BOO! Happy Halloween!
by Karen O'Mara Voytas

“Boo! In five days you’re gonna have a BLACK PRESIDENT!

Paper Ballot ! Paper Ballot! Paper Ballot!
by Laura Hughes

Do you think electronic voting machines will reflect the voice of the voters? Think again!

McGhosts and Ogoblins
by Rosemary & Walter Brasch
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Finally, we’re really scared that in a few months we’ll all hear George W. Bush and Dick Cheney tell us, “We’re Baaaack!”

Dorcas
by Pat Brown
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Chet once told Dorcas, “There is one important thing that artists have that the average person does not - the ability to see. The average person looks at things, but the artist sees things. You taught me how to see.”

Obama Wins !!!
by CommonSense2 Editor
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The maiden voyage of Commenters’ Corner…
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This month: Obama Wins !!!

The Noble Nobel
by James Patrick
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In which the author does a double-take.

Lost The Girl; Got The Book
by Chuck Brown

What else could a 16 year old high school student want? I had a summer job at Wetson’s—a burger joint, the best looking girl in town and the coolest car I ever had.

Healthcare “Call To Action” 12/6
by Ron Stouffer and Rosie Skomitz

Norman Solomon to headline December 6th Pennsylvania “Call to Action” Healthcare for All Convention in Harrisburg, 10-3

CS2 Editors Pick The Cabinet
by CommonSense2 Editor

Thought you knew where we were coming from, did you?

The Aftermath…
by Pat Brown

“Clearly, they have no friends and nothing to live for…”

The World According to Palin
by CommonSense2 Editor

How Sarah Palin sees things.

America’s Buddy-Buddy Campaign Press Corps
by Walter Brasch

It’s a little more than a week before the presidential election, and I’m worried about what happens afterwards. I’m not worried about the candidates, the people, or the country. I’m worried about the media.

“Yes, She’s My Mother”
by Sheldon Kaplan

When I was born, a big beautiful black woman helped our family take care of me and my brother. Her name was Ethel Isaac.

After the Campaign
by Brad Hatfield

Brad Hatfield’s meditation on an epochal election in anxious times.

Tiger, Tiger
by Jack Lindeman

Some cats can face a harsh economy with equanimity.

Charting the Perseids
by Jack Romig

A poem by the poetry editor of CommonSense 2.

Polonius Revisited
by Barry Greenawalt
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Asking anew what it means to be true to yourself.

Making an Invisible Minority Less Invisible
by Walter Brasch

For a long time, radio believed that a white male voice was more authoritative than a female voice, or a voice that sounded Black. For most of TV’s first 20 years, there were no Blacks on air. And when the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s shocked America to realize that Blacks might be just as competent as Whites, TV reluctantly hired Blacks-as long as they looked, acted, and spoke White.

Reflections, posted on the morning after the 2008 presidential election
by Esther L. Clarke

The reason her membership was disallowed was this: after the U.S. invasion of Iraq she and her sisters decided, in protest, not to stand for the pledge to the flag.

WISH LIST FOR OBAMA
by Ron Stouffer

3. Stop privatization of water, Medicare (”Advantage” plans), prisons, etc. Privatization will be our descent into fascism because when everything is owned (or leased as in PA turnpike) by the corporate world, democracy and people-power cease and corporate boards of directors run the show.

Keating Economics: John McCain & The Making of a Financial Crisis
by Pat Brown
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A YouTube video chronicling John McCain’s role in the Keating Five, and the S&L failure of the early ’90’s. Critical information in light of today’s economic crisis!

Howard Dean Revs Up The Troops
by CommonSense2 Editor

And if we win Pennsylvania, we win the presidency of the United States. We take America back.

Going Negative Not a Positive Way to Get Votes
by Walter Brasch

Sens. Norman Coleman (R-Minn.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) are among leading Republicans who have attacked the McCain attack ads. “They don’t serve John McCain well,” said Collins, co-chair of McCain’s Maine campaign.

Anticipating a Victory? Get Ready for a Fight
by Karen O'Mara Voytas
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Is the Republican Party preparing to cry election fraud? If an Obama presidency can be stopped before it even begins, all the money and effort that went into the attempt to end the last Democratic presidency will be unnecessary.

Calling on Your Inner Volunteer: Stop Reading, Stop Blogging, and Help!
by Dorian Snow
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Tired of the smears, the lies, the creeping ulcers, the endless barrage of e-mails calling you to arms, asking you for donations, and asking you to forward the message to everyone you know? Are you screaming profanities at your TV every time you see John McCain or Sarah Palin lie about their own records while perpetuating more myths about Obama?

Testimony of VotePA
by Marybeth Kuznik

While it is too late for counties to obtain entirely different machines (or a new voting system) before the election, taking the simple steps we have recommended in this testimony will do much to remediate any problems that are going to occur.

LEARNING MADRID & COURTING TOLEDO
by Jack Lindeman

As I am sitting scribbling away in my notebook with one eye always on the boats, Katy has succumbed to a feeling of weariness and is lying on the bench with her head using my lap as a pillow in a futile effort to fall into a restful doze.