Tag: Obama
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“I want to gather talents from everywhere”
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv7K8S4kGQM[/youtube] Moderator: Senator Obama, you have Bill Clinton’s former national security advisor, state department policy advisor and Navy secretary, among others, advising you. With relatively little foreign policy experience of your own, how will you rely on so many Clinton advisors and still deliver the kind of break from the past that you’re promising voters.…
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A perspective on Obama’s election
The Central Virginia Progressive-The DAVISReport sends us The Ethnicity of our President Elect and how it changes the paradigm A friend sent me the essay below and when I read it I knew I had to share it on this blog. The author, Mr Robert J. House, in his 70’s, is a retired professional man…
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Why Senator Clinton Should Accept
I like the idea of Hillary Clinton as the next Secretary of State — mostly for the reasons that Andrew Sullivan points out here and here. And now comes word that President-Elect Obama has offered her the position and that she asked for time to consider it. I hope she accepts. (In the interest of…
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March of history
I found this story, From slave cabin to White House, a family rooted in black America, published by the Times of London, over the weekend and could not get over it. As an immigrant to this country, I cannot claim to know what African-Americans who have slaves for ancestors must feel at this barrier-shattering historic…
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Ayers again
The remarkable thing here is that Bill Ayers was utterly reasonable in the interview while his questioner, Chris Cuomo, seemed desperate. First Hillary Clinton, then John McCain and Sarah Palin went out of their way to destroy William Ayers. Anyone who has gone through this kind of crucible has every right to be hurt, angry…
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Learnin’
What I’m Learning (Slowly) From Obama By Jim Sleeper, TPMCafé, November 11, 2008 It’s well known by now that Barack Obama learns from his mistakes and tries hard not to make them twice. So can those of us who supported him. Even here on what we fancy is the right side of history, we can…
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A noble name
Until I read Jim Sleeper‘s TPM Cafe column, Swear Him in as ‘Barack Hussein Obama,’ it never occurred to me that the president-elect would be sworn in by anything other than his full name. The protests during the primaries and the general elections have been when bigots have wielded the name as an invective or…
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Leadership
President-Elect Barack Obama Holds First Press Conference Transcript of the news conference: Obama: Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you very much. This morning, we woke up to more sobering news about the state of our economy. The 240,000 jobs lost in October marks the 10th consecutive month that our economy has shed jobs. In…
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I knew it!
Warning explicit language: South Park Lampoons O Man! Like liketty split, South Park was`out of the gate with a side-splitting lampoon of President-Elect Barack Obama. A snippet that’ll take you to a link to see the full episode. The episode, which ran on Wednesday, had all the characters who bedeviled us during the campaign: Sarah…
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Editorials: President Barack Obama
The New York Times: This is one of those moments in history when it is worth pausing and reflecting on the basic facts: An American with the name Barack Hussein Obama, the son of a white woman and a black man he barely knew, raised by his grandparents far outside the stream of American power…