Tag: politics delusion europe 2008 barack-obama hero-worship united-states-elections-2008
This Sarah Palin phenomenon is very curious. I think somebody watching us from Mars—they would think the country has gone insane.
Noam ChomskyTag: politics united-states 2008 sarah-palin mars united-states-elections-2008 mccain-campaign-2008
One might come up with other and kinder distinctions (I shall not be doing so) but the plain fact about the senator from New York is surely that she is a known quantity who has already been in the White House purely as the result of a relationship with a man, and not at all a quixotic outsider who represents the aspirations of an 'out' group, let alone a whole sex or gender.
Christopher HitchensTag: politics united-states feminism new-york 2008 bill-clinton white-house hillary-clinton united-states-elections-2008 first-lady-of-the-united-states 21st-century
Mrs. Clinton, speaking to a black church audience on Martin Luther King Day last year, did describe President George W. Bush as treating the Congress of the United States like 'a plantation,' adding in a significant tone of voice that 'you know what I mean ...'
She did not repeat this trope, for some reason, when addressing the electors of Iowa or New Hampshire. She's willing to ring the other bell, though, if it suits her. But when an actual African-American challenger comes along, she rather tends to pout and wince at his presumption (or did until recently).
Tag: politics united-states hypocrisy george-w-bush racism 2008 barack-obama new-hampshire martin-luther-king-jr iowa african-americans hillary-clinton united-states-elections-2008 plantation
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud. Do not complain. Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.
Maya AngelouTag: 2008
I shall not vote for Sen. Obama and it will not be because he—like me and like all of us—carries African genes. And I shall not be voting for Mrs. Clinton, who has the gall to inform me after a career of overweening entitlement that there is 'a double standard' at work for women in politics; and I assure you now that this decision of mine has only to do with the content of her character. We will know that we have put this behind us when [...] we have outgrown and forgotten the original prejudice.
Christopher HitchensTag: women united-states feminism chauvinism race racism 2008 barack-obama hillary-clinton united-states-elections-2008
Because of the "city upon a hill" sound bite, "A Model of Christian Charity" is one of the formative documents outlining the idea of America. But dig deep into its communitarian ethos and it reads more like an America that might have been, an America fervently devoted to the quaint goals of working together and getting along. Of course, this America does exist. It's called Canada.
Sarah VowellTag: america canada 2008 city-on-the-hill communitarianism john-winthrop
To be a hero you have to learn to be a deviant —
because you're always going against the conformity of the group.
Tag: 2008 ted-talks heroic-imagination psychology-of-evil
It was mid-November 2008. There were pirates taking ships with impunity in African waters, terrorists punching holes in Indian security, China sinking towards depression because Americans were afraid to buy cheap goods for Christmas, and the richest nation in the history of the world was talking about how to keep a budget.
Walter MosleyTag: war america economics social-commentary 2008 terrorism
Stand up, Chuck, let 'em see ya.
Joe BidenTag: 2008
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