Will Obama Play the War Card?
https://www.lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan128.html
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How to get our democracy back
The Nation
by Lawrence Lessig
02/04/10
We should remember what it felt like one year ago, as the ability to recall it emotionally will pass and it is an emotional memory as much as anything else. It was a moment rare in a democracy’s history. The feeling was palpable — to supporters and opponents alike — that something important had happened. America had elected, the young candidate promised, a transformational president. And wrapped in a campaign that had produced the biggest influx of new voters and small-dollar contributions in a generation, the claim seemed credible, almost intoxicating, and just in time. Yet a year into the presidency of Barack Obama, it is already clear that this administration is an opportunity missed. Not because it is too conservative. Not because it is too liberal. But because it is too conventional...
https://www.thenation.com/doc/20100222/lessig
He’s a yuppie
The New Republic
by John B. Judis
02/04/10
Here is a fact: Barack Obama has trouble generating enthusiasm among white working class voters. That’s not because they are white. He would have had trouble winning support among black working class voters if they had been unable to identify with him because he was black. He has trouble with working class voters because he appears to them as coming from a different world, a different realm of experience, a different class, if you like. And that’s because he does...
https://www.tnr.com/article/politics/hes-yuppie
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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How to Get Our Democracy Back: Lawrence Lessig Says "If We Want to Change, We Have to Change Congress"
https://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/02/05-0
Message to President Obama: Why Trade Will Not Save Rural America
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/05-0
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Walk a Mile...
By Sheila Sample
It's time for Obama to put aside empty, soaring speeches and come to grips with who his enemies really are. It's time for him to step onto dry land and walk a mile in his own shoes -- while he still has a pair.
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24606.htm
Liberals Get a War President of Their Very Own
By Murray Polner
Barack Obama was going to be different, or so my fellow antiwar liberals- and a few antiwar conservatives- hoped. He was to herald the end of that uncompromising and unilateral era of preventive war.
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24617.htm
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=what+change
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=preventive+war
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=working+class
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/buchanan
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Lawrence+Lessig
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+B.+Judis
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paula+Crossfield
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sheila+Sample
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Murray+Polner
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How to get our democracy back
The Nation
by Lawrence Lessig
02/04/10
We should remember what it felt like one year ago, as the ability to recall it emotionally will pass and it is an emotional memory as much as anything else. It was a moment rare in a democracy’s history. The feeling was palpable — to supporters and opponents alike — that something important had happened. America had elected, the young candidate promised, a transformational president. And wrapped in a campaign that had produced the biggest influx of new voters and small-dollar contributions in a generation, the claim seemed credible, almost intoxicating, and just in time. Yet a year into the presidency of Barack Obama, it is already clear that this administration is an opportunity missed. Not because it is too conservative. Not because it is too liberal. But because it is too conventional...
https://www.thenation.com/doc/20100222/lessig
He’s a yuppie
The New Republic
by John B. Judis
02/04/10
Here is a fact: Barack Obama has trouble generating enthusiasm among white working class voters. That’s not because they are white. He would have had trouble winning support among black working class voters if they had been unable to identify with him because he was black. He has trouble with working class voters because he appears to them as coming from a different world, a different realm of experience, a different class, if you like. And that’s because he does...
https://www.tnr.com/article/politics/hes-yuppie
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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How to Get Our Democracy Back: Lawrence Lessig Says "If We Want to Change, We Have to Change Congress"
https://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/02/05-0
Message to President Obama: Why Trade Will Not Save Rural America
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/05-0
--------
Walk a Mile...
By Sheila Sample
It's time for Obama to put aside empty, soaring speeches and come to grips with who his enemies really are. It's time for him to step onto dry land and walk a mile in his own shoes -- while he still has a pair.
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24606.htm
Liberals Get a War President of Their Very Own
By Murray Polner
Barack Obama was going to be different, or so my fellow antiwar liberals- and a few antiwar conservatives- hoped. He was to herald the end of that uncompromising and unilateral era of preventive war.
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24617.htm
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=what+change
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=preventive+war
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=working+class
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/buchanan
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Lawrence+Lessig
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+B.+Judis
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paula+Crossfield
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sheila+Sample
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Murray+Polner
rudkla - 5. Feb, 09:01
