Obama and Democrats Win: Now what? via It's Getting Hot In Here
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Barack Hussein Obama, 44th President of the United States of America via ask direct
Jesse Jackson in tears, Obama referencing MLK, Virginia, Indiana and maybe North Carolina going blue, Anne Nixon-Cooper. What a night.
Here’s what Barack (surely we’re still on first name terms?) sent me in the early hours:
Conor thinks that we won’t be much from our favourite email correspondent now that he’s President-Elect. I disagree. Obama has built a movement. Everything he has said and done suggests that he intends to maintain it. He’s going to have to. Obama has just changed political campaigning, political fundraising and restored hope to the world just when we needed it most. Now the hard work begins.
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Senator Obama spoke yesterday as the Texas and Ohio primary results were coming in. In the midst of the usual inspirational plea to change America, he said something that caught my attention (video: 00:25 seconds in):
We believe that a child born tonight should have the same chances whether she arrives in the barrios of San Antonio or the suburbs of St. Louis, on the streets of Chicago or the hills of Appalachia.
In a presidential primary where climate change is barely even acknowledged, and our nemeses King Coal and Big Oil buy blocks of commercial time at every political event, I was surprised to hear Obama mention Appalachia. What was more surprising is Obama’s insistence on our need for ‘clean coal’, and eventually, of developing the economic and environmental...