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A few days ago, Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov said that Obama should shore up Medvedev against Putin to empower the Russian president to embark on liberal reforms. The trouble is, the authenticity Medvedev's liberalism is still a big question mark.
President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden jaunted off to an Arlington, Virginia restaurant called Ray's Hell Burger, where they and their posse ingested mass quantities of burgers and house-speciality "cheesy tater puffs."
Quite interesting, completely well-done, and somewhat sickening profile of Vice President Joe Biden in the new Esquire. Esquire is a master of this sort of courtier encomium about politicians, and has been admirably bi-partisan about it, at least during the age of McCain.
In 2007, at 55, Jill Biden did earn a doctorate—in education—from the University of Delaware. Since then, in campaign news releases and now in White House announcements, she is "Dr. Jill Biden." This strikes some people as perfectly appropriate and others as slightly pompous, a quality of...
Alexander Cockburn on voting: Listening to my complaints about Obama, a friend of mine in New York asked what alternative I had to recommend her. Since in New York the split for Obama-Biden is roughly 65-29 I told her it didn't matter. She could write in the straight Wiccan ticket if she felt s...
Obama's liberal defenders comfort themselves with the thought that "he had to say that to get elected". He didn't. After eight years of Bush, Americans are receptive to reassessing America's imperial role...... A similar argument applies for libertarians who are enthusiastic supporters of O...