To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Thursday, March 28, 2024

Observercast

President Obama’s Great Bad Week

0

BY SUSAN ESTRICH President Barack Obama’s campaign had a great and much-needed terrible week or so: bad economic news [that keeps on coming], questions about leaks of national security information [When you leak a target list that makes the president look tough, is that politically motivated? When you do it in June, when no one’s […]

A Modern Economy Has Universal Health Care

0

BY FROMA HARROP For now, let’s drop the talk about wanting a liberal America or a conservative America. What we truly need is a modern America. No country can be modern spending twice what its rich competitors do on health care while leaving millions without any coverage. If the U.S. Supreme Court declares the essential […]

Obama And Marijuana: A Great Betrayal?

0

BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN A heart in love will decipher every squiggle in the letter as a kiss. In the final days of the 2008 campaign and in the opening ones of his administration, President Obama and his top legal aides seemed to the eager ears of marijuana legalizers on the West Coast to be opening […]

Caught In The Middle

0

BY SUSAN ESTRICH The usual rule in politics is that if both extremes are mad at you, then you must be doing something right – or at least something politically smart. Ultimately, elections are won in the middle, and if the middle is with you, you win. In November, that is. But this is June, […]

West Of Wisconsin

0

BY FROMA HARROP My right-wing friend, ginned up [literally] from his team’s impending “victory” in Wisconsin, called me on Tuesday night. I took some of his glow off by noting that I, too, would have been hard-pressed to remove a governor who had committed no crime. Opposition to the recall did not necessarily signal affection […]