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Republicans Think 'Community Organizers' Don't Create Much Change. Barack Obama Actually Agrees With Them.

In late October 1987, Barack Obama and Jerry Kellman took a weekend off from their jobs as community organizers in Chicago and traveled to a conference on social justice and the black church at Harvard. During an evening break in the schedule, they ...

From JOHN B. JUDIS, The New Republic,  5 Sep 2008

Avoiding A Long, Disappointing Fall

The New Republic by John B. Judis A thorough diagnosis of what's been ailing the Obama campaign. And suggestions for a cure. Post Date Thursday, August 28, 2008 The Barack Obama campaign has been floundering. If he had a lead in the polls in late June- ...

From JOHN B. JUDIS, The New Republic,  28 Aug 2008

John McCain's Approach To Terrorism Is Almost As Old As He Is, A True Relic Of The Cold War

John McCain likes to compare himself to Theodore Roosevelt, Barry Goldwater, and Ronald Reagan. But, if he were to become president, could he more closely resemble Richard Nixon? Not Nixon the Watergate dirty trickster, but Nixon the statesman. Could ...

From JOHN B. JUDIS, The New Republic,  16 Jul 2008

Loathing In Las Vegas

On the airplane, I caught sight of someone reading the latest issue of U.S. News and World Report, with a cover story on "How to Raise a Moral Child." It sounded like typical middlebrow sermonizing, based on the assumption that morality (that is, ...

From JOHN B. JUDIS, The New Republic,  11 Jul 2008

Disputations: Should Barack Obama Have Known Better Than To Make A Deal With The Teamsters?

It is unfortunate to see John Judis recycling discredited allegations by the controversial government "watchdog," the Independent Review Board (IRB). The IRB was installed to root out mob influence in the Teamsters, but with the mobsters now out of the ...

From WILLIAM HOGAN AND JOHN B. JUDIS, The New Republic,  1 Jul 2008

Is Obama Al Smith or John F. Kennedy?

Now that he has clinched the Democratic nomination, pundits will mostly gauge Barack Obama's prospects in the general election by looking at states he can win or constituencies he can carry. But there is another dimension to his candidacy: He ...

From JOHN B. JUDIS, The New Republic,  4 Jun 2008

The Saint of Lost Causes

Tuesday's results replicated much of the Democratic race during the last two months. Hillary Clinton once more showed her strength and Barack Obama's weakness among white working class voters in Midwestern swing states, while Obama proved his hold on ...

From JOHN B. JUDIS, The New Republic,  21 May 2008

Why's Obama Making Promises To A Chicago Union Recently Investigated For Corruption?

The Wall Street Journal recently reported that last summer, Illinois Senator Barack Obama told officials in the Teamsters union that he favored ending the Independent Review Board (IRB) that was created in 1989 by the federal government to rid the ...

From JOHN B. JUDIS, The New Republic,  19 May 2008

The Local

The Wall Street Journal recently reported that last summer, Illinois Senator Barack Obama told officials in the Teamsters union that he favored ending the Independent Review Board (IRB) that was created in 1989 by the federal government to rid the ...

From JOHN B. JUDIS, The New Republic,  16 May 2008

The Big Race, Continued

In my article, "The Big Race," I mention that white women voters who have been backing Democrats should prove sympathetic to Barack Obama's candidacy. I had a specific study of women voters in mind, but I didn't want to exhaust readers' patience with ...

From JOHN B. JUDIS, The New Republic,  13 May 2008

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