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...President Barack Obama prepares to green-light a plan to withdraw most U.S. combat troops from Iraq within 18 months, he'll face skepticism from some military commanders who fear the withdrawal may be too hasty to maintain the country's recent security gains. But the President ought to be reassured by the assessment of Marine Major General John Kelly, who just completed a 13-month tour as the top U.S. commander in Anbar province...
Forget the third time's a charm thing. Barack Obama is probably just hoping there won't be a fourth. After New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson and New Hampshire Senator Judd Gregg both withdrew their nominations as Commerce Secretary (Richardson for a homegrown corruption investigation and Gregg because of disagreements with Obama's fiscal strategy), Obama apparently decided to go with someone as straitlaced as they come. Gary Locke, former two-term governor of Washington and the nation's first Chinese American to head a state, was formally announced today as the Administration's next pick for Commerce. His many...
...coach commanding everyone's attention in the center of the room was no amateur part-timer looking to relive his glory days on the court. He was none other than the President of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama, the most watched man in the world, who had come before his country and its government during prime time to say, "Come on, team, we can play better. When the buzzer sounds again, we're going to go out there and play our game, like the champions we know we are." (See the top 10 greatest speeches in history...
...recorded that Barack Obama came into full possession of the U.S. presidency toward the end of his February 24 budget speech to a joint session of Congress. He had just read a letter from a South Carolina schoolgirl, pleading for help with her dilapidated school. "We are not quitters," the girl had written. The President's eyes brightened as he repeated that phrase, and he seemed barely able to control his joy and confidence as he attacked his peroration: that even in the toughest times, "there is a generosity, a resilience, a decency and a determination that perseveres." This...
...Bush's presidency was straitjacketed by his inability to command any style but clenched orotundity. The two great television-era communicators in the office were yin and yang: Bill Clinton was a master of the conversational, not so good at set-piece speeches; Ronald Reagan just the opposite. Barack Obama has now demonstrated an ability to synthesize those two. On the day before his budget speech, the President was positively Clintonesque, interacting easily with a gang of high-powered political and business leaders at his entitlement summit, alternately ribbing Eric Cantor, the House Republican, about GOP intransigence, then wonking...