Obama: “I Screwed Up”
Embedded video from CNN Video This is an excellent example not only of owning an issue but continuing a new level of transparency of thought and procedure by President Barack Obama. Video from CNN.
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A post-election analysis of the Twitter Vote Report
November 9, 2008
“Our sweepers were empowered to ‘dismiss’ certain reports.”* – Twitter Vote Report’s “Lead Sweeper” The Twitter Vote Report was promoted as a “non-partisan, all-volunteer network” in which voters with cell phones and accounts on the micro-blogging site Twitter could text message or post voting experiences. An analysis of the Twitter Vote Report shows, however, that the volunteer, social media [...]
Attachment to Outcomes: Thinking about the 2008 election
November 4, 2008
I knew I was sunk when I went from a mental fence-sitter to a relatively quiet advocate of a certain presidential candidate. I didn’t set up a protest outside of my house, though. Despite my asserted virtue (however ill thought at times) of not taking sides in many matters, there are of course many things that [...]
Reflecting on Politics: Partisanship as Anti-Intellectualism
August 30, 2008
“The ideologies of the left and right took shape before Darwin, before Mendel, before anyone knew what a gene or a neuron or a hormone was. Every student of political science is taught that political ideologies are based on theories of human nature. Why must they be based on theories that are three hundred years [...]
The crumbling of Jesse Jackson’s empire
July 17, 2008
I’ve never been a fan. People who are quick to thrust themselves into the limelight at moment’s notice tend to, after awhile, raise suspicion as to true motives. Like most who publicly introduce others’ faults to the world with a high-level of shame, Jesse Jackson’s legacy of moralistic preaching is coming back to slap him [...]
February 4, 2009
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