ourfuture.org - 2/3/2009
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Before the election, my colleague Rick Perlstein counseled the next president to embrace a big and bold liberal agenda immediately after entering office , in the mold of Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson, or else the opportunity for real change would be lost. But Rick also ...
timesonline.co.uk - 2/1/2009
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timesonline.co.uk —
LESS than two weeks into his administration, President
Barack Obama is being portrayed by opponents as a...
new Jimmy Carter - weak at home and naive abroad - in an attempt to dim his post-election glow and ensure that he serves only one term. The ...
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‘Jimmy Carter’ tag has Obama wincing
boston.com - 2/4/2009
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boston.com —
EARLY IN HIS presidency, Jimmy Carter set about
to a letter US policy toward the Soviet Union....
Six days after his inauguration he sent a letter to Soviet ruler Leonid Brezhnev, hailing the two countries' "common efforts towards formation of a more ...
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Obama's charm offensive and the global jihad - The ...
upper-left.blogspot.com - 2/3/2009
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upper-left.blogspot.com —
One more time to celebrate the official arrival
of Blogroll Amnesty Day … Jimmy offers dispatches from...
beyond the Cascade Curtain at McCranium . For all y'all outlanders, that's the mountain divide that separates our politics in the upper left every ...
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Are We Doing the Bidding of Conservatives?
LiberalOasis : The Blog —
... line. We want to win strong so we'll have to momentum to build on the victory, because there is a ton of work left to do on global warming, health care, workplace rights and infrastructure.
Achieving those bold legislative goals are what's most important right now. If we allow ourselves to get distracted by the daily "nontroversies", and take our eyes of the ball, this progressive window of opportunity will slam shut on our fingers.
Originally posted at OurFuture.org
Bill Scher: Are We Doing the Bidding of Conservatives?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... line. We want to win strong so we'll have to momentum to build on the victory, because there is a ton of work left to do on global warming, health care, workplace rights and infrastructure.
Achieving those bold legislative goals are what's most important right now. If we allow ourselves to get distracted by the daily "nontroversies", and take our eyes of the ball, this progressive window of opportunity will slam shut on our fingers.
Originally posted at OurFuture.org
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Jason Rosenbaum: Progressives: Stop Whining About The Recovery Plan and Actually Fight
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... But now that the Senate is debating, the time for complaining is over. It's time for action.
To be sure, there are exceptions. MyDD has a post up. So does Seeing the Forest. So does Firedoglake. Bleeding Heartland too. ACORN is in on it. And Campaign for America's Future has been doing a ton. But it's hardly the swarm of blog posts we've had in the past.
Meanwhile, Rush Limbaugh supporters outnumber progressive calls 100 to 1. As Bill Scher says:
Are we flooding Congress with phone calls (Call ...
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