At least, that’s what Justin thinks. Which, I guess, is the silver lining of this.
As public voting closes on the online questions that Obama should answer in the East Room at 11:30 this morning, one thing is clear. Drug policy is a big issue for the online minions. The top questions in various categories follow below. JOBS (7,486 votes): “What are your plans for the failing, “War on Drugs”, [...]
Back from book leave, the Washington Post’s Dan Balz weighs in with a spot on analysis of Barack Obama’s slow and steady style. It’s easy to think of this president as the embodiment of the Internet age. His campaign skillfully exploited new media to build a nationwide network of donors, volunteers and advocates. This is [...]
In the post below, I was not claiming that there is something new to Barack Obama’s political calculation or policy argument for using the financial crisis as an opportunity or reason to remake the economy for the long-term. I have written about this approach a bunch of times. What I was commenting on was a [...]
I disagree with Michael Scherer’s post below about Barack Obama changing the meaning of the word “recovery.” In an interview Obama did with me toward the end of the campaign, he made it clear that the economy would have to be transformed for the financial crisis to be truly resolved: Finding the new driver of [...]
The head of the European Union, Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek, with whom Barack Obama will meet next week, did not hold back today in condemning the president’s policies. From the AP story: Obama insisted Tuesday that his massive budget proposal will put the ailing U.S. economy back on its feet. “This budget is inseparable [...]
In a conference call this morning, White House Budget Director Peter Orszag directly addressed the alternative budget plan put forward by Republican Rep. Paul Ryan. Said Orszag: I think it’s easy to lob criticisms, but part of governing needs — or part of the policy process needs to involve putting forward alternatives. I haven’t seen [...]
In the case of a word like democracy, not only is there no agreed definition, but the attempt to make one is resisted from all sides. It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it: consequently the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a [...]
1. My story on last night’s press conference, “Obama’s Persistent Presser: Message Accomplished,” is here. 2. An employee from AIG FP speaks. And he has a point. As I have asked before, Where in the World is Joseph Cassano? He is, by most accounts, the guy who built the AIG bomb, while promising all the [...]
