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Amy Goodman’s New Column “President Obama Can Redeem the White House”
Alice Walker is the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. But Monday, I called her to talk about a true story. The Obamas had just visited the White House. The first African-American elected president of the United States had visited his soon-to-be residence, a house built by slaves.
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Amy Goodman on CNN Newsroom, November 10, 2008
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Anjali Kamat’s New Column: “Change We Can Believe In?”
Democracy Now! producer Anjali Kamat writes, “To all those for whom America has represented generations of racial injustice, the election of America’s first Black president marks the beginning of a new era…But unless the inspired millions who brought him to power continue to believe their demands matter and insist on holding him accountable each step of the way, it will be Obama’s corporate and hawkish friends who determine the domestic and foreign policies of the coming administration and our collective future.”
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“Organizer in Chief”
You could almost hear the world’s collective sigh of relief. This year’s U.S. presidential election was a global event in every sense. Barack Hussein Obama, the son of a black Kenyan father and a white Kansan mother, who grew up in Indonesia and Hawaii, represents to so many a living bridge—between continents and cultures.
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Studs Terkel, 1912-2008
The legendary radio broadcaster, writer and oral historian Studs Terkel has died at the age of 96 in Chicago. Over the years Terkel has been a regular guest on Democracy Now!In 2005, Studs Terkel appeared on Democracy Now! shortly after undergoing open heart surgery. He told Amy Goodman, “My curiosity is what saw me through. What would the world be like, or will there be a world? And so, that’s my epitaph. I have it all set. Curiosity did not kill this cat. And it’s curiosity, I think, that has saved me thus far.”
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“Election Protection”
Election Day approaches, and with it a test of our election system’s integrity. Who will be allowed to vote; who will be barred? Who will get paper ballots; who will use electronic voting machines? Will polls be open long enough to accommodate what is expected to be a historic turnout?
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“Change Big Donors Can Believe In”
The candidates’ coffers are swelling with larger and larger bundles of cash, but don’t hold your breath waiting for the extended television discussions of this, because it’s the broadcasters who profit the most.
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“Mickey Mouse Won’t Try To Vote”
The 2008 presidential election may see the highest participation in U.S. history. Voter registration organizations and local election boards have been overwhelmed by enthusiastic people eager to vote. But not everyone is happy about this blossoming of democracy.
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Pataki: “Saddam Hussein Was a…Walking-Talking Weapon of Mass Destruction”
New York Governor George Pataki introduced President Bush on the closing evening of the Republican National Convention. We hear an excerpt of his address. [includes rush transcript]
The other major speaker of the night was New York Governor George Pataki who took the stage to introduce the president. This is an excerpt of what Pataki had to say.
- Gov. George Pataki, speaking at the Republican National Convention on September 2004.
Rush Transcript
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AMY GOODMAN: Well, we’re going to turn now to New York Governor George Pataki who took the stage to introduce President Bush.
GOVERNOR GEORGE PATAKI: George Bush raised our spirits. He came to New York and stood on that smoking heap, looked at our heroes and said, “I can hear you and soon the whole world will hear you.” He declared a new doctrine. “The United States would find and remove terrorists, whoever they are and wherever they are. And if you harbor them, there will be hell to pay.” [applause] He mobilized our forces and went to Afghanistan where the United States fought and won a war. Al Qaeda camps were pulverized, the Taliban deposed. George Bush protected our country and he protects it still. [applause] With supreme guts and rightness, President Bush went into Iraq. The U.S. had asked for peace, went to the U.N. time and again, asked Saddam to step aside, but Saddam would not be moved, so President Bush moved him. [applause] Our American troops, our citizen soldiers and the Coalition of the Willing moved him. And soon the dictator who had used poison gas on his own people was found cowering in the earth. Some people have called this an abuse of power. I call it progress. [applause] There are those who still say that there was no reason to liberate Iraq. They ask about weapons of mass destruction. On September 11 in New York, we learned that in the hands of a monster, a box cutter is a weapon of mass destruction, and Saddam Hussein was a monster, a walking, talking weapon of mass destruction. It is good for the world that he is gone.
JUAN GONZALEZ: New York Governor George Pataki speaking on the floor of the convention last night.
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