Word: national
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...ballooning deficits, and the President has been slipping in the polls on both fronts. For now, however, the West Wing calculation is that bad polls today matter far less than bad polls three years from now, when Obama hopes to win re-election as the guy who saved the nation from economic catastrophe. "The reality is that you would rather have done something, and worked toward solutions, and be able to show results," explains Obama senior aide Anita Dunn, in what just might be a preview of the 2012 campaign message. (See who's who in Barack Obama's White...
...that position, even after Obama began planning another stimulus effort in September. Though the Great Recession is officially over, credit remains scarce, unemployment hovers above 10%, commercial real estate is crashing, home foreclosures are rising, and many state and local governments are teetering on the brink of insolvency. The nation, in other words, is out of the operating room but not yet home from the hospital. "If we go back into recession, it's going to blow out the budget, and it's going to cost the taxpayers a lot more," says Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody's Economy.com...
...protest "homosexual agents and activists" who were "infiltrating Uganda." Asked how the anti-homosexuality bill might affect the fight against HIV and AIDS, Ssempa seemed bemused. "I don't see what this bill has to do with HIV," he told TIME. Warren, who has called Uganda a "purpose-driven nation," cut ties with Ssempa in October as controversy over the bill grew...
...Rick Warren, however, seems to be avoiding tackling the subject directly. Although he cut ties with Ssempa, the popular preacher released a statement to Newsweek saying, "It is not my personal calling as a pastor in America to comment or interfere in the political process of other nations." That position irks the Rev. Kaoma, who is an Anglican pastor. Warren, he says, has immense influence among Uganda's political élite, counting many parliamentarians, including the country's First Lady Janet Museveni (who is reportedly close to Ssempa), among his friends. "He eats with them, he knows what goes...
...Uganda's political élite, counting many parliamentarians, including the country's First Lady Janet Museveni (who is reportedly close to Ssempa), among his friends. "He eats with them, he knows what goes on, they respect him," said Kaoma in a conference call. Said Warren: "My influence in that nation has been greatly exaggerated by the media...