by Denis Campbell
Welcome to the toughest 1st year in the loneliest job in the world. Good that you have a dog and you’re not in Kansas anymore Mr. President. You approached the utter disaster left by the previous occupant with a determination, grit, grace and pragmatism that has long been missing.
Now sir you have to [...]
Tag | Massachusetts
Man-Up Time President Obama: Grow Spine and Become Party’s Dictator
Posted on 20 January 2010 by Denis Campbell | Comments (5) | Tags: 1st year, democrats, loss, Man up, Martha Coakley, Massachusetts, President Obama, Republicans, Scott Brown
Voting Opens in MA Senate Race, Why We Think (Thought) Coakley Would Win
Posted on 19 January 2010 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Martha Coakley, Massachusetts, Scott Brown, Senate race, special election, Ted Kennedy
UPDATED By Denis Campbell
(Republican Scott Brown wins 52%-47% with 70% turnout on a snowy day. Losing sucks, message heard?)
Martha Coakley will squeak to a narrow victory later in today’s Massachusetts special election, even though a media fire storm and feeding frenzy is under way for the contested Senate seat held for 47-years until his death last fall by Ted [...]
Farewell to the Lion of the Senate
Posted on 26 August 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (1) | Tags: brain cancer, dead, lion of the Senate, Massachusetts, Massachusetts senator, Ted Kennedy, Teddy
By Denis Campbell
He was a force of nature. Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy succumbed last night at age 77 to the brain tumour that robbed him of so much vitality.
To those of us native to Massachusetts, he was simply ‘Teddy.’ The 3rd brother in a family shrouded by tragedy, we always felt would somehow be there. [...]
Living while Black in Cambridge
Posted on 03 August 2009 by Rev. Irene Monroe | Comments (0) | Tags: african american, Area 4, Cambridge, Cambridge Police, Governor Deval Patrick, Harvard University, Living While Black, Massachusetts, Mayor E. Denise Simmons of Cambridge, Professor Henry Gates, Rev. Louise Monroe, Southern racism
Rev. Irene Monroe
None of us African-American residents of Cambridge are surprised or shocked by the humiliation and harassment Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 58, of Harvard University encountered at the hands of Cambridge police.
My partner, Dr.Thea James, an Emergency Room physician who would drive from home to work was stopped all the time for “driving [...]
Losing the Plot – UK Vanity Licence Plates
Posted on 21 May 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 02, 4=A, 51, 52, 53, 5=S, AR53 NAL, Arsenal Gunners, BC pride, Boston College, Cherished, groups, Martin Davies, Massachusetts, Mitsubishi, number plate crazy, numeric alphabet 7=T, oblique, organisations, Prefix, progress, raise money, schools, Scottish Premiere League, UK plate, USA, V401 MUS, vadimus post, Vanity, WE57 HAM, West Ham United, www.UKnumberplates.org, £24, £36, £57
Reprise: UK vanity licence plates still make little sense… from July of last year
WE57 HAM is a UK license number plate that sold last year in a department of motor vehicle auction for £57,000 ($112,000). There are 500 supporters of the West Ham United Football (soccer) Club that would have paid that amount to have [...]
Yes We Did!
Posted on 28 August 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 15-minutes, 1970’s forced bussing, 1992, 2004, armed Mass. State Police escort, birth-right, black governor, blatant distortions and lies, Boston, candidate John McCain, clinton, CNN, Convention, David Milliband, Denver, forced a roll call, former party nominee, G-8, get over it, giving the Republicans a library of attack adverts, Governor Deval Patrick, groused, Hillaristas, inner city black children, Joe Biden, Louise Day Hicks, many voted against George Bush rather than for John Ker, Massachusetts, McCain, McCain’s strident and bellicose talk against Russia, moan and complain, name calling, nattering nabob of negativity, not planning for contests beyond 05 February, obama, other diplomatic means, other G-8 leaders, over-reaction, Party Unity My Ass, perceived slight of Hillary, President Bill Clinton, PUMA, racial tensions, Republican Party tried to portray him as “too young and, Repug hate and slime machine, riots, rock throwing, running up a $20 million dollar personal campaign debt, seal the deal, Senator John Kerry, show why he has so inspired so many people, significance of the moment, sleaze tactic, South Boston, spun out of control, swift boating tactics, this year many will be voting for Obama, UK Foreign Secretary, unified, Veep selection, Yes We Did
The party was unified and happy leaving Boston in 2004. The difference between this year and four years ago is that many of us voted against George Bush rather than for John Kerry. When casting our ballot this year many will be voting for Barack Obama.
The pundits had nothing to talk about those first few [...]
Barbara and the Senator
Posted on 03 May 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 1974, ABC News, ABC Television, affair, Barbara Walters, because you work in television, Boib Woodward, Carl Bernstein, Close Up, Massachusetts, Richard Nixon, Senator Edward Broole, Studio 60, The Washington Post, The West Wing, US Senate, Washington DC, Watergate
An Open Letter to ABC’s Barbara Walters, I have only one question, why? Why now? Why drag a quiet, dignified 88-year old man who left public life almost 30 years ago through your ‘last gasp’ book tour? Why so selfishly bring his reputation into question? What does it bring you? It was early Spring, 1974. Temperatures [...]
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