Monday, September 29, 2008
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Friday, September 19, 2008
Happy Birthday Granny
Happy Birthday Granny! We've been thinking about you all day and wishing you a very special birthday! Wish you were here with us in Mexico and look forward to the next time we are together. I love you Granny.
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Joe's O's
Mom says this photo gives her an idea of what I'll look like in a few years...all grown up!
Dancing at Hendersonville Music Night
I loved dancing to the live music on a wamer summer night with Grandpa and Granny. I was the life of the party...I heart dance, dance, dance!!
Playing the piano at Granny's
I had such a great time at Granny and Grandpa's house in North Carolina. Thank you so much for such a wonderful time! Mom and I miss seeing both of you. Thank you for everything!
"I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a "community organizer," except that you have actual responsibilities."
- Sarah Palin
So here is what Palin didn't know: Obama was working for a group of churches that were concerned about their parishioners, many of whom had been laid off when the steel mills closed on the south side of Chicago. They hired Obama to help those stunned people recover and get the services they needed--job training, help with housing and so forth--from the local government.
This is what Palin was mocking. She was making fun of a young man's decision "to serve a cause greater than himself," in the words of John McCain. She was, therefore, mocking one of their candidate's favorite messages. Obama served the poor for three years, then went to law school. To describe this service--the first thing he did out of college, the sort of service every college-educated American should perform, in some form or other--as anything other than noble is cheap and tawdry and cynical in the extreme.
