Tag: obama
member name: Elizabeth Madrigal
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May 19, 2008 01:18 AM EDT --
We walked across the bridge and up hill to get into downtown Portland, Oregon, as our daughter had warned us that the V.I.P. tickets she got for the five of us would only be good until 12:45 p.m. and . . .
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November 02, 2008 05:46 PM EST --
This is Sunday and I cannot believe that in two more days I will actually have a life again. The rain started pouring down here today - late for the northwest where I live - and all I could . . .
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February 09, 2008 11:57 PM EST --
It was around 3:30 p.m. here in Ridgefield, Washington, when we finally left our Democratic Party caucus. My husband and I lingered there greeting old neighbors, parents of our children's classmates . . .
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October 03, 2008 03:37 AM EDT --
Everybody has a certain style. Mine could be described as spontaneous, enthusiastic, passionate, revealing, sometimes too loud and often out of bounds. That's exactly how I like my debates. . . .
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September 09, 2008 10:01 PM EDT --
I am not Sarah Palin - for which I thank ALL the Gods - but I am a pretty ferocious campaigner for what I believe is right and good in this life and Senators Obama and Biden fall into that category . . .
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July 17, 2008 07:01 PM EDT --
I get a lot of emails, but I have to admit, the one I got today sickened me. It was from CommonDreams.org's News Center, and republished an article from The Independent, a United Kingdom . . .
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August 27, 2008 09:10 PM EDT --
Just when I think politics is enough to make me sick, the Democrats rise above resentment, bitterness, competitiveness and rancor. At 4:48 PM Denver time, Hillary Clinton released her New York . . .
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October 10, 2008 05:18 AM EDT --
As many of you know, I am passionate about our country, but the United States of America has fallen on very sad times. The economic breakdown of late is merely the latest symptom of the moral and . . .
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October 22, 2008 06:28 PM EDT --
On the Daily Show recently Samantha Bee and her real life husband, Jason, did a skit in which they interviewed a group of 'undecided voters'. Samantha was acting like a crazy woman eventually, . . .
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November 03, 2008 02:58 PM EST --
Yes, that was the first thing I read this morning in the New York Times, courtesy of Douglas MacKinnon, a man who lives in an alternative universe. http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.c...
Like . . .
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October 16, 2008 07:02 AM EDT --
As I watched the debate this evening I marveled at the enormous restraint Barack Obama exhibited. After watching him for twenty months it amazes me how well he wears on the nerves. His comments . . .
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August 29, 2008 06:38 PM EDT --
Hey. I am not criticizing John McCain for wanting to spend the next four years with an ex-beauty queen with a silver tongue, as that is his style, but one has to wonder if Sarah Palin is the . . .
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September 27, 2008 01:57 PM EDT --
Of course I watched the debate last night. Everyone I know made sure they were near a television, alert and ready to focus on the foreign and economic policies both candidates would surely discuss. . . .
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October 05, 2008 04:32 PM EDT --
First my bias. I love to read which makes it hard for me to be happy during an election year or even mildly misinformed. I am also an active Obama volunteer and have been making telephone calls . . .
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October 13, 2008 02:37 PM EDT --
Yes, I am not just annoyed. Each and every cell in my body is furious that the Bush/Cheney administration is always behind the eight ball. The current leadership in government is a complete . . .
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October 17, 2008 03:14 PM EDT --
A short wired.com article in their Science Blog caught my eye this morning. It was entitled "The Facts about Obama's $3 Million Projector". http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/10/the-facts-about.html?cid=135187127#comment-135187127 . . .
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October 19, 2008 03:22 PM EDT --
Top o' the morning to you, fellow human beings. I have finally recovered my sense of humor during this campaign. Credit where credit is due, I laughed so hard at the SNL appearance of . . .
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February 25, 2009 09:51 PM EST --
Last night as I listened to President Obama outline his plan for the impending Great American Recovery, I was entranced, inspired, saddened, proud, called out and most of all, hopeful . Of course, . . .
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January 30, 2008 04:16 PM EST --
If I were looking for Gather points I might have posted this question in a more controversial way, but I am beginning to think that somebody needs to tell society-at-large what we women REALLY want. . . .
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October 07, 2008 07:12 PM EDT --
We all saw John McCain's mom walk and stand up unassisted during the convention. She is in pretty good shape for someone in her 90's. It was impressive, really. Moms? . . .
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