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...Jenkins suggests there may also be a generational conflict at work. He points out that many of the American Muslims accused of terrorism this year are young men who "would have been at a very impressionable age when 9/11 happened." Although the majority of the community was repelled by the terrorist attacks on that day, he says, "some would have been inspired by it and caught up in the jihadist narrative...
...weeks ago, at the end of a 40-minute Oval Office huddle on climate change between President Barack Obama and Republican Senator Lindsey Graham - one of many tête-è-têtes on various subjects between the two this year - Obama leaned forward. "Look Lindsey, I'm ready to play," he said. "I'm for nuclear power. I'm for responsible offshore drilling. I'm for clean coal. I just need a reasonable emissions standard...
...fiscal conservatism." The group, closely aligned with the Tea Party movement, accused Graham of holding the GOP "hostage" for engaging on global warming and even lambasted him for having "stated on many occasions that his primary concern is to 'be relevant.'" Graham, who won reelection in a landslide last year, isn't worried. "I've never felt threatened by people who say that it's a crime or sin to work with the other side because most Republicans and Democrats understand that for the good of the country you have to do that," he said in an interview just...
...this year, Graham has found himself a popular man with Democrats. While he wouldn't consider signing on to health care reform, he got together with Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, to co-sponsor an alternative health care bill. He crossed party lines to become the sole Republican supporter in the Judiciary Committee of Sonia Sotomayor, Obama's nominee to the Supreme Court. And he's been reaching out to Dems on social security reform and immigration - an issue expected to be tackled next year. Do a search on Congress's legislative database and more than 200 hits come...
...White House is now working to reassure him the deadline is not a hard one. Still, Graham is encouraging his colleagues to sign on. "I hope that Republicans can see fit to support the President's surge," he says. And most do. (See pictures of Person of the Year 2009 runner-up Nancy Pelosi...