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What Obama Is Up Against

Russ Baker | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Central Intelligence Agency, Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan, Military Industrial Complex, Harry Truman, President Obama, George W. Bush, Obama, Bob Woodward, Bush Administration Torture, Robert Gates, George H.W. Bush, Richard Nixon, National Security, Gerald Ford, Nancy Pelosi, Congressional Oversight, Fdr, Hamid Karzai, Bill Clinton, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Afghanistan War, Iraq War, Bush Administration, Dwight Eisenhower, Cia, Military Spending, Stanley McChrystal, Jimmy Carter, Prescott Bush, Allen Dulles, Lyndon Johnson, Iraq, Torture, Politics News
Russ Baker

We Americans harbor a quaint belief that a new president takes charge of a government that eagerly awaits his next command. But that's not how things work at the top, especially where "national security" is concerned.

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Too Soon To Tell? Judging A President's Progress

The New York Review of Books | Posted 11.04.2009 | Books

Read More: John F Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Afghanistan, George W. Bush, Nyr, Iran, Arthur Schlesinger, Presidency, Barack Obama, Garry Wills, Hoover, Lincoln, New York Review, One Year Later, Abraham Lincoln, The New Deal, Racism, Jimmy Carter, Fdr, Iraq, Health Care, Jfk, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Books News

The New York Review of Books Huffington Post: At the anniversary of the election of Barack Obama, we're taking a close look at how he's done and wh...

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Thank You for (Not) Running for President

Michael Sigman | Posted 11.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Pat Buchanan, Politics, Joe Scarborough, C-Span, Sean Hannity, 2012 Election, John Edwards, Jimmy Carter, Joe Klein, Hamilton Jordan, Newt Gingrich, Presidency, Barack Obama, Media News
Michael Sigman

In the U.S. any child can grow up to become president. But with our new 24/7 cable/Internet news culture, it's more fun to explain why you're not running for President.

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Health Care Reform is Critically Important, But Getting Americans Back to Work is More So

Robert Reich | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Unemployment Rate, Dick Morris, Jobs, Barack Obama, Unemployment, Economic Stimulus Package, Wall Street, Federal Budget Deficit, Stimulus Package, Health Care Reform, Financial Crisis, Jimmy Carter, Economic Recovery, Alan Greenspan, Health Care, Politics News
Robert Reich

The optimist in me says Obama can pivot off a health-care victory and launch some new initiatives that palpably and quickly spur job growth. The realist says there aren't any such initiatives.

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One Year After Election Day: The Verdict on Obama

Andy Ostroy | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Bill Clinto, George H.W. Bush, One Year Later, George W. Bush, President Obama, Jimmy Carter, Economic Recovery, Great Depression, Afghanistan War, Politics News
Andy Ostroy

Has President Obama done a good job in office, or is he destined to suffer the same fate of Jimmy Carter and George H. W. Bush, as unmemorable, ineffective one-term chief executives?

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Wall Street and the US Government: Where's Jimmy Stewart When We Need Him?

Steven G. Brant | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Chuck Schumer, Tarp, Wall Street Bailout, Barney Frank, Maureen Dowd, Chris Dodd, Dylan Ratigan, Frank Rich, Chris Matthews, Barack Obama, Goldman Sachs, Wall Street, Glenn Greenwald, Henry Paulson, Jimmy Carter, Timothy Geithner, Jimmy Stewart, Wall Street Bonuses, Ralph Nader, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Politics News
Steven G. Brant

With all the interest in the damage Wall Street has done, activity that's the opposite should draw some attention. But coverage of the corporate social responsibility movement is not yet an idea whose time has come.

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The Norwegians Got It!

Lester Sloan | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ralph Bunche, Nasa, President Obama, Arms Race, Homelessness, Hope, Nobel Committee, Jimmy Carter, Nobel Peace Prize, Diplomacy, Alfred Nobel, Nasa Bombing the Moon, Politics News
Lester Sloan

While writers, poets, and scientists usually win the award for what they have accomplished, statesmen, philosophers, and other persons of ideas are honored for the causes that they champion.

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30 Years Later, Waterfront Racketeer Todo Anastasio Is Still At It

Jerry Capeci | Posted 10.12.2009 | New York

Read More: Anthony Scotto, Junior Gotti, Anthony (Todo) Anastasio, Gambino Crime Family, William (Wild Bill) Cutolo, Albert Anastasia, Governor Carey, International Longshoremen's Association, Royal Crown Bakery, Jimmy Carter, New York Mafia, New York Mob, New York News
Jerry Capeci

Words currently being spoken about Todo Anastasio in Brooklyn Federal Court can be quite costly for him. If convicted at an ongoing racketeering trial, Anastasio, now 80, faces up to 20 years behind bars.

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Back and Forth on the Nobel Peace Prize

Michael Jones | Posted 10.12.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Desmond Tutu, Jimmy Carter, Obama Nobel Peace Prize, Illinois Combine, Barack Obama Tony Rezko, Woodrow Wilson, Mayor Daley, Obama Nobel, Nobel Peace Prize, Apartheid, Chicago News
Michael Jones

"Jimmy Carter and Al Gore, and now President Obama, got their awards for political reasons ... mostly a Scandinavian attempt to embarrass George Bush."

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Leading With Love: Giving to Your People Gets Results

John Hope Bryant | Posted 10.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Leadership, Bill Clinton, Oprah Winfrey, Wells Fargo, Warren Buffett, Jimmy Carter, Bill Gates, Quincy Jones, Ted Turner, Living News
John Hope Bryant

Why not give? Easy. Fear, and fear is the ultimate prosperity killer -- you will never go wrong, doing right. And do right long enough and it will pay dividends that builds wealth, too.

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Congratulations, President Obama

Chris Campbell | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Wmd, Obama Nobel Peace Prize, Economy, Axis of Evil, George W. Bush, President Obama, Guantanamo, Nobel Peace Prize, Aung San Suu Kyi, Nelson Mandela, Gay Rights, Unemployment, Martin Luther King, Tax Cuts, Health Care Reform, Jimmy Carter, Climate Change, Health Care, Politics News
Chris Campbell

I find it maddening how quickly the wolves came out. Similar to any policy move that will actually benefit Americans and our standing in the world, the right-wing goes ballistic.

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The Nobel Peace Prize: Calling a Truce, at Least for a Day

Wayne Trujillo | Posted 10.09.2009 | Denver

Read More: Jimmy Carter, Nobel Peace Prize, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Barack Obama, Nobel Committee, Obama Nobel, Denver News
Wayne Trujillo

President Barack Obama. The Nobel Peace Prize. Wow. Already? After determining that we are still in 2009 and I hadn't pulled a Rip Van Winkle, I then wondered if I was reading the title correctly.

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Bill Clinton Must Wonder -- Where's Mine?

Carol Felsenthal | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Obama Nobel Prize, Obama Nobel, Al Gore, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Politics News
Carol Felsenthal

Not even as towering an ego as Clinton expected to win it while a sitting president, as Wilson and Roosevelt had, but not even they came close to winning it before they had spent a year in the White House.

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Obama's Nobel Peace Prize Is a Huge Stretch

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Wilson, Israel and Palestinians, Middle East, Jimmy Carter, Theordore Roosevelt, Nobel Peace Prize, President Obama, Obama Nobel Peace Prize, Iraq War, Afghanistan War, Politics News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

I have to think that privately Obama scratched his head and wondered, why me?

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Barack Obama, Nobel Laureate; First the Reward, Now the Risk

Mike Hegedus | Posted 10.09.2009 | World

Read More: Gdansk, Theodore Roosevelt, Lech Walesa, Euro Dollar, Major League Baseball, Woodrow Wilson, George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Nobel Peace Prize, Mvp, Congo, Patrice Lamuba, Wal-Mart, Barack Obama, Japan, World News
Mike Hegedus

Barack Obama won the Nobel Prize because the world outside our own borders hopes, wants, and prays for his success internationally. And that's a good thing, a very good thing.

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Barack Obama, Nobel Peace Laureate: Whatever Happened to Awarding for Deeds Actually Done?

Michael Russnow | Posted 10.09.2009 | World

Read More: Nobel Peace Prize, Barack Obama, Alfred Nobel, Al Gore, Willy Brandt, Henry Kissinger, Russnow, Blackberry, Twitter, Iraq, Facebook, Woodrow Wilson, Cnn, Muslim, Theodore Roosevelt, Michael Russnow, Iraq War, Jimmy Carter, Youtube, League of Nations, Afghanistan, Obama Nobel, Barack Obama Nobel, Nobel Laureate, Nobel Prize, World News
Michael Russnow

It is enormously premature for Obama to be getting this great tribute, which to a certain extent cheapens the prior recipients and the work all of them performed over so many years.

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Is the Opposite of Capitalism Democracy? A Review of Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story

Anis Shivani | Posted 10.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Auto Industry, Foreclosures, Populism, Ronald Reagan, Larry Summers, Globalization, Economic Bill of Rights, Republic Windows and Doors, Goldman Sachs, Capitalism: A Love Story, General Motors, Dennis Kucinich, General Motors Bankruptcy, Roger & Me, Plutonomy, Financial Deregulation, Deindustrialization, Bill Clinton, Economic Crisis, Flint, Democracy, Franklin Roosevelt, Capitalism, Oligarchy, Nafta, Barack Obama, Sicko, Robert Rubin, Glass-Steagall Act, Jimmy Carter, Michael Moore, Alan Greenspan, Business News
Anis Shivani

Moore explicitly states that we ought to turn to democracy as the alternative to capitalism. But the opposite of capitalism is not democracy, it is socialism.

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Jimmy Carter and the Race Card

Lance Simmens | Posted 10.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Racism, Obama, Carter, Obama Racism, Jimmy Carter, Brown v. Board of Education, Jimmy Carter Racism, Race Card, Politics News
Lance Simmens

Racism is not the sole explanation for the hateful rhetoric that has been leveled at the President, it may not even be the driving rationalization, but to suggest that it plays little or no role is both wishful thinking and naïve.

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William Safire: Wars Made Out of Words

David Bromwich | Posted 11.15.2009 | Media

Read More: Bill Clinton, Thomas Friedman, Joe Mccarthy, Wen Ho Lee, Rush Limbaugh, Ronald Reagan, Spiro Agnew, Maureen Dowd, Lebanon, Bob Woodward, Mohamed ElBaradei, William Safire, Richard Nixon, Vietnam, Ariel Sharon, Jimmy Carter, New York Times, Hillary Clinton, James Reston, Kenneth Starr, Baltimore, Media News
David Bromwich

William Safire's career took him from public relations to propaganda to column-writing in a single seamless progression.

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Jimmy Carter's Price Tag

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

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Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

Carter has always subscribed to 'Underdogma,' a knee-jerk reaction to champion the cause of any underdog, however immoral. To him, poverty dictates virtue and weakness dictates righteousness.

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Who's Leading the DADT Debate?

Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, House of Representatives, Congress, Joint Forces Quarterly, George W. Bush, Harry Truman, Senate Armed Services Committee, Admiral Mike Mullen, Obama Pentagon, Afghanistan War, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, H.R. 1283, Senate, Dadt, George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Politics News
Aubrey Sarvis

it is one thing to give the Pentagon considerable weight and another thing altogether to let it dictate the timing and terms of the debate, and the final decision.

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Politics, in Ebony and Ivory

Brian Palmer | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Racism, Jimmy Carter, Fox, News Media, President Barack Obama, Joe Wilson, Politics News
Brian Palmer

It's a commonplace that Social Security is the third rail of politics. For the first black president, however, it's clearly race.

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Why I'm Grateful for Joe Wilson and the Fury of Racists

Keli Goff | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jimmy Carter, Racists, South Carolina, Racist, Joe Wilson, Civil Rights Movement, Barack Obama, Politics News
Keli Goff

Some people's racism has been brought to the fore because the America they thought they knew is changing to an America in which a Black man can get elected president and their very own children applaud.

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Obama, America and Race

Robert Slayton | Posted 09.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Racism, Jimmy Carter, Racism, Racism in Politics, David Brooks, Barack Obama, Bull Connor, Racist, Politics News
Robert Slayton

Obama is a lot of things that are scary, and only one of these is the fact that he is black.

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Jason Linkins

Lanny Davis Wants Everyone To Be Nicer To Each Other

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Serena Williams, Video, Jimmy Carter, Kanye West, Joe Wilson, Joe Lieberman, Lanny Davis, Media News

Professional Beltway bile-sack Lanny Davis, in between shilling for Central American coup d'etats and helping Whole Foods CEO John Mackey achieve subject-verb agreement in anti-health care reform op-eds, has found the time for a new hobby: teaching Americans to be nicer to each other!

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