By Robert Parry, Consortium News. Posted August 28, 2008. The price tag for John McCain’s war lust would mean virtually every other national priority would be short-changed or neglected. In judging the shape of a future John McCain presidency, there are already plenty of dots that are easy to connect. They reveal an image of [...]
Archive for August, 2008
29 Aug
Obama’s Progressive, Populist Agenda: “Now Is Not the Time for Small Plans”
By Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet. Posted August 29, 2008. Obama has shown the pathway out of the decades-long, ruinous mess conservative rule has created. Barack Obama opened the final phase of the 2008 presidential election by unveiling an unabashedly populist, progressive agenda to renew America’s promise in the 21st century. Speaking at the final night of [...]
29 Aug
Alaska Chooses Largest Gold Mine Over Clean Water
By Kari Lydersen, AlterNet. Posted August 29, 2008. Alaska is one step closer to approving Pebble Mine, which threatens the world’s largest salmon fishery and native communities. The spawning of salmon is something of a primal, epic drama. After spending their life of several years in the sea, the fish make their way up streams [...]
29 Aug
Bush Steps Up Fight Over US Congressional Authority
AfterDowningStreet The Bush administration is raising the stakes in a court fight that could change the balance of power between the White House and the U.S. Congress. Justice Department lawyers said Wednesday that they will soon ask a federal appeals court not to force the president’s top advisers to comply with congressional subpoenas next month. [...]
29 Aug
Public Opinion Snapshot: The Economic Reality of the Past Seven Years
Center for American Progress By Ruy Teixeira | August 29, 2008 The latest income and poverty figures from the Census Bureau show that, while there were some improvements during 2007, the typical family, after seven years of tepid economic ?expansion,? has still not made up the ground it lost in the last recession?unprecedented by historical [...]
29 Aug
Barack Obama’s acceptance speech
DENVER (AP) _ Prepared remarks of Sen. Barack Obama for his address to the Democratic National Convention on Thursday night in Denver, as released by the campaign: To Chairman Dean and my great friend Dick Durbin, and to all my fellow citizens of this great nation: With profound gratitude and great humility, I accept your [...]
29 Aug
Obama’s Grand Speech: Reason for Hope
By David Corn, Mother Jones Online. Posted August 29, 2008. Can an acceptance speech make a difference in an election? This was one with the potential to do so. It was a historic speech on a historic night — in a remarkable setting. A crowd of tens of thousands of Americans, filling an entire stadium [...]
29 Aug
The Second American Revolution
I am avid Obama/Biden fan and will be working very hard to get an administration change in Washington this fall. In my view, another 4 years of the Republicans would be disastrous for our country, our children, grandchildren and the broader world in general. I see this election year as a moment in time when we [...]
27 Aug
‘Barack Obama Is My Candidate’
By Dan Balz Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, August 27, 2008; Page A01 DENVER, Aug. 26 — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton roused the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday night with sharp criticism of Sen. John McCain and a full-throated endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama, her former rival for the party’s nomination, urging Democrats to put [...]
26 Aug
What It Means To Be Progressive
AfterDowningStreet. Submitted by Chip on Tue, 2008-08-26 18:07. What It Means To Be Progressive Think Progress’ guest blogger is John Podesta, the President and CEO of the Center for American Progress Action Fund. What is progressivism? We all have our own answers to this question. But it’s hard to beat Maury Maverick’s famous — and [...]
