The Great Wall

With Obama’s trip to the Great Wall of China, I thought this would be an appropriate time to recycle and old post about Nixon’s visit to the wall.
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From my sister:
I had to send you this quotation, which I got from the book I am teaching tomorrow, a book of poems by Yunte Huang called _Cribs_. [...]

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My first reaction to Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize

Well, it was easy: What does Glenn Greenwald think? I’ve really appreciated the fact that Greenwald since January has continued to criticize both Obama’s policies and continuation of policies which contradict Obama’s promises during the election. While I agree with Greenwald that there is still time to right the wrongs of the Bush Administration, I [...]

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It’s so easy being black

One of the things that really pissed me off during the election was the widely stated belief that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton had it so easy, because he was black and she was a woman. The same was said about Justice Sotomayor. This belief is generally spoken by older white males. Quite honestly, how [...]

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Jon Stewart vs. the “birthers”

more about “Jon Stewart vs. the “birthers”“, posted with vodpod

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Photo of Ichiro and Obama

Here’s a great photo from the Whitehouse Flickr photostream of Seattle Mariner Ichiro Suzuki and Barack Obama. Via the Slog.

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Picture of the day

Just what could the Duke of Edinburgh be thinking right now? I’d love to know.

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Barack Obama’s Final Four

A few selections were revealed on Tuesday. Initially an underdog for the nation’s highest office, the president went with favorites in his Final Four picks. No. 1 seeds Louisville, North Carolina and Pittsburgh will join No. 2 Memphis in Detroit April 4-6 if the president is correct.
More including a video at ESPN.

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Of jobs, layoffs and H1B visas

Layoffs
This week several people were laid off at my work. I was spared. While I would like to think that it is because I am a good skilled worker and that my company would be unable to do without me, I know that that is not entirely true. There was to be certain an element [...]

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What about Wesley Snipes?

Has anyone interviewed him for his opinion on the tax problems with three Obama nominees. I think he have some choice words right now. I did find this column in the San Jose Mercury News interesting:

“(T)here is a completely understandable, absolutely acceptable and rational explanation for what happened here.” No, that is not motorists explaining [...]

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The Generational Divide, thoughts on the inauguration

Many of you have read about my conversations with my mother regarding Barack Obama and the state of our country here and here. In particular I have spoken about how it pains me to hear my mother, a Thai woman once married to a white American man, talk about her doubts about Barack Obama because [...]

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Great inanauguration photos

Check out TDLphoto’s photostream on Flickr.com. He’s a pro so I can’t show a sample. So instead below is an image from WhippedBakeshop.

From CNN:

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Hope

True, I’m not that old but this has never happened in my lifetime.

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Picture of the living presidents

I’m sure I’m not the only one to have this thought. While race was certainly prevalent on people’s minds during the election, I never had as much of a sensation that Barack Obama was out of place than I had looking at this photograph. Even in a fairly white city like Seattle, there is enough [...]

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Collage of shirtless presidents

Via Gawker.

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The joy of mispronunciation

Previously I posted about attending the Dina Martina Christmas Show. One of the shticks of Dina Martina is mispronounce words on purpose. Gifts are “jifts” for instance. Dina admits that giving “jifts” is so much more fun than giving “gifts.”
Here also is a quote from an interview in today’s Seattle Times where she gets the [...]

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Congresswoman hangs up on Obama

Via the BBC:
US Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen thought she was being hoaxed when a man who sounded a lot like Barack Obama called her – so she hung up on him.
In fact, the man at the other end of the line was indeed President-elect Obama himself.
It took two further phone-calls before Ms Ros-Lehtinen was convinced that [...]

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Who is Bill Ayers?

A great interview on Salon.

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Hitler and Stalin rolled into one

According to Rep. Paul Broun (R) from Georgia that’s what Obama is. It’s quite brilliant to get that two-in-one combination to work out logically.
A Republican congressman from Georgia said Monday he fears that President-elect Obama will establish a Gestapo-like security force to impose a Marxist dictatorship.”It may sound a bit crazy and off base, [...]

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Election Day in Denver

The Set Up
After canvassing for three days we had a list of people who needed rides to and from the polls. I and a few other people came up with a dispatch operation where we would bring everyone to the same polling place to make the drops and the pickups so that they would run [...]

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Michelle Obama in Littleton

Today was a big day for me. I started out doing some data entry, but I had some free time in the afternoon so I went to see Michelle Obama’s last rally before the election. We were a little late. After the auditorium had reached capacity people were ushered to an outside area where speakers [...]

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McCain/Obama Colorado ground game

So I’ve read a couple of things about McCain volunteers in Colorado. Here’s one from CNN today. Usa Today says that Aurora, the place I’m working out of for Obama, is the new bell weather for the election.
Aurora is a suburb of Denver. On my first day we were visiting Obama supporters making sure they [...]

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Get out the vote: Day 1

No one said knocking on doors was going to be easy. And it isn’t. Our objective: get Obama elected President — and while that may seem like a tall order for people knocking on doors in suburban Denver, that is what we do.
At this point, we are knocking on the doors of Obama leaning voters [...]

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Knocking on doors in Colorado

I’m in Denver today set to begin my volunteer work for the Obama campaign. I’ll be working through Tuesday. So far Denver is pretty cool. Hopefully I’ll manage to get some photos in, but I’m not sure what the internet situation will be like.

Why Colorado? At the time I booked my ticket it was more [...]

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Manly Love via the BBC

My husband’s sense of humor makes a little more sense to me after reading this. Check out these excerpts from the BBC about the joint meeting yesterday between Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.
As they were walked towards the lecturn there was a lot of touching, as is common in a new relationship. All evening they [...]

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More great photos of Obama

The best photographers show us the moments that we can’t see in moving pictures. Earlier I wrote about how pictures of Obama’s family reminded me how in the end he is just a father, a husband, a man, and a human being.
Lola has some great photos of children and Obama which you can find at [...]

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