Obama National Security

A Talk with Gail Collins on Obama

Bob Ostertag | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics

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I am excited about Obama's project of building a new coalition based on finding rational common ground on controversial issues. The question is this: common ground with who?

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Update: Sending Your Obama Money to Feingold

Bob Ostertag | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics

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My interest is not to derail Obama's campaign from within, but to keep a place at the table for his activist base.

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A Powerful, Easy Way to Tell Obama to Get FISA Right

Bob Ostertag | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics

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Imagine how inspired you would have been if, instead of turning and running, Obama interrupted his campaign schedule to lead the filibuster against the FISA legislation.

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Coaching Up Obama Da Bears' Way

Art Brodsky | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics

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By backing off and sitting back, Obama has given the press a ready-made story line the Republicans are all to eager to exploit.

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Obama, FISA and the Netroots

Bob Ostertag | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics

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It is one thing for a presumptive nominee to adjust policy positions to reach out to constituencies he wants to bring in to his coalition. Warrantless wiretapping has no constituency.

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Obama Campaign Press Call 6.24 AUDIO: Ben-Veniste and McDonough on Charlie Black's Comments

OffTheBus Listening Post | Posted 06.24.2008 | Home

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WHO: 9/11 Commission Member Richard Ben-Veniste WHAT: Press conference call to to Discuss McCain Advisor Charlie Black's Comments on Terrorist Attac...

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Republicans' Bizarre Rediscovery of Osama bin Laden

Steve Benen | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics

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Now that it's time for the general election, and the right is desperate to smear Barack Obama, the GOP has rediscovered OBL.

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How Gingrich/Giuliani Sabotaged Civic Debate

Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 06.20.2008 | Media

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Withing days of the Supreme Court's ruling on Guantanamo detainees, Gingrich and Giuliani pushed their way into the debate, and began to argue that liberal views on Habeas Corpus would kill Americans.

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Obama's National Security Advisory Group Has First Meeting

AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Wednesday he would bring Osama bin Laden to justice in a way that wouldn't allo...

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Barack Obama and Soft Power

Joseph Nye | Posted 06.12.2008 | Politics

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It is difficult to think of any single act that would do more to restore America's soft power than the election of Obama to the presidency.

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How Obama Can Fight On National Security

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 05.28.2008 | Politics

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Republicans clearly think Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the chink in Sen. Barack Obama's national security armor. In its rapid response emails, the McCain ca...

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John McCain: Obama Unfit To Protect The United States

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.15.2008 | Politics

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Remember McCain's respectful campaign? He doesn't. McCain has all but declared a President Obama would be unfit to defend the United States from -- ...

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Obama Doctrine And The Minds That Shape It

American Prospect | Spencer Ackerman | Posted 03.24.2008 | Politics

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When Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama met in California for the Jan. 31 debate, their back-and-forth resembled their many previous encoun...

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Obama's Shallow Credentials on National Security Are Dangerous for the Country

Joseph C. Wilson | Posted 03.20.2008 | Politics

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Much of the reaction to Sen. Clinton's 3 a.m. ad is from people who have never been involved in foreign policy and certainly never had to field such a call in a crisis situation.

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Obama: "Security Gap" Exists Between Rhetoric And Reality

Huffington Post | Posted 03.19.2008 | Politics

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UPDATE: John McCain's camp has responded to Obama, saying his speech fails "National Security 101". On McCain's Iran-Al-Qaeda flap: "To say that inv...

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Clinton Camp: Obama Opposed The War, But What Has He Done Lately?

Huffington Post | Posted 03.17.2008 | Politics

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The Clinton camp has issued a memo criticizing Obama's work on national security issues at the beginning of this week's 5th anniversary of the Iraq Wa...

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Obama Camp Hits Back: Clinton Failed Commander in Chief Test

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.04.2008 | Politics

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For yet another day on the campaign trail, the topic of national security, and the respective readiness of Democratic candidates to be commander-in-ch...

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Kerry: Clinton's Not Reading Iraq NIE Not A Big Deal

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.03.2008 | Politics

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Over the past few days, Sen. Barack Obama has hit back against attacks on his national security credentials in part by noting that, when it came time ...

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Obama Airs National Security Ad

Huffington Post | Posted 02.29.2008 | Politics

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McCain's Iraq Barack Attack Shows A Crack

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 02.28.2008 | Media

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The media should be paying attention here, to more than just the first big skirmish of the putative general election, which reframed the foreign policy distinctions between the two candidates.

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