NBC To Air Newly Discovered JFK Tapes Monday
I wanted to alert our viewers (as Tom Brokaw will on Meet the Press on Sunday) to something we have coming up Monday night: newly-discovered audio tap...
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Reclaim the Media: Bring Back the Elites
Thom Hartmann | Posted 09.29.2008 | Media
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America loves its elites -- we love our sports stars, our movie stars, our rock stars and even our political stars.
Obama And JFK Have Much More In Common Than Hope
James Sanders | Posted 09.29.2008 | Home
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JFK was no stranger to the plight of the African American of the 60's. On national television, he said, "One hundred years of delay have passed since President Lincoln freed the slaves, yet their heirs, their grandsons, are not fully free."
We Now Know Who the Next President Will Be
Robert Shrum | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics
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Tonight I think we know who the next President will be. McCain kept repeating that Obama doesn't "understand." But he clearly did. McCain made up no ground.
Who Knows What Presidents Will Do?
Stephen C. Rose | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics
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By Stephen C. Rose Presidents defy categorization by their decisions. Which renders exceedingly silly the idea that it makes a real difference whic...
Virtual Obama, Virtual JFK
Norman MacAfee | Posted 09.24.2008 | Politics
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I urge you to see a new film, Virtual JFK: Vietnam, If Kennedy Had Lived, by Koji Masutani, now at the Film Forum in New York through September 30.
Lessons on Choosing a VICE Presidential Candidate
Kim Stolz | Posted 09.20.2008 | Politics
How many names of Vice Presidents do you remember in US History? And no, I'm not talking about the ones that later became Presidents. I'm talking abou...
JFK, Marilyn Monroe and, uh, Sarah Palin -- The French Recollection
Lisa Nesselson | Posted 09.05.2008 | Media
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Pesky foreigners like Forestier probably think Sarah Palin was manufactured in a lab -- or pulled out of a hat -- in order to pander to specific demographics.
Ted Sorensen - Unassuming Insider at the Center of Power
Tom Alderman | Posted 08.20.2008 | Media
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AUDIO BOOK: "Counselor, A Life at the Edge of History" AUTHOR: Ted Sorensen ("Kennedy," "The Kennedy Legacy") GENRE: Autobiog...
"You Can't Always Get What You Want"
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics
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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.
How Can Caroline Kennedy Help Obama?
USA Today | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics
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With Barack Obama's bid for the White House, the torch has been passed to a new generation in more ways than one: For the first time, the best-known K...
Obama Assassination Exhibit May Be a Hoax, But Fears of Assassination are Real
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 06.12.2008 | Home
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Hoax, cheap stunt, crank, crackpot, racist, and sick, were the apt terms tossed at so-called artist Yazmany Arboleda for his grotesquely named near ...
Confident Optimism in Foreign Policy
Robert Schlesinger | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics
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There are two fundamental schools of thought on foreign policy: suppose the Israelis launch a preemptive attack against Iran -- what does the United States do?
My Dream Ticket: Barack Obama & Caroline Kennedy
Linda Milazzo | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics
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For nearly her entire 51 years, Caroline Kennedy has been part of the socio-political fabric of this nation. She first captivated America as the tin...
Robert F. Kennedy: What if He Had Lived? -- A Golden Age That Never Was
Blake Fleetwood | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics
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Kennedy's death came when the world was on the cusp of transformation -- between authoritarian societies and social and political justice. Much of that change was stalled in the US for decades to come.
The Speech Obama Needs to Give
Leonce Gaiter | Posted 06.03.2008 | Home
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"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."
What the Kennedy Family Means to My Generation
Ray Hanania | Posted 05.21.2008 | Politics
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The Kennedy family has always had special meaning in my life. I know exactly where I was when a friend yelled out to me in 1963, "The president has been shot."
Hillary on the Bottom?
Carol Felsenthal | Posted 05.15.2008 | Politics
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For Barack Obama, the best scenario might be to offer the vice presidency to Hillary Clinton and pray that she declines.
Karl Rove and the Media-Politico Revolving Door: It Goes Further Back than Stephanopoulos
Robert Schlesinger | Posted 05.12.2008 | Media
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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.
Memo to Tom Hanks: Barack Obama Is No Harry Truman
Robert Schlesinger | Posted 05.05.2008 | Politics
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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.
Ask not why words matter, ask when they mattered most
Robert Schlesinger | Posted 05.02.2008 | Politics
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Words do matter and few presidents knew this better than JFK (who of course also understood that rhetorical power has its limits). How JFK came up wi...
From 'A More Perfect Union' to Prices at the Grand Union
RJ Eskow | Posted 04.25.2008 | Politics
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It's becoming clear that Obama needs to do a better job speaking to the kind of voter once condescendingly described as a "regular person."
Obama-Rendell in '08!
Matt Littman | Posted 04.22.2008 | Politics
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Ed Rendell is to Hillary Clinton as he is to the Eagles-- he cheerleads, he exhorts, he pleads and he is intensely loyal to a team that cannot win and ultimately will break his heart.
Proudly Liberal
Kathryn Kolbert | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics
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"I'm proud to be a liberal." That was John F. Kennedy back in 1960. You haven't heard too many people in public life saying that in recent years, but I think you'll be hearing a lot more of it.
Horton Hears a Racist
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics
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I don't think the filmmakers for Dr. Seuss's Horton Hears a Who are evil or that they deliberately set out to send an awful message. But somehow it seems worse that they didn't notice.
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