In the Arena
In the Arena+Uncategorized | 1507 days ago

Bitter Cling

By Joe Klein

Well, I don’t know. This Obama controversy, described below by JNS, is the sort of thing we journalists blow up into massive gas, mostly because we really don’t want to get down in the weeds about the things we need to get down in the weeds about…like whether trade deals really are so bad, especially [...]

+Barack Obama | 1507 days ago

Obama’s Bitterness

By Jay Newton-Small

Yesterday the Huffington Post had this exclusive audio of Obama speaking at a California fundraiser. An excerpt: “You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them,” Obama said. “And they fell [...]