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Remembering About Forgetting

Sandy Goodman | Posted 07.13.2008 | Home

Read More: Jefferson, Lincoln, Senior Moment, Grant, Slaves, Willard Scott, Washington, Memory, Willard Hotel, Lee, Fdr, Tourmobile, Home News
Sandy Goodman

Memory is big these days. Especially for those of us getting on in years. I'm celebrating my 75th birthday later this month. I don't know which I'm mo...

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Oy. Have a Dream?

Steven Weber | Posted 07.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Fdr, Obama Fist Bump, Barack Obama, Politics News
Steven Weber

The rapturous reception that greets Obama is warranted insofar as the dream he pitches, while idyllic, is theoretically attainable.

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Real Homeland Security

Geoffrey R. Stone | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Civil Liberties, Mukasey Civil Liberties, Civil Liberties Advisor, Homeland Security, Harry Truman, Woodrow Wilson, Patriot Act Civil Liberties, Ramsey Clark, Fdr, Habeas Corpus, Politics News
Geoffrey R. Stone

The next president should create a brand new position, which should become a permanent part of the Executive Branch in the future: a Civil Liberties Advisor.

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7 Days: Why McCain Flip-Flops More Than Obama, w/ Alter, Huffington, Reagan & Green

Mark Green | Posted 06.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Fdr, John McCain, Barack Obama, 7 Days in America, Politics News
Mark Green

Republicans are going to have to get used to the following -- if they hope that the Democratic nominee will do something politically self-immolating, they won't get it. Sorry, not this time.

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Obama Will Break Our Hearts -- But Progressives Need to Walk and Chew Gum at the Same Time

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 06.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Democratic Congress, Progressive, FISA Bill, Barack Obama Moves Center, Fdr, Progressives, FISA Legislation, FISA Obama, Congress, Obama Fisa Compromise, Progressive Politics, Progressive Movement, Fisa, Barack Obama, Politics News
Miles Mogulescu

We should not give Obama an easy pass on his FISA turnaround, but progressives need to maintain a nuanced view of the relationship between electoral politics and movement building.

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"You Can't Always Get What You Want"

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Move on.Org, George W. Bush, Rfk, Jfk, Che Guevara, Barack Obama, Ralph Nader, Fdr, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

After he's elected we will hold Obama's feet to the fire. There will be disappointments -- but what's new about that? The Left is always disappointed.

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My Mother: A Nana for Obama

Sherman Yellen | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Class Warfare, Boca Raton, Obama Jewish Vote, Fdr, Obama Florida, John McCain Florida, Franklin Roosevelt, Miami, Elderly Americans, Barack Obama, Elderly Vote Florida GOP, Politics News
Sherman Yellen

Simply said, my mother would have voted for Obama to keep her promise to the future, "for the sake of the kids. I hope that many of those in Florida, and elsewhere, planning to vote for McCain think again.

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Politics on the Couch: Paranoid Anxiety, Splitting, and Racism

Justin Frank | Posted 06.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Krugman, Islam, Fear, Politics on the Couch, African-Americans, Paranoid Anxiety, Obama, Fdr, Muslim, Japanese, Politics News
Justin Frank

If the war on terror is a fear-based war against Muslim extremists, how will people respond to Obama's middle name, Hussein?

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The Speech Obama Needs to Give

Leonce Gaiter | Posted 06.03.2008 | Home

Read More: Bill Clinton, Lbj, Hillary Clinton, Jfk, Democratic Party, Barack Obama, Harry Truman, Fdr, Home News
Leonce Gaiter

"Hillary Clinton is an exemplary Senator, a furious campaigner, and a great American. She has been a vital part of this moment in history, this moment when we showed the world what the 'land of opportunity' can mean."

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First Victory on GI Bill Today

Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 05.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: GI Bill, Education, Iava, Iraq, Afghanistan, Congress, Jim Webb, Veterans, Fdr, Politics News
Paul Rieckhoff

The landmark new GI Bill is a tremendous and bipartisan commitment to our troops. We've seen enough bumper sticker and lapel pin patriotism; today, we saw the real thing.

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Karl Rove and the Media-Politico Revolving Door: It Goes Further Back than Stephanopoulos

Robert Schlesinger | Posted 05.12.2008 | Media

Read More: Newsweek, Time, Karl Rove, Pundits, Dwight Eisenhower, Bill Clinton, US News & World Report, Fdr, White House Ghosts, George Stephanopoulos, Jfk, Punditry, Franklin Roosevelt, Presidential Speechwriting, Media News
Robert Schlesinger

The New York Times traces the trend as far back as George Stephanopoulos's switch from the Clinton White House to ABC News, but it goes much further back.

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Memo to Tom Hanks: Barack Obama Is No Harry Truman

Robert Schlesinger | Posted 05.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Reagan, Barack Obama, Kennedy, Tom Hanks, John F. Kennedy, Spechwriting, Ronald Reagan, Presidential Rhetoric, White House Ghosts, Roosevelt, Jfk, Fdr, Franklin Roosevelt, Politics News
Robert Schlesinger

If elected, Obama, could become a magic speaker in the vein of the Big Three; the extent to which he can go off-the-cuff in a Trumanesque manner remains unclear.

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The Democrats and Trade

Robert Schlesinger | Posted 04.10.2008 | Politics

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Robert Schlesinger

The trade debate calls to mind a much earlier presidential campaign, and a classical moment in presidential speechwriting.

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McLaughlin Uses 1932's "Happy Days" with 1924 Convention

John Tepper Marlin | Posted 04.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Alfred E. Smith, Calvin Coolidge, Cambridge, Prohibition, Happy Days Are Here Again, 1932 Convention, Oxford, 1924 Convention, Herbert Hoover, Fdr, Politics News
John Tepper Marlin

Today the McLaughlin Group showed a short video of the 1924 Democratic convention in Madison Square Garden as background to a cautionary exchange on ...

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An Essential and Viable Energy Fix, and the Renaissance of Detroit

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 04.04.2008 | Business

Read More: Israel, Franklin Roosevelt, American Automobile Industry, Arsenal of Democracy, Project Better Place, Denmark, Detroit, Energy, Greatest Generation, Israel Electric Cars, Detroit Arsenal, Fdr, Renault Nissan Electric Cars, Renault Nissan, Shai Agassi Car Project, Shai Agassi, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

To make Israel oil independent by 2020, Renault Nissan is building cars running purely on electricity, with Denmark signing on to implement the sinews of this major electric car initiative.

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Start the Presses!

Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Tupac Shakur, New York Times, Howard Kurtz, Sean Combs, Washington Post, President Bush, Dick Cheney, Satire, Tupac Murder, Fdr, Franklin Roosevelt, LA Times Diddy Tupac, Media News
Jacob Heilbrunn

In an announcement that is sending shockwaves through the mainstream media, the LA Times has apparently decided to begin publishing at least one truthful story each day.

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Obama, Reverend Wright, The Speech: A Problem and An Unanticipated Upside

Thomas de Zengotita | Posted 03.20.2008 | Politics

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Thomas de Zengotita

There may not be a place in this culture for a history-making speech anymore -- I mean literally, no room for something of lasting value to sit there and be itself, to sink in and define the moment.

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Obama is No JFK but Even If He Was His Inexperience Can't be Cavalierly Dismissed

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 02.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Lyndon Johnson, Barack Obama, Cuban Missile Crisis, Bill Clinton, Rfk, Jfk, Nikita Krushchev, Fidel Castro, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Fdr, Politics News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The lack of administrative and crisis management experience shouldn't disqualify a prospective presidential candidate, or mean that he or she will crumble under fire.

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OK, Hillary, Let's Talk About Plagiarism

James Heffernan | Posted 02.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Lincoln, American History, Hillary Clinton, Thomas Jefferson, Jfk, Plagiarism, Barack Obama, Pauline Maier, Fdr, Politics News
James Heffernan

Anyone who thinks that words have played no part in the building of this nation -- that they were not just as vital as all the blood shed by its soldiers -- simply does not know its history.

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Speeches Do Matter

Michael Seitzman | Posted 02.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hilary Clinton, Democratic Primary, Speech, Barack Obama, 2008 Presidential Election, Bill Clinton, Hillary Words Are Cheap, Martin Luther King, Hillary Words, Rfk, Fdr, Mlk, Jfk, Speeches, Robert F. Kennedy, Politics News
Michael Seitzman

The Clintons seem to have nothing left to add to the national conversation other than to tell us that the conversation itself is beneath them.

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Barack Obama, RFK, and Blackwater

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Lyndon Johnson, Erik Prince, Barack Obama, Fdr, George W. Bush, Robert F. Kennedy, Truman, Benazir Bhutto, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

It took forty years but perhaps today with Barack Obama we are seeing the continuation of the project that Robert Kennedy started in 1968.

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A Case of Mistaken Identities

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 12.15.2007 | Politics

Read More: Fdr, Hillary Clinton, Franklin Roosevelt, Rfk Jr, Bobby Kennedy, Politics News
Jayne Lyn Stahl

Bobby Kennedy's most recent post makes an intriguing, if dubious, analogy between Hillary and Bill and another presidential couple--Eleanor and FDR, but the comparison falls flat when one takes a closer look.

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Augustus Hawkins - A Marvelous Statesman Passes On

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 12.10.2007 | Politics

Read More: Augustus Hawkins, California, Marian Wright Edelman, Child Watch, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, New Deal, Full Employment Bill, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Fdr, Maxine Waters, Title VII, Humphrey Hawkins Bill, Politics News
Marian Wright Edelman

Reserved and unassuming, Augustus Hawkins was a passionate and committed fighter for the expansion of social and economic opportunities for all Americans.

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Is 2008 a 1932 Moment?

John Zogby | Posted 11.14.2007 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, 1931, Ronald Reagan, Federalism, Richard Nixon, New Deal, Harry Truman, John Zogby, Federalism 2008 Election, Bush Job Performance Rating, Iraq, Zogby, 2008 Election, Zogby Poll, 1932 Election, Fdr, Politics News
John Zogby

If the new president can redefine federalism -- -the proper role of the central government -- he or she will join the ranks of Roosevelt and Reagan.

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Sailing Against The Wind: Senator Lieberman Speaks His Mind As An Independent Democrat

Robert Guttman | Posted 11.13.2007 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Democrats on Iraq, Petraeus Report, Lieberman 2004, National Security, Joe Lieberman, Iraq, General Petraeus, Democrats, 2008 Election, Gore/Lieberman 2004, George Mcgovern, Fdr, Foreign Policy, Politics News
Robert Guttman

Lieberman needs to see the extent of this anger among his old party and the party needs to accept him as a strong voice for a strong international Democratic foreign policy.

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