nytimes.com - 1/15/2009
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Once, there was a financial elite in this country. During the first two-thirds of the 20th century, middle-aged men with names like Mellon and McCloy led Wall Street firms, corporate boards and white-shoe law firms and occasionally emerged to serve in government. Starting in the 1960s, that ...
nytimes.com - 1/16/2009
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Last Sunday President-elect Barack Obama was asked whether
he would seek an investigation of possible crimes by...
the Bush administration. “I don’t believe that anybody is above the law,” he responded, but “we need to look forward as opposed to looking ...
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Op-Ed Columnist: Forgive and Forget?
nytimes.com - 1/9/2009
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President-elect Barack Obama explained why the nation needs
aggressive action to deal with the economic crisis, and...
he’s right. But his economic plan falls well short of what’s needed. >
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Op-Ed Columnist: The Obama Gap
nytimes.com - 1/19/2009
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Like President Bush before him, Barack Obama knows
he, too, will be a war president and that...
the decisions he makes as commander in chief will be his most consequential. >
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Op-Ed Columnist: The Next War President
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Open Thread for Night Owls, Early Birds & Expats: Dinner Conversation Edition
Daily Kos —
Like Kos, who said it Tuesday, and Granny Doc who said it Wednesday, I have zero problem with Barack Obama sitting down for a dinner-time tête-à-tête with right wingers such as Bill (bomb Iran) Kristol, Charles (torture "is a moral duty") Krauthammer, Paul (global warming denier) Gigot, David (praise the oligarchy) Brooks, and George (Debategate) Will, among others. The President-Elect has said all along that he would talk to people he disagrees with. And although several ...
1/15: Fair And Balanced?
Blogometer —
... [...] I admire Obama's willingness to engage, intellectually, competing ideas and perspectives...But to consider last night's group and this morning's group as relative parallels is a mistake." Daily Kos ' Meteor Blades : "I have zero problem with Barack Obama sitting down for a dinner-time tête-à-tête with right wingers such as Bill ( bomb Iran ) Kristol, Charles ( torture 'is a moral duty' ) Krauthammer, Paul ( global warming denier ) Gigot, David ( praise the oligarchy ) Brooks, and George ( Debategate ) Will, among others. [...] Then, on ...
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