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The Obama Code - Tuesday 24 February 2009 - by: George Lakoff, t r u t h o u t | Perspective
http://www.truthout.org/022409R
As President Obama prepares to address a joint session of Congress, what can we expect to hear?
The pundits will stress the nuts-and-bolts policy issues: the banking system, education, energy, health care. But beyond policy, there will be a vision of America - a moral vision and a view of unity that the pundits often miss.
What they miss is the Obama Code.
The following is from TomDispatch and very relevant to what the progressive should be looking to do next 3-4 months.
Nick
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175012/ira_chernus_what_the_president_el...
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What the President-Elect Should Be Reading by Prof. Ira Chernus - Tomgram
Changing With Retreads
The Third Clinton Administration
By RALPH NADER
While the liberal intelligentsia was swooning over Barack Obama during his presidential campaign, I counseled “prepare to be disappointed.” His record as a Illinois state and U.S. Senator, together with the many progressive and long overdue courses of action he opposed during his campaign, rendered such a prediction unfortunate but obvious.
This TruthOut piece http://www.truthout.org/112008U made my blood boil! Read for yourself:
Stuff Happens: The Pentagon's Argument of Last Resort on Iraq
Thursday 20 November 2008
by: Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com
Progressive Democrats of N.C. will hold its Annual Convention on Friday and Saturday December 5-6 in Greensboro. More details will follow from the PDNC Chair very soon.
The following is an excellent article. Original may be found at http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/30/9310/
Published on Friday, May 30, 2008 by CommonDreams.org
You Might Be a Progressive If …
by Michael Schwalbe
