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President Obama
A new direction in challenging times, a new dawn in the nation's long struggle to bridge its racial divide
BARACK OBAMA, 44th president of the United States: Like so many millions of Americans, we savor the phrase, and congratulate the winner, and celebrate the momentousness of the occasion. It is momentous for the generational change it heralds, the geographic realignment it reflects and the racial progress it both acknowledges and promises. Most of all, Mr. Obama's victory is momentous for the opportunity it presents to put the country on a new and better path, imbued, as he said last night, with a new spirit of patriotism, service and responsibility.
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Barack Obama in Kansas City. Photo by Jason Cole.
11-03-08
McCain's inadvertent
service to America
Kevin Morgan
The truth is that McCain really is the best the Republican party has to offer. But not in the way the Republicans would prefer. America is aware of how serious our problems are and have grown suspicious of being expected to back candidates out of fears they attempt to provoke in our hearts.
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12-17-08
Why 60 Votes?
Jon London
This has really been an exciting election. Not just the Democrat Primary and the General Election, but the election that determined which party was going to actually run the Senate. Oh yes, I know. The Democrats have the majority, but with the Senate rules being what they are, is a majority enough?
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