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Bernie Goldberg: The Media and Obama's 2010 Fall From Grace

Two years ago, during the presidential campaign, the so-called mainstream media threw out all pretenses of objectivity and slobbered all over the candidate they wanted to win, Barack Obama. This year the bill came due for their corruption. And President Obama got stuck with it. It wasn't just Chris Matthews' embarrassing...

Opinion: Hope, and Change, Ahead for Obama

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(Dec. 1) -- "Be upbeat," said Al Gore's likable chief of staff, Jack Quinn, to us staffers as we got up from the enormous table in Old Executive Office Building's Ceremonial Room and headed to our offices. "If you have your private predictions, keep them to yourself." It was Election Day 1994. He seemed embarrassed --...

Opposition Cries Foul as Egyptian Elections Near

CAIRO (Nov. 22) -- Egypt's streets are festooned with posters of rival candidates competing for seats in Sunday's parliamentary elections. Loudspeakers boom candidate slogans and followers chant their support. But despite the carnival air of competition, activists and opposition groups warn this could be Egypt's most...

Opinion: The GOP Won't Cut Spending, and That's a Good Thing

(Nov. 15) -- Throughout the 2010 campaign, there was perhaps one issue that united all Republicans -- and even many Democrats: the need to cut federal spending to trim the country's growing budget deficit. But anyone who thinks a new Republican majority in the House of Representatives is going to really cut spending and...

Opinion: 4 Lessons About Voting from the 2010 Elections

(Nov. 15) -- Ten years after Bush v. Gore and the spectacle of the nation's most important political contest going into overtime, the country's voting experience this Nov. 2 highlights the changes America has seen since 2000. Here are some key lessons we have learned about election reform -- looking back and forward: New...