So this past Tuesday, our nation overwhelmingly voted to appoint a Black man to this land’s highest political office. Barack Obama won all over the map, cruising to a victory that even the major networks were able to announce comparatively early in the evening. Still, though the finale wasn’t altogether surprising, I can’t exactly say [...]
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Obama’s Victory
Posted in Life, Obama, tagged History, Obama on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Some thoughts on my faith and electoral politics
Posted in Life, Links, Obama, books, tagged faith, politics on October 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
So I’ve been doing quite a bit of processing in the last 48 hours or so – not to mention the last year or so of my life – regarding how my faith and politics interact. I have been at times an outspoken supporter of Barack Obama this year (and at other times more of [...]
The election, in recent months
Posted in Links, Obama, tagged Obama on August 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So in recent months (especially after I read Shane Claiborne and Chris Haw’s wonderful Jesus for President), I think I have been observing this election with more interest than fervor. In actuality I took a several month break from keeping up with any but the most basic election news.
Now that I have been keeping up [...]
Getting settled, with tidbits
Posted in Globalization, Obama, tagged Food, music, servant partners on August 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Wow it feels like forever since I last blogged. Actually my unplanned break started when I moved to my new place, where I’ve spent the last two weeks getting settled, gobbling up books, keeping tabs on the Olympics, exploring my new community, reflecting, and in general transitioning into my Servant Partners program. I’m probably gonna [...]
A couple things
Posted in Links, Obama, tagged Links, Obama on June 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Although the election year and perhaps the influence of Shane and Chris’ book has de-politicized me somewhat from where I was earlier in this cycle (can Obama please stop saying that America is the last, best hope on Earth?), I have to admit that seeing Obama’s thousand-watt smile splashed across his site and elsewhere as [...]
Interesting Read
Posted in Globalization, Links, Obama, tagged Globalization, Obama on March 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Stumbled on a pretty interesting read from Salon.com.
Brand marketing the presidential candidates.
About the brands the Presidential Candidates have created and how they play out on the world stage.
Insight from my Asian Am class
Posted in Globalization, Obama, tagged Asian Americans, Obama on February 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
So I ran into this little gem in my professor’s lecture notes about language and education in second-generation immigrants.
Regarding the effects of the model minority stereotype (from lecture notes by Prof. Min Zhou):
“-Promoting neo-conservatism among Chinese and Asian Americans.”
I’ve actually thought about this issue a lot, because honestly sometimes I’m baffled by the voting patterns [...]
Language Education
Posted in Globalization, Obama, tagged Globalization, Language, Obama on February 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So I missed yesterday’s debate because I don’t have CNN and because I was going to a basketball game at the time anyway… But I did glean this one response when looking through transcripts, because someone had pointed it out on a blog somewhere and I thought it was important.
Barack on foreign language education (and [...]
Pride and Internationalism
Posted in Globalization, Obama, tagged Globalization, Obama on February 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So I spent awhile thinking about that whole Michelle Obama media fiasco the other day… If you didn’t catch it, Michelle was saying in her speech that for the first time as an adult, she was really proud of our country. And basically the media grabbed onto it and basically tried to say that she [...]
A letter to superdelegates
Posted in Obama, tagged Obama on February 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So today I got an e-mail from Barack telling me to share my story with superdelegates and my neighbors all across America. So here is something I threw together real quick talking about why I support Obama for President in ‘08. I’ve been waiting to write something like this for awhile, so I’m putting it [...]
