Journal: Lost in the White House–What Might be Best for America….

In this thoughtful piece, Bob Burnett uses the word progressive, with which I don¹t disagree.  But from another vantage, I see him articulating a transpartisan message that Jim Turner and Lawry Chickering put forward in their seminal book Voice of the People: the Transpartisan Imperative in American Life and that Bruce Shuman describes in The …

Journal: Rabbi Michael Lerner, Barack Obama, and the Washington Cesspool Update

Save Obama – by running against him By Michael Lerner The Washington Post Saturday, December 4, 2010 EXTRACT:  The basic platform for such a candidate is clear: Unequivocally call for an immediate end to the presence of U.S. troops, advisers and private U.S.-based security firms in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan, and replace the “war on …