This "tumble-log" is devoted to the election, transition, and administration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States and to commentaries on the enormous problems (financial, economic, environmental, global, etc.) facing him and our nation, particularly in the first three months of 2009.
Begun on October 9, 2008--right after my wife and I completed a 4,000 mile road-trip across the prairie from Chicago to Utah and back, and less than a month before the elections--it presents an on-line scrapbook of news clips, quotations, videos, and photos adapted from news sources, as well as a few observations of my own.
At first, I was mostly interested in seeing whether or not Barack Obama would become our 44th president. Then after he took office, the formulation of an economic recovery plan seemed the single most pressing concern.
Most of the items in this blog can be expanded by clicking on them. The "search" box will create a list every entries that include any particular term. The "archive" below provides a brief calendar of all the items, and thus serves as a kind of "table of contents."
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