President Obama’s First Week: A
I’ll give him bonus points just for getting in there. And within a week, he started to dismantle the Bush administration by a wide-ranging stimulus package; closing down Guantanamo Bay; releasing federal funds for abortion; slicing some of the military’s more fanciful Star Wars projects; and writing a letter to Iran’s madman prez, with at least the symbolism of diplomacy, which in turn will hopefully align swaths of the world with us again. So good work, Mr. President! Now, about the prison-industrial complex and the War on Drugs…
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January 30, 2009 at 10:32 pm
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Who Saved Obama’s Life?
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January 31, 2009 at 7:40 pm
I didn’t know Baby Obama’s life was in danger…That tends to happen later with children as the Pro-Life organizations don’t seem to care much about providing food, shelter and education for all those newborns. Then they’re on their own.
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February 1, 2009 at 3:00 am
Something I just haven’t seen anywhere, Christian, is the symbolic importance of Holder as AG. Our top cop is a black man. That means The Man is the man. Whatever his centrist policies may turn out to be, just the sea change in the racial/psychological landscape of this country, in particular with our prison industrial complex, is immense.
February 1, 2009 at 7:38 pm
We’ll see. Obama has mentioned he doesn’t want medical marijuana raids but Dems have a bad habit of getting tougher with our draconian drug laws, like Clinton. But we shall see…
February 3, 2009 at 10:16 pm
Did you read that article about Obama’s style in the Oval Office – love it: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/29/us/politics/29whitehouse.html
February 3, 2009 at 11:22 pm
Thanks, that’s cool. He definitely brings a new cultural vibe to the WH.