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Oct.02.2008
Gwen Ifill, the managing editor of "Washington Week" and senior correspondent for "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer is set to moderate the Vice Presidential debate between Delaware Senator, Joe Biden and Alaska governor, Sarah Palin.
Ifill, an accomplished journalist and author of an...
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Sep.30.2008
Eight years ago, I jokingly remarked to my then college roommates that “you know it must be bad, when I'd rather have John McCain in office than George Bush."
It was sobering for me at the time to realize that George W. Bush was such a pitiful, ignorant, arrogant and completely unqualified...
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Sep.29.2008
I waited for Friday night's debate like a child eagerly awaits Christmas morning. To me, the debates are like the super bowl of the election. I plant myself in front of the tv and enthusiastically cheer on my team, the Democrats, and their captain, Barack Obama.
I felt badly for both candidates...
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Sep.26.2008
As I typed in “Gallup Poll” in my search engine, I had an almost childlike excitement as I awaited the results. John McCain’s recent “determination” to resolve our country’s recent financial crisis and “ suspension” of his campaign to make it a top priority has turned my stomach enough to assume...
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Apr.20.2008
I love the image of Barack Obama riding from town to town on a locomotive, giving whistle-stop speeches off the caboose like a taller, darker, prettier Harry Truman. Mostly I’d rather not associate him with Truman, who I think was generally an asshole who pissed off more people than he had to and...
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Apr.18.2008
Passover—Pesach—starts Saturday night. This holiday, halfway into the Hebrew calendar year, invites us to consider the story of the exodus from slavery—from Mitzrayim (which means Egypt and also straits or narrow, constricting places)—as if it had happened to us, as if it were happening right now...
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Apr.16.2008
Causality: the description of the relationship between one event- the cause- and another - the effect in which the latter is the direct result of the former.
Canonality: the description of the relationship between one set of fictional stories- those depicted in television and film- and another-...
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Feb.26.2008
What keeps me confident in my support for Barack Obama, more than anything, is his grace under fire. With rare exceptions, he retains a poise in the face of attack unlike any I've seen from a politician in years, unlike any I've seen from a Democrat in my adult life. His supporters do not always...
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