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fattening our sacred cows

November 14, 2008, 7:56AM

One of the first ironies I have noticed about Barack Obama's victory is the inability of many liberals to follow his lead on positioning his coming progressive changes. I have yet to hear the words "democratic dominance" out Barack's mouth. All of his initial moves seem to signal a shift away from the left-right pendulum swing of the last 40 years. He speaks to national unity at a time when many democrats shout for heads to roll.

"It's our time now!"

an american renaissance

November 9, 2008, 9:10AM

President-elect Barack Obama ran on a detailed set of policy solutions for many of our most pressing challenges. Neoconservative pundits and an anemic news media aside, he won the support of many political moderates for the depth and breadth of his platform coupled with the brilliance of his campaign. Barack's best-selling book The Audacity of Hope lends a philosophical depth to these goals and describes nothing less than an American Renaissance.

It was also the main reason I joined the republican party in August of 2008.

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jason everett miller

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Website: www.jasoneverettmiller.com
Location Washington DC
Party Republican (Bull Moose 2.0)
Politics Progressive conservative. I believe we need governing policies that are based in common sense and not dogma. An evolution of society and not a revolution that seeks to tear everything down and start from scratch. We don't have enough time for that nonsense.

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Favorite Blogs TPM. Much easier to get everything in one place than visiting a million blogs every day. Who has time for that?
Favorite Books Too many to list. Reading The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson. Just finished the Squandering of America by Robert Kuttner. Probably the best explanations of our issues and some possible solutions for them.
Favorite Quotes "A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom." - Thomas Paine, Common Sense
"It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things." - Teddy Roosevelt

Bio

I started my professional life as a union carpenter in Reno before joining the United States Navy in 1991 as an assistant ship's journalist and a deck seaman. I covered high-profile events around the globe, from Hurricane Andrew disaster in 1992 to the discovery of USS Yorktown off of Midway Island with Bob Ballard in 1998. My final tour of duty at Combat Camera Group Pacific was as a field producer in support of a worldwide mission of military documentary production.

I left the Navy in 2001 and moved across the country to start my first business with my long-time best friend Mikah Sellers. We started a specialized communications firm in Washington DC called Hancuff Miller. After a short but successful partnership, we both decided to pursue other opportunities following the Dot.com Bomb. I spent the next several years as a freelance multimedia designer, web developer and screenwriter. I also wrote five feature-length scripts during this time, earning a bachelors degree in graphics and multimedia design from Capella University and a Masters in Producing for Film & Video at American University.

In 2006, I gathered together my educational background, technical tools and business acumen to start my second company, Metamorphosis Media, with Marcus Scott. The company completed a number of projects for non-profit clients such as Academy of Hope, Mosaica and the Conservation Fund. It was at Metamorphosis that I discovered the enormous benefit that technology and story-telling could provide to the non-profit, charity and NGO communities. I maintain a relationship with Metamorphosis as a senior consultant with the firm, but no longer support their day-to-day operations.

I live with my wife and two dogs in Washington DC. My extracurricular activities include filmmaking, screenwriting and blogging.

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