Published: mic (July 19, 2013)
Liberals … we have our Obama back.
Well, let’s not go too far. The president who repeatedly compromised when it wasn’t necessary (see the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act), reneged on promises (see Guantanamo Bay), and betrayed his own professed principles (see PRISM) cannot be entirely forgiven for his ideological betrayals simply after one press conference.
Published: mic (June 18, 2013), Live Interview with Huffington Post (June 19, 2013)
Our commander-in-chief had a lot to say during Monday night’s interview with Charlie Rose, but CNN aptly summed it up in four words:
“I’m no Dick Cheney.”
If I may, Mr. President, I’d like to respond to that claim with a question I bet all of your supporters (many of them now erstwhile supporters) are asking:
“Yes, but why the hell aren’t you Barack Obama?”
Published: mic (May 29, 2013)
When an issue is as superheated as gun control, one can almost instinctively predict the reaction to news stories such as this one:
“New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has received an anonymous threatening letter that preliminary tests indicated contained the presence of the poison ricin, law enforcement officials told NBC News.
Published: mic (May 23, 2013)
There are days that call for history lessons, and while most liberals don’t realize it, we should definitely insist on May 22 being one of them. After all, it was 49 years ago yesterday that President Lyndon Baines Johnson intoned these words at a speech delivered to a graduating class at the University of Michigan:
“For a century we labored to settle and to subdue a continent.
Published: PolicyMic (November 4, 2012)
There are two quotes that best sum up Pennsylvania’s role in American democracy today. One comes from legendary political consultant James Carville: “Pennsylvania is Philadelphia in the east, Pittsburgh in the west, and Alabama in the middle.”
This adage will be useful when following Tuesday’s election returns in the Keystone State, although it’s a little oversimplified.
Published: PolicyMic (June 28, 2012)
Two months ago, in my editorial detailing the positive legacy President Obama will leave behind at the end of his first term, I deliberately avoided mentioning his health care reform bill, given that it was at that time “on the Supreme Court chopping block.” Now that it has been officially deemed constitutional, I think it is important to note the two-fold impact it will have on Obama’s historical reputation:
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