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Obama's "Tone-Deaf" Health Reform Campaign
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052970204251404574342653428074782.html
Yes, the politics is tremendously polarized and the right is not fighting fairly. But replies of Naziism don't help the liberals and, as the numbers show, biting off big issues is having the expected effect on Obama's approval ratings. As Dorothy Rabinowitz wrtites in the Wall Street Journal:
It didn’t take chaotic town-hall meetings, raging demonstrators and consequent brooding in various sectors of the media to bring home the truth that the campaign for a health-care bill is, to put it mildly, not going awfully well. It’s not hard now to envision the state of this crusade with just a month or two more of diligent management by the Obama team—think train wreck. It may one day be otherwise in the more perfect world of universal coverage, but for now disabilities like the tone deafness that afflicts this administration from the top down are uninsurable
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The real action in Iran is on the streets.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/06/18/iran_twitter/
Of course "social media is documenting the Iranian revolution — not leading it." But that still requires media exposure, coordination and communication, all of which Twitter supplies in spades. No, social media will not bring down Ahmadinejad, the Iranian people can only do that. Imagine if Tom Paine in 1775 or Cory Aquino in 1987 had the one-to-many power of social networking communication instead of pamphlets and radio. Just as "Internet time" speeds up the old world, so too does social media — whether China, Iran or otherwise — provide a new and powerful tool for political revolution.
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Read the "torture memos" courtesy of the ACLU. Shocking.
As the New York Times editorialized
These memos are not an honest attempt to set the legal limits on interrogations, which was the authors’ statutory obligation. They were written to provide legal immunity for acts that are clearly illegal, immoral and a violation of this country’s most basic values.
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