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09 Jan 21 : 38 | Danny Schechter: Inaugurate This: Waiting for Barack Obama To Discover Who Will Make Change, Supporters Need to Look in the Mirror The inauguration of a new President is drawing close and the excitement in our media is palpable. All the outlets are planning big coverage and newspapers are doing special sections, with full color pictures and endless... Source : The Blog 4 hours ago |
09 Jan 15 : 29 | Bob Burnett: Bush's Day of Reckoning When Barack Obama becomes the 44th President of the United States, he'll face daunting challenges: a shattered economy, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and global climate change, to mention only three. Nonetheless, many Americans feel Obama should immediately address the improprieties of the Bush... Source : The Blog 10 hours ago |
08 Jan 22 : 55 | Joel Berg: Dr. King's Other Dream: Ending Poverty Dr. Martin Luther King had more than one dream. Of course, King dreamt of racial reconciliation, and tomorrow's inauguration of Barack Obama demonstrates the nation's enormous, albeit inconsistent and incomplete, racial progress. King also called for making service to others a centerpiece of... Source : The Blog 26 hours ago |
08 Jan 19 : 31 | Frank Schaeffer: Let The Chips Fall -- Beyond Predictable Left/Right... Before you get your panties all bunched up and send me "how-can-you-say-that?" emails please note: the lists below are not lists of statements I necessarily believe to be true, but rather a (very partial) list of what you never, or almost never, hear from the right or left. And I hope you'll use... Source : The Blog 30 hours ago |
08 Jan 18 : 43 | Stefanie Michaels: Inauguration 2009: Last Minute Deals Near Washington One might think it is too late to secure lodging in our great capital for the upcoming Inauguration. Think again. It is not too late to pack up and head out to Washington, DC and experience this historical event live. There has been so much interest in this historic moment as Barack Obama is sworn... Source : The Blog 31 hours ago |
08 Jan 06 : 23 | Tom Hayden: Obama's Silence Back when Barack Obama was a longshot candidate in the Iowa primary, he was morally candid, saying on March 11, 2007, that "nobody is suffering more than the Palestinian people." It was one month after the announcement of Obama's campaign, and the last time he would make such a statement. Three days... Source : The Blog 43 hours ago |
08 Jan 00 : 26 | Danny Sullivan: Bush: Fix Your "Miserable Failure" Googlebomb Legacy Before... Few realize that outgoing US president George W. Bush has left behind a unique legacy for future presidents, including Barack Obama -- that they are all condemned to rank tops for a search on "miserable failure" in major search engines. It's my hope that Bush will correct this before leaving... Source : The Blog |
07 Jan 17 : 42 | Steven Crandell: A Second Chance to Vote for Change Can nuclear disarmament become a priority issue in Washington? Absolutely. And we can do it in less than 10 days. Everyone understands the issue is important, but many people have believed it is impossible to make progress. That's changing. Here's how we can do it. The social networking... Source : The Blog |
06 Jan 22 : 07 | Michael Hais and Morley Winograd: It's a Brand New Ballgame: Presidential... Almost before the echoes of Barack Obama's Grant Park victory speech had died, away pundits and the blogosphere began to keep score about the effectiveness of his transition. In a way, a presidential transition is like a political spring training that gives the incoming manager and his team a chance... Source : The Blog |
06 Jan 21 : 55 | Lola Adesioye: Obama -- Please Say Something! During the presidential campaign and since his election, Obama has shown himself to be a reflective and contemplative type. He is certainly not one prone to hasty judgments or reactionary behavior. At many times during the campaign when he was called on to respond to a comment made by an opponent,... Source : The Blog |
06 Jan 17 : 35 | Jann Karam: A Superficial Take on Politically Historical Events as... Just to let you know, I'm not a person anybody would necessarily describe as politically astute. I usually withhold opinion, leaving all discussion and analysis to those who pay closer attention. Nevertheless, over this past summer, while I watched the drama of the Democratic National... Source : The Blog |
06 Jan 14 : 43 | Art Brodsky: Panetta Comments Should Remind Hill Dems: It's Not About You Just in case some of the Democrats on Capitol Hill didn't get the message, let's be perfectly clear: A Democratic president is going to be inaugurated on Jan. 20. That means, among other things, It's Not About You, congressional Democrats. It's about Barack Obama and his overwhelming majority and... Source : The Blog |
18 Dec 18 : 16 | C. William Guy: U.S. President's Advisory Board Does the President of the United States have an Advisory Board? Yes, the President's Cabinet Members can and should serve as an Advisory Board. The President is the CEO of his organization (the Executive Branch of the United States of America) and as with any CEO, the composition, personalities,... Source : The Blog |
17 Dec 18 : 05 | Ray Hanania: Send President Bush a Pair of Your Shoes: Non-Violent Protest Muntandar al-Zaidi is a hero for a lot of reasons. First, he didn't resort to violence in the true sense of the Middle East conflict to express himself. Instead, he taped a deep rooted Arab cultural expression of disdain to show his objection and protest to President Bush's failed policies in the... Source : The Blog |
17 Dec 09 : 36 | Robert Scheer: President Bush and the Flying Shoes: A Cautionary Tale They hate us for our shoes. Somewhere in what passes for the deeper regions of President Bush's mind might come that reassuring giggle of a thought as he once again rationalizes away Iraqi ingratitude for the benevolence he has bestowed upon them. Ever at peace with himself, despite many obvious... Source : The Blog |
05 Jan 18 : 26 | The Progress Report: Obama's Stimulus Package To receive The Progress Report in your email inbox everyday, click here. Today, President-elect Obama is moving forward with what he has billed as his top priority: an economic stimulus package called the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan." He is scheduled to meet with House Speaker Nancy... Source : The Blog |
04 Jan 17 : 26 | Lincoln Mitchell: Frozen Ice Balls and the Bush Legacy As the clock winds down on what may well be the worst presidency in American history, the Bush administration spin has taken one more surreal twist as Vice President Dick Cheney's aggressively unapologetic stance regarding the administrations policies and actions over the last eight years is... Source : The Blog |
03 Jan 21 : 21 | Paul Jenkins: Along Came Caroline. And Andrew. And Beau. Speculation about Hillary Clinton's successor in the Senate will soon be moot, but the debate about America's political dynasties is hopefully just starting. This year's newly open Senate seats were particularly revealing, with the leading contenders in New York, Delaware, Colorado and Illinois all... Source : The Blog |
02 Jan 16 : 57 | Lawrence Houghteling: On Speeding Up the Presidential Succession "Barack Obama is our new president," David Letterman quipped the day after the election. "And I think I speak for most Americans when I say, anybody mind if he starts a little early?" Historians made a small fuss on March 4, 2001, the 200th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson Democratic-Republicans... Source : The Blog |
01 Jan 22 : 20 | Bennet Kelley: The Bush Presidency in Four Words A recent Pew Research Center poll found that the one word Americans used most to describe President Bush was "incompetent." While no compliment, the word fails to convey the condemnation warranted by the last eight years. There are several words that are more apt, such as "betrayal." Consider... Source : The Blog |
01 Jan 19 : 28 | Mark Goulston, M.D.: Beyond a Team of Rivals - The Method to Obama's... It is well known by now how much a fan President elect Obama is of Abraham Lincoln building a Team of Rivals and a fan of Doris Kearns Goodwin's book of the same title.Sadly, most of us are a little confused by this because for so long political administrations have built teams (companies and... Source : The Blog |
31 Dec 18 : 22 | Paula B. Mays: Calling for a New Era of Civil Rights Enforcement One great hope I have in 2009 is that the Civil Rights laws, for which so many people fought and died for, will again be taken seriously and enforced, and that there will be accountability for those who violate those laws. This to me, this is one of the unspoken, or softly spoken legacies of the... Source : The Blog |
31 Dec 08 : 21 | Robert Scheer: Gaza Clouds Obama's Prospects So, why didn't they give peace a chance? Why did the leaders of Hamas and Israel not wait for the incoming U.S. president's inauguration before mutually escalating hostilities? Here was a president-elect chosen, in part, on the expectation that he could enhance prospects for Mideast peace, even if... Source : The Blog |
30 Dec 18 : 37 | Stephen C. Rose: Will Barack Obama Embrace Nonviolence? By Stephen C. Rose Barack Obama looks back to Lincoln and in doing so identifies with a President regarded as our greatest. Lincoln presided over one of the most brutal conflicts in history. Barack also looks back to that preacher from Atlanta who sang We Shall Overcome and espoused nonviolence. ... Source : The Blog |
30 Dec 03 : 31 | Daniel Bruno Sanz: The Department of Commerce: An Opportunity for Bill... Former Democratic primary rival Gov. Bill Richardson, 61, has been chosen by the incoming Obama Administration to be the new Secretary of Commerce. The behemoth Department employs over 38,000 people and has a budget of nearly $7 billion, comparable to the GDP of a small state or country. It is the... Source : The Blog |
29 Dec 03 : 36 | Robert Kuttner: Deficit or Depression? Here is a fine example of why a despairing President Truman once said, "Bring me a one-armed economist." Our quote of the day comes from Martin N. Baily, an economist at the Brookings Institution, who was once on President Bill Clinton Council of Economic Advisers. The quote, incidentally, was the... Source : The Blog |
29 Dec 01 : 12 | Father Paul Mayer: Lessons for President-Elect Obama From Mumbai Our new president-elect is surely as apprehensive as the rest of the world about the threat of new Mumbai-type attacks spreading around the globe. What then are the policy insights that he should derive from this recent tragedy? The answers to this question are particularly significant in light of... Source : The Blog |
27 Dec 18 : 57 | Allen Keller: Making His List: Presidential Pardons and Torture Tis the season. Santa had his naughty or nice gift list and checked it twice. President Bush is still working on his list-the one granting pardons. And while a Brooklyn developer at the center of a fraud scheme has already been scratched, will those who conceived and implemented this... Source : The Blog |
26 Dec 16 : 51 | Lincoln Mitchell: Achieving the Impossible-Expectations for an Obama... Managing expectations, as we saw again in 2008, is a key part of presidential campaigns. If a candidate is unable to meet expectations, a minor defeat, or even a narrow victory can be a serious setback. The most historic example of this was in 1968 when Lyndon Johnson dropped out of the race for... Source : The Blog |
25 Dec 16 : 03 | Ira Glasser: Christmas Day in a Louisiana Dungeon This is a story about a double crucifixion happening on the very day that hundreds of millions of Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus. It happened yesterday, too, and it will happen tomorrow, unless people of good will and moral decency rise up and stand against it. The story begins nearly 40... Source : The Blog |
23 Dec 17 : 32 | Lanny Davis: Obama, Warren and Civil Society This article originally appeared in theWashington Times and at Pundits.thehill.com on Monday, December 22nd. ANALYSIS/OPINION: Full disclosure of my position on gay rights and gay marriage: I support both, strongly. I strongly disagree with anyone who would deprive an American citizen of full and... Source : The Blog |
22 Dec 16 : 11 | Al Giordano: The Populist Case for Caroline Kennedy (Crossposted from The Field.) Caroline Kennedy's open support for marriage rights for gays and lesbians in an era when top liberal Democrats can't bring themselves to support it offers the best antidote to the Rick Warren blues yet. It is in the very best of Kennedy traditions: they're not black,... Source : The Blog |
19 Dec 14 : 53 | Bob Burnett: Obama's Experiment On November 4th, Barack Obama was elected President as the result of the most effective political campaign in American history. The election of American's first black President was a tribute to his skill as a community organizer and the tenacity of his ten million volunteers. Now Obama plans to... Source : The Blog |
16 Dec 23 : 06 | Rob Kall: Secret Service Issues New Policy: Bloggers to Go Shoeless The Secret Service has ruled that bloggers must go shoeless when attending political events. After the flack raised by Secret Service critics who questioned why President Bush found himself at the mercy of an Iraqi journalist's size tens, the security org took a preemptive position, requiring that... Source : The Blog |
13 Dec 15 : 40 | David Paul Appell: As Cuba's Revolution Turns 50, How About Some Common... Maybe you've heard of that old Cuban joke about an island youngster asked what he wants to be when he grows up. The answer: a tourist, who can travel and live the "high life," unlike the average Cuban. But as the Castros' slowly evolving revolution reaches its half-century mark on January 1, almost... Source : The Blog |
09 Dec 03 : 20 | Frank Schaeffer: W The Merciless: What We'll Remember Most About George W.... George W. Bush is doing farewell TV interviews with a view to his legacy. What makes him unique? Here's my personal note for the cosmic time capsule. I write this as the proud father of a Marine son who served honorably in W's wars. I write this as an author who had one of my many pro-military... Source : The Blog |
