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Opinion: Obama's Weakness -- He's Typical, Not Radical
By Michael Medved - AOL NewsThe best way for conservatives to defeat Barack Obama in 2012 is to tag him as typical, not radical. The GOP only hurts its own cause by slamming Obama as an extremist ideologue with an alien agenda, when it's both more accurate and more effective to identify him as a conventional, old-school, big-government liberal. When his critics suggest that the president stands far outside the political mainstream (like Newt Gingrich's charge that he's "the most radical president in American history") they ought to confront one important challenge: try to name one significant decision by this president ...
Kurtz: Glenn Beck Dominating Conversation Without Mainstream Media
By David Sessions - Politics DailyIn his column in Monday's paper, Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz observes that Fox News personality Glenn Beck is dominating the media conversation -- even to the point of forcing a White House official to resign -- without a bit of help from newspapers, television or other mainstream news sources. "It has become a familiar chain reaction: Talk-show hosts whip up a noisy controversy, which hits higher decibels as it spreads to the establishment media, which costs some unfortunate soul his job," Kurtz writes. "But now the middleman -- the journalistic gatekeepers of yore -- may no ...
Van Jones Resigns Green Jobs Post, Makes Defiant Exit
By David Sessions - Politics DailyObama administration green jobs adviser Van Jones, under fire for controversial associations and comments, resigned Sunday after criticism from conservative commentators and Republican politicians reached fever pitch last week. It was another blow to an administration that has suffered a number of frustrating setbacks over the summer, and illustrated President Obama's belief that some controversies are best solved by capitulation. According to several of today's papers, it also raises persistent questions about the quality and thoroughness of the White House's vetting process. ...
How 9/11 Conspiracy Poison Did in Van Jones
By David Corn - Politics DailyAs far as I can tell, the only thing the so-called 9/11 Truth movement has accomplished is this: it's caused the Obama administration to lose its most prominent expert on green jobs. So well done, Truthers. Thanks to you, the federal government will now be spending about $80 billion on green economy initiatives without the guiding hand of one of the most knowledgeable experts in this field.I am, of course, referring to Van Jones, who resigned this weekend from his position as adviser to the head of the White House's Council on Environmental Quality. Jones, once a civil rights activist, in ...
Van Jones, Obama's Green Jobs Advisor, Under Fire for '9/11 Truther' Past
By David Sessions - Politics DailyAnthony "Van" Jones, a special advisor for green jobs to the Obama administration, has come under fire for his participation with the "9/11 Truth" movement, which promotes the notion that the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks were an inside job by the U.S. government. Jones was on the organizing committee for a 2002 "truth" march in San Francisco, and was one of 100 notable signatories of a "9/11 Truth Statement," calling for an investigation into the terrorist attacks. ...
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