Part 1 Top Quote:
No, seriously…that’s the point!
Part 2 Top Quote:
Let’s put Americans to work doing the work that America needs done.
PREACH!
Tag: Obama
Obama on Anderson Cooper 360
Word to the Wise
Under Obama, `war on terror’ catchphrase fading – Yahoo! News:
“The ‘War on Terror’ is losing the war of words. The catchphrase burned into the American lexicon hours after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, is fading away, slowly if not deliberately being replaced by a new administration bent on repairing the U.S. image among Muslim nations.”
(Via Yahoo! News.)
Nuance continues to reign.
They Caught the Vapors
Washington Memo – Harsh Words About Obama? Never Mind Now – NYTimes.com:
“‘I don’t think that’s happened very often,’ Ms. Goodwin said. ‘The best answer I can give you is they don’t want to be on the wrong side of history, and they recognize how the country saw this election, and how people feel that they’re living in a time of great historic moment.’”
(Via NY Times.)
Biz Markie would be proud.
What an Obama Presidency Means for Technology — RoughlyDrafted Magazine
What an Obama Presidency Means for Technology — RoughlyDrafted Magazine:
“Rather than answering to big contributors, Obama now faces a different constituency: the people of the United States. The new president will now face an expectation for the same level of support that individuals have come to expect from companies on the web.”
(Via Roughly Drafted Magazine.)
One of the sea changes this election made in my view is that Obama showed that technology can be a real democratizer. Accelerating this process will make government more transparent and directly accountable to the people.
Senior Iraqi backs Obama withdrawal plan – Yahoo! News
Senior Iraqi backs Obama withdrawal plan – Yahoo! News:
“A senior Iraqi official on Thursday explicitly backed U.S. President-elect Barack Obama’s plans to withdraw combat troops from the country by mid-2010, Baghdad’s clearest endorsement yet of Obama’s exit strategy.”
(Via Yahoo! News.)
This was obvious to me. It seemed like Bush-McCain-Leiberman types all wanted to stay until “victory” could be declared. Whatever that meant. It seems to me that if you are fighting for democracy, you leave because the people say so.
Indecision 2008: America’s Choice – Barack Obama Wins
Indecision 2008: America’s Choice – Barack Obama Wins:
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(Via Indecision 2008.)
It’s deep when comics well up with emotion.
Yes We Did
A Conservative for Obama | D Magazine – Dallas Fort Worth’s Resource for City Guides, Daily Blogs, D Bests, and Restaurants
“Today it is conservatives, not liberals, who talk with alarming bellicosity about making the world ‘safe for democracy.’ It is John McCain who says America’s job is to ‘defeat evil,’ a theological expansion of the nation’s mission that would make George Washington cough out his wooden teeth.
This kind of conservatism, which is not conservative at all, has produced financial mismanagement, the waste of human lives, the loss of moral authority, and the wreckage of our economy that McCain now threatens to make worse.
Barack Obama is not my ideal candidate for president. (In fact, I made the maximum donation to John McCain during the primaries, when there was still hope he might come to his senses.) But I now see that Obama is almost the ideal candidate for this moment in American history. I disagree with him on many issues. But those don’t matter as much as what Obama offers, which is a deeply conservative view of the world. Nobody can read Obama’s books (which, it is worth noting, he wrote himself) or listen to him speak without realizing that this is a thoughtful, pragmatic, and prudent man. It gives me comfort just to think that after eight years of George W. Bush we will have a president who has actually read the Federalist Papers.
Most important, Obama will be a realist. I doubt he will taunt Russia, as McCain has, at the very moment when our national interest requires it as an ally. The crucial distinction in my mind is that, unlike John McCain, I am convinced he will not impulsively take us into another war unless American national interests are directly threatened.”
(Via D Magazine.)
Wow. Like the Reagan Democrats before them, prepare for the Obama Republicans!
An endorsement of Barack Obama | It’s time
An endorsement of Barack Obama | It’s time | The Economist:
“For all the shortcomings of the campaign, both John McCain and Barack Obama offer hope of national redemption. Now America has to choose between them. The Economist does not have a vote, but if it did, it would cast it for Mr Obama. We do so wholeheartedly: the Democratic candidate has clearly shown that he offers the better chance of restoring America’s self-confidence. But we acknowledge it is a gamble. Given Mr Obama’s inexperience, the lack of clarity about some of his beliefs and the prospect of a stridently Democratic Congress, voting for him is a risk. Yet it is one America should take, given the steep road ahead.”
(Via The Economist.)
A clear eyed endorsement. Contrast that with their succinct criticism of McCain. Remember when McCain claimed how no one could list any issues that he’s flip flopped or relinquished his maverick street cred? Well, read on!
If only the real John McCain had been running
That, however, was Senator McCain; the Candidate McCain of the past six months has too often seemed the victim of political sorcery, his good features magically inverted, his bad ones exaggerated. The fiscal conservative who once tackled Mr Bush over his unaffordable tax cuts now proposes not just to keep the cuts, but to deepen them. The man who denounced the religious right as “agents of intolerance” now embraces theocratic culture warriors. The campaigner against ethanol subsidies (who had a better record on global warming than most Democrats) came out in favour of a petrol-tax holiday. It has not all disappeared: his support for free trade has never wavered. Yet rather than heading towards the centre after he won the nomination, Mr McCain moved to the right.