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Former Sec. of State George Shultz: Quote Me - End the US-Cuba Embargo

Steve Clemons | Posted 10.08.2009 | World

Read More: George Shultz, Embargo, US-Cuba Relations, Henry Kissinger, Cuba Travel Ban, Center for Democracy in the Americas, Sam Nunn, Cuba, William Perry, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, World News

Former Reagan Administration Secretary of Treasury and Secretary of State George Shultz thinks that the US embargo against Cuba should "simply be lifted."

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Which Communities Are Still in High Sizzle Support Mode for Barack Obama?

Steve Clemons | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Liz Halloran, Gay Rights, Colin Powell, Obama Policy Agenda, Rick Warren, Sam Nunn, Dont Ask Dont Tell, Gay Issues, Barack Obama, Homosexuals, Politics News

There are a lot of folks out there who are as grateful today for Obama running the nation as they were in January -- but we aren't hearing much from them of late.

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The Bomb at 64: Let's Retire It

William Hartung | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nuclear Disarmament, Military, Nuclear Weapons, Hiroshima, John F. Kennedy, Anti-Nuclear Summit, Henry Kissinger, John Bolton, Barack Obama Nuclear Proliferation, Jimmy Carter, Sam Nunn, Hiroshima Anniversary, Obama Nuclear Weapons, Politics News

Presidents from John F. Kennedy to Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan, have called for nuclear disarmament. But no president in the nuclear age has spoken of it as often as Barack Obama.

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What Can Be Done Now on DADT

Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Don't Ask Don't Tell, Obama White House, Congress, Colin Powell, Speaker Pelosi, Gallup Poll, The New Republic, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Sam Nunn, Obama Pentagon, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Politics News

Discrimination in our armed forces carries a potent symbolism: It tells an entire class of people that the country is not interested in their service.

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Sweet Speech, Mr. President - But Where Was the Apology? And Where's the Action?

Karen Ocamb | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: LGBT at the White House, Democratic Congress, John Berry, Don't Tell, Sam Nunn, Eric Holder, Defense of Marriage Act, Barack Obama, LGBT Politics, Victor Fehrenbach, Dadt, Rachel Maddow, Gays in the Military, Dan Choi, Frank Kameny, Doma, Don't Ask, Mike Lux, Politics News

If "equality" is a founding principle for freedom -- how do you justify withholding "equality for all" from LGBT people for any amount of time?

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A New President and a New Generation Seek a Nuclear Weapons Free Future

Jim Wallis | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: International, Bomb, Washington, William J Perry, Democrat, Evangelicals, Wall Street Journal, Evangelical, Weapons, Peace, Democrats, Movement, America, Barack Obama, Republican, Conservative, Sam Nunn, Non Proliferation Treaty, Bush Administration, Henry a Kissinger, Wall Street, Nuclear Weapons, Barack, George Shultz, Liberal, Russia, Nuclear Weapons Policy, Nuclear Testing, Republicans, Conservatives, Justice, Young Evangelicals, Politics News

A new generation of Evangelical Christians launched The Two Futures Project whose mission is "for the abolition of all nuclear weapons."

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Obama Needs to End Silence on Biggest Civil Rights Move of Our Time

Steve Clemons | Posted 06.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Don't Ask Don't Tell, Gays in Military, Aaron Belkin, Gay Rights, Colin Powell, National Security, Rick Warren, Sam Nunn, Jake Tapper, John Aravosis, Robert Gibbs, Civil Unions, Barack Obama, Gay Marriage, Evangelicals, Politics News

There is no excuse at all -- none -- for the White House to allow the bigotry and harassment of gays and lesbians in the armed forces to stand. Gays populate the armed services now.

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The Swine AcCHORDS: Infectious Disease Surveillance in the 21st Century

Vikrum Aiyer | Posted 06.06.2009 | World

Read More: Homeland Security, President Obama, Swine Flu, Global Health and Security Initiative, H1N1 Influenza, Sam Nunn, Rockefeller Foundation, Dr. Keiji Fukuda, Mexican Health Secretary Jose Angel Cordova, World Health Organization, Nuclear Threat Initiative, Health and Human Services, Ibm, Chords, Nti, Ghsi, World News

Regional disease surveillance networks be established -- both among developing countries and developed ones -- in order to improve the quality of detection and control across borders.

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As Congress Moves to End Gay Ban, Don't Let History Repeat Itself

Nathaniel Frank | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Unfriendly Fire, Don't Ask, Clinton, Gays in the Military, New Research, Ellen Tauscher, Palm Center, Sam Nunn, Congress, Obama, Anniversary, New Book, Don't Tell, Patrick Murphy, Shalikashvili, Politics News

Rep. Ellen Tauscher has just announced she'll introduce a bill to repeal the ban on open gays in the military, a momentous step that comes on the 15th anniversary of this highly unpopular policy.

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Obama Campaign: "A Lot Of Disinformation" About Transition Advisers

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 12.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Sam Nunn, Warren Christopher, Obama Transition, President Obama, Politics News

Barack Obama's transition team pushed back on Wednesday morning against an AP report claiming that former Sen. Sam Nunn and former Secretary of State ...

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Obama Taps Veteran Dems For Pentagon, State Handover

Huffington Post | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama Warren Christopher, Sam Nunn, Obama Hayden, Obama McConnell, Warren Christopher, Obama's Cabinet, Obama Sam Nunn, Obama Transition, Obama Hagel, Mike McConnell, Michael Hayden, Obama Nunn, Obama Christopher, John Brennan, Politics News

Obama's brain trust continues to grow. The president-elect has hired former Senate Armed Services Committee chairman Sam Nunn to help shepherd his Pe...

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A.P.: Obama "Nervously" Meets with National Security Leaders

Ari Melber | Posted 11.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Sam Nunn, Richard Holbrook, Madeline Albright, Greg Craig, Mark Lippert, Denis McDonough, Jenniver Loven, Barack Obama, Ap, Gary Hart, Politics News

Note the brazen absence of any facts or quotes supporting Loven's "nervousness" storyline, even though it contradicts Obama's own statement about how long the meeting had been in the works.

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Sam Nunn Almost Certainly Ruled Out As Obama VP

CNN | Posted 09.21.2008 | Politics

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It appears Sam Nunn, the former Georgia senator and a leading Democratic expert on foreign policy issues, can safely be crossed off the list of Barack...

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Why "Radio Silence" Can be a Good Thing in VP Selection

Steve Clemons | Posted 09.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Evan Bayh, Al Gore, Richard Gephardt, Veep, Joseph Biden, Michael Bloomberg, Christopher Dodd, Don't Ask Dont' Tell, Sam Nunn, Vice Presidential Selection, Kathleen Sebelius, Wesley Clark, Joe Biden, Intrade, Chuck Hagel, Barack Obama, William Cohen, Ed Rendell, Tom Daschle, Georgia, John Edwards, Russia, Vice President Nominee, Hillary Clinton, Tim Kaine, Barack Obama Running Mate, Barack Obama Vice President, Barack Obama VP, Obama Vice President, Obama Vp Pick, Obama VP, Biden Vice President, Joe Biden Vp, Obama Biden, Biden, Biden VP, Politics News

Be thankful for radio silence I guess when other candidates for VP like Daschle and Bayh are getting phone calls saying, "Sorry....but we look forward to working with you in many other ways in the coming years."

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Obama/Gore 2008

Norman MacAfee | Posted 09.18.2008 | Politics

Broken record here. The more I think about it, the more Al Gore seems the only really interesting choice for Barack Obama's vice presidential choice. ...

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The Men Who Made Me Love Hillary

Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 09.09.2008 | Politics

Unfortunately, the coterie of cautious centrists being touted by the Obama campaign as short-listers for the vice presidential nod are hardly up to the task of taking on the Republican attack machine.

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Senator Nunn's Last Chance

Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 07.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Military Readiness Enhancement Act, Dadt, House, Colin Powell, Conversion Experience, Sam Nunn, Obama, Senate, Barack Obama Vice President, Obama Cabinet, Barack Obama, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Gays in the Military, Sam Nunn VP, Obama Sam Nunn, Politics News

Sam Nunn will not be on the ticket with Obama. But if he would like to be offered the job of Secretary of State or Defense, he has to tell Obama that he supports repealing DADT -- and he has to mean it.

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Potential Obama VP Candidates Sam Nunn, Evan Bayh Join Security Talks

AP | GLEN JOHNSON | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama, Evan Bayh, Sam Nunn, Obama and Nunn, Obama and Bayh, Obama and Nunn and Bayh, Vice Presidential Candidates, Obama Security Talks, Obama Vice Presidential Candidates, Politics News

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Democrat Barack Obama warned Wednesday about the danger of "fighting the last war" as he pledged to focus on emerging nuc...

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Exclusive: Congress Plans Historic Hearing on "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"

Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 07.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: House, Senate, Congress, Military, Dadt, Colin Powell, Hearing, Afghanistan, Homophobia, Sam Nunn, Manpower Shortage, Gays, Iraq, Dan Coats, Canada, Politics News

Any serious discussion of the crisis the country faces in recruiting and retaining qualified men and women in the military will require a fresh and serious look at the odious "compromise" known as "Don't Ask, Don't Tell."

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Pakistan: The World's Next Failed State?

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Sam Nunn, Pakistan, Barack Obama, Obama Veep, Warwire, Video, Politics News

Last week at the Aspen Ideas Festival, former Senator Sam Nunn -- a current adviser and oft-mentioned potential veep pick for Barack Obama -- describe...

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Nunn: Pakistan Is Our Most Dangerous Conflict

Huffington Post | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics

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Speaking at the Aspen Ideas Festival last week, former Sen. Sam Nunn warned that while the world is focusing on Iraq and Afghanistan, Pakistan was the...

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Obama Team Weighs Nunn, Edwards As Running Mates

AP | KEN THOMAS | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Former Sens. John Edwards and Sam Nunn are on a list of potential running mates for Democrat Barack Obama, a congresswoman said Thu...

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The Frakking Nukes

Daniel Holloway | Posted 06.25.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Australia, Battlestar Galactica, John McCain, Nuclear Weapons, Sci-Fi, George W. Bush, Charlton Heston, Sam Nunn, Entertainment News, Planet of the Apes, Barack Obama, Entertainment News

But one of the reasons Battlestar works so well is that humanity's demise is rooted in its Alfred E. Neuman-esque attitude toward the machines of war.

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Clinton Won't Do Much for Obama as VP or on the Campaign Trail

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 06.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Latinos, Blue Collar Workers, Church Hagel, Sam Nunn, Barack Obama, Repoublicans, Jim Webb, Campaign, General Election, Democrats, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Ultraconservatives, Politics News

Clinton is a team player and while she won't get the VP nod, she'll hit the trail for Obama. Top Democrats will cheer her for it. Just be advised it won't do or mean much to or for him.

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