Mortgaging the White House

President Obama's been busy, but contrary to many of the pundits, he's no FDR. Our new president got his political education in the world of Chicago ward politics, and seems to have adopted a strategy from the machine of that city's longtime boss, the late Richard J. Daley, father of the current mayor there. "Don't make no waves," one of Daley's henchmen advised, "don't back no losers." Full Story »

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Gerald Zuckier
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by Gerald Zuckier - May. 3, 2009

Not exactly cutting edge news at this point, but it will be informative for those who may still see Obama as going to effect miraculous change in the nature of America; at least those who have not been told to believe that he is a diehard Marxist, and those who are likely to read Truthout and still be somewhat behind the curve.

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