Race for '08 Entries

13 de Mayo, 2008

Bill Clinton in Eugene, Oregon

Categorized under MTV Street Team 08 Exclusive , Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Eugene, Health, Hillary Clinton, Obama, September 11, University of Oregon

BILL CLINTON spoke last night at the University of Oregon in Eugene in behalf of his wife's candidacy, and of course, your trusty citizen journalist Nezua was on the scene. The speech was attended by about 800 - 1000 people. I didn't count, but the venue was switched at...

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 The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 9:35 AM.  | | (0)

10 de Mayo, 2008

Obama at the Quad

Categorized under MTV Street Team 08 Exclusive , Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: blogs, Change, Hope, Obama, Power to the People

EIGHT THOUSAND members of the O.F.B. showed up yesterday at the Memorial Quad at the University of Oregon to listen to Senator Obama. As usual, I feel exhausted after the whole ordeal, and it's always hard to believe that this is mostly from standing and waiting. As well as...

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9 de Mayo, 2008

I Expect You'll Understand the Difference Between White and Wrong

Categorized under El Malestar Pálido , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Format, Hate Groups, Obama, Oregon, Voting, White Supremacists, White Supremacy

IT IS FUNNY how the primaries don't even seem to be about who actually wins or loses each state, but how each win or loss matches up to the expectation of whether or not that state will be won or lost. Of course the expectations are constantly massaged, sort...

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8 de Mayo, 2008

Rust Takes Down the (Clinton) Machine

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Change, Clinton, Obama

A CONCISE AND UNEMOTIONAL article on why the Clinton Machine couldn't crest the hill. Some say "old guard" and this piece more or less backs that up. Their thinking is yesterday's news in various ways and that's why they never saw what hit them. Bam, bam, bam! Blogmigo Kai just...

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7 de Mayo, 2008

Summoning Us to Greatness

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Obama, satire

I'M RATHER DISAPPOINTED that the Clintons will not be moving back into La Casa Blanca. After all, it would have been great to have Hillary as President. I could have proudly pointed both my daughters to her and show them how a strong and smart woman should act in...

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1 de Mayo, 2008

Hillary Clinton in Eugene, Oregon [pt. 4]

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Change, Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Hope, Negativity, Obama

LAST WEEK we watched a young man (whom one person wrote me and called "arrogant") engage the democratic process as he questioned Hillary Clinton during her Town Rally at the South Eugene High School (April 4). The bold student wanted to know if when all was said and done...

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29 de Abril, 2008

The Wright Stuff?

Categorized under Medios , Race for '08 | Tags: GOP, Jeremiah Wright, Obama

HERE'S THE FUNNY THING: since Wright went on TV...actually, since only a day ago, I've personally seen two people begin searching for a connection to, more or less, the kind of church he speaks of and represents. Anecdotal sure. But it's just one day. Give it time. It's like...

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Reminder for Oregon

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Obama, Oregon, Voting

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28 de Abril, 2008

Blue-collar Bitter Gun Owning Harley Riding Voters

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, obama, YouTube

sombrero tip to yliza...

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Fear Builds Walls, Hope Builds Pigs

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: music, Obama, Pink Floyd, Roger Waters

HA HAAAA CHARADE YOU ARE... Man, I love that song! Haven't played it in years, don't even think I have it anymore. That was in the cassette era, and I've lost all my music casettes. I saw Floyd in '88, NJ. (Maybe it was '89.) I think it was the...

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So Much for Lucidity and Political Abstinence.

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Outtakes and Remakes

I SWEAR! There really was one lovely shining moment when I just didn't care anymore. Ah well. I excuse it by remembering I never follow football or basketball or anything. Politics is boxing without the sweat and shiny shorts. And we do know how I love to watch boxing....

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When Blackness Approaches Power

Categorized under El Malestar Pálido , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 , Religión , Violencia | Tags: African Americans, Anti-Arab, Blacks, Christianism, Hillary Clinton, hypocrisy, Jeremiah Wright, race, racism, religion

THE CONTINUED hypocritical attacks on Jeremiah Wright and Obama's name are disgustingly racist. Period. And the more I hear of this Pastor vato, the more I like him. Speaking the National Press Club in Washington on Monday, [Pastor Jeremiah] Wright called the recent criticism surrounding his sermons "an attack on...

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27 de Abril, 2008

How Hillary Can Still Win

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Hillary Clinton, Obama, YouTube

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25 de Abril, 2008

Can Hillary Resolve her Near Complete Alienation of the Black Community?

Categorized under Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Obama

BRIEF QUESTION. The Intranix is alight with declarations that Obama has a problem with X or Y type of voter and he better solve this problem. Maybe. Or maybe they'd mostly go for him when it's months later and down to Obama the Democratic nominee vs. McCain the Republican...

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Nezua Cured of Political Inebriation!

Categorized under Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Obama, Power to the People

AWESOME! I'm finally freed from the grip of this primary. I just felt it drain away from me all at once. Overload and system dump. I no longer care who wins, I no longer am emotionally invested, I no longer have hope that either one will really represent any...

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Oregon Latinos for Obama

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Obama, Oregon, PCUN, Portland, Ramon Ramirez, Susan Castillo

A coalition of Latino community leaders in Oregon has thrown its support behind Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois. Ramon Ramirez, the president of PCUN, the state's largest farmworker union, made the announcement Wednesday, citing Obama's commitment to improving the lives of farmworkers and Latino families in...

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24 de Abril, 2008

The Civic Reawakening of a New Generation

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Harvard, Obama, Power to the People, Youth Vote

With the central mission of the Institute of Politics being to engage and inspire young Americans in the memory of John F. Kennedy and his legacy, we are particularly pleased that the underlying shifts in civic participation that we noted in 2002 are not a one-time phenomenon but instead represent...

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Time to Lift the Rug (Again)

Categorized under Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: bush, Change, Clinton, Hope, hypocrisy, Obama, Oliver North, Ronald Reagan

When I say my thinking has traveled an arc with Clinton, dont take it the wrong way. I still do not think she is going to be, our should be, our president. But I have grown more sympathetic to her as a person, through the course of my recording...

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21 de Abril, 2008

Hillary Clinton in Eugene, Oregon [MTV Vlog Apr21]

Categorized under MTV Street Team 08 Exclusive , Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Citizen Journalism, Clinton, Democrats, Eugene, MTV, Oregon

HILLARY CLINTON IN EUGENE [1] begins our HRC three-part series, which will feature the Senator's rally/town-hall appearance at Eugene, Oregon's South Eugene High School Gymnasium. You've read Tapper and Suarez and myself and many others comment on this very appearance*. Now, witness all the small town high school political...

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8 de Abril, 2008

A Hunger for Truth (And Tomato): Shooting the Obama Trilogy

Categorized under MTV Street Team 08 Exclusive , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Choose or Lose 08, Eugene, McArthur Court, MTV, Obama, Oregon, Street Team 08, The Pit

I PROMISED YA I would relate my arduous tale of shooting the Obama event here in Eugene (Parts 1 and 2, 3 still to come), and so I now point you to a lengthy and well-illustrated blog wherein I relate the story of A Hunger for Truth (and Tomato):...

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Bill Past Due

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton

SO I'VE BEEN THINKING after reading a few irate writers who imply that there is some kind of contagious framing out in the aether that unfairly paints Hillary Clinton as a liar. Some of these people say this persistent test she must pass is a special Clinton rule, or is...

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Clinton Isn't Completely Lying

Categorized under Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton

SO THE CLINTON story about her telling the insurance story is both not true...and true. The aunt of a young pregnant woman who died after a hospital told her she needed to pay $100 up front for care said in an interview on Monday that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton...

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7 de Abril, 2008

Obama in Oregon, Part 2

Categorized under MTV Street Team 08 Exclusive , Pelicula , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Choose or Lose 08, Citizen Journalism, Democrats, McArthur Court, MTV, Obama, Oregon, Street Team 08, The Pit

OBAMA IN OREGON (PT. 2) continues our trilogy of Obama-in-Oregonity as promised last week! Peep through the Lens O' Nez and once again, enter "The Pit" in Eugene, Oregon—which is really not as gruesome as the name might sound, but instead a rather invigorating and some might even venture,...

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5 de Abril, 2008

Hillary Clinton in Eugene, Oregon

Categorized under MTV Street Team 08 Exclusive , Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Choose or Lose 08, Citizen Journalism, Clinton, Eugene, MTV, Oregon, Street Team 08

COVERED THE HILLARY CLINTON campaign stop in Eugene yesterday, at the South Eugene High School. While there was a smattering across a few demographics (there were young people, too), it seemed to my eye to be mostly white women, and older people. (You can't judge by who is behind HRC...

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4 de Abril, 2008

Hillary Clinton Releases Oregon Campaign Schedule

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Democrats, Eugene, Oregon

HILLARY CLINTON has released her schedule for Oregon with one day to spare. (Senator Obama gave but two days notice). She will be speaking in Portland and Eugene. (Senator Obama spoke in Salem, Portland, and Eugene.) Senator Clinton will be stopping in Eugene tomorrow to speak at two high...

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2 de Abril, 2008

Raging Bill

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, I should tag this something, Outtakes and Remakes

SOMEONE'S SMOOTH VENEER is popping off like pine panel in a bonfire. "It was one of the worst political meetings I have ever attended," one superdelegate said. According to those at the meeting, Clinton - who flew in from Chicago with bags under his eyes - was classic old Bill...

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30 de Marzo, 2008

Occupational Hazard

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Obama

I'M NOT HERE to be an unwavering bullhorn for Obama. That is utterly boring. And yes, I don't think there's any contest between him and Senator Clinton, as far as who could get more done. Or who would be more uplifting as a President in a few senses. Or...

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Obama Opens Office in Eugene

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Eugene, Obama, Oregon

RIDING THE WAVE of his recent appearance(s) in Oregon, the Obama campaign opens a local office. DOWNTOWN EUGENE - More than one hundred people showed up Saturday morning for the grand opening Obama's new office located at 1280 Willamette Street in Downtown Eugene. "I'm here this morning to support...

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28 de Marzo, 2008

Obama in Eugene Pt. 1 [MTV vlog 3-28-08]

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Citizen Journalism, Eugene, McArthur Court, MTV, Obama, Oregon, The Pit

OBAMA IN OREGON (PT. 1) is the name of the new video shot and edited by yours truly, Oregon's Official MTV Choose or Lose Street Team 08 Citizen Journalist, and just as the title foreshadows, there will be two more parts to this tryptych of political goodness. Clicking the...

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27 de Marzo, 2008

Is Avoidance the Answer?

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Gore, Obama, Race

THESE DAYS, there is a sure way to have me laugh at writing and declare it devoid of intelligent method, and that is to employ cute little hatenames for Obama supporters. I mean, come on. Is "Obama supporters" really so hard to type? Does it actually hurt to not sling...

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24 de Marzo, 2008

Shining, Gleaming, Streaming, Flaxen, Waxen

Categorized under Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: blogs, Change, Negativity, Obama, Outtakes and Remakes, race

ANYWAY, I'm feeling burnt out on some of these conversations. Political swattings and virtual angers. Maybe this is a place to which I keep returning. So I guess I must enjoy it on some level. How perverse. But I do need to step back, I'm getting too stirred up...

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Bethesda and Oaxaca [The White Lens 8.5]

Categorized under Cultura , El Malestar Pálido , Foto , Historia , La Lente Blanca , Palabras , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Citizen Journalism, Eugene, Format, iPhone, Mestizaje, Mexico, MTV, Oaxaca, Obama, Oregon, race, racism

AND NOW A STEAMING MUG OF COFFEE and a big wave from Nezua and all others in la casa—and by the way, big thanks to my weekend warriors, those that showed up and bloggedeth, adding their stones to the scale, daring to brave a hungry and discerning readership that...

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22 de Marzo, 2008

The McCain Girls

Categorized under Humor , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: John McCain, YouTube

I'M NOT SURE what inspired this video or what the hell it is supposed to achieve other than making me laugh out loud for over two minutes. If you only see one YouTube video this month, make it this one....

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Obama Comes to Oregon

Categorized under Medios , Race for '08 | Tags: Citizen Journalism, Eugene, MTV, Obama, Oregon

SAW OBAMA last night at "The Pit," as it's known here in Oregon. Eugene residents are very proud of their sports, it's a big sports town (check into the history of Nike in Eugene, while you're at it), and the arena where Obama spoke is a famed site for...

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I was in the room when....

Categorized under Aprender , Character Study , Corazón , Cultura , Derechos Humanos , El Malestar Pálido , Gobierno , Guest Blogando , Historia , Invitados , La Lente Blanca , Política Estados Unidos , Preguntas , Race for '08 , Rafael , Raza , Religión , Stories , Terrorizing la Gente , When the Right is SO wrong | Tags: consequences, Obama, pastor, race, religion, truth

I was in the room when... a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic...

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21 de Marzo, 2008

Happy Friday, Baby.

Categorized under Música , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Macintosh, music, Obama, YouTube

SOME SMOOOVE VOCALS to take ya into this sunny (at least where I am) Friday afternoon. Hoy less Flamenco, y más Bachata! Just feels right. Aventura with La Boda (The Wedding). Reminds me of Westchester, I used to play this album on my iPod Mini while I rode the...

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