alternet.org - 11/21/2008
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Click here to view this guide as a single page. U.S. policy is not about one individual, and no matter how much faith people place in President-elect Barack Obama, the policies he enacts will be fruit of a tree with many roots. Among them: his personal politics and views, the disastrous ...
alternet.org - 11/20/2008
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alternet.org —
U.S. policy is not about one individual, and
no matter how much faith people place in President-elect
Barack Obama, the policies he enacts will be fruit of a tree with many roots. Among them: his personal politics and views, the disastrous realities ...
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This is Change? 20 Hawks, Clintonites and Neocons to ...
democracynow.org - 11/20/2008
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democracynow.org —
As speculations abound over who President-elect Barack Obama
will name to key cabinet positions, we look at
some of the central figures advising Obama, many of whom are leading candidates for posts in the next administration. We speak with Jeremy ...
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Agents of Change or Hawks, Clintonites and Neocons? A ...
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com - 11/14/2008
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tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com —
Politico has a good rundown of all the
Clintonites that have been invited into Obama's government. Money
quote: "Obama is showing great good sense in making use of their experience," said William Galston, a former Clinton domestic policy adviser ...
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"Clintonites Are Everywhere"
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This is Change? 20 Hawks, Clintonites and Neocons to Watch for in Obama's White House
The Latest on Air America —
... experts who have articulated their visions for a foreign policy based on justice. Obama does have a chance to change the mindset that got us into war. More significantly, he has a popular mandate to forcefully challenge the militaristic, hawkish tradition of modern U.S. foreign policy. But that work would begin by bringing on board people who would challenge this tradition, not those who have been complicit in creating it and are bound to continue advancing it. CROSSPOST VIA ALTERNET
Obama's Foreign Policy: The Case for Pessimism
Antiwar.com Original —
... of his losing campaign is enabling the hijacking of American foreign policy by a new cabal of warmongers? The idea that by surrounding himself with advisers who have a long history of opposing any change in our bipartisan foreign policy orthodoxy Obama can somehow immunize himself from criticism is logical only in a ...
A Loud Silence
Antiwar.com Original —
... "war on terrorism," and the War Party digs its spurs into the hindquarters of the national security bureaucracy, which actually administers and implements American foreign policy. The quick ...
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corner.nationalreview.com 11/20/2008 — There is much talk about Podesta, Emanuel, Holder, Hillary and all the other Clintonites that now seem to have done pretty well despite their brand name losing the primaries. But I don't think their presence is explained by 'keep your enemies close' ...
Change We Can Perceive In
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Change we can believe in
washingtonmonthly.com 12/1/2008 — CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN.... Hilzoy mentioned this overnight, but it's worth re-emphasizing, since it's likely to be today's big story. At 10:40 a.m., the president-elect will introduce the leaders of his national security team, and while they come ...
Obama’s Emerging Cabinet Centrist But Not Yet Bipartisan
themoderatevoice.com 11/24/2008 —
It’s a symbol — but it isn’t there yet.
The names surfacing so far for President Elect Barack Obama’s cabinet are proving reassuring to some Americans in the center and on the right (and disappointing to some on the ...
Future Ex-Democrats
spectator.org 11/24/2008 —
Perhaps the most brilliant thing about Barack Obama's successful
campaign was its vagueness. In offering himself as the
all-purpose Change We Can Believe In, Obama gave believers a
blank slate and a tacit license to project upon him their ...
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 ...
Robert Gibbs: Face of Obama White House
swamppolitics.com 11/18/2008 — by John McCormick
On one of his last nights on the campaign trail, Barack Obama was agitated. He was backstage and face-to-face with a traveling aide after giving a speech to an overflow crowd at a football field.
Like a referee inserting his ...
Report: Hillary Clinton Will Accept Obama Secretary Of State Job
themoderatevoice.com 11/18/2008 — Will New York Senator Hillary Clinton accept a reported job offer of Secretary of State from her onetime Democratic nomination rival President Elect Barack Obama? The British newspaper The Guardian says she is going to accept it — and a ...
Would Clinton’s State Team Include Obama Thinkers?
washingtonindependent.com 11/21/2008 — Many foreign policy experts wonder whether a Sec. of State Hillary Rodham Clinton would reach beyond loyalists to bring in progressive Obama supporters after an acrimonious primary.
Obama's cell phone records breached —
CNN Political Ticker 11/21/2008
Obama's cell phone records appear to have been breached.
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Records from a cell phone used by President-elect Obama were improperly breached, apparently by employees of the cell phone company, Verizon Wireless said ...
CNN's Short List: Obama's treasury secretary? —
CNN Political Ticker 11/21/2008
(CNN) – With the nation’s economy stuck in the grips of a financial crisis it just can’t seem to shake, President-elect Barack Obama’s choice for the next head of the Treasury Department is among a handful of the most important Cabinet choices he will ...
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