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...Super Bowl parties and photo-op Oval Office visits Obama has held with Republicans, Democrats have relied too heavily on their wide majorities in both chambers to ram legislation through, says Doug Heye, a GOP strategist. "There was never any follow-up to those feints at bipartisanship," Heye says...
Barack Obama believed in the system. At least, that is what he told America. So, who was the guy in the Oval Office behind closed curtains in secret meetings with Congressional Democrats about healthcare legislation? He chose to avoid the very system so deserving and demanding of respect. He sold out a visionary view of our government for health-care reform that actually had very little reform in it. As soon as the Senate announced the passage of the health-care bill on Dec. 24, 2009, stocks for the very industry responsible for the health-care crisis soared...
...heart." Then he became President and found a comparable burden, "when one man must conscientiously, deliberately, prayerfully scrutinize every argument, every proposal, every prediction, every alternative, every probable outcome of his action, and then - all alone - make his decision." (See pictures of Obama's personal touches to the Oval Office...
TIME's Joe Klein sat down for an interview with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office...
...article did no favors to anyone who I interviewed—not Caleb, not the Undergraduate Council hopeful who watched her musings about ambition published just as she was beginning her UC presidential campaign, not the freshmen Oval Office hopefuls whose quotes may have rebounded on them in painful and upsetting ways...