Posted on June 6th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Via Susie Madrak:
I watched the video above and then I read Blake’s piece below on Bobby Kennedy: A Golden Age That Never Was and I was overwhelmed with a wave of tears and deep sadness. Like Blake, I often wonder what might have been, if we had not lost Bobby 40 years ago…
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Posted on June 6th, 2008 by Blake Fleetwood
40 years ago today Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated, and the world turned into a darker, meaner place in the decades that followed.
As a young student at Columbia University – off for the summer — I was to join the RFK campaign staff the following week. The spring of 1968 had been exhilarating and tumultuous.
Gene [...]
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Posted on May 30th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
The Argus Leader endorsed Hillary Clinton today noting for “the first time in memory, every state will play a role in choosing a nominee for the nation’s highest office.”
The endorsement speaks for itself:
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Posted on May 25th, 2008 by Frenchdoc
Cross-posted from The Global Sociology Blog
My blog bookmark listing is getting thinner every day. That goes along with the shrinking respect I had for some bloggers in the past. Boy has this primary been a reality check. Here is someone who used to be one of my favorite bloggers, Hilzoy, subbing for Kevin Drum at [...]
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Posted on May 23rd, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
There’s a raging firestorm in the blogopshere over Hillary Clinton’s remarks made “Thursday, in a meeting with the editorial board of the the Sioux Falls Argus Leader.” As I noted below, Clinton has expressed regret for the statement.
Robert Kennedy Jr., who endorsed Hillary Clinton months ago, issued the following statement this evening (emphasis mine):
“It is clear from the [...]
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Posted on May 23rd, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
It’s all over the news and blogosphere… Hillary Clinton’s statement about the assasination of Bobby Kennedy. It was an unfortunate statement and everyone’s busy parsing it now. Hillary Clinton has said she regrets the remark and clarifies her statement here:
It’s been a long, drawn out primary election cycle. Everyone’s tired, many are frustrated and a [...]
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Posted on May 17th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Senator Ted Kennedy was hospitalized this morning after suffering from stroke like symptoms. He was rushed by ambulance and initially hospitalized at Cape Cod Hospital and then airlifted to Mass General in Boston.
Kennedy spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter says that “Kennedy has been hospitalized in Boston after suffering a seizure,” rather than a “stroke as initially suspected.”
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Posted on May 2nd, 2008 by Blake Fleetwood
April 30, 1968
With billy clubs swinging, bloodying heads, a phalanx of riot police stomped their way through the crowd of faculty supporters standing outside Fayerweather Hall. No one was given a chance to walk away.
The police then proceeded to smash in the main doors of the Hall where students had been camped out for a [...]
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Posted on June 6th, 2007 by Stuart O'Neill
Listen more carefully for the message of unity and love….
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