Jeffrey Feldman

May 23, 2013

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Entries by Jeffrey Feldman from 11/2008

Election Night Liveblog

| Posted 11.04.2008 | Media

Day after day, millions of Americans dropped what they were doing and joined the campaign, showed up to do the most mundane, but essential work necessary to elect a president in our media and suburban era.

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Tears For Country

| Posted 11.05.2008 | Politics

On Monday afternoon a day before the election, after placing Obama-Biden signs on doors in Northeast Philadelphia for nine hours, I sat down on a stranger's stoop, by myself, and cried.

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The Reason Lieberman Must Go

| Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: 2008 Elections, Harry Reid, Joe Lieberman, Jewish Voters, Barack Obama, Lieberman Democrats, Joseph Lieberman, Lieberman Reid, Lieberman Senate, Joe Lieberman and John McCain, Politics News

The Republican Party falsely accused Obama of hastening the genocide of the Jewish people -- while Sen. Lieberman gave this strategy his seal of approval by campaigning for McCain.

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Election Brought Hard-Right Nationalism Into Light

| Posted 11.09.2008 | Politics

Hard-right nationalism is a monster now fully emerged in America, and to ignore it or simply ridicule it would be a grave mistake and a missed opportunity.

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Seeing Our Future In The American Car

| Posted 11.11.2008 | Business

Read More: Detroit Automakers, Automotive News, Cars, Big Three Automakers, Automotive Industry, General Motors, Reframing, Framing, Economy, Detroit Three, Business News

The car as the dominant form of transportation is here to stay in American life -- and here to stay for some time to come. The American cars of the past, however, will not be a part of our future.

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Can We Stop Pretending California is 'Green,' Now?

| Posted 11.16.2008 | Green

Read More: Sustainability, Green Living, California Wildfires, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Auto Industry, Nancy Pelosi, Green News

Americans everywhere will continue to have sympathy with all those who suffer in your fires, but if you want us to take your claims to being 'green' seriously, start getting your suicidal groundwater abuse under control, California.

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Rust-Covered Car Execs? Kick 'Em To The Curb

| Posted 11.18.2008 | Business

Read More: Chrysler, General Motors, Economy, Michigan, Ford, Sustainability, Washington DC, Carl Levin, Business News

The federal government should make it clear that it is not going to waste taxpayer time or money by listening to the same, arrogant and idiotic bunch of automotive executives that caused all the problems in the first place.

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Mitt Romney's Ye-Olde-Times Plan For Detroit

| Posted 11.19.2008 | Business

Read More: Detroit Automakers, Automakers, Automaker Bailout, Mitt Romney Detroit, Mitt Romney Automakers, Unemployment, Big Three Automakers, Automotive Industry, United Auto Workers, Detroit Three, Detroit, Gm, Mitt Romney, Cars, Ford, Detroit Bailout, Business News

As a foray into the troubled waters of the biggest industry crisis of our time, Romney's plan epitomizes how Republicans think about the economy: by pretending we live in a Dickensian version of the Eisenhower era.

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A Thanksgiving Lesson From Tom Joad

| Posted 11.26.2008 | Media

Read More: Literature, John Steinbeck, Economy, Economic Crisis, Thanksgiving, Food, Michigan, The Great Depress, China, New York, Media News

Like Tom Joad returning to his home only to find his family gone and the house half covered by the encroaching rows of cotton, each of us this Thanksgiving will find something at home that we did not expect.

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