Archive for September, 2009
The Obama presidency is becoming a distraction…
Posted on 06. Sep, 2009 by Carla Murphy.
Or so many progressives are feeling today, since learning that noted human rights activist Van Jones resigned from his advisor role to the White House’s environmental advisory body. That probably reduces the number of bona fide progressives in Obama’s inner circle (if being an advisor to an advisory body can be said to be “in”) […]
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It's time for Obama to come out of the closet for gays in the military
Posted on 06. Sep, 2009 by Katherine Nocera.
Politicians make big promises when they run for office, and then they break them. Barack Obama is proving he’s no different. The president promised during his campaign he would aggressively seek to overturn the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. Here is Obama during his campaign: “We’re spending large sums of money to kick highly qualified […]
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More Transparency in the White House
Posted on 04. Sep, 2009 by Kaili Boyd.
Today President Obama announced that the White House will open its visitor logs to the public. To this I say “Bravo”. I think it’s a great effort towards his promise of political transparency and while this is a history-making precedent, I wonder if it goes far enough. Sure there are obvious pitfalls-some records will be […]
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Talk dumb to me, Obama
Posted on 03. Sep, 2009 by Collin Orcutt.
President Obama needs to end the public confusion about his health care plan when he addresses a joint session of Congress next week. He needs to dumb it down. The fate of Obama’s plan may be determined by this prime time address or it may not — it’s hard to point out exact moments in […]
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Showtime
Posted on 02. Sep, 2009 by Michael Preston.
To jump off the question of narratives in Peter’s initial post, I think President Obama’s address to both houses of Congress this coming Wednesday on health care might go a long way to proving which is correct. There’s no question that after a string of early victories (the stimulus, S-CHIP, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay […]
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Do I really have to write about politics? (Now with Obama-esque stuff, links and a really cool pic . . .)
Posted on 01. Sep, 2009 by Nicholas Martinez.
(Thanks to one of our great classmates for pointing out my folly of not mentioning something about the Obama administration. How could I forget that?) When Professor Beinart emailed us last week with our first politically based op-ed assignments, I immediately replied to him with a question: “Are we going to spend the entire semester […]
