Obama's Challenge, by Robert Kuttner: on Crime


Barack Obama: 1997: Accomplished bipartisan criminal justice reform

As a lead sponsor of landmark legislation to reform the Illinois criminal justice system [Obama accomplished] several initially controversial measures such as mandatory videotaping of confessions. Obama just kept working until he had built a consensus, and he did this during a period when the Democrats were the minority party in the state senate. This mode of leadership is what LBJ achieved and what George W. Bush promised as a candidate ("a uniter, not a divider') but quickly abandoned in office.
Source: Obama`s Challenge, by Robert Kuttner, p.190 Aug 25, 2008

  • The above quotations are from Obama's Challenge:
    America's Economic Crisis and the Power of a Transformative Presidency    , by Robert Kuttner.
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Gov.Jeb Bush(FL)
Dr.Ben Carson(MD)
Gov.Chris Christie(NJ)
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Carly Fiorina(CA)
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Sen.Rick Santorum(PA)
Donald Trump(NY)
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Gov.Lincoln Chafee(RI)
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V.P.Joe Biden(DE)
Gov.Martin O`Malley(MD)
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Robert Steele(L-NY)
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