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...delegation; from here on out, it is being orchestrated by his campaign. As such, it raises some delicate issues as he seeks to extract maximum electoral advantage - putting Obama in settings that aim to present Americans with the image of someone ready and capable to become the Commander in Chief of a superpower - without seeming presumptuous. It will be a week in which Obama tries to strike a delicate balance between statesmanship and politics...
...said in a 52-min. question-and-answer session atop a mountain overlooking the Jordanian capital. "What I emphasized to him was that if I were in his shoes, I'd probably feel the same way. But my job as a candidate for President and a potential Commander in Chief extends beyond Iraq." Later in the press conference, Obama added, "The notion is that either I do exactly what my military commanders [say] or I'm ignoring their advice. No, I'm factoring in their advice, but placing it in the broader strategic framework that's required...
...collar decline is part of a dangerous challenge to U.S. welfare and security. They call the process deindustrialization, and argue that while the U.S. devours huge amounts of foreign industrial goods, the American economy risks losing the very industries that have kept it strong for decades. Says John Young, chief executive of Hewlett-Packard and former head of President Reagan's Commission on Industrial Competitiveness: ''Manufacturing is the foundation upon which a service economy is built.'' Fears of deindustrialization are a major force behind protectionist sentiments in Congress, which are rising in a new crescendo. In the past year more...
...contras to America's founders, Democratic Congressman Gerry Studds quipped, ''Our Founding Fathers did not maintain bank accounts in the Cayman Islands.'' The GAO investigation also found that some $743,000 in contra aid went to an unnamed Central American army and that the force's former commander in chief was paid $450,000 earlier this year. Democratic Congressman Michael Barnes identified the army as Honduras' and the commander in chief as General Walter Lopez Reyes. Secretary of State George Shultz attacked the GAO report as a politically motivated attempt to quash the contra assistance campaign, but Administration officials privately...
...jury of military officers who will decide his innocence or guilt. Whether their decision is perceived as fair will go a long way toward determining if the military tribunals that President Bush first authorized in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks will survive under the next Commander in Chief. In that sense, the fame - or infamy - of Salim Hamdan may endure long after his trial ends...