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“Action … and action now.”

This week, Obama takes another cue from FDR as he calls for “action and action now” in his weekly address.

There’s a great exhibit at the FDR Library & Museum called “Action And Action Now” that I highly recommend.

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Larry Summers on spreading the wealth

From today’s New York Times:
Mr. Summers has spent much of his career tweaking fellow liberals with arguments he considers unpleasant truths — on the dangers of budget deficits, the benefits of capitalism and other subjects. But he seems to have decided that conservative orthodoxies have become a vastly bigger threat to good economic policy than [...]

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Obama’s first weekly video address

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Franklin Delano Obama?

NYT columnist and Nobel laureate Paul Krugman thinks FDR can be an inspiration for the Obama administration — but he thinks Obama needs to go further than FDR did in spending to revitalize the economy:
The political lesson is that economic missteps can quickly undermine an electoral mandate. Democrats won big last week — but they [...]

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President-elect Obama on the Employee Free Choice Act

Please sign the petition. Thanks!

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Dr. King’s dream realized

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Harlem celebrates

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Visions of Selma

Left: During the Selma march / Right: Barack Obama in Selma (Photo: Linda Stelter/Associated Press)
The New York Times also has a video of election reactions in Selma.

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Obama, Japan

The Associated Press: Japan’s Obama town celebrates namesake’s victory

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Bruuuuuuce! Obama!

Thanks to Jeff Vrabel for the link!

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