Browsing all 50 posts in Race for 2008.

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A Great Rejoicing Across the Land [AAP#8]

Sunday, November 16th, 2008

ALEXIS PAULINE GUMBS: I understand why looking at that family and imagining them in the White House makes us imagine we might finally be at home. But I have to resist that feeling. If I pretend that home is something that the state can give me in the form of a good-looking “first family” without stopping its economic, invasive, nativist violence, then I deny us all the home in the making that I believe in today and every day.

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Is Barack Obama the needed bridge between blacks & Latinos? [AAP#6]

Friday, November 14th, 2008

CARMEN D: In 2004, President George Bush garnered 44% of the Latino vote and pundits everywhere declared that “Hispanics” were conservative, and might provide a growing base of support for the Republican party going forward. It was a reasonable hypothesis, I guess…

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Assessing the Secret of Joy [AAP #5]

Friday, November 14th, 2008

ELLE, PHD: I expected to cry if Barack Obama won the election—everyone who knows me expected me to cry. I even had friends who called and said, “Are you crying yet?” Admittedly, I dashed away a few tears, but I didn’t really cry. The joy I felt was overshadowed by worry. And why am I letting it get to me?

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Online100 Releases Results of Predictor Poll – Bloggers Beat MSM

Friday, November 7th, 2008

AND NOW, the results of The PoliticsOnline.com Presidential Election Predictor Competition! Each member of the Online100 panel, the daily tracker of the US blogosphere consisting of the “100 leading online voices in the United States” was asked to predict the outcome in all twenty potential battleground states. The envelope, por favor!

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The Rhythm that Refreshes

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

IT’S BEEN A LONG, INTENSE ELECTION YEAR. And just as after the primaries ended, at this point I feel the need to center myself. To calm, to restore, to reorient and mostly to withdraw a bit from the online activity and conversation, at least for a brief moment. Enough to mark a pause or a divide.

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President Barack Hussein Obama!

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

CONGRATULATIONS TO BARACK OBAMA, the 44th president (-elect) of the United States of America. And to all who supported and worked for or contributed in some way toward this moment. It has been an overwhelming and amazing night. Here’s looking toward the future, and all it may contain.

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Socialistik I Voted Button

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

HERE IS AN ‘I VOTED’ BUTTON that I was hired to make. The person who bought it gave permission for me to offer it to you freely, in the spirit of our new Black Socialist Nation. So spread the pixels, my friends, if you so desire.

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Change the World

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

THE DAY IS HERE! It’s time for the first change of many and it’s all very exciting. I feel like it’s early Christmas morning over here in the dark Pacific Northwest morning. I’m shakin’ the boxes! I’m smelling the pine needles! Warm red-gold-green-blue glow on my face! My heart is full of hope and a feeling of renewal.

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A Look Back: Obama in Oregon

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

SHOT WHEN I WAS WORKING FOR MTV and their Choose or Lose Street Team, here are three videos of Obama speaking here in Oregon. I feel very lucky to have been part of history in the small way I was, by hearing him speak and shooting these. The first video begins with people lined up around the block waiting for hours to hear Barack Obama speak. Just like the lines at many of the polls today.

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On The Eve of The Dawn of a Brand New Day

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

MY HOPE IS THAT WE CARRY THIS FORWARD. This energy now rising. That we all carry on with this decision to work for a new day and a new way of seeing. A way out of the hate and the fear and the small-minded paradigms that keep us running in circles as we try to spiral up to the Top of the Shining Heap and step on other hands to get there. That we continue to open our minds and our hearts and become this change we want so much to believe in.

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Cynthia McKinney Answers The Sanctuary Survey

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

THE SANCTUARY EDITORS: Showing the vitality and importance of voices from outside the mainstream two-party political paradigm, Congresswoman McKinney puts forth not only a strong understanding of the complexities of the Immigration Issue, but also a vision of real-world solutions with a refreshing willingness to confront the broader social and economic realities which undergird international migration.

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People in the Middle (for Obama)

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

SHOT AND EDITED in the style of Apple’s “Switch” commercials, here is a video featuring Republicans, Conservatives, Evangelical Christians and those in “the middle” who are giving their reasons for voting for Obama. It sure feels good to see people hoping and daring to believe in a way forward. It’s been a long, dark 8 years.

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Vote for Hope. It’s Funky, like you.

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

THE QUALITY AND QUANTITY of art and music created solely by the citizens who are feelin’ this change continue to impress me with their unsolicited works of support for Barack Obama. Here’s a well made jammie called “Vote for Hope” by Mc Yogi. Goes well with coffee. And tea!

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What Lurks Under the Folksy

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

THE CUTE AND FUN SARAH PALIN, while grinning and winking and droppin’ gs galore, is very cleverly tossing rancid scraps to the beasts of violence and fear that shuffle in the shadows cast by John McCain’s campaign and the GOP. You’ve heard it before, but here’s a lingual breakdown that makes the case in a convincing and terrifying way.

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Ready to Strike!

Monday, October 27th, 2008

NOBODY likes to think this way, yet we are well aware of how much the Right does not want to let go of the grip on power they thought they had and thought they would have forever. From Delay to Rove to Bush; from the last two stolen elections to the recent DOJ vote purge, the thieving Republicans have shown us that Democracy means nada to them. So we must prepare.

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