New York, 3 Nov 08, 7:45pm
Joe Klein on Time’s Swampland has blogged a poignant response to the news of Obama’s grandmother’s death.
“Word comes that Barack Obama’s grandmother has died. The timing is ridiculous. But think, for a moment, if you will of Madelyn Dunham, a white woman from Kansas, strolling the aisle of a supermarket, [...]
New York, 20 Oct 08, 9:30pm:
Yes I watched it on FOX and, no, they didn’t censor any of it — not the segment with the mother struggling to feed her family, not the old couple whose manfolk had to come out of retirement to earn money for the wife’s medications, not the bit where Mark, [...]
New York, 28 Oct 08, 1:10am
In a store window on Broadway near 11th Avenue.
A flash from Crikey’s Guy Rundle now in New York:
Crazy days world collapsing … In the midtown manhattan bars all the talk is of world financial instruments which no longer work … yr correspondent recorded an episode of insight last night and when the strongest mccain supporter there said the economy was sound he was [...]
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