Obama

Several bricks and some paint were tossed through windows of the Barack Obama for President Campaign headquarters in St. Paul, MN. It was early on Sunday morning and one volunteer was in the basement of the building and was not injured. We talk with Obama Minnesota campaign spokesperson Nick Kimball about security concerns with the campaign. MORE »

In a recent column, New York Times columnist Bob Herbert wrote, “I’ll say this about Senator Obama. He sure raises people’s hackles.” Leaders who represent change tend to do that. MORE »

June 3, 2008—I got the opportunity to attend the presumptive Democratic Nominee Sen. Barack Obama’s victory speech at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minn. MORE »

It has become the all-too-common political slur de jour: any indication that one is willing to sit down and talk with an adversary is painted with the slanderous epithet used to describe British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain acquiescing to the diabolical ambitions of Adolph Hitler – appeasement. Technically, “offering concessions in order to secure peace” is the definition but modern abuse of the term to slander another seems to involve even recognizing the humanity of the other. MORE »