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Obama Says He’s Really Fight For The People — Next Time

Arnold Hamilton - August 4, 2011 0

BY JIM HIGHTOWER By gollies, America’s workaday majority of middle-class and poor people have a fighter on our side in Washington. Unfortunately, that fighter is Barack Obama. On Sunday, he waved his white hankie of surrender in the debt ceiling battle, agreeing to a disastrous deal ruthlessly pushed by the loopiest of the Tea Party […]

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The Disappointed Democrats

Arnold Hamilton - August 4, 2011 0

BY SUSAN ESTRICH It was not supposed to be this way. The power of the president, Richard Neustadt wrote half a century ago, is the power to persuade – sometimes with a carrot, sometimes with a stick, sometimes [as President Reagan did so well] by getting the country behind him, sometimes [as President Johnson did] […]

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Get Involved

Arnold Hamilton - August 4, 2011 1

BY SHARON MARTIN So, you don’t want to be bothered with politics. Lately, with the power plays and general lack of civility, that’s understandable. But...

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Dems Also Need Presidential Primary In ’12

Arnold Hamilton - August 2, 2011 0

BY FROMA HARROP Ed Rendell, do you have plans for 2012? Hillary Clinton? If you, the former Democratic governor of Pennsylvania, or you, the secretary of state, are free next year and wouldn’t mind, would you please launch a primary challenge against President Obama? This request stems not from anger at Obama’s penchant for blithely […]