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Resilience helps too; every President will get thrown back against a wall and need to come back stronger. Just ask Bill Clinton. So do steadfastness, persistence, conviction. But as soon as you make the list, it mocks you, for history is a dance of luck and intent, and sometimes they trip each other. Wilson was strong enough to win a war but too stubborn to save the peace. Herbert Hoover was "the Great Humanitarian" who saved Belgium from starvation; under the right circumstances, he could have been a great President. But his temperament undermined his talent; he never understood that...
...economy," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said as she prepared to meet behind closed doors to talk about the contours of a $150 billion stimulus plan with a high-powered squad of liberal economists including Joseph Stiglitz and Lawrence Summers, both of whom held senior posts during the Clinton Administration...
...There was remarkable agreement among all the economists here about what needed to be done," said Nobel economics laureate Stiglitz, who served as chairman of Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers. Any package must be "a comprehensive recovery program, not just based on trickle-down economics, not just giving money to the financial markets, but at least some of the money going directly to households, to meet infrastructure needs, to meet the variety of challenges facing our society today," he said...
...they can do that anymore. My whole life, they've wanted to give more money to the people who already have the fancy, high-paying jobs." And then, as if to assure me that she wasn't an Obamamaniac, she added, "I was for Hillary Clinton...
...percentage point or two on Election Day, but in a close race, that margin could easily be the difference between winning and losing. Obama campaign manager David Plouffe calls his ground operation the "field goal unit," and it was one of the big reasons the Illinois Senator bested Hillary Clinton in the primaries. But Obama's team has yet to be tested against a Republican operation that was built and perfected over decades, culminating in the astonishing ground game that put George W. Bush over...