‘Less a team of rivals, more a coalition government’
Aggregated from: England for Obama
Keith Olbermann’s take on Barack Obama’s new security team: ...
go to article »December 3, 2008
Domestic Liberalism, Foreign Policy Realism
Aggregated from: PoliGazette
President-Elect Barack Obama ran as a liberal on foreign policy and domestic issues during the Democratic primaries season. He had to, of course: he had to run to the left of Senator Hillary Clinton if he wanted to win his party’s nomination. If he would have run as a centrist at that point, h...
go to article »November 30, 2008
Armenian Bloggers Hail Power Return
While most people know Samantha Power as an Obama adviser who has called Hillary Clinton a “monster,” many genocide awareness and prevention activists consider the Harvard professor a hope they can believe in. The Associated Press has noticed that Power, who officially resigned from Obama’s campaign during the Democratic primaries, is on US President-elect Obama’s transition team. This news has encouraged several Armenian bloggers who now feel assured that the author of “A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide” (2002) will remind President-elect Barack Obama to keep his promise of officially recognizing the WWI Armenian Genocide committed by Ottoman Turks.
November 28, 2008
Reflections on Obama’s Moves Thus Far
Aggregated from: PoliGazette
In the run-up to the presidential elections a lot was said about now president-elect Barack Obama’s liberal voting record in the United States and Illinois Senate. As many, including myself, pointed out in recent months, Obama had the most liberal record in the U.S. Senate and his views on abo...
go to article »November 26, 2008
And You Thought It Was Just Me
Aggregated from: A Political Glimpse from Ireland
Iowahawk has the scoop on the Obama’s latest appointment. WARNING: not safe for work. “The long anticipated naming of Clinton to head Obama’s Oval Office team comes after a week that saw Obama appoint dozens of Clinton associates to his transition team including John Podesta, Ra...
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The Man From Hopenchange
Aggregated from: A Political Glimpse from Ireland
It’s gotta hurt, some. I mean, he promised Change! A new way! We are the change we’ve been waiting for! and then we get: Rahm Emmanuel John Podesta Ron Klain Bill Richardson Hillary Clinton Ah, but the progressives haven’t been shut out entirely! Rumor has it there’s on...
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Hillary Ineligible To Be Sec. Of State?
Aggregated from: A Political Glimpse from Ireland
There’s an arguement now that Senator Hillary Clinton is ineligible to be appointed the Secretary of State. There’s a clause in the constitution called the Emoluments Clause, which says that an elected representative or senator cannot be appointed to an office for which the compensatio...
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Hillary Clinton At State: Toward A Weak Foreign Policy
Aggregated from: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying
It is now reported in the media as universal truth that Hillary Clinton is "on track" to be Barack Obama’s Secretary of State. Apparently Clinton has made her anti-Shermanesque statement on the issue: something to the effect, according to "Clinton insiders", that if of...
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The Hillary Clinton Drama: The “Offer”
Aggregated from: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying
[Via Politico] Elizabeth Drew in the New York Review of Books writes about the so called "offer" that Hillary Clinton is now ready to accept: Obama’s meetings with Hillary Clinton and John McCain about playing important roles in his presidency indicated his imagination and his shrew...
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You Saw This Headline Coming, Right?
Aggregated from: My Right Word
Obama to Tap Clinton After ThanksgivingWasn't this administration supposed to be one of non-abuse?...
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