In These Times

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• • 18 Dec 08
  • 5:14 pm

  worst. president. ever.

  Posted to Regulating Good Government

• • 20 Nov 08
  • 2:58 pm

  Thank you Mr. Bleifuss, You've summed up a difficult yet pragmatic point beautifully. I love my country because it rises from the ashes and I don't mean Phoenix...rather, Chi-town Chicago, and Barack Obama. At heart I believe he will have the integrity to not just propose bold policies, I believe he will exercise the appropriate "deliberate haste" that must become due diligence during his term. Having said this however I'm on edge awaiting his second full surge of independance and progressive thought. His first-in my opinion-was the way he expressed himself regarding Gitmo and torture. Not necessarily an easy thing to …

  Posted to We Have Much to Celebrate

• • 17 Nov 08
  • 1:41 pm

  For the past three years or so I have believed fully that there would be a political reckoning given two major factors: history's normal course of pendulum-like political correction and a majority of American's essential spirit of change, hope and rejection of fear-based politics. The biggest fear for me--outside of massive voter fraud tactics coupled with partisan, privatized and non-transparent computer software gaming--was and is to a degree what Democrats we end up with. As you all know to some extent there is the Democratic party of big business, lobbyists, entrenched power and top-down "poweirchy". And then there is the more …

  Posted to Knowing When To Walk Away

• • 14 Nov 08
  • 1:33 pm

  This is precisely why I find the recent Time magazine story on Obama's political capital as strong enough--nay, essential enough--to introduce a "New, New Deal" as the magazine suggests. Yes, every candidate that seeks to defeat any incumbent runs on the "change" moniker. Often, progressives feel left out. I submit to you that there's not only a need to implement progressive policies but there is a MANDATE to do so. Recall Obama's primary political legitimacy: he voted against the War in Iraq. In retrospect it almost seems nostalgic. However, such a stance has to be one in which we continually bombard …

  Posted to What do you think Rahm Emanuel's appointment to Chief of Staff portends?

• • 15 Nov 08
  • 11:09 am

  Honestly....man I LOVE me some weed....

  Posted to 20 Million Arrests, and Counting