http://garrettgraff.com/blog/ thoughts & observations on politics, the first campaign, books, and la joie de vivre en-us blog@garrettgraff.com 2008-05-22T16:28:15-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://garrettgraff.com/blog/archives/000162.html Just wanted to give a nod to one of my star students from the spring semester, who does public affairs for the Navy and just returned from helping to set up the public affairs portion of a hospital ship's trip... 162@http://garrettgraff.com/blog/ 2008-05-22T16:28:15-05:00 http://garrettgraff.com/blog/archives/000161.html Here's my debut on G4's "Attack of the Show" from last night, talking about YouTube and the 2008 election:... 161@http://garrettgraff.com/blog/ 2008-05-06T06:57:41-05:00 http://garrettgraff.com/blog/archives/000160.html I found out this week that one of my colleagues from Dean for America passed away. Hunter and I worked really closely together during my first months at the campaign before he shipped out to Iowa. He'd come to the... 160@http://garrettgraff.com/blog/ 2008-05-01T08:15:42-05:00 http://garrettgraff.com/blog/archives/000159.html So an email just arrived from Hillary Clinton thanking me for all of my support: "I want to personally thank you for all you've done to support our campaign. Your continuing commitment over the past months to the values we... 159@http://garrettgraff.com/blog/ 2008-04-15T12:39:28-05:00 http://garrettgraff.com/blog/archives/000158.html So I'm the exact reverse of the media trend right now: I just signed up for my second hard-copy dead-tree newspaper. I subscribed last week to the Wall Street Journal, which I've been reading more and more over the last... 158@http://garrettgraff.com/blog/ 2008-04-15T08:14:08-05:00 http://garrettgraff.com/blog/archives/000157.html News today that Waterford Crystal could "quit" Ireland if the government refused to back a new round of loans there: In a statement, Waterford said it "believes that it is desirable for Ireland to maintain Waterford Crystal in Ireland. It... 157@http://garrettgraff.com/blog/ 2008-04-14T21:44:12-05:00 http://garrettgraff.com/blog/archives/000156.html Would it be that terrible for us to admit that Barack Obama had some truth in his statements? Howard Dean ran into similar trouble in 2004 when he was talking about people in the South who wave the Confederate flag.... 156@http://garrettgraff.com/blog/ 2008-04-14T15:10:53-05:00 http://garrettgraff.com/blog/archives/000155.html One more superdelegate goes for Barack Obama. I keep saying that the superdelegates want to break in a big way for Obama. They are, by and large, the same people who backed and elected Howard Dean as chair of the... 155@http://garrettgraff.com/blog/ 2008-04-14T06:50:58-05:00 http://garrettgraff.com/blog/archives/000153.html I realized that I run in odd circles when I was packing to fly to Tampa on Thursday and filled my bag only with books that my friends have published this winter. having now read them both, I recommend both:... 153@http://garrettgraff.com/blog/ 2008-04-13T11:29:41-05:00 http://garrettgraff.com/blog/archives/000154.html I've been meaning to blog about this amusing poster from my talk at the end of March at Princeton. I was talking on my cell outside the building where I was speaking when this girl came up to me and... 154@http://garrettgraff.com/blog/ 2008-04-01T06:41:42-05:00 http://garrettgraff.com/blog/archives/000152.html Thanks to the father of a friend, who had seasons tickets, I got to go to the opening of the Washington nationals new stadium last night. It was certainly one of the more enjoyable baseball games I've ever attended... 152@http://garrettgraff.com/blog/ 2008-03-31T07:23:13-05:00 http://garrettgraff.com/blog/archives/000151.html .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } World Freedom Map, originally uploaded by Vermontgmg. I got a sneak preview of the museum... 151@http://garrettgraff.com/blog/ 2008-03-31T06:56:40-05:00 http://garrettgraff.com/blog/archives/000150.html I'm off in the morning to Princeton, the first time I've ever visited there. I'll speaking at the Center for Information Technology Policy so I'm up late tonight putting the finishing touches on my speech. It's always a little bit... 150@http://garrettgraff.com/blog/ 2008-03-26T22:06:12-05:00 http://garrettgraff.com/blog/archives/000149.html One of my favorite concepts from researching "The First Campaign," was this idea from Andy Stern of "Sputnik moments"—that is, teachable moments that made everyone sit up and pay attention. Given the tunnel vision of American society, "Sputnik moments" basically... 149@http://garrettgraff.com/blog/ 2008-03-26T07:16:13-05:00 http://garrettgraff.com/blog/archives/000148.html I stumbled last night into watching Frontline's documentary, "Bush's War," which was as captivating and fascinating to watch as New York magazine promised it would be: "If you’ll watch only one television program on the catastrophe in Iraq, make it... 148@http://garrettgraff.com/blog/ 2008-03-25T10:18:08-05:00