ObamaCare: “Not Just a Website”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOqlrZjJEwE Obama Administration: Obamacare Will Meet Enrollment Targets Medicaid Expansion Is Set for Ohioans Rick Perry Is Actually Encouraging Texans To Enroll In Obamacare (18)
President Obama Delivers Remarks on 50th Anniversary of March on Washington
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50 years after March on Washington, economic gap between blacks, whites persists
Watch the 50th Anniversary of MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech LIVE Wednesday 11:30 a.m. ET From WashingtonPost: When President Obama takes the stage at the Lincoln Memorial on Wednesday to commemorate the 1963 March on Washington, he will symbolize a big part of the complicated story of the nation’s…
The Return of the Obama Coalition
President Barack Obama’s 2012 election marks the culmination of a decades-long project to build an electorally viable and ideologically coherent progressive coalition in national politics. From Center for American Progress: With President Barack Obama’s decisive victory in the 2012 election, he becomes the first Democrat since Franklin Delano Roosevelt—and the…
A New America Speaks, the Post-2012 Election Roundup
Source: Slate How the ground game trumped super PAC millions: The day before the election, President Barack Obama was preparing to speak in Ohio when state Republicans tweeted that they had knocked on 75,000 doors that day. Campaign aides told Obama they had knocked on 376,000 doors that day, according…
Planet Relieved by Obama’s Re-election: International Front Pages (Photo Heavy)
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Obama the Post-Colonial President
Light of the Future/Rays of Hope, a mural of Barack Obama in Bushwick, Brooklyn From In These Times: For this is the way the new power lies: Those who once dwelled at the margins of the Commonwealth have appropriated the language of their colonial masters and used it with great…
Obama Won on Values, Not Demographics
From NYT Op-Ed Contributor Joel Benenson: The president’s victory was a triumph of vision, not of demographics. He won because he articulated a set of values that define an America that the majority of us wish to live in: A nation that makes the investments we need to strengthen and…