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Obama Centrist

Mark Another Coup for David Axelrod

Richard M. Benjamin | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

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Richard M. Benjamin

Why do economic and racial segregation still dog us in 2009 -- the forty-fifth anniversary of the Civil Rights Act -- and what, if anything, can be done?

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Sonia, Who? Way Outta Center-Left Field

Richard M. Benjamin | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics

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Richard M. Benjamin

President Obama has chosen one tough, intellectually dazzling, judicially seasoned woman as his Supreme Court pick.

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Change?

Bernard Rowan | Posted 12.27.2008 | Politics

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Bernard Rowan

It's time to bring in a new generation of leaders to the White House, not just a new version of the same.

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Jason Linkins

This Day In 'Center-Right' Schizophrenia

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.07.2008 | Media

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Right-tilting pundits have fallen all over themselves to insist that the U.S. remains some sort of "center-right" nation -- this despite the fact that positions they once advertised as "extreme" are now, quite clearly, embraced fully.

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Why is Obama Losing?

Rabbi Michael Lerner | Posted 10.16.2008 | Home

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Rabbi Michael Lerner

Senator Obama is now trailing Senator McCain in many national polls. In fact, his national popularity has been falling ever since he received the nomi...

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Why the Left Doesn't "Get" Obama

Peter Clothier | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics

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Peter Clothier

Flexibility and openness is Obama's way forward, and it's the kind of politics he has been championing from the beginning -- the kind of politics, let's remember, that had us all chanting, "Yes, we can!"

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Oh, Yes She Can

Kristen Breitweiser | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics

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Kristen Breitweiser

Obama's early supporters voted for him specifically because he said that he wasn't the type of person that he has now revealed himself to be.

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Obama and My Achy Breaky Heart

Sherman Yellen | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics

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Sherman Yellen

Obama seems to be testing the waters, seeing what will work for him in order to gain more independent voters while still keeping his core beliefs intact; there's some fudging, but not yet any flip-flopping.

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Obama Must Be Doing Something Right: He's Got The Fundamentalists of the Left and Right Upset

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics

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Frank Schaeffer

Obama's America is not about ideological vindication. Obama is not about progressive Americans "winning" or centrists winning. Obama is about American winning.

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Senator Obama in The Summer of Awful

Bob Cesca | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics

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Bob Cesca

Choosing to support Obama has never been about issues. Rather, it's always been about electing a president we can reference with pride -- a president who won't flatly embarrass us everyday, who can inspire and negotiate the necessary support he'll need to roll back the darkness of the Bush years.

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On Fellow Disgruntled Shareholders of Obama's Campaign

Max and the Marginalized | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics

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Max and the Marginalized

In a quest to impress the three people who drive lifted trucks who might vote Democratic, Obama will inevitably end up looking as ridiculous as he should look trying to achieve that end.

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I'll Pass On The Rubber Glove

R.T. Eby | Posted 07.07.2008 | Home

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R.T. Eby

I understand Barack Obama's stance on FISA. But when I look at his defense of the position, I imagine the men behind him, including an adviser wearing a rubber glove who has been probing the electorate.

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Jason Furman And Barack Obama

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 06.21.2008 | Home

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Mayhill Fowler

Furman as chief economic adviser tells us little about Obama economics but much about Obama. Furman is young and smart and he actually told the press that "Bush has had some bad luck with the economy."

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Thomas B. Edsall

Obama Moves To The Center

HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics

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Barack Obama faces the difficult task of shifting his message away from the primary electorate to general election voters, while avoiding angering the...

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