Posts Tagged ‘O’Bama’

Gold Is Beautiful

Written by admin on May 12, 2010. Posted in On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

Musing race complexities in the age of Obama By Susan Braudy Years ago, I took the A train to Harlem to speculate about living in a refurbished brownstone with thick walls. But that night I dreamed about losing my long view up Central Park and awoke homesick. In Harlem, I strolled into the Studio Museum
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Talk Ain’t Cheap

Written by admin on October 23, 2009. Posted in On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

Let there be peace on earth. If only saying it made it so. But just saying it can get you a Nobel Prize. A lot of people are still up in arms because President Obama was rewarded, not for accomplishing peace, but for simply talking about how he’d really like to make that happen. I
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A LETTER TO OBAMA

Written by admin on January 29, 2009. Posted in On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

Dear Citizen Obama, ’Twas not too long ago you were roaming the country fearlessly expounding on the wrongs wrought by the right and telling all within earshot what you were going to do to restore our country to its honorable place among the nations of this earth. At least some of the populace voted for
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OBAMA TEAM TO DISCUSS HEALTH CARE

Written by admin on December 23, 2008. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, Notes From the Neighborhood west side spirit

President-elect Barack Obama’s transition project is coming to the Goddard Riverside Community Center to hold a discussion group on how health care in America can be reformed. The audience is invited to share stories and concerns in dealing with health care and insurance. The Obama team will hold the event on Dec. 30 from 6
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SECURE THE BLESSINGS OF LIBERTY

Written by admin on November 21, 2008. Posted in On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

For the first time since the creation of the world, the sun rose on the United States of America at night. That was the triumphant night of Nov. 4, when despite the desperate prayers of flocks of evangelical Christians, God made Barack Hussein Obama, a black man, the 44th president of this benighted country. Eight
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INAUGURAL LOTTERY

Written by admin on November 21, 2008. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, Notes From the Neighborhood west side spirit

Since Barack Obama was elected on Nov. 4, Sen. Charles E. Schumer’s office has received nearly 100,000 requests for tickets to the inaugural ceremony on Jan. 20, 2009. Last Sunday, Schumer’s office announced it will be conducting a statewide lottery to distribute inauguration tickets. “The inauguration of a new president is always an exciting event,”
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A NEW AGE OF INTOLERANCE

Written by admin on November 13, 2008. Posted in Opinion and Column

I had the privilege of assisting the Obama campaign on Election Day by serving as a legal election observer in South Philadelphia. Family after family of first-time voters streamed into my polling location. Many brought their children, who watched as their parents participated in the most essential process and privilege of being an American. As
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HOLZER PRESENTS HIS MEMO TO THE PRESIDENT-ELECT, VINTAGE 1860

Written by admin on November 13, 2008. Posted in Politics

On the subject of Abraham Lincoln, Harold Holzer—like Lincoln himself—is largely self-taught. In fact, Holzer remembers that his Civil War professor at CUNY did not even like him. “I decided then that I wasn’t going to be a history academic. I was going to get into it my own way,” he said. Decades later, Holzer
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THE RUNNING MAN

Written by admin on November 6, 2008. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, Notes From the Neighborhood west side spirit

State Sen. Bill Perkins shows off his marathon medal at a rally to support Barack Obama after completing the Nov. 2 race. Photo By: Andrew Schwartz
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DIARY OF A SWING STATE VOLUNTEER

Written by admin on October 30, 2008. Posted in Politics

STUMPING FOR OBAMA IN BUCKS COUNTY, PA. By Jeff Williams As a political junkie, one of the downsides of living in New York is that our state is never contested in presidential elections. In an attempt to do my part, I’ve made two trips to Bucks County, Penn. to knock on doors and canvass voters
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