Monthly Archives: August 2009

My Ted Kennedy Photos and Photographing History

Posted on August 27, 2009 by Brian| Leave a comment

In a previous lifetime, I had just recently moved to LA and the 2008 presidential primary was fast approaching. My friend Tony and I decided to go to a rally in Pasadena, featuring Ted Kennedy. Trying to get to Tony’s apartment in Beverly Hills, I somehow managed to find myself downtown. Don’t ask me how I did it, to this day I have no idea. Suffice it to say, we made it to the rally pretty late, but in time to see the Lion speak and for me to snap at least a few photos. Not long after, the news came out that Kennedy has brain cancer and wasn’t facing a very optimistic prognosis. My photos, on my Flickr account and with a Media Commons license to them, popped up in a few different news articles.

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Imagine A Different Beginning

Posted on August 16, 2009 by Brian| Leave a comment

Originally posted as a DailyKos diary here.

I won’t claim to know the President’s endgame. I won’t claim to know whether we are on the verge of a great victory or a great defeat, whether this is part of Obama’s master plan or a genuine screw up on his part, since truthfully, I don’t know. I hope for the former but I fear the latter. So I won’t claim any judgment on that front.

Instead, I’d like to engage in a hypothetical, an exercise in hindsight, if you will. Yes, hindsight is always 20/20, but we should take advantage of such perfect vision more often, even if it points backward. So my hypothetical is this:

What if, at the beginning of this whole ordeal, the whole reform effort had been framed as simply expanding Medicare?

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