From the Des Moines Register Politics Blog: Well, it took me a couple of days to climb out of the bottle that I crawled into on the night of the 2nd. Then I had to get caught back up at work. Now that I’ve had a week or so to get my head around...
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One week until the deadline for Google Fiber applications due. Editing video and talking to people. And working. So, yeah. Remember last July when Senator Jim DeMint declared that Republican’s would make health care “Obama’s Waterloo?” How’s your French, Jim? There were two great generals in that battle. I guess Obama gets to be...
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For whatever reason, my 250 words banged out in the 15 minutes between the end of the speech and my deadline did not make the cut for the print edition of the Des Moines Register, so here it is. This was a strong speech. There were some real clunkers of course, the spending freeze...
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I’ve been saying ever since he was a long-shot candidate that if anyone thought that Barack Obama was a bleeding-heart liberal then they just weren’t listening. The man is a hard-core centrist. His fine speaking abilities and outgoing personality combined with that centrisim to put many people in mind of Ronald Reagan. Andrew Sullivan...
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It is almost an article of faith at this point that Barack Obama is “the Internet President,” having perfected the medium as a campaign tool, he is using it to open up the workings of government. For example,recovery.gov, data.gov and the White House Open Government Initiative. Obama has also hired the first-ever national Chief...
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