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Obama's defenders will point to the concessions the Administration forced Detroit's autoworkers to make in the arranged-bankruptcy negotiations with Chrysler. It is true that the United Auto Workers (UAW) got less than it asked for. But without Obama's billions in auto subsidies, it would have gotten far less from insolvency. The children of nonunionized American autoworkers in Kentucky and Alabama who build cars that succeed in the marketplace made the largest concessions. They will endure a larger national debt so that billions of federal dollars can be used to prop up the UAW jobs...
...Minister of Finance, as required by the country's Monetary Law, effectively making them fake bills. "These bills are illegal and worthless and should only be used to play Monopoly," says opposition legislative leader Wilfredo Navarro. "President Daniel Ortega is a counterfeiter. That's the level things have gotten to in Nicaragua these days." The lawmaker, a member of the legislature's Economic Commission, says "any serious government" would immediately recognize the error and recall the money. But so far the Sandinistas aren't budging...
Gates, Defense Secretary Robert •first name of is gotten wrong time and time and time again...
...First Ladies that I sense, just the willingness and openness of each and every one of them, just the sense of "I know what you're about to go through and I'm with you." I don't care ... "I know what you're going through." And I've gotten wonderful letters and phone calls and invitations to lunch, and it's just from every single former First Lady who is alive and can breathe - they've reached out. And my sense is that it's not just me; I think they do this because they know, experience when...
...people had a poor opinion of Michelle Obama (35%) than a good one (30%). During the primaries especially, she was too hot, and not in the way Maxim means it. She talked about America as being "just downright mean," and lazy, and cynical, how life for most people had "gotten progressively worse throughout my lifetime." Seeing an opportunity, conservative critics dubbed her Mrs. Grievance, called her bitter and anti-American, to the point that her husband had to defend her patriotism and call the attacks on her "detestable...