Obama's New Enemies
Richard Wolffe is Daily Beast columnist and an award-winning journalist, and senior strategist at Public Strategies. He covered the entire length of Barack Obama's presidential campaign for Newsweek magazine. His book, Renegade: The Making of a President, was published by Crown in June.
The Daily Beast's Richard Wolffe reports that the president used his prime-time press conference to outline a new, aggressive strategy. First, attack the Republicans who would kill his presidency. Next, attack the insurance companies.
Sanford Should Resign
As vice chairman of Public Strategies and president of Maverick Media, Mark McKinnon has helped meet strategic challenges for candidates, corporations and causes, including George W. Bush, John McCain, Governor Ann Richards, Charlie Wilson, Lance Armstrong, and Bono. McKinnon is co-chair of Arts & Labs, a collaboration between technology and creative communities that have embraced today's rich Internet environment to deliver innovative and creative digital products to consumers.
After his disastrous press conference, the South Carolina governor ought to pack his bags, The Daily Beast's Mark McKinnon writes. Now who'll be the GOP's savior in 2012?
Obama's Big Night
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He talked national security, the economy, abortion. But he also told us to wash our hands and received arguably the weirdest question in the history of presidential press conferences. VIEW OUR VIDEO GALLERY.
Speaking at the unveiling of a bust of Sojourner Truth, the legendary advocate of women's rights and abolition, Obama marveled at "just [imagining]...
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
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Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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