newyorker.com - 11/11/2008
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In September, 1932, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the Democratic nominee for President, was asked by a reporter for his view of the job that he was seeking. “The Presidency is not merely an administrative office,” Roosevelt said. “That’s the least of it. It is more than an ...
newyorker.com - 11/15/2008
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It sounds like you’re proposing classic counterinsurgency strategy:
a combination of offensive and defensive military operations, political...
and economic development, and diplomacy. Isn’t that what we’ve been doing these past seven years? Have we just ...
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newyorker.com - 11/18/2008
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Kristol was hired on a one-year contract for
what amounts to a mutual tryout…If Kristol is another...
Safire, he has the chance to prove it. If not, he and the newspaper will move on, and the search will resume.”—Clark Hoyt, the Times public editor, ...
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newyorker.com - 11/4/2008
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ObamainCleveland.jpg Obama seems a bit grave to me
these days. The death of his grandmother has edged...
his public mood with sadness, but this heaviness preceded it. Compare the closing-days portraits of the two candidates in the Times : I’d rather ...
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... Did you hear an echo? “Roosevelt arrived in Washington with no firm commitments, apart from his promise to ‘try something,’ ” the Times editorialist Adam Cohen writes in his forthcoming book, “Nothing to Fear: FDR’s Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern America.” “At a time when Americans were drawn to ideologies of all sorts, he was not wedded to any overarching theory.” ...
Andrea Chalupa: Adopt-A-Republican
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... Republicans, at least the ones I know personally and met during the Republican National Convention, are good people like you and me. I enjoy discourse with Republicans, I have family that I love who are Republican, but at the same time, we need to lock them all up and read, and re-read over loud speakers George Packer's article in this week's New Yorker, especially this passage here: ...
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newyorker.com 11/18/2008 — Standing on a principle in the shape of a land mine, the U.S. military has banned Iraqi interpreters from wearing face masks. “We are a professional Army and professional units don’t conceal their identity by wearing masks,” Lieutenant Colonel Steve ...
Interesting Times: George Packer: Online Only: The New Yorker
newyorker.com 10/25/2008 — A roundup (via Andrew Sullivan ) of conservative anti-Obama blogging during the election. Much of it has appeared on popular right-wing Web sites, including National Review Online, disclosing the “news” that Bill Ayers wrote “Dreams from My Father,” ...
Obama Preparing To Redefine The "Center"?
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 11/26/2008 — A couple of quick additional points on the question du jour : Whether Barack Obama's bipartisan gestures and staff picks suggest a betrayal of progressives.
As Ed Kilgore notes , it's worth distinguishing between two different approaches to ...
Interesting Times: George Packer: Online Only: The New Yorker
newyorker.com 10/20/2008 — Ken Adelman is a lifelong conservative Republican. Campaigned for Goldwater, was hired by Rumsfeld at the Office of Economic Opportunity under Nixon, was assistant to Defense Secretary Rumsfeld under Ford, served as Reagan’s director of arms control, ...
Crisis? What Crisis?
themonkeycage.org 11/5/2008 — Lots of chatter, especially from the GOP that the September financial crisis did McCain’s chances. I’m skeptical. Look at this graph from Pollster.com. It shows the poll average trendline from August 22 (the day Obama announced his pick ...
Even George Will
washingtonmonthly.com 12/7/2008 — EVEN GEORGE WILL.... We've past the point at which this can reasonably be described as foolish. Now, conservative apoplexy about the non-existent drive to reinstate the "Fairness Doctrine," is just annoying. George Will, who one might expect to know ...
U.S. Bishops Urged to Challenge Obama —
NYT > Politics 11/11/2008
Cardinal Francis George told his fellow prelates that while they should “rejoice” at the election of an African-American president, they should confront him over his support for abortion rights. >
Less Room for Breakthrough Ideas —
Wash Post Federal Page 11/11/2008
President-elect Barack Obama is currently mulling one of the largest legislative agendas in modern history. He promised it and the public expects it. But if the past is prologue, his agenda is likely to be one of the smallest since the 1960s.
No Great Society... Yet —
Wash Post Federal Page 11/11/2008
President Barack Obama is currently mulling one of the largest legislative agendas in modern history. He promised it and the public expects it. But if the past is prologue, his agenda is likely to be one of the smallest since the 1960s.
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