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Sunday, November 9, 2008
Might be a busy first 100 days…
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
It doesn’t sound like a go-slow agenda….
“President-elect Barack Obama plans to push ahead with a middle-class tax cut soon after taking office, his choice for White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said today.
Speaking on ABC’s “This Week,” Emanuel also hinted that the president-elect would not postpone a tax hike for families earning more than $250,000 a year, despite the deepening economic slowdown….
Once the new administration takes power on Jan. 20, Emanuel said Obama would take quick action to expand health care coverage, revamp energy policy and make education more affordable. He called all of those initiatives part of a wider plan to shift federal policy to address the mounting economic concerns of middle class Americans.
The ongoing economic crisis “provides the opportunity, as the president-elect has said repeatedly, to do things that Americans have pushed off for years,” Emanuel said.
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The global symbolism of President Obama
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Desmond Tutu writes in today’s Washington Post:
“I am rubbing my eyes in disbelief and wonder. It can’t be true that Barack Obama, the son of a Kenyan, is the next president of the United States.
But it is true, exhilaratingly true. An unbelievable turnaround. I want to jump and dance and shout, as I did after voting for the first time in my native South Africa on April 27, 1994…
Today Africans walk taller than they did a week ago — just as they did when Nelson Mandela became South Africa’s first black president in 1994. Not only Africans, but people everywhere who have been the victims of discrimination at the hands of white Westerners, have a new pride in who they are. If a dark-skinned person can become the leader of the world’s most powerful nation, what is to stop children everywhere from aiming for the stars? ….
And the president-elect has one additional key quality: He is not George W. Bush. Because the Bush years have been disastrous for other parts of the world in many ways, Obama’s victory dramatizes the self-correcting mechanism that epitomizes American democracy.”
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