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The Nation's Victory Navasky on Obama (Barack Obama)

Navasky elaborates on his theory that President Obama might just be a "liberal in centrist clothing."

The Real News Network
The Pseudo Stimulus (Barack Obama, Economy)

There is much less to Obama's stimulus plan than meets the eye. What's he going to do about it?

James S. Henry
Obama's Better Bailout (Barack Obama, Economy)

He's off to a good start, but it's up to ordinary people who are hurting in this economy, to make sure Obama bailout benefits them and not the power players.

Robert Scheer
On the Road to the Inauguration (Barack Obama)

A glimpse at one group of passengers on their 700-mile bus journey from Fort Valley, Ga--to witness history firsthand.

American News Project
Is Obama the Next Lincoln? (Barack Obama)

Two historians discuss the similarities and differences between the two senators cum presidents from Illinois.

CBS
Prelude to an Inaugural (Barack Obama, Politics)

A modest proposal of words Barack Obama might say when he takes the oath of office in Washington on Tuesday.

Tom Engelhardt
A Very Different 100 Days (Barack Obama, History)

Many comparisons have been made between Obama and FDR. But the forty-fourth president will have a very different first 100 days.

Nicholas von Hoffman
President Goofus and President Gallant (Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Humor)

Jon Stewart does a hilarious job of comparing Obama and Bush's very different styles of conducting press conferences.

The Daily Show
The 'Yes We Will' Campaign Begins (Barack Obama, Politics)

The election of Barack Obama brought unprecedented hope to students and educators, now it's time to turn that energy into action.

YouTube
Good God, Bad God (Barack Obama, Religion, Social Justice, Gay and Lesbian Issues and Organizing, Sex and Sexuality, Society)

If Rick Warren, Barack Obama and the gay community can find common ground, it'll be on civil, not religious, grounds. So let's separate church and state.

Richard Kim

Blogs

Obama's "Eager to See" Better Approach on Health Reform? O.K.
John Nichols

President Obama renewed his call for health-care reform in his first State of the Union address but, as has been the case from the start of the current debate over how to get more medical care at less cost, he provided little in the way of leadership.

January 28, 2010
Extracting Recovery, Too?
The Notion

Yesterday it was security, today's it's recovery: another nifty, ubiquitous word that means a whole lot of different things to different people.

January 28, 2010
SOTU as National Rorschach Test
The Notion

A contemporary State of the Union address is less an assessment of our national circumstances than it is a collective Rorschach test: an inkblot given meaning by the viewer more than by the subject. The televised pageantry of applause and ovations has little to do with the President's articulation of a policy agenda and far more to do with how his partisan allies and opponents read the electoral viability of his phrases.

January 28, 2010
Two Cheers for Obama on Foreign Affairs
Bob Dreyfuss

It was a pleasure to listen to a State of the Union address, especially after eight years of his predecessor's alarmist warnings and warlike thundering, in which war, terrorism, and "rogue states" went almost unmentioned.

January 28, 2010
"I Never Suggested the Change Would Be Easy"
John Nichols

Say what you will about Barack Obama. But don't accuse the president of veering from the course he charted at a point when his term was new, his popularity ratings were high and Americans took seriously all that talk of "hope" and "change."

January 27, 2010
Freeze, Like a Deer in Headlights
Christopher Hayes

There's lots of progressive backlash in the blogosphere to the announcement that the president is going to call for a multi-year freeze on "non-security discretionary spending," in the State of the Union. The anger is totally justified, but let me talk about the politics.

January 26, 2010
A Manifesto: Ending the War
Bob Dreyfuss

How will the war in Afghanistan end? This isn't a trick question. The answer is simple: the war will end when President Obama signs an order ending it; that is, when the president tells his commanders: "It's over."

January 25, 2010
Coakley Loses -- And So Does Obama
John Nichols

Whoever scheduled the special election for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the death of Edward Kennedy on January 19 did Barack Obama no favors.

January 19, 2010
How Barack Obama is like Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Notion

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem. –Martin Luther King, Jr.

Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination for the presidency on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr's historic "I have a dream" speech. He was inaugurated the day after our national holiday celebrating the life and accomplishments of Dr. King. Many asked if Obama's presidency was the realization of King's dream. Cultural products, from t-shirts to YouTube videos, linked Obama's election to King's legacy.

January 17, 2010
William Jennings Obama Seeks to Save Massachusetts Seat
John Nichols

A suddenly populist Barack Obama tore into the Republicans for siding with banks rather than consumers and taxpayers Sunday in Boston, hoping that his fiery rhetoric would revive the candidacy of embattled Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Martha Coakley.

January 17, 2010
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