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Thursday, June 5th, 2008That reminds me, I have to plan my next backyard BBQ.
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
A few parts still missing. Should be together next week I think.
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To Homme:
Thursday, June 5th, 2008I would like to take the opportunity to formally state that you were totally and 100% correct about Obama on October 9, 2007.
You were right, I was wrong.
However, I never said inevitable, I said presumptive.
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008You savvy nerds who read my site on the RSS reader are totally missing my awesome tag lines.
Whatever…your loss.
Can you imagine?
Thursday, June 5th, 2008I don’t think I really appreciated, on a visceral level, exactly how much this would mean to African-Americans until sometime around November. At that time, Obama was trailing Clinton by around 20 points among black voters, which I found odd, until I read some article — I can’t recall which — with a number of interviews of black Democrats. Those interviews made it clear that most of the people quoted in the article did not believe that a black candidate — any black candidate — could win the nomination, let alone the Presidency. Once I had noticed that, I seemed to hear it a lot: just a few days ago, I was listening to CSPAN in the car, and a black voter called in and said that until Iowa, he had assumed that Obama was "some kind of stunt".
I suppose I live a sheltered life, but for some reason it hadn’t crossed my mind that many African-Americans would think not just that it was very hard for a black man to win the nomination, but that it was impossible. But once it did, I found it horrible and heartbreaking, all the more so because, on reflection, I thought it was a perfectly reasonable thing to think.
Barack Obama is putting those thoughts to the wind.
It’s easy to be cynical about politicians. It’s easy to try and put Obama in a box, as the Republicans try to do every election. "Most liberal ever in the history of the world", "he’s gonna raise taxes!", "weak on national security." It’s always the same argument and it’s all bullshit, but it’s worked in the past. However, I don’t believe that it’s going to work this time.
It’s time for something different. It’s time for something new. It’s time to dig out of the hole that the current administration has left us in. It’s time to prove to the entire world that this country can be as great as we all know that it can be. It’s time to prove to all the citizens of the United States that truly anything is possible.
Actually, it’s long past time.
