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Obama's Organizing Advantage Comes With Its Own Headaches
Amid all of the talk of AIG malfeasance and a pink slip for Timothy Geithner, Democratic organizers have been subtly shilling for President Obama’s budget. Over at MOTHER JONES, David Corn has been consistently asking when and how the Obama administration is going to use its massive grassroots network to flack for this and other…
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White House Easter Will Be Transparent, Web Driven Celebration
The Obama administration is announcing that this year’s traditional Easter egg roll on the South Lawn of the White House will be run in Web 2.0 style. From the news release: For the first time, tickets for the Easter Egg Roll will be distributed online so that more children and families from across the United…
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Crihanna, Again: Is Acting Male as Bad As "Acting White"?
A recent trend piece in the NEW YORK TIMES continued the public parsing of the “Crihanna” debacle. Attitudes toward domestic violence among the teenagers interviewed for the story are disturbingly blasé. From the story: “[Rihanna] probably feels bad that it was her fault, so she took him back.” Her friend nodded. “I don’t think he’ll…
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Washington’s New Black Pack
Read the washingtonpost.com Live Online discussion on WASHINGTON’s NEW BLACK PACK with The Root’s Dayo Olopade. ***** Barack Obama’s historic presidential victory has marked a significant expansion of responsibilities and visibility for people of color working in politics. From the Justice Department to the United Nations to the new Office of Urban Policy, Obama has empowered…
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Iraq Let America Be America Again
I spent the afternoon that the war in Iraq started in a mosque in Paris. When the news of the invasion broke, my group, taking tea in the café within the compound, fled. We had already tried to shed our American accents—tensions had been running high for the previous months, as a Metro bioterror scare…
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AIG Builds Moat to Thwart Populist Outrage
As if Wednesday’s public Congressional flogging of AIG head Edward M. Liddy weren’t enough, pitchforks, frothing mouths and Molotovs are still a concern for the insurance giant. A leaked AIG internal memo suggests the corporation has finally noticed the outrage (from Barack Obama, no less!) directed at its brazen pillaging of the US Treasury. And AIG is not the kind of company…
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Courage Under Fire
On Sept. 14, 2001, Congresswoman Barbara Lee took a stand. In the hectic, fear-filled days after the 9/11 attacks on the United States, she was the only member of the House of Representatives to vote against the Authorization for the Use of Military Force Against Terrorists. Lee, now serving her sixth term, has been one…
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Pitchforked Mob Hits Capitol Hill, AIG Boss
Five months into his tenure, embattled American Insurance Group CEO Edward M. Liddy—who has become a public pinata in the wake of news that multimillion dollar bonuses will be paid to executives of his flailing, bailed-out corporation—had the misfortune of being scheduled to testify before the House Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored…
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German "Obama Fingers" Come with Curry!
A friend living in Hamburg, Germany passes on this tasty item from national magazine DER SPIEGEL ONLINE, without comment: TENDER JUICY, OBAMA FINGERS HIT THE SHELVES Many sales executives have drawn the same conclusion: What better poster child for hope than US President Barack Obama? There are Obama dolls, Obama T-shirts, Obama soap-on-a-rope. There is…
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Bashir: Reinventing the Remix
THE BUZZ points out this piece of news from Darfur, which sets my head shaking: In a speech to thousands of Sudanese security forces on Monday, al-Bashir said he had ordered Sudanese aid groups to take over the distribution of all relief inside the country. “We need to clear our country of any spies,” he…