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Remainders: Leave Britney alone!
Ben Smith's Blog — ... The Nation sends an open letter to Obama, asking him to "stand firm" on universal healthcare, Iraq withdrawal, and whole host of other issues. ...

Nation magazine’s open letter to Obama: Please tack left before the election
Hot Air » Top Picks — Nation magazine’s open letter to Obama: Please tack left before the election posted at 5:11 pm on July 30, 2008 by Allahpundit Send to a Friend | printer-friendly Yes, please do. 33 percent of Democrat-identified uncommitted voters demand it. Since your historic victory in the primary, there have been troubling signs that you are moving away from the core commitments shared by many who have supported your campaign, toward a more cautious and centrist stance–including, most notably, your vote for the FISA legislation granting telecom companies immunity ...

Progressives put bug in Barack Obama's (left) ear
Top of the Ticket — ... gets a little cuff on the ear this week in the form of an open letter at the Nation. Signed by a long roster of political progressives -- including ...

Holding Barack Obama Accountable
TalkLeft — ... The Nation has an open letter to Sen. Barack Obama and is asking his supporters to sign it. The letter, Change We Can Believe In, seeks to hold Obama accountable to the positions he's endorsed while a candidate. ...

Progressives make a list, and run away...
Blue Gal — So The Nation wants me to sign an open letter to Obama telling him to be more liberal progressive. Yeah yeah I keep forgetting. And on the list of things Obama must somehow "commit" to is "universal healthcare," period, which could mean "everyone has to send a thousand bucks to Blue Cross/Blue Shield every month or it will be garnished from your WalMart wages, and hey, while you're at it, thank a liberal, you uneducated ingrate." ...

Locking The Barn Door After The Horse Is Out
Suburban Guerrilla — ... Oh, for godssakes, all those people who promised us that Obama was all new and different and change we can believe in apparently don’t believe in it quite so much anymore, and have written him a letter asking him to be as progressive as they think he promised them he would be. Jeralyn asks, “ ...

In the weeds
The Sideshow — ... Oh, for godssakes, all those people who promised us that Obama was all new and different and change we can believe in apparently don't believe in it quite so much anymore, and have written him a letter asking him to be as progressive as they think he promised them he would be. Jeralyn asks, " ...

Super Rich Tax Cheats
Firedoglake — ... Speaking of Obama, check out our panel discussion later tonight on the open letter to Barack Obama in the current issue of the Nation magazine. ...

Super Rich Tax Cheats
The Hollywood Liberal — ... . Speaking of Obama, check out our panel discussion later tonight on the open letter to Barack Obama in the current issue of the Nation magazine. This entry was posted on Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 at 4:40 am and is filed under ...

Go Left, Young Man
Hit & Run — ... The Nation's open letter to Barack Obama ("Change We Can Believe In") went up on Wednesday and has collected more than 15,000 ...

Leftists Upset by Obama Flip-Flops
GayPatriot — ... , the far-left Nation magazine published an Open Letter “calling on Barack Obama to stand firm on the principles he so compellingly articulated in the primary campaign.“: ...

POLITICS: Why Obama's Flip-Flops Matter
Baseball Crank — ... fire from John McCain and the GOP, he's been sending signals, however tepid, about buckling on his opposition to domestic oil drilling. (Other examples of Obama's shifts here (trade), here (affirmative action), here (campaign finance pledge), and here (faith-based initiatives, Israel, education and Social Security taxes), and here (oil reserves).) His own supporters have ranged from bewildered to in denial to enraged to laying out lists of things he must not concede (H/T). Meanwhile, in some cases the ...

Laura Carlsen: Obama on Latin America
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... fell back on tired calls for more free trade and echoed Condoleezza Rice by deeming Latin American measures to redistribute national wealth a sign of “resurgent resource nationalism.” He must be willing to stick to policy promises even when interest lobbies put the pressure on, or pollsters and politicos warn they might not be mainstream. ...

Jodie Evans, Yet Another Treasonous Friend of Obama
Moonbattery — ... In July, 2008, Evans joined other leftists in signing a letter urging Obama to keep left in his campaign that was published by The Nation. ...

Today in The Nation: Democratic Vistas
The Nation: Top Stories — ... worst elements of American culture: to nativism, fear and ignorance. This is the endgame the McCain campaign has chosen to play--to degrade democratic debate through slander and to cut citizens off from democracy. Barack Obama has a different vision of democracy, focused on enlarging the electorate and encouraging citizens to play an active role in shaping the country's policies and ordering its priorities. Our open letter to Barack Obama, which was signed by nearly 25,000 people (" Change ...

Eugene Jarecki: Keeping Track of Change(It Takes More Than Hope)
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... • FISA and Wiretapping. Obama dismayed many supporters when he voted for last summer's FISA legislation, granting telecom companies legal immunity from prosecution for wiretapping. More broadly, there has to date been no evidence of any movement to redress his predecessor's far-reaching assaults on civil liberties. ...

Keeping Track of Change (It Takes More Than Hope)
TPMCafe — ... FISA and Wiretapping. Obama dismayed many supporters when he voted for last summer's FISA legislation, granting telecom companies legal immunity from prosecution for wiretapping. More broadly, there has to date been no evidence of any movement to redress his predecessor's far-reaching assaults on civil liberties. ...