if political candidates have managed to discover an American landscape that seems not yet to have been touched by trends & technologies of twenty-first century, then why is that – and is it really a good indication that those candidates will know how to govern an urbanized, twenty-first century nation? ... if urban candidates "don't understand...small town life & out of touch with the moral hardships of the American countryside, then surely that's not altogether bad in a country that is 80% urbanized?"
2008  elections  landscape  bldgblog  urban  rural  demographics  politics  us 
october 2008 by robertogreco
The Choice: Comment: The New Yorker
"We cannot expect one man to heal every wound, to solve every major crisis of policy ... yet Obama has ... the temperament to shut out the noise when necessary & concentrate on the essential. The election of Obama—a man of mixed ethnicity, at once comfortable in the world & utterly representative of 21stC America—would, at a stroke, reverse our country’s image abroad and refresh its spirit at home ... be a symbolic culmination of the civil- & voting-rights acts of the nineteen-sixties & the century-long struggles for equality that preceded them. It could not help but say something encouraging, even exhilarating, about the country, about its dedication to tolerance & inclusiveness, about its fidelity, after all, to the values it proclaims in its textbooks. At a moment of economic calamity, international perplexity, political failure, & battered morale, America needs ... a leader temperamentally, intellectually, & emotionally attuned to the complexities of our troubled globe"
barackobama  elections  2008  us  politics  geopolitics  world  global  influence  change  reform  endorsement  newyorker  via:preoccupations 
october 2008 by robertogreco
2008 Presidential Election Interactive Map and History of the Electoral College
"270towin.com is an interactive Electoral College map for 2008 and a history of Presidential elections in the United States. Since electoral votes are generally allocated on an "all or none" basis by state, the election of a U.S President is about winning the popular vote in enough states to achieve 270 electoral votes, a majority of the 538 that are available. It is not about getting the most overall popular votes, as we saw in the 2000 election, when the electoral vote winner (Bush) and the popular vote winner (Gore) were different."
us  history  elections  electoralcollege  voting  visualization  maps  statistics  politics  geography  government  2008 
october 2008 by robertogreco
McCain: Bailout Expert on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
"McCain: Bailout Expert by The Searcher.
elections  humor  johnmccain  sarahpalin  politics  2008 
october 2008 by robertogreco
A 1926 Brazilian sci-fi novel predicts a U.S. election determined by race and gender. - By Manuela Zoninsein - Slate
"O Presidente Negro envisions the 2228 U.S. presidential election. In that race, the white male incumbent, President Kerlog, finds himself running against Evelyn Astor, a white feminist, and James Roy Wilde, the cultivated and brilliant leader of the Black Association, "a man who is more than just a single man ... what we call a leader of the masses.""
brasil  sciencefiction  scifi  monteirolobato  literature  politics  elections  us  race 
october 2008 by robertogreco
What if our political process became conscious? (Scripting News)
"My advice to candidates going back to Dean was & is to start implementing the change you seek before the election, while you have the full attention of the electorate. Ask us to give money, not to buy ads, but to buy health insurance for 50,000 uninsured people in a particular state, so we can see how powerful we are collectively, how we can do good, starting right now. We yearn for this, to feel our muscles flex collectively, and individually to make a difference, not just in your hype, but in real terms. Hillary Clinton could have gotten up yesterday and said "There's no time to waste. We can't wait until January 2009 to solve the problems. Let's start right now."...Maybe she won't get elected, but getting us organized now would make it more likely...JFK: "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."...See how that works??"
davewiner  democracy  politics  via:migurski  gamechanging  policy  example  leadership  us  elections  2008  process  government  progress  progressives  activism  change  reform  healthcare  education  sincerity  money 
october 2008 by robertogreco
McCain on banking and health - Paul Krugman - Op-Ed Columnist - New York Times Blog
"Here’s what McCain has to say about the wonders of market-based health reform: Opening up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking, would provide more choices of innovative products less burdened by the worst excesses of state-based regulation. So McCain, who now poses as the scourge of Wall Street, was praising financial deregulation like 10 seconds ago — and promising that if we marketize health care, it will perform as well as the financial industry!"
johnmccain  banking  government  elections  2008  policy  health  healthcare  politics  economics  crisis  regulation  deregulation 
september 2008 by robertogreco
This is Your Nation on White Privilege | Red Room
"For those who still can’t grasp the concept of white privilege, or who are constantly looking for some easy-to-understand examples of it, perhaps this list will help."
whiteprivilege  racism  politics  barackobama  sarahpalin  johnmccain  elections  2008  us  race  gender 
september 2008 by robertogreco
Election 2008 - Amazon.com
"Click on a state to see that state's percentage of "red" and "blue" book sales over the past 60 days, as well as local political favorites. Or see how the map has changed over time by using the right and left arrows to choose a different two-month period during 2008. To see the changes in the map over the same periods in the last presidential election year, click the "2004" tab. Updated daily. Amazon customers, as we know, read widely and often buy books that don't necessarily fit their own views. Books aren't votes, and a map of book purchases can reflect curiosity as much as commitment, but we hope ours will provide one way to follow the changing political conversation across the country during this election season."
politics  visualization  us  books  trends  elections  2008  2004  reading 
september 2008 by robertogreco
Thoughts for an eleventh September: Alvin Toffler, Hirohito, Sarah Palin « Adam Greenfield’s Speedbird
"The gobsmacking foolishness of our national discourse, the things which now seem to signify, the very person selected to act out these psychodramas on the national stage - these are all far surer signs that the future is deeply, and I mean pants-shittingly, terrifying to many Americans. They’ve read the tea leaves, all right, they’re not in the slightest bit stupid, and they know how things are shaping up. They’ve had their eponymous Century, and it ended seven years ago today; this one’s Injun Country by comparison, no pun intended. So I can only surmise that the question of who to elect looks a whole lot clearer if you’ve once sown the wind and are waiting for the whirlwind to arrive. Sadly, heartbreakingly, “hope” isn’t in it. It takes a people that still believes in the possible, and their place in it, to vote for that."
alvintoffler  adamgreenfield  politics  history  us  futurism  technology  futureshock  economics  sarahpalin  narrative  culture  society  world  future  barackobama  johnmccain  elections  2008 
september 2008 by robertogreco
2008 Presidential Donations: McCain vs. Obama
"In the heat of election fever, there's been a lot of talk about money, especialy in regards to donations for each candidate. It's well known and data proves that Obama has considerably more money than McCain (not including the DNC or RNC financial injections). We wanted to understand these donations and examine any patterns in the type of donations given."
2008  elections  johnmccain  barackobama  visualization  donations  tabnmy  zhnmy  politics  money 
september 2008 by robertogreco
Everymoment Now : Obama Vs. McCain : Context and Scope to the 2008 US General Election
"People, places and events in the context of media are like stocks — they peak and bottom out over time. They have a media history. There are two insights to be culled from this:
2008  elections  barackobama  johnmccain  zhnmy  tabnmy  datavisualization  infographics  visualization  politics  charts  news  data 
september 2008 by robertogreco
Why We Love Palin. « Lorem Ipsum
"Americans don’t actually want most qualified, intelligent person for job of President...if we did, we’d hold it to be of supreme importance that our future president should be extremely knowledgeable about one or more areas of crucial competence to a world power...Americans don’t want those skills in a President. They just don’t want to feel stupid...suggests...Americans operate under an enormous inferiority complex...Judged by measures of quality of life such as infant mortality rates, happiness of one’s citizenry, excellence of our children’s education, length of the people’s lifespans, modest gap between wealthiest & most impoverished, or even our freedoms of speech & press for which we’ve energetically congratulated ourselves for years since Joe McCarthy died, we’re not doing so well at all...We love celebrity, but we really love it when it comes unaccompanied by any actual talent, because when that happens, well, then anyone could be a celebrity."
politics  sarahpalin  johnmccain  barackobama  georgewbush  elections  2008  us  intelligence  elitism  policy 
september 2008 by robertogreco
John McCain's Big Acceptance Speech | The Daily Show | Comedy Central
On the echos of George W. Bush's campaign speeches promising change to be found John McCain's acceptance speech
jonstewart  humor  sarahpalin  elections  2008  johnmccain  republicans  politics  thedailyshow  satire  georgewbush 
september 2008 by robertogreco
Sarah Palin Gender Card | The Daily Show | Comedy Central
On the inconsistencies of Karl Rove, Bill O'Reilly, and Dick Morris as they assess topics such as what qualifies as experience for vice presidential nominees, whether or not parents are to blame for teen pregnancy, and what constitutes playing the gender card
jonstewart  humor  sarahpalin  elections  2008  johnmccain  republicans 
september 2008 by robertogreco
techPresident – Beyond the Mobile Hype In Election '08
"Despite all of the hype surrounding the text message party planning at the DNC , or Obama's text to screen or VP text announcement, it is important to realize that mobile phones have been used politically before with a far greater viral reach and, in the end, impact.
mobile  phones  elections  sms  international  2008  politics  barackobama 
september 2008 by robertogreco
Federal government involved in raids on protesters - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
"So here we have a massive assault led by Federal Government law enforcement agencies on left-wing dissidents and protesters who have committed no acts of violence or illegality whatsoever, preceded by months-long espionage efforts to track what they do. And as extraordinary as that conduct is, more extraordinary is the fact that they have received virtually no attention from the national media and little outcry from anyone. And it's not difficult to see why. As the recent "overhaul" of the 30-year-old FISA law illustrated -- preceded by the endless expansion of surveillance state powers, justified first by the War on Drugs and then the War on Terror -- we've essentially decided that we want our Government to spy on us without limits. There is literally no police power that the state can exercise that will cause much protest from the political and media class and, therefore, from the citizenry."
freedom  surveillance  rights  police  republicans  freespeech  glenngreenwald  convention  society  activism  fascism  protest  elections  2008  georgewbush  privacy  politics  fear  corruption  abuse  us  rnc  media  mainstreamcomplacency  control  civilrights  gop 
august 2008 by robertogreco
Massive police raids on suspected protestors in Minneapolis - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
"There is clearly an intent on the part of law enforcement authorities here to engage in extreme and highly intimidating raids against those who are planning to protest the Convention. The DNC in Denver was the site of several quite ugly incidents where law enforcement acted on behalf of Democratic Party officials and the corporate elite that funded the Convention to keep the media and protesters from doing anything remotely off-script. But the massive and plainly excessive preemptive police raids in Minnesota are of a different order altogether. Targeting people with automatic-weapons-carrying SWAT teams and mass raids in their homes, who are suspected of nothing more than planning dissident political protests at a political convention and who have engaged in no illegal activity whatsoever, is about as redolent of the worst tactics of a police state as can be imagined."
freedom  surveillance  rights  police  republicans  freespeech  convention  society  activism  fascism  protest  elections  2008  georgewbush  glenngreenwald  privacy  politics  fear  corruption  abuse  us  rnc  law  crime 
august 2008 by robertogreco
The Nation - The Wiki-Way to the Nomination - NYTimes.com
"But at the same time, Mr. Obama’s notion of persistent improvement, both of himself and of his country, reflects something newer — the collaborative, decentralized principles behind Net projects like Wikipedia and the “free and open-source software” movement. The qualities he cited to Time to describe his campaign — “openness and transparency and participation” — were ones he said “merged perfectly” with the Internet. And they may well be the qualities that make him the first real “wiki-candidate.”"
barackobama  yochaibenkler  wiki  wikipedia  twitter  power  socialnetworking  selfimprovement  change  us  future  elections  2008  collaborative  socialsoftware  socialmedia  internet  web  via:hrheingold 
august 2008 by robertogreco
Barack Obama, A Free-Market-Loving, Big-Spending, Fiscally Conservative Wealth Redistributionist - NYTimes.com
"we need to bring about is the end of the era of unresponsive and inefficient government and short-term thinking in government, so that the government is laying the groundwork, the framework, the foundation for the market to operate effectively and for every single individual to be able to be connected with that market and to succeed in that market. And it’s now a global marketplace...Two [more] things...country’s health can’t be measured simply by its economic output. That output...“counts special locks for our doors and the jails for those who break them” but not “the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play [AND] sustainability...current concerns about state of the planet...required something of a paradigm shift for economics."
barackobama  elections  2008  us  policy  government  taxes  wealth  infrastructure  sustainability  growth  markets  globalization  gamechanging  class  ronaldreagan  billclinton  robertrubin  robertreich 
august 2008 by robertogreco
The candidates define ‘rich’ - The Carpetbagger Report
"But somewhere along the line, we got to the answer: $5 million. As far as McCain is concerned, if you make $4.9 million a year, more than 99.9% of the population, you’re not quite rich. Just how out of touch is John McCain? On the one hand, he’s running ads talking about how “tough” times are “for the rest of us,” but on the other, McCain, one of Congress’ wealthiest members, thinks people who make millions of dollars a year aren’t quite rich, and he doesn’t want to bother them with taxes anyway."
wealth  taxes  elections  2008  johnmccain  barackobama  rickwarren 
august 2008 by robertogreco
In Defense of the ‘60s -- In These Times
"By 1968...advances that a technologically oriented industrial society had opened up were...revolutionary...For the first time in history, the possibility of achieving the full goals of the 18th century revolution existed"; "immediate needs of those still struggling for the basics &...hopes for a fuller, richer life that others, largely better positioned, want to pursue...together constitute a call to implement the "inalienable right to life, liberty & the pursuit of happiness" that the Declaration of Independence claimed...that...protesters of 1968 were after & that Obama must succeed in unifying if he is to advance the change he is talking about. "
via:preoccupations  utopia  sixties  1968  barackobama  society  politics  history  change  failure  boomers  revolution  us  economics  elections  2008  gamechanging 
august 2008 by robertogreco
FOXNews.com - Radley Balko: A Few Questions for Barack Obama - Opinion
Get past the fact that it's on a Fox News website, there are some great questions in there that I'd like to hear Barack Obama answer. [via: http://www.boingboing.net/2008/07/28/radley-balko-a-few-q.html]
barackobama  elections  2008  politics 
july 2008 by robertogreco
What Barack Obama Needs to Prove in His Democratic National Convention Speech -- New York Magazine
"A century ago, Lim writes, presidential speeches were pitched at a college reading level; today, they’re down to eighth grade, and if the trend continues, next century’s State of the Union addresses will be conducted at the level of “a comic strip
politics  barackobama  speech  language  2008  elections  rhetoric  speaking 
july 2008 by robertogreco
Running for Office: It's Like A Flamewar with a Forum Troll, but with an Eventual Winner
"My name is Sean Tevis [photo]. I'm an Information Architect in Kansas running for State Representative. I’ve decided to “retire” my current State Representative. I'm going to win. This is my story (XKCD homage style) so far. "
politics  comics  humor  government  congress  evolution  us  money  elections  democracy  donations  marketing  crowds 
july 2008 by robertogreco
Off Center » The Arts and the President
"War, energy, humanitarian intervention, public education, women’s reproductive rights, the death penalty … somewhere on the long list of policy positions among the presidential candidates is the arts. Or at least for one of them."
elections  2008  politics  us  barackobama  johnmccain  art  via:regine 
july 2008 by robertogreco
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