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July 27, 2008

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Reagan Advisers See A Bit Of Their Former Boss In Obama

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: 1980, Democratic Primary, Reagan Advisers, Ronald Reagan, Comparisons, Democratic Presidential Candidate, Obama, Reno Journal Gazette, Barack Obama, Politics News

Barack Obama found himself under fire on Thursday for having compared his candidacy to Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential run. "I don't want to presen...

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Edwards Rips Obama Over Reagan Comparison

CBS News | Aaron Lewis | Posted 01.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama 2008, Nevada Caucus, Barack Obama Ronald Reagan, Edwards 2008, Obama Reagan, Ronald Reagan, Democratic Presidential Candidate, John Edwards, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Politics News

John Edwards ripped Barack Obama for praising the way Ronald Reagan brought about change when he was President of the United States.... ..."He was op...

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Obama Compares Himself To Reagan, JFK...But Not Bill Clinton

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Nevada, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, John Kennedy, Democratic Primary, Obama, Reno Journal Gazette, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Politics News

In an interview Monday with the Reno Gazette-Journal editorial board, Sen. Barack Obama riffed on a range of political topics ranging from Katrina, th...

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Obama v. Clinton: Hope and Anti-Hope

Marshall Grossman | Posted 01.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Ronald Reagan, Hope, Mitt Romney, Obama, Democrats, Primaries, Democratic Leadership Council, Clinton, Giuliani, Richard Nixon, Huckabee, Dennis Kucinich, John Edwards, Lyndon Johnson, Health Care, Politics News

Obama offers a calculatedly vague promise of optimism and change. Hillary continues to speak a language we have had a lot of experience with -- triangulation and protracted engagement.

Here's What RFK Did in California in 1968

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 01.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jesse Unhruh, Cesar Chavez, Eugene McCarthy, Ronald Reagan, Jerry Bruno, Robert F. Kennedy, California Primary, Tsunami Tuesday, Super Duper Tuesday, Politics News

As the February 5th California primary approaches we might learn something from looking at how Kennedy won the state in 1968 against both Sen. McCarthy and Vice-President Hubert Humphrey.

Memo to Fred Thompson: America Has an Empire

Joe Lauria | Posted 01.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Philippines, Empire, John McCain, Latin America, Rome, Ronald Reagan, Ron Paul, Mexico, King Faisal, Mitt Romney, Dicators, Gore Vidal, Lebanon, Iraq, King Herod, Soviet Union, Britain, Osama Bin Laden, Mike Gravel, Iran, George H.W. Bush, Vietnam, Fred Thompson, Afghanistan, Imperialism, Huffington Post, Rudolph Giuliani, Hawaii, Guatemala, 2008 Elections, New Hampshire Primary, New Hampshire Debate January 5, Politics News

We do know that Ron Paul deserves credit for bringing up the obvious in a hostile environment. Maybe some day historical fact will seep into the mainstream and at least be seriously debated.

It Depends What You Mean By Change

Gale Walden | Posted 01.07.2008 | Home

Read More: Change Election 2008, Rudy Giuliani, Ronald Reagan, John Edwards, Mitt Romney, Hillary Clinton, Tags: Off-the-Bus, Barack Obama, Linguistics, Parmenides, Home News

Perhaps the most overused and under-examined word in the Democratic candidates speeches is the word "change". It's ubiquitous enough to mean everythin...

Which Side Are You On?

Larry Abrams | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Culture Wars, Milton Friedman, Ronald Reagan, New Deal, Michael Bloomberg, International Monetary Fund, World Bank, Clinton Years, Michael Dukakis, War on Drugs, Barack Obama, Structural Adjustment, McCain Iraq, Fdr New Deal, National Endowment for the Humanities, Robert Rubin, Hillary Electability, Rudy Giuliani, Ross Perot, John Edwards, Henry Paulson, Reagan Sandinistas, Hillary Clinton, Commodification, Free Market, Values Voters, Politics News

Getting rid of Bush will be good and great thing, but it doesn't make the case for Hillary Clinton. The problem with Hillary is that she doesn't really fit the political moment.

Iowa: It's Emotions, Stupid!

Peter Emerson and Michael Maslansky | Posted 01.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Drew Westen, Frank Luntz, 2008 Election, Iowa Caucuses, Iowa, Rudy Giuliani, Ronald Reagan, National Security, John Kerry, Barack Obama Iowa, George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama, John Kerry 2004, Politics News

It will not be the experience of a candidate; it will be the emotion of the voter that decides this election. Republicans learned this far more quickly than Democrats.

2008 -- It's About Time

Hilary Rosen | Posted 01.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Hillary Clinton, Ronald Reagan, 2008, The L Word, Politics News

Sure lots of damage can be done in a year. But every time Bush lays out a frighteningly bad policy, the odds grow that he will be stalled and blocked.

What's in a B-210, Anyway?

Steven Denlinger | Posted 12.30.2007 | Living

Read More: Leadership, Dave Schlabach Construction, Ronald Reagan, H.G. Felsen, Street Rod, Cain and Abel, Arizona, Ricky Madison, New Mexico, David Arnold Detweiler, Malone College, Ohio, Kurtz Rubbish Service, Simon & Garfunkle, Death Valley, George Bailey, David Denlinger, Datsun B-210, Midwest Fellowship, Conservative Mennonite, It's a Wonderful Life, John H. Miller, Canton, Rod and Staff, North Canton, Texas, Hi Gloss Body Shop, Paul A. Volcker, Sunnyview Christian School, Chrysler, Hartville, Dan Yoder, Bmw, Rudy Giuliani, Napa Auto Parts, Rotary Scholarship, Maranatha Bible School, Market Avenue, 2nd Chapter of Acts, Mount Pleasant Road, Lansing, Silverwind, Mn, Living News

I made the executive decision to begin rebuilding it. Surely, the process would produce a blonde girl with a dusting of freckles on her nose.

Campaign AdWatch: McCain's 'Easy'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.26.2007 | Politics

Read More: Political Ads, John McCain, Ronald Reagan, Campaign Ads, Politics News

Days after relating how Jesus gave him solace in the form of a cross scratched in the dirt while he was the Prisoner of Azkaban, John McCain is back o...

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The Huckabee Revolution: Evangelicals At The GOP Gate

HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 12.21.2007 | Politics

Read More: Ronald Reagan, Mike Huckabee, Condoleezza Rice, George Will, Evangelical Christians, Bob Dole, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Iowa, Mitt Romney, George H. W. Bush, Pat Robertson, Politics News

Mike Huckabee's insurrectionist presidential campaign is defying the determination of the Republican establishment to restrict the selection of the pa...

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Vonnegut Speaks to a New War Generation

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 12.13.2007 | Politics

Read More: David Horowitz, Erik Prince, Ronald Reagan, Kurt Vonnegut, William Casey, George W. Bush, Politics News

The true genius of the Bush regime and its neo-con allies is that they have created a self-perpetuating privatized killing machine. Without radical change this militarized patronage will continue to chug along.

Thom Hartmann: Edwards Next Potential FDR, Obama Next JFK

JB Powell | Posted 12.11.2007 | Home

Read More: Barakc Obama, Progessive Media, Pop and Politics, Ronald Reagan, Liberal Talk Radio, Progressive Talk Radio, Political Communications, Air America, John Edwards, Home News

JB Powell's interviews Air America dj Thom Hartmann, who has a new book out about American political discourse called Cracking the Code.

"I'll Be Freed For Christmas" 2008 George W. Bush Pardon Pool

Peter Smith | Posted 12.11.2007 | Politics

Read More: James Baker, Bill Clinton, Karl Rove, Jack Abramoff, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, George W. Bush, Enron, Scooter Libby, Florida Recount, Politics News

Deciding who gets pardons and who gets left twisting in the wind should be a job for a team of tough, seasoned experts.

The First, True Vice President

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 12.11.2007 | Politics

Read More: Warrantless Wiretapping, Vice President, Ronald Reagan, Valerie Plame Wilson, Warrantless Surveillance, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Valerie Plame, Dick Cheney, Vice President Iran, National Intelligence Estimate, Iran National Intelligence Estimate Nuclear Weapons Program, Gerald Ford, Dick Cheney Iran, Nie Iran Report, Vice President Cheney, Politics News

If you're going to be a true vice president, after all, you ought to have some vice to show for it.

Bill And Hillary's Experienced Lies

Paul Jenkins | Posted 12.06.2007 | Politics

Read More: Polls, Arkansas, Al Gore, Florida, Gary Hart, Experience, Ronald Reagan, Joe Biden, 9/11, Iraq, 2008 Election, New York, President, Bill Richardson, Primaries, 1992 Election, Wisconsin, Barack Obama, John Kerry, Michigan, George W. Bush, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Iowa, Bill Clinton, Katrina, 1988 Election, John Edwards, Chris Dodd, Senate, Hillary Clinton, Mississippi, Politics News

For years, many of us have been in awe of the Clintons, really in awe: a little scared and a little admiring. But the spell finally broke in the past couple of weeks.

Excerpt from The Genius of America: How the Constitution Saved our Country and Why It Can Again

Eric Lane and Michael Oreskes | Posted 12.06.2007 | Media

Read More: Eric Lane and Michael Oreskes, The Genius of America, Franklin Roosevelt, Constitution, Ronald Reagan, Media News

We need to embrace that our liberty and freedom flow directly from less glamorous but still vital ideas, such as compromise, checks and balances and representation. A dash of humility would not hurt either.

Misunderstanding Racism in the Rise of Reagan and Republicans

David Paul Kuhn | Posted 12.03.2007 | Politics

Read More: Racism Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan, Racism Republicans, 2008 Election and Race, Pat Robertson Endorses Rudy Giuliani, Race, 2008 Election, Rudy Giuliani Pat Robertson, Rudy Giuliani, Racism, Jimmy Carter, Gop, Southern Strategy, Republican Party, Pat Robertson, Republicans, Politics News

Was racism part of how Republicans came to dominate four decades of presidential politics? Sure. Was racism the primary factor? No.

Will 2008 be a Change or Crisis election?

Byron Williams | Posted 11.29.2007 | Politics

Read More: Hillary Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Conservatives, 2008 Election, Housing Crisis, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, George W. Bush, Politics News

As much as the presidential candidates and we talk about it, the foreseeable unknown may hamstring much of the obvious desire for change.

The Pleasures of War

Barry Yourgrau | Posted 11.20.2007 | Home

Read More: Ronald Reagan, Charge of the Light Brigade, Lapham's Quarterly, Reading, Cheney, War, Bush, Reincarnation, Home News

Ah, war, what's it good for? Well, it does make some people very rich. And war does make for some of the most gruesomely enthralling reading around.

President Bush Is Losing The Cold War Peace

Bennet Kelley | Posted 11.18.2007 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Tear Down This Wall, National Security, Torture, Ronald Reagan, War on Terror, Berlin, George W. Bush, Hollywood, Cold War, Politics News

It is striking how the Democrats have gone from the party that stood at the Berlin Wall and expressed American resolve by declaring "ich bin ein Berliner" to the party of "ich bin ein Girlie Man."

Reagan And Racism War Continues On New York Times Op-Ed Page

Editor and Publisher | Greg MItchell | Posted 11.18.2007 | Media

Read More: New York Times Feid Over Reagan and Racism, New York Times Op-Ed War, New York Times Reagan, Op-Ed War Reagan Racism, Reagan and Racism, New York Times Ronald Reagan, Reagan Racism, Ronald Reagan, Media News

The battleground had been silent for a few days, but conflict resumed today with another shot fired on The New York Times' Op-Ed page -- over the unli...

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Reagan, Neshoba, and the War on Terror

Aaron Belkin | Posted 11.17.2007 | Politics

Read More: 9/11, Jerry Falwell, New York Times, Ronald Reagan, Politics News

After the next terrorist attack, it will become highly tempting to look for witches. If we can't bring out the best in ourselves now, what chance will we have when circumstances get worse?

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