Joe Donnelly

Election '08: White Privilege

Joe Donnelly
Thanks, Tim Wise, whoever you are. White Privilege, White Entitlement and the 2008 Election By Tim Wise / BuzzFlash / 13 September 2008 For those who still can't grasp the concept of white privilege, or those who are constantly looking for some easy-to-understand examples of it, perhaps this list will......

Election '08: Palin By Comparison

Joe Donnelly
Warning, this is a rant. I can't help myself. I'd like to ignore Sarah Palin, but I can't. The Palin factor is just too mind-boggling and too scary. Her popularity continues to drive McCain's presidential bid from moribund to vital to frighteningly possible. She's like a trick mirror in which......

Election '08: Who Change What?

Joe Donnelly
According to their new campaign ads, McCain and Palin, or, rather Palin and McCain are the new mavericks, the real agents of change. They'll clean up Washington with their maverick ways and outsider approaches. Uh huh. But they're no agents of change. Rather, they're alchemists, turning their histories and records......

Election '08: Beyond The Palin

Joe Donnelly
As I was talking to the editor of the LA Weekly this morning about Sarah Palin, I said that I hoped the American people were smart enough to see through this bit of Karl Rove-ian evil genius. Just as I said it, a Ford van, jacked up to monster truck......

Election '08: A Man, Not A Movement

Joe Donnelly
By now you've seen Obama's speech and heard it sliced and diced ad nauseum. Or, maybe not. The news cycle seems to have shrunk from an already truncated 24-hours to about twelve as the morning talk shows focus on McCain's bizarre choice of Sarah Palin for running mate. Good judgment,......
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Election '08: Raging Against The Scene

Joe Donnelly

in a bottlenecked and barricaded stretch of street, 50 members of Iraq Veterans Against the War, dressed in full uniform, many displaying an impressive array of service medals, stared down an overwhelming deployment of police on foot, horseback and perched atop the raised platforms of massive SWAT vehicles. With guns, truncheons and tear gas pointed at them, one of the veterans took a microphone and told the police, "We don't want to hurt you and you don't want to hurt us."

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Election '08: Not Quite Recreating '68

Joe Donnelly
I made my way to Civic Center Park, near the state capitol building in Denver, around midday on Tuesday, hoping to find signs of dissident life to add a bit of hot blood to what had been so far a rather anemic Democratic National Convention. It was the morning after......

Election '08: Hillary Hits A Home Run

Joe Donnelly
On Tuesday night, as I sat through former Democratic governor of Virginia Mark Warner's keynote speech, which sounded more like a campaign speech for his Senate run than a keynote speech, I wondered when the transcendent moment of this convention would be. It wasn't Michelle Obama's opening address on Monday......