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American Woman: March 2008
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008. Race and the Race: Obama's Philadelphia Speech. I’ve watched a Wall Street Journal clip of Jeremiah Wright’s sermon. Can someone please explain to me the problem? Is suffering, experiencing racism? Jeremiah Wright believes that this country is controlled by rich white men who understand nothing about the black experience. Does this kind of impassioned rhetoric make him a radical black separatist? And tell me which man sounds more like a separatist. I’ve listened to th...Speech ...
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American Woman: Goodnight Bush, Hello Barbie
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Friday, October 3, 2008. Goodnight Bush, Hello Barbie. On the morning after the Vice Presidential debates I found myself snickering with my husband about Palin’s syntactical nonsense. And then I thought about the horror of her candidacy. I saw her in the Oval Office saying things like: “Gosh darn it, we need to Drill Baby, Drill! It is amazing that the press can say anything congratulatory about her at all when she has so little substance. In our culture it’s not OK to make fun of a Vice Presidenti...
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American Woman: October 2008
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Friday, October 17, 2008. So there I am sitting on the plane, finally a free moment to myself, greedily reading my American Scholar. Magazine. The plane starts filling up with people, most of whom have no carry-on luggage and smell like a bar. I sit very still, put on my headphones and begin to notice that I am the dork of the drunk bus. I'm here reading all kinds of esoteric bullshit while these people are laying back some Jack Daniels and taking a snooze. Posted by Lisa Sandstrand. On the morning after...
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American Woman: After Apple Picking
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Wednesday, October 1, 2008. My daughter went apple picking with her preschool the other day; she brought home a pumpkin and six apples. Tonight we will make caramel apples. I remember doing this in the fall with my mother as a child; this will be the first time for our family. Should I take pictures? Should I commemorate the occasion in the journal I keep for each of them, or should I let it pass marked in time only by our experience? My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree. But I was well.
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American Woman: February 2008
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008. Obama On Our Minds. Tonight is the big debate between Obama and Clinton before the. Primaries. I’ve been thinking a lot about Obama’s 11 state sweep and how he has overrun, at least for now, the. Camp I’m no political pundit. I read about politics, but the real pundits are a bit over my head. I recently read that Obama and Clinton have similar voting records in the senate. So what is that distinguishes these candidates from one another? Hmmm Something to consider. Historically...
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American Woman: The Difference Between Pleasure and Happiness
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008. The Difference Between Pleasure and Happiness. A couple of days ago I stumbled across Marty Moss-Cohen’s show, Radio Times, broadcast on Public Television. Her guest was Dr. Dan Gottleib, a person I admire and adore. I love listening to his gentle, paternal voice on the radio. I had no idea he was a quadriplegic and began to listen to his story. Why don’t I have a big house, new car, and more stuff/parties/vacations? Know what you want your life to be about. Posted by Lisa ...
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American Woman: The Useful Idiot
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Thursday, September 25, 2008. I can’t stop thinking about Sara Palin. Many women bloggers have her candidacy up for debate on a multitude of web sites. They all make a point of saying how much they would like a woman in an executive office and how important women are in this year’s election. 8221; Newsweek asks on its cover. Is that the point of this election? Is it what women want or the needs of our country? We need to take gender off the table; the Republicans are exploiting this cultural weakness....
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American Woman: For the Love of Honor
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Monday, September 29, 2008. For the Love of Honor. At the end of John McCain’s interview with Diane Sawyer some of McCain’s POW comrades spoke about him. In McCain’s generation the military hero was the embodiment of the American myth of the self made man. The soldiers of World War Two, and for that matter any war, were ordinary men. Posted by Lisa Sandstrand. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Well Family: A New Name and New Home for Motherlode. Hillary Clinton And The Syrian Bloodbath.
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American Woman: April 2008
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008. A Provocation For War. 8220;War has always been this administration’s provocation and to deny so is disingenuous in the extreme.”. Thomas Jefferson of HBO’s John Adams. I’ve enjoyed watching this series on Sunday evenings and look forward to purchasing the entire series to review again and again. Not only are the personalities intriguing, but the political happenings of John Adams’ time are quite topical today, at least for me. Could cost him the presidency in re-election. North ...
