Copyright (c) 2010 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/opinion/joe-conason opinion Opinion - Joe Conason en-us Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:00:00 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/opinion/joe-conason http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142c.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/joeconason/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/uc/20100204/cm_uc_crjcox/op_4512848 uc/20100204/op_4512848 Joe Conason opinion Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:00:00 GMT Joe Conason - The most revealing moments in President Obama's State of the Union Address were not in his remarks, but the reaction to them by those listening on the Republican side of the aisle. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/joeconason/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/uc/20100128/cm_uc_crjcox/op_4512774 uc/20100128/op_4512774 Joe Conason opinion Thu, 28 Jan 2010 08:00:00 GMT Joe Conason - On the eve of his first State of the Union Address, Barack Obama confided that he would "rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president." But his proposal to freeze domestic spending is exactly the kind of policy that could result in four years of stagnation — rewarded by an election defeat at the hands of dispirited and disillusioned voters. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/joeconason/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/uc/20100121/cm_uc_crjcox/op_4512699 uc/20100121/op_4512699 Joe Conason opinion Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:00:00 GMT Joe Conason - Having taken the oath of office just one year ago, Barack Obama is a flashing meteor that sputtered out too soon — or so the national media narrative tells us. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/joeconason/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/uc/20100114/cm_uc_crjcox/op_4512625 uc/20100114/op_4512625 Joe Conason opinion Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:00:00 GMT Joe Conason - If Harry Reid's private remarks about the skin tone and speaking style of Barack Obama were offensive, the Republican crusade to oust him from his leadership position is worse. For Republicans to claim that he deserves the punishment inflicted on Trent Lott — the former Republican majority leader forced to resign because of a racial gaffe — shows their bad faith and their misunderstanding of the GOP's own troubled racial history.