Monthly Archives: February, 2008

Canvassing for Obama, February 28, Kennedy Plaza

This time I walked to Kennedy Plaza and held up my sign. I was really feeling the love. Contrary to all my previous experience distributing literature, I didn’t need to chase anyone. People came up to me.

I’m Not a Doctor, But I Play One on TV

This really bites. He’s not only not a cardiologist, but he didn’t even do his own rowing.

At Obama HQ-Wednesday, February 27, 4:26pm

A girl called out to a handsome, brown-skinned boy, “Barack Obama!� You don’t have to be that good-looking to get elected, but it doesn’t hurt.

Obama Returns to L’il Rhody

I saw Barack Obama speak at Roger Williams Park on a beautiful fall day in 2006, when he was campaigning for Sen. Whitehouse and the rest of the Rhode Island Democratic candidates. It was inspiring stuff — enough to get this tired 38-year-old mommy holding a sleeping baby to hoot and holler. Now Obama is [...]

Lyndon LaRouche on my Doorstep

How could I resist a headline like, ‘Is the Devil in Your Laptop?’ Such a promising title, such impenetrable writing.

Diplomatic Dress

While noting the excitement over a photo of Barack Obama in traditional Somalian garb, I recalled that somehow, somewhere, I had seen a picture of President Bush wearing a lovely blue silk tunic and a strained smile. Donning the costume over his suit for the obligatory “family photograph� alongside 20 other leaders of Asian and [...]

At Obama HQ

Why Barack Obama? Lately I am impressed with his consistent statements that he will open talks with nations we are in conflict with. We’ve had eight years of ‘shoot first and ask questions later’.

“A Poor Substitute for Democracy”

Leave it to the great historian, Howard Zinn, to remind me of my progressive roots and to remind us all that elections are a fundamental part of democracy but are not a substitute for democracy. From The Progressive: [Election frenzy] seizes the country every four years because we have all been brought up to believe [...]

In the Absence of Trust

Trust matters. If an individual cannot trust those upon whom they are in some significant measure dependent, that is a problem. In families in which there is incest, it is not unusual for the non-offending parent (if they know or suspect what is going on) to overtly or covertly encourage their child to remain silent [...]

Brighter Days

Wouldn’t it be great to tell the rest of the world, especially those nations that don’t like us, that they can keep their oil, we don’t need it.

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