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When politicians throw a party, their organizers work long and hard in the shadows to make sure people come. Usually this is easier said than done, and a good speech’s impact can be quickly deflated by a TV cameraman’s pan shot of a skimpy, scattered, ragtag-looking crowd. So for organizers, there are a […]

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Someone has dug up a very trippy poem by a 20-year-old Barack Obama, penned back in 1981:

Under water grottos, caverns
Filled with apes
That eat figs
Stepping on the figs
That the apes
Eat, they crunch
The apes howl, bare
Their fangs, dance,
Tumble in the
Rushing water
Musty, wet pelts
Glistening in the blue.

On a perhaps related note, when Obama was asked last year whether […]

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In a shocking revelation, CNN says an “unspoken demographic” (racist white people) may not vote for Obama because he’s black:

As both Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton race to make history, some political observers believe Obama might have a unique problem because he’s African-American.
They claim voters often say they’ll go one way, then act quite […]

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UPDATE: NPR says this speech has supplanted the usual drunken cats and Star Wars fanvids as Youtube’s most viewed video today.
As a Canadian, I really don’t have a vested interest in how the U.S. election turns out — at least, not any more than the other six billion or so people whose lives are inevitably […]

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