Results tagged “election”

No matter what your political leanings, you have to appreciate the momentousness of Barack Obama being elected President, the first (half-) African-American to be selected as the Commander in Chief. (As an aside, we have to give major kudos to the President-elect for strongly considering adopting a shelter mutt as the dog to join the Obama family in the White House. Obviously, we hope he does go the shelter route.) So much for the Bradley effect, which so many on the left had feared and so many on the right had counted on.

Still the same big news people. S'ok, we don’t mind. We came through big time.

Now that the election buzz has died down just a tad and the baseball season is over, it’s time to reflect a bit on the month that was. Here’s just a brief look at all the cool happenings since October 5th:

You probably haven't heard, but there was an election, and not to spoil it or anything, but the Dark Side didn't win.

It's almost over, but we know how stressful watching those election returns can be. Best to go out, grab a beer, and hunker down with some friends to see if your candidate is in, or out. Foobooz has a run down of some local watering holes where you can camp out for the evening, many with food and drink specials. You know, in case the elected guy can't actually fix the economy with a swish of his wand, and you need to make that beer money last through Inauguration Day.

Top Story: The Phils. Who’d a thunk it?

Fun around town, for $10 or less:

Sigourney Weaver is 59 today, but a hot chick in a mech killing a monster alien remains a timeless image in the minds of sci-fi geeks everywhere. What? You prefer her as Zuul? Either way, it's unofficially movie night, more specifically documentary night, so read on and go get some popcorn. Just don't make a mess.

Details of The Great Schlep, and the question: Are Jews ready? Um, for what?

Our lives as bad-asses sure pale in comparison to former Pagans chapter president John Hall.

gets killed that the city seems to care about this stuff? What about everyone else who gets shot by people who should've been behind bars?)

Philly as a "festering spiritual slum?" We can see that more than as "the most genuinely Christian movement in America," but we’re sitting over here.

Unless you were living under a rock this week, you knew that the Democratic National Convention was being held in Denver. And all the hurrah built up to Barack Obama's acceptance of the party's nomination for Savior President of the United States. And while many Hillary Clinton supporters hadn't drunk the Obama Kool Aid before the convention, and there are still a fair number who are unconvinced, almost all have accepted, and come to terms with, the fact that Obama is the Democratic nominee for President. And then there's Montgomery County lawyer Philip J. Berg.

Yesterday, the city was humming with national media and energetic supporters of Clinton and (mostly) Obama.

We, like most of sane America, hate Rush Limbaugh. Really, what's not to hate? C'mon, the guy calls his faithful listeners "Dittoheads." (Editor Jill and Wikipedia told this Phillyist that it's because Limbaugh listeners start their call-ins by saying "Ditto" to echo how much they enjoy his show, but I know it's really because they're mindless, or misguided, carbon copies of one another.) We've panned Rush on these pages before for encouraging his Republican listeners in Texas and Ohio to switch to the Democractic party to vote for Hillary Clinton, because she's more likely to lose to John McCain in a general election than Barack Obama is. (And let's not forget, this is the same guy who swore he would not support John McCain, which may have been a ploy to make sure McCain—the only electable Republican who ran in the primaries—got the nomination, because his endorsement of a candidate is about the quickest way to turn off moderate voters.) And now it looks like the party-switching sabotage mission may be happening in Pennsylvania.

The current Facebook Status of our nation’s prominent political figures:

Who's going to best clean up our national mess? Phillyist can't decide. That's why we need you to endorse a candidate for us. Sure, on April 22nd you get to pull a lever, but only in Phillyist's People's Choice Endorsement do you get to tell the world why you made that decision. Democrats—will it be Hillary or Obama? Republicans—how are you feeling about McCain? Select your nominee in the poll below, then leave a comment to explain why your candidate deserves the golden ticket.

Because Obama's speech was delivered to a private audience in the middle of the day on Tuesday, many of you may have missed it. Phillyist contributor Warren Longmire posted his thoughts on the speech that day, complete with a link to a video of the speech found on Huffington Post. Because the speech is still making headlines, we wanted to take the opportunity to embed it in its entirety here. We are not posting this video by means of endorsing a candidate, but rather because it is a newsworthy event that happened in our city. The speech runs approximately forty minutes in length (the remainder of it may be found after the jump); to save time in viewing or video buffering, you may want to read the transcript on MSNBC. Whatever you feel about Obama, however, the speech is really worth a watch or a read.

The PA Guv is meeting up with New York Senator and 2008 Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at City Hall. The Inquirer reports that the 1:15pm meeting was added to her schedule late last night.

First, some updates on stories we linked to yesterday: the Inquirer has the unsettling details and about the shooting of a 5-year-old boy early yesterday morning, and how it connects with other recent incidents of violence in the city. As for the Turnpike shutdown, it lasted six hours, causing a ripple effect of traffic jams on adjacent roadways and stranding hundreds of motorists at the height of morning rush hour. The judge in the...

Haverford Township Commissioner Fred Moran went on trial yesterday for "his alleged attempt to extort $500,000 from the developers of the Haverford State Hospital site in exchange for granting them zoning approval." Thanks in part to the influence of Betty Thompkins, a microscopist in Albert Einstein Medical Center's pathology department and one-time U. Penn researcher, Central High School "will be the first high school in the nation to receive the Phenom, a $72,000 tabletop electron...

The Inquirer takes another look at the troubling recent increase, both locally and nationally, in the shooting of police. Mayor Nutter, in his first speech outside the city since the election, as the keynote speaker at the Chester County Chamber of Business and Industry's annual dinner, got a standing ovation before and after, and urged Southeastern Pennsylvania to come together and work as one to achieve greatness. Police are still investigating gunshots fired shortly before...

Fun Fun Fun Fest 2007 Recap from Super!Alright! on Vimeo. Austinist attended a town hall meeting about proposed noise ordinances that could undermine the city's future as the Live Music Capital of the World, and lamented the possible loss of Texas's only feminist bookstore. Throughout the week, they interviewed a bunch of indie fashion designers and D-I-Y websites—Etsy, Ornamental Things, 31 Corn Lane, and Aorta Designs—for the upcoming Stitch Fashion Show. They also did...