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Obama at the Crossroads

by: Bill Moyers Journal, t r u t h o u t | Programming Note

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President Barack Obama. (Photo: The White House)

    Airdate: Friday, September 11, 2009, at 9:00 PM (EDT) on PBS (check local listings).

    With a landmark speech on health reform behind him and tensions rising in war-torn Afghanistan, Bill Moyers Journal looks at President Obama's next big fights. Global health specialist and incoming president of Dartmouth College Dr. Jim Yong Kim shares his expertise in public health. And, the Journal takes a hard look at the state of affairs in ever-divided Afghanistan with McClatchy DC Pentagon correspondent Nancy Youssef.

  

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In the course of setting the

 Thu, 09/10/2009 - 16:19 — Anonymous (not verified)
In the course of setting the course of our great ship of state (what was that big jagged thing that just floated by?) the President calls out captainly commands: Trim that jib! Bi-partisan that line! To paraphrase an old phrase: bipartisan, bishmartisan! In the NewSpeak tolerated and employed even by the NYTimes, "moderate Democrat" means "Republican", "conservative Democrat" means "Republican", AND, "bipartisan" means "Republican".