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...time when opinion polls suggest that Obama is more popular than his policies, the President can take a page from F.D.R. The first President to use private polling, Roosevelt understood that his popularity could help propel his political agenda. Personality doesn't trump policy, but it can drive it. F.D.R.'s relentless optimism (the motto that graced his office was LET UNCONQUERABLE GLADNESS DWELL) helped him sell his policies to America...
...boldness and experimentation, F.D.R. never got too far out ahead of public opinion. He was pushed by some of his advisers to move further to the left on the economy and more aggressively toward getting into the war in Europe--but in both cases, he ultimately tacked closer to the center of American public opinion. He was a modern paradox: a revolutionary for stability, a political innovator who was intent on building a system that would be less risky for the American people. That's the same challenge Obama faces today...
...This is another act of desperation by a regime that is terrified of public opinion.' ROSEANN RIFE, a program director for Amnesty International, criticizing China for its sweeping crackdown on civil liberties associated with the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square demonstrations...
Scheuer, Michael • opinion is offered by that "the only chance we have as a country right now is for Osama bin Laden to deploy and detonate a major weapon in the United States," to which host Glenn Beck responds with "Michael Scheuer, as always, sir, thank you very much" rather than the more appropriate "You, sir, are a madman who looks like a werewolf...
...Interior Ministry, meanwhile, furnished telephone intercepts that pointed to Mehsud's involvement. The CIA agreed that the Taliban commander was the principal suspect. Although he has since denied involvement in the killing, Mehsud was reported to have issued threats against Bhutto, a pro-Western opponent of Islamist extremism. But opinion polls found most Pakistanis skeptical of the official story. Instead, conspiracy theories acquired a rare potency. (See pictures of Benazir Bhutto...