President Barack Obama took another historic step yesterday during his news conference. He called on Huffington Post reporter Sam Stein to ask a question at the White House press conference. Blogs have become an integral part of the new media.
Stein asked whether Obama would endorse Senator Patrick Leahy’s proposal to establish “a truth and reconciliation committee” to investigate the misdeeds of the Bush administration.
It is encouraging to see a progressive President in action. What a welcome contrast with George W. Bush.
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Now, here’s an example of chutzpah: The Republicans didn’t get their act together enough to challenge Obama for not being constitutionally qualified to be President as an Article 2 “natural born citizen” so Obama’s White House steals the census from the Commerce Department against the specific instructions of the constitution itself — “actual enumeration” under Article 1.