The Huge Opportunities and Risks of an Obama Administration

On a bright, brisk, fat-pumpkin morning in mid-October—the kind of morning you would call glorious were the economy not cratering, the financial system not imploding, the Dow not tumbling at this very moment to its lowest depths in more than five years—Barack Obama is on the courthouse steps in Chillicothe, Ohio, calmly and coolly enlisting the past in the service of claiming the future. “The American story has never been about things coming easy,” ... Full Story »

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Topics: Presidential Election 2008, Democrats, Obama Administration
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Posted by: Posted by Leo Romero - Oct 26, 2008 - 8:55 AM PDT
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Chris Finnie
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by Chris Finnie - Oct. 26, 2008

I have never understood why reporters think so highly of Rahm Emanuel--as Helleman clearly does. When he ran the DCCC, something like 2/3 of the congressional candidates he backed tanked--some in the primaries! The new Democratic majority in the House was elected despite Emanuel, not because of him. Many of the winners were candidates he ran against in the primaries. Yet Helleman quotes him over and over again as "one of the shrewdest, savviest, toughest Democratic pols of his generation." Other than retaining his own seat, I fail to see what he's accomplished to rate that accolade. As a consequence, he's deeply unpopular with rank and file Democratic activists. I truly hope Obama will not follow any reform agenda he advances. ... More »

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