Eric Alterman

Few progressives would take issue with the argument that, significant accomplishments notwithstanding, the Obama presidency has been a big disappointment. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#argument #been #big #disappointment #few

For the past eight years, the right has been better at working the refs. Now the left is learning how to play the game. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#better #eight #game #how #learning

I am deeply devoted to the 27,000 songs I can take anywhere on my iPod Classic as well as the exquisitely engineered MacBook Air on which I typed this column. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#am #anywhere #classic #column #deeply

Liberals believe that they can't get a fair shake from the media anymore. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#believe #fair #fair shake #get #liberals

Liberals do not appear to address potential solutions with anything like the far right's aura of God-given self-confidence. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#anything #appear #aura #far #god-given

Local politics, like everything else, are not what they used to be. But the fact is that our political system - like our physical existence - still breaks down along geographical lines. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#breaks #down #else #everything #existence

Mistakes, after all, are endemic to foreign and military policy given the unpredictability of events and the difficulty of securing reliable information in a place like Iraq. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#difficulty #endemic #events #foreign #given

Most of the provisions designed to fix what ails our health system don't kick in until 2014, which, one wishes administration officials had noticed, is two years after he has to win an election. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#after #ails #designed #election #fix

Newspaper companies are losing advertisers, readers, market value, and, in some cases, their sense of mission at a pace that would have been barely imaginable just four years ago. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#barely #been #cases #companies #four

Obama, like Carter, is reacting to warning signs by seeking to split the difference between dispirited Democrats and increasingly radicalized Republicans. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#carter #democrats #difference #increasingly #like