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...more Democratic in recent years. Oakland is one of the new battlegrounds of 2008--a handful of counties in must-win swing states that weren't pivotal a decade ago but are where the election will be lost or won this year. Though nearby Macomb County gave rise to Reagan Democrats nearly 30 years ago, it is the more upscale Oakland that holds the key to Michigan...
...Pakistan's government in deference to State Department diplomats, a strategy that involves a renewed effort to capture Osama bin Laden. The shifts amount to an unmistakable effort to clean up President Bush's foreign policy legacy before he exits the stage. "This is bold strategic diplomacy," says former Reagan chief of staff Ken Duberstein, "with an eye to the history books...
...federal budget, sort of. Actually, he said he would "demand" a balanced budget, but he never quite got around to saying how he would balance it. This set off a reflexive think-tank hiccup of outrage of the sort we've been living with since the days of Ronald Reagan. McCain's claim that he could achieve balance by cutting government spending elicited an immediate and justifiable Yeah, right from the experts. As always, he was fixated on cutting little things, the so-called earmarks that our legislators put in to provide funds for museums commemorating the harmonica...
...Obama held an economic summit with his covey of advisers - people like Bob Rubin, Larry Summers, Warren Buffett, Bob Reich; experts who seemed a sedimentary layer more recent than McCain's crowd but still more a part of the past than of the future. They had cleaned up the Reagan-era mess. They had actually balanced the budget and created a surplus. They had - contra voodoo - raised taxes and yet produced an economic boom. There was a fair amount of argument behind closed doors, I'm told, between the two groups that sparred at the dawn of the Clinton...
...campaign. We are at a moment of real economic peril, a recession different from most because it is happening at a hinge of history, as economic power becomes distributed more evenly around the world. It also is happening at the end of the political pendulum swing that began with Reagan's remarkably foolish statement in his first Inaugural Address: "Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem...