truthdig.com - 10/31/2008
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John McCain and Barack Obama have made the race’s final weeks an ideological proxy war between two presidential icons who still loom larger than them: Ronald Reagan and Franklin Roosevelt.
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Duberstein is pulling for Obama. (CNN) — Former
Reagan chief of staff Ken Duberstein told CNN's Fareed
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krugman.blogs.nytimes.com - 11/5/2008
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A magnificent victory for Barack Obama. And bear
in mind that the campaign, in its final stages,
was really about different philosophies of governing. This wasn't like the 2004 campaign, which was essentially fought over fake issues - Bush running on ...
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Mandate
creators.com - 11/1/2008
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McCain Banking On a Confederacy of Dunces Is
John McCain stupid, or does he believe we are?
That's the question as he criticizes Barack Obama for allegedly trying to "redistribute the wealth" with a plan to lower taxes on the middle class and raise ...
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Mandate '08: Reagan vs. Roosevelt
Open Left - Front Page —
In the last week, I've been making the point anywhere I can that the 2008 election's ideological turn has all but guaranteed a major mandate for the next president. As I write in my new newspaper column out today, with both John McCain and Barack Obama clearly making this a choice between Reagan-ism and Roosevelt-ism, whoever enters the White House will be expected to govern with the ideology he has been the vehicle for in the race. ...
David Sirota: Mandate '08: Reagan vs. Roosevelt
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... In the last week, I've been making the point anywhere I can that the 2008 election's ideological turn has all but guaranteed a major mandate for the next president. As I write in my new newspaper column out today, with both John McCain and Barack Obama clearly making this a choice between Reagan-ism and Roosevelt-ism, whoever enters the White House will be expected to govern with the ideology he has been the vehicle for in the race. ...
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