Posts tagged barack-obama
Beth Arnold: Letter From Paris: It’s Safe to Come Home Now
Jun 14th
By guest columnist Carla Chanel, an American actress and writer who recently returned to Ventura, California, after living in Paris for the last four years.
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Loading ...Peter Daou: Last Chance, Mr. President, to Go Big and Go Left
Jun 14th
A year ago, in the midst of the explosive health care debate, I argued that health care reform wouldn’t be President Obama’s defining issue: The New York Times blares: In Health Care Fight, Defining Moment Nears for President .
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Randy Shaw: New Outrage Exposes Obama’s Failure To Help Unions
Jun 14th
On June 11, St. Joseph’s Health Systems (SJHS) did something that employers have long done but which Barack Obama’s presidency was supposed to stop: it filed a frivolous NLRB appeal to delay unionization for workers who won an election. In this case, SJHS is denying unionization to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital workers, who chose the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) in the largest successful hospital election of 2009.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Michele Bachmann Taunts Obama: ‘I Took Karate When I Was 17 Years Old, I Am Dangerous’
Jun 12th
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) said that she could take out President Obama if she were ever caught in the mind-boggling and improbable scenario of engaging the nation’s leader in a physical fight. Bachmann touted her toughness in an interview Thursday with Ben Shapiro of BigGovernment.com: SHAPIRO: I want to ask you, speaking of his violent language, and he’s been brutal on BP, talking about putting his boot on the throat of BP, talking about how he wants to go down there and kick someone’s ass — frankly, Michele, I think you could take President Obama, off the record.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [127] — Letting A Crisis Go To Waste
Jun 12th
President Barack Obama’s administration was supposed to follow a basic premise: never let a crisis go to waste. That was according to one of his own advisors, shortly after Obama took office.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Bill Shireman: The Case for a Calm President: Why the Left and Right Both Want an Angry Obama – and Why They Are Wrong
Jun 11th
Why can’t we have angry leaders – people more like us? An Abraham Lincoln who would have said, “With malice toward them, with charity for us.” A Mahatma Gandhi who demanded that his followers stop sitting around on “strike” and just kick Britain’s bloody ass
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...James Denselow: Inhuman Terrain Systems
Jun 11th
Using social scientists in military human terrain teams blurs the lines between independent academia and partisan militarism.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Bob Burnett: Barack Obama: The Birth and Death of Cool
Jun 11th
I’m part of an American demographic that values cool , the mystical self-confidence that sends the message “I have it handled.” Since he burst upon the national political scene in 2004, Barack Obama has seemed the epitome of cool. But after the BP gulf oil disaster, pundits accused Obama of being “too cool.” In a recent article, MSNBC analyst Howard Fineman asked, “Is Obama’s ‘cool’ too cold for the ravaged gulf?” and concluded, “Technocratic, lawyerly, detail-oriented, bureaucratic: each of these qualities has its value
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Bill Clinton Campaigning For Harry Reid In Nevada: Two ‘Comeback Kids’ On The Trail
Jun 11th
WASHINGTON — Bill Clinton’s back.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Mark Kirk Loses Endorsements From Two Environmental Groups
Jun 8th
The Sierra Club and the League of Conservation Voters — both of which have endorsed Republican Rep. Mark Kirk in the past — will announce today they are endorsing his rival for Barack Obama’s old Senate seat, Democrat Alexi Giannoulias.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Jonathan Alter On Colbert: FDR Had It Easier Than Obama (VIDEO)
Jun 8th
Jonathan Alter got the “Colbert bump” last night when he appeared on “The Colbert Report” to talk about his new book “The Promise,” a detailed account of Barack Obama’s first year in office. He spoke about the high expectations that people had for Obama as he came into office, and said that the president has been largely successful despite growing criticism. Alter maintained that we could very well be in a deep depression right now if Obama hadn’t been president in the onslaught of the recession.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Will Bunch: Along Came "Jones": Why My Generation Isn’t Saving the World
Jun 8th
As long as I live, I’ll never forget the night that Elena Kagan and I got drunk together.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Phil Bronstein: In the Obama Era, We Can’t Even Get Along With Debrahlee Lorenzana?
Jun 8th
Remember that “one world” harmony and tolerance wave that washed over 53 percent of Americans when Barack Obama was elected? Lately it seems to have become particularly polluted. As the president slips around struggling to find his footing on the politically treacherous BP oil spill by demonizing an unresponsive government he now runs, the inaugural promise of a more open-minded and accepting society feels like it’s drowning under a gusher of retrograde incidents over the last week.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Ray Suarez: Latinos and the GOP
Jun 7th
When I came up with the idea for this program, I figured I could together a group of Republicans and have a serious discussion about why the party has not succeeded among Latinos, and looks poised to do even worse in the years to come. As a guy who covers politics I figured we could brainstorm about what the GOP could do in the future to do better, how immigration was complicating Republican efforts among naturalized and native-born voters, and talk about whether hotheads in the party even realized how deeply their rhetoric alienated Latino voters. In theory, this was going to be a great show
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