1960s

There is a reason that this week is particularly momentous for me. Though no one can fully know the inner heart of another, I am as certain as I can be that my father would have been overjoyed to see U.S. Sen. Barack Obama receive the nomination of a major political party for the office of President.

Tennessee’s Republican Party does not want our broadcast stations intimidated by outside agitators against running an ad linking Barack Obama to a former terrorist

The chief deputy sheriff of Maury County retired Monday after 13-years service, Sheriff Enoch George said.

It’s impossible to condense Ashley Brown’s lifetime of service to just a few words, George said. The sheriff said he met Brown in the late 1960s as a laborer at Monsanto. Brown was the lead man in charge of George’s crew, he said.

From Don Fenley:

Clint Brewer warns Obama fans not to go counting their chicken’s before they have hatched:

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The man who many assumed may very well be the last white man, and who likely will be the last white Republican, to hold Tennessee’s Ninth District Congressional seat has died:

From the UK Times Online:
His 1964 track 'The Times They are a-Changin' became the anthem for his generation, symbolising the era-defining social struggle against the establishment.

Now Bob Dylan - who could justifiably claim to be the architect of Barack Obama's 'change' catchphrase - has backed the Illinois senator to do for modern America what the generation before did in the 1960s.

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Governor Phil Bredesen foreshadows the general election campaign with a history lesson: