Barack Obama, AlterNet. December 18, 2009. "America has made our choice. We have charted our course, we have made our commitments, and we will do what we say."
Sahil Kapur, Raw Story. December 17, 2009. Escalating his opposition to what remains of the health care legislation, former Gov. Howard Dean has taken more swipes at President Obama.
Booman, Booman Tribune AlterNet: PEEK. December 17, 2009. What the administration is facing is a consequence of the left having to eat too much shit on a whole host of issues.
David Edwards, Daniel Tencer, Raw Story. December 17, 2009. Dean's call to start from scratch and craft a new health care bill is a cause for frustration for Obama's press secretary and Sen. Rockefeller.
Zach Carter, Media Consortium. December 16, 2009. The latest efforts to reform Wall Street don't away with too-big-to-fail banks, and that's a big problem -- here's what progressives are saying about it.
Daniela Perdomo, AlterNet AlterNet: Politics. December 15, 2009. There is overwhelming disappointment at Obama's attempts for bipartisan health reform. But the good news is there's a glimmer of hope for the election of true progressives in 2010.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. December 15, 2009. An administration official said today that dozens of terrorism suspects from Guantanamo will be moved to Thomson Correctional Facility.
Bill Moyers, Howard Zinn, Bill Moyers Journal. December 15, 2009. Zinn: "Democracy doesn't come from the top. It comes from the bottom. Democracy is not what governments do. It's what people do."
Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com. December 14, 2009. The troop surge is only one part of the escalation of the Afghanistan war. Here are 8 more signs of how fully the President has committed us.
Bill Moyers, Michael Winship, Bill Moyers Journal. December 11, 2009. The Nobel Committee said Obama won the prize for his respect of international law and his efforts at disarmament, yet he won't even sign on to end a barbaric weapon.
Kevin Connor, Eyes on the Ties AlterNet: Politics. December 11, 2009. Rep. Melissa Bean is a great friend to Wall Street. Were her efforts to kill financial reform backed by Obama's inner circle?
Daniela Perdomo, AlterNet AlterNet: Politics. December 11, 2009. The fair and balanced folks at FOX asked respondents in a poll a pretty interesting question.
Marcelo Balive, New America Media. December 11, 2009. Will a treacherous economic landscape ruin the Obama administration's chances of delivering on immigration reform?
Robert Scheer, Truthdig. December 10, 2009. Obama’s faux populism is beginning to grate, and I finally came unglued when one of his "we the people" e-mails from him landed on my screen.
Daniela Perdomo, AlterNet AlterNet: World. December 10, 2009. President Obama accepts his Nobel Peace Prize by calling Afghanistan a "just war." The Nobel chairman claims "Dr. King's dream has come true." What?
David Sirota, Open Left AlterNet: PEEK. December 10, 2009. The question -- as it always is -- will be which side is the administration on: its corporate donors or its campaign promises?
Daniela Perdomo, AlterNet AlterNet: Politics. December 9, 2009. The president plans to speak about war during his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech in Oslo on Thursday. Perfect.
David DeGraw, Amped Status. December 9, 2009. Increasing numbers of deployed soldiers, mercenaries and drones all add up to Obama being more of a war president than Bush, in terms of hard numbers.
