The Dream is Fading for Obama’s Allies
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on November 23rd, 2009 5:31 am by HL
The Dream is Fading for Obama’s Allies
Tony Allen-Mills, Times of London
Grab an Italian masterpiece for lessMartin IvensWhere am I?Gazing serenely from the Great Wall of China last week, President Barack Obama appeared to be making the most of one of the supreme perks of White House occupancy — a private guided tour of Asia’s most spectacular tourist destination.White House aides exulted that perfectly choreographed pictures of this moment would make front pages around the world. Yet an experience Obama declared to be “magical” turned sour as he returned home to a spreading domestic revolt that is fanning Democratic…
The NEA Reveals Its True Agenda: Power
Visceral Has Its Value
Maureen Dowd, New York Times
WASHINGTONMaureen Dowd It’s easy to dismiss Sarah Palin. She’s back on the trail, with the tumbling hair and tumbling thoughts. The queen of the scenic strip mall known as Wasilla now reigns over thrilled subjects thronging to a politically strategic swath of American strip malls. The conservative celebrity clearly hasn’t boned up on anything, except her own endless odyssey of self-discovery. And she still has that Yoda-like syntax. “And I think more of a concern has been not within the campaign the mistakes that were made, not being able to react to…
Why We Should Leave Afghanistan
Maureen Callahan, New York Post
Comments: 3By MAUREEN CALLAHAN Last Updated: 4:48 AM, November 22, 2009 Posted: 1:02 AM, November 22, 2009
Obama’s Developed Tin Ear on HC Reform
Margery Eagan, Boston Herald
The Senate moved forward on the $848 billion health-care bill this weekend. It wasn't thanks to its chief cheerleader, Barack Obama, but in spite of him.What a mess he's made of the politics here.He's alienated both influential abortion-rights diva Kate Michelman on the left, and wacky Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann on the right. "We don't know how far the government will go in this bureaucracy!" Bachmann said last week about a quasi-government panel's new mammogram recommendations.In the middle are American women thoroughly confused…
