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...moderate liberal" with a straight face? The President's newfound willingness to extend an olive branch to Republicans hasn't come about because he's a moderate; it has come about because he's a pragmatist. Obama knows if he hasn't been able to ram his policies through Congress, he sure won't be able to now. Mark S. Dolecki, BAYTOWN, TEXAS...
...Tying the Administration's Fate Too Closely to His Party's Congressional Leadership. Republican leaders in Congress effectively persuaded Bush in almost every year of his presidency to marry his fate to theirs - and all too frequently, to subordinate his vision of right and wrong to their short-term political demands. This problem was particularly pronounced in the area of spending, from a mammoth farm bill to an expensive entitlement in the form of a Medicare prescription-drug benefit to colossal business-as-usual earmark spending. Bush also tarnished his personal image by staying largely silent in the face...
...choreography on health care has been difficult in no small part because of the long-standing animosity between the two chambers of Congress. An old joke among House Democrats has it that the Republicans are merely adversaries; the Senate is the enemy. That tension has grown in the past year as House Democrats have cast a series of politically treacherous votes on such issues as health care and climate change, only to be left exposed as the measures have been shredded or buried altogether in the procedural thicket of the Senate. So it's no surprise that the inclination...
...outlets as they could - with 129 press interviews in his first 10 months in office, compared with 44 for George W. Bush and 51 for Bill Clinton. Whenever possible, Obama positioned himself to speak to the American people directly, with four prime-time press conferences, two major addresses before Congress and countless daytime events that garnered live coverage. But in a year-end review of communications performance, Pfeiffer and Dunn found that the President often lost control of the conversation by focusing too much on governing while the opposition campaigned against him, exploiting the cyclone's appetite for controversy even...
...master. "When the British came to our country, they said everything we are doing was barbaric, was wrong, inferior in whatever way," he said. "Bear in mind that I'm a freedom fighter and I fought to free myself, also for my culture to be respected." The African National Congress Youth League, part of South Africa's governing coalition, went even further, claiming the treatment of Zuma was fueled by racism. "These British racists continue to live in a dreamland and sadly believe that Africans are still their colonial subjects, with no values and principles," the league said...