This is what I am calling the Obama Equation. Barack looked at the American political landscape and wrote Audacity of Hope as a response. In that brilliant book, I believe he articulated the above equation as being the only way...
Jason Everett Miller
Our politics has become a game of feigned outrage over purposeful misunderstandings of straightforward arguments made by someone completely different from yourself but no less convinced of their point of view. How's that for a high-calorie sentence?...
“Semantics? I’m always up for some antics.”
One of the first ironies I have noticed about Barack Obama's victory is the inability of many liberals to follow his lead on positioning his coming progressive changes. I have yet to hear the words "democratic dominance" out Barack's mouth. ...
fattening our sacred cows
President-elect Barack Obama ran on a detailed set of policy solutions for many of our most pressing challenges. Neoconservative pundits and an anemic news media aside, he won the support of many political moderates for the depth and breadth of...
restoring american civility
I have noticed a strange tendency among some of the democratic party faithful following their recent victory. Their hearts are filled with long-held grievances and lingering suspicions resulting in an inability to move forward as one nation, working with republicans...
She Turned Me into a Newt
It dawned on me this morning that John McCain's campaign and the fervor it inspired was really not much different in tone and tenor than Hillary Clinton's losing bid as she pushed through to Puerto Rico. I don't blame them...
a perfect margin of victory
With the enthusiasm and attention being paid to this year's election, I find it increasingly odd the way America's new-found interest in such a fundamental feature of our democracy is being characterized by the corporate "news" media. On this morning's...
we won’t get fooled again
Very few American norms are as damaging to the healthy functioning of our republic than an over-reliance on precedent in charting our future course. We must examine past decisions to learn lessons on how we might make different choices moving...