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Local Obama Life

April 14th, 2008 · 4 Comments

I spent a bit of time yesterday accosting folks in shopping centers to spread the word about registration in my state and the newly-opened Obama headquarters in my town.
Perhaps it is fanciful thinking, but those who support Obama seem a bit different from those who grunted and scurried away. It is as though the sense [...]

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What People Hear, Folio 2

April 14th, 2008 · 9 Comments

I continue to be gobsmacked by the sequence of miles between what Obama said and what people—not even in his San Francisco audience—purport to have heard.
One expects Hillary Clinton and McCain to make a meal of this once they have distorted his words sufficiently to raise a row. One expects the media to leap upon [...]

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