Archives for Tony Hill | Everyday Citizen

Shortcuts

Connect with us on Facebook!

Subscribe.
[Feeds & Readers]

Make us your home page!

Authors, sign in!

Recommend Our Site!

You can use this handy tool to send emails to people you'd like to recommend this site to. We assure you that their email addresses will never be shared or even stored. Your privacy is 100% protected.

Just fill in the blanks and send your email! It's easy.

Main

Front Page » Authors » Bio for Tony Hill » Archives for Tony Hill

Out of the Mouth of Babes

By Tony Hill on February 24, 2009

My wife noticed a phenomenon over the Christmas holiday season involving our two year old son. While they were walking at the mall, he would spontaneously shout “Barack Obama!” Pleased, but embarrassed by the unsolicited outbursts, she called me from her cell phone to report the incident. I reasoned that it must have been due to viewing so many pictures and television appearances of the newly elected president. She agreed, but wondered what triggered the behavior. Well, it has been a couple of months and we have finally figured it out. I actually witnessed an occasion first hand in our home. One day our son pointed to an open closet and yelled “Barack Obama!” The only item that could even loosely be associated to President Obama was an American flag that was stored up on a closet shelf. To confirm my hypothesis, I showed my son other American flags and sure enough he yelled with excitement, “Barack Obama!”

Read more of this post here ...

Full Text posted by Tony Hill on February 24, 2009
Permalink | Comments (4)
Tags: Barack Obama Patriotism Politics

Initial Blog of a Democrat Neophyte

By Tony Hill on January 1, 2009

Politically, 2008 was a watershed year for me. I moved from conservative Republican to Obamican to full fledged Democrat, all in the space of four months. Actually, it took much longer. Allow me to explain. I had been a staunch conservative for approximately thirty years! Or at least I thought I was. Oh yeah, I should mention that I am an African-American male who used to love listening to Rush Limbaugh, even though much of what he said insulted my racial sensitivities? Yes, I was one of the few black “ditto heads.” Talk about an identity crisis!

Read more of this post here ...

Full Text posted by Tony Hill on January 1, 2009
Permalink | Comments (4)
Tags: African-American Barack Obama Democratic Party Kansas Martin Luther King Politics Republican Party

More blog posts by Tony Hill:

Want to see more blog posts by Tony Hill? We have more! By default, this page only lists a few of the most recent entries. Most of the entries that our authors post are very timeless and relevant, regardless of when their articles are originally published.

We encourage and welcome you to look back through the blog archives for Tony Hill. All of this author's archives are listed here, on the right side of this page.

To see the rest of this author's entries, just click on any of the months shown in the right sidebar column of this page.

If you want to browse other topics, you can also check our Table of Contents or go back to our Front Page. Stick around awhile! We're glad you're here.

Browse the Blogs!

You Are Here!

This is an archive for Tony Hill. To learn more about this author, you can also read a Biography for Tony Hill here.

Just a few of most current posts by Tony Hill are excerpted in the center of this page.

However, we do have links, below, to all of the entries ever published by this author.

To browse archived entries by Tony Hill, just scroll down this same sidebar column. You'll see the links for all of this author's blog entries, grouped by month and year.

Books You Might Like!

We Went to Denver!

Everyday Citizen was selected by the DNC as one of just 55 blogs nationwide to be seated with delegates on the floor, and embedded with delegates during the weeklong 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver!

Read some of our coverage in the mainstream press here >>

Watch a Convention video featuring our bloggers here >>

Find out which Everyday Citizen writers went to Denver here >>

Browse the list of all of our Convention blog posts here >>

Notices & Policies

All of the Everyday Citizen authors are delighted you are here. We all hope that you come back often, leave us comments, and become an active part of our community. Welcome!

All of our contributing authors are credentialed by invitation only from the editor/publisher of EverydayCitizen.com. If you are visiting and are interested in writing here, please feel free to let us know.

For complete site policies, including privacy, see our Frequently Asked Questions. This site is designed, maintained, and owned by its publisher, Everyday Citizen Media. EverydayCitizen.com, The Everyday Citizen, everydaycitizens.com, and Everyday Citizen are trademarked names.

Each of the authors here retain their own copyrights for their original written works, original photographs and art works. Our authors also welcome and encourage readers to copy, reference or quote from the content of their blog postings, provided that the content reprints include obvious author or website attribution and/or links to their original postings, in accordance with this website's Creative Commons License .

Copyright, 2007-2011, All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified, first by each the respective authors of each of their own individual blogs and works, and then by the editor and publisher for any otherwise unreserved and all other content. Our editor primarily reviews blogs for spelling, grammar, punctuation and formatting and is not liable or responsible for the opinions expressed by individual authors. The opinions and accuracy of information in the individual blog posts on this site are the sole responsibility of each of the individual authors.

Menu