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...This really was a call to action,” said Harvard Democrats President Jason Q. Berkenfeld ’11, who watched the speech at a Dems-organized event in a Leverett House common room. “As the Obama administration sets the pace, we as an organization will definitely respond...
...quick call to the Harvard Ticket Office gave us this information...
Stand-up comics call it a "tough crowd," but then tough crowds are part of their business. It's a whole other matter to be met with cold stares when you are the President of the United States, talking in prime time before a joint session of Congress, when your party controls both chambers by historic margins. (Read "Obama's State of the Union Address: Five Ways to Judge Its Success...
...enacting legislation, the voters are denied their fundamental right to object. Obama wrote about laws being “uniform, predictable and transparent ... applying equally to the rulers and the ruled.” There is no transparency when a leader blatantly ignores the procedures of Congress that call for open debate because to do so is to his political advantage. When preferential treatment is given to unions, pharmaceutical companies, and insurance providers behind closed doors there is no sense of fair play. There is no equality when a Nebraskan senator is bribed with promises that benefit his state...
...President, along with Democrats in Congress, disenfranchised millions of Republicans across America with his agenda. While serving in Congress has become more of a career rather than a call to public service, it seems the commander-in-chief is paving that path. Barack Obama once wrote, “The answer I settle on sees our democracy not as a house to be built, but a conversation to be had.” As president of the United States, the only conversation he wants is with those who acquiesce...