While most of you were sleeping...

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Friday April 03, 2009 · 7:04 AM PDT

2009/04/03 · 07:04

Barack Obama was in Strasbourg, France, giving a speech that may go down in history as the moment that the "re-boot" button was pushed on American relations with Europe. The era of "You are with us, or you are with the terrorists" is over.

David Kroning

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Tuesday January 20, 2009 · 6:31 AM PST

2009/01/20 · 06:31

This was my first diary at Dkos; it received 11 comments.

It was written at the height of the primary wars in April of 2008.

I am re-publishing this for all of us who have been with Barack Obama since the beginning and suffered through being called "cultists" and "kool-aid" drinkers.

We did it. Yes, we did.

David Kroning

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Thursday October 30, 2008 · 5:24 PM PDT

2008/10/30 · 17:24

For those of you who have not been following the "Grandpa" diaries (Roosevelt with a Suntan, This Land is Your Land, and Dear Anonymous), they have culminated in Grandpa getting to see Obama in person last week and my leaving Canada to drive 15 hours to go participate in GOTV activities in Stark County, Ohio.

My suitcase is packed and I have some signs to put in the window of my car that say "I'm going home to vote!" That should make more sense with my Quebec license plates and my Obama bumper sticker.

The last thing I'm going to do here before I head out the door in the morning to begin my journey to Canton is to provide you with the promised hand-written letter and photos from my Grandparents...to you.

David Kroning

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Tuesday October 28, 2008 · 6:27 PM PDT

2008/10/28 · 18:27

Some of you know about the Grandpa Harold diaries. What some of you may not know is that some anonymous person mailed a cashiers check for $200 dollars so that I could visit my grandparents.

I have felt very badly about this. This may be a person who really needed that money. I've been thinking of what to do about this and have come to a decision.

David Kroning

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Monday October 27, 2008 · 5:58 AM PDT

2008/10/27 · 05:58

On May 25, 1961, Robert Kennedy did an address exclusively for Voice of America on race relations in America.

In that speech Kennedy said, "Things are moving so fast in race relations a Negro could be president in 40 years."

Kennedy was almost right on the money.

Unfortunately, according to the chief librarian of the Voice of America the tape of the address is lost, however, it was written about by a journalist at the time and that account can be found on a video documentary entitled, "Excerpts in Rights for Americans: The Speeches of Robert F. Kennedy," (MPI Home Video, 1990).

(Note, this is from a friend of mine, Linda C., who is in charge of a college library in South Carolina. I send her things from DKos and she asked me to share this with you all.)

David Kroning

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Sunday October 26, 2008 · 7:10 AM PDT

2008/10/26 · 07:10

I know that CNN has become nothing more than a joke, but didn't they already turn Anderson Cooper into a late night comic?

Is CNN trying to be "fair and balanced" by putting on someone that gives Lou Dobbs more material for his shctick? I don't know, but it was pretty damn bad. Seriously, if you missed it...watch the clip over the hump. It only got worse from there.

(I'm reposting this because it got a good visit last night, but the morning crowd missed it.)

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I saw the show and I....

199 votes Vote Now!

I saw the show and I....

Loved it.

30 votes

Turned it off.

98 votes

Cried.

23 votes

Threw a sweet potatoe pie at it.

48 votes

D.L. Hughley Live Blog and WTF?

David Kroning

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Saturday October 25, 2008 · 7:41 PM PDT

2008/10/25 · 19:41

I know that CNN is a joke, but didn't they already turn Anderson Cooper into a late night comic?

What is this D.L. Hughley shit?

Is anyone else as perplexed as I am?

David Kroning

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Thursday October 23, 2008 · 6:20 AM PDT

2008/10/23 · 06:20

There's a diary on the rec' list that seems to have excited everyone. I'll admit, there are some touching videos--with great background music--in that diary. They made me all teary-eyed.

Then, after a bit of reflection, they made me angry.

Yet, apparently I'm almost alone in being disturbed by what we don't see on those videos. Not in a single one of those sweet vignettes does anyone say, "What was done in our name was wrong. We're so very sorry for that."

David Kroning

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Tuesday October 21, 2008 · 7:46 AM PDT

2008/10/21 · 07:46

I know what hundreds of postcards from strangers from all over the world can do for a grandparent. Your letters and pictures and cards keep coming in to Virginia and Harold and have lifted their spirits.

It's time to do it again folks. In the spirit of the "Grandpa Harold" diaries, please send some love to Obama's grandmother who is ill and in need of our thoughts and prayers. Let that fine lady know how much we love her grandson and what he means to us.

Here is the address:

David Kroning

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Monday October 20, 2008 · 7:07 PM PDT

2008/10/20 · 19:07

Here is the address:

David Kroning

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Wednesday October 15, 2008 · 12:28 PM PDT

2008/10/15 · 12:28

...this land is my land.

As a result of my diary "Roosevelt with a suntan," my grandparents received more than 350 cards, letters, photos, a few hats, a load of buttons, flowers and cookies and a whole lot of love from every nook and cranny in America, from sea to shining sea and from all over the world.

I want to thank you all for so generously and warmly sharing part of your lives, your hopes and dreams with my family. The mailman told Grandpa he's never seen such a thing in his entire career. I received phone calls from relatives from whom I had not heard in years. My cousin brought Harold and Virgina to a computer and let them read your comments from their "cyber-grandchildren" and they enjoyed them all.

Here are the photos that I promised. And, those of you who left your address, I can assure you that Grandma and Grandpa will write you back in time.

David Kroning

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Friday October 10, 2008 · 5:24 AM PDT

2008/10/10 · 05:24

There is this PBS Poll about Palin asking if she is ready to be President!

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