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Raghida Dergham, "Will Obama Be Reagan Or Gorbachev?," Al-Arabiya (Nov. 8, 2008)

Commentary originally published in al-Hayat (London). Some interesting speculation on the makeup of Obama's cabinet.

Tags: politics, international, commentary, election, presidential_campaign_2008, obama, election_postmortem on 2008-11-09 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Callie Shell - Obama - Digital Journalist

Lots of candid photographs of Barack Obama from TIME photographer Callie Shell, starting back in 2006. Some pretty impressive work.

Tags: presidential_campaign_2008, obama, photojournalism, images, photos, cool on 2008-10-31 and saved by13 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Christopher Burbach, "McCain, Obama use personal stories about Christianity to reach faith-based voters," Omaha World-Herald (Oct. 18, 2008)

Some discussion, including quotations from Martin Mary (who's evidently an Obama man), of the personal faith narratives as elements of the campaign strategy for both candidates.

Tags: christianity, religion, politics, rhetoric, !toread, presidential_campaign_2008, mccain, obama on 2008-10-25 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Palin: "I don't know if you'd use the word 'terrorist'" for abortion-clinic bombers

Brian Williams interviews McCain and Palin on the NBC Nightly News, Oct. 23, 2008. There's a lot in this interview, but I'm clipping it mainly because of what it shows about the slipperiness of the term "terrorist" in modern-day political speech. A lot of critics have jumped on Palin for saying that she wasn't "sure" if the word "terrorist" would be appropriate for abortion-clinic bombers. To be fair, the quotation has often been taken out of context. She is pretty clear in condemning such bombings, even if she's uncomfortable with labelling them "terrorism." (However, the deeper point is that she seems to have a special category of violent criminal for whom she considers the word "terrorist" to be appropriate, and apparently Bill Ayers is the only person who fits in that category, as far as I can tell.) Presumably Palin associates the idea of "terrorism" with a kind of anti-American ideology, whatever that might mean, and isn't sure whether abortion-clinic bombers truly fall into that group. Just guessing, though. Discovered via joneilortiz's Friendfeed stream.

Tags: rels327, violence, politics, abortion, terrorism, rhetoric, post:facebook(source), youtube, video, interview, palin, mccain, presidential_campaign_2008 on 2008-10-25 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Lou Zickar, "As Obama channels Reagan, the real McCain vanishes," Chicago Tribune (Oct. 19, 2008)

A really interesting piece of commentary about the relationship between politics and charisma. The author is a long-time Reagan Republican who's considering a vote for Obama because, to him, he represents the kind of idealism, commitment, and values he saw embodied in Reagan in 1980, whereas McCain, at least in his current political incarnation, represents cynicism, manipulation, and "politics-as-usual."

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more fromwww.chicagotribune.com

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