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President Obama's Entrepreneurial Mindset

Don McNay | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business

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Don McNay

I have not seen much evidence of Obama being in touch with small-town Kentucky, but after reading David Plouffe's new book, The Audacity to Win, I have become convinced that he knows what it takes to run a business.

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Now What? The Long and Winding Road towards LGBT Equality

Geoff Kors | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: California Gay Marriage, Proposition 8, Gay Rights, Prop 8, Maine Gay Marriage, Referendum 71, Obama Administration, Equality California, Washington State, Kalamazoo, 2008 Election, 2009 Elections, Gay Marriage, Maine, Marriage Equality, Politics News
Geoff Kors

Over the past year, voters have stripped away marriage rights in California and Maine. And the California Supreme Court failed in its obligation to protect our fundamental freedom to marry. So now what?

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Bittergate: the Untold Story Behind the Story that Rocked the Obama Campaign

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 11.05.2009 | Books

Read More: Bittergate, Michael Sokolove, Bitter, Matt Bai, Obama Bitter, Obama Calls Small Towns Bitter, Obama Bitter Comment, 2008 Election, David Plouffe, Barack Obama, Mayhill Fowler, Clueless Journalist: Media, Mayhill Fowler Bittergate, Bias and the Great Election of 2008, One Year Later, Books News
Mayhill Fowler

Obama's Bittergate remark -- which I broke and which is revisited in David Plouffe's new book -- was and still is one of the biggest stories of that historic presidential run. It is also still one of the least understood. Here's the untold story behind it.

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One Year After Obama's Election: Still Smarter...Than The Alternative

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

What puts this first year in perspective for me is that: Obama may not be smarter than all of us, but he sure is smarter by a long shot than McCain would have been. And that, for now, is enough for me.

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Obama Online -- Using Technology, It's the Electorate That Has Changed, Too

Jose Antonio Vargas | Posted 11.20.2009 | Technology

Read More: Twitter, One Year Later, Barack Obama Online, Obama Online, Facebook, Online Organizing, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Text Messaging, Jav on Tech, Technology News
Jose Antonio Vargas

For as much as Barack Obama has brought change to Washington, it's also us, the people participating and engaging with politics using technology , that have changed, too.

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In Defense of Good Government

Sasha Abramsky | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Washington Political Culture, Unemployment, Inside Obama's Brain, 2009 Election, Economic Crisis, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Politics News
Sasha Abramsky

Was the 2008 election really transformative only of Obama himself, alchemically rendering him government-incarnate, and definitionally making him part of the problem?

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He Cannot Succeed Without Us: One Year After the Election of President Barack Obama

Rahim Kanani | Posted 11.03.2009 | World

Read More: White House, Afghanistan, Economy, Hbo, United Nations, President Obama, Chicago, Iran, United States, Democracy, Iraq, Health Care, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, One Year Later, World News
Rahim Kanani

With a litany of crises to deal with, now more than ever, President Obama needs his army of advocates once more to continue the fight for change.

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Timidity Vs. Audacity? The Tests Are Yet to Come

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Egypt, Europe, Morocco, Pakistan, Obama, Hezbollah, Hamas, China, 2008 Election, Iran, Nato, National Security, Middle East, Israel, Afghanistan, North Korea, Barack Obama, One Year Later, Timidity to Govern, Politics News
Amb. Marc Ginsberg

So far this year, there has been a tendency to vocalize intent and engage in convenient can-kicking, rather than actionable resolve. That's not timidity -- that's testing the state of the ship's rudder.

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No Difference Between President Obama and Candidate Obama

David Plouffe | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics

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David Plouffe

Arianna has written much that I agree with. But when it comes to her suggestion that there is some great difference between President Obama and Candidate Obama, I have to register the strongest possible dissent.

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Obama and LGBT Rights: A Year Since Election Day

Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

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Emma Ruby-Sachs

Looking back on a year of LGBT rights activism under the Obama umbrella, I wonder just how much we have done to make LGBT rights a priority for Americans. The president himself has done little.

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We Should Be Grateful That Obama Is "Dithering"

Mitchell Bard | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Max Boot, Council on Foreign Relations, 2006 Election, Afghanistan, Graveyard of Empires, Mission Accomplished, George W. Bush, Paul Eaton, New York Times, Internatinoal Arabian Horse Association, Nicholas Kristof, Hurricane Katrina, Iraq, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Dithering Afghanistan, Politics News
Mitchell Bard

We, as a country, would be a lot (and I mean a lot) better off right now if Cheney and his boss had done some dithering before invading Iraq.

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Get Off Obama's Back: Second Thoughts From Michael Moore

Michael Moore | Posted 10.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Martin Luther King, Michael Moore, George W. Bush, Nobel Peace Prize, Hurricane Katrina, Barack Hussein Obama, Desmond Tutu, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Afghanistan War, Politics News
Michael Moore

Obama is moving too slow for most of us -- but he needs to know we are with him and we stand beside him as he attempts to turn eight years of sheer madness around.

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The Real Reason Obama Deserves the Nobel Win

Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Confederacy, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Clinton, Obama Presidency, Obama Nobel, Nobel Peace Prize, Race, Democrats, 2008 Election, Ted Kennedy, Barack Obama, Caroline Kennedy, Politics News
Ali A. Rizvi

The impact of Obama's election stretches far beyond even what Martin Luther King, Jr. called the "fierce urgency of now." It goes beyond race and beyond policy issues.

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Does President Obama -- and America -- Deserve the Nobel Prize?

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 10.09.2009 | World

Read More: Yassir Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin, Mohamed ElBaradei, Nelson Mandela, Red Cross, Middle East, Mother Theresa, Nobel Peace Prize, Alfred Nobel, Peace, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Lech Walesa, World News
Hoyt Hilsman

This movement to change America did not begin when Barack Obama took the presidential oath of office -- it has been underway for decades.

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Western Liberalism and the New Blue Review

Todd Hartley | Posted 10.06.2009 | Denver

Read More: Todd Hartley, Blue States, Western Liberalism, Obama, Colorado, New Blue Review, 2008 Election, Colorado Politics, Colorado Democrats, Denver News
Todd Hartley

Let's start by throwing this out there for debate: How would you define Western liberalism?

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When Pundits Attack: The Beck-Brooks Fight

Ari Melber | Posted 10.05.2009 | Media

Read More: Glen Beck, Van Jones, David Brooks, Right Wing Talk Radio, Talk Radio, Rush Limbaugh, Conservative Talk Radio, Glenn Beck, 2008 Election, Media News
Ari Melber

After the summer of townhalls and what's shaping up as the autumn of Glenn Beck, it is hard to see things through David Brooks' bifocals.

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For Liberty Examines the Kingmakers

J. Bradley Jansen | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: David Boaz, War on Terror, Rasmussen Poll, Antiwar Movement, Grassroots, Markos Moulitsas, Ron Paul, George W. Bush, David Kirby, Thomas Jefferson, Libertarian, Campaign for Liberty, Republican Convention, 2008 Election, CNN Poll, Arianna Huffington, Afghanistan War, Daily Kos, Iraq War, Nicholas Sanchez, Joe Scarborough, Tax Day Tea Parties, For Liberty, David Brooks, Alternative Media, Grover Norquist, Tea Party, Republican Party, Swing Voters, Republicans, 2010 Elections, 2012 Election, Politics News
J. Bradley Jansen

The documentary For Liberty beautifully shows us what Markos Mousitlas called the only true people-powered campaign in 2008: Ron Paul's campaign.

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Hispanics are Key to Winning the West -- and National Elections

Wayne Trujillo | Posted 11.20.2009 | Denver

Read More: Hispanics, Karl Rove, Latinos, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Bob Dole, George W. Bush, West, Colorado, Immigration, Republicans, Democrats, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, California, Denver News
Wayne Trujillo

At present, the anti-immigration faction of the GOP has antagonized Hispanics and alienated independents, presenting a public face of the party with its most prominent features being intolerance and intemperance.

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Bush in '08: McCain "A Five-Spiral Crash"

Dawn Teo | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Bush Speechwriter Book, Matt Latimer, 2008 Election, George Bush Speech Writer, Politics News
Dawn Teo

[Bush] was stuck on the Phoenix event. At one point, he looked off into space and said to no one in particular, "What is this--a cruel hoax?"

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Peeling Away the "Obama Phenomenon": An Interview with Paul Street

Christian Avard | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Progressive Values, President Obama, Martin Luther King Jr., Obama, Media, Progressive Politics, Democrats, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Iraq War, Barack Obama 2008, Progressive, Martin Luther King, David Axelrod, John Edwards, Racism, Community Organizing, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, Obama Iraq, Politics News
Christian Avard

Street goes beyond the Obama phenomenon and investigates who Obama is and what he's all about in Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics.

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Mayor Bloomberg and the Arrogance of Power

Jesse Larner | Posted 10.22.2009 | New York

Read More: Christine Quinn, Rudy Giuliani, Michael Bloomberg, City Council, Campaign Finance Reform, Term Limits, Darlene Mealy, 2008 Election, New York, Mayoral Election, New York News
Jesse Larner

All of Michael Bloomberg's defensiveness, and the egotism that clearly lurks beneath it, makes me wonder just why the Mayor really does want to hold onto the office.

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A Party Is Not a Movement

David Sirota | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Congress, MoveOn.Org, Barack Obama, Health Care Reform, Progressive Movement, Democrats, 2008 Election, Afghanistan War, Campaign Finance, Politics News
David Sirota

Though the 2006 and 2008 elections were billed as progressive movement successes, the story behind them highlights a longer-term failure.

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Schoolyard Bullies

Chez Pazienza | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama, Right Wing, Media, Obama-Address-to-Students, 2008 Election, John Kennedy, Politics News
Chez Pazienza

That's really what it's all about -- Barack Obama's political enemies don't actually accept him as president. They consider his presidency some kind of sham, regardless of the overwhelming majority he won.

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Remembering Senator Kennedy

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Democratic Primary, Barack Obama, 2008 Election, Health Care, San Antonion, Ted Kennedy, Politics News
Mayhill Fowler

It was not a Clinton but a Kennedy who first held forth an inchoate promise that the Inauguration of Obama seemed to fulfill.

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One Year Ago, a Turning Point in 2008 Campaign: The Media, Hillary and Sarah Palin

Greg Mitchell | Posted 09.24.2009 | Media

Read More: 2008 Campaign, John McCain, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Democratic National Convention, Election 2008, 2008 Election, Media News
Greg Mitchell

The preposterous media coverage of the (few) unhappy Hillaryites at the Dem convention inspired McCain to select as his running mate someone who would virtually destroy his campaign.

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