US politics
Open Obama Inauguration thread
By Mark Bahnisch on January 20, 2009
If you’re staying up to watch Barack Obama’s inauguration as 44th President of the United States of America, Crikey has a good guide to coverage and commentary on tv, live streaming, live blogging and twitter. Locally, Hoyden About Town is [...]
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Obama.change II
By Mark Bahnisch on January 20, 2009
Some of the issues I was discussing in my recent post about Barack Obama’s web based strategy and its potential for both further political hay making and for keeping an electoral coalition together are neatly encapsulated in this article from [...]
Posted in Activism, Sociology, The Web, USA | Tagged barack obama, blogosphere, change.gov, liberals, netroots, open government, Sociology, US politics | 17 Responses
Obama.change
By Mark Bahnisch on January 15, 2009
You can pick almost any American liberal blog at random for signs that Barack Obama is already disappointing “the base” – that is, if the netroots actually constitute or represent his base. I’m still a tad surprised by this phenomenon [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Sociology, The Web, USA | Tagged barack obama, blogosphere, change.gov, Crooked Timber, Henry Farrell, liberals, netroots, open government, Sociology, US politics | 33 Responses
Putting US politics in perspective
By Kim on January 11, 2009
A couple of items which provide some food for thought: Firstly – Barack Obama does represent change from the era of the Bush administration. He is the limited change that’s possible within the logic of the current system. <img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/spectrum.jpg" [...]
Posted in Economics, Media, Politics, USA | Tagged Arianna Huffington, barack obama, Blago, conservatism, global financial crisis, inauguration, left and right, liberalism, political scandal, TARP bailout, US political parties, US politics | 37 Responses
2009: The year ahead
By Mark Bahnisch on January 2, 2009
As is traditional in Australia, the first day of the new year saw the release of cabinet records from thirty years ago at state and federal level. Incidentally, the underwhelming nature of what was revealed should put a big question [...]
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The Obama inauguration: some interesting links
By Mark Bahnisch on January 21, 2009
There’s probably literally millions of reactions to Barack Obama’s inauguration on the intertubes today, so I wanted to try to highlight some more specific articles and posts which raise some interesting issues which might otherwise get lost in the crowd. [...]
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