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Minnesota Independent: Thanks for Helping Elect Obama, You're Firednew
Jane Kirtley, a journalism professor at the University of Minnesota, says the post-election layoffs could be akin to Macy's laying off temporary workers after Christmas. However, she says, the memo lends credibility to a more sinister interpretation.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Erin Carlyle |
11-19-2008 |
Media
Election '08: San Diego's Greens Are Blue (And They're Blaming Ralph Nader)new
While Nov. 4 yielded a mixed bag for the GOP and the Dems, it provided nothing but a great big sack of rotten potatoes for just about every other political persuasion. Here, as elsewhere in the nation, adherents of the boutique parties saw their candidates routed on nearly every front. And no party performed so poorly in San Diego County as the Green Party.
San Diego CityBeat |
David Silva |
11-19-2008 |
Politics
McSweeney's Editor Gives Us a Quiz to the White Housenew
This is a multiple-choice review. Mimicking So You Want to Be President?, a book of political humor from John Warner (editor of the literature and humor site McSweeney's Internet Tendency), your knowledge of the presidency will be tried. Even if you fail, you'll still know enough to be vice president.
Weekly Alibi |
Tom Gibbons |
11-18-2008 |
Nonfiction
Dennis Miller's No Help for Florida's Grieving McCainitesnew
If there was one place where disappointed Broward County Republicans might expect to find a little solace the day after Election Day, it should have been at an invitation-only performance by comedian Dennis Miller.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Edmund Newton |
11-18-2008 |
Performance
Though it May Be Tempting, There's No Time for Dems to Gloatnew
The task ahead for the Democratic Congress and President-elect Barack Obama is too monumental. Though Obama has yet to be inaugurated, the honeymoon is already over. How does one clean up after a national disaster on the scale of George W. Bush? Where do you even begin?
New Haven Advocate |
Alan Bisbort |
11-18-2008 |
Commentary
Barack the Machine-Slayernew
The man they call No Drama Obama just dusted two of the most formidable machines in modern political history.
Philadelphia City Paper |
David Faris |
11-18-2008 |
Commentary
The Republicans Are In Trouble ... Conservatives, Not So Much
Conservative commentators are questioning basic tenets of their philosophy in light of the Obama sweep. But it's the Republicans who ought to be questioning their distance from conservatism.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
11-17-2008 |
Commentary
The Angry Grammarian: Forgetting Sarah Palinnew
Perhaps the most prized spoil of the election is the richest word to enter the lexicon in a long time. Like all the best neologisms, it's descriptive, it's self-explanatory and it just makes you feel so good: "Palinfreude."
Philadelphia Weekly |
Jeffrey Barg |
11-17-2008 |
Commentary
Obama's Victory Revives the American Dream ... For Nownew
After the hype blows over, it's hard to say whether the President-elect can deliver on his sweeping promises. Like Carter with Nixon, Obama is in the awkward position of being an apologist for his warmonger predecessors. And while the comparisons between Vietnam and Iraq wars have become almost cliche, Obama's biggest test will be in ending the Iraq war.
Boulder Weekly |
Ben Corbett |
11-17-2008 |
Commentary
Obama's Election Doesn't Give Mayor Daley Any More Powernew
Obama was happy enough to return the favor of Daley's presidential endorsement by endorsing the mayor in his reelection campaign. But now that he's in the White House, he doesn't really need him anymore.
Chicago Reader |
Ben Joravsky |
11-17-2008 |
Politics
American Memoriesnew
The political divide of red states versus blue -- a division coinciding with the separation of North and South with the exceptions of Florida, North Carolina, and Virginia -- has me thinking.
Random Lengths News |
James Preston Allen |
11-14-2008 |
Commentary
The After-Bush Afterlifenew
To be effective, Obama's going to have to enlist some of these same centrist characters as his personal political henchmen. Appointing a bunch of progressives, as they are called, would only mean his task would be harder -- not easier. This is about getting stuff done. Not about providing feel-good therapy for a fleet of nervous-Nellie Prius pilots.
L.A. Weekly |
Marc Cooper |
11-14-2008 |
Commentary
Tennessee Dems Blame Racism for Historic Election Lossesnew
Barack Obama changed the political map with the biggest Democratic victory since LBJ, but the election made a different kind of history in the alternate universe known as Tennessee.
Nashville Scene |
Jeff Woods |
11-14-2008 |
Politics
Blister: The Orlando Weekly Election Results Partynew
I don't even know who I am today. There's this spiked ball of nerves wrapped in vein-red twine that seems to be teetering over the ledges of the Labyrinth board with every random unevening of the potholed foundation, sure, but where there's typically a tick -- a nervous winking thing, or at least a heartbeat -- there is nothing so measurable to depend upon today.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
11-14-2008 |
Comedy
Election '08: Point: All Is Won. Counterpoint: No It Isn'tnew
Four years ago in this space, Weekly editor Bob Whitby and I penned columns on the meaning of the 2004 election, in which progressives and Democrats took a drubbing from George W. Bush and his minions. I foresaw a dystopian future of Republican rule. Whitby prognosticated a different vision, one in which the chickens of GOP excess and incompetence would come home to roost.
Orlando Weekly |
Jeffrey C. Billman and Bob Whitby |
11-14-2008 |
Commentary
