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August 30, 2010

The Obama Vision of Federal Government

Howard Fineman, Newsweek

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Officially—and unofficially—the Beck-Palin rally in Washington yesterday and President Obama’s speech in New Orleans today had nothing to do with each other.

But, back to back, they framed the furious argument at the core of this fall’s campaign and of the next two years: can and do we believe in the president’s vision of an activist, deeply-involved-at-the-local-level, “community”-invoking federal government?

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