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Dick Cheney's displeasure and Nancy Pelosi's discomfiture may have revived the idea of setting up a "truth commission" to look into the Bush-era counterterrorism policies, but President Barack Obama still wants no part of it. According to David Axelrod, the President's senior adviser, Obama remains convinced that looking forward rather than back "is best for the country...
Axelrod points out that the Obama Administration has no vested interest in holding back an inquiry. "Obviously this is a look-back that doesn't relate to stuff that we did but stuff that the last Administration did. So it's not a self-interested decision to say we want to look forward and not back. But it really is ... what the President thinks is best for the country." (See pictures of Pelosi throughout her career...
...using their loan money to help their parents pay the electric bill, and therefore they'd run out of money for books and couldn't feed themselves over the course of the semester. I saw those kids, right, but they didn't have a parent that said, "Do not look this way with your education money; you go to school, you learn, you grow...
...these are issues that are not just important to me, but they're important to my husband and they're important to the West Wing. And then we look to them and say, O.K., we've got the kitchen garden planted and we're talking about these issues, so what's next? And the next comes from the West Wing. But we don't take it on if we don't know that there's some meat there, if that makes sense...
...think that the thing is just separating out that conversation and having it. Why do we feel that way? For me, I agree with you. I mean, I look at the trade-off in terms of ... you know, I am 45 years old. When this is over, and my kids are grown, I'll be ... do the math - four, eight years, depends on where you take it - I'll still be in the prime of my professional life as far as I see it. I've always seen that...