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Bill Romjue Hired As Andrew Romanoff's Campaign Manager

Posted 12.22.2009 | Denver

Read More: Sue Casey, Jimmy Carter, Colorado Senate, Bill Romjue, Joe Biden, Michael Bennet, Andrew Romanoff Campaign Manager, Gary Hart, Bob Kerrey, Denver News

In an email to campaign supporters Monday, Senatorial candidate Andrew Romanoff announced he had hired Democratic operative Bill Romjue as his campaig...

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A Failed State Senator?

Stephen Herrington | Posted 12.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: White House, Fascism, Fear, Congress, Senate, Gary Hart, Terrorism, Domestic Terrorism, Tea Party, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Republicans, Politics News
Stephen Herrington

Many Huffington Post commenters, and even article contributors, rush to compare America to Rome in it's decline into a failed nation state. Republican Rome lasted 450 years.

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Does the United States Require a Strategy?

Gary Hart | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Strategy, National Security, Public Policy, Gary Hart, Foreign Policy, Politics News
Gary Hart

We are miserable at anticipation and preparation. The latter requires centralized authority, something Americans instinctively resist.

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Letterman Hurled Spit Balls In Glass House

AP | FRAZIER MOORE | Posted 10.07.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Mark Sanford, Mark Foley, David Letterman Affairs, Gary Hart, David Letterman Extortion, Larry Craig, Sarah Palin, David Letterman, Comedy News

NEW YORK — Some of the politicians zinged by David Letterman over the years for their indiscretions are offering pity and advice for the scandal...

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The President in Chains

Gary Hart | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration, National Security, Gary Hart, Matters of Principle, Military, Central Intelligence Agency, Constitution, Gary Wills, Department of Defense, George W. Bush, Obama Administration, Air Force, National Security Council, Politics News
Gary Hart

The national security state has become a kind of powerful prison with the president as warden. He has authority over it, but he cannot escape it.

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Is the Age of Terror Over?

Gary Hart | Posted 11.10.2009 | World

Read More: War on Terror, Terrorism, Age of Terror, Gary Hart, Human Bombs, Richard Clarke, 9/11, Barack Obama, War on Terrorism, Osama Bin Laden, World Trade Center, Al Qaeda, World News
Gary Hart

By abandoning the "war on terrorism" paradigm, President Obama has helped us understand that acts of terrorism will continue in parts of the world, and that we must continue to make such acts as difficult as possible here in the United States.

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Why The Kennedy Eulogies Struck the Right Tone

William Bradley | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Arlington National Cemetery, Capitol Hill, Joe Biden, Robert Byrd, John Culver, Mike Mansfield, Strom Thurmond, Ted Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, John Kerry, U.S. Senate, Ted Kennedy Jr., John F. Kennedy, Kennedy Library, John McCain, Gary Hart, Politics News
William Bradley

We live in a moment of hyperpartisan politics and hyperactive media. These things militate against what the Kennedy eulogies celebrated.

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Obama's Rugged Week

William Bradley | Posted 04.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Russia, Economic Crisis, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, Joe Biden, Vladimir Putin, Tim Geithner, Hamid Karzai, Aig, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Bill Clinton, Iraq, Paul Krugman, Leon Panetta, Wall Street, Hillary Clinton, Dmitri Medvedev, Henry Kissinger, Gary Hart, Chuck Hagel, James Baker, Politics News
William Bradley

Is Geithner's plan another bailout to Wall Street? Or is it needed pragmatism to work with a deeply troubled, farcically entitled though still necessary private financial sector?

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Russian-American Relations "Deeply Troubled"

AP | BARRY SCHWEID | Posted 04.16.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Chuk Hagel, Nixon Center, Rusiaan American Relations, America, Gary Hart, Russia American Relations Deeply Troubled, World News

WASHINGTON — The United States should seek Russia's close cooperation in dealing with Iran and solicit Moscow's participation or at least acquiescen...

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Roosting Chickens

Gary Hart | Posted 03.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Salmonella Peanut Butter, Investment Banks, Bush Administration, Gary Hart, Economy, Economic Crisis, Bernard Madoff, Madoff Scandal, Taxpayers, Politics News
Gary Hart

What does the unrelated cast of characters featured in this evening's newscast have in common? They all benefited from the tax cuts and deregulation policies of George W. Bush.

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"Mac Is Back?" Hey, It Never Left. Macintosh Turns 25

William Bradley | Posted 02.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Iphone, Ipod, Itunes, Steve Wozniak, Macintosh, Apple, Barack Obama, Steve Jobs, Microsoft, Desktop Publishing, Pixar, Ibm, Jerry Brown, John McCain, Gary Hart, Regis McKenna, Chiat/Day, Lee Clow, Apple II, Clio Award, California, Silicon Valley, Hillary Clinton, Business News
William Bradley

What will the Mac be in another 25 years? Undoubtedly part of my flying car.

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An Early Victory for Obama Leadership

Gary Hart | Posted 02.24.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Nuclear Arsenal, Military, Nuclear Weapons, Gary Hart, Terrorism, 100 Days, Obama Administration, Nuclear Proliferation, Foreign Policy, World News
Gary Hart

No achievable goal could come closer to making the world safer than the reduction and possible elimination of nuclear arsenals.

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Democrats: The New Western Strategy Is Paying Off

William Bradley | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: California, Ronald Reagan, Democratic National Convention, Afl-Cio, Nevada, George Bush, New Mexico, Jerry Brown, Colorado, Harry Reid, Barack Obama, Presidential Politics, Western Strategy, Organized Labor, Change to Win, John McCain, Gary Hart, Denver, Bill Clinton, Howard Dean, Politics News
William Bradley

While the current party leadership deserves credit for a new path to presidential power, much of the new "Western strategy" has long been championed by former Senator Gary Hart.

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A.P.: Obama "Nervously" Meets with National Security Leaders

Ari Melber | Posted 11.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Sam Nunn, Richard Holbrook, Madeline Albright, Greg Craig, Mark Lippert, Denis McDonough, Jenniver Loven, Barack Obama, Ap, Gary Hart, Politics News
Ari Melber

Note the brazen absence of any facts or quotes supporting Loven's "nervousness" storyline, even though it contradicts Obama's own statement about how long the meeting had been in the works.

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Team Obama's One Missing Ingredient: Killer Instinct

William Bradley | Posted 10.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, National Football League, San Francisco 49ers, Gary Hart, George W. Bush, Steve Schmidt, Barack Obama, Bill Walsh, Super Bowl, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jerry Rice, Joe Montana, Ronnie Lott, Politics News
William Bradley

I'm reminded of the strategies of the legendary coach of the 49ers, Bill Walsh -- analyze your opponent. Find a vulnerability. And attack that vulnerability. Ruthlessly and repeatedly.

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Que Sera, Sarah

William Bradley | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Vladimir Putin, John McCain, Joe Biden, Presidential Campaign, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Gary Hart, Politics News
William Bradley

What McCain's speech did not have was the substance to back up the centrist reformism he needs to try to upset Obama.

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Obama Counter-Programs The RNC, And Hurricanes Sarah And Gustav

William Bradley | Posted 10.04.2008 | Media

Read More: John McCain, George W. Bush, Conflict Theory, TV Advertising, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Boyd Cycle, Presidential Campaign, Patterns of Conflict, David Axelrod, Fox News, Steve Schmidt, Bill O'Reilly, Republican Convention, David Plouffe, Gary Hart, Newt Gingrich, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Peggy Noonan, Mike Murphy, Media News
William Bradley

What a bizarre week for Obama to mount a counter-programming effort. He has the RNC and Hurricanes Gustav and Sarah. It's going pretty well for him -- not that he has all that much to do with it.

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John McCain and al Qaeda

Gary Hart | Posted 05.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: McCain Maverick, Mccain Al Qaeda, John McCain, Gary Hart, McCain Iraq War, Mccain, McCain Bush, John McCain Bush, McCain Iraq, Politics News
Gary Hart

If John McCain seriously believes we are at war with al Qaeda in Iraq, that alone is such a serious error in judgment it should disqualify him from any chance to govern this country.

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Gary Hart: If PA/NC Results Show Racial Divide, Obama Could Face Trouble In General

Hotline On Call | Posted 04.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hart on Obama, Obama Racial Divide, Barack Obama, Obama Gary Hart, Gary Hart Barack Obama, Gary Hart, Politics News

In an interview with National Journal Contributing Editor Linda Douglass that airs today, Gary Hart , a Barack Obama backer, makes a couple interestin...

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Sam Stein

The Iraq Recession: Debate Raging Over War's Economic Impact

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Housing Market, Gary Hart, Economic Recession, Iraq War Recession, War, Oil Market, Oil Prices, Oil, Iraq War, Robert Samuelson, Robert Shapiro, Congress, Housing Crisis, Elias Tuma, Politics News

Within the halls of Congress and on editorial pages of the country's newspapers, questions are being raised as to whether the Iraq war bears responsib...

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Sam Stein

Last Stand: Bush To Battle Dems Over Permanent Iraq Presence

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Troop Withdrawal, Delahunt, Clinton, Long-Term Presence, Iraq War, Maliki Goverment, Iraq Security, Delauro, Obama, Army Bases, Security, President Bush, Gary Hart, Politics News

The next and perhaps last big debate on Iraq War policy has come into focus in recent weeks, as the Bush administration has made several moves to secu...

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