African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Obamas left-of-center politics voted for him in 2008 because electing a candidate with brown skin was too historic an opportunity to miss. – Alveda King
Or those war-clouds that gather on the horizon, dragon-crested, tongued with fire;—how is their barbed strength bridled? what bits are these they are champing with their vaporous lips… – John Ruskin, “The Cloud-Balancings”
When President Obama was in the Senate, when he was a U.S. senator, he voted against raising the debt ceiling. And he said it was a lack of leadership that had brought us to this point. – Cathy McMorris
