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Is Barack Obama Doing a Jerry Brown?

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Santi Tafarella

On the debt ceiling debate, this seems to me a good sign (from the New York Times today): “We don’t need a minideal,” Senator Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2 Democrat, said Wednesday on the Senate floor. “We … Continue reading →

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A Prince Amidst Satyrs: Barack Obama’s Equanimity in the Midst of the Right-Wing Shit Storm

Posted on May 7, 2011 by Santi Tafarella

What impresses me about President Barack Obama in the below video is not just his intelligence and good humor, but his humanity. This is a guy who quite evidently has gotten to where he is at by accepting his own proclivity for making … Continue reading →

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Foreign Policy: I Thought Barack Obama Would Be This Way

Posted on November 7, 2009 by Santi Tafarella

And it’s one reason I voted for him. Here’s U.S National Security Advisor, General James Jones in an interview with Spiegel this week: SPIEGEL: Is it difficult to advise the president, Barack Obama? Jones: No, simply because he’s a very good student … Continue reading →

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Andrew Sullivan Talks to Stephen Colbert about Barack Obama’s First Year Since Being Elected President

Posted on November 5, 2009 by Santi Tafarella

Here. Know hope.

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The Fox-Limbaugh Industrial Propaganda Complex

Posted on November 1, 2009 by Santi Tafarella

At Slate today, Karl Agne, a senior advisor to Democracy Corps, offers his take on the Fox-Limbaugh Industrial Propaganda Complex: When we spoke with these conservative Republicans in the focus groups we did for Democracy Corps recently, what was really striking was … Continue reading →

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Barack Obama Wins the Nobel Prize!

Posted on October 9, 2009 by Santi Tafarella

This today in Der Spiegel: “Only rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world’s attention and given its people hope for a better future,” the committee said in a statement. “His diplomacy is founded in … Continue reading →

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This is the President I Voted for

Posted on September 27, 2009 by Santi Tafarella

Former Bush Cabinet official, and now President Obama’s Defense Secretary, is impressed with our new president: “He is very analytical,” Gates told CNN Chief National Correspondent John King. “He is very deliberate about the way he goes through things. He wants to … Continue reading →

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I’ll Say It Loud: I’m White and I’m Proud (to be a Barack Obama Supporter)

Posted on September 12, 2009 by Santi Tafarella

As a white person, I’m sick of the white hate being directed at President Barack Obama. It’s indecent, and I’m not going to be silent in the face of it. Aaron Wiener of the Washington Independent notices that the far right … Continue reading →

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Republicans are Fast Marginalizing Themselves on Healthcare Insurance Reform

Posted on August 5, 2009 by Santi Tafarella

Robert Reich today succinctly lays out the tape playing in Republican heads, and why they’re so wound up to try and block healthcare insurance reform: Republicans smell 1994 all over again. That’s when they defeated Clinton’s healthcare plan—and in doing so … Continue reading →

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Health Care Reform is Coming

Posted on July 21, 2009 by Santi Tafarella

Deal with it. Amidst all the blue pipe smoke being thrown up by Republicans, AP reports on a new poll that reminds us who it is, exactly, that President Barack Obama is fighting for: A new poll, meanwhile, showed that large numbers … Continue reading →

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Pushing Back Against the Iranian Regime’s Riot Police with a Protester Flashing a Peace Sign to the Camara

Posted on June 20, 2009 by Santi Tafarella

Video from Iran today: Know hope.

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Quote of the Day: The Republicans “put pandering to their right wing above American national security”

Posted on June 18, 2009 by Santi Tafarella

Les Gelb today: “Republican leadership calls for Obama to condemn Iran’s election results and speak out for the demonstrators shows no knowledge of Iran whatsoever. If he did so, America would become the issue in Iran, not Ahmadinejad, and we … Continue reading →

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“Yes We Can” Goes Global? The Election of Barack Obama, His Cairo Speech, and Now What’s Happening in Iran

Posted on June 11, 2009 by Santi Tafarella

What’s happening in Iran? Andrew Sullivan promotes an interesting theory: The messianic radicalism of Bush sustained the messianic radicalism of Ahmadinejad. Obama’s election, as many of us hoped, broke that cycle and allowed for Iran’s opposition to re-emerge without looking … Continue reading →

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Obama Conspiracy Theories “live within the computer and they fester in people’s minds”: After the Abortion Doctor and Holocaust Museum Shootings, Shepard Smith Worries About Obama’s Assassination by Far-Right Crazies in a Discussion with Heidi Beirich of the Southern Poverty Law Center

Posted on June 10, 2009 by Santi Tafarella

Is the authoritarian right on its way to a noxious repeat of the militia movement culture that culminated, in the 1990s, in the Oklahoma City bombing—only this time with the target being our first African American president? After the U.S. Holocaust … Continue reading →

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The Grassy Knoll of the Far-Right Mind? After the Murder of Dr. George Tiller, Is President Barack Obama in Greater Danger of Assassination?

Posted on June 8, 2009 by Santi Tafarella

The grassy knoll of the far-right mind? Salon today has a rather long article listing and discussing various right-wing Obama hysteria claims, such as: Obama is the Antichrist; he is determined to take away your guns; and he is trying to flood … Continue reading →

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The Full Text of Obama’s Cairo Speech (June 4, 2009)

Posted on June 4, 2009 by Santi Tafarella

I am honored to be in the timeless city of Cairo, and to be hosted by two remarkable institutions. For over a thousand years, Al-Azhar has stood as a beacon of Islamic learning, and for over a century, Cairo University … Continue reading →

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Supreme Court Justice Nominee Sonia Sotomayor: Win-Win for President Obama, Lose-Lose for Sotomayor’s Opponents?

Posted on May 26, 2009 by Santi Tafarella

National Journal’s Stuart Taylor deconstructs the politics of President Barack Obama’s Sonia Sotomayor nomination here. Money quote: The choice of Sotomayor also puts Republicans and moderate Democrats who may be deeply unhappy with her jurisprudence in a lose-lose position, and Obama … Continue reading →

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Utah GOP Governor Jon Huntsman Feels the Love: Obama Peels Off Another Republican, This Time for Ambassador to China

Posted on May 16, 2009 by Santi Tafarella

    What will Rush Limbaugh say about this!?! I mean, WTF!?! Money quote from the AP: “I knew that because Jon is not only a Republican, but a Republican who co-chaired my opponent’s campaign for the presidency this wouldn’t … Continue reading →

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On Torture, Cheney Implicates Bush

Posted on May 10, 2009 by Santi Tafarella

On Face the Nation today: SCHIEFFER: How much did President Bush know specifically about the methods that were being used? We know that you– and you have said– that you approved this… CHENEY: Right. SCHIEFFER: … somewhere down the line. … Continue reading →

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Peace, a Palestinian State, and the Bombing of Iranian Nuclear Facilities: All Netanyahu is Saying is Give Bombs a Chance?

Posted on April 9, 2009 by Santi Tafarella

Could the bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities by Israel lead to peace in the Middle East and the establishment of a Palestinian state? That’s the curious thesis of David Samuels today in Slate. David Samuels sees an Israeli attack on Iran … Continue reading →

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