Yesterday, President Obama dedicated the dramatic 30-foot high Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial emerging out of granite, and that moment of unveiling was a grand indicator of how far we’ve come in a short time and oh how so much much farther we have to travel together.
I really don’t have a good understanding of how presidential campaigns work now. Maybe it’s one of those things that marks me as an older person, but I remember when I was growing up that presidential campaigns were all about proving to the the people of the United States that you were the most qualified person to be the next one to sit in the Oval Office and assume the role of the President of the United States. It was not a job to be taken lightly, nor is it a job to be taken lightly now — and yet some of the people running for the office now think that the life of the people they hope to elect them is worthless.
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Nearly a month ago, publisher David Boles wrote an insightful article about the forthcoming 2012 elections that put a tremendous fear in me — the fear that Sarah Palin could win the Presidential election. It is something that people have been discussing in increasingly greater detail over the last three years, pretty much since it was announced that Ms. Palin was going to be John McCain’s running mate in 2008.
Continue reading → What Does it Mean if You are Beaten in the Presidential Polls in Your Home State?
Don’t mess with this man.
He’s our new superstar: Obama on the rise.
His adversaries abroad, and at home, have to resolve a new reckoning.
He’s steady.
He’s pulsed.
Continue reading → Obama Wins in 2012: Ten Sentence Story #124
Here at the Boles Blogs Network, we get hundreds of promotional emails a day asking us to write articles about people, products and issues. Sometimes we act on a tip that catches our fancy, but more often than not, we can’t abide the coverage request. Last week, I received a spectacular request from Byron Horne of THB Films and this article is the result of that inquiry.
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