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Bill Clinton supports Obama's Afghanistan decision (AP via Yahoo! News)

Former President Bill Clinton on Wednesday said he supports President Barack Obama's plan to sent an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan.

Pakistan skeptical about Obama's new Afghanistan strategy (Washington Post)

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN -- President Obama's new strategy for combating Islamist insurgents in Afghanistan fell on skeptical ears Wednesday in next-door Pakistan, a much larger, nuclear-armed state that Obama said was "at the core" of the plan and had even more at stake than Afghanistan.

Galbraith: Double-Digit Joblessness Goes On While Obama Economic ...

Economist James Galbraith on the Obama administration's approach to the country's financial crisis: Technically it would have been fairly easy, 10 months ago, to get this bus back on the road. There could have been open-ended fiscal ...
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Obama toasts Singh, India and 'the triumphs, challenges that await ...

President Barack Obama honored India Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with the words of his country's first prime minister Tuesday night. Obama toasted “to the future that beckons us all” at the highly-anticipated state dinner, ...
[original post by Sam Youngman]
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Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: Huckabee on Obama Derangement Syndrome

With Congress and President Obama spending money on everything at breakneck speed, it's interesting that they are only now getting nervous about spending – but only when it comes to providing the necessary funds to complete our mission ...
[original post by Allahpundit]
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Obama: Fundamentals of the Economy Are Still Strong - Barack Obama ...

During the presidential campaign, John McCain stupidly announced that "the fundamentals of the economy are still strong," a statement that Barack Obama hung around his neck like a flaming car tire. Today, Obama hailed the economy's ...
[original post by John Cook]
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