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OPINION

Arugula as 'Hope Salad,'
and Other Obama Changes

How president-elect can deliver, concretely, on campaign mantra

Culture11 Nov 11, 08 6:27 PM CST
(Newser) - In case you haven’t heard, Barack Obama wants to bring change to America. Culture11 offers a list of what that change might mean: When daughters ask for a puppy, Daddy shouts: "Yes we can!" French win fries debate in White House cafeteria. Arugula now known as “Hope salad.” Secret Service stops worrying about first daughters falling down drunk. More »

Byrd, 90, Resigns as Appropriations Chairman

Senator, rumored to be under pressure from Reid, will be replaced by Hawaii's Inoyue

The Hill The Hill Nov 7, 08 3:58 PM CST
(Newser) - Robert Byrd resigned today as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, acquiescing to Democratic leaders who reportedly wanted him out of the job, the Hill reports. Byrd, 90, has been hospitalized three times in the past year, and said he was willing to leave the committee in younger hands—namely, those of 84-year-old Hawaiian Daniel Inouye. More »

(Newser) - The striking thing about this election season isn’t how different it’s been from years past, “but precisely how similar,” Joan Didion writes for Salon. "Time got wasted in the familiar ways," she laments. The country is in the grip of a startling transformation, but "in the end the old notes had been struck, the old language used." More »

More about:  Election 2008 • presidential politics • change • election history

OPINION

Stop Bashing Washington Insiders; You'll Need Them

Consensus within the establishment is necessary for change

Washington Post Washington Post Sep 15, 08 2:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - Voters have loved to hate Washington insiders since Washington’s founding, and politicians have sought to capitalize on those feelings for just as long. So it makes sense that even the GOP ticket, fortified by Sarah Palin, is running as an outsider insurgency. But, Norman Ornstein points out in the Washington Post , no administration can accomplish change without "the deep deployment of people who know how to move the levers of power from the inside." More »

More about:  Sarah Palin • Congress • Washington • president • presidential candidates • filibuster • change

analysis

 Camps Vie for 'Reformer' Label 

McCain, Obama fight for 'nebulous' image of change

Washington Post Washington Post Sep 5, 08 8:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain and Barack Obama are both laying claim to an agenda of “reform”—but neither has offered a clear idea of what that means, writes Jonathan Weisman in the Washington Post . In opening speeches last night, the words “reform” or “reformer” were spoken 11 times. McCain’s camp says the calls aren’t for “programmatic” reforms, but rather something “both more sweeping and more nebulous,” Weisman notes. More »

More about:  Barack Obama • John McCain • Sarah Palin • reform • change

OPINION

 Time to Change 
 the Slogan, Obama

Obama must tell story of our economic future

New York Times New York Times Aug 24, 08 9:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - It’s time for Barack Obama to drop the “Change We Can Believe In” slogan in favor of something closer to “Change Before It’s Too Late,” writes Frank Rich in the New York Times . The former phrase fit the Democratic primary throwdown, but now Obama must focus on John McCain, "an unstable bridge back not just to Bush policies but to an increasingly distant 20th-century America." The Dem needs to present a way out of the economic “quagmire” that could bring the country to its knees. More »

More about:  Barack Obama • John McCain • US economy • campaign tactics • change • Frank Rich • slogans

OPINION

Here Comes
Era of Activist Government

It's necessary, and McCain is better suited for the job: Brooks

New York Times New York Times Jul 18, 08 10:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - With daunting issues demanding immediate action—energy, the markets, and crumbling infrastructure to name but a few—the US is about to enter a phase of "government activism," writes David Brooks in the New York Times . Bad news for John McCain, right? Maybe not. As past periods of great change show, it is more often the conservatives leading the way in such eras . More »

 'Change' Falls Flat
 With Hoosiers 

Voters clinging to 'traditional values' could require Democrats to tweak approach

New York Times New York Times Apr 24, 08 2:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - Despite the ubiquitous use of “change” as a rallying cry in the Democratic primaries, the New York Times notes, the candidates might want to reconsider using it ahead of Indiana's May 6 primary. Although they’re dissatisfied with the economic toll taken by the decline in manufacturing, voters generally expressed “queasiness” in response to both candidates' use of the mantra. More »

Obama Surges in National Poll

He opens 16-point lead, seen as having best shot against McCain

CBS CBS Feb 26, 08 8:17 AM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama has opened up a lead of 16 points over Hillary Clinton among voters nationwide and is seen as the candidate with the best chance to beat John McCain, according to a new poll from CBS and the New York Times . Obama had a lead of 54% to 38% in the poll, which had the candidates tied at 41% three weeks ago, CBS reports. More »

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