Editor's Note: We'll consider this an "open thread" on Obama's emerging presidency - updated regularly.

Here are some articles to consider:

Posted November 11, 2008: Richard Sanders, coordinator of the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade, pens a stunning indictment of Obama's regressive domestic and foreign policy positions in an article entitled A Rough Guide to Obama On $2.3 Billion A Day.

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Read Burlington Free Press journalist Sally Pollak's article here.

It was quite a day.

Free Vermont!

Not much intellectual heft or deep analysis here, but plenty of great moments from the convention. Thanks, Eva.

The American Conservative spotlights the UNtied States and our efforts.

Thanks to journalist Christopher Ketcham for laying out some secession observations here.

1 in 5 Americans support nonviolent secession. 

We're making progress.

Thanks to Seven Days, Vermont's liveliest alternative weekly newspaper, for giving Bill McKibben (arguably Vermont's most prominent intellectual) a platform to hold forth on Vermont independence this week. in his "Independence Fray" article.

I could spend time quibbling with some of Bill's observations here. To name but three:

1. His selective re-telling of the winter 2007 SVR/LOS brouhaha and Mr. Odum/GMD's role in it...(no comment - time to move on.)

Read the article.

Well, at least one. 

Read this uncharacteristically un-cynical editorial from the Vermont Cynic.

Read the Middlebury Campus Interview with Kirkpatrick Sale and Rob Williams.

Good to see some of Vermont's finest young minds getting serious about secession exploration.