Russ Baker, TruthOut.org. November 10, 2009. Americans harbor a quaint belief a new president takes charge of a govt. eagerly awaiting his orders. But there are huge power centers that have their own agendas.
Roy Edroso, Alicublog AlterNet: Media and Technology. November 2, 2009. The presentation of White House visitor logs for January-July led to some humorous gun-jumping by the usual gang of idiots.
Amanda Terkel, Think Progress AlterNet: Media and Technology. October 31, 2009. For the conservatives at The Weekly Standard, the story was simply too good to be fact-checked.
Sady Doyle, Comment Is Free AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. October 30, 2009. When the president held an office basketball game and invited only male employees to play, it sparked anger, simply because it looked so familiar.
Eric Boehlert, Media Matters for America. October 28, 2009. Fox News routinely, and blatantly, breaks the code to which ethical journalists are supposed to aspire.
Nick Turse, Tomdispatch.com. October 23, 2009. Obama can choose between going on the peace maker-route, or take the path of recent presidents and continue with the war games.
Ari Melber, TheNation.com AlterNet: PEEK. October 12, 2009. White House Communications Director Anita Dunn: "We don't need to pretend this is the way legitimate news organizations behave."
David Corn, MotherJones.com. October 6, 2009. The White House Press Corps jumped on Robert Gibbs when they saw the glaring contradiction of demanding a corruption free government and not withdrawing from Afghanistan.
Gareth Porter, IPS News. October 5, 2009. Obama team's charge that construction on Iran's second uranium-enrichment facility is part of a covert decision to violate its nuclear treaty obligations is questioned.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. September 24, 2009. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R) of Oklahoma sure is on a roll when it comes to attacking the White House.
Naomi Klein, The Guardian. September 15, 2009. The summer of 2009 was all about race, and Obama has little to lose by using this brief political window of racial animus to heal a few of the country's racial wounds.
Christopher Moraff, The Philadelphia Tribune. September 11, 2009. Author Ronald Kessler warns that the rise in threats and inadequate govt. resources may be putting the commander in chief at risk.
Michael Kieschnick, AlterNet. September 9, 2009. The Obama White House misunderstood the right wing media machine. Bullies never are appeased by victory. We will all pay the price.
Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com. September 9, 2009. Maintenance cost for the force of 450,000 Afghan soldiers and police U.S. generals dream of creating: approximately 500% of the Afghan budget.
Don Hazen, AlterNet. September 9, 2009. With Obama the target of hate speech and over 30 death threats a day, the FBI needs to hear that it can't let budget shortfalls get in the way of the president's life.
Don Hazen, AlterNet. September 7, 2009. The truth is, progressives need Van Jones working on the outside providing vision and leadership, not on the inside with his mouth buttoned.
Jane Hamsher, Firedoglake. September 6, 2009. Where are all the statements defending Van Jones by liberal organizations? They are staying silent, while the White House sells out the interests of their members.
John Nichols, TheNation.com. August 26, 2009. The investigation into torture could be thwarted by a GOP counter-attack and an echo chamber determined to protect Bush and Cheney.
Mark Ames, eXiled Online. August 25, 2009. If you judge a person by the company they keep, then Obama's top economic advisor has some serious splainin' to do.
George Lakoff, AlterNet. August 21, 2009. Barack Obama ran the best-framed presidential campaign in history. How is it possible that he and his team are communicating so poorly on health care?
William Greider, The Nation. August 19, 2009. After a brilliant beginning, Obama seems to be abandoning his principles on health care by hedging on a public option.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet. August 18, 2009. We are at a crucial moment in the health care debate -- Obama needs pressure from all of us to keep the public option as part of his agenda.
