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Hillary Clinton in 2012?
Tweet Share on Facebook January 29, 2010 Comment (37)While I think it would be fabulous, I cannot see [Hillary Clinton] challenging [Barack Obama] unless he stepped down and endorsed her ["A Hillary Clinton Primary Challenge to Obama in 2012?" usnews.com]. Hillary is too loyal to want to rip the party apart. Despite the disgusting way she was treated by the press in 2008, if she really wanted to rap the party over the head for its Obama-haze, she would have fought on to the convention floor—as was her right, since they were so close in delegates. For many reasons, I can't see her running in 2012 unless she is literally drafted to do so.
Comment by Ani of NY
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Obama’s Agenda
Tweet Share on Facebook January 29, 2010 Comment (3)We voted for [Obama] knowing his agenda. Now we're going to criticize him for actually trying to follow through?
Clint of TX in response to Public Opinion:
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Obama Vs. the Supreme Court
Tweet Share on Facebook January 28, 2010 Comment (16)Supreme Court [justices] have a history of building castles of legal cards to suit their own agendas ["Alito's 'Not True' Was Out of Line; Court Deserves Obama Smack," usnews.com]. This case is no different and the dissenting opinion is well stated here. [Sam] Alito is entitled to a personal opinion. He is not, however, entitled to throw out the means by which we defend ourselves from coercive tactics heavily funded by special interests and at variance to the public good. A test of common sense: A corporation is not a person. Is that a true statement or not? If true, no amount of legal finagling can modify it without failing the first rule of applied law: logic.
Comment by D. Acres of WA
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White House Spending Freeze
Tweet Share on Facebook January 27, 2010 CommentFreezing spending now, if it even happens, is shutting the barn door way too late.
Brad of TX in response to Public Opinion:
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Living Without Luxuries
Tweet Share on Facebook January 27, 2010 CommentI genuinely find this an encouraging change in our society—assuming that it is real and not just imagined through statistics ["21 Things We're Learning to Live Without," usnews.com]. Let's say these are lifetime changes. How will that really affect our culture? Will we teach this new lifestyle to future generations and preserve something new (not really new but to our culture over the past 40 years), or will we slowly slip away and forget what we went through and within a generation or two be back to the old ways? Those who experienced the Great Depression picked up similar traits, though I suspect they had less to give up than we do today. However, we still arrived at this same mess, less than 100 years later. How can we make this change a part of our real and permanent culture? That, I think, is the most pertinent question derived from thinking about the topic discussed in this article.
Comment by Justin of FL
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Obama and Jury Duty
Tweet Share on Facebook January 26, 2010 Comment (4)This country is on the brink of disaster and there are literally millions in Chicago who can potentially cover his empty slot in the jury box ["President Obama Should Not Skip Out on Jury Duty," usnews.com]. Not to mention the implications of having the president of the United States, whom everyone knows was a lawyer, on a jury. He could casually mention to the other jurors something to the effect of "he most likely did it" and it would cause an immediate bias. So now we have hypothetically compromised the court system, wasted the president's time needlessly, and caused an unfair trial while putting an unfair spotlight on someone's trial! If he had accepted, he would be criticized for wasting time as "no modern court has had a sitting president on a jury," and now he is being criticized for missing jury duty because of the State of the Union address! That's not a small excuse or "just saying no"; that's a valid reason to decline. If you don't respect the president it's one thing, but understand that his position is more important than yours or anyone else's in this country.
Comment by Vincent of NY
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Rick Santelli and the Tea Party Movement
Tweet Share on Facebook January 26, 2010 Comment (2)[Rick] Santelli just threw gas on a fire that was already burning. He didn't start [the tea party movement], he just helped to spread it.
Chris of IL in response to Washington Whispers:
Rick Santelli Still Ranting -
Obama’s Popularity Plunge
Tweet Share on Facebook January 22, 2010 Comment (3)Sadly, the basic attacks and criticisms that were part of the campaign arguments in 2008 against Barack Obama as president are all becoming self-evident ["The Incredible Deflation of Barack Obama," usnews.com]. I think President Obama is a good man; he is just not up to the job and has surrounded himself with people who do not act in the basic interest of America. The 2010 midterm elections will begin to correct all this. Hopefully the damage done and yet to be done will be reversible by the free market society that America was founded on. I really thought we learned a lesson with Jimmy Carter, [but] apparently not.
Comment by Bill of NY
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Campaign Finance and Corrupt Politicians
Tweet Share on Facebook January 22, 2010 Comment (2)I guess now we will find out which corporations own which politicians. Then we will know who to vote out of office!
Barry W. Shook of IN in response to John A. Farrell:
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Obama’s Legacy
Tweet Share on Facebook January 21, 2010 Comment (1)[Obama's] desire to achieve a "legacy" needs to be tempered by the realities of day-to-day governing.
Brian Smith of CA in response to Public Opinion:
How Can Obama Deal With Healthcare?
