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Obama in Cairo, Egypt

rdan To begin the conversation now over the next few years. What do we stand for? What is our story? A great start. Update: h/t MG for the transcript of…

90% bonus tax ties Obama’s hands. Hurray !

…until sure WH can control Congress See that’s the cost of acting from anger. The Obama administration is offering asset managers a chance to play heads they win tails the…

Will Marshall Proposes Another Prize for Krugman

…and repairing schools). Notably the defence of Obama seems a bit out of date, as Marshall is defending what Obama was doing a week ago and, therefore, criticizing what he…

Obama’s first fireside chat video

Change.gov is the website set up for President-elect Obama to offer up weekly videotaped ‘address the nation’ style communications. Courtesy of Mudflats, which has been another interesting phenomenon of the…

Obama Loses Election

I believe that’s the English translation of this headline….

Uppity or elitist….code words list or symbolic value

Obama, Sen. Obama, they’re a member of an elitist-class individual that thinks that they’re uppity,” Westmoreland said. Asked to clarify that he used the word “uppity,” Westmoreland said, “Uppity, yeah.”…