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...say, "The President of the United States -" Mrs. Obama: Put that in the article...
...President: Right, it's expensive. Mrs. Obama: I mean, would this administration love to see those numbers increase? I'd probably say yes. But there's costs. And that gets back to responsibility - how much are we willing to spend as a nation to ensure that every single young person has an opportunity to do service in exchange for government-supported education is a wonderful idea. But you'd probably get some pushback on how much should be spent on it and what are the priorities and do we do it at this time. There may be a time...
...Fired his best shot, leaving him no obvious option for another galvanizing jump start - and open to the charge that he didn't say anything that will alter the terms of the debate...
...this stage that the President will have some kind of health-care bill by the end of the year, they are watching carefully to see if there are more signs that they have arrested what they acknowledge has been a slide in public support. What concerns them, they say, is not what happened in August - the near riots at congressional town halls or the lies about "death panels." Instead, it is a quieter and growing public unease that they began seeing in their own polls and in public ones starting early in the summer. (Read "Halperin's Take: What Obama...
...part, his advisers have since concluded, the difficulty stems from the natural give-and-take of the legislative process and how it plays out in the media. The larger goals, they say, get lost in the politics and the arguments over individual aspects of the bills. What Obama and his strategists concluded - paradoxically - was that the spotlight of a presidential address could take the public's attention off the politicians (including a President whose approval ratings have been edging down) and put it back on the larger goals that Obama is trying to achieve. As a senior White House official...