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Harlem's past and future coexist uneasily on 125th Street, where Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech still pours forth from speakers near the vaunted Apollo Theater. Pawnshops and hair-braiding parlors are increasingly giving way to Old Navy and Verizon outlets. In 2001 former President Bill Clinton opened his office here to great fanfare; last year the American Planning Association named it one of America's 10 Greatest Streets. But councilman Charles Barron, an opponent of rezoning, argues that the influx of major retailers has sanitized the neighborhood. "Harlem had a swagger...
...comments says something about his eagerness to lock horns with the President and the use his campaign is going to make of him in coming months. Bush was barely out of the Knesset before Obama's campaign went at him. "It is sad that President Bush would use a speech to the Knesset on the 60th anniversary of Israel's independence to launch a false political attack," Obama said in a statement released by the campaign...
Obama's strategy for the general election is to hammer the idea that John McCain will continue Bush's policies at home and abroad. He made the argument most recently in his victory speech after his win in North Carolina, when he said, "We can't afford to give John McCain the chance to serve out George Bush's third term." It helps that Bush is at record public disapproval levels, his Arab-Israeli peace process is near dead, his efforts to prevent Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons appear to be going nowhere, and oil prices are soaring beyond...
Though the White House says Bush meant no offense with his comments at the Knesset today, White House spokesperson Dana Perino twisted the knife further in comments to reporters after the speech. "I understand when you're running for office you sometimes think the world revolves around you," she said of Obama. Of course, by targeting Obama, Bush only falls into orbit around him. But that may be the only way to get attention and fight for his legacy in the remaining months of his presidency. For better or worse, Obama will try to make the most of it. Which...
...give China breathing room, for a few years if necessary, but eventually it has to join - and there will be trade sanctions if it doesn't. That's where Obama stands, and it's where McCain was going this week until he ducked. The official text of his Portland speech contained a reference to a "cost equalization mechanism" - the trade-sanctions stick if China balks - but McCain edited it out before show time, replacing the mechanism with the phrase "effective diplomacy" - which sounds like jawboning that's all carrot, no stick. In other words, McCain hasn't decided where...