The above billboard, which compared Obama to Lenin and Hilter, was paid for by the Iowa Tea Party. While Tea Party officials did, after considerable pressure, take the billboard down, they didn’t go so far as to condemn the message, only saying that it felt like a “waste of money.” Having spent five years living [...]
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Organic Obamas
March 20, 2009 – 11:11 am
I posted earlier in the week about Alice Waters’ campaign to get the Obamas to plant a vegetable garden on the White House lawn. Well, Michelle Obama will being digging today for an 1100-square-foot organic garden on the White House lawn, which will grow everything from lettuce to tomatillos to heirloom varieties like anise hyssop, [...]
HAPPY NEW YEAR! And a Few Highlights from 2008
January 1, 2009 – 6:30 pm
1. Election Night The feeling on November 4, once it was clear that Barack Obama and Joe Biden had routed John McCain and Sarah Palin — in effect banishing the specter of this country continuing down the wrong path for at least another four years — was one of pure elation. The overwhelming feeling of [...]
