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...mailed statement why Obama picked him and Albright to go on his behalf. “The Senator concluded that elections are the appropriate place to compete and transitions are for preparing for the future rather than preempting authority at the moment.” Leach spent 30 years as a U.S. representative from Iowa before serving as the IOP’s interim director last year. He is currently a visiting professor at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Despite coming from the other side of the political aisle, Leach publicly supported Obama...
...even as a foreigner, I could not help but get caught up in the excitement surrounding this election cycle. I have spent the past year and a half looking at results from the primaries, gazing at red and blue maps, sitting through every debate and convention speech, and worshipping Nate Silver. Since freshman fall I have been engaging in dinner table discussions with all my American friends, talking about the working-class white vote in Pennsylvania as though I grew up in Scranton...
...agreement is in part due to the success that Army General David Petraeus won with his surge and the retooled deployment strategy he spent the last 18 months implementing across Iraq. Violence in the nearly six-year war has ebbed to the point where Iraqi nationalism and a desire to exercise sovereignty have finally trumped Iraqi concerns over bloodshed and sectarian strife...
...does no good for taxpayers to pour $25 billion into the car companies and find that a year later that money has been spent and yet nothing has changed to diminish their obligations. Where will they get the next $25 billion? And the $25 billion after that?" Senator Jon Kyl, an Arizona Republican, said on the Senate floor. "The reality is that they've got to change the way that they're doing business in order to, I think, warrant asking taxpayers for anything." (See pictures of the 50 worst cars of all time...
...from loan recipients, increased oversight and taxpayer protections. But for most Republicans the moves don't go far enough. The GOP is asking for assurances that the taxpayers will be repaid - like the assurances given by the banking industry - and for a commission to ensure that the money is spent wisely, especially since all three companies are already so deep in debt (GM alone owes $48 billion). To that end, the GOP wants a change in leadership at all three companies. "I have yet to see any semblance of a plan for General Motors to become viable," Senator Arlen Specter...