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...economy, national security and virtually every other part of being President - found a rapturous reception from the CPAC throng. Romney's national campaign was a flailing disappointment, yet he dismissed Obama's entire record with full-throated conviction. His remarks were greeted with unbridled glee. (See pictures from Barack Obama's first year of the presidency...
...vast majority of the political discourse across all platforms are nearly uniform in their belief that the political health of Obama's presidency is at best grim and at worst - in the analysis of Mitt Romney, Dick Cheney and other notable critics - a doomed, unredeemable failure. (See how Barack Obama handled his first year, issue by issue...
...Throughout his life, Barack Obama has succeeded in almost everything he has ever tried. And his frustration with his current circumstances - especially the blatant political unwillingness of Republicans to work with him, even on matters on which they agree - is totally understandable and justified. But such realities...
This is welcome vindication for those, particularly Barack Obama and his special envoy to Sudan, Scott Gration, who view the promotion of elections as a cornerstone of Western foreign policy. The belief that liberty and equality "are chiefly to be found in democracy," as Aristotle wrote, is thousands of years old. But Western faith in the ballot box can sometimes seem blind and naive. Elections in Iraq, Afghanistan and Zimbabwe have been accompanied by deadly violence. In 2006, an election in the Palestinian territories brought to power the Islamist militants of Hamas, a proscribed terrorist organization...
...Dutch government's collapse comes less than three months after U.S. President Barack Obama appealed to NATO allies to boost their Afghanistan troop numbers as part of a surge in the central Asian country. NATO asked this month for the Dutch mission to be extended beyond 2010. But Balkenende's coalition partners in the center-left Labor Party had already secured a pledge from the coalition's main party, the Christian Democrats, to pull troops out this year. Despite Balkenende's pleas, the Labor Party refused to reconsider. "A plan was agreed when our soldiers went to Afghanistan," said Labor...