“It’s all guilt by association,” Ayers said. “They made me into a cartoon character—they threw me up onstage just to pummel me. I felt from the beginning that the Obama campaign had to run the Obama campaign and I have to run my life.” Ayers said that once his name became part of the campaign maelstrom he never had any contact with the Obama circle. “That’s not my world,” he said.
Seal’s brand new “Change is Gonna Come.” Quite a soulful vocalist.
Obama’s final rally in Virginia. It’s a good one.
Switching race between Obama and McCain is a bit freaky, but nicely pulled off.
Today is the day to elect Obama for president. Let’s us all do our part before he could do his. Let’s make a change. Please get out and vote.
A few readers have notified me the kind of ads featuring on my site. The support for Prop 8 as well as McCain-Palin ticket do not concur with my position. The ads are from Google and I have no control over what type of ads get to display; therefore, I have pulled them off for now (or at least until the election is over). Thanks folks for letting me know.
It must be an emotional day for Obama. His grandmother had passed away the day before the election. Obama had done the right thing by spending time with her before she left. I am sure she’ll smile down from heavens tomorrow and watch her grandson make it through.
Paul Krugman explains why McCain is losing the election:
As the economic scene has darkened, I’d argue, Americans have rediscovered the virtue of seriousness. And this has worked to Mr. Obama’s advantage, because his opponent has run a deeply unserious campaign.
Think about the themes of the McCain campaign so far. Mr. McCain reminds us, again and again, that he’s a maverick — but what does that mean? His maverickness seems to be defined as a free-floating personality trait, rather than being tied to any specific objections on his part to the way the country has been run for the last eight years.
It will not be easy. The world will soon remember why it resents America as well as loves it. But until this unlikely fellow with the funny ears and strange name and exotic biography emerged on the scene, I had begun to wonder if it was possible at all. I had almost given up hope, and he helped restore it. That is what is stirring out there; and although you are welcome to mock me for it, I remain unashamed. As someone once said, in the unlikely story of America, there is never anything false about hope. Obama, moreover, seems to bring out the best in people, and the calmest, and the sanest. He seems to me to have a blend of Midwestern good sense, an intuitive understanding of the developing world that is as much our future now as theirs’, an analyst’s mind and a poet’s tongue. He is human. He is flawed. He will make mistakes. His passivity and ambiguity are sometimes weaknesses as well as strengths.