Word: verbal
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...Make no mistake" is one of Obama's verbal twitches, and it's as much a prayer as a preface. He can't afford mistakes when the stakes are this high: the economy still wobbly, his agenda embattled and America's enemies snarling loudly. To chalk his troubles up to his personality - he's too cool, too contradictory, the divisive conciliator, the extreme centrist - underestimates the scale of the challenge he faces. It would be nice for Presidents to have magical powers, and Obama convinced many people that he had them, not least by managing to get himself elected...
...media control as it is part of an old story line. The billionaire Prime Minister just happens to own the country's only major private television network, which critics say is a conflict of interest much more troubling for the country than any of his private dalliances or verbal faux pas. (See pictures about Silvio Berlusconi and the politics...