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Levy Rivers

Yes I Can - Stanley Fish Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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obama Fish

shared by Levy Rivers on 08 Jun 09 - Snapshot

  • No doubt this pattern of pronouns reflects a reality. By all the evidence we have, the guy’s completely in charge, making decisions, giving instructions, deploying resources, assigning tasks — a combination point guard, quarterback and clean-up hitter. And if he gets results, as he seems to be doing, that’s O.K.


    But it may not be O.K., as a matter of rhetoric and politics, to advertise it. An occasional passive construction to soften the claim of agency would be a good idea (even though the grammar books warn against it). It’s one thing to be calling the tune; it’s another to proclaim it in every sentence. Someone is going to say, “Am I the only one who thinks that Obama likes the sound of his own voice?” (Sea Urchin, here).

Levy Rivers

Op-Ed Columnist - Banking on the Brink - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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bailout obama banking

shared by Levy Rivers on 23 Feb 09 - Snapshot
  • Second, banks must be rescued. The collapse of Lehman Brothers almost destroyed the world financial system, and we can’t risk letting much bigger institutions like Citigroup or Bank of America implode
Levy Rivers

Op-Ed Columnist - Money for Idiots - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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obama propeller heads bailout brooks

shared by Levy Rivers on 20 Feb 09 - Snapshot
  • But at least they seem to be driven by a spirit of moderation and restraint. They seem to be trying to keep as many market structures in place as possible so things can return to normal relatively smoothly.
Levy Rivers

Writers praise Barack Obama's inaugural address - long on plot - stood on shoulders - 0 views

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shared by Levy Rivers on 21 Jan 09 - Snapshot
  • Long on plot (and it will thicken), it did what literature does best: the backward glance, the standing on shoulders, the salute to ancestors and other sources of wisdom.
  • He is our first (in the best sense of the word) aristocratic president," author and journalist Malcolm Gladwell told The Times. "Bush was a buddy. Clinton was the kindly uncle. Obama is a prince."
  • Some, like memoirist Patricia Hampl, praised Obama's plain speaking. "I was glad," she said, "that he denied himself rhetorical flourishes and gave a speech as refined and restrained in its power so that political language itself was restored to its greatest value -- saying what the speaker means."
Levy Rivers

Text of Barack Obama's inaugural address - Los Angeles Times - 0 views

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obama

shared by Levy Rivers on 21 Jan 09 - Snapshot
  • As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals. Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience's sake
  • For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness.
  • To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect. To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West -- know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy. To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.
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  • Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends -- hard work and honesty, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism -- these things are old. These things are true.
  • that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task.
  • So let us mark this day with remembrance, of who we are and how far we have traveled. In the year of America's birth, in the coldest of months, a small band of patriots huddled by dying campfires on the shores of an icy river. The capital was abandoned. The enemy was advancing. The snow was stained with blood. At a moment when the outcome of our revolution was most in doubt, the father of our nation ordered these words be read to the people:



    "Let it be told to the future world ... that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive ... that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet [it]."
Levy Rivers

Text of Barack Obama's inaugural address - Los Angeles Times - 0 views

www.latimes.com/...ch21-2009jan21,0,2107548.story

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shared by Levy Rivers on 21 Jan 09 - Snapshot
  • In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one of shortcuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the faint-hearted -- for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame. Rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things -- some celebrated, but more often men and women obscure in their labor, who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and freedom.
  • But our time of standing pat, of protecting narrow interests and putting off unpleasant decisions -- that time has surely passed. Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.
  • What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them -- that the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply. The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works -- whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified.
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  • that a nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous.
Levy Rivers

Obama Considers Major Expansion in Jobless Aid - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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jobless obama

shared by Levy Rivers on 04 Jan 09 - Snapshot
  • One proposal, as described by Democratic advisers, would extend unemployment compensation to part-time workers, an idea that Congressional Republicans have blocked in the past.
Levy Rivers

On Faith: Guest Voices: A Post-Obama Kwanzaa #blck - 0 views

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shared by Levy Rivers on 28 Dec 08 - Snapshot
  • The political climate affects black rituals too. A lot has been made of the number of posts that black life confronts: post-soul, post-black, post-racial, and post-civil rights. In this era of black posts, pillars fall, whether civil rights leaders whose approach is viewed as passé, or as rituals of black cohesion are viewed by many blacks as quaint and largely irrelevant. A lot of that talk picked up pace with the election of Barack Obama as president, a monumental event that eclipsed black fears in some quarters (racism could no longer keep black folk from the big prizes of American life), exacerbated them in others (because of his success the bulk of blacks who continue to struggle might be forgotten). What's a people - and how is "people" exactly defined in such conditions - to do?
Levy Rivers

Editorial - The Gas Tax - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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obama economy

shared by Levy Rivers on 28 Dec 08 - Snapshot

  • Who will buy all the fuel-efficient cars that Detroit carmakers are supposed to make?

    The danger is that too few will, especially if gasoline prices remain low. Therefore, it might be time for the president-elect and Congress to think seriously about imposing a gas tax or similar levy to keep gas prices up after the economy recovers from recession.

  • They bought them because they wanted big cars — and because gas was cheap. If gas stays cheap, Americans would be less inclined to squeeze their families into a lithe fuel-efficient alternative.
  • The recent infatuation with the Toyota Prius and other fuel-efficient cars could well come to a similar end. It took a gallon of gas at $4.10 to push the share of light trucks down to 45 percent in July. But as gasoline plummeted back to $1.60 a gallon, their share inched back up to 49 percent of auto sales in November.
Levy Rivers

Op-Ed Columnist - Life Without Bubbles - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...22krugman.html

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shared by Levy Rivers on 22 Dec 08 - Snapshot
  • To be more specific: the severe housing slump we’re experiencing now will end eventually, but the immense Bush-era housing boom won’t be repeated. Consumers will eventually regain some of their confidence, but they won’t spend the way they did in 2005-2007, when many people were using their houses as ATMs, and the savings rate
  • By selling more to other countries and spending more of our own income on U.S.-produced goods, we could get to full employment without a boom in either consumption or investment spending.
  • Anyway, the rest of the world may not be ready to handle a drastically smaller U.S. trade deficit. As my colleague Tom Friedman recently pointed out, much of China’s economy in particular is built around exporting to America, and will have a hard time switching to other occupations.
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  • But once the economy has perked up a bit, there will be a lot of pressure on the new administration to pull back, to throw away the economy’s crutches. And if the administration gives in to that pressure too soon, the result could be a repeat of the mistake F.D.R. made in 1937 — the year he slashed spending, raised taxes and helped plunge the United States into a serious recession.
    • Levy Rivers
      Levy Rivers on 22 Dec 08
       
      What this sounds like to me is that Obama will have to have both a stimlous policy and industrial policy so as to build up the demand for our goods as well as services.
Levy Rivers

Lee Stranahan: Embrace What You Have In Common With Rick Warren - 0 views

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shared by Levy Rivers on 18 Dec 08 - Snapshot
  • There's something bigger at play here and you can't say Obama didn't warn you. He talked about reaching out, about expanding our politics and that crazy bastard actually meant it. Nobody on the left or right quite knows what to make of it. We want to cram Obama into our old, divisive, two toned ideological and political frame and if he doesn't fit, we'll attack him too. Attacking is what we're used to doing.
Levy Rivers

Harvard Lightning Rod Finds Path to Renewal With Obama - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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nytimes obama reputation

shared by Levy Rivers on 07 Dec 08 - Snapshot
  • From the moment he stepped down, Mr. Summers, advised by powerful supporters who said he had been unfairly maligned, worked hard at repairing his reputation
Levy Rivers

Barbara Walters Obama Interview On ABC (VIDEO) - 0 views

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obama walters ethics

shared by Levy Rivers on 28 Nov 08 - Snapshot
  • things I hope my presidency helps to usher in is a, a return to an ethic of responsibility. That if you're placed in a position of power, then you've got responsibilities to your workers. You've got a responsibility to your community. Your share holders. That if -- there's got to be a point where you say, 'You know what, I have enough, and now I'm in this position of responsibility, let me make sure that I'm doing right by people, and, and acting in a way that is responsible.' And that's true, by the way, for members of congress, that's true for the president, that's true for cabinet members, that's true for parents.
  • Well, I'm, I'm negotiating to figure out how can I get information from outside of the 10 or 12 people who surround my office in the White House. Because, one of the worst things I think that could happen to a president is losing touch with what people are going through day to day.
sofarso Shawn

Obama 'to unveil Treasury chief' - 0 views

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Obama US politics US financial crisis

shared by sofarso Shawn on 26 Nov 08 - Snapshot
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    sofarso Shawn on 26 Nov 08
     
    The top contenders are: "Blank Cheque" or "Bail out." Due to a huge package, Bail Out is ithe front runner.
Levy Rivers

FiveThirtyEight.com: Politics Done "Right": Zogby Engages in Apparent Push Polling for Righ... - 0 views

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fivethirtyeight obama

shared by Levy Rivers on 18 Nov 08 - Snapshot
  • The website, created by former radio talk show host John Ziegler to promote a forthcoming documentary, features a YouTube clip of interviews with 12 Obama voters who "were chosen for their apparent intelligence/verbal abilities and willingness to express their opinions to a large audience"
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