For 82 days in 1968, Robert F. Kennedy ran for President. His campaign was described as magical and mystical. With RFK, we believed that anything was possible. Then his life was tragically cut short. His great potential left unfulfilled. There hasn’t been another politician, since RFK, who has inspired this country so profoundly…until Barak Obama. Will Barack Obama be able to recreate the magic of those 82 days?

Archive for November 20th, 2008

Beautiful Horizons: Some Things I Meant to Mention Before

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

A few weeks ago I wrote about Judith Apter Klinghoffer’s race-baiting comments about Colin Powell’s endorsement of Barack Obama and Reg mentioned David Remnick’s New Yorker article about the Obama campaign. It’s time to put the lie to

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Barack, Misha and the bear - Nicholas D. Kristof Blog - NYTimes.com

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

“ Unlike a lot of Americans, I was able to go to work today with my heart on my sleeve knowing that it was part of my job description to spend the day talking about Barack Obama’s election. You see, I am a teacher.

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The Riverdale Press: Point of view: FDR, Adlai, JFK, Obama

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

Hope and recovery are the critical themes. FDR embraced them and brought unprecedented action. Adlai energized us. JFK inspired us. Now, Obama, after a tear-filled sine qua non victory stands as a man for the ages.

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Public School Parents, Unite! - Campaign Stops Blog - NYTimes.com

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

On top of that, Mr. Obama’s presidency has indeed set off an emotional sea change: Why look at that, there is new hope for everything, even public schools! I see, amazingly, small green shoots of tentative optimism even among my Left

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First church? (://URLFAN)

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

Quote: By Dick Morris And Eileen McGann 11.18.2008 If Barack Obama appoints Hillary Clinton as his Secretary of State, it will send a cynical message to his supporters: that change is something they can still only hope for.

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Obama’s Clinton Initiative : NO QUARTER

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

Editor’s Note: Thank you to the New York Observer’s editor for permitting us to reprint Joe Conason’s information-dense, pithy summary of president-elect Barack Obama’s “initiative” in asking Sen. Hillary Clinton to be Secretary of

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Barack Obama 6" Action Figure : Health & Personal Care: Product

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

Like countless others out there, we’ve been inspired by the meteoric rise of Barack Obama and his campaign. In a time when America so desperately needed a hero, along came a man to show us a brand new vision of what America and the

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Stop Carping About Obama Relying on Folks from the Clinton

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

Thus proving that spending almost $1 Billion on a message of bringing Change and Hope to Washington is a load of crap pushed by a pathological lying snake oil saleman who managed to transform the political landscape to one of street

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Still hoping there is intelligent life somewhere in the universe

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

The other main themes of the campaign were ‘change‘ and ‘hope‘. Interesting. Change we will get, of one kind or another, that’s for sure. And there are two kinds of hope, that which arises in times of positive change, and that which

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techPresident – Could a "Craigslist for Service" Actually Work?

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

Let’s hope not. There’s an opportunity to sprinkle some of the magic dust of the Obama campaign to make a Craigslist for service far more citizen-driven, and, in turn, far more revolutionary. Such a thing is still just pie in the sky

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