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[Politics Daily] 24, with Bush's tacit blessing, Obama essentially began exerting some level of influence over the economy. Moments after Bush spoke at the Treasury Department about the Citigroup bailout, Obama introduced his new economic team and expressed explicit support for Bush's plans while describing what would be a cornerstone of his own approach: a massive federal spending program designed to jump-start the economy.

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[Matthew Yglesias] Matthew Yglesias » Obama More Trusted on Issues Across the Board: For the economy part of the relevant question, they provide comparisons to Bush II versus the Democrats in Congress, Clinton versus the Republicans in Congress, and Bush I versus the Democrats in Congress. It turns out to be very much NOT true that the President always outpolls the opposition party in Congress.

[NewMajority.Com Scroll] OBAMANOMICS: DON'T TRUST THE NUMBERS: ..........Easy, he's having to rescue the economy from the worst financial crisis and economic recession since th thirties.....all bequeathed by Bush......then he can't just rescind immediately all the bush Tax cuts which were enormous......you presumably don't want them to lapse in 2010 which would makes the situation infinitely worse if he went along with it....I realize these complexities might be a little beyond you.....And Reagan and Bush are held accountable because guess what they did these things!!

[Matthew Yglesias] Matthew Yglesias » What's Bad for the U.S. is Bad for Canada: And the reason I say Ontario universities are the envy of the world is that if you graduate from a Canadian college or even MD program, you have absolutely no problems transferring to the American system and can find American jobs easily. If you’re coming out of the European or any other system, no such luck, you have to take some classes in an American system first before they’ll consider you for many graduate programs.

[Full Comment] Kelly McParland: Obama's different road on Iran - Full Comment: And it would let him get back to revamping the U.S. economy, reinventing healthcare, running GM and cleaning up the environment, which he would probably prefer. So what gives?

[Pajamas Media] Pajamas Media » Obama's Engagement Policy with Iran Is Dead ...: Absolutely nothing he has done has surprised me, since I believed everything he said about himself (and I was paying attention to what he wasn’t saying or allowing to be said) before he was elected by about 22% of the population of the United States. (Frankly, I’m not sure that % is exactly right–I saw the figure somewhere last week…it may have been 22% of the electorate, taking in account all those who could have voted but didn’t).

[Economy Experts] National Journal Online -- Economy Experts -- Will Obama's New ...: A recent Business Week cover story reports that "there's growing evidence that the innovation shortfall of the past decade is not only real but may also have contributed to today's financial crisis." If financial regulation chokes off financing for entrepreneurial firms in technology and other sectors, as the Sarbanes-Oxley accounting mandates have already done to a great extent, the economy could suffer the systemic effects of stagnation.

[AlterNet.org] Obama Must Strongly and Unequivocally Condemn the Coup in Honduras ...: He has just stated that Obama's government is communicating with the coup forces in Honduras, trying to "feel out" the situation. He also responded to the reporter's question regarding whether Washington would recognize a government in Honduras other than President Zelaya's elected government, by saying that the Obama Administration "is waiting to see how things play out" and so long as democratic norms are respected, will work with all sectors.

[blogs.telegraph.co.uk blog listings.] Telegraph Blogs » News » Now we will learn what Barack Obama ...: But while Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and al-Qaeda and all the other challenges to world security ended up taking a back seat, the new president will still find them sitting at the top of his in-tray when he finally moves into the White House next year.

[Hot Air » Top Picks] Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: The obligatory “dancing Filipino ...: If the new president makes a public statement or holds a press conference, I hope he challenges Chavez/Obama’s notion that their efforts to preserve the constitutional government of Honduras against a man who placed himself above it is somehow a coup. He won’t be able to sway Chavez/Obama’s opinions so if he feels he needs to sway American opinion he should talk to the American people and challenge Obama/Chavez.

[The Hill's Pundits Blog] The Hill's Pundits Blog » Obama-Clinton: A Great Team of Rivals: With some danger of oversimplification, it is possible to divide American history before the Obama administration into two distinctive approaches to the outside world: the first in the late 18th and 19th century, the second in most of the 20th century up to George Bush, although the seeds of the third Obama-Clinton approach began in the 1990s under President Clinton.

[TPMCafe] "What Can I Do?" | Robert Reich's Blog: and cynics, who have become disillusioned with his bailouts of Wall Street, flimsy proposals for taming the Street, willingness to give away 85 percent of cap-and-trade pollution permits, seeming reversals on eavesdropping and torture, and squishiness on a public option for health care.

[The Caucus] The Urgency of Health Care Usurped by Energy Vote - The Caucus ...: And we must not be prisoners of the past,” Mr. Obama said in the new address. “Don't believe the misinformation out there that suggests there is somehow a contradiction between investing in clean energy and economic growth. ..... pressures that determine value in the market, rather than the current “black box” method of pricing and paying, where nobody really knows why something is priced the way it is, and there is no direct means to exert pressure on prices or value. ...

[CNN Political Ticker] CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - Is ...: But actually, every leader in the free world should be speaking out strongly for the citizens of Iran, emphasizing that the government there needs to reform to give a real fair election, equal rights for women, equal rights and respect for people of all religions and friendlier relationship (without nuclear weapons) with the rest of the world. That the Iranian people deserve a representative government that looks out for their welfare and can help develop an economic, socially and politically successful country.

hopelessly partisan: Earlier this year, the Obama administration invited the SEIU to take part in a conference call centering on a dispute over pay cuts to home healthcare workers represented by the union. State officials said the union's involvement in a government-to-government conference seemed inappropriate.

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