What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been

Obama has continually been asked to defend something that ought to be at democracy’s heart: the importance of talking to as many people as possible in this complicated and wildly diverse society, of listening with the possibility of learning something new, and of speaking with the possibility of persuading or influencing others.

The McCain-Palin attacks not only involved guilt by association, they also assumed that one must apply a political ... Full Story »

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4.3
by Mike LaBonte - Nov. 7, 2008

Almost strictly first person opinion, but I am pleased to finally hear from Bill Ayers. Well written.

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by Kristin Gorski - Nov. 7, 2008

Extremely well-written and insightful piece by 2008 election-media mainstay Bill Ayers (yes, THAT Bill Ayers). So much context and original thoughts about America in the 1960s and its parallels to our country now. Very relevant -- after being maligned by politicians and media for months now, he explains his perception of what was really behind it all. Thoughtful.

I took a history class in college called "America in the 1960s". It gave me insight and knowledge about this country that I still refer to this day, ... More »

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by Jack Dinkmeyer - Nov. 8, 2008

Written from the first-person viewpoint, justifiably so, it’s an insightful even hopeful article—also part-rebuttal—from one of the favorite targets of the ultra conservative scream machine and written so much better than his opponents ever wrote about him.

Although the usual profusion of articles evaluating the past eight years—as well as the tedious Silly Season that is blessedly finally at its end ... More »

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by Tanya J. Maurer - Nov. 8, 2008
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by Patricia Blochowiak - Nov. 7, 2008
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by Clark Davis - Nov. 8, 2008

I'm glad he finally wrote something like this and wish he would have written it sooner. He's obviously a very intelligent man and a very moral one who was doing what he could to protest yet another criminal war America was involved in.

It was outrageous McCain and his stupid campaign tried to paint Ayers the way they did and eventually most thinking people realized what bs they ... More »

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by Anita Brueck - Nov. 8, 2008

truth

a voice of sanity

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by Shelley Hamel - Nov. 16, 2008
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