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...course, true international action on climate change will require strong support at home - and it's not clear that exists yet. (Bush gets the blame for ditching Kyoto, but don't forget that the Senate in 1997 voted 95-0 that the U.S. shouldn't sign onto the protocol in its finished form, and President Bill Clinton never brought the treaty to Congress.) It'll be up to the next President - with the help of a somewhat greener Congress - to change that, even as he copes with a hemorrhaging economy. But there's one bright side for President...
...Barack Obama doesn’t become the next president of the United States,” comedian Sarah Silverman says in her YouTube video advertisement for The Great Schlep, “I’m gonna blame the Jews.” In September, when I went home for Rosh Hashanah and told my family that I supported Obama, I heard a very different ultimatum: If Barack Obama does become the next president of the United States, they’re going to blame the Jews. Orthodox Jews like my parents are an often overlooked demographic, even...
...precisely Jews like Dershowitz and Grossman who my parents will blame if Obama gets elected, because they fail to recognize signs that perhaps Obama is not quite the messiah for whom the all Jewish people have been waiting. Despite Obama’s official stances on most Israel policy issues, it is hard to ignore my family’s contention that it is sheer negligence for Jews to elect a candidate who may not have a consistently pro-Israel policy...
...Regardless of the specific degree to which the Bush Administration is to blame for the current crisis, the economic policies pursued over the past eight years have rewarded unbridled greed and corruption while neglecting the backbone of the American economy–the middle class. For the vast majority of Americans, John McCain’s economic agenda, which will make the Bush tax cuts permanent and continue the discredited trickle-down policies of the past eight years, is unlikely to mitigate the pain of a very real recession...
...distract the faithful while avoiding the hard choices about cutting multibillion-dollar entitlements that might really downsize the budget.” The NEA got cut off at the knees because it was easier—and much more popular—for House Speaker Newt Gingrich to blame Robert Mapplethorpe for our problems than actually to solve them...