For 82 days in 1968, Robert F. Kennedy ran for President. His campaign was described as magical and mystical. With RFK, we believed that anything was possible. Then his life was tragically cut short. His great potential left unfulfilled. There hasn’t been another politician, since RFK, who has inspired this country so profoundly…until Barak Obama. Will Barack Obama be able to recreate the magic of those 82 days?

Archive for March 19th, 2009

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Thursday, March 19th, 2009

Starting with last year’s election campaign, Barack Obama merchandise has been popping up everywhere around the country — and only to a tiny extent from official sources. Frank fam & Giant Step Resident Mawuse Ziegbe went on a hunt to learn more about the Obama merch Eric Tucker sells Obama t-shirts on the streets in Los Angeles, and got into the business both inspired by the success of the first African-American president and hoping to pick up some extra cash.

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Miles Mogulescu: Should Obama Stop Trusting Geithner's Advice?

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

President Barack Obama, trying to contain a political firestorm, instructed Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner “pursue every legal avenue” to block $165 million in bonuses to. ….. President Obama”s economic team has proposed fundamental change in health-care, education and energy. If he were to achieve those changes, what else would the Progressives want? But the campaign for President Obama to drop Geithner is a precursor to weakening his political capital necessary

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OBAMA PRESIDENCY: More Missile Slinging and Mercenary Funding

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

Reading the Green Mountain leftie blogs these days in the state that turned blue for Obama before any other on election night, one can feel all of that “hope” and “change” sentiment bleeding out of their keyboards and into the chilly floor …. As I’ve acknowledged here over the past several months, Barack Obama’s personal story is deeply moving, and his soaring rhetoric on the campaign trail have inspired many at a time when all Americans are looking for some hope.

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MJ Rosenberg: AIG: The Media's Appalling Hypocrisy and Anti-Obama Bias

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

Obama Speaks On AIG: “How Do They Justify This Outrage?” (VIDEO). WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama declared Monday that insurance giant American International Group is in financial straits because of “recklessness and greed” and said he. …. There are few topics more fit for bailout-inspired vitriol than the sports marketing and sponsorship deals bargained by financial services firms and automakers surviving due to taxpayer largess.

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Robert Reich's Blog: In the Wake of AIG: Obama's First Priority

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

Do we make new laws up by the day? Perhaps the AIG employees are victims of their bosses just like homeowners are victims of banks? Do we change our story daily to fit our own personal financial benefit regardless of the morality? ….. many of these people now are not employee’s of AIG any longer—their contractual obligations have run their course, they unwound parts of AIG’s problem “book” (a finacial term), they’re no longer needed as employee’s, maybe, we hope?

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Publishers Beware: Advani Ads Can Look Like You Are Endorsing Him

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

The strategy is believed to be inspired by US President Barack Obama’s success mobilizing support online during his campaign and the fact that some 40% of voters in the upcoming general elections are below 25 years of age. None of the flash ads will have the tag. I do appreciate the work you guys do - and I find your writing analytical and to the point - but this is much ado about nothing! Just hope this dosent make the Outlook cover next week.

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Adams presents President Obama with Special Booklet made by west

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

The pupils wanted me to bring a message from them to President Barack Obama. During President Obama’s election campaign the children, like many others, were inspired by the President’s message of hope and change.

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Truthdig - Reports - Perp Walks Instead of Bonuses

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

Why that reversal of strategy in a top-secret meeting called by then New York Fed Chair Timothy Geithner, a Rubin protégé and now Barack Obama’s treasury secretary? Why was Goldman’s Lloyd Blankfein the only financial industry CEO in attendance? ….Change” is a sick joke. The real change will be millions of Americans into the streets and onto bread lines. Sucked up into Obama’s new Hitler youth inspired “national service” and military expansion plans.

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Deepak Chopra: What to Do About "Mad as Hell"

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

President Barack Obama, trying to contain a political firestorm, instructed Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner “pursue every legal avenue” to block $165 million in bonuses to. ….. Too many Americans took promises of hope and change too literally to mean hope and change on their terms. That’s the problem when a leader uses nebulous terms upon which everyone can project their individual meaning. Don’t blame the politician here but rather the voters for, once again,

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The XX Factor : Have the Obamas Spawned a Sex Frenzy?

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

They keep, well, coming. So, did the Obamas spawn this mini-sex revolution — or was it all that hope — or is it just me? Filed under: Barack Obama, politics, media, Michelle Obama, sex. Print This Article PRINT Discuss in the Fray

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