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Joining Pepsi's quest for O-mentum are advertisers like Audi ("Progress is beautiful") and Ikea ("Embrace change"). Trying to make a buck off the zeitgeist is an old story, but these ads also capture a particular mood of today. America right now is like some kind of agitated subatomic particle holding two opposite charges at once: dread and excitement. Just so, these ads convey both desperation--someone, please, buy something!--and the thrilling sense that a big change is afoot in the country's mind-set. (See pictures of the best Obama inaugural merchandise...
...should say that I threw the first stone at Obama. He threw it at me.' HUGO CHAVEZ, Venezuelan President, saying Obama had the "same stench" as George W. Bush, after Obama accused Chávez of impeding progress in South America...
...what about progress? What’s more American than that? Rob Storr, the dean of the Yale University School of Art, called Wyeth “anti-modern,†and the posthumous consensus is that he gave the “silent majority†that were his fans the illusion of an America that no longer existed. Wyeth did his best-remembered work in the post-WWII 1940s, when America was just testing its strength as a world power. America had growing pains, and Wyeth was prescribing the opiate nostalgia...
...instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends - hard work and honesty, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism - these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history. What is demanded then is a return to these truths. What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility - a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather...
Compiled by two of the nation's largest left-leaning think tanks - the New Democracy Project and the Center for American Progress Action Fund - this collection of 67 agency-by-agency, issue-by-issue essays serves as a bible of progressive thought. It is modeled after 1980's Mandate for Leadership, a book which greatly influenced Ronald Reagan's transition team. Seeing as John Podesta, head of the Center for American Progress, was the head of Barack Obama's transition team, it stands to reason that these recommendations will receive serious consideration. (See a gallery of Obama's cabinet members...