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What a Day

by JHF on January 20, 2009 · 3 comments

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I haven’t said anything about the inauguration yet because I still can’t take it all in. It’s like something even bigger than this has gone down, whatever that may be. Very emotional, too, from one day to the next. The pre-inaugural concert on HBO yesterday was actually the biggest grabber for me. That finale with [...]

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Change.gov Site

by JHF on November 26, 2008 · 0 comments

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I think this is so cool: http://change.gov/ Pretty damn slick, too! (Your next government in action, assuming there’ll be anything left to govern.) Right now the Obama-Biden Transition Team site is taking comments on the American health care system — the very phrase makes me angry — and I just added one. You can, too, [...]

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Obama Not Too Conventional

by JHF on November 21, 2008 · 0 comments

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I can’t believe the kvetching: We just elected a 47-year-old black man with a middle name of “Hussein” to be President of the United States, and some folks are already grousing that he’s too “conventional.” But this is a very smart man. Business-as-usual isn’t an option any more. If he acts conventionally, he will fail. [...]

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Obama & Taos County

by JHF on November 17, 2008 · 2 comments

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Looks like Obama carried Taos County with 82 percent… Talk about a blue town! For the record, Kerry got 76 percent in 2004. Just thought you’d like to know.

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Yep, I’ll be updating FotoFeed soon. In the meantime, here’s a mountain for you: Taos Mountain yesterday evening, from the back “yard” Supposed to be 63 degrees today, well above normal. Yee-haw!

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Stunned

by JHF on November 5, 2008 · 3 comments

in Change,Obama

When have people been dancing in the streets after a national election in this country? Not in my lifetime, that’s for sure — at least as far as I can remember — and I was born on the day we bombed Nagasaki. I still can’t believe it. I can’t believe I get to be proud [...]

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President-Elect Obama

by JHF on November 5, 2008 · 0 comments

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Wow. I mean, just wow. I’m still overwhelmed. For reasons too silly to enumerate, my wife and I are living without TV now. That means I had to follow this on the Internet, and it turned out that worked just fine. I was getting all the news from various blogs, and then I found myself [...]

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More Election Day Stories

by JHF on November 4, 2008 · 1 comment

in Change,Obama

This one comes from not too far from where I used to live. I found it at TPM Election Central. The Internet is full of these anecdotes today. Break out the Kleenex and read on: My polling place is at the fairgrounds in Southern Maryland, about 40 minutes from Washington, D.C. This used to be [...]

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The View from Taos

by JHF on November 4, 2008 · 0 comments

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I just had to drive by the local Obama headquarters on my way to Cafe Loka. What a scene… there must have been 50 cars in the lot, with people coming and going. All the way into town, there were Obama volunteers on almost every street corner waving big “Vote Now” signs and exchanging waves [...]

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Election Reports From the Voters

by JHF on November 4, 2008 · 0 comments

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Just a heads-up: Andrew Sullivan is posting a series of reader emails under the heading, “The View from Your Election.” Full of grab-your-hanky anecdotes! What a day.

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Tomorrow is such a historic day that I’m going to just let go and take it all in. Call it July 4th and Xmas in November. I don’t see how I could pay attention to anything else, regardless. We’ve already voted, but I’m addicted to the blogs right now, and tomorrow is going to be [...]

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“Quiet Storm” Video

by JHF on September 3, 2008 · 0 comments

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This is the extemporaneous speech Obama gave to union members in Milwaukee the other day. I first saw it over at Balloon Juice, where John C. said everybody had to watch. He scares me, so I did, but this is something really good: It’s raining manna from the sky right now. Go git some!

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