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The Visionary Minimalist

Started by washingtonindependent · 8 months ago

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  • karela

    7 months ago

    Wonderful and eye opening article!
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  • Holly

    7 months ago

    Color me dense, but I'm not figuring how Obama is a "visionary minimalist" when he's included America in every part of the discussion and by virtue of our recent election, the majority of our country agrees with the president elect's priorities. That being said, how is a call to service, sacrifice , obligation, and commitment "minimalist".
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  • VigneshRam

    7 months ago

    Well, Obama's shown himself to share a philosophy a lot of legal scholars hold (including Chief Justice Roberts, and Mr. Sunstein himself I believe), where you make sure that you can achieve consensus on narrow issues, rather than engage in ideological banter. Thanks Mr. Sunstein for this article.
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  • dfronds

    7 months ago

    I agree with your assertion that Obama is an inclusionist. His stated goal is to remove the divisions that have left so many Americans feeling left out of the process. However I disagree that he is only looking for what to do. His focus has been clear. He intends to improve the fortunes of the middle class. Unfortunately he comes to office when the country is facing many great crises like the economic meltdown, the bleeding of our country's wealth and youth in Iraq & Afghanistan and global warming to name a few. His greatest attribute may be his ability to inspire many and mobilize them to create something greater than the parts. It's going to take the support and sacrifice of all Americans to overcome these obstacles and get the country back on track. Now is the time for true patriotism putting aside partisan divides and doing what is right for the country.
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  • HorizonScanner

    7 months ago

    Global Warming is a fraud intended as an overriding factor that demands that a socialism be imposed to solve it. It it weren't a fraud, scientific means would be developed and implemented.
    Indeed, new businesses would develop these technologies. But, global warming as a subject of meteorological science is created by the weather of the solar system which starts at the Sun, in particular, with the sun spot cycle.

    But, this kind of thinking is rejected out of hand by the RadLibs because, as I said, their agenda is political with the end being Socialism. Stalin needed Lysenko and that ersatz science to advance his socialism in the defunct USSR. In order to finally "convince" the American people, those who still see themselves in relation to our Founding and to founders like real gentlemen scientists like Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, brainwashing and miseducation in our schools will have to be implemented. Those who stand up and denounce this brainwashing are marginalized in the classroom by the advocates of Global Warming.

    Watch what they do to this post if you don't believe me.
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  • Hawaiianstyle

    4 months ago

    I'm sure you have heard the saying, "Your actions speak so loud I can hardly hear your words."

    Well Its getting hard to hear. FISA is still law including spying on Americans' Communications, torturers go unpunished, transparency and rendition is getting foggy, and Freedom of Information is just talk in light of the CIA and DOJ's actions.

    Mr. President, brah wen start?
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