On Afghanistan, an Audience of One
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on November 15th, 2009 5:31 am by HL
On Afghanistan, an Audience of One
Richard Reeves, RealClearPolitics
LOS ANGELES — Most of what you read, see and hear about Afghanistan is not meant for you. The words, optimistic and pessimistic, right and wrong, all the leaks, all the numbers of troop estimates, costs and polls are aimed at an audience of one: the president.It is very hard to get to chat with any president. But any president has to know what is in the big three of American newspapers (or their Web sites): The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal. And those papers right now are filled with shouting and whispering to President Obama. The latest shout, a big one, is…
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Alan Dershowitz, Globe and Mail
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A Recovery for Some
Bob Herbert, New York Times
President Obama’s strongest supporters during the presidential campaign were the young, the black and the poor and they are among those who are being hammered unmercifully in this long and cruel economic downturn that the financial elites are telling us is over.Bob Herbert If the elites are correct, if the Great Recession really is over, then these core supporters of the president are being left far, far behind as are blue-collar workers of every ethnic and political persuasion. Nobody wants to talk seriously about class in America, but the elites are smiling…
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