A little Caterpillar told me

Yesterday, I emailed the CFLF crew and told them I’m cutting back on my blogging here mostly because of time constraints, but also because I want to take a broader look at the Obama administration to determine exactly what they’re doing.  Day to day blog commentary requires one steeping...

People Can Change

Senator Byrd has endorsed Obama.  It can truly feel as though identity politics are tearing the Democratic party apart, especially now.  I’m sure there are a lot of people who agree with me when I say that when we look around the internets and see how identity politics have sparked vitriol filled...

Hope AND Change? Or Hope FOR Change?

Kyle’s post, “What Hope and Change Really Mean”, is a beautifully written and crafted synopsis of the Obama Pitch, and is also most likely a pretty good summation of his (Obama’s, not Kyle’s) appeal. The fact that it’s both wrong-headed and at the same time amounts to...

What Hope And Change Really Mean

I’ve covered this before, no doubt.  I’ve never really spent much effort in hiding my support for Barack Obama, but now that Super Tuesday has officially come, I think it’s worth talking about the significance of “hope” and “change”. With the cynicism that is...

Iowa Final Thoughts

It’s over now.  Already you can see footage of the caucusing places shut down, empty gyms with signs carrying dreams left discarded on card tables.  Despite the hardcore presence that Mitt Romney has kept in Iowa from the beginning, he was beat by a baptist minister and former Arkansas governor that...