I cite (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
An article by Robert Borosage and Katrina vanden Heuvel. Read the whole thing. The basic strategy of the piece is to say that Obama is not the candidate progressives want. Nonetheless, he is not McCain (who is Bush on steroids). Given this, Obama could become the president progressives want. And this requires critical work, organizing, planning, be ready and able to use the energy...
The Hollywood Liberal (Free subscription) | yesterday
How Do We Seize The “Obama Moment'” Our at the Campaign for America’s Future blog, we’re having a two-week long conversation, “How Do We Seize the Obama Moment,” and substantial advance a progressive agenda in the early days of an Obama administration. Please feel free to head over there and share your thoughts. The series kicked off with The Nation article from Robert Borosage and Katrina vanden...
Ensaios Imperfeitos (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
By Robert L. Borosage and Katrina vanden Heuvel , The Nation . Posted August 18, 2008 . Obama will be the president we want him to be if we mobilize support on the progressive issues and ward off the influence of entrenched interests. Electric. When Barack Obama receives the Democratic presidential nomination before 75,000 people in Denver's Mile High Stadium on the forty-fifth...
Liberal Oasis (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
Our at the Campaign for America's Future blog, we're having a two-week long conversation, "How Do We Seize the Obama Moment," and substantial advance a progressive agenda in the early days of an Obama administration. Please feel free to head over there and share your thoughts. The series kicked off with The Nation article from Robert Borosage and Katrina vanden Heuvel, "Progressives...
TalkLeft (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
In a strange article , Robert Borosage and Katrina Vanden Heuvel "advise" progressives not on how to forward progressivism, but on how to forward Obama's victory in November. The whole article is just strange, but this part REALLY is bizarre: Progressives generally--and independent media and the blogosphere specifically--can contribute by reminding voters there's a clear choice...
Burning Cane (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
Progressives in the Obama Moment By Robert L. Borosage & Katrina vanden Heuvel The Nation This article appeared in the September 1, 2008 edition of The Nation. August 13, 2008 Electric. When Barack Obama receives the Democratic presidential nomination before 75,000 people in Denver's Mile High Stadium on the forty-fifth anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech,...
ac360blog (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
Robert L. Borosage & Katrina vanden Heuvel The Nation A historic candidacy, a new generation in motion, a nation yearning for change. Even the cynics running the McCain campaign might be touched, if they weren't so busy savaging Obama as a vain celebrity not up to the task of leading a nation...
ac360blog (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
Katrina vanden Heuvel Editor, The Nation I am heartsick at the violence and brutalities on all sides. Georgian, South Ossetian and Russian friends have all suffered. Yet commentary in the US media, almost without exception, has turned a longstanding, complex separatist conflict into a casus belli for a new cold war with Russia...
The Nation Blogs (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
Katrina vanden Heuvel and Robert L. Borosage The success of Obama's campaign will depend on independent progressive mobilization to keep the pressure on and overcome entrenched interests.
The Nation Blogs (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
Katrina vanden Heuvel Now that the ceasefire between Russia and Georgia has been broken, there needs to be a plan to form a new and better US policy toward the region.
