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BREAKING: Rahm accepts Chief of Staff job
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Aziz Poonawalla
Emannuel Rahm has accepted Obama’s offer to be Chief of Staff: “The chief” is sometimes known as the second most powerful person in Washington. The job has vast authority, as the boss of the hundreds of aides who work directly for the president, a public face of the administration on television, and a negotiator and…
Nixon and China redux: Only Obama can go to Iran
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Aziz Poonawalla
A young woman votes in the second runoff of the Iranian Parliamentary elections this past April (via Faith Today). Iran is not our enemy. The reaction from Iranians to Obama’s election has been one of cautious optimism and anticipation: Iranians reacted positively to Barack Obama’s election, saluting the choice of the American people in breaking…
Post-election musings
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Aziz Poonawalla
First, let’s see how I fared – my Electoral College prediction of 310 EVs for Obama was obviously on the pessimistic side. Still, I called this election for Obama last Friday, so for me it was never a question of whether Obama would win, but only by how much. I was overly generous in giving…
Yes We Did: word cloud of Obama’s victory speech
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Aziz Poonawalla
Word cloud from Wordle.net of President-elect Barack Obama’s victory speech at Grant Park, Chicago, on November 4th 2008. This is history.
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