On the day after the election, President-elect Obama is getting down to business. One of the items he’ll need to deal with is America’s broken health care system. He has a plan for doing so. But another one of my classmates, Windye Barton, wonders if some additional steps aren’t necessary before America or any other [...]
Entries from November 2008
November 4, 2008
Each One Teach One, Part 2, Day 2: Election Hoaxes
Election Day is FINALLY here. I voted early, so I won’t be at my polling place to see if there are any lines. I hope things go smoothly nationwide and we don’t have the nightmare we had eight years ago when it was 36 days until we knew who our new president would be. Already, [...]
November 4, 2008
Each One Teach One Part 2, Day 1: Political Debates on Facebook
Since I’m not a regular on Facebook, I’d never given much thought to using it as a political debate forum. My classmate, Bobby Ramsey, discusses some of his experiences debating the 2008 U.S. presidential race on Facebook, as well as his fears about using it as a forum. Bobby discusses the partisan, emotional reactions that [...]
