What she said…
Bob Morris @ 20:46 Category: Election 2008;
Democrats are Dancing in the Streets. (Martha and the Vandellas)
For Republicans, a Wipeout (The Surfaris)
November 4, 2008
President-elect Obama
Bob Morris @ 20:10 Category: Unfiled;
McCain will concede within minutes. Wow. we did it.
Sue owes me a dollar. She thought McCain would win or the Repubs would steal it and she’s real happy she was wrong!
Chris Shays loses in Connecticut
Bob Morris @ 19:16 Category: Unfiled;
All of New England’s House seats are now blue.
(I can remember when New England was Republican and the South was Democratic…)
Fact checking
Bob Morris @ 14:09 Category: Unfiled Tags: Eskimo, Todd Palin;
Andrew Sullivan and Wonkette are bashing Palin because she told a Black man that she and her husband have to deal with racial discrimination too.
In this case, she wasn’t being a nutcase.
Neither appear to have done much for Native Alaskans, but he does has Yup’ik Eskimo ancestry and may well have been discriminated against at times because of it.
Nanobama
Bob Morris @ 12:03 Category: Unfiled;
University of Michigan professor John Hart has made faces of Barack Obama using nanotechnology, specifically carbon nanotubes, and imaged them using a scanning electron microscope. Each face consists of millions of vertically-aligned carbon nanotubes, grown by a high temperature chemical reaction.
Time to stop hyperventilating…
Bob Morris @ 10:41 Category: Election 2008 Tags: Obama;
From Brad DeLong, who also notes.
By this evening 3/4 of American Jews will have voted for a guy whose middle name is Hussein: if we cannot use this lever for good in the Middle East, we do not deserve to be a superpower.
Why the World watches America
Bob Morris @ 05:30 Category: Election 2008 Tags: Obama;
Oriental Morning Post, China (translated from Chinese)
The world has never paid so much attention to a single election.
Now, people around the world believe that the changes brought by the American election with not be confined to America alone. Guardian columnist Jonathan Friedlander says the history of the past seven years has made the world concerned over the importance of American decision-making, a long and painful learning process. “Two wars and a global financial crisis - in retrospect, these matters can, at least to a certain degree, be traced to decisions made in Washington.” Even more importantly, contact between the Oval Office and the world has been shaped by personality.
Clearly, the world wants Obama to win - and hopes after eight years on the Highway to Hell that the US has finally returned to its senses.
Vote
Bob Morris @ 03:00 Category: Unfiled;
3 AM. PST. Polls have just opened in some East Coast states, with more opening in an hour. Get out and vote (if you haven’t already.)
It seems like a century since the presidential campaign started. Now we’re near the finish line. Let’s cross it at a full run.
