Obama's 21st Century Campaign Is Stuck In the Mid-20th Century

March 18, 2009 RSS Feed Print

By Michael Barone, Thomas Jefferson Street blog

That's the theme of my column in today's Examiner. I'm not writing regularly for them, but I'm happy to be in the company of their regular and of terrific new hires like Byron York and Noemie Emery.

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its amazing that you get 250,000.00 donation from Marriott or their trust fund to your company while they are violating human rights violations.

why in the world would you take money from bill Marriott.

its time to move on or get the IRS involved.

b-h-o

Tarik Nouri of AZ 2:16AM May 28, 2009

Obama is stuck in Campaign mode.

Someone needs to tell him he won the election and it's time to lead.

Larry of CA 5:50PM March 18, 2009

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Michael Barone is a senior writer for U.S.News & World Report and principal coauthor of The Almanac of American Politics. He has written for many publications—including the Economist and the New York Times.

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