How Obama blew it

Michael Meyers: Obama blew it

Ref: Los Angeles Times, March 20, 2008

“We can’t be united as a nation if we continue to think racially and give credence to racial experiences and differences based on ethnicity, past victim status and stereotypical categories.”

Digital vote count

CLIVE THOMPSON: Can You Count on Voting Machines?

Ref:  New York Times, January 6, 2008

“last August changed the name of the division to Premier Election Solutions (an analyst told American Banker that the voting machines were responsible for “5 percent of revenue and 100 percent of bad public relations”).”

Holiday from History Canceled. Deal.

Robert Kagan: End of Dreams, Return of History

Ref: Policy Review, August and September 2007

Robert Kagan tells of how he thinks the end of history… isn’t.

“The years immediately following the end of the Cold War offered a tantalizing glimpse at a new kind of international order, with nations growing together or disappearing altogether, ideological conflicts melting away, cultures intermingling through increasingly free commerce and communications. But that was a mirage, the hopeful anticipation of a liberal, democratic world that wanted to believe the end of the Cold War did not end just one strategic and ideological conflict but all strategic and ideological conflict.”