LISTEN TO AAM CONVENTION SPECIAL THIS WEEKEND -- AUTHORS TURNING THE PAGE
Listen: AUTHORS TURNING THE PAGE
Saturday, 7-10p ET
Sunday 10-1p ET
This week of politics was extraordinary -- from Kennedy's inspiring tribute to the 1-2 punch of the Clintons and from the naming of the entire Biden family as VP to, of course, Obama's soaring and convincing acceptance speech.
Air America contributed our part when, in conjunction with Progressive Book Club, we hosted the most impressive collection of progressive authors...since Ted Sorensen dined alone in the White House mess in 1962. And to understand where that line comes from, you'll have to listen to the special three-hour broadcast of our SRO event at The Big Tent in Denver last Monday.
On a panel of biographers, we heard from Ted Sorensen comparing JFK’s and Obama’s religious and racial challenges, from Michael Eric Dyson about how ML King would have advised Obama and from Jonathan Alter on how FDR connected his campaign and his transition.
Then Thom Hartmann choreographed Paul Krugman, Arianna Huffington, John Podesta and David Sirota about "The Contest", that unending tug-of-war between left and right in America -- i.e. the pretext and context of the Convention.
Last, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Dean of Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School, moderated a panel on "The Next America" -- ok, how do we dig ourselves out of the hole that Bush has gotten us into? Markos Moulitsas, Jane Mayer and Van Jones talk about torture, green collar jobs, the Internet and foreign policy.
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- August 29, 2008








Thank You AAR for making this program available
I am glad to have been able to listen to this discussion on-line. I hoped to be able to download it, so I could listen to it off-line with my portable MP3 player, but even without being able to download it, at least I was able to hear this intelligent discussion by some of the best thinkers in the progressive movement.
LinearBob
An analog gray hair frantically clinging to the trailing edge of technology. :-)
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By LinearBobAugust 30, 2008 - 7:47pmOff the subject,
I just want to mention, alert, remind, and clarify that Gustav in no way is affiliated with the gays, feminist, Pagans(which I think is a motorcycle group) potheads, peace-nics, commies, fags, illegal imagration, abortion, free-thinking, freedom of speech, peace or God being mad about the black dude whos about to be our next leader, before the right wing had a chance to blow smoke out their asses, piss moan and whine, bitch and cry and make excuses of the hurracain(September is the peak of Hurracain season) hitting during the Republican convention. If anything, its cause George didnt listen to what God said cause he wasnt paying attention, decided to just make shit up for what he hadn't heard, and now God is pissed at the RNC and has decided to release his infinate sense of humor upon you. Sucks to be an evil elephant right about now, doesnt it? Maybe Gustav will piss out and only make landfall as a Cat 1. That would probably be best, not to have the destruction and loss and life and all. But Christains, if Gustav eats the shit out of America, according to your own mythology your God did it for a reason. Maybe he didnt think you learned from the last one, or just have short memories and need a reminder. You see the evacuation the gov. will take credit for going smoothly? Was it the governmment? Ooooor, is it just the Alabamians and Louisianans going,"Fuck this! Dont wait on the Republican controlled government!. Get out now! Now!, before the Bush administrations government or any of their copycats get involved, and outsources our bus escape until we're all dead!.". Maybe there is no God, and betting your future on climate in a world where Global warming is a factor is best left to nerds like us. The world may never know.
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By MadgardnerAugust 31, 2008 - 6:15amMy Dog, Mad!
Next you'll be saying that Jim Dobson's prayers for floods in Denver DIDN'T happen. It was just that LIBERAL MEDIA refusing to report it.
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury
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By LiberalIconoclastSeptember 2, 2008 - 3:01am