Obama

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• 1/19/20
  

  Strange Obsession: President Trump's Obama Complex

  by Robert Brent Toplin

  While Trump’s dislike of Obama is complex and multifaceted, his behavior at the 2011 White House Correspondents’ Dinner may reveal an important source of the hostility.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  1/12/20
  

  How the President Became a Drone Operator

  by Allegra Harpootlian

  From Obama to Trump, the Escalation of Drone Warfare

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• SOURCE: Madman of Chu
  1/6/20
  

  Obama was Right, Trump is Wrong on Iran

  by Andrew Meyer

  The legacy of the hostage crisis has predictably engendered a "hard line" wing of the foreign policy establishment in Washington with respect to US-Iranian relations, represented by figures such as Paul Wolfowitz, Daniel Perle, John Bolton and Mike Pompeo.

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  12/22/19
  

  How America went from Barack Obama to Donald Trump in one head-spinning political decade

  by Kevin M. Kruse and Julian Zelizer

  Obama’s America and Trump’s America feel like separate nations, but they are bound by Newton's law: For every action, an equal and opposite reaction.

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  12/10/10
  

  Poll: Majority of Democrats think Obama was better president than Washington

  The poll, conducted by Monmouth University, found that 63 percent of Democratic survey respondents believed that Obama was a better president than Washington.

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• 10/27/19
  

  New Jim Mattis Memoir Avoids Criticizing Trump, Instead Lashes Bush, Obama, and Others

  by Jeffrey J. Matthews

  With consequential elections forthcoming now is the time for Mattis to tell voters the unvarnished truth about Donald Trump.     

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• SOURCE: LA Progressive
  8/17/19
  

  Why Values Matter: Obama’s Empathy Versus Trump’s Egoism

  by Walter G. Moss

  Because of the power and influence of U. S. presidents, their values (or lack thereof) matter more than for most of us.

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• 8/18/19
  

  Many Historians Got It Wrong on Obama's Foreign Policy

  by Jeremy Kuzmarov

  Many historians appear to have been so mesmerized by Obama’s charisma and progressive domestic policies that they cannot properly criticize the foreign policy of Obama.

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• SOURCE: Yahoo News
  7/9/19
  

  McConnell cites Obama in reparations debate: 'We both are the descendants of slave owners'

  “I don’t think reparations for something that happened 150 years ago, for whom none of us currently living is responsible for, is a good idea,” McConnell said.  

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• 7/7/19
  

  Historian Ian Reifowitz on How the Race-Baiting Invective of Rush Limbaugh on the Obama Presidency Led to Trump

  by Robin Lindley

  Reifowitz's latest book traces the election of Donald Trump and the recent rise in white supremacist activity to the incendiary language of racism that the right-wing relies on to win politically.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/16/19
  

  How will Obama be remembered? A massive new oral history project will help shape his legacy.

  Many of these oral history collections are housed in presidential libraries or academic institutions and provide biographers with richly detailed firsthand accounts from which to reconstruct Oval Office narratives.

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• SOURCE: The Economist
  4/25/19
  

  Why presidential libraries are controversial

  Barack Obama’s is dividing opinions, as others have before.

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• 4/14/19
  

  Health Care for All – A Cautionary Tale from the 1970s

  by Richard Moe

  If the ultimate goal is to expand affordable health care to every American, Jimmy Carter and Ted Kennedy offer important lessons.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/9/19
  

  Obama’s Presidential Library Is Already Digital

  by Dan Cohen

  The question now is how to leverage its nature to make it maximally useful and used.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  2/25/19
  

  Obama Makes It Harder to See the Arc of History Bend

  by John Gans

  My old boss’ post-presidential center is a missed opportunity.

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• 2/24/19
  

  What 2020 Presidential Hopefuls Can Learn From Carter, Clinton, and Obama's Foreign Policy

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  It would be wise if the next President of the United States examined the records of accomplishment in foreign policy of the three most recent Democratic Presidents.

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• 10-31-18
  

  Obama Presidential Center Clears Last City Hurdle, Others Remain

  The Chicago City Council approved an agreement between the Obama Foundation and the city to build the presidential center in Jackson Park.

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• SOURCE: NY Review of Books
  9-10-18
  

  Resistance Means More Than Voting

  by Garry Wills

  Obama is wrong to suggest that voting and only voting is the way to express one’s opposition to a tyrant like Trump.

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• SOURCE: WSJ
  8-10-18
  

  The Obama Center Can Afford More Than $1 Rent

  by Mark Glennon

  It’s a political ‘institute,’ not a presidential library. So taxpayers shouldn’t be paying for anything.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  7-20-18
  

  Max Boot: This conservative would take Obama back in a nanosecond

  by Max Boot

  "How I miss Barack Obama."