The author of "Havana Nocturne" describes Cuba's sex, corruption and mafia ties in the 50s. With all the attention Barack Obama is receiving, perhaps it is time the media realizes his name is Barack Obama. Moment of Zen - Schmidt's Sausage Haus.
If black kids grow up thinking they can become president, Larry Wilmore wonders what will happen to the aspiring rappers and NBA players. Barack Obama is not a diva -- Cher is a diva -- but you should see his assless pants.
Like the workers, whether they were soldiers during World War II or public works employees in , Beach helped dynamite rocks, drove bulldozers, graders, and dump trucks. In the final episode, filmed over several months, with temperatures ranging from the mids to 70 below, Beach and his crew worked with the Alaska State Troopers.
They traveled in cars, snowmobiles, trucks, helicopters, fixed wing aircraft, inflatable fast boats, and foot patrol boats. In June , with temperatures hovering in the 40s, Beach and his crew, after extensive training, experienced arctic survival. It would also take away the humor, which is a crucial part of humanity.
Even some of the situations he faced while on camera were set-up and orchestrated for television. His mother became a counselor after graduating from Bennington College in , a time when not many women went to college. He graduated early, and with honors, and accepted early admission to Brown, but never attended. His first stop was a year driving land rovers in the Sahara. He later worked in Atlanta before exploring the Last Frontier. In , then in his mids, he went to Alaska when a friend asked him to visit.
Around him were the Kenai Mountains. The Japanese currents that flow into Kachemak Bay give the area a warmth that is similar to that of New England. He had the water and mountains he so loved. Obama, agent of change, picks an old white senator who failed at presidential politics twenty years ago. McCain, an old white senator who failed at presidential politics eight years ago, picks a fresh, pro-life, NRA-packing governor from the wild West.
Obama's campaign had originally even targeted Alaska -- which hasn't gone Dem in a presidential election since '76 -- as a potential swing state. But the cross-over mentality Obama's campaign identified will cut the other way now, with many Democrats here going to Sarah. There's no longer a left wing or a prayer for Alaska going blue. Obama missed his best chance for the presidency when he skipped Janet Napolitano , governor of Arizona , as running mate.
She would have brought gender, executive experience, and Western states credibility to the ticket. Not only is she a former attorney general, something that would have enhanced the ticket's centrist appeal, she's been elected in John McCain's home state -- and re-elected. If Obama had named Napolitano, it would have been just a few moves to "King Me". Instead, we have guaranteed change at the highest level of government -- courtesy of John McCain.
Not just maybe a black president, but for certain either a woman or person of color at the top of the executive branch. But there's another first. The election will put either a Hawaiian or an Alaskan at the pinnacles of Washington DC fifty years after statehood for the 49th and 50th states. Cokie Roberts recently dismissed Barack Obama because he vacationed in his home state of Hawaii , which Roberts called "some sort of foreign, exotic place".
Cokie thought Barack should have been in Myrtle Beach. Cokie should know better. Her father, Hale Boggs , was killed in that other discontiguous state when he was campaigning for Rep Nick Begich 's reelection in It's a central race in this year's national political landscape. Alaska's neither exotic no palm trees — some places no trees at all!
And it's no longer off the upper left-hand corner of American consciousness. Geo Beach recently received the best columnist award from the Alaska Press Club. Email geobeach columnist. Already a subscriber?
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