Barack Obama
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- Romney Flip Flips Again, Chooses Biden as VP
- The Winklevoss Twins of Getting Bin Laden
- In Response To Those Disturbed By Celebrating on the Death of Bin Laden
- Paul Ryan's America
- Right Wing Mythology
- The use of propaganda to re-define the political landscape
- Health Care Reform: A Test of Whether the Country Could Tackle Its Most Vexing, Long-Term, Systematic Problems
- How Lawless and Increasingly Violent is the Arizona-Mexico Border? Not Very.
- Must-Reads of the Week: SWAT, Google's News Plans, MTA Motto, Peanuts, Tea Party Feminism, Republican Pravda, Fiscal Hangover, New York's Tyranny, Brooks on the Military, and Facebook Backlash
- How the Supreme Court Nomination Process Rewards the Type of People Who Defer to Presidential Authority
- Must-Reads of the Week: The Obama 20-somethings, Graham's Cojones, Fannie/Freddie, Naive Conspiracy Theorists, Saban, Obama=Socialism, Political Imitations, Underdogs, Lost!, and Julián Castro
- Connecting the Dots on Epistemic Closure
- Must-Reads of the Week: American Power, Inequality, 1 Billion Heartbeats, Hacking Life, Anthora Cups, Structural Deficit, Financial Doomsedays and Crises, China, the Tea Party's Views on Immigration, and Lady Gaga
- Must-Reads of the Week: Obama's Accomplishments and Diplomatic Brand, Facebook, Epistemic Closure, Financial Reform, Our Long-Term Fiscal Crisis and Problem-Solving Capacity, and Mike Allen
- How To Identify a Member of the Tea Party
- Must-Reads of the Week: Diabolical Republicans, Strategic Patience, Weiner, China, New York City, -20 Questions, & Glenn Beck's Obsession With Woodrow Wilson
- The Populist Right Isn't a Political Movement. (cont.)
- The Populist Right Isn't a Political Movement.
- Must-Reads of the Week: Nukes, Inconsistencies, Graphing the Economic Crisis, Half-Hookers, Palin 2012, Mailer's Wife, & Complex Business Models
- Craziness in My Email
- Government Is Good!
- Evaluating Mitt Romney’s 2012 Candidacy (cont.)
- Dammit, Reddit! You know I sorta love you, but sometimes...
- Evaluating Mitt Romney's 2012 Candidacy
- Must-Reads of the Week: Google/China, Liberal American Exceptionalism, The Failed War on Drugs, Defending the Individual Mandate, Counter Counter-Insurgency, Idiocrats, and Men Did It!
- Our Unhinged Debate on Health Care Reform (cont.)
- Liberalism and the Punishments of the Free Market
- Copyright and the White House Photostream
- We are not bound to win, but we are bound to be true.
- Worth a Thousand Words
- Obama's Self-Interest Lies With the American People's; the Republican Party's Self-Interest Does Not.
- The Unhinged Anger on the Right Leads to An Ill-Advised and Unhedged Bet Against Reform.
- Must-Reads of the Week: China's distortionary exchange rate policy, Mario Savio, David Brooks, Ezra Klein, & Dana Priest's The Mission
- Must-Reads of the Week: A history lesson, Reconciling Chart, Theism, Starbucks, the New Global Middle Class, the Beijing Consensus, and the Traitorous Supreme Court
- Does the real Krauthammer believe Obama is trying to destroy America or not?
- Obama's Health Care Reforms are morally decent technocratic improvements
- Paul Ryan's Principled Objections to Obama's Health Care Reforms
- Must-Reads During This Week: Perfect Storm for Health Reform, Making Controversy, Cyberwar, Limiting Government, Liz Cheney's Al Qaeda Connection, George Will, and the Coffee Party
- Obama's pragmatic ambitions
- The Difference Between Obama's Health Care Reform and the Republican's Health Care Reform
- Obama Chooses Policy Over Politics
- What Obama Is Trying to Accomplish With the Bipartisan Health Care Summit
- How the Media Undermines Civility
- Why the Republicans Don't Want to Go to the Obama Health Care Summit They've Been Demanding
- "To give you that reference, to call you a soldier gives you far too much stature."
- Must-Reads of the Week: Ezra Klein, Sleeper Issue of 2010, Success, Virtual Insanity, Abdulmutallab, Obstruction, and Madden
- Let's keep all that talk of a failed first year in office to a minimum.
- Obama: "I do not accept second place for the United States of America"
- Understanding President Obama and the budget deficit
- This lede bugs me...
- Americans Want a Second Bush-Cheney Administration?
- Obama: You're Calling Me a 'Bolshevik' for Using Republican Ideas for Democratic Ends
- Must-Reads of the Week: Obama (mythical figure), Democratic Talking Points, Health Care Misinformation & Defenses of Reform, & Musical Predictions
- Defending Obama's First Year in Office
- An excellent State of the Union
- Before You Watch Obama's Speech Tonight...
- Story-Teller-In-Chief
- Obama versus Left-Wing and Right-Wing Populism
- Worrying About Downside Risk
- Misunderstanding Race and the Under-30 Voters
- Buck Up, Democrats!
- The Economist's Podcast Entitled "The Democrats lose Massachusetts" Is "an insult to people's intelligence."
- Governing Ambition Versus Political Theater
- Draw Your Own Conclusions
- Why Scott Brown's Election is Good for the Nation and the Democratic Party
- The Future of the Tea Party (cont.)
- The Future of the Tea Party
- In Praise of Tinkering: Health Care Reform
- The Obvious Truths Neglected in Responses to the Christmas Bomber
- David Brooks Is Writing a Damn Good Column These Days
- Get It Through Your Heads: No President Can Keep You Safe
- Obama's Grass-Roots Machine
- The Best Proven Defense Against Terrorism
- Greenwald Jumps the Shark?
- Today in Health Care
- Ezra Klein: Health Care Blogger Extraordinare
- Obama's Dramatic Showdown Leads to Climate Deal
- Paul Krugman Attempts to Fill Ted Kennedy's Shoes
- Glenn Greenwald and the Politics of Ressentiment
- The Left's Odd Abandoment of Obama: Matt Taibbi
- You don't have to be happy about supporting this bill. But you should support it.
- The Left's Odd Abandoment of Obama: Glenn Greenwald
- Real Fiscal Responsibility & Deficit Politics: Democrats
- Kashkari, 2009's Ideas, Richard Milhouse Obama, Frum!, Chinese-American Trade Imbalance, Obama's Nobel, and Charborg
- Political Number Games
- A Unified Theory of Obama
- The Republican's Generational Warfare
- The Un-American Pledge, Nietzsche (Republican), Islamists, Anti-Statism, Health Care Reform (again), and Abortion Politics
- Dueling Op-Eds
- NBC's Dr. Nancy Defends Doctors in Breast Cancer Debate: "We are on the verge of becoming a scientifically illiterate country"
- Health Care Reform is the most significant effort at cost control in a generation, if not ever.
- 2parse.com Presents Exclusive Pictures of Obama Bowing to More Anti-American Groups
- Chinese Racism, Andrew Ross Sorkin's Power, Andrew Sullivan's Catholicism, America's Decline (?), and Megan Fox's Savvy Self-Creation
- Remembering Those Who Were Killed While the Pundits Glorify the Gunman
- Fisking Camille Paglia
- Health Care Reform and Its Unintended Consequences
- Limbaugh claims Obama is a radical leftist because he supports programs Republicans proposed a generation ago.
- The Escalating War Over Judicial Appointments
- Karzai gave in because he knew Obama was serious while Bush had not been
- The New Obama Paradox
- Why Do Republicans Oppose Net Neutrality?
- An Empire or a Just Society?
- Must-Reads of Last Week: Data Warfare, Gay Rights, McCaughey, Summers, and Yankee Tickets
- Reacting to Obama's Nobel Prize
- Maintaining the Fragile Right Wing Coalition
- Must-Reads: Uighurs, Gay in Middle School, Vidal, Larison, the Public Option, and the End of Pax Americana
- Matthew Continetti on the Health Care Debate: A Nihilist's Defense of the Right Wing Hardline
- Glenn Greenwald's Civil Libertarian Propaganda
- Must Reads of the Past Two Weeks! (Extended Edition): J Street, NPH, Liberalism, Topless, Colombian Hippos, Grassroots, 1990s Reunion, Insuring Illegals, and the Iranian Time Bomb
- Obama’s Dangerous Hypocrisy on Prisoners at Guantánamo and Bagram
- Protests Against Liberals Running the Gov't (cont.)
- These Protests Aren't Against Big Government, But About Liberals Running the Government
- Senator Grassley Talks Out Of Both Sides of His Mouth On Health Care Reform
- A Health Care Plan More Impressive Than Perfection: Something That Might Pass
- Shadow Government: TownHall.com warns of a scary Obama!
- Must-Reads of the Week: Krugman v. Ferguson, Ted Kennedy again, Hank Paulson, Sedaris, and Phreaking
- The Lessons of 1993/1994 (cont.)
- John McCain's Cowardly Politics
- "Fixing" The National Conversation
- Weekly Must-Reads: Disappearing, the Super-Rich, Harry Potter, the Public Option, Craziness, and Abortion
- Tricking Us Into Real Health Care Reform
- The Selfishness of Reform's Opponents
- Health Care Lie #492*: A Government Takeover of 16% of the Economy
- The Caricature of Rahm Emanuel
- Obama's Promise Was To Break the Hold the Idiocrats Have On Our Society
- They called Medicare and Social Security "tyranny" too.
- The Maddow-Coburn Debate on Meet the Press; and the Necessity of Violence
- Right wingers, desperate to return to power, turn to the man they demonized, Saul Alinsky
- Ezra Klein's Mood Swings
- Colbert: "The bill's a thousand pages! There's no way of know what's in it!"
- Chuck Norris says "Obamacare" will result in "home intrusion" and socialist "indoctrination" of your children. So it must be true.
- An Encroaching Technocracy
- Stopping the Democrats from Descending to Sarah Palin's Level
- Our Unhinged Debate on Health Care Reform
- Gog et Magog, Hypomania in the White House, Reuters!, The Most Interesting Man in the World, and the NRLC
- Military Envy
- Lies About Health Care Reform
- Obama and the Technocrats
- Bill Maher Takes On The Birthers
- What Do Matt Yglesias, Ezra Klein, and Che Guevera Have in Common?
- In Case You Missed It: Best Reads of the Week on Whining Conservatives, Internet Battles, Peru, The Single Life, and the Unborn
- Is Obama Leading Us To A Technocratic Dystopia?
- The Libertarian-Democratic Alliance Will Survive
- Stop ObamaCare Before Obama Murders Your Comatose Wife and Infant Daughter!
- Health Care Reform: Choice and Security
- A Leap of Faith on Health Care
- The Federal Reserve, Henry Gates, Popular Policies, Health Care, Krugman on Cap and Trade, and High Times
- Our Wall-Street Run Health Care
- The Intoxicating Effect of Fatigue
- The Option of Doing Nothing on Health Care
- The Lesson of 1993/1994
- Sick of all this naivete about Obama
- Campbell Brown Does the Best Journalism Ever!
- McNamara, Cuomo, Bearing Witness, Iran's Bomb, Sri Lanken Victories, and Historical Dignity
- An idea for a new health care public service announcement
- Organizing a Grass Roots Movement for Health Care Reform
- The Honeymoon Is Over
- Explaining Obama's "Double Standard" Regarding Iran and Honduras
- Matt Yglesias's Prejudiced Caricature of Catholicism
- The Obama Doctrine
- Obama Hasn't Betrayed The Gay Rights Movement (Yet)
- A Pink Elephant Through the Looking Glass
- The Incoherence of Ajami
- How Obama Uses Civility and Respect as Political Weapons
- A Generational Bargain (in which we are getting screwed)
- Are The Pieces Aligning on Health Care?
- A New Phase in the Culture War: National Security
- Biden Says Talks With Iran To Go Forward
- Mirror Neurons, Iran's Fissures, Yglesian Insights, The Deficit Crisis, Rare Minerals
- Iran's Green "Revolution"
- Obama's Grand Bargain (as a necessary response to the deficit problem)
- The Supreme Court Holds Up the Chrysler Sale
- Closed-Door Hearings
- The Cairo Rapprochement
- Variations on a Theme
- Rewriting the Rules of Capitalism
- "Nobody’s going to wage a tough political battle to give up power."
- Judge Sotomayor
- Stephen Walt's Insights
- Conservative Empathy
- Obama and the Rule of Law
- Cheney Is Preemptively Politicizing The Next Attack
- The intellectual deterioration of the conservative movement
- Fox News uses Nazi propaganda to defend torture, attack Obama
- Theories of the Financial Crisis: Animal Spirits
- Equality of Result versus Equality of Opportunity
- Andrew C. McCarthy's Self-Righteous Sophistry
- The Value of a Safety Net
- Replacing Souter
- Obama's 100 Days
- Right-wingers Obsessed About Obama's "Apology Tour"
- When Obama Should Torture Osama
- 3 interesting short essays
- Ten Principles of Liberalism
- Framing the Torture Debate
- Barack Obama Declares the War on Drugs "an utter failure"
- 7 Reasons to Legalize Marijuana
- Jon Stewart Analyzes What Makes Republicans Cry, "Tyranny!"
- A Typically Wrong-headed Krauthammer Column
- The Real Obama Enigma
- Orwellian Tactics
- The Master Plan Always Has Flaws
- Financial Markets : Real Economy (Is There a Proper Balance?)
- Is This Downturn a Crisis of Confidence or a Fundamental Error?
- Joe Campbell: I'm Not a Sexist Because I Disagree With Angie Harmon
- The Obama Doctrine
- Glenn Greenwald uses hyperbole the way other writers use punctuation.
- The Paradox In Organzing For America
- Former Drug Czars Against the War on Drugs
- Obama on the Blogs
- Clive Crook's "Everything For Nothing"
- Jim Cramer Jumps the Shark
- Don't Be Idiots: Stop Talking About the Fairness Doctrine
- Jon Stewart takes on Santelli and the Stock Market
- Move Over Joe the Plumber...
- The 7 Layers of Opposing Obama's Response to the Financial Crisis
- We Cannot Pass the Buck
- Piercing the White House Bubble
- The Story That Tells You Everything You Need To Know About US-Pakistan Relations
- A Summary of the Civil Libertarian Case for a "War" Against Terrorism
- Ross Douthat's Snap Judgment
- Former Drug Czar McCaffrey Doesn't Care If Marijuana Is Legalized
- The Partisan Eruption During Obama's State of the Union
- Mechanical Economics
- The Larger Narrative
- Jindal's Soapbox
- A Confession of Love To The Paradox That Is America
- Dubya's China Legacy
- The Hypocrisy of the Traders' Revolt
- Andrew Sullivan's Warning Shot
- The Games Obama Plays
- What Are Republican Principles Again?
- A Scientific Approach To The Economic Crisis
- Interpeting Obama's Stimulus Strategy
- Friedman is annoying, but essentially correct
- Obama's Long Game
- The Abuse of the State Secrets Privilege
- The Obama I Remember
- Greenwald's Rhetorical Tics
- Weekend Update: Obama Screwed Up; So Did Kellogs
- Why I'm Confident About Obama (Still)
- The Last Thing We Need Is A Liberal Scalia
- The Back of Obama's Hand
- What's Wrong With the Stimulus Plan
- Obama's Grand Bargain
- A Question About "E-Mail to the Chief"
- The Populist Party Blog
- Fair-Minded Yglesias
- Galvanized By Sexual Panic
- Why It Should Be A 'War' Against Terrorism
- Stirring Up Trouble
- Why Liberals Must Embrace the Wars Against Terrorism (cont.)
- Even Worse Than John Roberts
- Al Qaeda versus Obama (again)
- Why Liberals Must Embrace the Wars Against Terrorism
- A Tortured Plot Device
- I think he overestimates his ability to get people to put aside fundamental differences.
- Distractions
- Caroline Kennedy (cont. again)
- An Ambitious Presidency
- Law as a Guide Rather than an Obstacle in National Security
- A Defense of Indiscretion (cont.)
- Signs We're Back in the 1950s
- Obama Throws a Snowball
- The Blagojevich Scandal
- In Defense of Indiscretion
- The Generation That Sucked
- The Biggest Decision Obama Will Make
- The Serendipitousness Effect
- The Detroit Investment Group
- Fear in the GOP Caucus
- The Glaring Idiocy of Political Reporters
- Who's Paying to Promote RFK, Jr. for Senate?
- Nuclear versus Wind
- Health Care's Place in Obamanomics
- Jonah Goldberg is Shocked
- The Manufactured Fairness Doctrine Controversy
- Political Catholicism and the Obama Apocalpyse
- Bringing Back the Fairness Doctrine
- The Anatomy of an Obama Revolution
- Bipartisan Corruption
- The Magic of Dish-Washing
- Lincoln's Advice on the Detroit Bailout
- Why Hillary Clinton Should Not Be Secretary of State
- Lieberman
- What's Next: Secretaries of State and Defense
- Reclaiming America
- Your Excuse for Doing Less Than You Could
- The Scowcroft Conspiracy
- The Surge that Took Down the Red Cross
- Obama & Trade
- Words of Advice from an Illinois Politician
- Which Emanuel Brother Are You?
- Krugman's Hope: Franklin Delano Obama