patterico.com - 1/19/2009
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[Guest post by DRJ]
Martin Luther King may have had a dream but Barack Obama has a theme: He wants to make America a more perfect union. He’s mentioned it twice in two days, and I think it will reappear in the coming days and in his Inaugural Address.
For example, Obama invoked this ...
rollingstone.com - 1/16/2009
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rollingstone.com —
Dear Mr. President: Like FDR three-quarters of a
century ago, you're taking charge at a moment when...
all the old certainties have vanished, all the conventional wisdom been proved wrong. We're not living in a world you or anyone else expected to see. ...
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What Obama Must Do
powerlineblog.com - 1/18/2009
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powerlineblog.com —
We are living in a historical moment that
in some ways represents uncharted territory. In other respects,...
however, the current moment is a return to a simpler and clearer past, when the hallmark of conservatism was opposition to extravagant spending ...
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Biggest Boondoggle in American History
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 1/19/2009
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tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com —
It's a cliche that people who came of
age after the civil rights movement, can't imagine the...
world of Jim Crow and segregation that preceded them. To a lesser extent, at 45--I turn 46 on Wednesday--I find it slightly hard to explain what America's ...
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The Racial Thaw
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alicublog —
... The blessed event is hard for them in so many ways. Attend Patterico's denunciation of Obama's letter to his daughters: "It's not a letter encouraging children to work diligently at their careers, it's a letter telling them to make a difference in their neighbor’s lives," which Patterico finds distasteful and an example of how "some liberals see America as a glass half empty rather than a glass half full." In some awful future America, a ...
No More Mister Nice Blog —
... good food, clean clothes, an education and all that stuff? Unabashed, near incoherent Rage, is what. Its going to take a long time for the battered children of the right to forgive the new daddy for showing up the old one. For a long time they will continue to act out the old relationship--hoarding food, acting out sexual abuse, lying, hitting the other children. Its to be expected, but its not going to be pretty. Nowhere is that more obvious than in this petulant post by Patterico, already ably pilloried by Roy, in which Patterico and his posters go ...
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