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The First 100 Days: A Whole That Is Greater Than Its Parts

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics

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When Obama became president, the country was reeling economically, directionless in foreign policy, losing credibility abroad and suffering a crisis of confidence at home. He has begun to turn all of this around.

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First 100 Days Retrospective: Ford, Carter, Reagan

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Retrospective, Pardon, President Obama, Hostages, Ronald Reagan, Economy, James Carter, Carter's First 100 Days, Obama, Cold War, Assassination Attempt, President, Reagan, Iran, History, Ford's First 100 Days, Gerald Ford, Assassination, Nixon Pardon, President Carter, President Reagan, President Ford, Historic, Economic Crisis, Ford, Carter, Obama's First 100 Days, Energy Crisis, Stimulus, Barack Obama, Fdr, Reagan's First 100 Days, First 100 Days, First Hundred Days, Chris Weigant, Jimmy Carter, Nixon, Monopoly, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Roosevelt, Obama 100 Days, 100 Days, Politics News

What is striking is how often the media gets it wrong when measuring up new presidents. Journalists should approach judging a president's first 100 days with some humility.

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Wall of Fear

Robert Koehler | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gop, Jimmy Carter, Hugo Chavez, Newt Gingrich, Obama Chavez Handshake, Barack Obama, Republicans, Politics News

Right now Obama is straddling the future and the past, and it's up to us -- a passionate and vocal citizenry -- to pull him to the future.

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Obama: Beyond Savior or Trickster

Norman Solomon | Posted 05.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Wall Street Deregulation, Bill Clinton, Orwellian, Vietnam War, Jimmy Carter, Congress, Afghanistan, Republicans, Lyndon Johnson, Democratic Party, Democrats, Nafta, Barack Obama, Vietnam, Politics News

When Obama takes a progressive step, it has been made possible by progressive activism. When Obama takes an anti-progressive step, it has been facilitated by progressives muting their criticism.

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A Pre-Owned "New Foundation"

John McQuaid | Posted 05.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jimmy Carter, A New Foundation, Barack Obama, Obama Administration, Obama Economy, Obama Georgetown Speech, Obama New Foundation, Politics News

I thought I'd heard "New Foundation" somewhere before. Sure enough, Jimmy Carter used the same slogan as the framing device for his 1979 State of the Union address.

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Obama's Right Wing Critics: Take a Chill Pill

Marc R. Stanley | Posted 05.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Republican Jewish Coalition, Jimmy Carter, National Jewish Democratic Council, Ira Forman, Politics News

Some Jewish Republicans will never be happy with anything this president does regarding Israel. Every action will be seen as another mystical sign of this administration's desertion of Israel.

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Fix the Airlines Instead of Bailing Out Wall Street

Don McNay | Posted 05.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Indianapolis, Wall Street Bailout, Small Business, Sales, Ronald Reagan, Img, Faa, Business Travelers, Bailouts, Cincinnati, Travel, Airport Security, Business, Southwest Airlines, Air-Traffic-Control, Airport Delays, Memphis, Dayton, Louisville, Marketing, Kentucky, Lexington KY, Delta Airlines, Northwest Airlines, Bill Clinton, Air Traffic Control, Mark McCormick, United Airlines, Washington DC, Airports, Don McNay, Harvard Business School, American Airlines, Air Travel, Airline Industry, Los Angeles, Knoxville, Bermuda, Business Travel, Deregulation, Jimmy Carter, Entrepreneurship, Airlines, Productivity, Chris Rock, Business News

I used to schedule an out of town trip then meetings the next day. Now I can't. I am not sure if I will get back or if I will get home exhausted and stressed.

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Future Shock and Guffaw for Bookish Bush

Dave Astor | Posted 04.21.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Supreme Court, Dubya, Decision Points, Failed Presidency, George W. Bush, Bring 'Em On, Jimmy Carter, Nobel Peace Prize, Leaf Blowers, The Daily Show, Encounter at Farpoint, Sats, Star Trek, Dick Cheney, George Bush, Comedy News

Given that Bush lacks the writing chops to pen a coherent book by himself, he'll still have plenty of time on his hands while someone else does the authorial heavy lifting. So, how might Dubya spend that time?

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Editorial: Obama Needs To Focus His Agenda If He Wants To Avoid Jimmy Carter's Fate

The New Republic | William Galston | Posted 04.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jimmy Carter, Obama Agenda, Obama Policies, Barack Obama, Politics News

A surprised Rudolph Penner, assistant director of President Ford's OMB and later a CBO director, offered a blunt assessment of the new president: "[He...

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Why I'm Not Now and Have Never Been the Democrats' "Rush Limbaugh"

Michael Moore | Posted 04.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Democratic Convention, John McCain, Cbc, Rush Limbaugh, Congressional Black Caucus, Michael Moore, Jimmy Carter, Terry McAuliffe, Sicko, Fahrenheit 9/11, Joe Lieberman, Republican Convention, Barack Obama, John Kerry, Chuck Todd, Richard Wolffe, Gop, Rush Limbaugh Cpac, Rush Limbaugh Republicans, Limbaugh Head of GOP, Cpac, Limbaugh Obama, Rush Limbaugh Obama, Limbaugh Cpac, Republican Party, Michael Moore Rush Limbaugh, Politics News

I have watched with mild amusement this week the self-immolation of the Republican Party as it bows before the altar of Rush Limbaugh, begging for mer...

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Shame, Shame On Them!

Norman Horowitz | Posted 04.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, National Republican Congressional Committee, George W. Bush, Harry Truman, Fdr, Politics News

It is, in a manner of speaking, silly to compare what happens at a Motion Picture and Television Studio to what happens when there is an election and ...

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The Mossad's Plan to Stop Iran

Keith Thomson | Posted 03.30.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Obama Iran, Mossad, Spying, Iran, Rumint, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Sun Tzu, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Intelligence, Cia, Middle East, Jimmy Carter, Israel, Iran Nuclear Program, Syria, Islamic Republic of Iran, World News

I recently asked an intelligence source: what's being done to thwart Iran? His answer: penetration of the Iranian nuclear apparatus at the highest levels. The CIA is trying. The Mossad is more successful.

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Holder, Race and Obama's 10% of the White Alabama Vote

Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.24.2009 | Politics

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The complicated picture of how America came to vote for its first black president reflects the country's multifarious attitude towards race

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Should President Obama Be More Optimistic?

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 03.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, John McCain, President Obama, Hope, Economy, Optimism, George W. Bush, Winston Churchill, The Fly, Franklin Roosevelt, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Mark McKinnon, President Bill Clinton, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jimmy Carter, Politics News

If Obama is truly committed to change, being more optimistic may not help him in that effort. Americans voted for Obama because they were acutely aware of the problems the country faces.

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"I will gladly pay you tomorrow for a hamburger today": Americans Want What We Can't Pay For

Stanton Peele | Posted 03.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sicko, Bill Clinton, Trade Imbalance, Obama Economic Stimulus Plan, Ronald Reagan, Monica Lewinsky, Health Insurance, Environment, Jimmy Carter, Michael Moore, Hillary Clinton, Bank Bailout, Health Care, Obama Administration, Politics News

Obama's effort to resuscitate the US economy is artificial life support, since we are no longer energetic, enterprising, and creative enough to generate sufficient economic activity on our own.

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Can Mitchell Succeed? Let Him Talk to Hamas

Robert Naiman | Posted 03.14.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Gaza, George MItchell, Israel, Palestine, Jimmy Carter, Fatah, Hamas, Northern Ireland Peace Process, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, World News

It is very likely that if the U.S. were to engage Hamas diplomatically, it would be much easier to achieve a peaceful political resolution of the Israel/Palestine conflict.

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Obama's Missing Man

Alexander Dresner | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, History, Fdr, Lyndon Johnson, Barack Obama, President Obama, Politics News

The White House has reclaimed its place as an intellectual playground. In keeping with this tradition I propose a permanent addition to the White House staff: a historian-in-residence.

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Michelle Obama and the Covert Influence of First Ladies

Carl Sferrazza Anthony | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, First Ladies, Congress, Michelle Obama First Lady, Philippines, Spanish-American War, Mary Lincoln, East Wing, Kennedys, Curtis LeMay, Obama Advisers, New York State Governor, First Lady, Former Presidents, Chicago, Abraham Lincoln, Rosalynn Carter Inauguration, Fdr, Financial Planning, Florence Harding, Benjamin Montgomery, Great Depression, Michelle Obama South Side, Michelle Obama, Calvin Coolidge, University of Chicago, Rosalyn Carter, Eleanor Roosevelt, Ida Mckinley, U.S. Presidents, Barack Obama, Presidents, Barack Obama and David Axelrod, The West Wing, Clinton First Lady, David Axelrod, South Side of Chicago, Robert Lansing, Jimmy Carter, Edith Wilson, Jackie Kennedy, Roosevelt, Jfk, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Tough Decisions, Politics News

As memories of Inauguration Day 2009 begin to fade in and the new administration ensues, speculation will only increase about how politically influential Michelle Obama will be as First Lady.

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A New President for Urban America

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

The Obama presidency is an opportunity for our political leadership, of both parties, to stop denigrating big cities, and ignoring the positive role they play in our political life.

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After the White House: A Retirement Plan for President Bush

Dr. Stephen Forman | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, George Bush, 4000 Dead, US Military, Former President Bill Clinton, Iraq Deaths, Economy, George W. Bush, Veterans, Childhood Obesity, Iraq Veterans, Military, Richard Nixon, Former Presidents, 4000 Soldiers Deaths, Hurricane Katrina, Climate Change, Visiting Each Other, Bill Clinton, Ex-Presidents, Veterans Affairs, Vets, Iraq Death Toll, Retirement, Economic Development, U.S. Presidents, Presidents, HIV/AIDS, Iraq War, Tsunami, Iraq Soldier Deaths, Hospitals, Jimmy Carter, Iraq, Obama First 100 Days, 100 Days, Politics News

As President Bush leaves the White House and returns to Texas, we can only hope for him what we want for ourselves; to learn from our mistakes and to do good in the world with the time.

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White House Solar Panels: What Ever Happened To Carter's Solar Thermal Water Heater? (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 02.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Solar Panels, Video, Obama Environment, Greening the White House, Jimmy Carter, White House Solar Panels, Green Energy, Green Politics, Green Technology, Solar Power, Green News

President Obama's first days in office have been chock full of reversing the actions of the previous president, from halting midnight environmental re...

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'Will Jimmy Carter Meddle In Obama's Foreign Policy?': LA Times

Los Angeles Times | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: First 100 Days, Obama First 100 Days, 100 Days, Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Carter Obama, Barack Obama Foreign Policy, Jimmy Carter Israel, Obama Foreign Policy, Jimmy Carter Hamas, Politics News

He's the president apart, pictured here standing to the side in a group photo of all the living members of The President's Club in the Oval Office ear...

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Obama: The Environmental President?

Bill Chameides | Posted 02.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Yosemite, Clean Air Act (1990), Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Cap and Trade, Ronald Reagan, Fish & Wildlife Service, George W. Bush, Air Quality, Woodrow Wilson, Endangered Species Act, Barack Obama, Clean Air Act, National Park Service, Clean Water Act, Legislation, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Diane Feinstein, Theodore Roosevelt, Water Pollution, Richard Nixon, Montreal Protocol, Kyoto Protocol, Abraham Lincoln, Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, Oceans, Air Pollution, Environmental Protection Agency, Global Warming, Green News

Will Obama be able to advance an environmental agenda? If so, he will have distinguished himself from Democratic administrations that promised a lot but delivered little on the environment.

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President Obama and the Work of Remaking America

Scott Kurashige | Posted 02.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jimmy Carter, Obama, Martin Luther King, Obama Inauguration, Obama Inauguration Coverage, Obama's Inauguration, Obama Inaugural Address, Inauguration, Obama Inaugural, Obama Inaugural Speech, Barack Obama Inauguration, Barack Obama, Politics News

Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement leaders defined their mission: "to save the soul of America." Obama's address can serve as a reminder of that incomplete mission.

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We Want Change... But From What?

Chip Collis | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jimmy Carter, George W Bush, Change, Pluralism, Obama Inauguration, Barack Obama, Politics News

In calling us back to our national heritage of pluralism, the changeObama urges has been a long time coming, a long time overdue. Obama calls not for a change in America, but in Americans themselves.

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