Tag: Primary
Posted on Thu Oct 04, 2007 at 10:59:10 AM EST
Tags: Barack Obama, Torture, Foreign Policy, Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Astronomy, Physics, Science, Primary, President 2008 Elections, Democrats, Audacity of Hope, Samantha Brown, Glenn Greenwald (all tags)
A few accurate and a great many inaccurate things have been said about Barack Obama's advovacy of a "new kind of politics." Especially amongst the media, this has been treated as "why can't we all get along" vapidity, a bland notion that people shouldn't be mean to each other.
The truth is that what he is advocating is far more subversive and dangerous to the status quo.
Insight into just how Obama intends to transform our politics and policy comes from Thomas S. (T.S.) Kuhn's seminal work, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
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Posted on Tue Oct 02, 2007 at 02:43:20 PM EST
Tags: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Primary, Democrats, 2008 Elections (all tags)
Game on, folks.
While there's been some discussion about his nukes stand in the speech today, what's significant is that Barack Obama directed his fire directly at Hillary Clinton today.
In very stark terms. Drawing contrasts.
And he's not taking just her on. He's taking the entire way of thinking that she represents on.
Details below.
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Posted on Mon Sep 10, 2007 at 10:12:37 AM EST
Tags: Barack Obama, Iraq, Iowa, President, Primary, 2008 Elections, Democrats, Senate, Chris Dodd, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Bill Richardson, Dennis Kucinich (all tags)
Last week I implored Barack Obama to step up on Iraq.
On Wednesday of this week, he will be doing just that.
Context and what to look for below the fold.
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Posted on Thu Sep 06, 2007 at 12:27:10 PM EST
Tags: Iraq, Barack Obama, Senate, 2008 Elections, President, Primary, Democrats, Harry Reid, Chris Dodd, John Edwards (all tags)
An open letter to Senator Barack Obama from a supporter.
Senator Obama, in your short time in the public eye you have shown great wisdom, judgment, and vision. Your greatest strength is the ability to fuse pragmatism with idealism. This often means eschewing traditional showboating and playing for the cameras in order to build consensus that builds towards progressive goals.
However, no single approach works for every problem, and building consensus is not working on the problem of Iraq. There was a time for Congress to be the steering wheel of our Iraq policy. Now, someone needs to slam on the brakes.
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