Going to give this live-blogging thing a try again. It’s been a while but I won’t listen to the speech otherwise for fear it will depress me (see the things I do for you!)
Tonight we are listening to the dulcet tones of Diane Sawyer on ABC (because I don’t have cable and PBS keeps cutting [...]
Entries Tagged as 'obama'
All the pretty things he says: Obama’s first SotU speech
January 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Politics
Tags: obama·state of the union
Dreaming little in a big way
January 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Politics
President Obama had a sit down with Diane Sawyer on Monday where he happened to mention that he would rather be an awesome one-term president than a mediocre two-term president. Which is of course the right answer to her question … I mean, what else was he going to say?
But here’s the problem: he is [...]
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5 things Obama might talk about
January 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Politics
So tomorrow is Obama’s big day … his first State of the Union address. And we don’t really know what he’s going to say but we have some ideas. So here are 5 things Obama could talk about and the odds that he will.
Voting representation for DC residents: oh, aren’t you just adorable with your [...]
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The day before the rest of our lives
January 19th, 2009 · No Comments · Politics
I’m really happy that Barak Obama is going to become President tomorrow. Really, I am. But after at the end of a long weekend (with another long day to go for much of DC) that has been nothing but Obama and Martin Luther King Jr. (thanks Oprah), I’m starting to feel a little cynical.
It’s a [...]
Obama cometh: Prepare the hype-mobile
August 28th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics
You might think it’s the second coming of JFK and FDR and MLK (and a little bit of Marilyn Monroe thrown in for good measure) with the frenzy that’s surrounding Democrats in Denver and the media that suckle at their breasts. But no, it’s just a man — a historic, paradigm-shifting, silver-tongued man — accepting [...]
Tags: convention·Election 2008·obama·speech
It’s Thursday and there’s no announcement
August 21st, 2008 · No Comments · Politics
Now he’s just being a tease. Obama says he knows who it is but as of midnight on Thursday, still no announcement from the campaign on the mystery No. 2. The shortlist is still pretty much in play (Bayh, Kaine, Biden). And there’s still muttering about Clinton. Clearly, all this waiting around has driven some [...]
Tags: Election 2008·obama·vice president
If it walks like a President and talks like a President
July 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment · Politics, Whatever ...
So there’s been lots of press this week about our President’s trip to Afghanistan and Iraq and other Middle East locales. What? That man isn’t our president? He’s sure acting like it. Whoops. Sorry about that. It’s so easy to make that mistake these days. I mean, we have a President right now who isn’t [...]
Tags: Bush·Election 2008·mccain·obama
Obama’s very good, faith-filled, come-to-Jesus week
July 7th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics
Our Obama has been a busy man of God.
Well, he technically isn’t talking about just God … last week, it was supposed to be a focus on values. But because it is impossible in this country to talk about values without talking about God (since we are such a Christian nation and all that), it [...]
Tags: Election 2008·obama·religion
5 things I don’t like about Obama
July 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Politics
In case it appears that I’m going a bit overboard with my support of the Democratic nominee, I offer the following list of things I don’t like about him. I mean, he’s just a man. A man who gives the world’s best speeches and has a truly awesome wife (I have a bit of a [...]
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Al Sharpton doesn’t like Cooper’s shellfish-loving lifestyle
June 25th, 2008 · No Comments · Whatever ...
Whereupon urbanmenno and a friend discuss Anderson Cooper’s conversation with Al Sharpton last night.
[edited to protect the not-so-innocent]