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Hillary Clinton, barefaced and bespectacled, is a refreshing image in politics

Tue, 08 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Suzi Parker - May. 08 (Opinion) - The caption read “Hillary Au Naturale,” and the photo showed the Secretary of state without makeup except lipstick, wearing black-framed glasses.

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Op-Ed Contributor: Chinese Labor, Cheap No More

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Michelle Loyalka, New York Times - Feb. 18 (Opinion) - The cheap labor that has made China’s factories nearly unbeatable is not so cheap anymore.

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Obama needs to create jobs, not fight for them

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Ezra Klein - Jun. 29 (Opinion) - Let’s agree that what matters isn’t how many jobs you “get caught trying” to create, but how many jobs you actually create. There’s virtually no evidence that if Obama makes more speeches on jobs, his poll numbers will go up or the labor market will improve. There’s lots of evidence that if he passes policies that create more jobs, his poll numbers will go up and the labor market will improve. The question, then, isn’t how Obama can get “caught trying.” It’s how — or whether — he can succeed.

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Constitutional firestorm over Libya war and Biden's past impeachment words greet returning Obama

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Andrew Malcolm - Mar. 24 (Opinion) - The ex-state senator who so famously said the U.S. had no business overthrowing the brutal Saddam Hussein poison gas-spewing regime in Iraq is now into ousting Kadafi based on his broadcast threats to "cleanse" Libya of opponents? But it's OK because the U.N. approves and we won't be a leader long? So how then is it not in alleged American interests to police brutality in, say, Sudan, Yemen, even China, whose president Obama instead recently hosted at a White House state dinner? How about Syria where authorities killed 15 protestors Wednesday. Or what about North Korea's Kim clan starving millions to live high?

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Honey, I Shrunk My Approval Ratings

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Karl Rove - Aug. 26 (Opinion) - The White House is having a disastrous 'summer of recovery.'

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America must not neglect Iraq's refugees as US troops withdraw

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - Aug. 13 (Opinion) - Even as many US troops head home, we must ramp up our commitment to the 4.5 million Iraqis who’ve been displaced by war. ...

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Israel's efforts to heal US rift marred

Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - Mar. 28 (Opinion) - Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu leaves the White House following his meeting with US President Barack Obama. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images Israel's prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, tried to smooth over a breach in relations with

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Netanyahu's reluctant gift to Palestine

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Hussein Ibish - Mar. 24 (Opinion) - Limiting or freezing settlement construction has been at the heart of all recent peace efforts because the settlements make the borders of a future Palestinian state more difficult to conceptualise, let alone determine, and increase the frequently

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Rupert Cornwell: There's no sign that Obama will punish his ally

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:07:04 -0700

The Independent - Mar. 16 - The fracas over Israel's announcement of 1,600 new homes in disputed East Jerusalem is undoubtedly serious. But it also recalls the old children's ditty of how "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me". The words have flown

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Political differences masquerading as philosophical ones

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Ezra Klein - Feb. 26 (Opinion) - "There's a philosophical difference in how we do this," Sen. Tom Coburn said at the Blair House Summit. "It does have to do with the philosophical difference," Rep. Eric Cantor agreed. "There are very deep philosophical differences in how we approach health-care reform," Rep. Marsha Blackburn emphasized. "There really is a difference between us," explained Rep. Paul Ryan. "And it?s basically this. We don?t think the government should be in control of all of this." It's true, of course, that there are some philosophical differences between Democrats and Republicans. But Republicans did something interesting yesterday: They turned a lot of policy differences into questions of first principles. And it's harder to compromise on a first principle. ...

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The Generals' Revolt

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:07:22 -0800

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Joe Biden: the worrying rise of Barack Obama’s Mr Wrong

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - By Toby Harnden - Oct. 18 (Opinion) - On all the big questions, he has been – to put it politely – on the wrong side of history. In 1990, he voted against American forces expelling Saddam Hussein from Kuwait. He voted for the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and advocated splitting it into three states along ethnic lines. He opposed the Iraq troop surge of 2007 that pacified the country and rescued the US from the jaws of defeat.

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Congress has only 22 working days left to reform America's health care system.

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Slate - By John Dickerson - Jul. 09 (Opinion) - Like a true Amtrak passenger, Biden is engaging in a little wishful thinking. Yes, health care reform is moving along at a steady pace. But it's not going as fast as it needs to.

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Biden: No More Concessions on Iran

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

ABC News - By George Stephanopoulos - Jul. 05 (Opinion) - Vice President Joe Biden has been pushing privately for a hard line on Iran, and in my exclusive "This Week" interview he hinted at a harder Administration line to come. For now, he told me, President Obama’s offer to meet with Iran over its nuclear program remains “on the table.” While insisting that President Obama is right not to rescind his offer to negotiate with Iran and the other “P-5” nations ( U.S., Britain, France, China and Russia ) plus Germany, Biden rejected Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s attempts to condition any negotiations on more US concessions.

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American Stories, American Solutions

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Barack Obama For President - By Barack Obama - Oct. 29 (Advocacy) - (VIDEO - 27:10 - Obama's prime-time special on YouTube) With each passing month, our country has faced increasingly difficult times. But everywhere I go, despite the economic crisis, war and uncertainty about tomorrow, I still see optimism and hope and strength. We've seen over the past eight years how decisions by a president's decisions can have a profound effect on the course of history and on American lives. But much of what's wrong with our country goes back much farther than that. We've been talking about the same problems for decades ...

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Pentagon Panel: Biden Was Right, Prep for 'Crisis'

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Noah Shachtman - Oct. 27 (Opinion) - Veteran Pentagon consultant Michael Bayer, chairman of the Defense Business Board, told his fellow panelists that the new president's inner circle should "set aside time in transition to identify the planning, gravitas and interagency process necessary to respond to a likely first-270-day crisis."

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Gaffe-In

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Show - By Jon Stewart - Oct. 25 (Comedy News) - The candidates' mistakes are called gaffes, bloopers, or as they're known on the street -- Pullin' a Biden. The election is close and the gaffes keep coming. Joe Biden says the wrong thing at a closed-door fundraiser, while Sarah Palin and John McCain slip up in front of the cameras.

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Chronicle endorses Obama for president, Biden for vice president

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Houston Chronicle - Oct. 19 (Editorial) - Rarely in our country's history has the electorate gone to the polls to choose a new president in such challenging times with more at stake for the nation. The economy is tottering under the strains ...

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Plan a family, save the world

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - By Neal Peirce - Oct. 07 (Opinion) - So what will our next president do? Will he boost U.S. global family-planning funding to the $1 billion a year that advocates propose, working with other nations to make family planning and modern conception services globally available? The issue's not just moral: In an environmentally imperiled world, it's strategic and critical. John McCain's anti-abortion, anti-birth-control-assistance record is unequivocal. So is Barack Obama's diametrically opposed position: in favor of activist government support for family planning, domestically and internationally.

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The Joe Biden Show

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Charles Blow - Oct. 04 (Opinion) - Palin launched into her charm offensive — winking, smiling, dodging questions and speaking in her signature Sarah-phonics , a mash up of sentence fragments and colloquialisms glued together with misplaced also’s and there’s — gibberish really. Everyone in the bar lapped it up. It was The Sarah Palin Show.

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The Vice-Presidential Debate

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - Oct. 03 (Editorial) - The debate did not change the essential truth of Ms. Palin’s candidacy: Mr. McCain made a wildly irresponsible choice that shattered the image he created for himself as the honest, seasoned, experienced man of principle and judgment. It was either an act of incredible cynicism or appallingly bad judgment.

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Sarah Palin Won the Debate Against Joe Biden -

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

U.S. News & World Report - By Michael Barone - Oct. 03 (Opinion) - I thought Sarah Palin won—because she (far) exceeded expectations, because she showed considerable suppleness (countering Joe Biden's statement that the commanding general said that John McCain's surge strategy would not work in Afghanistan), and spotlighted her winning personality. She showed the same smiling confidence that she did in her acceptance speech September 3 and that was missing in her interview with Katie Couric. Biden's performance was by and large acceptable, but he made some significant misstatements, notably on the Constitution. Article I of the Constitution is not about the executive branch, as Biden said, but about the legislative branch, in which Biden has served for 35 years. And the vice president doesn't preside over the Senate just in cases of ties; he (or she) is entitled to preside over the Senate at any time. Imagine the uproar from Mainstream Media if Palin had made such errors!

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Palin, Biden On Roe V. Wade

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

CBS News - By Katie Couric - Oct. 02 (Interview) - (Video 4:01) Katie Couric sat down with Sarah Palin and Joe Biden and asked them their thoughts on Roe v. Wade.

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McCain Is Wrong On Afghanistan

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By Barnett R. Rubin - Oct. 02 (Opinion) - Though McCain has no plausible plan to increase troops in Afghanistan, he agrees that more should be sent. And what should they do there? According to McCain, duplicate the "same strategy" that "succeeded" in Iraq.

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A Heartbeat Away

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By William Kristol - Sep. 08 (Opinion) - Will that coverage continue to be as belittling of Palin as much of it has been so far? Probably. It's not just that many in the media don't like her politics and don't identify with her socially or culturally. They're offended that McCain picked Palin without, so to speak, consulting them. The establishment media take pride in their role as gatekeeper to our political process and social discourse. So the gatekeeper media's reaction has been: Who is Sarah Palin to suddenly show up on the national stage? We didn't vet her. And we don't approve of her.

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