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What Do We See Five Months into the Obama Presidency?

By Max Brantley
Arkansas Times | June 18, 2009
I can't accuse Obama of a lack of grit, but what I won't accept is the argument that larger issues are too pressing for Obama to divert his attention to so-called small stuff. He can walk and chew on more than one issue at a time. Human rights -- of women, gays, detainees, religious minorities -- are not small things. To borrow from his own words, if all aren't equal, none are.
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Tags: gun control, Barack Obama, health care, detainees, Don't Ask Don't Tell, war & peace, gay & lesbian issues

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