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...Beinart's article informative and accurate but also ironic. He says liberals don't like symbolic patriotism, and yet much of the support for the liberal candidate, Barack Obama, is symbolic. They are concerned more with what his mere election would mean than with what he would or could accomplish as President. Rather than finding this inspiring, I feel it smacks of American narcissism and naiveté. For the country's sake, I hope people - and the press - will evaluate the candidates on their qualifications, not their pop-culture IQ. Carrie Wolfe, Sterling...
...accommodate the U.S. even if they wanted to.'' The question of the hour--and of the coming months--is to what extent the Soviets might be willing to accommodate the U.S. in order to head off SDI. This possibility is sometimes called the ''grand compromise.'' Such a deal could accomplish what Reagan proclaimed as his goal when he sought to replace SALT with the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks during his first term. The Soviets would be required to cut back drastically on their ICBM warheads in a way that reduced or, better yet, eliminated the theoretical possibility of a first...
...MSNBC, is "to get down to the brigade combat teams. It's to get out and talk to troops. It's to get out and talk to the advisers, the embedded special forces and SEALs. That's what's critical, I think, and it's what we hope to accomplish on the trip. It provides some more context, a better sense of what's going...
...feat, add more than 50% and do it in a quarter of the time. "It's a huge task that we've got," said one top Obama donor. "I wouldn't define it as concern, but there's a realization of the enormity of what we are trying to accomplish, and everybody is intensely focused on the task at hand...
...launched into the ways his own presidency would differ from that of the last eight years, starting with his pledge to cut spending and balance the budget by 2013. He has yet, however, to back up that bold promise with the details of just of how he plans to accomplish it. And economists are skeptical that he can, especially if he also stays true to his commitment to extend the tax cuts that were George Bush's signature economic achievement...