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...hard to call the most exciting politician in decades boring. The millions who trekked to Washington for the Inauguration, who cried their eyes out and cheered their lungs raw, are testimony to the man's sheer inspirational power. Reagan's movement was called a revolution, but this may be more than that - the beginning of a whole new era of Obama-inspired and Obama-led citizen involvement. During the transition, the Obama website called for supporters to hold community meetings to discuss their health-care priorities. A staggering 10,000 meetings purportedly were held; 5,000 sent written reports - more...
...tone and style of his move to power, Obama has shown the world - and the people living in Sarah Palin's small-town America, and even many liberals who had lost hope over time - a new, gloriously unexpected and vibrant face of our country. The sheer fun of the Inauguration, the world-record number of interracial hugs and kisses, augurs a new heterodox cultural energy, a nation - as the man said - of mutts. Already the Obama ethos is slipping into the nation's cultural bloodstream - not just the interraciality but also the mind-blowing normality of the family: the fact...
...larger array of deductions for businesses. These proposed tax cuts and credits take the form of accelerated depreciation schedules for certain investments and complex prior-year tax rollbacks. The surprise proposals set the stage for what is likely to be a bipartisan passage of the stimulus package. The sheer volume of these cuts - numbering in the hundreds of billions - makes it very difficult for Republicans to oppose the stimulus measure. If anything, the proposals generated protest from Obama's left flank. (Indeed, to satisfy his base, Obama has eased back slightly from a few of the business tax cuts...
...Lowdown: In case you weren't aware, the sheer heft of this book and its contents serves to remind that Barack Obama has got a ton on his plate - starting now. As the dozens of contributors write, Obama has to: restore America's world leadership role, convince Americans that the government can work for them, responsibly pull out from Iraq, protect the homeland, reduce America's dependence on foreign oil, transition towards a green economy, invest in the nation's crumbling infrastructure, halt torture, close Guantanamo Bay, make the federal government transparent again, reduce global poverty, cut taxes, halt...
...Last October, the Tutsi rebel group of General Laurent Nkunda - initially formed in 2003 to fight the remnant Hutu genocidaires - advanced to within sight of the main eastern city of Goma and threatened to take the country. With the U.N.'s 17,000 soldiers outnumbered and overwhelmed by the sheer size and difficulty of the terrain it was meant to police - Congo is as big as Western Europe, without the roads - and the poorly paid and ill-disciplined national army disintegrating, little seemed to stand in Nkunda's way. That sounded alarm bells around the world. As well as displacing...