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President Obama has disappointed on other matters as well. He’s backtracked on wiretapping and stonewalled on LGBT issues. He bailed out Wall Street but failed to put stricter measures in place to regulate the unbridled greed and corruption that caused this mess in the first place. His advisors now say that closing Guantánamo won’t be so easy, and we still don’t know whether his Justice Department will actually prosecute Bush-era officials who treated the Constitution like toilet paper. Last week, things got so bad that the president couldn?...
...shoulders. These are tough, complex times. There are no easy solutions to things like war and health care and economic recession. Moreover, President Obama hasn’t even completed one year in office. Complex issues can’t be solved overnight, and he inherited quite a mess to begin with. We should also remember that the president is just one man. In a political system that rests, ideally, on a balance of power, effective leadership requires collaboration and compromise. That said, this president is sometimes too collaborative, too willing to compromise on matters of both policy and principle...
Sitting in his parents' home south of Los Angeles in Murrieta Hot Springs, Wilhite addresses the emotional toll of losing three friends. "We have done our best to tackle this as a family. I tell people I am doing good. But there are times when I am a mess. Now, with my rehab schedule reduced, there is more time to think about the others." In the future, Wilhite hopes to coach and work with kids. And next year, when Bhatia gives him the go-ahead, he wants to try surfing and snowboarding - sports that were off-limits when...
...audiences are attracted to and entertained by Moore--but what is the political effect of his star quality? In Capitalism, after cogently diagnosing the collusion of Wall Street and Congress in cooking this mess, he ends not by urging tough legislation but by calling for community activism and labor-union muscle. The problem is that movies, even Michael Moore movies, aren't an efficient method for rousing a constituency. Fahrenheit 9/11 didn't do half the damage to George W. Bush that the Swift Boat smears did to John Kerry. Sicko couldn't change lawmakers' minds on health care...
...Silicon Valley spin. Can the founders now really hope to block the resale of Skype by pulling the technology on which it runs? "People are puzzled about how this happened," says analyst Stephan Beckert with Washington-based TeleGeography Research. "One thing I can say: You don't want to mess with Zennstrom...