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Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:09:00 PDT By Joan Walsh Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/09/08/obama_labor_speech/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/09/08/obama_labor_speech/index.html?source=rss Let's hope the Obama who fired up labor on Monday is the guy who rallies Congress to fix health care on Wednesday By Joan Walsh Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/11/04/ny23/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/11/04/ny23/index.html?source=rss I promised to blog from vacation if Bill Owens won NY23; here's my lazy compromise By Joan Walsh Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/11/01/vacation/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/11/01/vacation/index.html?source=rss As I leave for a short break, the news that Scozzafava endorsed Democrat Owens in the NY-23 race made my day By Joan Walsh Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/10/30/brooks_krauthammer/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/10/30/brooks_krauthammer/index.html?source=rss Brooks and Krauthammer try to macho-bait Obama into the McChrystal escalation in Afghanistan By Joan Walsh Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/10/22/cheney/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/10/22/cheney/index.html?source=rss Mr. Secret Bunker calls Obama "afraid." Wingnuts clap, world yawns. Plus: I debate Tom Tancredo on Cheney By Joan Walsh Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/10/15/first_they_came_for_rush_limbaugh/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/10/15/first_they_came_for_rush_limbaugh/index.html?source=rss The right-wing reaction to the radio host's failed bid to own an NFL team is a cavalcade of paranoia and self-pity By Joan Walsh Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/10/10/obama_nobel_prize/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/10/10/obama_nobel_prize/index.html?source=rss For eight years peace was made impossible by the lawless Bush-Cheney cabal. Now Obama needs to live up to his award By Joan Walsh Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/10/09/opt_out_option/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/10/09/opt_out_option/index.html?source=rss More liberals back a public option compromise that lets red states say no thanks. Plus: Double standard on Rangel By Joan Walsh Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/10/08/obama_polanski/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/10/08/obama_polanski/index.html?source=rss How? Some Hollywood folks who back the convicted rapist gave money to the president! Plus: Bogus Stories of 2009! By Joan Walsh Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/10/08/afghanistan/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/10/08/afghanistan/index.html?source=rss It's hard not to think of Vietnam as Obama mulls sending more troops to Afghanistan By Joan Walsh Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/10/06/evan_thomas_on_clinton/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/10/06/evan_thomas_on_clinton/index.html?source=rss Newsweek's Evan Thomas faults Taylor Branch for not pushing Bill Clinton to reveal more -- about his sex life. Oy By Joan Walsh Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/10/01/the_clinton_tapes/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/10/01/the_clinton_tapes/index.html?source=rss The president and the historian provide a candid, intimate look at how the GOP became a nasty party of obstruction By Joan Walsh Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/09/29/baucus/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/09/29/baucus/index.html?source=rss The Montana senator rejects the public option while admitting it would "hold insurance companies' feet to the fire" By Joan Walsh Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/09/28/clinton_conspiracy/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/09/28/clinton_conspiracy/index.html?source=rss The former president reminds the media that the anti-Obama movement has deep GOP roots in the attacks he faced By Joan Walsh Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/09/22/obama_overexposed/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/09/22/obama_overexposed/index.html?source=rss While pundits warn that Obama's TV tour left him "overexposed," polls show Americans like seeing their president By Joan Walsh Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/09/22/race_and_the_media/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/09/22/race_and_the_media/index.html?source=rss President Obama says the media overplays the racism of the right. He's right to say that, and I'm right to disagree By Joan Walsh Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/09/18/dick_armey/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/09/18/dick_armey/index.html?source=rss Corporate America's buddy is only trying to advance the freedom movements of the 60s. Honest! By Joan Walsh Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/09/17/nancy_pelosi/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/09/17/nancy_pelosi/index.html?source=rss First I thought so, but her memories of San Francisco's violence made the risks of extreme Obama-hate more real By Joan Walsh Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/09/15/open_season_on_white_people/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/09/15/open_season_on_white_people/index.html?source=rss A high school fight is the president's fault. Plus: Last word on "The Blackening of the President" By Joan Walsh Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/09/11/obama_snoop_dogg/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/09/11/obama_snoop_dogg/index.html?source=rss When Obama told folks who lie about his healthcare plan "I will call you out," who knew he was talking gangsta? By Joan Walsh Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/09/10/healthcare_speech/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/09/10/healthcare_speech/index.html?source=rss By ignoring GOP hooligans and getting his fellow Democrats behind his compelling vision of healthcare reform By Joan Walsh Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/09/04/terry_jeffrey_unamerican/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/09/04/terry_jeffrey_unamerican/index.html?source=rss Terry Jeffrey doesn't just want to stop Obama's speech; he wants public schools to teach Christian-right dogma By Joan Walsh Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/09/04/obama_back_to_school_speech/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/09/04/obama_back_to_school_speech/index.html?source=rss Blocking the president's back-to-school address shows the extent of the wingnuts' racial and political paranoia By Joan Walsh Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/09/02/health_care_organizing/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/09/02/health_care_organizing/index.html?source=rss Sure there's a lot of media idiocy about healthcare, but Obama has to take some of the blame for the confusion By Joan Walsh Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/08/29/kennedy_memorial/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/08/29/kennedy_memorial/index.html?source=rss Nobody knows if he'd have demanded a public health care option, but he wouldn't have surrendered before the fight