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By WeNeedObama - Tuesday, January 6th, 2009 at 12:31 PM
[Cross-Posted on my New Blog, Library Grape.]
The Obama team made what I consider to be a political masterstroke yesterday by announcing their selection of respected former Congressman Leon Panetta to head the CIA.
Although somewhat mixed, the reactions from the intelligence community have included a lot of praise for the Panetta pick:
Former inte more...
By WeNeedObama - Friday, September 5th, 2008 at 1:28 PM
Many people over the last several months have asked me why I am so worked up over this election. Prior to November of last year, I had switched off any interest in politics and hadn't much cared about national elections for, oh, something like 10+ years. My answer to the question always involves two important elements.
The first element more...
By WeNeedObama - Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008 at 8:32 PM
As the furor over all of the new revelations about how little Sarah Palin was vetted by the McCain campaign builds, I just heard Republican South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford on MSNBC offer the latest potential lame excuse for why McCain didn't vet her properly:
Any of us as public figures have a public record and a public life. So, the fa more...
By WeNeedObama - Monday, June 23rd, 2008 at 11:58 AM
[Cross-posted on my blog.] Please digg this story here. Obama pledged Sunday to close the so-called Enron Loophole.
As a bit of background, the Enron Loophole is a provision that was
slipped into the Commodities Futures Modernization Act that exempted
energy trading on electronic platforms from regulation and oversight more...
By WeNeedObama - Friday, June 20th, 2008 at 6:25 PM
I am proud of Obama for standing up against McCain's latest ineffectual pander.Just like McCain's absurd "gas tax holiday" proposal (which all economists agree would save Americans either nothing or $28 on average), McCain's recent proposal to open up America's coastal waters to offshore oil drilling operations (which is, to boot, a 180-degree flip more...
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