http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/christine_flowers RSS Feed for Christine Flowers en-us Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:12:54 GMT http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/christine_flowers/20081125_Christine_M__Flowers__Those_Poe__pathetic_Eagles.html With apologies to the author of "The Raven." ONCE UPON a Sunday dreary, as I pondered, weak and weary http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/christine_flowers/20081121_Christine_M__Flowers__And_then_there_were_four_____.html Also I heard the voice of the Lord saying, whom shall I send and who will go for us? Then said I, here am I, send me. http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/christine_flowers/20081114_Christine_M__Flowers__Democracy_s_pesky_contradictions.html PEOPLE power. You hear about it all the time. "We the people . . ." "The people, united, will never be defeated." http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/christine_flowers/20081107_Christine_M__Flowers___Hope__Obama_keeps_his_word.html THE first thing I did when I woke up Wednesday was to look out the window. The sun was rising in the east, the trash trucks were rolling down the street, children were waiting at the bus stops. I even heard a bird chirping. http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/christine_flowers/20081031_Christine_M__Flowers__Those_Phabulous_Phils__Here_s_lookin__at_ya__Tugger_.html ISWEAR I SAW him Wednesday night, glove in hand, jumping with a supernatural joy 10 feet above the pitcher's mound. He was there, soaring with Brad and J.C. and Cole and, especially, Jamie, reminding them how to celebrate. http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/christine_flowers/20081024_Christine_M__Flowers__One_tiny_vote_for_John_McCain.html SCRANTON made the big time this year. Sort-of native daughter Hillary Clinton was shaking glass from her hair as she hammered away at that ceiling. http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/christine_flowers/20081010_Christine_M__Flowers__Obama_camp_s_racial_decoders.html I'M WHITE, and I'm not voting for Barack Obama. To some people, that makes me a racist. Doesn't matter that I would never have voted for Hillary Clinton or John Edwards. The only thing that counts with the people who apparently count these things is that I'm a Caucasian turning my back on the junior senator from Illinois. http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/christine_flowers/20081003_Christine_M__Flowers__When_the_bench_drops_the_ball.html "How many judges have been killed this year on the streets of Philadelphia? "I'll give you an answer. Zero. How many parole-board members have been killed this year? Zero!" http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/christine_flowers/20080926_Christine_M__Flowers__Patrick_McDonald__It_s_time_to_bury_the_excuses.html WE SHOULD be used to this. I'm not talking about the murder of heroes. Or the grieving loved ones, faces contorted in pain. The flag-draped coffins. Or the phalanx of blue sending brother and sister officers home with a final, heartbreaking salute. http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/christine_flowers/20080919_Christine_M__Flowers__An_Obama-nation_on_immigration.html HE'S AT it again. First, Barack Obama insulted rural Pennsylvanians, among others, by calling them bitter, clinging to their guns and religion. He said it at a private fund-raiser in San Francisco wine and cheese country, where the sky is as blue as the voters, and apparently thought the rubes would remain blissfully ignorant of his disdain.