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Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Clinton campaign coffers running low
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Clinton’s campaign treasury is running low.
Even if she wins by a big margin, she needs to raise a lot of money to keep going through the primary in Puerto Rico in June.
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Book discussion: ‘Slavery by Another Name’ by Douglas A. Blackmon
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Recently the AJC assembled a remarkable group to discuss a remarkable book: “Slavery by Another Name: The Re-enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II.” Read the article from April 20 @issue.
The new book documents a South unknown to many — a place in which white sheriffs, politicians and businessmen got rich by enslaving thousands of black men for decades after emancipation. The process was simple and evil: Black men were arrested on a pretext, shunted through a rigged system and then chained like animals and sent to work off their sentences or debts in coal mines and steel mills and on plantations. (Read an excerpt)
The AJC invited a group of readers to discuss the book and its implications with one another and with the author, Wall Street Journal reporter Douglas A. Blackmon. (Read excerpts from reviews.)
Note that this blog is intended for those who have read or are reading Blackmon’s book.
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Dysfunctional DOT?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
While we are stuck in traffic every day, the Georgia Department of Transportation’s internal soap opera plays out: a board chairman resigns and a commissioner is reprimanded for a romantic relationship, a vice chair resigns Monday- the list goes on. What’s wrong with this vital agency and how should we fix it?
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Unless Clinton wins by double digits…
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Politics, like the stock market, is largely a game of expectations: If you beat expectations, you win; if you don’t exceed expectations, you’ve lost.
Given that a state like Pennsylvania is supposed to be tailor-made for Hillary Clinton — and given early polls showing her with a lead of 20-plus points — she’s expected to win by double digits.
If Obama keeps her victory to no more than six or seven points, he can count that as a win.
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