Barack Obama | Barack Obama
Oct.07.2012
Personal essay/slideshow about his/our friends, classmates, and campus activism, published in The New Yorker, October 3, 2012
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Oct.05.2012
On Friday's Phil Naessens Show Phil congratulates Detroit Tigers third baseman Miquel Cabrera on becoming the first man since 1967 to win the triple crown, the New York Yankees winning the American League East, his thoughts on Wednesday's Mitt Romney/President Barack Obama presidential...
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Oct.04.2012
I'm obviously in the minority, here.
Apparently, I can be counted among those groups whose memberships are painfully small:
Those who feel O.J. didn't do it.
People who decided that it was finally safe to open the sliding glass door and let the raccoons meet the kittens.
Parents who choose a...
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Oct.04.2012
We’ve all seen the first presidential debate. Barack Obama was flat as a bug on Mitt Romney’s windshield. But I don’t think it changed anything. I’m going out on a very shaky limb and say Obama is still going to win....
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Oct.03.2012
Whenever he comes on the air, the radio or in print I can immediately hear his cool voice talking only to me and in my ear. He is O.B. our President Barack, Mr. Obama, President Obama - he is the man!! He deserves to stay the President. If the country does not come out, it will be like driving a...
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Oct.01.2012
Reuters photograph of Mitt Romney by Jim Young.
Supporters of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney at this point can claim with some justification that the media’s treatment of his “47 percent” comments, made at a private fundraiser in May in Florida, fall solidly in the category...
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Sep.24.2012
I may have found the most twisted piece of conservative propaganda print matter out there. I know this is saying a lot with those Nancy Pelosi hunting licenses and the targets with Al Gore’s face in them that you can get at gun shows, but some Tea Party hobbits went and published this 55-page...
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Sep.15.2012
A long-term illness is like living in a cardboard box. I’m looking out through a proscenium of dusty brown corrugated walls, flexible, but strong and thick enough so they can’t be torn apart, only weakened. There’s a dry mustiness about everything.
The illness filtered into me during twilight, on...
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Sep.14.2012
I promise you fresh stuff on the next posts, ie:
LEGAL UNIONS CHEZ LES FRANCAIS....
(google image)
...and after that:
APARTHEID CHEZ LES AMERICAINS:
In the meantime, after speaking to my Mother in NYC today who had just worked on the polls for the Presidential primary, I...
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Sep.12.2012
I hadn't planned to volunteer for the Obama campaign. I know I will vote for him, so I decided that was enough.
I'm very busy trying to make a living as a freelance writer. I'm one of the 8.1 percent unemployed that has given up looking for a real job.
The competition is fierce...
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