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...need look no further than President-elect Barack Obama’s transition website—aptly located at www.change.gov—to remember his promise of a new and improved Presidency. Yet, as Obama begins the vetting process for cabinet-level and advisory posts, many Americans have decried his focus on Washington insiders. Such critics claim that, by hearkening back to people who held positions in the Bush and Clinton administrations, Obama is abandoning his entire platform of change. What this argument fails to address, however, is that even those experienced politicians whose names may be familiar...
Over the past few weeks, you’ve probably seen a few editorials in various publications trumpeting Barack Obama’s election as a harbinger of the end of racism in America. Since we have elected a black man president, the argument goes, discrimination in this country is a shadow of the serious problem it once was. And certainly, it is true that since the Civil Rights Movement, our society has made tremendous strides towards tolerance, reconciliation, and the attenuation of racial stereotypes...
...mention these unfortunate facts not to extinguish hope, but to encourage change. Though Barack Obama’s victory alone did not immediately resolve these challenges, he will have the chance to tackle them during his presidency. And if his platform is any indication, he hopes to attack poverty, ignorance, and lack of economic opportunity head-on. Among other measures, he has promised to increase education funding, invest in job-creation programs in disadvantaged neighborhoods, and raise the minimum wage and the Earned Income Tax Credit. While these campaign pledges may be transformed or scaled back in the face...
...teach or sacrament to unite and distinguish the congregation. Instead they taught a way of life, deeply democratic, severe and simple, that could be sustained only through a faithful home and what they called a "guarded education." The goal was both to instruct and protect. (See pictures of Barack Obama's family tree...
...pictures of Barack Obama's campaign behind the scenes...