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08/29/2008Steve Chapman: Obama and big government Balance of Opinion: Grading Hillary's speech Hillary Clinton's mission – if she chose to accept it – was to unify the party when she took the podium Tuesday night at the Democratic National Convention, and now the punditry is pondering whether she got the job done.08/28/2008Rafael Anchía on the Latino vote and the Democratic convention Excerpts from a telephone conversation Thursday between Dallas Democratic State Rep. Rafael Anchia, a Barack supporter at the Denver convention, and Dallas Morning News editorial columnist William McKenzie:Leonard Pitts Jr.: A promise and a dream As Barack Obama accepts his party's nomination 45 years to the day after Martin Luther King Jr. said he had a dream America's promise might someday be fulfilled, the realization coalesces something some of us never dared hope and others never dared fear: the idea that one day America would take its promise seriously.08/27/2008Carl P. Leubsdorf: Obama-JFK comparisons run deep
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There are compelling similarities between the career trajectories of John F. Kennedy, the young, dynamic Democrat, and Barack Obama, the young, dynamic Democrat. Q&A Ron Kirk Blog: Trail Blazers
Ron Kirk: Q&A on the Southern vote, race and Democratic moderates An excerpt from an e-mail exchange yesterday between former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk, an Obama backer at the Denver convention, and Dallas Morning News editorial columnist William McKenzie.Mark Halperin: Will overreach scuttle Obama's big plans? Most national polls suggest that the presidential race is very tight. Yet Barack Obama seems to be targeting enough states to net 370 electoral votes, about 100 more than he needs. If the strategy backfires, it could cost him a race he should win.Eugene Robinson: Democrats, stop your fretting I was going to say that the Republican Party's hobby is driving Democrats crazy with worry, but the truth is that the Democrats are doing this to themselves.Mark Davis: Tonight, tonight at the DNC I'm guessing Bill Clinton will talk about Bill Clinton. He clearly feels he has not been shown sufficient deference by the upstart Obama supporters. Throw in the bitterness of his wife's defeat, and it may be hard for the former president to stay on the message a unity-hungry convention craves.Froma Harrop: Increasingly, Americans outsource health care What does this "medical tourism" mean for American providers? It means they had better get cracking on supporting a national health care system that insures everyone and controls costs. Clearly, they no longer have a monopoly hold on the U.S. consumer.08/26/2008William McKenzie: Can Obama score among 'values voters'? Democrats are making a play this week for those "values voters" whose faith shapes their politics. Some party secularists may not like that, but they do want to win. And they have a new opening, for which they can thank Barack Obama and Karl Rove.Richard Cohen: Obama is right to make establishment pick I applaud Barack Obama's choice of Joe Biden as his running mate, but the one thing he does not represent is change.Balance of Opinion: What the Biden pick says about Obama As pundits are taking measure of Joe Biden and what the Delaware senator brings to the Democratic ticket, they also are considering what the selection says about the decision-maker.08/25/2008Dalton Sherman: I believe in me. Do you? A fifth-grader from Charles Rice Learning Center in South Dallas reminds 17,500 DISD teachers, administrators and staffers what their mission is all about.New York Times: Who writes the checks for conventions? The lush national conventions – staged in the name of ordinary Americans – are largely paid for by private, unlimited donations from corporations, deep-pocketed donors and unions that shop 24/7 for privileged government access. So much for changing the way Washington works.Georgie Anne Geyer: What awaits the next chief executive? The next president, no matter who he is, will find an American situation intensely changed from the ones our former presidents inherited. These changes are painfully difficult ones to address: a hollowed-out military, only a mirage of prosperity and serious danger abroad.Sophia Dembling: Oak Cliff needs real, sustainable business Sure, it's nice to see a fresh new building replace the ratty nail salon that sat on that corner. But another check-cashing place offers nothing my neighborhood needs. There's one a few doors down in the same shopping center and yet another across Ithe street.08/23/2008Steve Chapman: The perils of a lower drinking age And why permit 18-year-olds to vote but not drink? Because they have not shown a disproportionate tendency to abuse the franchise, to the peril of innocent bystanders.Scott Henson: The case for lowering the legal drinking age Encouraging more widespread respect for law and the justice system – and discouraging an oppositional culture that disdains government authority – is the best argument behind lowering the drinking age.Gerald Britt: A blueprint for a successful DHA Mayor Tom Leppert may want to consider a clean sweep of the Dallas Housing Authority board. At the very least, he should look for executives with deep experience in low-income housing and real estate development.Craig Estes: Why I support Harrold ISD's gun policy Students' security is the primary concern. But this is not just about security for the students, but security for teachers and staff members who often come to work early and stay late. While intended to keep guns out of schools, the gun-free zone also creates unarmed victims for those not deterred by a sign.
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