Where Are Obama’s Aspirations?
I share in Kevin Drum’s Obama Schizophrenia, but I’ve had it for quite a long time.
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The Era of Small Ideas Is Over
President Obama outlined his domestic agenda last night in a pseudo State of the Union address. He spoke of the the failed policies that brought about the current crisis in banking and housing. Obama...
What’s Next?
As a dramatic year comes to a close, it is often a great opportunity to examine where we are and where we’re going. The stock market has seen huge surges and multi-year lows. Unemployment...
6 Days Until B-Day
So apparently Obama is 20 years and 6 days older than me. He turned 47 today. It’s weird that a possible President is that relatively close to my age, that he was born in...
A Knock On My Door
So Obama’s organizing fellowship program – a somewhat glorified way of calling upon volunteers for his summer-long voter registration drive – actually reached the doorway of my own apartment this weekend! A skinny, smiling...
Who’s the flip-flopper?
The Associated Press in an “analysis” piece where no analysis was actually conducted, proceded to blast Barack Obama for alleged “centrist positioning” that “gives the GOP ammo” to make the flip-flopping charge that undermined...
Moving Patriotism Beyond Symbols
Barack Obama began a week-long Americana theme (timed for July 4th) today with a speech on what patriotism means to him. it is this essential American idea – that we are not constrained by...
A “Nudge” in the Right Direction
George F. Will wrote an interesting article for Newsweek describing a philosophy two Obama advisers have espoused called “libertarian paternalism“. Thaler and Sunstein correctly assume that people are busy, their lives are increasingly complicated...