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 January 2nd, 2010

Firedoglake » Conservative Wishful Thinking Predictions For 2010

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

Inspired by BT’s recap of National Review’s predictions for 2009, I have decided to compile my own list of wishful conservative predictions for the new year: o 2010 is coldest year in recorded human history, proving once and for all that ….Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union in 140-character koans, as required by the Beer’n'Twitter law. Reply. eCAHNomics January 1st, 2010 at 6:17 pm. 9. A grateful and thriving Iraq elects George W. Bush president and agrees to …

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Howard Zinn and Bill Moyers on Right-Wing Demagogues and

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

people will be inspired the same way as when they walk out of a Michael Moore film or having just heard Obama speak of hope and change. Then, the banal ritual of everyday life, controlled by a commercial media, consumerism and corporate ….. in order to quit voting for progressive right wing lefty ______ (and fill in your favorite Great Satan here) warmongers and Congresstools bent on impoverishing the citizenry for the benefit of their cronies and campaign contributors. …

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Witchin' the Boreal Lights, the Clear Cold Nights and Horizon Forever

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

A year into his first term, President Barack Obama is locked into confronting problems that festered under his predecessor, George W. Bush: the playing out in Iraq and Afghanistan of a “war on terror” that, as the past week showed, … The giddy hope that Mr Obama’s election inspired worldwide was a measure of the damage that had been done to America’s standing. The awarding of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to a president who had yet to achieve any concrete goals spoke …

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Cabdiboqor Revealed » Blog Archive » Kevin Rose of Digg: The Most

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

The show is produced by Revision3, a company that Rose co-founded in 2005, and it was inspired by the wildly popular website Digg.com, another Rose creation. Digg is sometimes described as an online newspaper or a social search engine, …. He has more than 64000 Twitter followers, which puts him in second place after Barack Obama. He receives a thousand or more comments on Twitter every week — a handful of which he responds to. Several weeks after I see Rose in Brooklyn …

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Top-o-the-Decade to you! « Intracoastalbob's Blog

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

In spite of millions of people’s expectations that Barack Obama would perform major messianic miracles, 2009 brought us the worst financial situation for more than 50 years. … Then there was the threat of millions of deaths from the dreaded Swine Flu (funny – have not heard a single word about it for weeks now ) 2009 could have closed with a major catastrophe on Christmas Day, had the Al Qaeda inspired attempt to blow up the Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to …

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Modern Vedic Astrology: 2010 New Year Outlook

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

The Mars-Rahu aspect may have suggested a significant new development in leadership as we witnessed in Barack Obama’s election given Mars’ 10th house occupancy ( the house of government) and Rahu’s penchant for breaks with the status quo. … On a more positive note, Jupiter is conjunct Neptune in this chart and that points to the continued relevance of hope. Jupiter’s expansion and Neptune’s idealism make a potent pairing in the sky so no matter what happens in 2010, …

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ohomen171's Journey Through Life: The Terrible Consequenes Of An

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

The events teach us that large amounts of aerosols in the earth’s atmosphere can change climate drastically enough to kill robust species. We have used such analogues to test and improve our models in the past. But we hope more people will … In July 2009 President Barack Obama and Russian president Dmitry Medvedev agreed to drop that range further, to 1500 to 1675 by 2016. Although smaller strategic arsenals are to be commended, our new results show that even the lower …

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Nathan Gardels: China: The Harmony Express, Human Rights and

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

No doubt there is some truth in the notion that their revived arrogance is inspired by China’s role as an indebted America’s largest creditor. Surely this is one reason China’s leadership feels free to insult President Barack Obama, …

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Hardball: Joan Walsh Calls Republican Critics of Obama 'Un

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

Now that Barack Obama is in the White House, criticism of him is “un-American” and “traitorous.” This new “tolerant” view of dissent comes from Joan Walsh of Salon.Com as you can see in this Hardball video from Wednesday. Below is the Walsh money quote but please be sure to ….. with such bitterness! I do hope 2010 brings change (but not the Obama kinda change), real reform and Term Limits both for politicians and two bit journalist/pundits such as the likes of J. Walsh! …

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A Reflection on a Decade of Deception and Fear and the Signs for a

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

This gave Barack Obama an advantage over the presumptive nominee for 2008 and made a Clinton Coronation into a nail biter ending with Obama as the nominee. Thus the invasion of Iraq had profound effect on an election five years later. …. During the final months of the campaign, the Bush administration gave the nation one final gift- a financial meltdown and the Great Recession. McCain’s inability to wrap his head around the financial crisis aided in his defeat, …

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