Word: snafus
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...Council's potential to solve problems for Obama makes it all the more surprising that its members haven't been thoroughly vetted in the rush to publicly introduce them. Calls were still going out to invited council members as late as Tuesday night. Given that vetting snafus have already tripped up some of Obama's other appointments, most notably Tom Daschle, supporters are hoping that the President doesn't get burned by another religious leader who has made controversial statements à la Jeremiah Wright or Warren...
...those mostly minor snafus will quickly be forgotten. As transitions go, Obama has set a new standard for smooth. And apart from the tricky business of replacing one Administration with another, this transition succeeded at something equally as meaningful. It transformed the nation's mood from grim to just a little optimistic...
...with such an approach, arguing that all such cases should be prosecuted in federal courts, which have proven effective in many instances. Also, many argue that new national-security courts would likely face the same difficulties as the ongoing Guantánamo tribunals, which have floundered because of procedural snafus while drawing hundreds of constitutional challenges. "Lots of people are opposed, and for many good reasons," Katyal said of the proposed national-security courts...
...voting snafus add up to another black eye for American democracy. "In some developing democracies, you actually see more sophisticated voting structures than you do here," Greenbaum said. That's because some of the newer democracies use the latest technologies across the entire country, unlike in the U.S., where elections are operated in a patchwork fashion by local governments. Experts said things could have been much worse if an estimated 30% of voters hadn't cast early ballots before the crush on Tuesday...
When China's President Hu Jintao made his first official visit to Washington in April of 2006, he encountered a string of diplomatic snafus that culminated in enduring several minutes of screaming from a protester admitted into the media stand. Still, U.S. officials say he and President George W. Bush developed a genuine personal rapport. At one point, Bush asked his counterpart which of the numerous challenges China faced was the most serious - which one kept Hu awake at night worrying. "Unemployment," Hu reportedly answered without hesitating...