“We’ve endured too many of these tragedies in the past few years. And each time I learn the news, I react not as a president, but as anybody else would as a parent. And that was especially true today. I know there’s not a parent in America who doesn’t feel the same overwhelming grief that I do. The majority of those who died today were children – beautiful, little kids between the ages of 5 and 10 years old. They had their entire lives ahead of them – birthdays, graduations, weddings, kids of their own. Among the fallen were also teachers, men and women who devoted their lives to helping our children fulfill their dreams.”
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Friday, December 14, 2012
Thursday, November 8, 2012
The election is over, glory hallelujah! We can all settle down now and go back to our lives while the attack ads disappear from our television screens, replaced by commercials for Viagra and Perfect Meatloaf pans. (I bought one; they really do work!) This was probably one of the messiest, ugliest, dirtiest election cycles in the history of democracy. Outside influences muddied the water so much that the Average Joe in the voting booth on Tuesday morning had a hard time sorting out fact from falsehood. As with any election, there are winners and losers, but the real winner of Tuesday’s contest was the American people. We sent a powerful message to Citizens United and its ilk: … ShareThursday, September 6, 2012
I’m hearing a lot of Republicans, mostly younger ones who didn’t pay attention in civics class, flouting this passage from the United States Constitution these days:
Now, a lot of civically ignorant Tea Partiers have asserted this … Share |
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