dailykos.com - 12/2/2008
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Finally, someone says it. John Isaacs , the Executive Director of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation , has written a great piece about how much Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton agree on many critical defense and foreign policy issues. His point about the media is absolutely ...
corner.nationalreview.com - 11/29/2008
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corner.nationalreview.com —
I think Obama may do more for George
Bush's reputation than anyone thinks. I've collated the dozens...
of articles from liberal thinkers that explain why so far Obama--the candidate of hope and change, and cleaning out the entrenched status quo that so ...
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Bush Through the Obama Prism
newyorker.com - 12/2/2008
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newyorker.com —
The Bush Administration, while publicly advocating diplomacy in
order to stop Iran from pursuing a nuclear weapon,...
has increased clandestine activities inside Iran and intensified planning for a possible major air attack. Current and former American ...
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Annals of National Security: The Iran Plans: The New Yorker
washingtonpost.com - 11/29/2008
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washingtonpost.com —
Absent some last-minute fireworks, President Bush will leave
office with a kind of double failure on Iran:...
Administration hard-liners haven't checked Tehran's drive to acquire nuclear-weapons technology, and moderates haven't engaged Iran in ...
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Bush's Iran Policy Has Failed
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Obama And Clinton: Not A Dime's Worth Of Difference
TalkLeft —
In answer to counterfactual assertions in the Media and from some bloggers like Matt Yglesias, Plutonium Page and John Issacs demonstrate that there is not a dime's worth of difference between the President-Elect and the Secretary of State designee on foreign policy. Indeed, President-Elect Obama explained: I think if you look at the statements that Hillary Clinton and I have made outside of the -- the heat of a campaign, we share a view that America has to be safe and secure and in order to do that we have to combine military power ...
12/2: Outrage From The Left? Not Exactly...
Blogometer —
... about NY Sen. Hillary Clinton 's hawkishness, there's another who claims that her foreign policy views are essentially the same as Obama's. For every blogger who ...
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americanforeignpolicy.org 11/17/2008 — Among the many challenges that will greet President-elect Obama when he takes office, there are few, if any, more urgent and complex than the question of Iran. There are also few issues more clouded by myths and misconceptions. In this Joint Experts' ...
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CNN Political Ticker 12/2/2008
CNN: Clinton wants to be part of Obama's 'exciting adventure'
Sen. Hillary Clinton decided to join her one-time rival's team because she wanted to be part of the "greatest adventure of our century," she said Monday after President-elect Barack Obama ...
Greene: The words that Obama now hears —
CNN Political Ticker 12/2/2008
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ABOARD THE CNN EXPRESS
CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN)– You wonder if he's getting used to the sound of it yet.
“Mr. President-elect,” Hillary Clinton said to him this week, “thank you for this honor.”
You wonder if he has ...
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