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A Great President
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A political blog covering the 2008 Presidential Election and its Candidates.
Recent Posts
New Year’s resolution for Guantánamo | Matthew Harwood
Here’s a New Year’s resolution for the White House: uphold the rule of law by prosecuting or releasing the Gitmo detainees At first glance, it seems reasonable to conclude the Obama administration did its best in 2009 to restore the US c...
Crotch bomber v shoe bomber | Michael Tomasky
It’s now pretty obvious that this Christmas bombing story has the potential to do some political damage to the administration. That’s why Obama himself put out the negative information yesterday that “a component of our intelligenc...
Arlen Specter lets the truth slip out | Michael Tomasky
Fascinating little nugget I noticed while I was gone: Arlen Specter, the now-Democratic senator from Pennsylvania, was on Fox News Sunday morning and mentioned apparently in passing that the GOP plotted to stop bipartisanship very early on, before ...
Christmas presents for bankers | Dean Baker
The US financial sector drove the economy into a ditch, and the White House is still throwing piles of cash at the problem On Christmas night in 1776, George Washington led a surprise attack on a group of Hessian mercenaries employed by the British ...
It’s Gitmo up north | Olivia Hampton
Moving the remaining detainees from Guantánamo to an empty prison in Illinois won’t solve President Obama’s problems Once again, President Obama has managed to anger both the right and the left. This time, it’s not his contentious...
Dear Naomi Klein, please stop making my work difficult | Natasha Chart
Describing the climate debt owed by wealthy countries as ‘reparations’ makes it impossible for the US to take part Last Friday I was in the Fresh Air Centre for bloggers and new media at the COP15 summit in Copenhagen, organized by the T...

