The Audacity of Hopelessness

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Wednesday July 09, 2008 · 1:10 PM PDT

2008/07/09 · 13:10

Dear Senator Obama,
I have been excited by the possibility of your becoming president of our United States since you announced your intentions. I have been impressed by your record of community activism, by your oratorical eloquence, and your raw ability to get people excited about the possibility that things could actually get better again in our country. The idea that progressivism could regain the voice it deserves, and that our government might once again become a bi-partisan system of compromise that means to benefit the greatest number of citizens in the greatest number of ways; what a concept. What fine aspirations to be turned into just more bureaucratic bullshit rhetoric at the blink of an eye.

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Thursday April 12, 2007 · 6:09 PM PDT

2007/04/12 · 18:09

Ok, this is my first diary ever. I'm probably late on the topic, but what the heck. . .every radio and TV station is still talking about it.

So Don Imus comes back calling some of his public critics (spelled o-l-d b-u-d-d-i-e-s) "bastards" for being so hard on him. Now that he's persona non grata de jour on the cablewaves, his ribs must be lonely for the lack of other media pundits and entertainers poking him there while winking to affirm their collective superiority over their plebian audiences. Poor Imus. In fact, he's getting more attention now than he ever has in all his years of shock jockeyness, going all the way back to when New Yorkers like me listened to 'Imus In The Morning' on WOR Radio. He was just a local schmuck then, instead of a national one.

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