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Obama in China - Shahid Javed Burki

1 day ago ago from Muhammad Asif Raza

By moving to grant China an equal status, Barack Obama moved light years away from the approach adopted by his predecessor President George W. Bush. IF there were any doubts that the global economic and political order was being reshaped they were set aside by the outcome of President Barack Obama’s recently concluded threeday visit to China. That was the high point of the nineday trip to Asia. It has great significance in terms of ...

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Barack Obama: imperial president, post-American world Godfrey Hodgson

19 hours ago ago from Snuffysmith's Blog

http://www.opendemocracy.net/godfrey-hodgson/barack-obama-imperial-president-post-american-world Barack Obama: imperial president, post-American world Godfrey Hodgson, 7 December 2009 There is an increasing mismatch between the demands on the American presidency and the realities that constrain it, says Godfrey Hodgson Every president of the United States has to play chess on more than one board at a time. The difference between ...

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President Obama’s Afghanistan Speech

15 hours ago ago from Front Porch Republic

Erie, PA. Presidential speeches are evaluated in two basic areas, style/delivery and substance. President Obama’s Afghanistan speech was well delivered. The president appeared serious, determined, candid, and was articulate. Coming on the heels of a president who was often awkward and fumbling in his speeches, Obama’s rhetorical skill is a welcome change. Yet style is no substitute for substance. Superficially considered, the president’s ...

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18 hours ago ago from The Springfield 10 - Top Ten Lists of the Best Restaurants, Businesses, Services, and Everything Else You Can Imagine in Springfield, IL

Obama taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School for twelve years, being first classified as a Lecturer from 1992 to 1996, and then as a Senior Lecturer from 1996 to 2004.[32] He also joined Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, a twelve-attorney law firm specializing in civil rights litigation and neighborhood economic development, where he was an associate for three years from 1993 to 1996. In 1996, Obama was elected to ...

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Cheney: Obama 'more radical' than seen

12 hours ago ago from The Swamp

by Mark Silva President Barack Obama, bowing to other leaders of the world, fails to understand the concept of "American exceptionalism,'' former Vice President Dick Cheney contends. "There's never been a nation like the United States of America in world history, and yet when you have a president who goes around and bows to his hosts and then proceeds to apologize profusely for the United States, I find that deeply disturbing,'' ...

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White House Memo: Accepting Peace Prize Will Be a Test for Obama

3 hours ago ago from The New York Times

WASHINGTON He has read the Nobel speeches of Nelson Mandela , the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Elie Wiesel . He has studied the award's rich history and its extraordinary roster of winners. Related Times Topics: Barack Obama | Nobel Prizes Blog Yet when President Obama travels to Norway to accept his prize on Thursday, he faces a far different challenge than those who have gone before him: He is a ...

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Obama Not Cutting It On The Economy

20 hours ago ago from Forbes.com

Much like Wednesday was once Prince Spaghetti Day, Tuesday is fast becoming political juggling day for the Obama administration. In his Afghanistan speech last week, the president struggled to keep his dueling objectives (surging but not staying) in the air without crashing into each other. In Tuesday's speech re-setting his economic policy, the president similarly strained to sate the left's demands for more spending on job creation to deal ...

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Obama on Jobs: Edgy Politics, No Price Tag, and TLC for Small Business

11 hours ago ago from Politics Daily

President Obama was taking a brief detour from his teleprompted remarks on jobs. "Sometimes it's hard to break out of the bubble here in Washington and remind ourselves that behind these statistics are people's lives, their capacity to do right by their families," he riffed. He was at that moment deep within the bubble -- standing alone at the lectern of a downtown D.C. think tank, wearing the capital's standard-issue dark suit, addressing a ...

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Obama lays out initiative to relieve joblessness

16 hours ago ago from Good News Now

WASHINGTON -President Barack Obama says staggering job losses mean the United States must continue to "spend our way out of this recession" with a round of new incentives for hiring. In a speech, Obama proposed a package intended to stimulate job creation and bring down the country's 10 percent unemployment rate. The measures include more money for infrastructure projects, tax cuts and credit access for small businesses. It also includes ...

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Obama Announces New Jobs Programs

19 hours ago ago from The New York Times

Search All NYTimes.com Search Politics December 8, 2009, 6:00 am Obama Announces New Jobs Programs By JEFF ZELENY Update | 9:22 a.m. President Obama on Tuesday will announce three proposals intended to turn around the nationâs beleaguered job market, including strengthening investments to small businesses that have struggled to expand because of the credit crunch in America. In a ...

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