Several days ago, I was interested in the graphic on the left above. It was in the NYT and showed the places that were more Democratic in 2008 than 2004 in blue and the places that were more Republican in 2008 than 2004 in red.While I first thought of the red swath as the Bible […]
Our long national nightmare is over by SusanG The great undoing has begun: Obama Positions Himself to Quickly Reverse Bush Actions on Environmental, Social Issues Transition advisers to President-elect Barack Obama have compiled a list of about 200 Bush administration actions and executive orders that could be swiftly undone to reverse the president on climate […]
It didn’t take nearly as long as I thought it would. I woke up this morning knowing what I wanted to do with this blog. Actually, I woke up knowing what was bothering me about continuing. I haven’t liked being so negative as I’ve been in the 1boringoldman posts. I make no apologies. There was […]
I’ve been kind of amused at myself. I keep writing about not writing. Sounds conflicted to even me. I’m obviously using the blog as a diary or journal – trying to make sense of this new place I [we] find myself [ourselves] in. I wrote an email to a friend who had just started blogging […]
I’ve gotten a lot of email and some comments about my plan to fade out as a daily blogger, and I appreciate them. It’s not that I’m tired of doing it. Maybe that’s the way it sounded, but it’s more something else that I can’t say easily. I started blogging almost because I couldn’t not […]
2004 2008 by State [Geographic] by State [Geographic] U.S. by State [Population] 2004 2008 by State [Electoral Votes] by State [Electoral Votes] by County [Geographic] by County [Geographic] by County [Population] by County [Population] explanations: 2004 2008
North Carolina is in for Obama!
Thus ends my forray into matters politic. I expect I’ll weigh in some on the aftermath of the Bush Administration, and I look forward to learning more about the back office gyrations that produced so much damage in their seemingly endless eight year reign. But I have no plan to sift the news and blogs […]
Last night, toward the end of his acceptance speech, Barack Obama said: There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won’t agree with every decision or policy I make as President, and we know that government can’t solve every problem. But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we […]
Rice ‘especially proud’ of Obama victory At her Vanderbilt University commencement speech in 2004, Rice recalled the death of a schoolmate in an infamous church bombing: "I remember the bombing of that Sunday School at 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham in 1963. I did not see it happen, but I heard it happen, and […]