Obama Archives - Norman Solomon

Zero Public Option + One Mandate = Disaster

Mar 19, 2010

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Not long ago, the most prominent supporters of the public option were touting it as essential for healthcare reform. Now, suddenly, it’s incidental. In fact, many who were lauding a public option as the key to a better healthcare future are now condemning just about anyone who insists that the absence of a public option…

Norman Solomon on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal: December 13, 2009

Dec 15, 2009

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in Afghanistan

Mr. President, War Is Not Peace

Dec 10, 2009

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in Afghanistan, Media Beat column

Eloquence in Oslo cannot change the realities of war. As President Obama neared the close of his Nobel address, he called for “the continued expansion of our moral imagination.” Yet, his speech was tightly circumscribed by the policies that his oratory labored to justify. Lofty rationales easily tell us that warfare is striving for the…

One year later: Unrest within the Obama base

Nov 20, 2009

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in Afghanistan

On election night a year ago, celebrations across the North Bay included dancing in the streets. The voters had spoken — loudly — for Barack Obama, who won 74 percent of ballots in Sonoma County and 78 percent in Marin. Spirits were sky high, and so were expectations. That evening, as he spoke to the…

Biggest State Party to Obama: Get Out of Afghanistan

Nov 16, 2009

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