Beyond the Bailout State
Instead of embracing a sense of adventurousness, a readiness to break with the past so enthusiastically promoted during the campaign, Obama seems overcome with inhibitions and fears.
Instead of embracing a sense of adventurousness, a readiness to break with the past so enthusiastically promoted during the campaign, Obama seems overcome with inhibitions and fears.
Does President elect Obama represent the change we need? His mainstream appointments -- largely veterans of the Clinton administration -- have sparked a clamor from worried supporters. But in one of the critical challenges facing the country -- how to get the country out of what will be the worst downturn since the Great Depression -- Obama is calling for dramatic and long overdue change. While President Bush continues to oppose any major plan for Main Street, Obama has been calling for a substantial recovery program, focused on public investments rather than tax cuts.
Positioning Jindal to run in 2012, based on the notion that he could somehow become a Republican Obama, is more of a gimmick than a serious effort to move the party into the post-Bush era.
She has succeeded in getting millions of Americans to read. Now she will attempt to transform many of her viewers into political junkies.
Rahm Emanuel's refusal to express the incoming administration's commitment to the Employee Free Choice Act has generated concern for those who see the legislation as critical to any sustainable economic recovery for the middle class.
it is important to have clarity about the incontrovertible need to overcome the political dualism that created our immigration mess in the first place.
George H.W. Bush became famous for attending funerals on Ronald Reagan's behalf. Does Obama have something more planned for Biden?
As secretary of state, protocol will dictate that Clinton sit immediately to the right of Obama in cabinet meetings, making for great photos and a fascinating dynamic.
The U.S. has the most inequality and poverty of any industrialized country. And it's no coincidence that the U.S. has, by far, the fewest workers covered by a union contract among all major affluent nations.
The American Small Business League (ASBL) released the following video via YouTube this morning.
The formulation of policy can be contentious, the implementation cannot. Barack Obama understands the difference.
Fred and I have a different family dinner ritual - enough to lose joint custody if it happened in the early days of the divorce. We eat in front of the television. No "how was school today?" crap.
The response to Obama's cabinet has been a combination of praise and wariness. For the latter, it's generally raised the question of what he owes the left. The answer is nothing.
We are fighting now to recover our prosperity but also our sense of purpose and pride as a nation. Like all other nations in history, our culture stands at the center of our identity.
President-elect Obama has removed any reference of his promise to implement a windfall profits tax on the oil and gas industry from the Obama-Biden Transition Team website.
All the critics who made fun of Obama's community organizing experience (Sarah Palin, are you listening?) were toothless wonders.
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I think he relates to her as a mother figure and so the affection comes easy. It does not appear like they are faking it. I actually enjoy seeing them together. She is only 5 years younger than his own mother and seems to possess many of the positive qualities that his mother had like smarts, and the ability to excel in the face of challenging obstacles. In spite of their hard fought campaign, I think she truly respects his intellect and his relationship with his wife, something she never had with Bill.
MAXIE19.... I wss totally thinking of that. Although he is totally in love with Michelle Obama. I think its a resemblance to his mother spiritually that Barack Obama respects of Hillary Clinton.