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Showing videos filed under: President Obama
Foreclosures and Financial Reform: Obama at Cooper Union
April 23, 2010President Obama came to New York to deliver a speech at Cooper Union this week, critiquing the financial crisis and making the case for the financial regulation bill heading for a Senate vote. He made the case for both free markets and for regulations on those markets, and called for Americans to come together to support financial regulation.Bill Fletcher Jr., Foreclosures and Financial Reform, and Cochabamba
April 23, 2010President Obama came to New York to deliver a speech at Cooper Union this week, critiquing the financial crisis and making the case for the financial regulation bill heading for a Senate vote. He made the case for both free markets and for regulations on those markets, and called for Americans to come together to support financial regulation.Five Ways President Obama Changed My Life
March 31, 2010In addition to joining our census conversation today, Baratunde Thurston gave us this video interview with Robin Stanback Stevens, a friend of his, who discusses five concrete benefits she's seen since the inauguration of Barack Obama.The Census, Marie St. Cyr on Haiti, and Kate Clinton
March 30, 2010Rep. Michelle Bachmann has publicly stated that she will not fill out her census form completely, expressing concerns about the census being part of a larger effort at voter fraud led by, you guessed it, ACORN. Of course, there are other communities who have long had reasons to distrust government officials asking for their information.Lessons From Massachusetts, Airport Security and Haiti
January 20, 2010Scott Brown, a Republican with tea party support, won the special election for the last two years of Ted Kennedy's Senate term last night over Democrat Martha Coakley. Predictably, the blame game has already started, with critiques leveled at everyone from Coakley herself to the President.The F Word: Lessons Not Learned
January 20, 2010A year ago I was freezing on Mall with a few million others, watching the inauguration of a new President. Today I'm sweltering in my unnaturally hot office, fearing the inauguration of a new movement.Health Care, Suphala, and Transgender Rights
December 15, 2009When word broke last night that Joe Lieberman had taken the health care bill hostage and that it appeared the White House and Senate Majority Leader Reid were ready to cave, progressives howled. The process by which one so-called centrist can make unreasonable demands to get a bill passed has many calling for dumping the filibuster, and activists wondering what they can do.The F Word: Holiday News Jingle
December 15, 2009It's holiday season. And besides I've been feeling too grumpy to take the news "straight." So I came up for a ditty for today. You're welcome to send us yours. Here's mine:Triumph or Troublesome, Rebuilding with Green, and Bulldozing Peace
February 12, 2009Obama and the Press. Robert Pollin on a green economic recovery plan. And Caterpillar's complicity in the destruction of Gaza.
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