ordinary people

In his moving tribute to his grandmother on the eve of the election, Barack Obama expanded the relevance of his loss to the other "quiet heroes" in all walks of life:

i am praying this prayer, with some inspired improvisations that might come my way, up to tuesday. if you wish, join us.

Bill Hobbs seems to think that the reason the whole Ayers/Wright/Obama triangle hasn’t caught on is that it’s too complicated for ordinary people to understand.

Katie Couric: What does that have to do anything?

JH: Katie, it’s about the start, it’s about the head, if you don’t have a head, you really can’t start, can you?

KC: Have you ever even been IN the Head Start Building?

So, Jim Cooper voted against tax relief for a Gulf Coast that has been suffering for much longer than the banking and finance industry because he thinks those cuts should be matched by cuts elsewhere. That's typical Blue Dog logic.

The City Paper notes the lack of leadership from both Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen and Nashville Mayor Karl Dean as Nashville faced a gasoline shortage over the weekend.

Sure we've fretted about wanton, poorly timed lobbyist parties and the targeted attacks on community service by the Republicans, but if a liberal looks hard enough a few otherwise eclipsed positives occurred at the Convention last week.

I don’t want to shill, but this piece from David Plouffe’s latest ask for fundage deserves to be highlighted:

The Honorable Phil Governor wants to

From the Washington Post: