Positive Universe Abstracts

CNN
By Ruben Navarrette Jr.
Special to CNN
[excerpt]
Neither Bill nor Hillary Clinton has done much for Latinos in their public careers, and most of the support they enjoy from that community comes from brand loyalty — the same thing that keeps Latinos coming back to one kind of laundry detergent keeps them coming back to the Clinton [...]

Scoop.co.nz, New Zealand
Monday, 25 February 2008,
By Howard Zinn, The Progressive
There’s a man in Florida who has been writing to me for years (ten pages, handwritten) though I’ve never met him. He tells me the kinds of jobs he has held-security guard, repairman, etc. He has worked all kinds of shifts, night and day, to barely [...]

Pacific Free Press, Canada
Written by Dahr Jamail
by Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail
What the U.S. has been calling the success of a “surge”, many Iraqis see as evidence of catastrophe. Where U.S. forces point to peace and calm, local Iraqis find an eerie silence. And when U.S. forces speak of a reduction in violence, many Iraqis [...]

Washington Post
By Eugene Robinson
Friday, February 22, 2008; Page A23
Humor me while we conduct a little thought experiment. Imagine that Barack Obama had lost 10 contests in a row. Imagine that he now trailed Hillary Clinton substantially in the number of Democratic primaries and caucuses won, in total votes cast, in pledged convention delegates, in the [...]

On Faith, DC
SUSAN JACOBY
Author and reporter
Apart from obligatory allusions to the God who has blessed America (mazel tov, Irving Berlin, your royalties are still rolling in) and a general tendency to be photographed making speeches in churches whenever possible, I do not think that faith has played a large and explicit role in the Democratic [...]

Washington Post, United States
By Harold Meyerson
Thursday, February 21, 2008; Page A15
In the 20th century, American production was the marvel of the world. In the 21st century, American consumption is the marvel of the world. As news goes, this is both big and bad.
It was American production, after all, that won World War II. It was [...]

Courtesy CQ Transcripts Wire
OBAMA: Houston, I think we’ve achieved liftoff here.
Let me just, first of all, say thank you to some special people who helped put this together.
First of all, the pre-program entertainment Infinite Groove, thank you so much.
I want to thank the wonderful young lady who said the Pledge of Allegiance, Melissa Atkins [...]