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Lately I’ve been thinking about Obama’s Philadelphia speech. In that speech, he got me to think about the color of my skin in ways I never had before.
It afforded me a new paradigm, a new way of thinking about my place in society. It also gave me the best insight into his problem solving skills. [...]

According to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, more than “one-third of voters said the 2008 presidential election has made them ‘more proud’ to be an American.
Former Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton may also have a hand in that sentiment.
Some 40% of women over 50 years old, a core Clinton constituency in the primary, said [...]

With Election Day upon us, it seems like there couldn’t possibly be a fresh argument to make for either candidate. But I think I have one.

The policy differences between Barack Obama and John McCain are clear and stark. It seems to me that, at this point, if a voter is choosing based on issues, it’s [...]

Election day is less than 24 hours away and this Halloween weekend, we ran into two different election posters that seek to get your vote by dressing the candidates up in a different skin color.
The first, sent to us by a reader and designed by Tor Myhren who is Chief Creative Officer for Grey Advertising [...]

1. George W. Bush
2. The Iraq war
3. The economic implosion this fall.
4. Without the national security card McCain couldn’t win.
5. Hillary Clinton made Barack Obama a better candidate than he ever would have been on his own.
6. McCain picked Sarah Palin without vetting her, and believed she was interchangeable with Hillary Clinton.
7. McCain and his [...]

Barack Obama radiated confidence and John McCain displayed the grit of an underdog Monday as the presidential rivals reached for the finish line of a two-year marathon with a burst of campaigning across battlegrounds from the Atlantic Coast to Arizona.
“We are one day away from change in America,” said Obama, a Democrat seeking to become [...]

Sell Obamas now. They are overpriced and the forward market has gone crazy. If he becomes president in two days, the bubble will burst, I guess in the spring of next year.
From the moment four years ago when I first heard of Barack Obama and read his youthful memoir, I sensed a president in the [...]

In today’s White House press briefing, spokesperson Dana Perino struggled to name the President’s major accomplishments in light of tomorrow’s election. “We have learned from mistakes. … So a lot of things have improved,” she said. Perino complained about Bush’s abysmal approval ratings, claiming they are like a high school popularity contest:
And this President was [...]

Yesterday, the McCain campaign released an online advertisement that responded to Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-IL) criticism of its tax policy as “making a virtue of selfishness.” The ad — which featured a yellowed picture of a scowling Obama — misspelled the word “virtue.” Here is a screenshot of the “virture” ad:
“VIRTURE” (11/2/08)

Throughout this historic campaign season, the economy has without a doubt been the most dominant issue on the minds of American voters. Once the turbulent markets have subsided, we must continue to support policies that will return purchasing power to those hit hardest by our current crisis: America’s middle class workers.
While bailouts, regulation and taxes [...]