Search Results for: obama

Can One Good Man Redeem a Nation for the Sins of Guantánamo?

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As the Obama administration prepares to try the 9/11 plotters in military tribunals, David Iglesias stands at the ready to prosecute them — and maybe just save the legacy of the White House that fired him #Sept11

Author: Tom Junod
Source: Esquire
Published: Dec 1, 2009
Length: 14 minutes (3,642 words)

Hope Springs Eternal

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Assessing a young presidency. Barack Obama campaigned as a populist firebrand but governs like a cerebral consensus builder. The founding fathers wouldn’t have it any other way.

Source: Newsweek
Published: Oct 24, 2009
Length: 11 minutes (2,933 words)

An Inconvenient Truth Teller

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From health-care reform to Afghanistan, Joe Biden has bucked Obama—as only a good Veep can.

Source: Newsweek
Published: Oct 10, 2009
Length: 15 minutes (3,905 words)

The God in the Machine

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President Barack Obama during his first months in office seldom has missed a chance to liken the country’s healthcare system to an unburied corpse, which, if left lying around in the sun by the 111th Congress, threatens to foul the sweet summer air of the American dream. The prognosis doesn’t admit of a second or third opinion. Whether on call to the Democratic left or the Republican right, the attending politicians and consulting economists concur in their assessment of the risk posed by the morbid emissions.

Published: Sep 1, 2009
Length: 11 minutes (2,919 words)

The New Israel Lobby

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In July, President Obama met for 45 minutes with leaders of American Jewish organizations. All presidents meet with Israel’s advocates. Obama, however, had taken his time, and powerhouse figures of the Jewish community were grumbling.

Published: Sep 9, 2009
Length: 18 minutes (4,739 words)

Bill Clinton, Then and Now: The Esquire Interview

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In a sprawling discussion of his past and our common future, the former president compares his administration’s early years with Obama’s and talks about what he believes — in health care and next year’s midterms — is about to happen

Source: Esquire
Published: Sep 1, 2009
Length: 51 minutes (12,949 words)

Fiji Water: Spin the Bottle

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Obama sips it. Paris Hilton loves it. Mary J. Blige won’t sing without it. How did a plastic water bottle, imported from a military dictatorship thousands of miles away, become the epitome of cool?

Source: Mother Jones
Published: Sep 1, 2009
Length: 15 minutes (3,943 words)

The Making of an Iran Policy

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Some protesters I met on the streets of Tehran pointedly asked me, “Where’s Obama?” Trying to rethink things, it seems. Khamenei’s own shift was cemented in his ferocious sermon a week after the election, when he embraced Ahmadinejad and tried to blame the whole bloody fiasco on “evil” Western agents.

Published: Jul 30, 2009
Length: 22 minutes (5,570 words)

The Health-Care Wimps

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Obama may be impervious to the demons of 1994, but his party is still haunted by the failure of Hillarycare.

Source: Daily Beast
Published: Jul 20, 2009
Length: 4 minutes (1,087 words)

Winning the Good War

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Why Afghanistan is not Obama’s Vietnam.

Published: Jul 28, 2009
Length: 15 minutes (3,943 words)