openleft.com - 11/22/2008
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My good friend, Chris Hayes, asks a simple question - why hasn't Obama appointed a single movement progressive? The answer, in my opinion, is because Obama effectively ate a huge chunk of the left. And really, Obama didn't eat a huge chunk of the left, celebrity did.
What I mean to say is that ...
thenation.com - 11/22/2008
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thenation.com —
Would it kill Obama to have an actual
progressive or two in his cabinet?...
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Left Out
fivethirtyeight.com - 11/26/2008
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fivethirtyeight.com —
There is, to say the least, a lot
of jumping to conclusions about just which type of...
President Barack Obama is liable to be, by which I mean whether he'll govern from the left or the center. This speculation has been principally based on his cabinet ...
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Obama's Agenda & The Difference Between Tactics & Strategy
reason.com - 11/25/2008
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reason.com —
Perhaps President-elect Obama isn't the left-wing radical so
feared by the green-inkers at Newsmax and Human Events....
And this is distressing some of his most vocal supporters. We are a few months away from inaugeration, but impatient ...
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Left Behind
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In which lambert apologizes, once again, for being prematurely correct
Corrente —
David Sirota:
Heads of government having movements organized around them as individuals - rather than having to deal with independent social movements - is something lots of autocratic developing world countries have experience with (think huge murals with pictures of leaders - seems similar to the Obama murals doesn't it?). We may have had presidents who were products of movements before (ie. Reagan), but we've never had presidents who are individual movements unto themselves. It's exciting that the movement could push the progressive whims of the ...
Obama, is he or isn't he ... real?
Angry Bear —
by: Divorced one like Bush As we watch the "team" Obama is putting together and the discussions regarding how reflective of progressive ideas they are vs same old, same old, I thought I would add to the hunt for Obama's true identity. These are comments from his policy positions regarding development of our living environment and the economic relationship. I was keyed to these via a notice I receive from the Smart Growth movement. Build More Livable and Sustainable Communities: Over the longer term, we know that the amount of fuel we will use is directly related to our land ...
Saxby showed that Obama won on November 4th, not Democrats
The Next Right —
... This tells us that Americans picked Obama and change, but not a broad Democratic or left-leaning agenda for America. Open Left's David Sirota understood this last week when he said: ...
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