Tea Bird

The last swing of the boom

After living through sixteen years of two Presidents’ terms, the Baby Boomer generation appears to have run its Presidential course. When Obama, on his way over to Grant Park for his election night event, emailed his millions of plugged-in supporters, he wrote “We just made history.”
As Damien Cave noted:

With that simple “we” in millions [...]

Quote of the day — Obama on Fatherhood

Obama did a Bill Cosby on African-American men and family cohesiveness.
From Politico:
“Too many fathers are MIA. Too many fathers are AWOL,” he told a huge African-American congregation in Chicago. “There’s a hole in your heart if you don’t have a male figure in the home that can guide you and lead you and set a [...]