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Bereft in Berlin

Marc Kusnetz | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: David Brooks, Reagan, Obama, Kennedy, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Berlin, Barack Obama Rhetoric, Political Rhetoric, Obama Berlin Speech, Politics News

Each time Obama steps on a new stage, the press criticizes his rhetoric as high-falutin' but devoid of content. Do they think Berlin was the perfect time to announce a new initiative for the earned income tax credit?

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The Greatest President We Never Had

Norman MacAfee | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics

Robert Kennedy believed that politics was an honorable profession, and that government could be used for good. His murder sent a message of hopelessness, that nothing was possible anymore.

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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.

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It Is Brain Surgery -- A Profile of the Duke Team Treating Sen. Ted Kennedy

Maia Szalavitz | Posted 06.03.2008 | Living

Read More: Brain Surgery, Cancer, Kennedy, Ted Kennedy Brain Cancer, Ted Kennedy Brain Tumor, Ted Kennedy, Living News

Speaking with both Drs. Friedman who are treating Kennedy, I was impressed with their devotion not just to the best clinical care and research, but to their patients' emotional and spiritual needs.

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Friday Talking Points [34] -- General Election Preview

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.30.2008 | Politics

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As the primary election season sinks slowly in the West (South Dakota and Montana, to be exact), we turn our eyes (finally!) to the general election c...

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CULTURE ZOHN: Graduation Daze Part Two

Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.16.2008 | Living

Read More: Steinbrenner, Kennedy, Yankee Stadium, Nypd, Nyu, Barney, Michael Strahan, Michael J. Fox, Living News

2008-05-17-nicksgradyankeestadium.jpg.jpg Here's to all graduates of '08. Better late than never, better now than in a year when the job market may even be worse, better with many generations present to cheer you on.

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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

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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Ask not why words matter, ask when they mattered most

Robert Schlesinger | Posted 05.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Cuban Missile Crisis, American History, John Kennedy, Speechwriting, Kennedy, Schlesinger, Presidential Rhetoric, White House Ghosts, Jfk, Robert Schlesinger, Ted Sorensen, Presidents, Presidential Speechwriting, Politics News

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...

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40 Years Ago Today, The Police Tried to Kill Me At Columbia University

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 04.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: President, Demonstrations, Nyc, Nyt, Kennedy, Rfk, Mcgovern, '68, New York, Columbia University, Racism, 1968, Harlem, Martin Luther King, Prague Spring, Vietnam War, Mccarthy, Civil Rights Movement, Students, New York Times, Protestors, Grayson Kirk, Humphrey, Politics News

The real legacy of the 1968 turmoil was the idea that young people and students had the obligation to challenge authority, to question assumptions... and could succeed.

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Rev. Wright: "Obama Says What He Has to Say as a Politician"

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 04.25.2008 | Politics

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The above quote is from Bill Moyer's interview with Rev. Wright which is to air tonite. Rev. Wright, referring to Obama's disavowal of Wright's more...

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Debates Are Not About Issues.

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 04.18.2008 | Politics

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They are about: Who Is the Best Candidate? Who can Win? Ever since the first televised debate between Kennedy & Nixon, voters have often judged can...

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Friday Talking Points [27] -- Petraeus Week

Chris Weigant | Posted 04.11.2008 | Politics

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Thus endeth another Petraeus week on Capitol Hill. I have to say, I was impressed at the caliber of the questions asked, but severely disappointed at ...

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Hillary's Honorable Future: A History Lesson

Michael Goldfarb | Posted 03.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jimmy Carter, Edward Kennedy, Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, Kenny Carter, Kennedy Family, Politics News

Clinton can achieve more and leave a greater legacy of service to her country and her gender as a four- or-five term senator from NY than as a one-term failed president, like Carter.

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Recapturing the Spirit of the 1960 Convention

Jonathan Greenspan | Posted 02.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Frank Luntz, 1960 Convention, Barack Obama, Kennedy, Politics News

I have the feeling that when Obama gives his speech at the Denver Convention, it could be as much "a moment" as it was when Kennedy delivered his "New Frontiers" speech 48 years ago.

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Castro and the Colossus

Robert Scheer | Posted 02.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Moncada, Kennedy, Bush, Castro, Vietnam, Resignation, President, Fidel Castro, Cuba, Politics News

Castro's resignation is more promising for the burnishing of his legacy than the Cuban hard-liners in Miami and their fawning allies in the Bush administration would like to believe.

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Forging a Negotiated Path to Iraq's Future

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy | Posted 02.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq, Kennedy, Iraq War, George W. Bush, Politics News

It's wrong for Bush to try to bind the next president and lock the nation indefinitely into the endless quagmire that the Iraq war has become.

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Why I Recorded Yes We Can

Will.i.am | Posted 02.03.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Yes We Can, Fred Goldring, Martin Luther King, Barack Obama, Kennedy, Presidential Candidates, Jfk, Mike Jurkovac, Yes We Can Song, Jesse Dylan, Sarah Pantera, Entertainment News

I came up with the idea to turn Obama's New Hampshire speech into a song because that speech affected and touched my inner core like nothing in a very long time. It spoke to me.

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NOW Head Described Treatment Of Clinton A "Gang Bang"

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: Crying Moment, Women's Issues, Kerry, Democratic Primary, Kennedy, Obama, Now, Endorsement, Ted Kennedy, Barack Obama, Marcia Pappas, Clinton, New Hampshire Primary, Gang Rape, John Kerry, 2008 Campaign, Hillary Clinton, Betrayal, Politics News

Marcia Pappas, the President of the New York State chapter of the National Organization of Women, gained a bit of notoriety on Monday when she called ...

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Obama, Clinton and the War

Robert Scheer | Posted 01.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Candidate, Democrat, Obama, Kennedy, Clinton, Election, Gloria Steinem, Hillary Iraq, Obama Iraq, Politics News

Clinton's apologists include Gloria Steinem and too many other feminists, who should know better than to betray the women's movement's commitment to peace in favor of simplistic gender politics.

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Kennedy Endorses Obama _ 'Change in Air'

AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 01.28.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Summoning memories of his brother the slain president, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy led two generations of the First Family of Democratic...

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After Kerry Endorses, Political World Waits For Kennedy

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iowa, Sen. Obama, Clinton, Endorsements, New Hampshire, Kennedy, John Kerry, Kerry, Nevada, Obama, Culinary Workers, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Ted Kennedy, Politics News

With one Massachusetts senator throwing his weight into the Democratic presidential race today, anticipation now mounts for the other to follow suit. ...

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A Nation of Laws, Not Men

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy | Posted 12.07.2007 | Politics

Read More: Senate, Cia, Kennedy, Torture, Wiretaps, CIA Terror Interrogation Tapes Destroyed, CIA Interrogations, Interrogation Tapes, Missing CIA Torture Tapes, CIA Torture, Politics News

The news that the CIA tapes were destroyed came the very same week we learned that as many as ten million White House emails were not preserved, despite a law that requires that they be kept.

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MITT IS PROUD! TO! BE! A! (mumble)... mrmn

Barry Yourgrau | Posted 12.06.2007 | Politics

Read More: Speech, Religion, Romney, Mormon, Catholic, Kennedy, Mitt Romney Mormonism, Kennedy Catholic, Politics News

Mitt's speech on his Mormonism today was meant to echo Kennedy's on Catholicism--was it? In his address--to a groomed audience--Mitt used the term MORMON, how many times? Once.

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A Funny Thing About Norman Mailer

Eric Alterman | Posted 11.27.2007 | Politics

Read More: Arthur Schlesinger Jr, Norman Mailer, George Plimpton, Kennedy, Politics News

: When speaking at the memorial service for Arthur Schlesinger Jr. a while back, Mailer made the odd comment that he was really just an acquaintance o...

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Giving Needy Young Children a Real Head Start

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy | Posted 11.16.2007 | Politics

Read More: Head Start, Congress, Senate, Education, Kennedy, Children, Poverty, Preschool, Toddlers, Disadvantaged Children, War on Poverty, Politics News

Head Start is currently up for reauthorization by Congress -- and we're using this opportunity to improve it to help millions more.

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