openleft.com - 1/18/2009
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The first draft of my diary, "Obama's 'Mandate' To Slash Medicare, Medicaid & Social Security" was written through the prism of a column by E.J. Dionne this past Thursday, "Audacity Without Ideology" . Regardless of whether or not my fears expressed in that earlier diary prove ...
George Lakoff's "Obama Code" As A Partial Model
openleft.com 3/1/2009 — Earlier in the week, in Quick Hits, Mark Matson drew attention to George Lakoff's recommended diary at DKos, "The Obama Code" , presented in advance of Obama's address to Congress and the nation by way of an exlanation of how Obama approaches ...
Barack Obama Gifts
niyae.com 12/1/2008 — Home Barack Obama Gifts Checkout Barack Obama Barack Obama Details Barack Obama Gift Item: Art Print Size : 19x13 Artist: H Abavista Price: $15.00 Barack Obama (Vibe Magazine Cover) Barack Obama (Vibe Magazine Cover) Details Size: 8 x 10- Mousepad ...
I'm With Hugh On This One
powerlineblog.com 12/27/2008 — Hugh Hewitt praised Barack Obama for meeting with Marines while he is in Hawaii:
Glenn Reynolds , however, links to an ABC News account suggesting that the Marines gave Obama a lukewarm reception, and notes that Obama ate Christmas dinner ...
The Speech
corner.nationalreview.com 1/22/2009 — It's hard to say anything about it that hasn't already been remarked upon in here or elsewhere. Like others, I was struck by how pedestrian the prose was, but on re-reading it, I like the plainspokenness of it. The weakest moments were when it, ...
McCain Says Palin Could Be Prez, Speaks To Her Often
briefingroom.thehill.com 1/19/2009 — Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) praised Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska), saying that he was proud of having her as his running mate and that he thought she could one day become president.
McCain, on Fox News on Monday, said that he was "very proud" of Palin, ...
Are Obama's "New" Politics Really New?
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 12/19/2008 — Glenn Greenwald has an interesting post about the Rick Warren mess, which he uses as a jumping off point to argue that Barack Obama's "new" politics isn't really new at all.
Greenwald's basic point is that Obama's efforts to placate the right by ...
Media Matters for Obama
corner.nationalreview.com 2/13/2009 — Like pretty much everyone in Washington, I don't take Media Matters for America very seriously. But, I sometimes find it funny how seriously it takes itself. A good example is Eric Boehlert's hysterical fit about my recent USA Today column on Obama's ...
How Is This Possible?
balloon-juice.com 3/8/2009 — I don’t understand :
Factory jobs disappeared. Inflation soared. Unemployment climbed to alarming levels. The hungry lined up at soup kitchens.
It wasn’t the Great Depression. It was the 1981-82 recession, widely considered ...
Obama speaks of unity, change, challenges —
First Read 1/18/2009
From NBC's Domenico Montanaro To perhaps the surprise to some in the crowd, President-elect Obama spoke toward the end of the concert and struck some of the same broad themes of his campaign -- unity and change.
He also built in some more ...
For inaugural concert, no security issues —
First Read 1/18/2009
From NBC's Pete Williams and Domenico MontanaroAs the inaugural concert continues with a crowd some estimates show to be about 750,000, a Secret Service spokesman says Sunday has unfolded with no security problems.
Teams responded to a few ...
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