November 16, 2008
I’ve come in for a bit of flack for raining on John Pilger’s parade so dismissively below. So let me try and justify some of this, though I’m planning a bigger piece on Managing Expectations of Obama later anyway. I’m not in favour of constantly picking fights with writers on...
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Ooh. Looks like Barack Obama is taking that whole “team of rivals” thing seriously. Here’s the story. And here. And here: ...
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According to several reports in American media, Senator Hillary Clinton could very well become the Secretary of State in the Obama administration which will take office in January 2009. Team Obama was considering asking individuals like Sen. Chuck Hagel, Sen. John Kerry or Gov. Bill Richardson for t...
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Following up some of what we saw during the general election, and happening concurrently with arguments from some on the left that Joe Lieberman should be kicked out of the Democratic caucus, some on the right are calling for “Republicans in Name Only” of the John McCain variety (and ...
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Reuters has filmed a series of video messages from people in a dozen countries congratulating Barack Obama on his election victory and offering suggestions, requests and advice. You can submit your own video message on YouTube, tagging it postcardstopresident. This builds on Reuters excellent Voices...
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Building on all the anecdotal evidence of improving views of America around the world since the election, here is some hard opinion data. It comes from a daily poll by PoliticsHome of a politically balanced panel of 5,000 voters across the UK who are asked to say every day whether they have a posit...
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Now, I know I said I wasn’t going to give this woman the oxygen of publicity any longer. But somehow, I think I should make an exception for this story. Because I want Sarah Palin to have the oxygen of publicity about this story. Oh, yes. “The Secret Service warned the Obama family in mi...
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Steps In The Right Direction, No.12: This. *Update* I just read this by Glenn Greenwald (via Andrew Sullivan): “It’s just a fact that there are all sorts of people close to Obama who have enabled those Bush policies and who are mobilizing now and attempting to ensure that nothing meaning...
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Obama has barely been elected, and John Pilger can reliably be called upon to throw out the first far-left article accusing him of being an Uncle Tom. Obama is a stooge don’t you know! (via Olly’s Onions) And isn’t Obama aware that, “the American elite has grown adept at usin...
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The latest Obama Presidential Cabinet pick could be one of his former competitors, New York Senator Hillary Clinton. Various mainstream news sources are reporting that Clinton is being considered for the Secretary of State post. What do you all think? A good choice or not? It certainly would ma...
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