November 26, 2008
After reading Claudia’s post about the civil literacy test, I decided to take it as well, so I could see whether the test was extremely difficult. My score: You answered 28 out of 33 correctly — 84.85 % Although I am obviously better informed than the average person due to my studies, the di...
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November 19, 2008
Diaspora bloggers Keltruth Corp. (Barbados) and Babalu (Cuba) discuss Barack Obama's choice of Eric Holder for the post of Attorney General. ...
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Cackle it up, fellow left-handers, because we did it!?? We got a lefty back into the White House!?? Of course, no matter how it had gone down on November 4th, we would have done it, because both Barack Obama and John McCain are left-handed, according to the Washington Post. Roughly half of the last ...
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The New Yorker's recent issue boasts a particularly arresting cover (pasted below). Obama's "O" moon waxes high over the Lincoln Memorial, casting a pale reflection in the pool beneath. Still months before his inauguration, Obama finds himself in the longest of shadows, that of th...
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The Obama Moment in America reminds the Chicago anthropologist John Comaroff of the Mandela Moment in his native South Africa in the early 1990s. The whole world has embraced the Obama Moment as its own, Comaroff says, because it marks “the reentry of a pariah nation into the world” on the term...
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Indonesia Matters uploads an article which tackles the Indonesian connection of US President-elect Barack Obama. A young Obama lived and studied in Jakarta for five years. A former teacher recalls asking Obama about his dream in the future. Obama answered: “I want to be a president.” ...
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And Nothing Else Matters [RU] voices its concern with Barrack Obama's choice of Rahm Emanuel as Chief of Staff. The blog reminds its readers that Emanuel was one of those opposing a bill recognizing the Armenian Genocide which was to be presented to the U.S. Congress last year. ...
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Two American moments, which one will we extend and sustain?"I know the America on the left. I am so glad to meet the America on the right.I will never forget November 4, 2008." – Ezili Dantòby Marguerite "Ezili Dantò" LaurentHaitian PerspectivesNovember 5, 2008I grew up with the picture on the l...
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Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008, is a date that will live in fame (the opposite of infamy) forever. If the election of our first African-American president didn’t stir you, if it didn’t leave you teary-eyed and proud of your country, there’s something wrong with you.- Paul Krugman, NY TimesThis sight br...
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