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...with reaction shots of adoring fans, including one woman holding a "Hug me, Michael" sign) and Triumph of the Will (the central figure lands in a city, meets the locals, attends a rally with guest speakers, then wows the crowd himself). Among the guests are Celeste Zappala, the outspoken mother of a soldier killed in Iraq, and a cadre of antiwar diplomats. At some venues, famous musicians are on hand: Eddie Vedder, Joan Baez, Steve Earle and Tom Morello, ex of Rage Against the Machine...
...When I was a child, my parents took us on vacation in the South and I saw the signs over rest rooms that said "Coloreds" and "Whites." I saw the pain in my mother's face that she even had to explain something like that to me in the United States of America. My mother didn't live to see this moment, but I have, and it will be a bit emotional when and if he is declared the winner. I know I will cry a tear or two when I think of all who suffered at the hands...
...should he be given this label? Technically, Obama is biracial—his mother is Caucasian and his father is Kenyan. Obama himself wrote movingly about his multicultural background in Dreams from My Father, and he speaks frequently about his diverse roots. Yet the public debate still centers over whether people will vote for a “black” president, whether Obama represents the interests of his black constituents, and whether he is in general “black enough...
...thinking about going back to the campaign, not thinking about going to the convention,” he said, but his mother and others urged him to attend the convention...
...presumed winner is a young man with little national governing experience, a middle name shared with a notorious villain, and a last name only one letter away from that of the United States’ public enemy number one is extraordinary. Add to that, of course, that his mother is white and his father African, so our presumed next president will be nonwhite, or even “black...