Why Did Obama Win?
Stephen Sackur Interviews Noam Chomsky
When he published his first political critique 40 years ago, he was fired up by the war in Vietnam. Today he is still raging against America's malign influence and calls the war in Afghanistan 'immoral'.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23993.htm
Hawkish Hillary Pro-Surge And Anti-Savvy Majority, Again
By Robert S. Becker
For years, common wisdom, expert and amateur, was sure the U.S. would elect a woman before any dark-skinned, or demonstrably ethnic minority, took the White House.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23998.htm
Obama's China Junket
"We're Opening Doors for Wall Street and Nothing More"
By Mike Whitney
Geithner and Co. see the US economy languishing in a low-grade Depression for the foreseeable future, therefore, Wall Street must progressively move its base-of-operations eastward.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23999.htm
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When hope meets reality
The American Prospect
by Paul Waldman
11/17/09
‘We campaign in poetry. But when we’re elected we’re forced to govern in prose,’ said Mario Cuomo, then-governor of New York, in a 1985 speech. ‘And when we govern — as distinguished from when we campaign — we come to understand the difference between a speech and a statute.’ … The man then hailed as the Democratic Party’s greatest orator knew what he was talking about. And there is no doubt that the party’s current lead orator, Barack Obama, has understood this truth all along. But those swept up in the oratory still seem to need occasional reminding of this reality. As health-care reform teeters between success and failure, the economy limps along, and more and more Americans wonder what we’re doing in Afghanistan, the prose of governing is more than a little unsettling for some...
http://tinyurl.com/ydcv2ju
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hillary
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Geithner
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Vietnam
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wall+Street
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=healthcare
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Noam+Chomsky
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Stephen+Sackur
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mike+Whitney
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paul+Waldman
When he published his first political critique 40 years ago, he was fired up by the war in Vietnam. Today he is still raging against America's malign influence and calls the war in Afghanistan 'immoral'.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23993.htm
Hawkish Hillary Pro-Surge And Anti-Savvy Majority, Again
By Robert S. Becker
For years, common wisdom, expert and amateur, was sure the U.S. would elect a woman before any dark-skinned, or demonstrably ethnic minority, took the White House.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23998.htm
Obama's China Junket
"We're Opening Doors for Wall Street and Nothing More"
By Mike Whitney
Geithner and Co. see the US economy languishing in a low-grade Depression for the foreseeable future, therefore, Wall Street must progressively move its base-of-operations eastward.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23999.htm
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When hope meets reality
The American Prospect
by Paul Waldman
11/17/09
‘We campaign in poetry. But when we’re elected we’re forced to govern in prose,’ said Mario Cuomo, then-governor of New York, in a 1985 speech. ‘And when we govern — as distinguished from when we campaign — we come to understand the difference between a speech and a statute.’ … The man then hailed as the Democratic Party’s greatest orator knew what he was talking about. And there is no doubt that the party’s current lead orator, Barack Obama, has understood this truth all along. But those swept up in the oratory still seem to need occasional reminding of this reality. As health-care reform teeters between success and failure, the economy limps along, and more and more Americans wonder what we’re doing in Afghanistan, the prose of governing is more than a little unsettling for some...
http://tinyurl.com/ydcv2ju
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hillary
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Geithner
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Vietnam
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wall+Street
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=healthcare
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Noam+Chomsky
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Stephen+Sackur
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mike+Whitney
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paul+Waldman
rudkla - 18. Nov, 11:20
