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...Woodstock," said Jason Mattera, a spokesman for Young America's Foundation, in a speech at CPAC. "Except that our women are beautiful, we speak in complete sentences, and our notion of freedom doesn't consist of snorting cocaine, which is certainly one thing that separates us from Barack Obama...
...lobbying shop with former Senator John Breaux, a Louisiana Democrat. Florida Democrat Bob Graham left Congress in 2005 and joined with retired Republican Senator Jim Talent of Missouri to work on a national commission on the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. On Thursday, Feb. 18, President Obama announced that former Republican Senator Alan Simpson would join with former White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles, a Democrat, to lead a commission on tackling the deficit...
...recently the White House has emphasized a tougher stance toward China. After Google indicated that it might end some of its China operations due to hacking attacks and official censorship, Clinton sided with the U.S. media giant and called on China to investigate the attacks. In early February, Obama said the U.S. would press China on its currency, which economists say Beijing keeps undervalued to boost Chinese exports. (See pictures of Tibet...
...Obama came into office emphasizing the importance of diplomacy, and last year Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the U.S. wouldn't allow human-rights issues to derail cooperation with China on other fronts, like stabilizing the global economy. Last fall Obama delayed meeting with the Dalai Lama when he was in Washington to avoid angering China ahead of his first visit to the country. That move was criticized by some as too deferential, as was Obama's approach to human-rights issues during his three-day trip, which Chinese activists called disappointingly limited...
...recent weeks, China's government made it clear that any meeting between President Obama and the Dalai Lama threatened to further damage already tense Sino-U.S. relations. But after the President held an hour-long talk on Thursday at the White House with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the reaction from Beijing was relatively muted. (See pictures of the Dalai Lama's visit to the White House...