Hope 2.0: Standing With Obama Over the Long Haul
It's not that I object to critical thinking. We need it. Yet, while we're reminding Obama of his promises and scrutinizing him on his decisions, we need to stand with him.
It's not that I object to critical thinking. We need it. Yet, while we're reminding Obama of his promises and scrutinizing him on his decisions, we need to stand with him.
New York Times | DAVID BROOKS | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics
It was interesting to watch the Republican Party lose touch with America. You had a party led by conservative Southerners who neither understood nor s...
Gara LaMarche | Posted 06.24.2009 | Politics
Obama has genuine real-world issues to balance, and I have no reason to believe he has not arrived at these few controversial decisions genuinely and in a typically thoughtful and engaged manner.
Mike Lux | Posted 02.06.2009 | Politics
Leaving transition work, I find myself a lot more hopeful about generally progressive policy coming out of the Obama administration than some of my friends in the progressive blogosphere.
Los Angeles Times | David G. Savage | Posted 12.18.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama's election probably does not herald a new liberal era at the Supreme Court, since none of the conservative justices -- who are in the maj...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics
John McCain is out with a post-debate ad that, perhaps in a sign of how the affair went, doesn't even mention last night's affair. Titled "Folks," t...
Bob Cesca | Posted 08.08.2008 | Politics
McCain couldn't possibly be an elitist and out of touch with most Americans because it doesn't fit the media narrative. He's just not.
Washington Post | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama put himself on the opposite side of his party's leadership in the Senate yesterday by reversing course ...
Darin Murphy | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics
The movement that Obama created launched his campaign to a higher altitude than the conventional path. Now he needs to stay on message, keep making sense and let the center catch up with him.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics
Preempting Barack Obama's remarks tonight, the McCain campaign sent out a statement highlighting the fact that the Illinois Democrat had, on many occa...
Stephen Ducat | Posted 05.05.2008 | Politics
Obama needs to hew to what has been a largely successful strategy of branding himself as the candidate who transcends labels and shrink-wrapped ideologies.
MSNBC | Aswini Anburajan | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
In the shadow of the state capitol that provided the United States with one of the most conservative presidents in recent history, Obama last night ra...
Mark Klempner | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics