stoptheaclu.com - 11/18/2008
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The evergrowing list continues:
Partial Obama summary:
Lobbyist and special interests will have no part in my administration...but perhaps we can make exceptions.
I vow to cut funding of missle defense...or maybe not.
While we are at it we're going to close Gitmo....or maybe not.
We will ...
mediamatters.org - 11/21/2008
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mediamatters.org —
In anticipation of the new administration, Beltway media
insiders are busy laying the groundwork for how reporters...
and pundits will treat the new team on Pennsylvania Avenue. "Once a president takes office ... an adversarial relationship ...
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Boehlert: Covering new presidents: the media's double ...
openleft.com - 11/22/2008
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openleft.com —
I really don't want to be pessimistic about
the new Obama administration. Rather, I much preferred my...
optimistic mood from last night, discussing how the House seems to be moving in a more progressive direction , and how cutting military spending was ...
(more)
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theanchoressonline.com - 11/20/2008
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theanchoressonline.com —
I’m still trying to keep to my new
pledge of only writing about politics when it intersects...
with religion, but it does seem only fair to note that, Old Europe, which has been struggling all along with its restrictions, has finally admitted ...
(more)
Bush was right. Victorious, too
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A Partial List of Obama's Impressive List of Broken Promises
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A Partial List of Obama's Impressive List of Broken Promises Nuance. No one on the right is exactly crying that Obama has suddenly discovered missile defense might be worth keeping, or that terrorists shouldn't be let out of war prisoner camps during the midst of the war they were captured in, or etc., etc., etc. No, the complaint is this: The left plays a game of national security blackmail with the country over such issues. If the right takes actions which they themselves admit are necessary (Clinton conducted extraordinary renditions, for example), they agitate constantly ...
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