democracyarsenal.org - 11/10/2008
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Nicholas Kristoff had a great column today . He points out that Barack Obama is an “open, out-of-the-closet, practicing intellectual.” His point is that America has rejected the anti-intellectual wave that has flooded America during the Bush era. He defines an intellectual as, “a ...
Foreign Policy
crookedtimber.org 1/7/2009 — So Foreign Policy has a new frontpage , with lots and lots of blogs by a variety of international relations and journalists. I’m considerably more optimistic about this stable’s odds over the long run than I was about the last effort to ...
Obama Vindicated On Key Foreign Policy Issues?
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 11/8/2008 — The relentless focus on the economy has obscured the extent to which Obama's election also represents a big win for his foreign policy vision, which was resoundingly chosen over McCain's. A pair of articles in today's New York Times shed a fair ...
Obama's Foreign Policy Team
thenation.com 11/25/2008 — I hate to say I told you so, but here it goes. In late September, in this column , I criticized Barack Obama for what I called a "pathetic" debate with John McCain, in which Obama got nearly everything about foreign policy wrong: "He checked all the ...
The Foreign Policy Deputies
voices.washingtonpost.com 11/25/2008 — By Al Kamen With the top slots at the State Department and the National Security Council apparently taken by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Gen. James Jones, respectively, attention is now turning to selections for the critical deputy posts at Foggy ...
Is Progressive Foreign Policy Dead on Arrival?
weeklystandard.com 11/24/2008 — It will be some time before we know the full extent of Obama's ambitions on domestic policy, but progressives are sure to feature prominently in any debate over health care, energy, banking, etc. In the realm of foreign policy, however, progressives ...
Obama's Foreign Policy Team
thenation.com 12/2/2008 — I hate to say I told you so, but here it goes. In late September, in this column , I criticized Barack Obama for what I called a "pathetic" debate with John McCain, in which Obama got nearly everything about foreign policy wrong: "He checked all the ...
A Window Into Obama’s Foreign Policy
washingtonindependent.com 11/14/2008 — In April 2007, as the United States was enmeshed in two wars, a Brookings Institution scholar and Clinton-era State Dept. official testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in favor of taking military action as a last resort to stop the ...
Unbuilding the election: Flippin' counties —
First Read 11/10/2008
Below is a county-by-county look at Obama’s improvement over Kerry in key battleground states: COLORADO: Obama flipped three swing counties Bush won in 2004 -- Arapahoe, Jefferson and Larimer -- and overperformed Kerry in every county in the ...
The transition: The Bush-Obama meeting —
First Read 11/10/2008
The New York Times raises the curtain on today’s Bush-Obama meeting. “In a time-honored tradition of American democracy, Mr. Obama and his wife, Michelle, will receive a tour of their new home from Mr. Bush and the first lady, Laura Bush. Then ...
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