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Election Night at The Nation (Barack Obama, Presidential Election 2008, Politics)

A look inside The Nation's election night party and a glimpse at Obama victory celebrations in Brooklyn.

VideoNation and Brett Story
Obama's Dream Team (Barack Obama, Foreign Policy)

A fantasy lineup of progressive advisors to help the next president end war, repair alliances and rebuild the economy.

Katrina vanden Heuvel
President-Elect Obama Addresses Nation (Barack Obama, Presidential Election 2008, Politics)

Barack Obama delivers his victory speech after being elected the forty-fourth president of the United States.

YouTube
Nairobi: Euphoria and Questions (Barack Obama, Regions and Countries)

A nation riven by differences marvels at
his message of civility and inclusion. Yet there is some worry about an
Obama administration's policies on Africa.

Karen Rothmyer
Paris: 'America is Back' (Barack Obama, Regions and Countries)

People here are looking in wonderment at the culture that produced Obama and at the people who put him in the White House. In short, they're looking at us.

Jordan Stancil
London: A Sense that the Nightmare is Over (Barack Obama, Regions and Countries)

When the votes were finally counted, Europe's wish to usher George W. Bush into the dustbin of history made for widespread jubilation.

Maria Margaronis and D.D. Guttenplan
Rachel Maddow Interviews Barack Obama (Barack Obama)

Barack Obama tells Rachel Maddow why he hasn't attacked the Republican party more and how he intends to govern a working majority.

MSNBC
Obama the Philosopher (Barack Obama, Presidential Election 2008, Philosophy, Politics)

Suddenly, Obama's making a pretty good case for why Americans should once again care for one another.

Linda Hirshman
Against Obama (Barack Obama, Presidential Election 2008, Politics)

Never has the dead hand of the past had a "reform" candidate so firmly by the windpipe.

Alexander Cockburn
Obamalina (Barack Obama, Presidential Election 2008, States, Politics)

North Carolinians have fallen, surprisingly for Obama. But how hard?

Bob Moser

Blogs

For Obama, Health Care Victory Has 13 Million Fathers
The Notion

 After early struggles and White House hurdles, Obama's grassroots arm says it helped swing tangible votes for health care reform.

March 22, 2010
Remember 11/4/08?
The Notion

 A new participatory documentary captures the excitement of Obama's election.

March 10, 2010
Why Is Barack Obama Writing GOP Talking Points?
John Nichols

The president needs a new speechwriter because, right now, he's reinforcing GOP messaging.

March 5, 2010
Obama, Iran and Iraq
Bob Dreyfuss

The fates of Iran and Iraq are inextricably linked. But Obama doesn't seem to get it.

March 5, 2010
"The President's Plan": No Public Option, Lots of Compromise
John Nichols

For more than a year, President Obama remained on the sidelines of the health care debate -- chiming in now and again with sometimes-inspired, sometimes-disappointing rhetoric about broad values while members of Congress did the heavy lifting.

February 22, 2010
New Effort Calls on Obama & GOP to Re-Up on Question Sessions
The Notion

President Obama has labored to unite different political factions with policy compromises and conciliatory speeches. But it was Obama's incisive grappling at the Republican retreat last week that really lit a bipartisan fire, drawing politicos and commentators of all stripes to call for more questions sessions for the President and the opposition party.

February 3, 2010
Noting Setbacks, Plouffe Returns in New Obama Video
The Notion

David Plouffe, the Obama campaign manager who was recently tapped for an "expanded role" advising the White House, just cut a video briefing Obama supporters on plans for the coming election year.

February 2, 2010
The Obama I Remember
The Notion

Watching Barack Obama become President of the United States made me proud and hopeful, but I also found the experience somewhat amusing. I think many of us who were his Hyde Park neighbors and Illinois state senate constituents feel the same way. We may have always believed he was extraordinary, but because he was familiar it is sometimes hard to believe that he is now, as president, the purveyor of such power and the object of such scorn.

January 29, 2010
Prankly, My Dear, They Don't Give a Damn
The Notion

You know how you can tell the Age of Reagan has ended? Because at his State of the Union address, Barack Obama didn't do any of those ordinary-folks-who-make-a-difference shout-outs to the gallery, as every POTUS (that is, Populist of the United States) has since the Gipper's first SOTU in 1982. But if Obama had called on someone, given the frustrated and hectoring nature of his speech, I bet I know who he would have liked to ask to stand up and take a bow: James O'Keefe, the putative pimp and ACORN slayer.

January 29, 2010
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
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