I couldn’t post yesterday; I was just too exhausted. I won’t post tomorrow either; I need at least a brief break. On election night we hosted a breakfast-at-dinnertime party while the results came in, drank orange juice and ate sausage and potatoes.
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If this issue is going to be brought up in debate and discussion, we owe it to each other to confront the issue up front. College profs have a tendency to make it complicated, but as for the disputes dominating the news today, the discussion needn’t be particularly complicated.
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The Washington Independent: Obama Laces into McCain’s “No Change Express”
The Flint Journal: Presidential candidate Barack Obama promises at Flint appearance to help auto industry refashion itself.
I wish I could have been at this. I would’ve waited for hours and hours…
It’s icing on the cake that the Journal actually avoided making one of the innumerable puns that presented themselves.
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Thesis: Stop thinking about whether they are likeable or not… there will be time enough for that later.
As much as the presidency is a person, it is also an institution, and we would more accurately make responsible decisions in presidential elections by thinking of the office as a very powerful and ideally coordinated committee, with the ballot in the chairmanship.
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To kick this off, I won’t recap the last year-and-a-half of election drama except to say that this, I believe, is more important than any other election I’ve experienced except perhaps 2000. Which may be a tie. I have many reasons for believing this, and I’m sure you have many thoughts on the subject too, but the most eloquent and trenchant observation I’ve heard on this comes from outside of the United States, in an article my mom sent me yesterday.
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