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Why the President Has Been Losing on Health Care, and What He Needs to Say

Drew Westen | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Speech on Health Care, Public Option, Roe v Wade, Death Panels, Olympia Snowe, Ronald Reagan, Michael Dukakis, Pension Plans, George Bush, Washington Post, Taxpayers, Economic Recovery, Great Depression, Uninsured, Barack Obama, Chuck Grassley, Al Qaeda, 401k, Bill Clinton, Brown v Board of Education, Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, Fdr, Medicare, Medicaid, Electronic Records, Health Care, Hillary Clinton, Republicans, Politics News
Drew Westen

At this historic moment, the White House has determined that the best way to win the center is to tack right. But sometimes, the best way to win the center is not to move to the center, but to move the center.

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Calling Mr. Smith, Not Mr. Rogers

Dan Siegel | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Change We Can Believe In, Rahm Emanuel, Joint Session of Congress, Abraham Lincoln, Health Care Reform, Fdr, Lbj, Bipartisanship, Bipartisan, Health Care, Teddy Roosevelt, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Barack Obama, Healthcare, Bill Moyers, Politics News
Dan Siegel

We are starved for a leader who can express righteous indignation against the corrupt forces who have emptied the public purse while bidding for the powers that be.

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An Open Letter On The Public Option To David Axelrod

Sandy Goodman | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Independents, Fines, Cnn, Insurance, Liberals, Public Option, Obama, Republicans, Healthcare, Democrats, Pfizer, Fdr, Hca, David Axelrod, George Bush, Politics News
Sandy Goodman

As a lifelong FDR Democrat, I won't support any health care bill that doesn't have a robust public option. I'd much rather see a bill without one go down to defeat, than have a bill pass without one.

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Targeted Quality: The Advent Of On-Demand DVDs

John Farr | Posted 10.17.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Edward G. Robinson, Video on Demand, Best Movies by Farr, George Feltenstein, Alain Resnais, Warner Home Entertainment, Cary Grant, Thirteen/WNET, Alfred Hitchcock, Amazon.com, Warner Brothers, Reel 13, Warner Archive Collection, John Garfield, Fdr, Classic Movies, Warner Home Video, Criterion Collection, Entertainment News
John Farr

Technology will only offer more quality film choices as time goes by. The trick for savvy consumers and movie fans will be to stay informed as to what's really good..

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Apparently, You CAN Fool All of the People All of the Time

Brian Ross | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Polls, Ignorance, American Intelligence, Gop, Stupidity, Fear, Obama Birther, Ann Coulter, President Obama, Ignorance-and-Voting, Franklin Roosevelt, Media, Obama Socialism, America, Barack Obama, Fdr, Politics, Obama Birth Certificate, Polling, H.L. Mencken, Surveys, P.T. Barnum, Fox News, Republicans, Health Care, Obama Socialist, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Fcc, Birthers, Mark Lloyd, Birther Movement, Health-Action, Politics News
Brian Ross

We are a fear-driven culture. There is a large segment of the population that, no matter how well you document it, will not let a good fact get in the way of their fears about health care reform.

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Stop the Teabaggers, Give Them Green Jobs: Lessons From the Coalfields of West Virginia

Mike Elk | Posted 09.28.2009 | Business

Read More: George Bush, Al Gore, Green Jobs, Teabagging, Unemployment, Mountaintop Removal, New Deal, West Virginia, Town Halls, Clean Energy, Racism, Fdr, Progresive-Movement, Appalachia Coal, Appalachia, Appalachia Poverty, Business News
Mike Elk

To know the story of West Virginia is to know why the progressive movement is failing to win over white working class voters. Because of their primary concern: jobs.

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Lessons in Leadership: Why Obama Needs to Brush Up on His FDR

Arianna Huffington | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama Leadership, Social Security, Obama PhRMA, Obama Leadership Style, Kent Conrad, Obama Leadership, Health Care Reform, Fdr, Obama Health Care, Town Hall Meetings, Politics News
Arianna Huffington

The president, though a dedicated student of history, has failed to learn the lesson of our nation's most significant political confrontations.

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P3s: Let's Not Party Like It's 1929

Michael Likosky | Posted 09.19.2009 | Business

Read More: p3s, New Deal, Railroads, Larry Summers, Granger Movement, Railroad Strikes of 1877, Bailout, Barack Obama, Fdr, Aig, Tennessee Valley Authority Dam Breaks, Money Trust, Robber Barons, Us Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Public-Private Partnerships, Abraham Lincoln, Homer Plessy, TARP Trust, Brotherhood of Sleepign Car Porters, A. Philip Randolph, Business News
Michael Likosky

We must take the public interest more seriously when we talk about P3s.

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Kate Roosevelt, FDR's Great-Granddaughter, Retraces Her First Family's 1934 Vacation

AP | Posted 09.18.2009 | Style

Read More: FDR Trip, Presidential Vacations, President National Parks, Franklin D. Roosevelt Vacation, President State Parks, Franklin D. Roosevelt Trip, FDR Vacation, Fdr, Kate Roosevelt, Style News

WEST GLACIER, Mont. - The Obamas are not the only ones with presidential connections to hit national parks this summer. Seventy-five years after Pres...

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Blue Dog Dems: Are You Listening?

Denise Dennis | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Blue Dogs, Health Care Bill, Theodore Roosevelt, Health Caare Reform, Health Care Debate, Fdr, Health Care, Ee, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News
Denise Dennis

FDR's opponents called him a socialist and claimed that Social Security would be tantamount to a government take-over of their lives. Sound familiar?

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Dog Days in the White House

Gershon Hepner | Posted 08.22.2009 | Living

Read More: Ben Greenman, Obama, Clinton, Dogs, Fdr, Bo Obama Dog, White House, Obama Dog, Bo Obama, Living News
Gershon Hepner

Obama's dog, designed for water/that's Portuguese, enjoys its quarter/inside the White House. Known as Bo,/it, like its master, likes to go.

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The Day They Arrested President Roosevelt

Robert Naiman | Posted 08.17.2009 | World

Read More: Social Security, Labor, Labor Unions, New Deal, Manuel Zelaya, Los Angeles Times, Fdr, Honduras, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Honduras Coup, Foreign Policy, World News
Robert Naiman

Imagine how different America might be today, if FDR had been deposed in a coup. That's what happened in Honduras, where President Zelaya was deported for proposing a referendum on reforming the constitution.

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Obama, FDR, and the Politics of Health Care Reform

Jerome Karabel | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Senate, Public Option, House of Representatives, Public Plan, Health Care Reform, Obama, Grass Roots, Healthcare, Roosevelt, Fdr, FDR Social Security, Barack Obama Health Care, Obama Health Care, Social Security Act, Politics News
Jerome Karabel

Obama's ability to rise to the challenge will not only determine the fate of the health care system, but whether he will join the ranks of a handful of presidents who increased the security of the American people.

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National Archives Gone Missing: Lincoln Civil War Telegraphs, Photos Of The Moon, And More

AP | LARRY MARGASAK | Posted 08.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abraham Lincoln, Fdr, Missing From National Archives, Missing, National Archives Missing, National Archives, Politics News

WASHINGTON — National Archives visitors know they'll find the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights in the m...

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Farce Turns To Tragedy

Bill Cunningham | Posted 07.24.2009 | New York

Read More: Hiram Monserrate Pedro Espada, NY State Senate, Albany, Fdr, New York News
Bill Cunningham

What father would ask his children if they ever thought of growing up to be a state senator like Pedro Espada?

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Health Care: France & the U.S., Social Security and the Single-Payer Model

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 07.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Securite Sociale, Sarkozy, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Social Security, Brigitte Marti, Obama, Health Care, Veterans, Barack Obama Mother, Normandy, Eleanor Roosevelt, Fdr, French President Sarkozy, Barack Obama Normandy, Politics News
Vivian Norris de Montaigu

France enjoys the benefit of a National Health Program or 'assurance maladie.' Typically, social protection and health care work in combination and that is a concept widely accepted in Europe.

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President Obama's FDR Problem

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 07.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hate Crimes, Hate, Limbaugh, Steele, President Obama, Obama, O'Reilly, Fdr, Gingrich, Cheney, Hate Groups, Hate Crime, Hate Speech, Fox, Republican Party, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Republicans, Hannity, Politics News
Stephen C. Rose

President Obama is the first president in my memory to have the FDR problem. That problem in a word is hate. The reason is the same.

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Bush v. Gore Rears Its Head (Part IV): A New Check on the Court to Defend the Rule of Law

Shahid Buttar | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Checks and Balances, Chuck Schumer, Supreme Court, Chief Justice John Roberts, US Supreme Court, New Deal, Sonia Sotomayor, Antitrust, Samuel Alito, Fdr, Obama Supreme Court Nominee, Constitution, Federalist Papers, Ted Kennedy, Judicial Activism, Third Party, Congress, Voting Rights Act, Antonin Scalia, Imperial Presidency, Voting Rights, Ethics, Supreme Court Bush vs. Gore, Politics News
Shahid Buttar

The false national consensus that national security should trump constitutional protections for liberty and privacy exemplifies such collusion today.

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Politiku for Mother's Day

Susanna Speier | Posted 06.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Politiku, Phil Rose, Aaron Landsman, Political Mom, Roosevelt Clock, Weather Underground, Mathew Cohen, Don Goede, Mother's Day, Mom, Franklin Roosevelt, Wheel for a New Deal, Martha Danly, Poetry, Fdr, Living News
Susanna Speier

The impact that our mothers' feelings, ideas, ideals, experiences and activities have on us is difficult to grasp. What is clear, however, is that our mothers' politics influence our political identity

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Jack Kemp, Dick Cheney and "The Good Republican"

David Wild | Posted 06.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: 9/11, Jack Kemp, Jfk, Ronald Reagan, Fdr, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Politics News
David Wild

Jack Kemp was always considered another "Good Republican" in my house -- and of course it didn't hurt his standing with me that he had been a pretty fine quarterback first.

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100 Days of Obama and the Global Economy

Blythe McGarvie | Posted 05.30.2009 | World

Read More: Global Economy, Courage, First 100 Days, 100 Days, Obama, Forgotten Man, Recession, Fdr, Hoover, World News
Blythe McGarvie

"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it" as Amerian George Santayana wrote. One of the best ways to understand Obama's first 100...

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Obama's Grade at 100? What About Our Grade?

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: 100 Days, Obama Domestic Agenda, Hundred Days, Populist Movement, Fdr, First 100 Days, Barack Obama, Politics News
Robert L. Borosage

Obama has demonstrated remarkable mastery of the powers of the presidency to lead the country. Have we mastered the power of the citizenry to empower the president?

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Obama Isn't FDR Yet -- But He Might Still Do It

Johann Hari | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama 100 Days, Fdr, Obama Fdr, 100 Days, Politics News
Johann Hari

To the people who shrug and say that politicians are all the same, answer with four words: torture and stem cells.

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100 Day Silliness

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Reagan, Fdr, First 100 Days, Bush, Clinton, Presidency, President Obama, Hundred Days, 100 Days, Politics News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Obama is well aware that the 100 days burden weighs heavier on him than any other president in modern times. He's young, liberal, untested, and black.

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Don't Know Much About the First 100 Days: Then and Now

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama, First 100 Days, Depression, American History, Fdr, Politics News
Kenneth C. Davis

As a yardstick of Presidential accomplishment, the "First 100 Days" is surely a faulty measure. Lincoln's first one hundred days were miserable, and included the beginning of the Civil War.

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