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Eight Forty-Eight 11/3/2009
Assessing the Obama Administration




 
 
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(AP file/Charles Dharapak)
It was one year ago today that change came to America with the election of our nation’s first black president. Over the past year, the mortgage crisis and unemployment rate has leveled entire communities, creating ghost blocks and neighborhoods throughout America. Soldiers have been sent to war only to return home in body bags. The health care debate has become a forum for racist and classist remarks. There’s no denying this has been a difficult year for all Americans. But how much of it can be laid on the doorstep of the White House? Has he picked the right battles? Are there issues you would like to see more movement on? And how has that inaction affected you personally?

Panel:
Charlie Wheelan-Senior lecturer of public policy at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy; currently on leave this year teaching at Dartmouth College.

Esther Cepeda-Columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times and author of the blog 600 Words

Chris Dudley-Republican Political Strategist

Michael Hawthorne-Environment reporter at Chicago Tribune

Music Button: Sabertooth, "Blues for C Piff", from the CD Dr. Midnight Live at the Green Mill, (Delmark)
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Tito, South Shore // Wednesday, November 04, 2009 @ 10:00 AM

Firstly, I'd like to state that I'm not a citizen so, I don't have the right of Franchise. Obama's election was a real high point in my experience as an African immigrant living in this country. He inspired such high hopes and expectations, but, I must say that, much as I love him, he does not seem to have lived up to MOST of them. I do recognize that he has only been in office for just about a year, but, things he spoke strongly against i.e. rendition, wiretapping, a promise to pursue those responsible for torture, have all been religated to the dustbin of empty rhetoric. Even healthcare reform is turning out to be a whitewash even when the Democrats control both houses.

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