On this page the following entries were made in the “January, 2008” time-frame.
Archive for “January, 2008”
Have American Elections Moved Beyond Race?
Just as I was readying to write a post about how Senator Clinton is getting some unfair press over race, I found an anonymous quote from one of her aides that sickened me, but I’ll get to that in a moment. Since the New Hampshire primary there has been a bit of a whispering campaign–in [...]
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Hillary’s Troubling Implication
Hillary says she does not want to be compared to Bush and company, but her rhetoric soundly strangely like Dick Cheney a few days ago. On the very same day that she spontaneously nearly came to tears (a strategist couldn’t have written it any better) and she also implied that electing Obama was inviting Al [...]
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Chinese Debate on an American-less World
So I’m back on Tianya, a Chinese message board, and I’m broadening my horizons. When I found a post entitled “What would the world be like if there were no America?” I of course had to check it out. (I should mention that I was turned on to the Tianya channel by a [...]
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Hillary Clinton is Howard Dean
A little more than a year ago I was working on a get out the vote effort in the Philadelphia. As we were going around the neighborhood I mentioned to a van full of young people that Hillary Clinton was the 2008 version of Howard Dean. The outrage around me was palpable. One person informed [...]
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So I Posted on a Chinese Message Board
A few weeks ago I stumbled upon a Chinese message board that had comments on my blog, and more prominently, a few others (Danwei, CLB etc.) I dutifully posted the comments on Cup of Cha, but when I went back, I noticed that one of the Chinese posters had copied my post, making it available [...]
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Covering China for 29 Years
Newsweek has a double issue out all about China in 2008. Most fascinating of the bunch is definitely Melinda Liu’s piece about covering China on and off since 1979. She cloaks it as the story of her brother who was born and raised in China (she is from the US), but it is really more [...]
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