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...Tuesday night, President-elect Barack Obama ended his acceptance speech with a repetitive call of “Yes, we can.” However, that same night numerous states considered or passed constitutional amendments that limited the legislative branch’s ability to do its job. Abortion, marriage, adoption, and government language are important issues, but fundamentally statutory issues. To place them into the state constitution only limits the dialogue needed in statehouses to reach a consensus. Perhaps “Yes, we can” should also be applied to bringing about a system in which laws...
...shouldn’t have been on the ballot because extending rights to gays and all the other involvement in marriage would have been an expansion of government.” Harvard Kennedy School lecturer Timothy P. McCarthy ’93, a member of president-elect Barack Obama’s National LGBT Leadership Council, said while he appreciates Obama’s support for gay rights, he also believes that the senator has an “incoherent position” when it comes to marriage equality. “He’s not been as loud...
...Within hours of Obama's election, global trouble spots were vying for the President-elect's attention. "This is my first demand of the new President of the United States - to put an end to civilian casualties," Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Wednesday in Kabul, following reports that a U.S. bombing in southern Afghanistan Monday killed 37 people at a wedding party, most of them women and children...
...there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible," declared the President-elect, "who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer." (See pictures of Barack Obama's victory celebration in Chicago...
Martin, in a conference call with reporters, seemed to believe the answer was "yes" and had said he had already placed a call to the President-elect asking for his support. Chambliss, in another press conference later in the day, seemed to believe the answer was "no," but acknowledged the national implications of the race. He said a runoff could force him to face the flood of Democratic money that bedeviled John McCain in the presidential race. "Look, a runoff is just not good news for Saxby Chambliss," says Merle Black, a political science professor at Emory University...