Barack Obama: A More Perfect Union
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008Watch Barack’s speech on race in America and building a more perfect union
Archive for March, 2008
Soft Shoe in Hard Times
Monday, March 17th, 2008New York Times, United States
By MAUREEN DOWD Published: March 16, 2008
Everyone here is flummoxed about why the president is in such a fine mood.
The dollar’s crumpling, the recession’s thundering, the Dow’s bungee-jumping and the world’s disapproving, yet George Bush has turned into Gene Kelly, tap dancing and singing in a one-man review called “The Most Happy [...]
Iraq: doomed from the start
Saturday, March 15th, 2008Independent
Sunday, 16 March 2008
“We’re supposed to learn from the mistakes of history, but we keep making the same mistakes,” says Lawrence Colburn, a US veteran who returned to Vietnam to mark the 40th anniversary of the My Lai massacre. Today’s anniversary of My Lai and this week’s fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq allow [...]
Iraq: Who won the war?
Saturday, March 15th, 2008Independent
Not the 90,000 Iraqi civilians or the 4,200 US and UK troops killed since 2003. The big winners are the money men who have made billions.
Raymond Whitaker and Stephen Foley report
Sunday, 16 March 2008
Five years ago today, Britain stood on the brink of war. On 16 March 2003, United Nations weapons inspec-tors were advised to [...]
Obama Criticized For Rev Dr. Jeremiah Wright’s Honesty
Friday, March 14th, 2008African Path, MN
March 15, 2008
First, I must say something that Barack Obama can not say because he is running for President of the United States of America. I will say the entire truth. Politicians in America can’t be completely honest because it is the job of a politician to comfort the feelings of the majority [...]
Ferraro fails to grasp why she’s so wrong
Thursday, March 13th, 2008Chicago Sun
Obama’s appeal not about race, but how he transcends it
March 13, 2008 BY MARY MITCHELL Sun-Times Columnist
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Quiet as kept, if being black is the magic ingredient for a successful “historic” campaign, then Shirley Chisholm, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Carol Moseley Braun and Dick Gregory would have been able to pull together a lot more than [...]
McCain Revealed
Thursday, March 13th, 2008Huffington Post
John Sweeney
Sen. John McCain has a habit of voting away good U.S. jobs–not to mention overtime pay, Social Security, Medicare, our freedom to form unions and bargain and more. When the AFL-CIO started doing research to uncover John McCain’s record on working family issues, it was like peeling an onion–layer after layer of hostile, [...]
