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Obama promised, and is delivering, “a more perfect union”
Originally posted at Personal Democracy Forum / TechPresident, in reply to a post by Micah Sifry called “The Obama Disconnect: What Happens When Myth Meets Reality”, which claims that Barack Obama has never really been committed to the grassroots.
A thoughtful post, Micah, but I disagree with the assumptions it’s based on, in particular what seems to be an assumption that Barack Obama promised, or could ever deliver, perfection.
Obama has always said that the goal is not perfection but “a more perfect union”. And he has always said that it was going to mean hard work (think back to how many times you’ve heard that phrase from him), not something he would wrap up and deliver to us in the first year.
The Obama campaign was, and the Obama presidency is, part of a great tradition of hard workers that includes the founders, Lincoln, FDR and King. And I would say that the role of the grassroots is disappointing only if you’re dissatisfied with the most grassroots-driven campaign and administration in history.
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posted 4 January 2010 @ 15:19 by Spencer » 0 Comments
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Why TV commercials are so loud
With Rep. Anna Eshoo’s bill to turn down TV ads in the news (Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation, or CALM, Act), here again is my explanation of why ads sound so loud when broadcasters claim they hit the same levels as the rest of the programming:
People have complained about loud TV commercials for years. The response [...]
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Top Drupal Gotchas, #2: White Screen / Not Enough PHP Memory
Cross-posted at O’Reilly Broadcast.
Continuing my effort to spare newcomers to Drupal from falling into this powerful content management system’s most common traps, this time I look at a frequent cause of white screens – the sudden and scary devolution of a previously healthy Drupal site into a blank browser window.
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