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...favors by failing to inspire the general public to rally around his agenda. But Obama's stumbles atop the high wire of running the federal government have created perhaps the greatest danger to his presidency, and they are oddly reminiscent of the misguided practices that tripped up his predecessor. (See pictures of Obama's first year in the White House...
...Parliamentarians' loyalty is above all to the institution, however imperfect. When asked if he supports the filibuster and cloture, Dove quoted the advice passed on to him by his predecessor and that he passed on to Frumin: "The rules are perfect and if they're all changed, the rules are still all perfect...
...Indeed, the Europe 2020 strategy had a similarly ambitious predecessor that failed to deliver: the ill-fated Lisbon agenda, which was adopted with fanfare by E.U. leaders a decade ago with the aim of transforming Europe into "the world's most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy" by 2010. But the bloc fell far short of its goal of overtaking the U.S. and Japan, and even failed to meet its self-imposed economic targets. For example, that plan also called for E.U. research and development spending to increase to 3% of GDP, but only Sweden and Finland currently meet that...
...BIDEN, U.S. Vice President, responding to his predecessor's criticism of the Obama Administration's handling of the attempted airplane bombing on Christmas...
...Obama Administration's list of regional priorities. The war in Iraq, the Arab-Israeli peace process and a growing al-Qaeda threat in Yemen are all outranking concerns. And the Administration has also sought to distance itself from some of the more aggressive policies of its predecessor, which Dunne says damaged bilateral relations with important allies like Egypt. "But I don't think they realize that there is real, observable backward movement when it comes to democratization and human rights in Egypt right now," she says. "And I think that the Obama Administration is going to bear some...