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Why Some Americans Don't Have Reason to Celebrate

Shaun Jacob Halper | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics

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Sorry to be the buzz-kill at the liberal victory-party, but this election has been a historic nightmare for millions of gay Americans.

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Israelis Unsure What Obama Means For Their Destiny

Karin Kloosterman | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics

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Maybe Obama will be good for the slumping US and world economy, but most Israelis are suspicious about his lack of experience.

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How Our Role as Obama Supporters Should Change: Less Emotion, More Responsibility

Fernanda Diaz | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics

We should no longer be adoring fans who are pledging our votes, but instead, the electorate who will hold Obama accountable for the promises he has made and the high standard he has set for himself.

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Change.Gov Launched

Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics

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President-elect Barack Obama has launched the website change.gov, where one can find news about the transition and inauguration and information about ...

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Obama Takes His Outside Game to the Inside

Margaret Carlson | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics

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For a day at least, let's stop and celebrate the improbable assumption of the highest office in the land by this outsider with no birthright, no connections, no mentors.

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Whoops: NONE of Top Campaign Bloggers at Newspapers Predicted Obama Win

Greg Mitchell | Posted 12.07.2008 | Media

Just for fun, one year ago this week, my magazine E&P decided to have some fun and ask top campaign bloggers at the leading newspapers to forecast what was likely to happen in 2008.

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Letters to President Obama from Fourth Graders in Harlem

Lauren Rubinfeld | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics

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Dear President Obama, My name is Shareef and I am writing to you to say congratulations on being the first black President. Your wife must be very proud of you.

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Obama's Grammatically Incorrect Election Victory

Lionel Beehner | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics

The past tense of "Yes, we can" is not "Yes, we did" but "Yes, we could." But that just sounds weird. The correct phrase should be "Yes, we were able to," but that just sounds too clunky and verbose.

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Change Has Come To America

Gen. Wesley Clark | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics

The sight of Barack and Joe Biden, and their families in Grant Park, the warmth of the crowd, and its diversity will long linger as I reflect on how America has changed, and how we have changed ourselves.

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Robert Gibbs: A Cavalcade Of Highlights From The Election Year

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.07.2008 | Media

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Gibbs has proven to be an affable flack, and his overall temperament could go a long way toward healing the fissures between the Obama campaign and the press that arose from aloofness toward reporters.

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Robert Gibbs: Press Secretary

The Huffington Post | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics

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Update 11/22: WASHINGTON -- President-elect Barack Obama on Saturday named longtime spokesman Robert Gibbs as White House press secretary and reached ...

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Bringing the Stories Together

Michael Roth | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics

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In the euphoria the Election night victory, I watched our Wesleyan students celebrating the victory of a man whom they had embraced and in whom they had invested their hopes.

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Community Organizer of the World

Joan Garry | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics

Obama stands today as the president-elect of the United States because of his credential as a community organizer. What a delicious irony.

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What We Won on Election Day

Sarah van Gelder | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics

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Obama ran a campaign of high integrity, focusing on issues that really mattered, showing he could lead the whole country forward -- not pandering, but speaking to our higher selves.

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Obama Proves Equality of Opportunity

Cenk Uygur | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

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No matter what your name or race is you can make it here. America is for real. The hope is real.

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The Other Side of Paradise

Scott Kesterson | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

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Eastern Afghanistan--In the early hours of the morning, an Army Captain watched as the election results were being reported. He shook his head in disgust. "This is proof that the media can elect a President."

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Incurious George

Daniel Menaker | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

For whatever else the election of Barack Obama accomplishes or fails to accomplish, I think it has put an end to the nearly-decade-long Age of Incuriosity of the Bush administration.

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REM's Santiago JumboTron Shows HuffPo Results

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 12.06.2008 | Entertainment

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Live from Santiago, Chile, there was an election night shout out from R.E.M. for the Huffington Post's election coverage.

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Mandate for Change

Greg Saunders | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

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Barack Obama is under no obligation to govern like a centrist or temper his policy goals to accommodate a point-of-view that the American people have decisively rejected. Obama won. Elections have consequences.

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A Change is Gonna Come

Terrance Heath | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

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My son will be growing up in a world my father didn't, a world with more possibilities open to him than existed before; closer, at least, to the world as it should be than the world as it was. Or is.

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Yes We Can, Said Barack Obama, And We Did

Erik Ose | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

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Obama's victory does not spell the end of racial disparity in America, but it is a ringing sign of progress, a triumph on the road to greater equality and realizing the Dream that Martin Luther King, Jr. revealed to us.

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Notes from a Dad of Children Like Barack

Roderick Spencer | Posted 12.06.2008 | Living

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The proof of my children's lack of anxiety over their racial identity, is the amused, slightly puzzled way they watched their parents bawling our eyes out in front of Barack Obama's victory speech last night.

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The Long Exhale

Sasha Abramsky | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

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The tears running down my face last night and this morning were of something so much more than happiness, so much more than simple relief. They were an exhalation.

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Barack's Big Gamble ... And His Vision

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

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Why did Obama risk following a strategy that had failed so often in recent campaigns? Obama saw something in the zeitgeist.

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The Time-Bombs Ticking Under Obama's Presidency

Johann Hari | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

Mr President-Elect, there is a pile of ticking time-bombs waiting in your in-tray and you have to defuse each one of them, fast. Welcome to the next four years of your life.

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