It is easy to believe that we are in a new, post-partisan, happy time, where all that remains to be done is to look forward and grin and shape a new tomorrow. The reality is not so simple. Countless lies were told in the past eight years. Countless crimes were committed. We can count the lives lost and the dollars spent as a result. We must make a conscious effort to do so in order to make sure that the lessons we say we have learned are not forgotten.

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Posted at 29 December 08 at 17.12 in Books

Without evidence, it is often alleged that Josef Stalin once quipped that “a single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.” Regardless of the accuracy of the attribution, it is this concept that sums up the logic and the emotion of The Whisperers.

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Posted at 26 December 08 at 17.12 in Books

It is ten degrees out in Iowa, and snowy. One year ago, I was here to help Barack Obama win the caucus. This year, I’m just home. It is the first time I have been back in this bedroom since I hung an Obama doorhanger here on January 3. It is hard to believe it has been a year.

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Posted at 23 December 08 at 15.12 in Politics, Obama 08