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I admit, I am getting the jump on the rest of the media here, by writing my "First 100 Days" article six days early (some would say five days early, b...
We have a very real opportunity right now amid the crisis and hope swirling around us to rebuild both the left and radical struggle in this country.
Obama's first days will be compared to FDR's first 100 days. And to a lesser extent JFK's first 100 days. But the better comparison is with his predecessor George W. Bush.
What is striking is how often the media gets it wrong when measuring up new presidents. Journalists should approach judging a president's first 100 days with some humility.
On Monday night, the former Vice President announced that he was "formally" asking the administration to release secret documents that, he says, show the utility of torture.
Listening to a president hard-pressed to get a sentence out without a goof, I believe we got lazy. But now we have a very smart first family and I don't want to be left behind.
Obama Gets Gender Right in First 100 Days: Women in Top Spots, Policies Signal Shift toward Equality
What is also significant is about Obama's appointments is that more than half are women of color -- this is more than any other president in the history of the country.
Obama ran for the office on inspiration, but he may wind up being remembered as the fix-it president.
If terrorists or pirates or even pistachios had killed even a fraction of that number of Americans that guns did last month, news coverage would be wall-to-wall.
President Barack Obama is flying gracefully and confidently through his first 100 days, having ambitiously donned the uniform of the multicultural Superman of the 21st century.
The message that Obama sends by refusing to even consider prosecuting CIA officers who may have committed war crimes, is that in the future, government officials can commit similar acts with impunity.
We're not even 85 days into the Obama Administration and yet the signs of environmental change are all around us. The EPA announced today its formal...
Obama comments on the release of the torture memos to assure the country that a dark age has passed. At the same time, he is careful to assure the agents of that darkness that they will be exempt from prosecution.
Rare is a president who learns so fast, who observes so deeply, who can take criticism and walk away better for it.
Call it a mea culpa or a sign of more openness, but clearly Obama wants to make amends for the Bush era.
What I advocate now is multi-tasking: even while we continue to push for better banking policy, we need to make sure that the progressive part of the Obama agenda does get enacted.
