Christine Bachmann, the co-president of the Middlebury Open Queer Alliance, joined Dems last night for our first major attempt in awhile to tackle the topic of Gay Marriage. The issue is highly relevant right now given that Vermont and New Hampshire are vying to be the first state to legislate in favor of equal rights [...]
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The Future of Gay Marriage
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged gay marriage on April 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Obama Nominates Sibelius for HHS
Posted in Uncategorized on March 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday President Obama officially nominated Governor Kathleen Sibelius of Kansas as Secretary for Heath and Human Services. The nomination is Obama’s second one for the position, having originally nominated Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle. Daschle, unfortunately, chose to retract his acceptance of the nomination in the midst of tax controversy. It is interesting that, [...]
Push Polling 101
Posted in Uncategorized on November 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A screenshot of a BP advertisement taken from the Daily Dish:
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Posted in Obama, Uncategorized, tagged election, Obama on November 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
…That’s the total number of calls Middlebury students made from Coltrane for Obama yesterday. We called Pennsylvania, Florida, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Virginia, Montana and New Hampshire.
On a personal note, I’m incredibly proud of what College Democrats did to help the campaign–from our registration/absentee drive, to our weekly phone banks, to our trips [...]
An Open Source Campaign?
Posted in Obama, Uncategorized, tagged campaigning on October 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »
A few months ago when my friends, the punditry and the Obama campaign itself would talk about how the Obama 08 campaign was somehow different from past campaigns. I was skeptical. “Yes We Can” sounds great, but all politicians want to sound like they’re populists. Sure Obama’s a former community organizer and [...]
Obama Campaign Email Vindicates the Palin Pick
Posted in Uncategorized on October 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Media Watch: MSNBC.com
Posted in Uncategorized on September 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
What does everyone think about the bias in these poll choices, seen on msnbc.com? How about a choice that says “No, it is a well-known colloquialism?” There is nothing “rough-and-tumble” about using an idiom that McCain has used himself.
London cab drivers are impatient
Posted in Uncategorized on September 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Okay, not true. Not all of them. Just mine. And only about certain subjects. First day in London. I hop into a cab after taking the Heathrow Express to central London, and the first thing the driver says when he finds out I’m from the U.S.: “Good God, when is it ever going to end?” [...]
Biden is playing Jesus… see below
Posted in Uncategorized on September 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Foreign Policy’s blog, Passport, offers a visual analysis of the speeches given by the White House candidates from each party. Here’s the one for Barack:
Here’s an intriguing tidbit—Obama’s two biggest words are “promise” and “America” (or, arguably, “McCain,” but I like “America” better). Meanwhile, McCain’s two most important words are “country” and, more tellingly, “fight.”
What [...]
California’s Broken System
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged california on September 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My home state of California has been making headlines this summer for not being able pass a budget. Granted, this a difficult time in America to balance any budget whether national, state, local or private and to make matters worse, California was hit particularly hard by the foreclosure crisis. There [...]
