Obama's closing line tonight: ...it’s the same message we had when we were up, and when were down; that out of many, we are one; that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us; and that we can cast off our doubts and fears and cynicism because our dream will not be deferred; our future will not be denied; and our time for change has come.
langston makes my heart swoon.
let's keep this out of the hands of the shady superdelegates, and in the hands of the American people.
the kicker paragraph from the boston globe's AP article about RI Attorney General Patrick Lynch's endorsement of Obama: Lynch has a basketball connection with Obama's family. He was a star basketball player at Brown University and Obama's brother-in-law, Craig Robinson, is now the Ivy League team's coach.
after sweeping washington, nebraska and louisiana, he's starting to look more like the frontrunner. electability polls bear that out, putting him ahead of all remaining candidates in head to head matchups (obama beats mccain who beats hillary). and he's appropriately starting to take a harder tone in his speeches. Obama stood in front of a mixed hillary / obama crowd (though it sure didn't sound like a mixed crowd - it was 10x more enthusiastic for obama) and delivered some more pointed blows against both hillary and mccain. it's a subtle shift in tone, but a great move made with appropriate timing.
nothing worthwhile in this country has ever happened, except somebody, somewhere was willing to hope
ps - what is with asians in california going 3-1 in favor of hillary? i don't remember the clintons being that good to asian americans... are they just racist? old wounds from the riots? (that's just la though) i know the slightly older asian-am community identified strongly with the feminist movement, but what of the asians under 40? or even the under 30 like myself that obama draws incredibly well from... too busy sitting on the beach or playing ball instead? i just can't wrap my head around why asians were by far the most pro-hillary/anti-obama demographic, even more so than the latino vote they've been talking about so much. maybe the only asians that showed up at the democratic polls are asian women over 50? that's a disheartening thought about my asian am contemporaries, but that's all i can come up with.
During his 2-minute drill segment on SportsCenter, Chris Berman just asked Zac DeOssie (giants rookie, son of Steve DeOssie, and fellow Brown alum) what course at Brown best prepared him for playing in the superbowl, to which he of course replied "Barrett Hazeltine's Engin 9. hands down." Chris Berman laughed and said he took it too, and that his kids are taking it right now. Zac hopes his kids will too. They then started listening to an imaginary band and hummed the first few bars of the Brown fight song.
i love Chris Berman.
all of a sudden, i can't wait for the 5-year in may.
