Obama Liberals

A More Progressive Budget, a More Progressive President?

Richard Kirsch | Posted 04.16.2012

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The real challenge for progressives is to use 2012 to increase the likelihood that a reelected President Obama will keep to the new course in 2013.

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Liberals Our Affair With Jon Huntsman Is Over

Michelle Kraus | Posted 02.06.2012

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Yep, not kidding as many high net worth donors revealed their not-so-secret yearning for Huntsman while still others were willing to consider a blended to ticket with Obama/Huntsman for 2012. That went kaput.

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Obama Faces Liberal Backlash

AP | KEN THOMAS | Posted 10.19.2011

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WASHINGTON — Liberals argue that he caved on the debt ceiling. Unions are upset over his handling of unemployment and labor issues. Hispanics br...

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Obama Losing Liberal And Black Support Over Jobs Record

HuffingtonPost.com | Alex Wagner | Posted 09.25.2011

Amidst new research showing historic disparity in wealth between whites and minorities, President Obama is facing plummeting approval over his jobs ag...

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While Whacking Critics, Obama Gets Facts Wrong

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- While arguing at Tuesday's press conference that his progressive critics are being sanctimonious and overly pure, President Obama flatly...

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WATCH: In Surprise Appearance, Obama Urges Netroots Nation To 'Consider What We've Accomplished,' 'Keep Up The Fight'

AP/Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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LAS VEGAS (AP) -- President Barack Obama is urging liberal activists and bloggers to "keep up the fight" to bring change to Washington. In a video pl...

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Obama And Progressives Split On Patriot Act, Terrorism Policy

AP | LARRY MARGASAK | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — New cracks are opening in the relationship between President Barack Obama and his liberal allies in Congress over his desire to con...

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Progressive Caucus Finds Itself In A Strange Place: Power

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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The White House expressed surprise last week that the "left of the left" had clung so forcefully to the public insurance option as a must-have element...

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Obama Liberal Media Sitdown Follows Conservative Dinner

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tuesday night, President-elect Barack Obama sat down with some prominent conservative authors for dinner. Wednesday, Politico's Michael Calderone repo...

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The Indefinable Barack Obama

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Barack Obama's appointment of Rep. Hilda Solis as Secretary of Labor put an end to the preliminary process of crafting his economic team. It has been,...

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Obama Forming Progressive Team -- In White House Staff

Washington Independent | Posted 05.25.2011

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While liberal critics sound increasingly uneasy with President-elect Barack Obama's nominations of centrist, Clinton-era Democrats to Cabinet position...

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