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...President Barack Obama doing? I have to give [the Obama Administration] credit. In about six weeks, they have done three major things: the $800 billion stimulus package, a mortgage program that is much more than the previous Administration did and a bank plan that, however flawed, at least has the benefit of not having another bailout of the banks. The glass is half full. But for each one, there are some flaws ... the bank plan wants to pretend that the government is half pregnant with the banks. The debate is between partial and full nationalization, not between nationalization...
...speech at a Cuban American National Foundation luncheon in May last year, President Barack Obama promised to “pursue aggressive, principled, and sustained diplomacy in the Americas from Day One.” As he explained then, “My policy towards the Americas will be guided by the simple principle that what’s good for the people of the Americas is good for the United States...
...expand the benefit, extending it to every first-time poor mother in the country - about 570,000 women each year. The President's stimulus plan includes more than $3 billion in funding for early-childhood-intervention programs such as Head Start and Early Head Start. (See pictures of Barack Obama's family tree...
...safe to assume Kathleen Sebelius files flawless tax returns. The popular Kansas governor, who will be introduced on Monday as Barack Obama's pick for Secretary of Health and Human Services, steps into the void opened by Tom Daschle's withdrawal from the role amid revelations that he failed to pay some $128,000 in taxes-the latest in an embarrassing series of tax snafus involving Obama's Cabinet nominees. An early convert to the Obama camp and a nascent star in the Democratic party, Sebelius' success guiding a deep-red heartland state vaulted her onto the short list...
President Barack Obama has been busy working on foreign policy in recent weeks, chairing meetings with his national-security principals; plotting his approach to Iraq, Iran and North Korea; and consulting at weekly private sessions with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. For the most part, in these meetings, he has been composed and restrained. But on one issue Obama has openly expressed frustration, aides familiar with the meetings say: the inability to get humanitarian aid to civilians affected by the war in Gaza...