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• UK to embrace McChrystal's straTegy before Obama's speech

  —PrairiePundit

  Guardian:
  
  

  Gordon Brown will embrace the central thrust of General Stanley McChrystal's report into the future of Afghanistan when he speaks today of the need to develop a military and political "push".

  Days before Barack Obama spells out US strategy in Afghanistan, the prime minister will outline [...]

  Posted: November 26, 2009, 8:12pm EST
  

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• Obama’s well-qualified cabinet: Conservatives hoaxed by “J. P. Morgan” chart that verifies prejudices

  —Millard Fillmore's Bathtub

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  Barack Obama’s cabinet is highly qualified on almost every score.  It’s the first cabinet to feature someone who has already received a Nobel prize in the field (Teddy Roosevelt as head of his own cabinet excepted).  Obama pulled highly qualified people from a lot of important positions, from both major [...]

  Posted: November 26, 2009, 11:41am EST
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• Palin a "Republican dunce" says LA Times: Intentional or Wisecrack against Liberals?

  —Libertarian Republican

  From Eric Dondero:
  
  The Los Angeles Times had a major piece on Sarah Palin yesterday, "Sarah Palin vs. Barack Obama: The approval gap silently shrinks to a few points." Overall, a very decent article talking of how Palin's approval numbers, hovering around 43%, are nearing Obama's, now at 48%.' [...]

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 9:07pm EST
  

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• Obey wants surtax to pay for A-stan

  —SocraticGadfly

  The powerful chair of the House Appropriations Committee says that if President Barack Obama wants to send more troops to Afghanistan, he, Obey, will bring a surtax bill to the floor.
  
  It’s about time. And, Obey isn’t alone. On the Senate side, Carl Levin has similar ideas. This [...]

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 2:30pm EST
  

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• The Audacity to Win

  —Lubbock Left

  

  I’m about halfway through David Plouffe’s new book The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama’s Historic Victory, and I’m so jump-up-and-down excited about it that I have to share.

  The book has me reliving my own experience volunteering with the Obama campaign. [...]

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 11:00pm EST
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• Obama loses his magic

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  Tony Allen-Mills:
  
  

  Gazing serenely from the Great Wall of China last week, President Barack Obama appeared to be making the most of one of the supreme perks of White House occupancy — a private guided tour of Asia’s most spectacular tourist destination.

  White House aides [...]

  Posted: November 22, 2009, 10:48am EST
  

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• Historic health care bill clears Senate hurdle

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  Historic health care bill clears Senate hurdle WASHINGTON (AP) – Invoking the memory of Edward M. Kennedy, Democrats united Saturday night to push historic health care legislation past a key Senate hurdle over the opposition of Republicans eager to inflict a punishing defeat on President Barack Obama. There was not [...]

  Posted: November 21, 2009, 10:18pm EST
  by TexasFred

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• The Great Unemployment Mystery

  —Somervell County Salon

  The Great Unemployment Mystery   by Peter Stern     Unemployment in the U.S. is at its highest rate in many decades.   Apparently it is a mystery that only a Sherlock Holmes or Charlie Chan can solve because President Barack Obama has not fought significantly to bring jobs to hardly-working [...]

  Posted: November 21, 2009, 2:44pm EST
  

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• Health care bill faces a crucial Senate vote

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  Health care bill faces a crucial Senate vote WASHINGTON (AP) – Democrats called a revamp of the nation’s health care system long overdue as historic legislation advanced toward a Saturday night Senate showdown, an early test of party unity on President Barack Obama’s top domestic initiative “The country suffers when there [...]

  Posted: November 21, 2009, 12:16pm EST
  by TexasFred

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• Planning for defeat in Afghanistan

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  WSJ:
  
  President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown have turned the focus of Afghan war planning toward an exit strategy, publicly declaring that the U.S. and its allies can't send additional troops without a plan for getting them out.

  The shift has unnerved some U.S. and' [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 6:13am EST
  

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• What Is It With Obama And The Jews?

  —Rhymes With Right

  Set aside his anti-Israel policies. The hostility seems to go beyond that. The White House's forthcoming state dinner with the Prime Minister of India is expected to be larger than those of President Barack Obama's predecessor, George W. Bush. But... [...]

  Posted: November 19, 2009, 6:43pm EST
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• Obama and Dallas Cowboy DeMarcus Ware pitch volunteerism and fitness

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  Dallas Cowboy DeMarcus Ware is one of three NFL stars appearing with President Barack Obama in a public service announcement that will air during Thanksgiving games. Ware was on the South Lawn of the White House last month tossing a ball around with Obama and a bunch of DC-area kids. [...]

  Posted: November 19, 2009, 4:21pm EST
  

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• Hatin' Palin

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  Victor Davis Hanson:
  
  

  The AP supposedly hired 11 fact-checkers to discredit Ms. Palin’s memoir (Did Fox News hire 11 to question the very questionable things found in the two Obama memoirs?)

  Bloggers post on Palin’s live interviews minute by minute; few, if any, opponents of Barack Obama do [...]

  Posted: November 19, 2009, 5:32am EST
  

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• Reich: Raise interest rates!

  —SocraticGadfly

  Yes, you heard me right. Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich says raising U.S. interest rates might be part of what’s need to make the “Wall Street recovery” into the “Main Street recovery.”
  
  Of course, Reich should recognize that President Barack Obama cares little more for bottom-up Main Street [...]

  Posted: November 19, 2009, 12:38am EST
  

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• Obama: Professed 9/11 mastermind will be convicted

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  Obama: Professed 9/11 mastermind will be convicted WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama predicted that professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be convicted and executed as Attorney General Eric Holder proclaimed: “Failure is not an option.” Even if a terror trial suspect were acquitted, Holder said, he would not [...]

  Posted: November 18, 2009, 3:42pm EST
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• Obama kowtows to China on Fox News

  —SocraticGadfly

  That about says it all, doesn’t it? Apparently afraid after a Beijing lecture, US President Barack Obama talked to what he used to consider The Dissed Network to turn into a deficit hawk, even to the point of warning about a double-dip recession if he doesn’t act like a [...]

  Posted: November 18, 2009, 10:53am EST
  

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• The Obama Bow: How Low Can You Go?

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  Dick Cheney, marginalizing himself even further if that is even possible, has criticized his president, Barack Obama, for performing perfect protocol in producing a well-executed traditional bow at the waist to the hereditary potentate of the Empire of Japan – a nonexistent political entity.
  
  Here is the offending [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 6:53pm EST
  

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• Fox’s Major Garrett gets interview with Obama

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  Fox’s Major Garrett gets interview with Obama NEW YORK (AP) – President Barack Obama will give an interview to Fox News Channel’s Major Garrett, perhaps signaling a thaw in relations between the network and administration. The White House confirmed Tuesday that Garrett will be included among a round of network [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 5:42pm EST
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• Watcher's Council Results

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  Council Submissions First place with 2 points! – Joshuapundit - Death By A Thousand CutsSecond place with 1 1/3 points – Mere Rhetoric - Agitprop-Funding NEA Chief: “Barack Obama Is The Most Powerful Writer Since Julius Caesar Third place with... [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 3:50pm EST
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• Obama’s bow in Japan sparks some criticism

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  Obama’s bow in Japan sparks some criticism WASHINGTON – Some American conservative commentators are seizing on President Barack Obama’s deep bow to Japan’s emperor during the weekend, accusing the U.S. commander in chief of groveling to a foreign leader. Obama greeted Emperor Akihito, whose father ruled when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 1:12pm EST
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• Spiegel reams Obama on climate change

  —SocraticGadfly

  The popular German magazine says U.S. President Barack Obama lied in Berlin a year ago, has sold out to the lobbyists he said he would fight, and has forfeited his claim to be a world citizen.
  
  The magazine then faults average Americans’ notable insularity:
  For most Americans, the [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 10:44am EST
  

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• Cornyn says Obama should drop political correctness, label Fort Hood shooting "Islamist terrorism"

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  Texas Sen. John Cornyn has just released a letter to President Barack Obama, urging him to come right out and acknowledge that Maj. Nidal Hasan was likely "compelled by a fanatical religious ideology.

  "If Islamist terrorism was the driving force behind the senseless violence at Fort Hood, as it seems to [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 10:39am EST
  

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• Obama Hindering Ft Hood Investigation on One Hand, Appointing Muslims to Homeland Security Advisory Council with the Other

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  Barack Obama's first Presidential act after the Ft Hood terrorist attacks was to hinder Congress from investigating how an openly anti-American, pro-jihadi Islamist was allowed to move up the ranks before murdering 14 people in the name of Allah. [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 10:19am EST
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• Huge majority oppose lawfare trials of al Qaeda

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  AFP:
  
  Almost two-thirds of Americans disagree with the decision by President Barack Obama's administration to try the suspected 9/11 mastermind in a civilian court, a poll showed Monday.

  Sixty-four percent of those surveyed said Khalid Sheikh Mohammed should be tried in a military court, while only 34 percent agreed [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 9:16am EST
  

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• Obama's half grovel in Japan

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  Nate Beeler looks at Obama's meeting with Japan's emperor. Click on the image for a larger view.
  
  Wesley Pruden also weighs in.
  
  

  A little traveling, like a little learning, can be a dangerous thing. Barack Obama on the loose in a [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 8:59am EST
  

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• Obama Presidency : One Term if by War, Two if by Peace

  —The Rag Blog

  Barack Obama and the Afghanistan decision:One (term) if by war, two if by peaceBy Harvey Wasserman / November 17, 2009As the world awaits Barack Obama's decision on Afghanistan, a lethal myth has spread. It says that standing up to the military will doom him to be a single-term president.The "one" [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 8:31am EST
  

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• Obama Attempts To Interfere With Legislative Branch Prerogatives

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  Such as conducting oversight investigations into Executive Branch agencies and departments. President Barack Obama on Saturday urged Congress to hold off on any investigation of the Fort Hood rampage until federal law enforcement and military authorities have completed their probes... [...]

  Posted: November 16, 2009, 6:08pm EST
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• Democrats losing on stimulus

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  Ross Douthat:
  
  Ten months ago, at the beginning of the great stimulus debate, President-elect Barack Obama’s economic advisers produced an unfortunate chart.
  
  

  The chart plotted out two lines. One projected the unemployment rate through 2014 with a stimulus package; the other projected unemployment across the same [...]

  Posted: November 16, 2009, 10:38am EST
  

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• Obama's gift of intelligence to al Qaeda

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  John Yoo:
  
  

  'This is a prosecutorial decision as well as a national security decision," President Barack Obama said last week about the attorney general's announcement that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other al Qaeda operatives will be put on trial in New York City federal court.

  No, it is'" [...]

  Posted: November 16, 2009, 6:15am EST
  

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• Republican Brian McCall Not Running for Re-Election

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  Before you get your hopes up, House District 66 went +5.4% for McCain. The district was 60.9% for John McCain and 38% for Barack Obama. Over 5 points worse than the state average.

  The real reason this is news is because McCall, a moderate Republican [...]

  Posted: November 15, 2009, 1:20pm EST
  

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