Barack Obama

It still amazes me how little the democratic party faithful understand the opportunity presented by President Obama's election in 2008 with the first governing majority in a generation. Democrats, republicans and independents lined up for hours to hear the man...

A Man for Our Times

This entry was tagged Barack Obama Bipartisan Centrism Democratic Party Governing Majority Progressive and posted on February 28, 2010 by Jason Everett Miller

America remains in turmoil, our civic identities wrapped up in the dysfunctional activities of a largely unaccountable plutocracy who rarely voice opinions reflective of our own. Words used interchangeably provide an oversimplification of the average American's political beliefs. Liberal equals Progressive....

The Mob Rules

This entry was tagged Barack Obama Bipartisan Centrism Democratic Party Governing Majority Populism Progressive Republican Party and posted on February 27, 2010 by Jason Everett Miller

We all have very high ideals and are desperate to see this country live up to its potential. That feeling is felt to the left and right of the spectrum. We want a sense of safety and security and sanity back, yesterday. ...

Another Defining Moment

This entry was tagged Apathy Barack Obama Centrism Change Democratic Party Governing Majority Incumbents Partisan Republican Party Turnout and posted on February 19, 2010 by Jason Everett Miller

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I am happy to note that President Barack Obama continues to concentrate his political message on the idea that the left and right halves of American society, embodied mostly by a dysfunctional and partisan Congress but also at the grassroots...

Pax Americana

This entry was tagged Barack Obama Bipartisan Congress Democratic Party Progressive Republican Party Washington DC and posted on January 31, 2010 by Jason Everett Miller

Very few things in life are as certain as political paradigms refusing to change absent massive, and sometimes violent, action by ordinary people in sustained grassroots efforts measured in decades rather than years. Electing Barack Obama didn't make that rule invalid. ...

“…go out and make me do it.”

This entry was tagged Alice Paul Barack Obama Bipartisan Congress Fringe Grassroots Progressive We The People and posted on January 24, 2010 by Jason Everett Miller

"We have been told that we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics. They will only grow louder and more dissonant." - Barack Obama, New Hampshire Primary Concession Speech, January 8, 2008 So it was then and so it...

Preaching to a Choir of Cynics

This entry was tagged Apathy Barack Obama Change Fringe Partisan We The People and posted on January 22, 2010 by Jason Everett Miller

Back during the heated days of the presidential primary race, just after I moved to Barack Obama when my first choice Dennis Kucinich dropped out, the whole "Obamabot" thing was born through the steadfast insistence of Hillary's more creative supporters. ...

Obamanation

This entry was tagged Barack Obama Congress Democratic Party Partisan Progressive Republican Party We The People and posted on January 21, 2010 by Jason Everett Miller

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The funny thing about politics (funny sad, not funny ha ha) is that perception equals reality for most people, and our perceived "reality" then becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy for the country. We have a crappy, partisan hell where nothing gets...

Post-Partisan Traumatic Stress Disorder

This entry was tagged Activism Barack Obama Evolution Grassroots Health Care Reform Partisan and posted on October 13, 2009 by Jason Everett Miller

Analysis & Opinion on the American Experiment