Do American voters have amnesia?
I guess we’ll find out on November 2.
Christianity, socialism and Obama
Original post: October 20, 2008; repost: March 5, 2010. With the recent leak of an RNC strategy document advocating throwing around terms like ‘socialism,’ this seemed like an apt repost. Barack Obama is a socialist. Right? He wants to “spread the wealth around,” taking money from the rich to give to the poor, and even …
Civil Political Discourse
Following up on my Obama/Ayers, it seems that McCain did realize the impact of his words and has tried to tamp back the hostility. (It wasn’t met with too much success.) But Obama recognized this, as Ken Vogel reportsfrom Philadelphia: “I want to acknowledge that Sen. McCain tried to tone down the rhetoric in his …
Obama and Ayers
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 …
Barack, redux
[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 …