Word: primed
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...message was delivered - though it was, one must say, a big shift from the last time Obama messed up the prime-time television schedule for a press conference. Six weeks ago, he had a different message: The nation was facing a financial abyss, he explained, and lots had to be done, and fast, to prevent a prolonged economic catastrophe. Now he had returned to the same format to say that that the ship was slowly turning and the problems would be solved. Teachers and police officers were keeping their jobs, he said in his introduction, reading from a large...
...these finer points will not matter in the end. Over the past week, Obama has barnstormed the nation's televisions, with repeated town halls in California, a seat on Jay Leno's couch, a big 60 Minutes splash on Sunday, and now a prime-time press conference. Even those who eschew politics have most likely seen a clip or two of their President in charge, projecting confidence, explaining that things will get better. And for the White House, that is the message that matters...
...right-wing coalition government led by Likud's Benjamin Netanyahu. With Labor on board, Netanyahu's coalition, stitched together with an array of ultra-Orthodox and nationalist parties, now has a majority in the 120-seat Knesset. The hawkish Likud leader is likely to be sworn in as Prime Minister next week, ushering out his disgraced predecessor, Ehud Olmert, who faces possible corruption charges...
...point, analysts declared the reform process dead. But before his resignation, Prime Minister Gyurcsany proposed a new package in response to the financial crisis. Again, critics dismissed this plan as too little too late. Krisztian Szabados of the Budapest-based think tank Political Capital called it "weak" for not going "far enough" in cutting spending and taxes...
...Fidesz has been vague about the reforms it would implement, creating the belief among many supporters that it can reform the economy without the painful reforms and austerity measures analysts say are desperately needed. "The big question is whether the public is prepared for reform from a credible new Prime Minister," says Szabados, "or a Prime Minister who still believes in managing the crisis without pain?" (See TIME's pictures of the week...