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race race

November 22, 2008 – 8:31 pm

A national poll taken last week showed that 69 percent of Americans believe that race relations will improve with Obama in office. And I don’t blame this majority for their optimism: after all, didn’t you see all those people — black and white alike — crying their eyes out in Grant Park on November 4th? [...]

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media war on war

March 17, 2008 – 2:43 am

The danger of a presidential election as monumental and central as the 2008 presidential election is that the American public loses sight of everything else going on in the world. The Iraq War, for example, was on everybody’s radar just a year ago — the annual anti-war rally I went to in Portland, Ore. last [...]

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election

February 1, 2008 – 6:31 am

I’m burned out. Are a lot of people burned out? Does this happen every election year, or are we all just uniquely DONE with G.W. to the extent that don’t know what to do rather than turn the ‘08 election into a veritable Us Weekly special edition? As the kind of person who eats up [...]

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fair care

July 23, 2007 – 3:48 pm

Another heartening article in The Times today: The House is attempting to push a bill that “calls for major changes in Medicare and promises to intensify the battle with the White House over health care.” While the Senate had recently passed a bill that would increase coverage for lower-income children (provided, brilliantly, by tax increases [...]

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cold blood

July 17, 2007 – 2:48 pm

Bob Herbert’s opinion piece in the Times this morning was about Senator Barack Obama’s speech yesterday at the Vernon Park Church of God, in which he addressed the increasing number of murders among Chicago school children in the past year.
Herbert’s column basically parrots Mr. Obama’s plea for greater governmental action as well as individual responsibility:
In [...]

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