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...cats and bureaucratic "bloodsuckers" are plundering your future. That Mexico will collapse and chaos will pour over the border. That America believes too little in God and too much in global warming. That "they" - Big Government, Big Business, Big Media - are against you. Above all, that you, small-town, small-business America - Palinville - have been forgotten. Dismissed. Laughed at. Just like him. (See the top 10 TV feuds...
Over the next eight days, Obama would have to visit six countries, attend three international summits, conduct scheduled meetings with 25 world leaders and deliver public remarks at least 22 times, including five press conferences and two student-filled town halls. He would be asked to personally broker a new global economic compact and the unanimous appointment of a new NATO Secretary-General and to make time for a rain-soaked meeting in Istanbul with foreign ministers from Turkey and Armenia at which the stakes were merely to build a rapprochement after a nearly century-old genocide. (See pictures...
...Obama showed no signs of frustration. If anything, he managed a mix of realism and exuberance. During a town hall with Turkish students on the final day of his trip, Obama said of promoting peace and prosperity, "Words are good and understanding is good, but ultimately it has to translate into concrete actions ... These things take time, and the idea is that you lay the groundwork and slowly, over time, if you make small efforts, they can add up into big efforts...
...region, and Admiral Mike Mullen, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, arrived in Islamabad for their first visit since Washington announced its new strategy for the region. The morning before, 22 people were killed by a suicide bomber outside a mosque in Chakwal, a Punjabi town known for its links to the army. And on Saturday night, six paramilitary soldiers died after a suicide bomber blew himself up in the heart of Islamabad. (See pictures from Pakistan's dangerous frontier with Afghanistan...
There will also be the question of rebuilding, which is about much more than cultural restoration. Those who lost their homes in past quakes, including the one in 1980 that killed 2,500 in the southern town of Irpinia, have often been left in limbo for years, with unfulfilled government promises of reconstruction. The sight of new homes built for those who lost theirs in the L'Aquila quake - even if they might not have the charm of those destroyed - would add a different kind of beauty to the bel paese...