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So, last night was the Big Speech, in the Greek Temple, by the ONE. What did he do? He decided to channel Hillary Clinton. Oh, and Aaron Sorkin. One of the lines he is getting so much press on is a variation on a line from the movie, The American President. It was the line that the pundits labeled “excellent,” of course.

As we get ready to watch Barack accept his nonimation tonight, we’re reminded that there’s always “Pros & Cons” to every great story. Check this out by BET News, co-produced by our frolaborator Catherine Rogers!

The cover article of the current issue of American Scholar, published by the Phi Beta Kappa Society, carries the headline “The End of the Black American Narrative,” with this subhead: A new century calls for new stories grounded in the present, leaving behind the painful history of slavery and its

OK, This is Getting Old » By dcmediagirlcloseAuthor: dcmediagirl Name: dcmediagirl dcmediagirl Email: dcmediagirl@gmail.com Site: About: See Authors Posts (53) on August 25, 2008 at 10:55 AM in Air America Radio, Barack Obama, Delegates, Democratic Nomination, Democrats, Democrats Against Obama,

It’s hard to know how many of us will still be bugging Howie and the DNC after November, but I have a strong hunch that a huge swarm will not be going anywhere. At least not until the DNC is totally revamped into a party that lives up to its name.

Contact: Aissia Richardson 267.971.3574 Philadelphia, PA, August 22, 2008: For the past nine years X-Offenders for Community Empowerment (XCE) has been organizing to stop the proliferation of illegal guns on the streets of Philadelphia.

Approximately a year ago thousands of committed volunteers attended “Camp Obama,” a four-day indoctrination program, geared at teaching pre-screened Obama volunteers grass roots organizational strategies. The training, which specifically focused on the caucus states, taught volunteers to be “ruthless,” “take risks,” and win at all costs.

Brad Friedman: Republican voter ID laws disenfranchise AmericansSeeded on Thu Aug 21, 2008 3:56 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited) The 2008 presidential election in the US may well leave us all waxing nostalgic for the good old disaster days of 2000 and 2004.politics, democrats, voting, veterans, op-eds,

For Those Once Behind Bars, A Nudge to the Voting Booth By Krissah Williams Thompson Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, August 11, 2008; A01 TALLAHASSEE -- Herbert Pompey had gone through rehab, stayed sober, held a job, married and started a landscaping business in the two years since he walked out of Taylor Correctional Institution.

It seems that a Democratic delegate committed a cardinal sin against The State. She criticized The One. “Sacha Millstone acknowledged she was frustrated over how the Obama campaign was treating delegates who supported Sen.