“Barack Obama”
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A stand-up job
Obama gets funny. Some of the jokes fall flat, but most are pretty good. A few are LOL. He gets serious toward the end. You can skip that part. Continue reading
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Imagine if Barack had Tourette’s
Filling out this… yielded this: Barack Obama’s Inauguration Speech My fellow Americans, today is a fibrous day. You have shown the world that “hope” is not just another word for “chair”, and that “change” is not only something we can believe in again, but something we can actually annihilate. Today we celebrate, but let there… Continue reading
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Happy New Country
Changes at Whitehouse.gov are the top item on Techmeme. My tweets watching The Event: Say Amen. about 2 hours ago from web search isn’t working too well at http://whitehouse.gov about 2 hours ago from web Speech text: http://tinyurl.com/9wlgax about 2 hours ago from web This may be the greatest speech ever given about the United… Continue reading
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SourceForce
I just posted The Open Source Force Behind the Obama Campaign over at Linux Journal. I wrote it in August for the November issue, which would come out in time for the election. But it was too long for the magazine, and too off-topic as well. So we shelved it, and planned to put it… Continue reading
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The Mountaintop
0400GMT, 4am London time, seconds after the polls close on the West Coast and Hawaii (and not a vote yet reported from any of those reliably blue states) CNN calls Barack Obama the winner. On the 100th Anniversary of the founding of the NAACP, four months past the 232nd birthday of a country whose first… Continue reading
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Voices and dreams
Say Hear is page that patches together voice messages from people who want to say why they’ve voting for whom. Interesting to click around. I just wrote in my vote for Obama. Somewhere back early this year I explained why I favored Obama. I liked what I said then, but can’t find it now. What… Continue reading