|
3:44 PM, Mar 8, 2012 • By MICHAEL WARRENBarack Obama's campaign has released the trailer for its 17-minute documentary, titled "The Road We've Traveled." The film, which will be available on March 15, stars Vice President Joe Biden, former chief of staff and Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel, top advisor David Axelrod, and Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren, with actor Tom Hanks narrating and Davis Guggenheim, of An Inconvenient Truth and Waiting for "Superman" fame, directing. Watch the trailer below:
The trailer focuses on what will likely be the Obama campaign's major selling points for the fall: the severity of the economic crisis (before the president took office), Obamacare, the auto bailout, and the killing of Osama bin Laden. In the trailer, Warren provides a direct appeal to the swing states and swing voters in the Midwest. "If the auto industry goes down, what happens to America's manufacturing base? What happens to jobs in America?" Warren asks. "What happens to the whole Midwest?"
9:41 PM, Feb 22, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPERRahm Emanuel, President Obama's former chief of staff, is projected to become the next mayor of Chicago. The Chicago Sun-Times reports:
Rahm Emanuel has been elected mayor of Chicago. With 89 percent of the precincts counted, Emanuel has 55 percent of the vote. The Associated Press has declared him the winner of the race outright, avoiding another six weeks in a runoff.
Read more... Another Friday, another Obama adviser gone.12:02 PM, Oct 8, 2010 • By WILLIAM KRISTOL
The New York Times reports that national security adviser Jim Jones’s departure, long expected to take place at the end of the year, was accelerated because of “statements that he apparently made to Bob Woodward” that were reproduced in Woodward’s Obama’s Wars.
Read more... 2:31 PM, Oct 4, 2010 • By DANIEL HALPERBen Smith reports:
Rahm Emanuel kicked off his campaign for Mayor of Chicago with a homecoming video, filmed in front of a bookshelf with a vase and a family photograph.
"I was born here and my wife Amy and I raised our three children here," he says. "I'm glad to be home."
Read more... Lessons to be learned from Rahm Emanuel's departure. Oct 11, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 04 • By WILLIAM KRISTOL
On October 1, Rahm Emanuel announced his departure as White House chief of staff, ending the shortest and most hapless tenure in that position since Bill Clinton replaced his childhood friend, Mack McLarty, in 1994. McLarty is a nice guy who wasn’t tough enough to bring order to Clinton’s White House. Emanuel is a tough guy who wasn’t mature enough to bring good judgment to Obama’s.
Read more... Are these folks disingenuous or dreaming?3:43 PM, Mar 23, 2010 • By FRED BARNES
When White House chief of staff Rahm Emanual lobbied Democratic Representative Jason Altmire of Pennsylvania last week to vote for the health care bill, he argued it would cut the deficit. “You ran because you care about the deficit,” he told Altmire, according to the Washington Post. “This is north of $1 trillion in deficit reduction.” Shortly after the bill passed, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi offered the exact number, claiming the bill would save “the taxpayers $1.3 trillion.”
Read more... A ParodyMar 22, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 26 • By  Emanuel and Lincoln
Read more... 3:39 PM, Mar 11, 2010 • By JOHN MCCORMACKThis is big, big news (if true):
The Senate Parliamentarian has ruled that President Barack Obama must sign Congress’ original health care reform bill before the Senate can act on a companion reconciliation package, senior GOP sources said Thursday.
Read more...
|
- Conservative Intelligence
- Satirical Wit
- Foreign Policy Insight
- Sophisticated Perspective
Ethan Epstien, in a New York System state of mind
Read more...
-
-
Washington plays by TSA rules.
-
Reflections from the thinking man’s knuckleballer.
-
Really?
-
A film without pretension about warriors as heroes.
-
With American evangelicals on the ground in South Sudan.
-
-
Romney’s challenge is to address the deep uneasiness in America and point the way to a comeback.
-
The American and his/her car.
-
   Obama’s overblown tax breaks
for business.
 Why we need to break up the banks.
 Why we build memorials.
|
