This speech iced it for me. I’d been leaning Obama’s way for several weeks by this point, but this put me over the top. I watched this on YouTube two or three times back-to-back that night. And then I contributed to the campaign. What did it for you? What event pulled you behind Barack Obama [...]
Last week, Colin Powell called Barack a “transformational candidate,” and yet it’s easy to hear those words and think they might simply be revealing the politician in Powell. After all, the GOP buttered the general’s bread for decades.1 And remember, we heard during the Democratic primaries — and even now — that Barack’s gonna have [...]