The West Coast tour for the new Book of Obama wraps up tonight and tomorrow in San Francisco.
Hope to see you there.
Thursday, June 7, 2012
7:00-9:00 pm
Cartoon Art Museum
655 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
Friday, June 8, 2012
7 pm
Modern Times Books
2919 24th Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
I draw cartoons for The Los Angeles Times about issues related to California and the Southland (metro Los Angeles).
This week: Obama and Romney keep returning to California, where they have raised a whopping $60 million in campaign contributions.
How did a charismatic young president elected in an atmosphere of optimism and expectation lead the United States to the brink of revolution? From a chance encounter in the early 1980s to the Democratic primaries of 2007-08, I was one of the first to size up Barack Obama as we know him now: conservative, risk-averse and tone deaf. In The Book of Obama I revisit the rapid rise and dizzying fall of Obama–and the emergence of the Tea Party and Occupy movements–and draw a startling conclusion: We the People weren’t lied to. We lied to ourselves, both about Obama and the two-party system. We voted when we ought to have revolted. Here’s the story of what went wrong — and a prescription for real change.
In The Book of O(bama): From hope and change to the age of revolt, Rall lays out his case, and it’s a strong one, for why we should revolt instead of vote, how the only hope we have for real change in this country is to trash the broken Democratic-Republican duopoly and create something new that better serves a diverse nation. —Phoenix New Times
Political Analysis/History, 2012
Seven Stories Press Trade Paperback, 6″x9″, 240 pp., $14.95
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“Ted Rall is a terrific journalist and a take-no-prisoners political cartoonist.”
—San Diego Union-Tribune
My column debuts at MSNBC’s Lean Forward blog today.
Please give them some love by linking to them; that’s how they know it’s worth supporting a writer’s work.
This column will likely go out via syndication later; the arrangement is that MSNBC gets me first. After 48 hours, I’ll post it here and distribute to other clients. Newspaper customers shouldn’t notice any difference.
See you at 2 pm.
http://calendar.bellinghamherald.com/bellingham_wa/events/show/262012845-ted-rall-on-his-new-book-the-book-of-obama-at-village-books
Thanks to everyone who came to Live Wire in Portland last night. Such a fun audience!
My Book of Obama tour arrives in Washington state tonight! During the next four nights I’ll be in Seattle, Bellingham, Tacoma and Olympia, so if you’re a Washingtonian you have no excuse not to come out and talk about the election, Occupy Wall Street, cartoons—and of course buy books. Remember—the Right supports its authors (Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity) by buying books in bulk. Don’t complain about the hegemony of the Right if you don’t support lefties.
Saturday, June 2, 2012
7:00 pm
Elliot Bay Bookstore
1521 10th Avenue
Seattle, Washington 98122
Sunday, June 3, 2012
2:00 pm
Village Books
1200 11th Street
Bellingham, Washington 98225
Monday, June 4, 2012
7:00 pm
Kings Bookstore
218 Saint Helens Avenue
Tacoma, Washington 98402
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
7 pm
Orca Books
509 4th Avenue East
Olympia, Washington 98501
So last night’s Portland signing at Powell’s on Hawthorne went fab. Big turnout, good questions, lively discussion. Thanks, all!
Tonight I’m on Live Wire in Portland.
Then tomorrow I’m driving up to Seattle’s Eliot Bay Books for a 7 pm appearance. Hope to see you there!
I’ll be in Portland OR and Seattle tonight, tomorrow and Saturday! Come out and let the Obama-bashing begin!
Thursday, May 31, 2012
7:30 pm
Live Wire Radio
The Alberta Rose Theatre
3000 NE Alberta Street
Portland, Oregon 97211
Saturday, June 2, 2012
7:00 pm
Elliot Bay Bookstore
1521 10th Avenue
Seattle, Washington 98122
