Back in the early part of 2007 I went to the first Barack Obama function in Shanghai. I gave it some press and donated $50 (my first ever political contribution). The event was at the now defunct Moon River Diner. It was a conference call with the then senator in which he talked about the [...]
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November 17, 2008
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Ok, just a little bit more about Barry O
By sushipan in sushipandaI’ve voraciously devoured all the post-election analyses and commentary that I can get my hands on, and the best two I’ve read so far are obviously Newsweek’s lengthy but insightful reporting from inside the campaign (every presidential election, Newsweek reporters get a unique insider view on the condition that they don’t report anything until after [...]
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November 11, 2008
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Election Aftermath
By sushipan in sushipandaSo it took a good 96 hours before the joyous high that enveloped me immediately after the networks called the election for Obama started to uncloak itself from my being. Since there is now some distance between that glorious euphoria and now, I’ll just take a moment to summarize in brief some of my thoughts:
The [...]
November 4, 2008
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I can’t believe we’re here
By sushipan in sushipandaNot that this world needs another blog post about Barack Obama or this election, but I still wanted to spend a little bit of time to put down in words what I’ve been feeling these past few days.
Like most people I know, I’ve been finely tuned in on the day to day political news [...]
October 20, 2008
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Words that count
By sushipan in sushipandaI’ve been reading as many articles regarding Colin Powell’s endorsement of Obama as I can get my hands on. I listened to the Meet the Press podcast on my phone this morning, hanging on every single replayed word.
Interestingly enough, the one thing that Powell said that really hit me hard (choked up, misty-eyed kind [...]
