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The conservative template of attacking Obama with unrelenting invective was also created here in the Bay State, and used against Deval Patrick. I should know. I helped create that template.
Nevada is far more diverse than Iowa or New Hampshire and presents a set of challenges on economic, energy, environmental, and social policy that any party interested in governing had best be accustomed to.
Larry Summers, like Bill Clinton, still defends the reversal of the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act, a 1999 repeal that destroyed the wall between investment and commercial banking put into place by Franklin Roosevelt in response to the Great Depression.
There comes a time during just about every general election cycle when a faction of progressive Democratic voters begin to harrumph and gripe about the two party system. Specifically, the following remark jumps back into popular discourse: "we're choosing between the lesser of two evils."
If Obama makes his campaign about jobs and debt reduction, he can seize the center and win the bulk of independent voters, and thus stands a good chance of not only winning reelection, but doing so by landslide margins.
Does all of this work to create change, or support organizations and people that do this work, really make a dent in the problems we collectively face? Hearts on Fire helps to address this question.
If Obama meant what he said in Tuesday's State of the Union address about holding the financial industry responsible for its scams, why did he appoint the old Clinton crowd that had legalized those scams to the top economic posts in his administration?
Cunningly, Gingrich was able to change the narrative in South Carolina by making it about him. If, however, a general election between Gingrich and Obama becomes a referendum on Gingrich, the former Speaker probably loses.
Like Clinton, Newt Gingrich is transparently duplicitous and two-faced. However, also like Clinton, Gingrich is smart and capable. Most important, like his Southern soul brother in sin and redemption, Gingrich knows how policy sausage is made.
Twenty years ago, Bill Clinton demonstrated his centrist credentials by criticizing controversial rapper Sistah Souljah. Expressing a similar statement about the Tea Party, Rush Limbaugh or some other visible right wing figure would help Romney accomplish the same thing.
When it comes to foreign policy, it is former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman and this year's Republican presidential candidate who sounds today like candidate Obama did in 2008.
By virtue of the alphabet, Bill Clinton and I were assigned rooms a few doors from each other at Georgetown. In the evenings, we began to haunt bookshops together, in search of thrillers.
Huntsman seems to be appealing to Granite State voters by his level-headed answers to economic and foreign policy issues of the day. He is not pandering to the base but speaking to the country.
As for the politicians, both the incumbents and those seeking to replace them, they'd do well to begin to engage in those discussions rather than merely scoring points against each other -- and to take the lead in the search for new strategies and new solutions.
President Obama's campaign team should spend big bucks now on massive television ads to define Mitt Romney as the job-killing rich snob who favors pri...
What was all the Herman Cain mudslinging is about? Obama and the DNC want to face Romney or Gingrich because that's the only way they win. Now that Cain is gone, they got their way.
