nytimes.com - 11/7/2008
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I have dreams. I may seem like a boring pundit whose most exotic fantasies involve G.A.O. reports, but deep down, I have dreams. And right now I’m dreaming of the successful presidency this country needs. I’m dreaming of an administration led by Barack Obama, but which stretches beyond the ...
nytimes.com - 11/9/2008
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THE inspiring and transformative choice by the American
people to elect Barack Obama as our 44th president...
lays the foundation for another fateful choice that he and we must make this January to begin an emergency rescue of human civilization from ...
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Op-Ed Contributor - The Climate for Change
nytimes.com - 11/7/2008
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Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008, is a date that
will live in fame (the opposite of infamy) forever....
If the election of our first African-American president didn’t stir you, if it didn’t leave you teary-eyed and proud of your country, there’s something wrong ...
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Op-Ed Columnist - The Obama Agenda
nytimes.com - 11/14/2008
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Last September, I was in a hotel room
watching CNBC early one morning. They were interviewing Bob...
Nardelli, the C.E.O. of Chrysler, and he was explaining why the auto industry, at that time, needed $25 billion in loan guarantees. It wasn’t a bailout, ...
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Op-Ed Columnist - How to Fix a Flat
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Daily Kos —
... David Brooks: This election was about the middle asserting itself. The obfuscation is in trying to pretend that the middle is far more right than it really is. ...
The Whispers About Rahm And The Return Of Jeremiah Wright [Crappy Hour]
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... MOE: Hi neighbor. Guess who did not really go to sleep last night? I'm at a Marriott in Brookline and I just took a nap. I don't have much processing power but I can tell you that I am thinking of Rahm Emanuel's head right now. Oh, also David Brooks invokes MLK in a column about how Obama's administration needs to act more like one of those financial institutions and be "ostentatiously pragmatic and data-driven" and "hunt good ideas like venture capitalists." You know, those venture capitalists who only have to invest in one good company out of every ten for ...
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