Posts Tagged as ‘barack obama’

21 September 2009

Marketing 101

Dear Mr. Axelrod,
When you have an important message on a key policy issue from the leader of your political party, the email should not be titled “Got a few minutes?”
Aside from being grammatically incorrect (it should be “Have a few minutes?”) you almost guarantee having your email deleted before it’s been read. The answer [...]

25 January 2009

Hussein is not an epithet

True story:
I had a student one semester, in his second year at the college. He was a great guy who worked hard in my class. He mentioned to me once that another professor had made fun of him for his name, asked him if anyone in his family was a terrorist, and told him that [...]

28 October 2008

Go vote

Not sure where to vote?
govote.org
Not sure what ID you need?
www.govote.org
In a swing state and not convinced you want either candidate? Please, please, please consider following your gut rather than your party affiliation. Test what really matters to you at selectsmart.com and smartvoter.org
And if you live in a swing state and happen to be Peanut’s grandparent, [...]

12 October 2008

What about the issues?

So the blogoshere and FoxNewsForRepublicans are abuzz with silliness about Sarah Palin’s Newsweek cover. Some are upset that she wasn’t airbrushed to within an inch of recognizability. Um…two things. First, airbrushing the humanity out of women’s faces is part of the problem with the way we, in this country, judge a woman first by her [...]

1 September 2008

Palin and Obama and teen pregnancy

I think the most relevant piece of Sarah Palin’s press release about her daughter’s pregnancy is this:
“Bristol and the young man she will marry are going to realize very quickly the difficulties of raising a child, which is why they will have the love and support of our entire family.” Finally, a [...]