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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Obama to "speak more clearly and specifically about the kitchen-table, bread-and-butter issues." While Obama has to be careful not to delve too far into Strickland's brand of Stone Age union economics, reconnecting with basic Democratic economic issues is good advice. Obama cannot reclaim the lunch-pail wing of the Democratic Party simply by treating Hillary Clinton like a monarch at the convention. These voters are not hers to deliver; Obama has to earn them back on his own with a convention that reaches out to those hardworking Americans who don't drive a Prius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Obama Be a Working-Class Hero? | 8/21/2008 | See Source »

...shinytypeface—it seems to be sinking into theocean. So we know there’s a storm and anisland—I guess the mystery lies with theorange picnic basket that somehow alsosurvives the storm.Memory, by Philippe GrimbertA black and white photograph depictsa mystery person, pail in hand, walkingaway from the potential reader over acovered bridge towards a sunny day. Thebook’s cover offers extensive metaphoricalpossibilities: the light at the end ofthe tunnel! Traversing the bridge of life!Receding into the blur of memory! However,the actual subject-matter of “Memory?...

Author: By Meredith S. Steuer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: BY IT'S COVER | 3/13/2008 | See Source »

...have virtually disappeared. On foreign policy, blue-collar Dems have grown as tired of the Iraq war as have their upscale counterparts. And downscale white Democrats simply aren't as conservative as they were in the Archie Bunker days. During Vietnam, Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley--the quintessential lunch-pail Democrat--sent cops to bust the heads of hippie protesters. Today his son, Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley, opposes the Iraq war, promotes environmentalism and marches in gay-pride parades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Courting Joe Six-Pack | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

...kids define it in a given way for someone who works in the trenches.”Added Cahow: “The award really represents Coach Stone’s mantra for us: We’re a blue-collar team that needs to bring a lunch pail and hard hat to every game.” While it may evoke images of Boston’s Big Dig rather than the rink at Bright Arena, this mantra has yielded its results on the ice.The Crimson has won all but two of its thirteen games with a loss coming...

Author: By Rebecca A. Compton, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hard Hat Reflects Blue-Collar Attitude | 12/7/2006 | See Source »

...worry, there’s more than enough sweetness to go around.” The next, it is taking the side of a foul-mouthed, sociopathic nutritional supplement in its countertop brawl with a defenseless orange (whom it eventually beats off the edge and into the garbage pail where it is leered at by a “perverted-looking chicken carcass?...

Author: By Moira G. Weigel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Weigel Room: Stories Frolic at the Border of Absurdity | 5/3/2006 | See Source »

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