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Casey Knowles Has Something to Say

By Karoli March 21, 2008 Barack Obama, Election 2008 No Comments

Casey is the 3AM girl: Technorati Tags: Casey Knowles, 3AM, advertisement, Barack Obama

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Obama’s Passport File Breaches: A Timeline

By Karoli March 20, 2008 Barack Obama, Election 2008 No Comments

January 9, 2008: The New Hampshire Primary. Even though Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, Barack Obama tied her in delegates. Barack Obama also challenged the Bush administration assertion that…

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Obama Turns the Mirror on Us

By Karoli March 18, 2008 Barack Obama, Election 2008 No Comments

I’m still digesting Barack Obama’s amazing speech and also digesting the reactions to it, so my comments here are the off-the-cuff reactions that come from reading the expected “buts” from…

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No, I Won’t Leave My Church. Neither Should Barack Obama

By Karoli March 18, 2008 Barack Obama, Election 2008 No Comments

The following is verbatim text of an email I sent to my pastor on December 18, 2007, after discovery of a petition in our church lobby intended to repeal a…

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About Race

By Karoli March 16, 2008 Barack Obama, Election 2008 No Comments

I was going to write a post about my attitudes, as a white person who was raised in a more-or-less colorblind household. How I pushed back during the 60’s and…

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Ferraro Adds Tokenism to the List

By Karoli March 11, 2008 Barack Obama, Election 2008 No Comments

If I were prone to flippant sarcasm, I’d write Geraldine Ferraro’s most recent comments off to a severe case of Mad Cow Disease. If it weren’t such a serious subject,…

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