John Cusack compared the "promise" of the Obama campaign to "Antigone before the king." The comparison illuminates something we have to acknowledge. In Sophocles' play, Antigone defies the king's decree, but without building...
Topics: Antigone, change, change.gov, hope, John Cusack, non-career positions, Obama, presidential administration, promise

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When I first watched this video, I thought to myself, why is FOX News the one breaking this story? Isn't this an example of what FOX pundits would have called the liberal media's unfair attack on Sarah Palin? And then I read that the RNC did not..
Topics: $150 thousand, 2008 election, McCain, Republican Party, Republicans, shopping

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I'm overwhelmed. My thumb is dead from responding to text messages yesterday. My phone is dead. My throat is sore from yelling. My neighborhood was dark, but we were howling and honking back and forth with people over the hills, in the distance. We...
Topics: 2008 election, Bush, McCain, Obama, President

{"title":"Happy Obama Day!","post_url":"http:\/\/graykane.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/happy-obama-day.html","feed_url":"http:\/\/graykane.blogspot.com\/feeds\/posts\/default?alt=rss","author":"graykane","date":"2008-11-05 09:21:00","summary":"I'm overwhelmed. My thumb is dead from responding to text messages yesterday. My phone is dead. My throat is sore from yelling. My neighborhood was dark, but we were howling and honking back and forth with people over the hills, in the distance. We..."}

There are still certain scenarios where McCain can win this. Not all polls put Obama in the lead. Each pollster adjusts his numbers in order to get what he believes will be the right percentage of Evangelicals, Jews, blacks, Hispanics, Asians, white men,.
Topics: 2008 election, McCain, Mississippi, Obama, polls

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The following conversation is an ongoing debate that ensued from an earlier post I wrote. In light of Michelle Bachmann's (R-MN) desire for the press to investigate anti-American sentiment in Congress, my questions have to do with this poster Sandie..
Topics: anti-American, conservative, liberal, McCain, Obama, unpatriotic

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