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...Obama also scissored Clinton for suggesting in a recent debate that he was raising the "false hopes" of the American people with his soaring rhetoric and talk of a new, productive, bipartisan era. "We don't need leaders who can tell us what we can't do," he responded. "We need leaders who can say, 'Yes, we can.' We don't need someone who plays the game better. We want an end to the game...
...days for voting for the guy you want to have a beer with are over. America needs a leader who is going to tell the hard truths and make the difficult decisions and sacrifices to begin to really solve the major issues we face. How do we get out of Iraq? How do we mitigate the effects of global warming? How do we repair our image in the world? How do we make sure Americans can afford healthcare? How do we prepare our school system and economy for the flat world, especially as China rises in power...
...resolution. He deserves credit for his prescience on this issue just as Hillary deserves credit for her support, as a private citizen, for the first Iraq war, at a time when most Democratic senators voted to oppose it. However, these actions, away from the main political stage, tell us little about the judgment the candidates will exercise when one of them becomes commander in chief...
...journalists still had parties and friends would pass out in the bushes and lived to tell of it. I enjoyed taking taxis at night. Today taking a public taxi during the day as a western journalist is tantamount to a death wish. Back then there was an overabundance of satellite dishes - these big metal pans - for sale at nearly every shop. Today commerce has slowed to a crawl. The traffic now is a bit more orderly, but the number of horse-drawn carts has increased. Fancy cars are all but absent. And everyone is on edge - get too close...
...lost their lives with her. The regime is essentially trying to say that they all deserved to die because they attended a public rally, which is their constitutional right. Rather than admitting its own failure in safeguarding the life and property of Pakistani citizens, the regime is trying to tell people that you will be responsible for the consequences if you try to exercise your fundamental rights." She blames the government for not doing enough to protect Bhutto...