The McCain campaign’s recent line of attack has been to try to tar Obama by associating him with Bill Ayers, who they’ve labeled a ‘domestic terrorist’. Let me tell you about the Obama/Ayers connection, from what I’ve been able to find out. First of all, a little on Bill Ayers. In the 1960s, he was …
[Photo: Pete Souza/White House] Original post: October 9, 2008, updating an earlier blog; repost: March 5, 2010. Still read best in tandem with my friend Liz’s blog on election season 2008. When I arrived in the US in the summer of 2006, I had never even heard the name of Barack Obama, and I had very …
Welcome to October! Here’s the latest: Last weekend, I was supposed to head to Las Vegas to do some campaigning for Obama, but I got taken down by illness on Friday and so ended up not going. A couple of my friends did go and had a blast, so perhaps I’ll be able to fit …
Original post: November 6, 2008; repost: April 5, 2010. A good reminder, as spring rolls in. Last night was a great night. Barack Obama was elected the 44th President of the United States of America. I had a bunch of people over, and we were all cozying up in my little studio, hunched around my …
Barack Obama speaks yesterday at Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, GA, where Martin Luther King Jr. was once the preacher.