Some additional reading November 4th from 14:27 to 14:58:
- Maddow and Martha – "The only thing left was to make a drink, something Maddow, an accomplished amateur mixologist, is very good at. Noting that the long night ahead made it a high ball kind of day, she offered instructions for a "Joe Rickey:" two ounces of bourbon in a tall glass over ice topped off with seltzer water and the juice of half a lime. "Is it a Joe Rickey as in Joe the Plumber?" asked Stewart. Maddow laughed. "We could call it a Wurzelbacher Rickey!"
Stewart just took a sip. "It's very delicious," she said. "I think I'll start now, and keep filling the glass till midnight tonight."
- Sarah Palin sounds like she knows she lost. She also refuses to say if she voted for Stevens. – Palin "did next to no real interviews, never held a press conference, and McCain hasn't held one in two and a half months. And the media did nothing about it. On that account, they let us down. Yes, there is something they could have done. How about not letting Palin and McCain go on SNL and Letterman and every other goofy fluffy show until they hold a real press conference? How about pulling your reporters off their bus and their plane? Our media allowed McCain to set a precedent where presidential candidates are no longer required to be publicly accountable. Yet another way in which the Republicans are continually watering down our democracy, and the media, the supposed watchdogs of that democracy, yet again are complicit."
- Obama Denounces Baggy Pants Crackdown – November 4, 2008 – "After telling MTV that "brothers should pull up their pants," Obama noted, "You are walking by your mother, your grandmother, your underwear is showing. What's wrong with that? Come on." He added, "Some people might not want to see your underwear–I'm one of them."
- US election: Barack Obama's hometown of Chicago confident in his chances – "A stocky plain-spoken man in his fifties, he said he felt proud and excited to have cast a vote for a black president. "I never thought he would come this far. I really didn't. I think it's great for America. Not just black America. But all of America…."
And then his voice cracked. And then he cried. Walking away to compose himself he came back. "I'm sorry he said. I never knew this thing went so deep.""
- inessential.com: ‘That new sound’ – The Clash, and Barack Obama. Can't go wrong!
"In 2004 we were watching the Democratic National Convention on TV, and were mesmerized by a speech from a state legislator from Illinois. “Why aren’t we voting for him?”
I feel like, this year, I get to vote for the new sound I’d been waiting for without knowing it. It seemed to come from nowhere. There was no reason to expect it."