An Open Letter to Mom and Dad

19Sep08

Dear Mom and Dad
Please don’t vote for Palin. As Harry Truman said, ‘if you want to live like a Republican, you have to vote Democrat’.
I love you,
your daughter
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First of all a pro-life catholic perspective.
Secondly, I will live the rest of my life as a middle-class minority woman. If you have to vote [...]

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Mabuhay

06Sep08

The other day at the grocery store I said to K that I wanted to grab a bag of Bertolli’s frozen pasta dinner. K asked me if someone had recommended it to me and I answered ‘uh-huh, it was on Top Chef’.
It didn’t really matter that I didn’t listen to Palin’s speech [...]

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For Life

04Sep08

I used to think that I was socially moderate—not liberal. Sometimes I even suspected that I had more of a tendency towards more conservative values. When Barack Obama emerged I supported him because he was different and I trusted him despite my distrustful nature and a general feeling of indifference towards politics.
I can [...]

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Testify

31Aug08

Two days ago, we watched Barack Obama accept the historic Democratic presidential nomination in front of 38 million viewers, almost 90,000 who were present in the stadium with him.
I’d grown disenchanted with the political process and had lost most of my enthusiasm for Barack. After his speech on Thursday, at the grocery store, [...]

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