September 8, 2008
Dear Sarah, I know it has been a crazy time. You know with the Vogue cover and the speeches and all. I really hope you enjoyed your Oscar Convention speech the other day. It was perspiring. I don’t think I have ever felt so disconnected from anyone before. I am so sad that you had your chance t...
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Abe Foxman is now shillin’ for Sarah Palin. Many of you know that just a few weeks ago Sarah Palin’s church, with her in attendance, welcomed the director of Jews for Jesus into its midst. In his sermon he said, among other hurtful things, that Israelis killed in terror attacks died because of...
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n view of the natural disasters that have lately befallen Cuba, compounded, as they are, by the regime's wilful abandonment of the island's infrastructure which has made the Cuban people infinitely more vulnerable to the effects of a Gustav or a Hannah than was ever the case before 1959, when there ...
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For Jewish leaders in the Chicago community that know him best, it is striking that so many Jews are suspicious of Barack Obama as a hidden anti-semite or as "bad for the Jews." If anything, Obama was chastised by some for his particularly close relation to Jewish Americans in Chicago. But the pol...
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So McCain goes on Jim Quinn’s show, to court conservative votes. Who is Jim Quinn? Why, he is the guy who told a journalist to “get an American name.” Classy, huh? Now why would immigrants and the children of immigrants vote for this guy after that?...
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Although I like hockey-moms and dogs-in-makeup, Sarah Palin's foreign affairs experience goes uncomfortably well beyond her state's proximity to Russia. It seems she flies the flag of a foreign nation in her gubernatorial office, as revealed in a local Alaska interview early this year. This does not...
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The best speech last week was not Sarah Palin’s home run. Nor was it the first 3,100 words of John McCain’s lengthy speech. It was the last 850 words of McCain’s address, which produced a crescendo of cheers carrying through the final six paragraphs, and deserves to be re-read and rem...
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More odds and ends from the suburbs: For the first time in my life, I just approached a Starbucks counter and knew exactly what I wanted, saying "grande latte" immediately. That was scary. I think I'm turning American. If I were around any one person for enough time, I’d probably drive them ma...
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I get a sense that most voters and pundits are crawling out of their skins with anticipation for Sarah Palin to come out of whatever bunker the G.O.P. is hiding her in. It’s not just the Democrats and media who want to start their feeding frenzy on the ex-beauty queen Vice Presidential candidate....
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I am a freelance journalist living in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
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