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Should Progessives Be Upset with Obama's Picks?
David Corn —
... In the past few weeks, I've been repeatedly asked by friends and acquaintances, "Well, what do you think of Obama's first appointments?" These various inquisitions gave me a chance to organize conflicting thoughts--which was fortunate, for The Washington Post's "Outlook" section asked me to contribute a piece on this question. The article will appear on the front page of the section on Sunday. But it's already been posted--old media meets new media--and here are some excerpts: ...
David Corn: Should Progressives Be Upset with Obama?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... In the past few weeks, I've been repeatedly asked by friends and acquaintances, "Well, what do you think of Obama's first appointments?" These various inquisitions gave me a chance to organize conflicting thoughts--which was fortunate, for the Washington Post's "Outlook" section asked me to contribute a piece on this question. The article will appear on the front page of the section on Sunday. But it's already been posted--old media meets new media--and here are some excerpts: ...
Where Did Who, What, When, Where, Why Go?
Open Left - Front Page —
... This is not isolated to establishment journalists at nonpartisan centrist institutions; liberal journalist David Corn did something similar with 'progressives' in this piece for the Washington Post titled 'This Wasn't Quite the Change We Pictured' about what progressives think about Obama. Corn would probably call himself a progressive, and to be fair, he does have one $250 donation listed in the FEC database to a pro-choice group in 1998, but in this piece, he's presenting himself as some sort of representative of all progressives. The piece is peppered with ...
David Corn thinks progressive should be upset with Obama
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
David Corn, the Washington Bureau Chief of Mother Jones magazine, asks, in a Sunday piece in the Washington Post, whether progressives should be upset with Obama. Read it and see what you think: ...
Let's not allow them to create their own reality
Brilliant at Breakfast —
... While it's tempting to join David Corn in bemoaning the fact that Barack Obama isn't assembling some kind of progressive blogosphere dream team, is that really the best use of our time, when every time Peggy Noonan opens her mouth, Joe Scarborough puts her on TV, and then Fox parrots her, and then it gets Out There -- and the rehabilitation of the Bush Legacy begins -- just in time for Jebbie to run for the Senate in Florida. It's clear that the efforts to rewrite the history of the Bush era are going to be as slickly done as the efforts that led us into a war based on lies. ...
Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Daily Kos —
... much of AIDS in the 1980s. But drug-resistant TB is spreading — half a million cases a year already — and in a world connected by jet planes and constant flows of migrants and tourists, the risk is that our myopia will catch up with us. And yet another reason why health reform needs to include public health, and health research needs proper funding. Are you listening, Tom Daschle and Peter Orszag? CDC and NIH fall under you. David Corn: My idea of change isn't your idea of change. It's no surprise that ...
Dude, Where's My Change?
JammieWearingFool —
... on the left were already having a temper tantrum because Barack Obama wasn't appointing a cadre of freakazoids to his cabinet and was instead looking for more palatable Clinton retreads and assorted centrist types. Well, they're still whining . This reminds me of little kids who during Christmas season ask every day why Santa didn't come yet. You have to explain to them when Santa is coming but also teach them what Christmas is all about. Santa Obama hasn't even arrived in office yet and the little kiddies are already clamoring for their presents, such as socialism, Hague ...
Looking for Change in Barack Obama's Cabinet
Politics Daily —
... Noted left-wing and anti-Bush columnist David Corn took a look at President-elect Obama's picks for Cabinet posts and wonders whether there will be much change from the Bush Administration given the nature of some of Obama's selections. ...
Obama: a Rorschach President?
David Corn —
... , the "Outlook" section of Sunday's Washington Post featured a piece in which I evaluated Barack Obama's staffing decisions to date. I noted how several key picks had been either disappointing, upsetting or puzzling to some progressives. But I added that it was my hunch that Obama had adopted a change-by-cooption strategy, in which he will try to use centrist-oriented members of the Establishment to implement a left-of-center policy agenda. ...
Should We Get Hot and Bothered By Obama's Personnel Choices?
MoJo Blog Posts: mojo —
... is a Republican lacking any serious record on transit issues. In short, the trepidation that Obama's early cabinet picks triggered in parts of the left continues as he fills in the few remaining spots. ...
With Rick Warren, Has Obama Gone Too Far as Co-opter-in-Chief?
David Corn —
... A week and a half ago, I published an article in the Washington Post in which I reviewed the reasons for progressives to be concerned about Barack Obama's first rounds of appointments (Clinton, Gates, Summers, etc.) and noted that the president-elect seemed to be pursuing a change-by-cooption strategy. He was, I speculated, recruiting centrists and conventional members of the Establishment to advance a left-of-center policy agenda. ...
