The wrong opinion

A young Barack Obama supporter stood outside a John McCain rally yesterday. He was yelled at, jeered at, told that he was a no-good bum who lived on his parents’ couch – and in between all of those, managed to have some discussion with a select few supporters of John McCain about the differences between [...]

The coolness gap

One of the commentators on MSNBC said it best, I think. There is a definite coolness gap between the Democrats and the Republicans.
Let’s compare the conventions, shall we? The Republican convention crowd is mostly old, white people. The closest thing to a black person there was a Chuck Berry song playing on the PA system [...]

Hope

For the first time in a long time, I’m hopeful. I had almost forgotten what hope felt like, but it’s coming back to me now and it feels really good.
Why am I so hopeful? I’ve been watching the Democratic National Convention all week on TV. And I’ve been reading analysis of it all. And I’ve [...]