▼ Author Community Vote 58 days ago Peter Daou On the Left, A False Choice Fuels The Growing Civil War Over Obama - — There is a civil war on the left over Barack Obama. The fault lines are jagged, and depending on the issue, porous, but broadly, the split is along two fronts: — Those who believe that critiquing - and occasionally opposing … 102 days ago Peter Daou The Great Shame: America's Pathetic Response to the Gulf Catastrophe - — Shame on us. — A calamity is unfolding before our eyes - the greatest oil spill in history - and America's response is little more than a big yawn. — Bob Herbert writes: … Where is the outrage? 226 days ago Peter Daou Liberal Bloggers to Obama and Dems: We Told You So - — It took more than half a decade, countless American and Iraqi deaths in a war based on lies, a sinking economy and the drowning of an American city to finally kill Bush-Cheney-Rove's dream of a conservative realignment. 240 days ago Peter Daou Ethics and Believability in Politics: On Sifry's Theory of an 'Obama Disconnect' - — Micah Sifry has written a widely discussed essay about the denuded Obama grassroots movement, touching on a broad range of issues, from the campaign team's exertion of top-down control to their missteps post-election … 301 days ago Peter Daou Don't Bother Waiting for Bloggers to Get Credit for the Public Option - — A year ago, in a very different October, as we hurtled toward a historic election, I wrote a post titled On November Fourth, the Netroots Should Be More Than an Afterthought: … Not surprisingly, despite lots of buzz … 22 days ago Peter Daou "Send Them Home With a Bullet in the Head" - — I've gone on the record disagreeing with the term ‘Teabaggers’ and with the use of the word ‘un-American’ - I've done so because despite the astroturfing and the faux-grassroots opposition to health care reform, I place a premium on citizen activism … 29 days ago Peter Daou Five Reasons the Health Care Battle Is NOT the Presidential Campaign - — Democrats and progressives are clearly rattled by how quickly the right has come out of the gate in the much-anticipated August health care battle. — Zandar, keying off Josh Marshall, explains: 33 days ago Peter Daou Washington Post's Milbank Says Hillary Clinton Should Drink "Mad Bitch" Beer - — This is the kind of garbage that has permeated media coverage of Hillary Clinton for years. Relevant segment at about 2:35. (h/t Brian Beutler). 90 days ago Peter Daou Let Women Wear the Hijab: The Emptiness of Obama's Cairo Speech - — I know many will gush over President Obama's Cairo speech and I'm likely swimming against the tide of the media and my fellow Democrats and progressives. But reading the transcript, I was struck by two things: 183 days ago Peter Daou Why on Earth Are Democrats Legitimizing and Empowering Rush Limbaugh? - — I don't buy into this ‘brilliant’ strategy of elevating Rush Limbaugh in the hopes that it will tarnish Republicans. — Focus relentlessly on the disastrous Bush presidency to tarnish Republicans, yes.