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On January 20, 2009, the United States will inaugurate Barack Obama, the country’s first African American president. In anticipation of citizens’ efforts to mark this historic time around the country, the American Folklife Center will be collecting audio and video recordings of sermons and orations that comment on the significance of the inauguration of 2009. [...]

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Fifty-Two percent of the nation voted for Barack Obama. He won the nomination for President instead of the golden girl, Hillary and now has become President-elect Barack Obama. This now has sealed the fact that people are now voting by the possible content of character or other reasons and not by the [...]

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Well, Our President has begun the transition for President-elect Barack Obama to take over the helm of the most powerful leader in the world. Here is what he said on the White House lawn- “want to thank members of my Cabinet who’ve joined us. We’ve just finished a Cabinet meeting, and it gave me [...]

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Well, Sarah Palin was not at the McCain rally in Jacksonville, Florida on Monday but she WAS in the hearts and minds of those there.
All around, there were signs and noticings of her influence- One of the best I saw was “read my lipstick”.

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The crowd was clearly excited about seeing John and Cindy McCain. When they came out, the crowd went wild. It was nice and it seemed genuine.
When Cindy introduced him, the crowd seemed to really love her as well.
All in all it was his best speech. McCain stayed on the real issues of the [...]

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(Photo off of the McCain site-until I get my own off of the chip)-McCain addressed the financial situation today. Here is one thing he said about our money concerns:
“The crisis in our financial markets has taken an enormous toll on our economy and the American people — first the decline of our housing markets followed [...]

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Today, I went to the McCain Rally at the Jacksonville Memorial Arena. It was a good rally and there was much support for McCain including media, bloggers and “the folk”. I took a few pics before and after the event.

The American flag was beautiful.
Afterwards, the folks left their posters and such…
I was glad [...]

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I was surfing the net and found this site through “another” site….Check out his thoughts about winning as State Representative….”My name is Sean Tevis [photo]. I’m an Information Architect in Kansas running for State Representative. I’ve decided to “retire” my current State Representative. I’m going to win. This is my story (XKCD homage style) so [...]

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Barack Obama came to our city for a fundraising event. Being the biggest “wanna-be” that I know, I did what I’ve done since 1984, I went to photograph the “star” and write an article about him. As you may know, I’m a teacher in real life, but have for over [...]

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