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...maybe I don’t just want to talk about “Saw.” Maybe I want to talk about President-elect Obama, and faith in leadership, and keeping fantasy where fantasy belongs—in the movie house, not in the White House. Absolute justice may not exist, but watching Bush wave goodbye to Washington sure will come close...
Dear Mr. President-elect...
...question has been put to an early test: The day after Obama's election, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev publicly threatened to deploy missiles near the borders of two NATO allies to counter the Bush Administration's plans to install antimissile systems in Poland and the Czech Republic. The Russian announcement, rolled out during an elaborate ceremony, was timed to put one of the most contentious issues between Moscow and Washington on Obama's table right away. Obama and his advisers took it as an intentional provocation aimed at testing the President-elect...
...Denis McDonough, a top Obama aide, released a statement saying that during the call the President-elect had not endorsed the antimissile deployment but had simply repeated his strategically ambiguous position from the campaign. "[Obama] supports deploying a missile-defense system when the technology is proved to be workable," McDonough said. In an apparent attempt to soften Poland's embarrassment at being publicly contradicted, Obama had Vice President-elect Joe Biden quietly follow up with a call to Kaczynski on Monday, aides...
...would force even American free-market fundamentalists to rethink their aversion to additional rules - especially to multilaterally binding measures enforced by international organizations. But since then, the lame-duck Bush Administration has signaled its opposition to any significant change to the current system of national regulations. And though President-elect Barack Obama's decision not to attend the event disappointed Sarkozy and other European leaders, some hope he'll be attentive to the concerns and proposals aired in his absence. (See pictures of President Bush in the Middle East...