Apparently Obama was riding along a Martha’s Vineyard trail with no helmet, and the bare-headed ride was caught by a photographer. Not a very good example to set… No-helmet Obama Let’s hope no one hits a pothole. While Sasha Obama (yellow shirt) and another girl have enough sense to wear helmets, it appears President Barack Obama [...]
Poets are social critics by default. That is, since not very many of us take the same care to craft our daily language that poets do, poets often are (or see themselves as) outsiders. And as outsiders, many poets are well-positioned to see things that not everyone is able to see. Hence the buzz of [...]
ManifestHope: DC is the Georgetown installation of some of the most inspiring visual art produced during Barack Obama’s campaign for the presidency. Judges for this juried exhibit include Shepard Fairey, Spike Lee, and Eric Hilton (of Thievery Corporation), among others. Who says art and politics can’t mix? ManifestHope:DC from Phillip Barron on Vimeo. From the [...]
We Are One, This Land is Your Land from Phillip Barron on Vimeo. Kicking off Obama’s inauguration celebration, Pete Seeger — along with numerous other stars and artists including Bruce Springsteen, John Cougar Mellencamp, Beyonce, Usher, Stevie Wonder, U2, Herbie Hancock, Mary J. Blige, and Garth Brooks — performed at today’s We Are One celebration.
From Election Day I like this photo, captured with a friend’s cell phone, because it captures both the rainy ambiance and the uplifting spirit of being downtown last night. I wanted to stay until they called North Carolina, but that may yet be a few days away. The unofficial results, though, show that Obama will [...]
In only one previous election has total voter turnout in Durham broken 90,000, and election day (Tuesday) is still to come. This is what democracy is all about. See early voter turnout here. From Obama Get out the vote.
Barack-o-lantern, originally uploaded by nicomachus. Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., steps off the plane carrying a pumpkin at Midway Airport in Chicago Friday, Oct. 31, 2008.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon) UPDATE: 88,521 voters in Durham have voted early.
Barack Obama was in Raleigh yesterday; so were 25,000 of his closest friends in the Tarheel state. A free event, the line to get in wrapped around several city blocks. Rodney Hines, the No Hands King was among Obama’s supporters who came out for the rally. UPDATE: As of Wednesday, 70,896 people have already voted [...]
Out canvassing with friends this weekend, we came across Lewis Days‘ house. Days, the bike man, is eager to vote in this historic election, and agreed to let us place a sign in his yard. UPDATE: As of the end of the day Sunday, Durham county is up to 53,247 votes.