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lesbianlife.about.com - 12/19/2008

Barack Obama on Gay and Lesbian Rights - Where does Barack Obama Stand for Gays and Lesbians

— lesbianlife.about.com — Barack Obama -Young, Liberal Presidential Candidate: Barack Obama has accepted the Democratic nomination for president. Barack Obama seems to be getting liberals all fired up because he is young, energetic and represents change. But how does Barack ... (more) Barack Obama on Gay and Lesbian Rights - Where does ...

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thephoenix.com - 12/18/2008

Take Back Barack

— thephoenix.com — It's time to reclaim the man we put in the White House It's time to reclaim the man we put in the White House Let's be honest: we didn't vote for the Barack Obama his campaign advertised. We didn't vote for an African-American man, nor for ... (more) Take Back Barack

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prospect.org - 12/27/2008

PRESIDENT OF ALL AMERICA.

— prospect.org — Amidst a column meant to talk liberals down from expressing their opinions on things, Michael Cohen makes a point worth examining. "Obama has set out to be President of all America," he writes, "and it's small wonder that a 53% candidate now ... (more) PRESIDENT OF ALL AMERICA.

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Daily Digest: @obamacouldlearnsomething from @thetwitteringdiplomat
techPresident — ... "In the campaign we were organizing people," explains transition team Internet director Macon Phillips on the challenges of wiring the next steps of Obama's road to the White House. "Now it's more conversational, trying to listen and engage people that weren't engaged in the campaign." In "Obama for America 2.0?," the Nation's Ari Melber has a rundown of the (sometimes competing) visions of what's next for the energy and networked infrastructure the campaign gave rise to from everyone from organizing ...

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Daily Kos — ... of that question. Usually, the question ended up being a statement, expressed in a careful, almost parental, just-hang-in-there way: "So [pause], you write about the Internet [another pause]." Sometimes, it was asked with a dismissive, get-yourself-a-real-writing-job tone: "So you write about the Internet? What about the Internet?" Whatever the tone, I often replied, "I don't write about the Internet. I write about people who are using the Internet." Ari Melber: Barack Obama does not look like any other American president, but ...

Creating Space for Disagreement
Open Left - Front Page — ... what President-elect Obama has done with his Cabinet - selecting so many strong personalities in his "Team of Rivals," including four former primary opponents - that one will maybe occasionally wander off the reservation? "I think the far greater risk is assembling a group of people that whenever the president opens their mouth they all nod their heads in agreement," Gibbs said. The president-elect "wants and expects there to be disagreement within that room." Second, Internet director Macon Phillips: Twenty thousand people participated in ...

Ari Melber: Obama's Online Health Care Drive: Epic Fail?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... current organizing emphasis is at least inefficient, even on its own top-down terms. (The health care experiments on the government side during the transition period, to be fair, were more bottom-up.) And judged against broader values, it obviously fails to tap the ambition, ability, sophistication and creativity that bubbled up through more open networks during Obama's campaign. -- Ari Melber last wrote about Organizing for America in the article "Obama for America 2.0?" This post was first published at PDF. ...