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None of which is to say the media need to pick fights with Obama just to prove their relevance. But they will have to work all the harder to cover the Obama Administration for what it is and not just what their audience wants to hear. For all the controversy over whether the press has a political bias, just as insidious is the bias in favor of being liked - and keeping an audience. Amid all the change, this is one thing that stays the same...
...first time in a long time, I believed what I read. President-elect Obama's words are clear and I am comforted to hear them. Most of all, I think I can trust the government again. However it happened, so many Americans have lost faith in their leaders and their government's ability to stand for things noble and good. The previous Administration never apologized for its errors; it didn't seem to care what others thought of them. So I didn't care anymore. But now I do because I believe Obama listens and understands and has his heart...
...became President during the Great Depression. I recall Roosevelt's famous "There's nothing to fear but fear itself" speech. I was a youngster living in New York at that time. There was no TV in those days, but it seemed that every radio was tuned in to hear F.D.R.'s speech. You could walk down the streets of the city and hear F.D.R.'s voice. It was like being among the largest listening audience assembled in the history of the earth - at least at that time. Judging from the size of the crowds and the hype and buzz...
...Resolutions and commitments of one’s own future behavior are a bit like one person coercing another, except that in this case the present self is trying to coerce the future self. Since Ulysses had his sailors tie him to the mast so he could hear the sirens’ song without steering the ship onto the rocks, people acting in the present have restricted or coerced their future selves for the benefit of those future selves. New Years’ resolutions don’t take the form of physical restraints like tying oneself...
...deficit is a record $1.2 trillion and the debt a staggering $10.6 trillion. A depression would make both problems worse - tax revenues plunge when incomes plunge - but every public dollar we spend on depression avoidance also plunges us deeper into our hole. It's a bit galling to hear Republican leaders warn that Obama wants to spend money borrowed from our children when their own appetite for pork and tax breaks helped double the debt during the Bush years, but their hypocrisy does not make them wrong. If we're going to spring for another trillion, we need real returns...