Tag Archive for ‘Barack Obama’
Oozing Beltway slime
How serious Obama is about health care reform remains to be seen. Obama supporters argue that Obama needs someone like Daschle, with credibility within the health care industry, in order to achieve real reform. That’s the standard explanation for most of what Obama does (he’s only courting the establishment in order to change it), and though […]
Worst 2008 prediction?
“If [Hillary Clinton] gets a race against John Edwards and Barack Obama, she’s going to be the nominee. Gore is the only threat to her, then. … Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single Democratic primary. I’ll predict that right now.” —William Kristol, Fox News Sunday, Dec. 17, 2006. Kristol’s […]
So much for ‘food democracy now’
So much for the 52,000-plus people calling for “food democracy now” in an online petition asking President-Elect Barack Obama to consider one of six “sustainable” choices for the next secretary of agriculture. As initially anticipated, a pick not among Food Democracy Now’s sustainable six will reportedly be named by Obama on Wednesday: former Iowa […]
Bribery more serious than torture?
“It’s all very well to insist that Obama be as forthcoming and transparent as possible concerning any connection between himself and his staff and the Blagojevich matter. Transparent, open government was an important part of what Obama promised as a candidate, and he should be held to his pledges. Even so, am I the only one who […]
Video: The card McCain didn’t play
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Elsewhere: President hating of a different kind
When I was a teenager and still bought a bulk of my music from Christian bookstores, I believed pretty much what I was told to believe. So I had little reason to doubt a video my dad picked up from a local Christian bookstore that more or less implicated President Clinton in all kinds of slimeball […]
Quotation: Obama’s BCS beef
In simplest terms, this was a Nixonian strategy—an attempt by Obama to bathe himself in college football’s populist glow. But railing against the Bowl Championship Series is particularly astute. It’s the equivalent of calling for rock bands in the cafeteria in a student council election: Your constituents will love you for it, even if they […]
Elsewhere: Did Hillary Clinton really win?
It’s a good question to ask, considering that 31 of President-Elect Barack Obama’s first 47 appointments have direct ties to the family dynasty of his former Democratic primary nemesis. Tom Engelhardt explores that question in this blog post at The Nation. Those hardcore Hillary supporters who, like one of my co-workers (a lifelong Democrat who has re-registered […]