2008 Presidential Election

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Obama's Off To A Very Good Start

William Bradley | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

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I think Obama's off to a very good start. But let's not clear space on Mount Rushmore yet. Just as I didn't think he deserved the Nobel, I don't think that Obama's very good start equates to a great presidency.

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Obama Year One: United by Change, Divided by Reform

Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

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If Obama fails to grasp soon why his idea of reform has alienated key parts of his base -- and if he fails to do something to bridge that divide -- the result could be a full scale mutiny by 2010.

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Obama's Nobel Prize Is Really a Tribute to American Voters

Robert Creamer | Posted 10.10.2009 | Politics

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This award celebrates the fact that American voters chose a President committed to progressive values, instead of pre-emptive war and the Neo-Con theories of unilateral action.

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Obama, the Birthers, and American National Identity

Joseph Lowndes | Posted 09.01.2009 | Politics

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Birthright can an effective articulation of resistance to Obama precisely because it joins an unspoken racial claim about national belonging to the Constitutional requirement of natural born citizenship for the office.

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The Secret Superdelegate War Revealed

Erik Ose | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics

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It was one year ago today that Hillary Clinton announced plans to suspend her campaign for the Democratic nomination, and urged her supporters to unite behind Barack Obama.

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New Documents Indicate That Bush Didn't Show Up to Presidency

Tom McCaffrey | Posted 04.10.2009 | Comedy

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During the Vietnam War George W. Bush was handed a cushy assignment in the Texas National Guard thanks to his powerful connections. This ensured that ...

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Where the Devil is Dr. Dean?

Pia Sawhney | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics

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After learning more about Daschle's decision to pull out, I posted an OpEd, published weeks earlier in The Nation, to my Facebook page. It was titled, "Missing Howard Dean."

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Bernard Goldberg's "Bias" Against the Facts

Karl Frisch | Posted 02.28.2009 | Media

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Just shy of a week after Obama took the oath of office, there's a new tome out by Bernard Goldberg that seeks to trash the supposedly liberal "mainstream media" for being in the tank for Obama.

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Worst Pundit In America: Dick Morris (In A Landslide)

Mark Nickolas | Posted 02.22.2009 | Media

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Rarely did a week go by during the general election that Morris predicted the 180-degree opposite of what would eventually transpire. It was astounding for its consistency.

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An Entirely Different Inauguration Day

Erik Ose | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics

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Eight years ago, the country was experiencing an entirely different sort of Inauguration Day. On January 20, 2001, people were outraged.

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Heritage Foundation: Torturing Facts, Sacrificing the Poor

Pete Aaltman | Posted 02.13.2009 | Green

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The Heritage Foundation celebrated a study that concludes that "higher temperatures reduce agricultural output in poor countries" and "lead to reductions in industrial output, aggregate investment, scientific research, and political stability."

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A Wry Look-Back at the Presidential Campaign

Lea Lane | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics

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Has it been only two months since the presidential campaign ended?

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McCain's 'Country First' Actually "Republicans First'

Marlene H. Phillips | Posted 02.07.2009 | Politics

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What happened to the John McCain who gave such a moving concession speech, the John McCain who talked about working together and healing our country?

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A Year After Iowa

Alexander Heffner | Posted 02.02.2009 | Politics

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A year after Obama swept through Iowa in magical fashion to stun the political establishment, he is less than twenty days away from being inaugurated the 44th POTUS.

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Ebenezer Scrooge - Hope, Redemption and the 2008 Election

Paula B. Mays | Posted 01.23.2009 | Living

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The election of Obama also offers a chance for redemption: redemption from allowing unprovoked warfare, tacitly accepting torture, and permitting a denegation of our civil rights.

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We Still Know Some of the Things We Knew

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 01.15.2009 | Politics

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Obama's record-shattering fundraising was a key piece of his election victory allowing him to not only dominate the airwaves, but to implement his campaign's brilliantly planned field campaign.

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The 2008 Elections and What We Thought We Knew

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 01.10.2009 | Politics

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This recent election showed us that many old assumptions about presidential elections are wrong; figuring out the new assumptions will be essential to the future success of both parties.

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Have We Overcome?

Lara M. Gardner | Posted 12.25.2008 | Politics

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In spite of Obama's election, what America has not given up and seems loathe to give up, regardless how far backward we move socially, morally, and legally, is religion.

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Ann Coulter Still Yapping

Ben Cohen | Posted 12.18.2008 | Media

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Coulter's solution to Republican problems is for it to become even more extreme than it already is. It's a recipe for disaster (and hopefully one that the Republicans decide to try).

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Election Withdrawal

Barbara Dehn | Posted 12.15.2008 | Living

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Clearly the entire country is coming to terms with the outcome of the election. Many are getting back to their routines, others are more engaged in current events.

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Italians Are in Love -- with Obama

Jim Schumacher and Debbie Bookchin | Posted 12.15.2008 | Politics

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Our friends implore us for Obama buttons or any other campaign memorabilia we can find, and it seems as if every Italian stranger we've encountered has been unable to contain themselves with excitement.

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Forces in Obama Landslide

Ricardo Rossello | Posted 12.15.2008 | Politics

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Ever since Obama's historic election as the first African-American President, the pundits have been trying to demystify the voter attitudes and behavior that led to this unprecedented outcome.

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Ten Chumps Who Helped Elect Barack Obama

Erik Ose | Posted 12.15.2008 | Politics

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With the post-election analysis season almost over, it's worth taking one final look at some of the characters who ensured President-elect Obama would make it to the White House.

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Campaign Ad or Ad Campagin?

Aemilia Scott | Posted 12.14.2008 | Politics

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To keep us from making some unhealthy choices in the future, presidential campaigns need to be read with the eye of the consumer.

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Finally Seeing Clearly

Mike Papantonio | Posted 12.14.2008 | Media

I was advised to take a break from political clutter and that peculiar kind of tunnel vision that develops when we focus too closely on any tiny part of the huge world around us.

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