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Obama’s First Address to the Nation

Saturday, January 24, 2009

Obama has updated the weekly radio address. It’s on youtube now. Sounds like he’s listened to Al Gore on the power grid issue. Isn’t it great to have a president who knows what he’s talking about, and makes sense to boot?

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Obama does bad

Friday, January 23, 2009

Yesterday I noted that Obama had done a great thing in dismantling a portion of the Bush cloak of secrecy be repealing Bush’s executive order on presidential records. Today, I’m sorry to report (you won’t see much about this in the press, I would suspect) that he has taken a huge step down the Bushian […]

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Obama does good

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Somewhat lost in the flurry of presidential orders of the last few days is this one, revoking Bush’s executive order allowing incumbent presidents and ex-presidents to exercise absolute control over access to their records held in the National Archives. Bush’s order went so far as to allow a president to exercise control from beyond the […]

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Inauguration Day in Groton

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

It has been an almost entirely satisfying day, at least for those of us who watched on television. Bush is gone. The speech was good, though not one for the ages. For those on the front lines, braving the cold and the crowds, the reports filtering in suggest that the folks in charge of crowd […]

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Where is Obama going on torture and war crimes

Monday, January 12, 2009

Most commentators I’ve read interpret Obama’s statements yesterday regarding torture, in response to a question from George Stephanopoulos, pretty much put paid to any notion that an Obama government will go after the evildoers. That’s likely true, but we shouldn’t give up hope quite yet. Here’s the exchange: OBAMA: We’re still evaluating how we’re going […]

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Obama’s Vietnam

Friday, January 2, 2009

A case can be made that the best President this country has had, since Roosevelt, was Lyndon Johnson. It’s more than arguable that Kennedy did not have the political skills needed to get the Civil Rights bills through Congress, not to mention Medicare and a host of other initiatives. Johnson had all the tools to […]

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Not buying

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Obama has responded to the fury from the gay and lesbian community, (not to mention the fury of those who believe women have the right to choose to have an abortion) at the choice of Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at the Inauguration. (Via Salon): Let me start by talking about my own views. […]

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Righteous anger

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

What is it about Democrats? Republicans bend over backwards to mollify their base, even if they don’t deliver for it. Bush went so far as to talk in code to the religious whackjobs who he was conning. So what does Obama do? He hasn’t even been sworn in and he has offended a major constituency, […]

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Good Choice for Labor

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

This should be good news for progressive types who were worried that Obama is being too centrist. According to Steve Benen at the Washington Monthly: Mary Beth Maxwell, founding executive director of American Rights at Work, is reportedly being considered for Labor Secretary. It’s plausible to assume that she shares the objectives of the group […]

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Hillary to Foggy Bottom

Monday, December 1, 2008

Hillary Clinton is now officially the Secretary of State designate. This has been the occasion for much bloviating among the punditocracy. Having been christened an “every day pundit” during my first and (hopefully) last talk radio appearance, I feel compelled to weigh in. Personally, I think she’s a good choice, and I doubt very much […]

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