newsweek.com - 11/18/2008
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Obama will be under pressure from progressives to push the big-ticket items in the Democratic platform, like universal health care. The new president will have a basic choice, says William Galston, former policy adviser in the Clinton administration: "Do you put the pedal to the metal or do you ...
newsweek.com - 11/16/2008
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newsweek.com —
It is the season to compare Barack Obama
to Abraham Lincoln . Two thin men from rude...
beginnings, relatively new to Washington but wise to the world, bring the nation together to face a crisis. Both are superb rhetoricians, both geniuses at stagecraft ...
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Obama Looks to Lincoln | Newsweek Politics
techpresident.com - 11/24/2008
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techpresident.com —
The liberal blogosphere has gone decidedly bi-polar in
the Great Transition. On one side are the believers,...
betrothed to an image they conjured between the lines of conventional centrism, a group that is beginning to think that President-elect Obama ...
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Hullabaloo —
... Speaking of which, Tweety referred to this on his show earlier and it is an interesting insight into just how far the administration plans to go with this bipartisanship and how they hope to keep everyone on the same page. Evidently, it's all about Obama's personal abilities: ...
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Suburban Guerrilla —
... But they’re going to speak to him in very stern tones, so I’m sure he’s going to turn over a new leaf! And the force of Obama’s character will show him the way! ...
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