When reality hits with such severity, it takes an elephantine effort to believe in better times ahead, especially for a hopeless pessimist like yours truly. Normally one who is continually enamoured with Barack Obama, I cannot help but pay attention to what the critics have to say this time.
Entries Tagged as ‘Obamaphoria’
January 23, 2009
Young and restless
I want Jon Favreau’s job; better yet, I want to be Jon Favreau:
Who wouldn’t?
He gets to create alongside Barack Obama, Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod and other great names – all delicious and brilliant in their own right.
To have Obama speak the words he writes… Come on!
He plays around with the written word of our time – I [...]
January 22, 2009
Great expectations
How befitting and equally rousing – a day after MLK Day, Inauguration Day also signified a turning point in American history. And it’s about time.
“Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends – hard work and honesty, courage and fair [...]
November 13, 2008
Obamarama
50 little-known facts about Barack Obama – a few caught my attention:
He won a Grammy in 2006 for the audio version of his memoir, Dreams from My Father.
He is left-handed.
He can speak Spanish.
He promised Michelle he would quit smoking before running for President – he didn’t.
His desk in his Senate office once belonged to Robert [...]
November 7, 2008
Darkest before the dawn
“That out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope; and where we are met with cynicism and doubt, and those who tell us that we can’t, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: ‘Yes, We Can.’”
You’d better believe it.
Even the prospect of graduating [...]
