Friday, October 17, 2008
Event: The Chicago Tribune has Endorsed a Democrat for President for the First Time Since it was Founded.
Daily Kos: Chicago Tribune endorses Obama.
By "first time since it was founded," we're going back to the year 1847.
Chicago Tribune: Tribune Endorsement: Barack Obama for president.
Labels: elections, EVENT, journalism, politics, u.s. executive
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Event: Obama's Speech in Flint, and Other Good News.
The Washington Independent: Obama Laces into McCain's "No Change Express"
The Flint Journal: Presidential candidate Barack Obama promises at Flint appearance to help auto industry refashion itself.
I wish I could have been at this. I would've waited for hours and hours...
It's icing on the cake that the Journal actually avoided making one of the innumerable puns that presented themselves. "Obama Ramped Up Flint for Change," or "Candidate Obama Says Flint Auto Change Soon." The Journal can write good articles, and I'm glad when they don't derail them with lame headlines.
Actually, Flint has had several pieces of good news lately:
Flint Journal: We're rolling again: Flint spots get another movie close-up; This time it's 'All's Faire in Love' with Christina Ricci and Bill Engvall.
It seems that puns have been traded off for run-on sentences.
A worthy compromise.
Labels: Barack Obama, economics, elections, EVENT, film, Flint, journalism, labor, politics
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Friday, September 12, 2008
Event: The Current Republican Thesis Is That We Won't Mind Being Made Fools Of.
New York Times | Paul Krugman: Blizzard of Lies.
I hope we are not put in a position to see whether Krugman's thesis that McCain/Palin would be worse than Bush/Cheney is true or not. However I am reminded of something I witnessed in college. Under President Hugo Sonnenschein, a sometimes intimidating presence from the dreaded Econ department a number of controversial changes were made to the core curriculum, housing system, and admissions process at the University. During my fourth year, he was replaced with Don Randal, a lovable looking medieval musicologist from romantic Ithaca, New York. Something very interesting happened: the controversy died. A very vigorous student and faculty opposition to the changes enacted by Sonnenschein (really at the behest of the trustees) had put all of their passion into the person. But when Sonnenschein was gone, the trustees remained, and so did the policies.
I won't belabor this comparison to my fears of the McCain/Palin ticket, and we're too thick in the trees to see how deep this forest really is. But these are real apprehensions. We're not scaremongering. This could really happen. Yes it could.
Labels: elections, EVENT, journalism, politics, u.s. executive
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