Obamaism

New Yorker by George Packer | Apr. 12, 2009 (News Analysis)

Another week, another earthquake. Having already signed a nearly eight-hundred-billion-dollar stimulus bill, restored the rule of law to America’s treatment of detainees in its custody, developed plans to shore up the banking and housing sectors, demanded new regulation of private equity and hedge funds, proposed sweeping reforms in health care, energy, and education, and deepened the country’s involvement in Afghanistan and Pakistan, President Obama, ... Full Story »

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Topics: Obama Administration
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Posted by: Posted by Leo Romero - Apr 11, 2009 - 11:37 PM PDT
Reviewed by: Leo Romero (review), Mark Steele (review), Fabrice Florin (review), Aaron Goodman (review), Dwight Rousu (review), Patricia Blochowiak (review), Alexa Harmon (review)
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Edited by: Leo Romero - Apr 11, 2009 - 11:38 PM PDT
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Dwight Rousu
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 by Dwight Rousu - Apr. 13, 2009

The short comment makes a reasonable tour of the Obama style up until this point, with some pungent observations of the paranoid mirror-imaging of the once conservative Republican party.

Packer omits mention of the military escalation and the abandonment of previous positions on habeas corpus and on prosecution for those who have committed torture and on immunity for illegal invasion of privacy. These run counter to the tone of the article, but thence seem important omissions.

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Patricia Blochowiak
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 by Patricia Blochowiak - Apr. 18, 2009
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Leo Romero
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 by Leo Romero - Apr. 11, 2009
Leo posted this story.
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Fabrice Florin
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 by Fabrice Florin - Apr. 12, 2009
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Alexa Harmon
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 by Alexa Harmon - May. 7, 2009

I do not think that this is quality journalism because it seems more like a commentary, than a factual article. There are no quotes, it is all opinion. The information may be reliable, but the reader would never know because there is not a variety of sources and quotes.

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