Tag Archives: Barack Obama

Not Quite Part of the Solution…

Posted on August 20, 2009 by paul

Yet again, I’m going to be fashionably late getting this out, but it’s been sticking in my craw for a little while now, so here goes nothing. For all the attention paid to the back-and-forth over healthcare, our ongoing difficulties … Continue reading →

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Change to Spare?

Posted on November 5, 2008 by paul

Getting off the bus tonight at the Port Authority in Manhattan, I happened to glance over one of the passengers’ shoulders as I was walking down the aisle. She had her MP3 player out, and the display showed that she … Continue reading →

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This is Not America

Posted on October 28, 2008 by paul

If you’re reading this, you may not be an American. If you’re an Obama supporter, you most certainly–at least by some people’s reckoning–are not. And the top man on the Democratic presidential ticket? Nope, not an American either. Ignoring the … Continue reading →

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And There is No Map…

Posted on July 30, 2008 by paul

One explanation that I hear given for Barack Obama’s success is that a lot of white people somehow hope that voting for him will, in effect, let them off the hook for the long and complicated history of race relations … Continue reading →

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