normblog.typepad.com - 11/9/2008
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Sarah Baxter in today's Sunday Times:America feels good about itself and its future again. Its moral standing in the eyes of the world rose overnight. Feizel Mamdoo, my brother-in-law, texted me from Johannesburg: "You'd think South Africa was voting! There...
hotair.com - 11/10/2008
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hotair.com —
The New York Times’ Eric Lichtblau takes a
look at a potential Attorney General nominee in the
nascent Barack Obama administration — and it’s a familiar face. Jamie S. [...] Read the rest »
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The return of The Wall?
motherjones.com - 11/5/2008
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motherjones.com —
So who's a real American now? With his
decisive triumph over Senator John McCain, Senate Barack Obama
made obvious history: he is the first black (or biracial) man to win the presidency. But the meaning of his victory--in which Obama splashed blue ...
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Obama Wins and Redefines Real America
theheretik.us - 11/12/2008
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theheretik.us —
The inside dope on Obama? He’s pragmatic. What
does that mean ? It’s a mistake, [Obama transition
team leader Valerie Jarrett] said, to talk about Obama in terms of the left or right. He plans to change the political paradigm. ...
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The Real Deal
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Instapundit —
NORM GERAS: The return of the real.
The Return of the Real
The New Editor —
Norman Geras:
For a substantial part of the last eight years it has been impossible to escape the voices of all those who have been telling us that America's democracy was busted - if not fraudulent before even the possibility of being busted - and/or that its population is dominated by know-nothings, bigots, morons. Tuesday blew all this away for the nonsense it is. Some may hope to argue that, because what Tuesday did was to effect a national change of course, it did not so much expose a nonsense as overturn a bad reality and begin the change that would consign ...
The return to reality
USS Neverdock —
Sadly, it will take a long time for that to happen. I was around a friends house last night for a few drinks and the election came up. One in the group had made a bet with a friend that Obama's middle name was Hussein and they turned to me for confirmation. Raise your hand if you think it is, I said. Only one raised their hand. I then asked them if anyone of them could name any accomplishment by Obama before his election. No one could. I asked them if they knew Obama lived in Indonesia as a child and attended a Madras. Howls of laughter and disbelief ...
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