nytimes.com - 11/7/2008
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President-elect Obama and his aides are looking to temper hopes that he would be able to solve the nation’s problems or reverse Bush administration policies quickly and easily. >
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Today in The Nation: Getting to Work
The Nation: Top Stories —
... in today's New York Times , "Let's hope that Mr. Obama has the good sense to ignore this advice...this year's presidential election was a clear referendum on political philosophies--and the progressive philosophy won." Obama himself his talked about needing to measure his accomplishments over the first 1,000 Days , rather than 100, given the problems he has inherited from arguably the ...
Reprisals, Recriminations
Jules Crittenden —
... . Problem there is not whether you have a weapon but being willing to use it. But this post is about reprisals and recriminations, and to end on a forward-looking note, opne of the more significant developemtns of the week was how the recession immediately emerged as Obama’s out on actually having to accomplish anything . Topics: ...
Katrina vanden Heuvel: A Center-Left Agenda for the First 100 Days
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Obama himself his talked about needing to measure his accomplishments over the first 1,000 Days, rather than 100, given the problems he has inherited from arguably the ...
100 Days of Obama’s Foreign Policy
Pajamas Media —
It's not as disastrous as some had feared. Barack Obama’s savviest public relations move as a candidate was when he told an interviewer, shortly before the election, that the conventional time lapse for measuring an infant presidency — the first 100 days — would be insufficient given the amount of work the new administration would have to do. Instead, Obama said, we had better wait until the first 1,000 days to make a fair assessment. This struck me as very reasonable at the time, and also uncharacteristic of the man who often gloried in raising expectations to celestial ...
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huffingtonpost.com 10/18/2008 — Confronting an increasingly bleak electoral map, top aides to Senator John McCain said Thursday that they were searching for a "narrow-victory scenario" and would focus in the final weeks on a dwindling number of states, using mailings, telephone ...
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thehill.com 11/6/2008 — Democratic leaders are tamping down on expectations for rapid change and trying to signal they will place a calm hand on the nation’s tiller. “The country must be governed from the middle,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Wednesday. ...
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