Editor's note: Frida Ghitis is a world affairs columnist for The Miami Herald and World Politics Review. A former CNN producer/correspondent, she is the author of "The End of Revolution: A Changing World in the Age of Live Television."
i signed up for the truthteam thing on his website, and now i get 5 emails everyday from "Barack Obama", "Joe Biden", and "Michelle Obama" themselves asking me for ca$h money. i'm just a little annoyed about the all around audaciousness in the way that his team is going about it.
Almost exactly four years ago, Barack Obama made one of the worse gaffes of his political career. He told highfalutin donors at a San Francisco fundraiser that "bitter" voters in rural Pennsylvania "cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them... as a way to explain thei...
Take that, Mitt Romney. Also, check out www.barackobama.com/truthteam.
even our dear obama is subject to framing, please check out the blog! it's just a tad ridiculous.
Guys, I found this completely useful especially since we all got the Tunisian president question wrong. The video is beautiful. I want to write my position paper on this so badly! Thoughts??
"because we know their future and all of our children's future is at stake in this election and I don't want to be the guy who has to sit with my granddaughter, 20 years from now, and tell stories about an America where people once were free." -rick santorum
CAN I JUST KILL MYSELF NOW??
Click here to see photos of the evolution of the LRA. Thanks to an incredibly effective social media effort, #StopKony is trending on Twitter today. The campaign coincides with a new awareness-raising documentary by the group Invisible Children.
"Coming back to the "Kony 2012" video and its celebrity endorsements, what are the consequences of unleashing so many exuberant activists armed with so few facts? Defining Uganda in the international conversation by issues that are either geographical misfires (Save northern Uganda!) or an intentional attempt to distract the international community (Death to the gays!), do a disservice to the many critical problems Uganda has."
Yana Paskova for The New York Times LEOMINSTER, Mass. - These are the voters who know best - the ones who chose him as their governor a decade ago, embracing his promise to shake things up as a newcomer to elected office and positioning him for a future on the national stage.