I have written often about the disappointment I’ve felt about President Obama. The disappointments included his failure to do anything about “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” his reluctance to make recess appointments, his active opposition to Senate bills that would have allowed drugs to be purchased from other countries, his ambivalence on global warming, and, of [...]
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In comparison to all of the sexist remarks that are made each day, this one is pretty low on the scale. But it’s the type of sexist remark that has always bothered me. Yesterday, after meeting with Republicans in a worthless attempt to find more bipartisanship, President Obama had an unscheduled news conference with reporters. [...]
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In the wake of the Massachusetts debacle, everyone is saying that Barack Obama now has to decide whether to “go populist” or move even more to the center. As a liberal/progressive, I obviously think he should start looking out for the people rather than the corporations. If he takes that strategy, it will obviously take [...]
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On January 4, Emily wrote about the recent hanging of a black doll with Barack Obama’s name on a main road in the Plains, Georgia, home town of former President Jimmy Carter. In September, there were many accusations made about how Rep. Joe Wilson’s shout of “You lie” during Obama’s speech to Congress were racist. [...]
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I think this is the saddest I’ve felt about the Obama administration. During the campaign, President Obama promised to fight the drug industry so that Americans can get cheaper prescription medicine by importing it from countries like Canada. He said: “We’ll tell the pharmaceutical companies ‘thanks, but no, thanks’ for the overpriced drugs — drugs [...]
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We liberals have continued to be disappointed by Barack Obama. Sure, there were signs during the campaign that he would not be as liberal as we hoped, but we could still hold out hope that he would veer more to the left after the election was over and he was no longer tied to centrist [...]
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As President Obama prepares to go on TV tonight to announce the escalation of the “war” in Afghanistan, most people have made up their minds about whether escalation is the right move. For me, it is a terrible decision since I agree with many that it is another Iraq with no way to “win,” no [...]
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It’s great that President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize! But what about including women in his weekly basketball games. The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank, under the title of “So Much for Shattering the Glass Backboard,” reports that: President Obama hosts a basketball game at the White House on Thursday evening for Cabinet secretaries and [...]
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President Obama’s new Surgeon General nominee, Regina Benjamin, attends Mass regularly and has received an award from Pope Benedict. Yet because she probably has the same position as Obama on reproductive health issues, she might be derailed by the Catholic Church. According to a White House spokesman, Benjamin’s position is that “Like [Obama], she believes [...]
Filed under: Politics, Religion, Reproductive Rights | Tagged: Abortion, Barack Obama, public policy, Religion, Reproductive Rights | 3 Comments »
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