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Without a public option as part of his health care reform package, Obama has turned himself into a political pariah that no one will be able to believe or trust.
Haaretz | Gideon Levy | Posted 09.16.2009 | World
With great sorrow and deep consternation, we hereby declare the death of the latest hope. Perhaps rumors of its death are greatly exaggerated, to para...
Peter Clothier | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics
I have watched with increasing dismay as "the system" manages to re-establish itself after the ripple of the Obama election.
Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.30.2009 | Style
Is our first African American president something or what? Did you see him respond to the crowd and the crowd respond to him, at his latest town hall...
Naomi Klein | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics
700 or so comments later, here are the best of the bunch. Let the record show that you people are way more cynical than I am...
Naomi Klein | Posted 05.18.2009 | Politics
Hope was a fine slogan when rooting for a long-shot presidential candidate. But as a posture toward the president of the most powerful nation on earth, it is dangerously deferential.
Matthew Owen | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics
The day after the inauguration, in the U.S. and abroad, we were like new parents, mouth agape, filled with awe, hope and excitement.
Rob Kall | Posted 02.27.2009 | Living
I've been thinking about the tears of joy, that feeling of choking up, the chill up the back of the neck, of sympathy and empathy, for a few decades.
Vince Beiser | Posted 02.25.2009 | Living
Unable to get in, I clung to the fact that whether she remembered it or not, my daughter will always be able to say she had witnessed history. It would have to be enough.
David Sirota | Posted 02.23.2009 | Politics
I think we're excited at the prospect of change, but fear being fooled by mere hope. After all, those two concepts -- hope and change -- are not the same thing.
Christiana Wyly | Posted 02.21.2009 | Politics
We need to follow Obama's example of reaching across the barriers that divide us as a people. We must learn how to reach into our hearts and truly meet another human being exactly where they are.
Jack Healey | Posted 02.15.2009 | Living
We miss Dr Martin Luther King, Jr each day. His day, our day, asks each of us to stand up for decency and justice and non violence in our time, in our community, in our family, and in our world.
Rick Siegel | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics
Now we can and must demand better ethical standards from our bankers, financial advisors, corporate and political leaders.
Lou Weisbach | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics
There must be a place in the NIH where the discovery of knowledge is focused on preventing or curing the diseases of our loved ones.
Paula B. Mays | Posted 01.23.2009 | Living
The election of Obama also offers a chance for redemption: redemption from allowing unprovoked warfare, tacitly accepting torture, and permitting a denegation of our civil rights.
Mira Veda | Posted 01.12.2009 | Politics
I hope and pray that the ease and calmness that Obama so effortlessly carries will bring about a new sense of political rationality to our Nation and foreign policy.
Don King | Posted 01.11.2009 | Politics
The world is watching American history in the making, live and in living color. We've taken an important step in the right direction by electing Barack Obama as President.
Harriet Rossetto | Posted 12.25.2008 | Living
If Obama's vision of hope and unity is to take root, each one of us must struggle to integrate ourselves by maintaining those thoughts, attitudes and actions that connect us.
Jane Devin | Posted 12.14.2008 | Politics
If we can dream it, it is possible. A battle to revitalize the human spirit requires no enemies, and a revolution of peace requires no violence.
Suzette Standring | Posted 12.11.2008 | Politics
This new multi-cultural, interracial, eco-green, techno-savvy, globally-minded young generation has made history.
Bob Burnett | Posted 12.11.2008 | Politics
Many will regard the 2008 election as evidence Americans have grown up: we've decided to elect a President who has the temperamental and intellectual qualities required to do the job.
Darryle Pollack | Posted 12.08.2008 | Politics
Best of all was the surge of hope -- to feed a starving country. As if Obama took a fresh batch of cookies out of the oven, and the scent floated all over the world, impossible to resist.
Kelly Nuxoll | Posted 12.07.2008 | Home
The reason I voted for Obama had little to do with the candidate and everything to do with the crowd.
Laurel Kaufer | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
As we have heard from the analysts on both sides for much of the last month, this year we saw "the perfect storm" hit the Republican party in almost every conceivable way.
Stephen H. Dinan | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
Obama is our country's better nature: A blend of the best of our world's cultures, Made real as a divine gift, so that we each better remember who we are, and what we can yet become.
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Miles J. Zaremski | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics